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What goes on in the head of a futurist?
Why is self-reflection so painful? This blog post is about a current struggle. It’s about integrity. It’s about time and energy. It’s about money. It’s about purpose. It started sometime last year...
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Aesthetics
Lennart RodheBjörndans1990 Marcel DuchampTu m’ (detail)1918 Mark RothkoDark Brown Gray Orange1963
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Who decides?
While involved in several start-ups, groups and organisations with collaboration as one of the key values in the last years, I’ve sat through many hours of governance discussions. Holacracy,...
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What is a Superhero Space?
I am launching a new non-profit called Superhero Spaces. Superhero Spaces is a not-for-profit organisation which illuminates and strengthens a global network of “superhero spaces”. Excuse me? What’s...
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SEEKING: New metaphors for heroic entrepreneurship
Most futurists like to use models and frameworks to help people make sense of the world. Here follow two metaphors that I use sometimes when I try to communicate foresight. They can also be used for...
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A shift beyond the knowledge society in Sweden?
I read in the Swedish newspapers this morning the angry and desperate reports that Swedish students fall behind in global rankings. The so-called PISA report, which was published this week, shows that...
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Futurizers: A Guerrilla Network that Injects the Future in Organizations
In a blog post last year, Andy Hines defined “futurizers” as “those who introduce the meme of foresight or thinking about the future into their organization”. These farsighted staff members ask...
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2013 – The Year of Parallel Entrepreneurship Part 2 : The Verdict
The experiment “If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.” Linus Pauling “A start-up is a temporary...
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Communicating Complexity
Complex things are hard to communicate. But it’s nevertheless important to do it. Here are some of my reflections on how to communicate futures thinking or foresight – the rather complex field I’m...
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Strategic Plan 2014-2024
Playing with a visual one-page ten-year strategy for myself with this quote by Lady Gaga in mind… “It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.”
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Cleanin out my ideas closet
I’ve decided to use May for cleaning up some stuff: I will participate in the excellent initiative Mindful in May. This is a one month online mindfulness challenge starting today. According to the...
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The History of Hoarding
Apparently we humans started to farm because we like to own things. I thought it was because we were lazy – one of my favourite virtues. All entrepreneurs are lazy – they hate working, so they work a...
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Obituaries, eulogies, narratives and making autobiography
When I take my daughter to daycare in the morning we walk from the train station across a cemetery. While she is fascinated by all the pretty flowers I am fascinated by all the graves, which are...
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Take Shelter
This image is from the excellent ecopsychological drama Take Shelter (2012). Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a...
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Dare to be Delusional: Beyond Social Entrepreneurship pt. 1
Entrepreneurial Development I’ve been thinking and researching a lot about the development of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs over the past three years. Some elements seem to always be there when...
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Hey Perth! Which Future Do You Want?
I live in Perth in Western Australia. A place which is built on the enormous wealth of non-renewable natural resources in the ground and under the ocean floor. As a futurist, I naturally think about...
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Who do you trust? I trust Johan Galtung.
In June last year I was on my way to Bucharest to the World Futures Studies Federation XXI World Conference & General Assembly. Mainly to get to hear Johan Galtung‘s keynote. I was quite sick at...
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False Creativity
Just because someone create doesn’t mean they’re creative. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the person with the hardest name to pronounce in psychology and the man behind the ‘Flow’ concept, developed a...
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Vad kan vi lära av romerna – Europas oönskade skuggsida?
SvDs kulturchef Daniel Sandström skrev i oktober 2013 om antiziganismen i vårt samhälle, vilket triggade några tankar för mig. Av olika anledningar publicerade jag aldrig dem då, men here we go....
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The Tibetan Sand Puzzle Smartphone Application
I’d love to see this on start-up equity platform AngelList:
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