2 posts tagged “futuring”

I like to introduce the idea of the amplified individuals.

 

Amplified individuals are the new super heroes of organizations. They embraced new tools, applications, practices and social media.

 

 

They have 9 super powers.

 

Mobbability

The ability to work in large groups

A talent for organizing and collaborating with many people simultaneously

 

Influency

The ability to be persuasive in multiple social contexts and media spaces

An understanding that each context and space requires a different persuasive strategy and technique

 

Ping Quotient

Measures your responsiveness to other people’s requests for engagement

Your propensity and ability to reach out to others in a network

 

Protovation

Fearless innovation in rapid, iterative cycles

 

Open Authorship

Creating content for public consumption and modification

 

Multi-Capitalism

Fluency in working with different capitals, e.g., natural, intellectual, social and financial

 

Longbroading

Thinking in terms of higher level systems, cycles, the big picture

 

Signal / Noise Management

Filtering meaningful info, patterns, and commonalities from massively-multiple streams of data

 

Cooperation Radar

The ability to sense, almost intuitively, who would make the best collaborators on a particular task

 

Source:

Amplified individuals, amplified organizations

Andrea Saveri of Institute for the Future

NLab social networks conference 2008

John Naisbitt’s 11 mindsets of forecasting

1.  While many things change, most things remain constant.

2.  The future is embedded in the present.

3.  Focus on the score of the game.

4.  Understanding how powerfull it is not to be right.

5.  See the future as a picture puzzle.

6.  Don’t get so far ahead of the parade that people don’t know you’re in it.

7.  Resistance to change falls if benefits are real.

8.  Things that we expect to happen always happen more slowly.

9.  You don’t get results by solving problems but by exploiting opportunities.

10. Don’t add unless you subtract.

11. Don’t forget the ecology of technology.

 

Source:

Mind Set

John Naisbitt

HarperCollins

ISBN: 9780061136887