Future Cultures: How to Build a Future-Ready Organization Through Leadership explores how to engage everyone in creating new futures, from improving skills of sensing and anticipation to changing the way leaders consider risk and uncertainty. It also provides practical advice on how organizations can rewire their cultures to be better prepared for the future.
Future Cultures includes conversations with leading futurists, strategists and designers from IBM, AXA, McDonald’s, the BBC, UNDP, Salesforce, and other leading companies, foundations, governments and NGOs.
The Authors
Scott Smith
Scott is founder and managing partner of Changeist, an international futures consulting group. With nearly 30 years of professional experience as an analyst, writer, consultant, advisor and futurist, Scott leads the company’s strategy, research and global partnerships. In this role, he has worked with some of the world’s largest brands, most progressive cultural institutions, governments, and top NGOs. Scott was the author of How to Future: Leading and Sense-making in an Age of Hyperchange.
Susan Cox-Smith
Susan is partner and director, experience at Changeist, leveraging over 25 years of experience as a writer, designer, creative director, interactive producer, and researcher. She co-leads Changeist’s capacity building workshops and development of learning experiences, providing futuring skills for leaders from global brands and governments. She was the contributing editor on How to Future: Leading and Sense-making in an Age of Hyperchange.
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What is Future Cultures about?
Strategies for fostering a culture of future-readiness within organizations.
How to develop a long-term vision for the future and build an environment that encourages exploration and innovation.
Ideas for recruiting and retaining future-focused professionals.
Best practices for making an organization more agile and responsive to change.
Techniques for creating a more resilient and adaptive futures ecosystem.
Stories of how leading global brands and governments have built successful futures teams, and you can apply these lessons to your own futures mission.
Susan Cox-Smith talks to UNDP about the ideas behind the book.
Read The Companion Book
How to Future is a practical, tactical guide to applied futuring, with hands-on instruction and working methodologies, based on almost 20 years of global experience. This book walks the reader stage-by-stage through one applied futuring process, providing clear definitions and examples, and describes the challenges any futuring team—new or experienced—encounters on the ground, and how to overcome them.
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