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What do you need to do? Which choice do you have to make? Which options do you have?
Often there are more than you think!

The Futures Ready Framework: seven dimensions (change, design, learning, systems, structure, culture, impact) on three levels, mindset, skillset and toolset
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Seven perspectives on organising, three levels of change. Together 21 capabilities of the future oriented organisation or professional.

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Our future dialogues

We spoke with more than 150 change makers and leaders about how we can build True Future Value together.

A conversation
with Margaret Wheatley

What changes when leaders move from hero to host?

On letting go of the organisation as a machine, and leadership that gives people room.

A conversation
with C.K. Prahalad

What if best practice is what keeps you from next practice?

On the step from proven recipes to what works tomorrow.

A conversation
with Simon Sinek

What changes when purpose becomes a starting point rather than a statement?

On impact as the starting point of strategy, not as a slogan.

A conversation
with Shoshana Zuboff

What happens when organisations finally organise around the individual?

On the support economy, and why organisations must put people at the centre again.

A conversation
with Katie Salen

What happens when you engage people through play?

On play as an engine for engagement and learning.

A conversation
with Otto Scharmer

What changes when you involve every stakeholder?

On getting the whole system in the room, and seeing together what wants to emerge.

A conversation
with Seth Godin

What if marketing is simply making something worth talking about?

On marketing as making, and why the product itself is the story.

A conversation
with Josephine Green

How do we deal with transformation, not just change?

On the transition to a new society, and what that asks of organisations.

A conversation
with Douglas Rushkoff

Will you program, or be programmed?

On digital literacy, and who sets the rules of our technology.

A conversation
with John Thackara

What if design is something we do together?

On cocreation in design, and designing with people instead of for people.

A conversation
with Navi Radjou

Why is diversity the key to success?

On diversity as a source of innovation, and doing more with less.

A conversation
with Dayna Baumeister

What if nature is the best designer we know?

On biomimicry: designing with lessons from billions of years of evolution.

A conversation
with Venkat Ramaswamy

What if value is created in the experience, not the product?

On the cocreation of value, and the customer experience as the core of your offer.

A conversation
with Michael Braungart

Is being less bad the same as being good?

On effectiveness over efficiency, and designing without waste.

A conversation
with Dan Ariely

What if you change the context instead of the person?

On behaviour, irrationality and the power of the environment.

A conversation
with Benjamin Zander

What happens when a leader makes others powerful?

On leading as a conductor, and seeing the possibility in people.

A conversation
with Kjell Nordström

What if it is all about the why?

On standing out in a world of abundance.

A conversation
with Susan Blackmore

How do ideas spread and shape what we do?

On memes, imitation and how ideas steer our behaviour.

A conversation
with Grady Booch

What happens when software becomes as common as electricity?

On AI and software as a utility, and what that asks of people.

A conversation
with Barrett Brown

What does it take to make wise decisions?

On consciousness, leadership and deciding in complexity.

A conversation
with Jason Silva

What happens when vision leads the organisation?

On wonder, imagination and a vision that moves people.

A conversation
with Gabe Zichermann

How do you use game design to engage people?

On gamification: game principles that engage and motivate people.