This past summer IBM released a survey of 1500 CEO's across the globe and they said that creativity was the most important leadership quality for guaranteeing future success. How does one become creative, though? Part of the answer begins with the ability to unlearn. It's now generally understood that today's more successful companies have figured out [...]
If you want to facilitate creativity and encourage innovation you are going to have to embrace the idea that many ideas and products will end in failure. Failure, as I have said before, is thus something that must be encouraged. But how does one "encourage" failure? One idea, which was suggested in this article, is [...]
Often, the first step to solving an old problem is viewing your situation--and the tools at your disposal--in a new light. If you want to watch a short, fun and inspirational video, check out this two-minute YouTube clip on a simple solar solution:
The first chapter of my new book, Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future, is entitled "Unlearn or Die." To better appreciate why unlearning will be such a critical skill in the future, I'd like to share this paragraph from Josh Linkner's outstanding article, Vu Deja: Tricking Yourself Into Looking At Problems [...]
In my 2008 book on the future, Jump the Curve: 50 Essential Strategies to Help Your Company Stay Ahead of Emerging Technologies, I recommended that people should add "a healthy dose of science fiction" to their regular reading diet. Why? Because such writings can provide insight--and guidance--about future technologies as well as the future demands [...]
"Chief Unlearning Officer" Jack Uldrich discusses why teachers may need to unlearning what they think they know about teaching and learning.
Recently, Cisco announced that mobile web video communications are expected to grow "250-fold by 2015." This has a number of implications but have you ever thought about how this change will impact office design? Cisco and Microsoft have. The former has discovered that 35 percent of it's office cubicles now stand empty because its employees [...]
One of the more valuable tools when attempting to anticipate future changes is to look for "weak signals." As a professional futurist, I have developed a number of methods over the length of my career to help clients and audiences do this. First, I begin by framing the future. This "frame," however, is usually much [...]
Does no one in a position of authority like your business proposal, your manuscript or your idea? Stop listening to others "no" and say "yes" to yourself. Give yourself permission to become your own authority figure.
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