I think Jerome C Glenn’s #FuturesWheel is perhaps one of the most effective mapping exercises to capture thoughts on #change, #innovation and future scenarios. It’s quick and detailed. It’s a consequences based mapping system that allows you to identify #trends and plot out their consequential impacts. Want to learn more? Read this 👇
We’re often gravitated towards solutions rather than discoveries. Here’s an interesting point of view from Author and Strategist professor Rita McGrath in her book “Seeing Around Corners”.
As she puts it: “In a highly uncertain and fluid environment, neither you nor anybody else has answers. Arguing about being ‘right’ or having a detailed plan 18 months out is just wasting your breath. Instead, articulate and pinpoint the major uncertainties and how you might gain some insight about them.” The best way to do this is to work with weak-tie, unliked-minded associates who, if they fit into these categories, may know what you don’t, including those unknown unknowns.
While carving out the new lover archetype for one of my brands, I began wondering about the journey of a woman. What I read felt real:
“Women do have a quest at this time in our culture. It is the quest to fully embrace their feminine nature, learning how to value themselves as women and to heal the deep wound of the feminine. It is a very important inner journey toward being a fully integrated, balanced, and whole human being. Like most journeys, the path of the heroine is not easy; it has no well-defined guideposts nor recognizable tour guides. There is no map, no navigational chart, no chronological age when the journey begins. It follows no straight lines. It is a journey that seldom receives validation from the outside world; in fact the outer world often sabotages and interferes with it.”
Take a look at the the heroine’s journey. Almost every woman can see her life story unfold through the cycle. Isn’t it interesting?
