EpilogueCould This “New Paradigm” Really Be an Old One?

“Future Search follows the way human beings for generations have come to decisions. Tribal leaders in Uganda today still get all the stakeholders sitting in one place, talking it over, understanding each other. Such a process has been used for ages by societies that haven’t had more formal mechanisms. That’s what Future Search does. It brings simplicity to the process of deciding and acting.”

—Sharad Sapra, UNICEF Representative, Uganda

Eric Trist, my friend and guide for many years, observed decades ago that workplace innovations had lives of their own. They rarely spread within the organizations that pioneered them. As word got around, though, the underlying ideas became public, and many ...

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