Business leaders must spend more time thinking about the future. To help make this a habit, I have developed the “Future 15”--a policy of taking 15 minutes once a week to think about the future. To make the habit simple, I encourage business leaders to follow the 6 “F’s”: Every Friday at Four Forty-Five (4:45 pm) set [...]

The future is evolving fast. Even as a full-time professional futurist, I can't stay abreast of the profound technological, economic, political, and cultural transformation pulsating through society. As a strategy, I have made it a habit of following other outstanding futurists who view the world from a wider and more diverse perspective than my own. [...]

As a futurist, I frequently speak to my audiences about the importance of humility when contemplating the future. In the same spirit of humility,  I admit that there are many other outstanding futurists who do work similar to my own. Here are five fantastic foreign futurists (in alphabetical order) who have helped me see and [...]

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Late last year, the Economist had a wonderful article on the construction industry. The most poignant point was that among all major industries, the construction industry has experienced the slowest rate of increase in productivity since the Second World War--less than 1 percent! (By contrast the agriculture industry experienced a 1600 percent increase in productivity [...]

Emerging and converging technologies are reshaping the insurance industry, to the point that it may hardly be recognizable in a decade’s time. The business of insuring against risk is being transformed by a variety of trends and technologies. Here are a few examples. Drones If you’ve seen footage of the aftermath of the recent flooding [...]

Buckminster Fuller, the noted architect, inventor, and visionary, once said: “We are called to be architects of our future, not its victims.” His advice is apropos for every business, but it is especially so for the fashion industry which is poised to see more change in next five years than it has experienced in the [...]

It can seem like major changes appear out of nowhere, but disruptive trends and technologies usually give us warning–if we’re paying attention. Most major advancements begin at the edges, outside of where we’re focused. Sometimes they stay there for decades, as 3D printing and virtual reality did, and sometimes they rapidly accelerate and reset entire [...]