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PART ONE FORESIGHT Sensing Provocative Futures

This book recommends that you use ten-year forecasting to improve your foresight and shape your vision for the future in order to get there early and win.

Foresight is derived from listening for, sensing, and characterizing futures that provoke your own creativity. Forecasts—specific chunks of foresight—should be designed to stimulate actions you might take in the present. Foresight can also be derived from experience and observation, when you see something that you believe is a precursor of the future. Vision is your own personal statement, or your organization’s statement, of the particular future that you intend to create. Vision is the beginning of strategy.

Even a forecast that never happens ...

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