The Boston Marathon Bombing, Al Gore, Byron Reese, and Scenario Planning
While the surreal drama of the Marathon Bombing and the subsequent manhunt was going on last week, I was reading two books about the future.
Scenarios
Scenario Planning: Warren Buffett, Gottfried von Leibniz, Blaise Pascal, and Peter Bernstein
Why these people would think scenario planning was awesome.
The Valley of the Shadow
WIll the great institutions of society learn how to live with transparency before transparency destroys them?
US Poverty Scenarios
Some 15 percent of Americans live below the poverty line. How much can the Obama administration do in four years to improve that situation?
400-Word Scenario #10: Fiscal Ramp to Prosperity
February 14, 2013 [Wolf News/MSDNC]: In a Valentine’s Day miracle, Congress and the administration today reached a long-term deal on the debt ceiling, taxes, and fiscal reform,
Scenario Planning beyond the Fiscal Cliff
One way or another (and as FSG partner Patrick Marren notes in a recent blog, probably in the eleventh hour), the current impasse between the White House and House Republicans will end.
A Scenario Planning Bulletin
Hot Breaking News on the Fiscal Cliff!
400-Word Scenario #9: Thanksgiving 2042
“Now let us all join hands and give thanks for all we have this day…
Idea-less in Gaza
Now that the happy horserace of the election is over, on to some grimmer scenarios.
Scenario Planning, Hurricane Sandy, and Relationships
This has been a ridiculously busy and stressful week for three of our recent scenario-based strategic planning clients: the United States Coast Guard, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).