Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This week’s Simon Sees is inspired by our latest Future With Friends episode, “The Future of The Past“, with the ever-thoughtful Mykel Dixon — a rich conversation on ancient wisdom, creative expression, and reconnecting with the childlike intuition we often lose. We kick off with new research
Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! Inspired by our recent Future With Friends conversation with Col Fink, this week we’re diving into the future of how we’ll live – physically, socially, and communally. We kick things off with Elon Musk’s idea of relocating his children and their mothers
Although not technically part of the collaborative decision making framework, individual perception and the ability to see the bigger picture is still instrumental to good decision making. In fact, in some ways, the ability for individuals to not just see, but analyse what’s going on in the world around them
We should always take frameworks and models with a healthy amount of skepticism. Just like a map is a gross simplification of the richness and complexity of the real world, a framework is a simplification of processes and behaviour. That being said, even though a map is far less complex
Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! Inspired by our Future With Friends conversation with Michelle Newell, this week, we’re stepping into the shadowy – yet strangely illuminating – realm of death and dying. But not in the way you might expect. From bringing long-extinct dire wolves back to life, to using
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been diving into the various layers of my strategic planning pyramid. So far, we’ve discussed the need for shared understanding and the power of collective purpose In this post, we’re taking a closer look at the value of having diverse options. The concept of
Welcome to this week’s edition of Simon Sees! This week, we’re exploring the ever-shifting terrain of work and life – and how the ways we design it, measure it, and show up in it are quietly being rewritten. We’ll question our obsession with numbers (and whether they’re telling us the
One of the most common mistakes when it comes to identifying collective purpose is that we confuse it with an organisation’s vision. Whereas an organisation’s vision is an ‘idealistic view of what everyone is working towards over the long term’ a groups collective purpose is a ‘realistic view of what
Today I’m ridiculously over the moon, jumping out of a cake excited to be announcing my new podcast ‘The Future With Friends’. The first episode featuring fellow futurist Steph Clarke exploring ‘the future of friendships’ is now live. And upcoming episodes with Dr Adrian Medhurst, Michelle Newell, Col Fink and
Last week, I shared my strategic planning model called The Strategic Planning Pyramid (the name is accurate, if not a little obvious). It has been developed through two decades of working in strategic foresight and planning, and although simplistic on the surface, it highlights some of the fundamental problems leaders
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