Dear all, I'd like to share key points I've drawn from the most recent book I read, entitled, 'Future Cultures: How to Build a Future-ready Organization through Leadership' by Scott Smith and Susan Cox-Smith ka.
What I like most are:
1. The model on 'How to Future' consists of framing, sensing, tuning and rethinking strategy, sense-making, scenarios, storytelling, prototyping innovations, and assessing.
For me, sensing and sense-making are the two key elements hanging on my mind when thinking about what I got from this book ka. I think if we read, listen, think and discuss enough, sensing the future could be easier ka.
2. Leadership at the top, collective, and individual levels is needed to create and nurture one's organization. We need to invite and encourage it to shirt practices, rituals, and ways of communication to be more future-oriented ka.
3. We become less afraid of the future if we can 'understand different explanations of and methods for imagining the future'.
4. Identify workforce with these qualities to team up for future-oriented efforts ka...those who are curious, aware of a wider view of the world, open-minded, adaptable, entrepreneurial, empathetic, comfortable with uncertainty, attuned to impacts, and systems thinker.
Which qualities will be hardest to find in our/yourThai context ka?
5. Besides key people, context, organizational ecosystem, networks, communication, collaboration, actions are crucial to move toward future cultures.
6. Even with quite a number of things to do to keep the momentum going, what I find most essential are: alignment with organizational purpose and values; inclusion, communication in local language, and trial and errors to learn and build on.
7ึ. Four futures of future cultures are 2 for human-centered, i.e. Humans are the loop and Collaborative commons; and 2 for AI-centered, namely, Algorithmic agora, and Digital deliberation.
Each has its strengths and requirements which again depend on contexts, expertise, and directions of the organizations
When mentioning about 'future-ready', Dr. Surakiart Sathirathai just said in the recent Standard Economic Forum that we should call it 'present-ready'......room for discussion ka. In fact for me, when calling it present-ready, we may put efforts to solve current issues with insufficient attention and actions for the future ka.
As a person who loves 'future studies', I hope to see more leaders find this matter crucial to the vision, strategic thinking/directions and sustainability, of the organizations. It can be an integral part of their strategic planning and implementation (and move further from incremental, routine efforts to solve immediate problems). Like many other key issues, before then, leaders would need to 'buy in' to take it seriously to get started ka.
What do you think ka?
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