Category: Futures Thinking
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Beyond Cynefin: How CIRCA Helps Leaders Make Sense of Today’s Complexity
In 2007, David Snowden and Mary Boone published a groundbreaking article in Harvard Business Review titled “A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making.” It introduced the Cynefin framework to a wider audience—offering a way to categorise different types of problems and…
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Executive Reality Check: From Fear to Flow
“From fear to flow: Rethinking the system that governs your speed” In my last post, I wrote about how fear of Agile, especially in a world shaped by AI and accelerating complexity, doesn’t protect the organization. It quietly makes it…
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Executive Reality Check: Fear of Agile Is Quietly Making You Obsolete
“CIRCA isn’t about weathering the storm. It’s about learning to navigate in any weather the future throws at you.” In leadership circles, there’s often an unspoken belief:That resisting Agile, avoiding decentralisation, and clinging to control somehow keeps the business safe.…
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From Disruption to Direction: Why CIRCA Matters for the Future of Work
“CIRCA isn’t about weathering the storm. It’s about learning to navigate in any weather the future throws at you.” The future of work isn’t a distant horizon. It’s already here—just unevenly distributed. We’re no longer facing isolated shifts. We’re in…
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Sustainability in Logistics: How a Powerful Match Engine Can Drive a Greener Future
Last week, I wrote a post From Logistics to Ecosystems: How Early Innovations in Freight Technology Helped Deliver Today’s Ecosystem Economy inspired by the book, The Ecosystem Economy. In that post, I further discussed the shift toward an ecosystem economy,…
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From Logistics to Ecosystems: How Early Innovations in Freight Technology Helped Deliver Today’s Ecosystem Economy
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a post The Ecosystem Economy: How Business Agility Will Shape—and Be Shaped by—Our $100 Trillion Future after reading the book, The Ecosystem Economy. In that post, I discussed the shift toward an…
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The Ecosystem Economy: How Business Agility Will Shape—and Be Shaped by—Our $100 Trillion Future
I found an insightful and eye-opening book on the O’Reilly learning platform, “The Ecosystem Economy: How to Lead in the New Age of Sectors Without Borders”. The book takes readers on a transformative journey into a world where traditional industry…