Category MBA
Popular Mechanics Article on the Work of Futurists & My Reflections as One
literacy in business, technology, and strategy for the future.
Reflections on Popular Mechanics article about futurists from my perspective as a student of foresight and business.

How a Futurist Might Work – Olympic Swimming Goggles Example
Goggles enabled swimmers to break records. Here is what a futurist might have done in this development.

Video Interview with Author of Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way
Management + Foresight + Libraries. What leadership guru Peter Drucker teaches us about a future-focused mindset. An interview with author Bruce Rosenstein.

Economic Dynamics -Book- Calculating Business Planning Through Chaos
Quantitative methods for finding the edge of predictability A professor lent me An Introduction to Economic Dynamics by Ronald Shone when I asked for more information about the connections between dynamics and business planning. Economic Dynamics explores, in the context of the firm and primarily with calculus and statistical models: stability and its shifts, equations […]

The Stakeholders’ Expectations Gap Meets Foresight Framework – Video – Management Planning/Futures
Business management planning and Strategic Foresight come together in another overlap via the stakeholders’ performance expectations gap for long term sustainable growth strategy. While reading about managing stakeholder relationships in Business and Society: Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy for an MBA course I came across the Performance Expectations Gap in the context of stakeholders in a […]

Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded Read for MBA Course + Foresight Takeaways
Friedman’s book Hot, Flat, and Crowded read for MBA w/ Foresight takeaways

Economics for Managers MBA Course & Decision Making
Joe Murphy combines management decision making in the context of economics in this MBA class and brings in elements of foresight