November: Futures Triangle

The Futures Triangle (developed by Sohail Inayatullah) is a simple framework to give your colleagues a taste of futures thinking. It can help teams and projects to have better conversations, challenge assumptions, and make more future-conscious decisions at work.

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  • Three forces to acknowledge:

    1. Pull of the future: Compelling visions, hopes, fears, and aspirations that draw people toward particular futures.

    2. Push of the present: Emerging trends, developments, and drivers of change that create momentum.

    3. Weight of the past: Entrenched structures, assumptions, habits, and historical legacies that resist change.