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7/25/2005

Re-inventing TV

Read past the story on Al Gore (yawn) and take a look at the future of TV.

link to NY Times

7/24/2005

Practicing VS Predicting the Future

Here's a true statement: The more precise you are in predicting the future, the greater chance you have of being wrong.

Whether you believe the future is crashing through your front door, or that you are zooming headfirst into the future, the reality of the opening statement remains. You cannot know with certainty what the future holds in store.

Organizations who rely on a rigid picture of what's to come are at grave risk of finding they have planned for the wrong outcome.

There is no magic pill, but the smart thing to do is to "practice the future" by setting up a Fool's Box of individuals who can talk about things only fools would discuss, so that when some of these crazy things become reality the organization can look around and say, "Oh, this isn't a surprize, we practiced this scenario three years ago in our Fool's Box."

Question - Does your company plan rely on situations you KNOW will happen in the future?

7/23/2005

What is your Future Perspective?

The way you plan for the future is influenced by how you perceive the future's advent on your present.

Think about this: Is the future crashing in on you? Or, are you crashing into the future?

Put another way: Do you (or your organization) control what happens in the future with your actions today? Or, do things that will happen in the future exist beyond your ability to change them, requiring you to "be prepared" for whatever comes your way?

Your perspective on this will have a profound effect on the way you approach strategic and tactical planning.