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Facing Our Futures
- Author
- Nikolas Badminton
- Narrator
- Quentin Cooper
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 16 February 2023
- Run Time
- 7 hours 5 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future.
Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable to prepare for these specific events. But, through innovation, strategizing and an open-minded approach, they can restructure their organization and practices in order to mitigate (or even take advantage of) the impact of such events.
In Facing Our Futures, Nikolas Badminton draws upon his decades of experience as a consultant and futurist to provide readers with the skillset and outlook they need to prepare their organization, team and themselves for whatever obstacles the future may hold. CEOs, executive teams, government leaders and policy makers need to gain a broader perspective and a firmer grasp on how their relevant industry, society or community is evolving and changing. Once they have acquired this foresight, they need to then discover how to fully harness it – by strengthening their foundations, forecasting and establishing a resilient and adaptable strategy.
Facing Our Futures acts as a primer on the value of seeing how bad things can get and the power in imagining these futures. It also provides a proven strategic planning and foresight methodology – the Positive Dystopia Canvas (PDC) – that allows leaders to supercharge their teams to build evocative visions of futures that strengthen planning today.
Critics Review
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Nikolas Badminton cracks the code on the leadership model for the future in this must-read masterpiece.
five-time tech entrepreneur, bestselling New York Times author, venture capital investor
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In this increasingly volatile and uncertain world it's even more important to be prepared and build resilience in your business through proven methods well explained by Nikolas Badminton.
Co-founder and Chair of IMAGINE, former CEO of Unilever
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Whether you are a CEO of an organization that is in transition, or a pioneer that is looking for new ways of looking at the future, this book will give you extensive knowledge and practical tools… A must read for every new or experienced futurist!
UNESCO Chair in Futures Literacy
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Nikolas provides important thinking on exploring realistic and holistic futures that support planning for a resilient human race.
Climate Adaptation Director, United Nations (UNFCCC)
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Frank, succinct, and fundamentally optimistic, just like Nikolas himself, Facing Our Futures is the manual you need to make sense of, and more importantly, be a part of creating the sorts of collaborative, inspiring, sustainable futures we all want to arrive at.
Futurist & Partner at Flux Trends
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There’s no doubt that holistic futures design is the missing link for disruptive thinkers. You have to read this book and see how Nikolas takes world leading companies to the next level!
Disruption Strategist, Speaker and author of ‘The Bold Ones’
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Nikolas supplies the framework to upgrade your strategic planning capabilities and establish futures consciousness in your organization.
Innovation Leader, Author of Digital Darwinism
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Facing Our Futures is an erudite and practical framework through which businesses can analyze a wide range of future outcomes, and then develop strategies that enable them to outflank the competition over years or even decades.
Founder, 3Q/DEPT
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An incredibly thoughtful work, pulling insightful resources from diverse fields, written in a skeptic, pragmatic and relevant manner, [which] seeks to discover more truths as data comes in. Very addictive and quenching.
Managing Director, Hinna Park Capital
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Details
- Author
- Nikolas Badminton
- Narrator
- Quentin Cooper
- Duration
- 7 hours 5 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 February 2023
- ISBN
- 9781399400213
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Business strategy, Social forecasting, future studies, Business innovation
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Facing Our Futures by Nikolas Badminton, read by Quentin Cooper.A fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future.Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable to prepare for these specific events. But, through innovation, strategizing and an open-minded approach, they can restructure their organization and practices in order to mitigate (or even take advantage of) the impact of such events.In Facing Our Futures, Nikolas Badminton draws upon his decades of experience as a consultant and futurist to provide readers with the skillset and outlook they need to prepare their organization, team and themselves for whatever obstacles the future may hold. CEOs, executive teams, government leaders and policy makers need to gain a broader perspective and a firmer grasp on how their relevant industry, society or community is evolving and changing. Once they have acquired this foresight, they need to then discover how to fully harness it – by strengthening their foundations, forecasting and establishing a resilient and adaptable strategy.Facing Our Futures acts as a primer on the value of seeing how bad things can get and the power in imagining these futures. It also provides a proven strategic planning and foresight methodology – the Positive Dystopia Canvas (PDC) – that allows leaders to supercharge their teams to build evocative visions of futures that strengthen planning today.
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