Reports from the Knowledge Labs about our recent findings, research topics, and interviews with lifestyle leaders who are creating their own futures.
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How to stimulate your own powers of foresight. Consider the following thought provokers. Ask yourself, in these categories what are the brand new trends and forces? Which are the ones growing in importance? Which current forces are loosing their steam? Which have peaked or are reversing themselves? Which are the "wildcards" about to disrupt us in the future? POLITICAL AND TECHNICAL thought for food: Electronics, Materials, Energy, Fossil, Nuclear, Alternative, Other, Manufacturing (techniques), Agriculture, Machinery and Equipment, Distribution, Transportation (Urban, Mass, Personal, Surface, Sea, Subsurface, Space), Communication (Printed, Spoken, Interactive, Media), Computers (Information, Knowledge, Storage & Retrieval, Design, Network Resources), Post-Cold War, Third World, Conflict (Local, Regional, Global), Arms Limitation, Undeclared Wars, Terrorism, Nuclear Proliferation, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Governments (More/Less Power and Larger or Smaller Scale), Taxes, Isms: Nationalism, Regionalism, Protectionism, Populism, Cartels, Multinational Corporations, Balance of Trade, Third Party Payments, Regulations (OSHA, etc.) Environmental Impact, U.S. Prestige Abroad. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC Food for thought:
Labor Movements, Unemployment / Employment Cycles, Recession, Employment Patterns, Work Hours / Schedules, Fringe Benefits, Management Approaches, Accounting Policies, Productivity, Energy Costs, Balance of Payments, Inflation, Taxes, Rates of Real Growth, Distribution of Wealth, Capital Availability and Costs, Reliability of Forecasts, Raw Materials, Availability and Costs, Global versus National Economy, Market versus Planned Economies, Generations: Y, X, Boomers, Elderly, Urban vs. Rural Lifestyles, Affluent vs. Poor, Neighborhoods and Communities, Planned or Organic Growth.
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The Journal of 2020 Foresight
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Sunday, October 15, 2006
“It’s Been a Long Road Behind Me, and It’s a Long Road Ahead”
By Steve Howard, CKO
The Knowledge Labs
The Journal of 2020 Foresight
Since beginning-less time people traveled to the ends of the earth seeking the foresight to know where life will take them.
Today with time running out, 78 million Baby Boomers ask themselves in the wee hours of the night:
- Who have I become?
- What will my life add up to?
- Do I want to be remembered as the person I have been up to now?
- Is it too late to put more meaning in my life?
- Where will I be and what will I be doing in the next five years?
- Will economic cycles support or defeat my plans?
- Will I be forced to live a lifestyle I didn’t choose or work in a job I hate?
- Will my energy, vitality and health slowly drain away?
What about you?
As you map out the rest of your journey, which direction will your life take? What kind of legacy do you want to leave?
And, will you finally follow your dreams?
“The painter stood
Before her work
She looked around everywhere
She saw the pictures and she painted them
She picked the colors from the air
Green to green
Red to red
Yellow to yellow
In the light
Black to black
When the evening comes
Blue to blue
In the night
It's a long road
Behind me
It's a long road
Ahead
If you follow every dream
You might get lost
If you follow every dream
You might
Get Lost.
She towed the line
She held her end up
She did the work of too many
But in the end
She fell down
Before she got up again
I keep my friends eternally
We leave our tracks in the sound
Some of them are with me now
Some of them can't be found
It's a long road behind me
And I miss you now
If you follow every dream
You might get lost
If you follow every dream
You might
Get
Lost.”
Neil Young, "The Painter"
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Saturday, October 14, 2006
Which Direction Will Your Life Take?
Chapter Four: The Tribal Territories
By Steve Howard, CKO
The Knowledge Labs
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Basecamp
Chapter Two: The Ridge
Chapter Three: The Outpost
Chapter Four: The Tribal Territories
“Nothing is more important than the wisdom required to transform customers. Being in the transformation business means charging for the demonstrated outcome. Without wisdom people find aspirations difficult to achieve."
B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, “The Experience Economy”
DOUBLE NICKEL RANCH. Here’s what they’re saying about The Journal of 2020 Foresight.
“A must read for every savvy Baby Boomer male and female. Assists Baby Boomers in a world where traditional expectations have been obliterated by lightening fast realities of the economy”
“It’s a goldmine of valuable advice and knowledge.”
“Original insight into the marketplace changes that affect the U.S. workplace in this new fast-changing economy.”
“A candid assessment of the trials and tribulations facing the Boomer family – from their elderly parents to their graying spouses, brothers and sisters to their coming of age children in their 30s and 20s and to their grandchildren.”
New life strategies for a flattening world you won’t find anywhere else. How do you:
- Become a master of your own fate?
- Locate your possibilities for growth and change?
- Discover what is missing and forge new directions for an engaging new life?
- Find new passion and purpose?
- Convert a job change or downsizing into previously unheard of opportunities?
- Redirect your life to leave the kind of inspiring legacy you want?
- Reinvent your life and renew your relationships with those most important to you?
“Discover new maps for a generation journeying through life at the same time. Confront the major issues of each life stage. Customize your own life cycle.”
“The Journal of 2020 Foresight is grounded in the career, business and life realities that make being a Boomer so complex today. Laid out in journal entry fashion are the facts, trends, myths and fears.”
“A work of revelation as an entire generation embarks into uncharted territories – from Gail Sheehy’s ‘Fearless 50s’ to the ‘Age of Integrity and Influence.’”
“The Knowledge Labs delivers insights borne out by extensive original research and application in the real world. Fresh findings that allow us to make sense of our own lives by understanding others like us.”
“Uncommon wisdom and guide to self-renewal.”
And in the end Grey Owl asks which direction will your journey take?
"After Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, arranged the other six directions -- East, South, West, North, Above, and Below -- one direction was still left to be placed. But since that Seventh Direction was the most powerful of all, the one containing the greatest wisdom and strength, Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, wished to place it somewhere where it would not easily be found. So it was finally hidden in the last place humans usually think to look -- in each person's heart.”
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