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Scenario Mapping Your Life

The Horizons Tracker

Scenario planning was first popularized by Herman Khan in the 1950s at the RAND corporation as a way to describe the future by outlining various ways in which it could potentially unfold. ” Scenarios of your life. It’s an approach that futurist April Rinne believes can equally be applied to our careers.

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4 Strategies for Women Navigating Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

“It’s like having a sports agent looking out for my career,” she said. An intrepid energy industry executive we know takes a novel, planning-based approach to managing politics, and we’ve taught the same method to many female executives over the years. This type of peer advocacy is a win-win proposition.