Reconnect the dots in new and different ways to uncover hidden opportunities for your career and personal life.
Consider the case study about the builders of the “Doomsday Seed Vault” and the horror they must have felt, when they realized the genius of their deep-future planet-saving food-bank scenario failed to include the present day risk of Arctic Warming.
Oops, now what?
What if …
What are some of the other consequences triggered by the continuing change in the ocean conveyor built, especially at a time when we may be reaching “Peak Indifference” on climate change?
Or, what about the second and third degree rippling effects?
What are the implications for the cost of your insurance premiums?
Which industries will boom and which will decay if the first graphene-based device is real, and available for market before the end of this year?
Tick. Tick. Tick.
As a consumer, a citizen or a power plant operator, what are the implications of the patent filed by Tesla to bypass the Electrical Grid?
Or, what if science gets it right and can turn abundant seawater into hydrogen fuel bypassing the need for hybrid-vehicles?
How will your life change, or the life of someone you know and care about, if the science of deep brain simulation becomes available?
Tick. Tick. Tick.
Or, what are the unintended consequences of Harvard’s discovery of a DNA gene-controlling switch for whole-body regeneration?
Game, set, match?
And, finally a little bit closer to home.
What about the so-called “Economic Singularity”?
Snooze alarm.
How realistic is it, if what futurists fear the most, robots come and take our jobs away.
Yours, mine, theirs?
Forever?
No need to be an alarmist, here.
But, what if …?
Steps:
6) Anticipate changing circumstances and economic cycles.
7) Persist and pivot to navigate external threats and opportunities.
17) Sketch out your trajectory in 5-year timeframes. Will we fall into another recession? Absolutely. Will you be ready this time with future-proofed strategies?