You can’t always know what’s coming, but you can imagine it. You have the ability to embrace new ideas and stay hopeful about the future. That’s what futures thinking is all about. By exiting your default frame and asking the right questions, you can start to imagine new scenarios and use those to inform your decisions. For anyone trying to think ahead and act strategically, this kind of thinking is a must.
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- Imagining the future with a frame
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- Harnessing imagination in scenarios
- Asking the right questions
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
12 minutes to complete
Welcome to Futures Thinking!
12 minutes to complete
1 reading
2 hours to complete
Imagining the future with a frame
2 hours to complete
3 readings
2 hours to complete
Asking the right questions
2 hours to complete
3 readings
2 hours to complete
Harnessing imagination in scenarios
2 hours to complete
2 readings
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