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2020 is a Perfect Storm. Don’t be the Andrea Gail. Have a game plan for when the game changes.

2020 is a Perfect Storm. Don’t be the Andrea Gail. Have a game plan for when the game changes.

Jul 3, 2020 | Anticipation, COVID-19, Strategy, Thinking Tools

The successive health, economic, and social crises of this year underscore the need to be prepared for uncertainty. Follow this Five-Step Playbook to be Future PROOF. Photo by Justin Kauffman on Unsplash 22 years ago, I was staying at a friend’s house in San Diego and...
COVID-19 is a hard reset for society. Let’s embrace this fresh start.

COVID-19 is a hard reset for society. Let’s embrace this fresh start.

May 26, 2020 | Anticipation, COVID-19, Mega Trends, Social Commentary

Photo by Jose Antonio Gallego Vázquez on Unsplash So many aspects of lives operated on autopilot until recently. Not anymore. The second and third-order effects of C-19 are — for good and for ill — breaking centuries-old habits. The Coronavirus just pressed...
Don’t pine for a POST-C-19 world. We’re never going back to “normal”. So now what?

Don’t pine for a POST-C-19 world. We’re never going back to “normal”. So now what?

May 13, 2020 | Anticipation, COVID-19, Mega Trends, Perpendicular Thinking, Social Commentary, Strategy, Thinking Tools

Photo by Alok Sharma on Unsplash We live in the world C-19 has permanently changed. We need to pivot now from a crisis mindset to a coexistence one. Next, we’ll need to figure out how to capitalize on it. In early March (after SXSW was canceled, before the NBA shut...
We are reaching the end of the beginning of COVID-19. Welcome to the next phase: the Upside Down

We are reaching the end of the beginning of COVID-19. Welcome to the next phase: the Upside Down

Apr 22, 2020 | Anticipation, COVID-19, Mega Trends, Modern Life, Social Commentary

I’ve been thinking a lot about how this current phase of the pandemic – and the one that follows – will change us. Unfortunately, I don’t think that we are close to returning to normal. We are instead, to borrow a Churchillian turn of phrase, reaching the...
The Coronapocalypse is a failure of competence, but also of capitalism

The Coronapocalypse is a failure of competence, but also of capitalism

Mar 31, 2020 | Anticipation, Mega Trends, Modern Life, News, Perpendicular Thinking, Social Commentary, Strategy, Thinking Tools

Photo by Joshua Brown on Unsplash Are you surprised that the whole US economic system has essentially collapsed in a matter of weeks? I am. This is an enormously disruptive shock, to be fair. But the speed with which the health of the American economy has gone from...
2020 will be another “Year Without Summer”

2020 will be another “Year Without Summer”

Mar 9, 2020 | Anticipation, Mega Trends, Social Commentary, Strategy

Everyone is comparing COVID-19 to 1918 and the Spanish Flu. But I think that the better historical analogy is a century earlier, in 1816. Photo by Jared Murray on Unsplash I went to see a theatrical rendition of “Frankenstein” with a friend last night – in part...

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