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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...
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...
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...
The Perils of Being Stuck in a Pleasant Present: 7 Strategies for overcoming Status Quo Bias

The Perils of Being Stuck in a Pleasant Present: 7 Strategies for overcoming Status Quo Bias

Apr 21, 2019 | Perpendicular Thinking, Reinvention, Routines, Strategy, Thinking Tools

“If you are considering a change, you are past the point where you should have made it.” Tyler Cowen, Economist When was the last time you did something for the first time? When was the last time you took a risk, or even diverged from your usual routine? Don’t feel...
Have you ever done a Personal Brand Audit of yourself? You should.

Have you ever done a Personal Brand Audit of yourself? You should.

Apr 14, 2019 | Personal Brand, Reinvention, Strategy

Photo by Patrik Michalicka on Unsplash To quote the great urban philosopher Ice-T, “don’t hate the playa, hate the game.” Some people might not like to think that we are “products” that have “brands”, but wishing it away does not make it so. If I say the names “Justin...
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