Cultivating Long Term Thinkers Questions and Actions for shaping Long Term Mindsets Lonny Avi Brooks LTFT July 2015 [email protected] @avilonny.

Cultivating Long Term Thinkers

Questions and Actions for shaping

Long Term Mindsets

Lonny Avi Brooks LTFT July [email protected]

@avilonny

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Implications for Long Term and Futures Thinking (LTFT)

How do we map uncertainty?

Why is an LTFT Mindset not a forecast?

How do we Link our disciplines to futures thinking?

How do we make bridges to the deep past?

How do we approach Deep Time?

A Mindset is not a forecast

Link our disciplines to futures thinking

How do we make bridges to the deep past?

How do we connect to the deep future and approach deep time?

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Long Term tip #1:Scaffolding to Deep Time takes time so try to imagine your professional life at 2040 or 2060!

"People are overwhelmed by the present"--Elise Boulding

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2013 Org Teams interview orgs about time frames and Imagine Organizations in 2060

From Cisco to Chabot Space and Science Museum

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Shaun got it! Let's talk Braintime as a support for relationships!

Bring it on Janel! Talk truth to power! The tyranny of micro-contribution labor...

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Long Term tip #2 Keep it simple: tell a short story about 2040...

Linking Organizational Communication and Long Term Futures Thinking

Deep Past: Norse Case study

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Historical and Starship Fiction: Engage!

Using science fiction to map organizational futures with students

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Grasping Long Term Gestalt 14

Kristela, our LTFT student observed:

"Since Ruby’s song is music and lyrics tend to follow a trend, it could fall under the pace layer of Fashion, which Brand shows is the most rapid changing of the layers.

In order for it to stay around longer and be preserved, it must show that it has purpose so that it can possibly be absorbed into the Culture layer, which is the second slowest changing layer, just after Nature."

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Play with the layers!Starship Pace Layers

Fashion: I want my own space habitat community lifestyle

2312!

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Questions to Explore Deep Time

What would your color group preserve? Why is this important and worth preserving?Evidence from Creative Fire shows sufficient examples from the novel.

How does what your group wants to preserve influence its chances of survival? Why? How would organizational frames, structure, communication, etc. help you achieve this?Evidence from major texts to support argument.

What needs to be in place to preserve it? How might the organization work with/leverage the fast and slow dynamic of change in the different pace layers to preserve an important expression or aspect of your color group? (rapidly changing fashion and markets, slower changing infrastructure, governance and nature). Evidence based on the Pace layers is demonstrated.

How does your color group communicate to society the significance of preserving it when YOU are gone?

What would your color group preserve? Why is this important and worth preserving?Evidence from Creative Fire shows sufficient examples from the novel.

How does what your group wants to preserve influence its chances of survival? Why? How would organizational frames, structure, communication, etc. help you achieve this?Evidence from major texts to support argument.

What needs to be in place to preserve it? How might the organization work with/leverage the fast and slow dynamic of change in the different pace layers to preserve an important expression or aspect of your color group? (rapidly changing fashion and markets, slower changing infrastructure, governance and nature). Evidence based on the Pace layers is demonstrated.

How does your color group communicate to society the significance of preserving it when YOU are gone?

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Implications for Long Term and Futures Thinking (LTFT)

How do we map uncertainty?

Why is an LTFT Mindset not a forecast?

How do we Link our disciplines to futures thinking?

How do we make bridges to the deep past?

How do we approach Deep Time?

A Mindset is not a forecast

Link our disciplines to futures thinking

How do we make bridges to the deep past?

How do we connect to the deep future and approach deep time?

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