I am very excited to be included with CEOs from around the world in this video about how foresight is absolutely essential in a time where the world is facing disruptive technologies. It’s the same song I’ve been singing for close to twenty years, but it excites me when others harmonize. Thanks again to Tech Mahindra and the Wall Street …
My popular keynote on the future of risk
This recent video at the Casualty Actuarial Society‘s annual meeting shows my keynote on the future of risk and foresight. As the world grapples with traumatic leadership decisions (Trump, Brexit, etc) it seems a good time to revisit our assumptions on how to manage uncertainty. This keynote starts with the history of foresight – why we crave it, yet lack …
More thoughts on the future of foresight
Today I find myself in San Francisco, CA for JPK Group Summits’ Business Forecasting and Analytics Summit. My keynote this morning was entitled The Future of Forecasting (slides below), and in it I explore the balance between our innate desires to predict the future, emerging technologies, and human behavior. It’s not the first time I’ve given this speech, but the …
My new executive course in Strategic Mind Traps
Next month, I will be unveiling a new intelligence training course called “How to Avoid Strategic Mind Traps” at the 2016 International Competitive Intelligence Conference in Bad-Neuheim, Germany. Based on fifty years of executives getting the future both right and spectacularly wrong, I have prepared a course that applies the state of the art in behavioral economics to strategic intelligence …