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An Exercise to Get Your Team Thinking Differently About the Future

Harvard Business Review

A way around this fallacy, we’ve found, is a speed-dating version of scenario planning, one that takes hours rather than months. Obviously, a brief workshop like this one shouldn’t be used to shape strategy; that requires true scenario planning. The result is a more efficient and cost-effective industry.

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Living in a Radical State of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. The kind of thinking generated by scenario planning, video/war-gaming, and design thinking need to move from the margins of corporations and government organizations to core strategic positions. Bruce Nussbaum is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.