34 min
Future Thinking and Change Making as an Organizational Futurist The Thought Leader's Voice Podcast
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As part of our Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we are thrilled to be in a conversation with Harvey Kraft: on ‘Future Thinking and Change Making as an Organizational Futurist.’
In the Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we explore the world of how independent thought leaders bring their ideas to scale within the business world and share powerful, thought provoking insights with our listeners.
Our objective from this podcast series remains to educate senior level marketers & thought leaders to help them solve some of the most quizzing marketing questions propping up right now.
Join the conversation to access actionable advice shared in an incredibly insightful way.
Harvey Kraft is a writer, artist, historian (spiritual archeologist) and futurist, strategist, storyteller and thought leader, and the multiple award-winning author of the epic history "The Buddha from Babylon" available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble. He strongly believes that the lessons of history are inexorably linked with the potentials of our future because both arise from mind.
He also is a founder of the group Digitalism dedicated to the application of high-minded values as a framework for guiding the march of technological innovations for the benefit of humanity.
Key Takeaways:
Are historians' ideal futurists? Would it be right to say that history is future studies in reverse and HOW DO YOU see what is to COME?
How historians can be relevant in today’s policy debates, and how historical methods and skills can be applied to analyze probable futures and help create preferred outcomes.
What do you recommend for startups and small businesses then, as opposed to large companies, to thrive in this rapidly changing TECHNOLOGICAL environment?
There is a skeptic outlook and a pessimistic approach towards global future. How much of this pessimism about the global future can be attributed to SYSTEMIC STRUCTURES, such as the 24-hour news cycle, bad news traveling fast over the Internet and a general media and DIGITAL MARKETING overload.
Three categories are proposed for how we can think about spending our time on futures work within the organization:
Process work -approaches and tools for interacting with futures work.
Content work- generating knowledge and insights about the future.
Culture/mindset change- influencing mental models, aka changing minds, regarding the future.
What would be your strategy for allocating time for these processes?
What frameworks out of the strategic, creative and a general educational role would you recommend undertaking as an organizational futurist? Would you recommend laying emphasis on strategic planning, scenarios, forecasting or a fresh thinking approach with new ideas and a host of creative thinking tools.
As part of our Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we are thrilled to be in a conversation with Harvey Kraft: on ‘Future Thinking and Change Making as an Organizational Futurist.’
In the Thought Leader's Voice podcast series, we explore the world of how independent thought leaders bring their ideas to scale within the business world and share powerful, thought provoking insights with our listeners.
Our objective from this podcast series remains to educate senior level marketers & thought leaders to help them solve some of the most quizzing marketing questions propping up right now.
Join the conversation to access actionable advice shared in an incredibly insightful way.
Harvey Kraft is a writer, artist, historian (spiritual archeologist) and futurist, strategist, storyteller and thought leader, and the multiple award-winning author of the epic history "The Buddha from Babylon" available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble. He strongly believes that the lessons of history are inexorably linked with the potentials of our future because both arise from mind.
He also is a founder of the group Digitalism dedicated to the application of high-minded values as a framework for guiding the march of technological innovations for the benefit of humanity.
Key Takeaways:
Are historians' ideal futurists? Would it be right to say that history is future studies in reverse and HOW DO YOU see what is to COME?
How historians can be relevant in today’s policy debates, and how historical methods and skills can be applied to analyze probable futures and help create preferred outcomes.
What do you recommend for startups and small businesses then, as opposed to large companies, to thrive in this rapidly changing TECHNOLOGICAL environment?
There is a skeptic outlook and a pessimistic approach towards global future. How much of this pessimism about the global future can be attributed to SYSTEMIC STRUCTURES, such as the 24-hour news cycle, bad news traveling fast over the Internet and a general media and DIGITAL MARKETING overload.
Three categories are proposed for how we can think about spending our time on futures work within the organization:
Process work -approaches and tools for interacting with futures work.
Content work- generating knowledge and insights about the future.
Culture/mindset change- influencing mental models, aka changing minds, regarding the future.
What would be your strategy for allocating time for these processes?
What frameworks out of the strategic, creative and a general educational role would you recommend undertaking as an organizational futurist? Would you recommend laying emphasis on strategic planning, scenarios, forecasting or a fresh thinking approach with new ideas and a host of creative thinking tools.
34 min