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  • Facing Our Futures

  • How Foresight, Futures Design and Strategy Creates Prosperity and Growth
  • Written by: Nikolas Badminton
  • Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
  • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Facing Our Futures

Written by: Nikolas Badminton
Narrated by: Quentin Cooper
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A fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future.

Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable to prepare for these specific events. But, through innovation, strategizing and an open-minded approach, they can restructure their organization and practices in order to mitigate (or even take advantage of) the impact of such events.

In Facing Our Futures, Nikolas Badminton draws upon his decades of experience as a consultant and futurist to provide readers with the skillset and outlook they need to prepare their organization, team and themselves for whatever obstacles the future may hold. CEOs, executive teams, government leaders and policy makers need to gain a broader perspective and a firmer grasp on how their relevant industry, society or community is evolving and changing. Once they have acquired this foresight, they need to then discover how to fully harness it – by strengthening their foundations, forecasting and establishing a resilient and adaptable strategy.

Facing Our Futures acts as a primer on the value of seeing how bad things can get and the power in imagining these futures. It also provides a proven strategic planning and foresight methodology - the Positive Dystopia Canvas (PDC) - that allows leaders to supercharge their teams to build evocative visions of futures that strengthen planning today.
©2023 Nikolas Badminton (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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What the critics say

"Nikolas Badminton cracks the code on the leadership model for the future in this must-read masterpiece." (Josh Linkner)

"In this increasingly volatile and uncertain world it's even more important to be prepared and build resilience in your business through proven methods well explained by Nikolas Badminton." (Paul Polman)

"Whether you are a CEO of an organization that is in transition, or a pioneer that is looking for new ways of looking at the future, this book will give you extensive knowledge and practical tools… A must read for every new or experienced futurist!" (Loes Damhof)

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Better than Jack Handy but lengthy in the explanations. if you are at all interested in futurism and how it may be harnessed in the business world, this lays a great foundation.

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