Thinking about the Future Quotes

“Very rarely can leaders accept a short-term downturn in performance with the promise of better future results.”
― Andy Hines, Thinking about the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight

“the best time to meet a potential disruptive challenge is when the organization is doing well, before crisis strikes.”
― Andy Hines, Thinking about the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight

“It is important to have permission to explore and to fail. Exploring creates ideas that are available when the landscape is right for them.”
― Andy Hines, Thinking about the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight

“Many times, organizations are unclear about what decisions they need to make or what they need to learn. Investing time upfront in clarifying a focal issue will pay dividends in keeping the activity focused and relevant.”
― Andy Hines, Thinking about the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight

“Mental models are the deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or images that influence how one makes sense of and responds to the world. They are usually biased towards the past, and are often vague or based on faulty assumptions about the future. The mental models of key decision-makers should be assessed as early as possible in a strategic foresight activity—and continually reassessed. The aim, according to Wack (1984), “is to change the decision maker’s assumptions about how the world works and compel him to change his image of reality.”
― Andy Hines, Thinking about the Future: Guidelines for Strategic Foresight