As I read and ponder:

They say that hindsight is 20/20. And they’re right.

In the present moment, it’s hard to observe your life for what’s really going on.

Patterns and trends tend only to emerge when you are looking back, not when you are looking around you.

In order to really examine your life, you need to look backwards at some point.

This doesn’t mean that you are “living in the past.” It doesn’t mean that you are not present in the present anymore.

It simply means you are looking at past circumstances to extract gems from what you have experienced.

A FUTURIST'S GUIDE TO ANTICIPATING & LEADING CHANGE

Here's a fascinating, though belated, slideshare presentation from change strategist/trend analyst Cecily Sommer of 'The Push Institute', a non-profit think tank that tracks significant global trends & their implications for business & government:

Digital Summit A Futurists Guide To Anticipating & Leading Change

View more presentations from Cecily Sommers.

I like her provocative question:

"Why is it that, even when we know better, we don't do better?"
Her antidote is in her presentation. Enjoy & assimilate.

10 TRUTHS ABOUT THE FUTURE

The following are my take-aways from an expert advisory by futurist, trends & innovation strategist Jim Carroll, whose two wonderful books have been reviewed in my weblog as well as on Amazon.com:

1) It’s incredibly fast, with collapsing product life cycles;

2) It involves a huge adaptability gap, due to accelerating change;

3) It has a huge instantaneity, as we live in a rapid idea cycle era;

4) It hits you most when you don’t expect it - understand hype cycles;

5) It's being defined by renegades & insurgents;

6) It involves partnership with customers, suppliers, facilitators & other stakeholders;

7) It involves intensity, like playing video-games;

8) It’s bigger than you think - there's danger in the comfort zone;

9) It involves innovation intensity from everyone in the organisation;

10) It comes from experiential capital - learning, unlearning & relearning;

[Jim Carroll wrote 'What I Learned from Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward-Thinking Innovation' & 'Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast'.]