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If one is to properly understand events and to influence the future, it is essential to master four ways of looking at things: as they were, as they are, as they might become, and [most importantly] as they ought to be..

Content: Quotation | Source: The New Transnational HR Model: Building A Chaordic Organization | Subject: Future

Scenarios are, in the end, simply a best guess at the future, tempered by informed judgment as to how trends may play out over time. The risk here is that it is very easy to believe the future that plays into our own set of biases. Compounding this is the absence of any way of predicting when discontinuities might logically occur or what their impact … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Future, Strategy

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Content: Quotation | Source: Unknown | Subject: Future

Possibility is only a word about bringing forth out of nothingness something we desire to become present, but possibility may be the most powerful word in our language because it enables us to visualize and strive for a future that is not available to us in the present. Possibility is like a time warp, allowing one to escape from the limits our past into an … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Ability, Future

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Content: Quotation | Source: ChangeThis | Subjects: Future, Life

The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. The image of the future, therefore, is the key to all choice-oriented behavior.

Content: Quotation | Source: The Wilson Quarterly | Subjects: Decision Making, Future

The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory.

Content: Quotation | Source: Famous Forecasting Quotes | Subject: Future

The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.

Content: Quotation | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Future

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read five-year projections.

Content: Quotation | Source: CareerJournal (WSJ) | Subject: Future

You can count the number of seeds in an apple, but you can’t count the number of apples in a seed.

Content: Quotation | Source: Line56 | Subjects: Future, Potential

The information society is completed — it’s actually been around about 90 years. Now we’re beginning the post-information society. In Alvin Toffler’s terms, any time one of these new ‘waves’ comes in, like when the agricultural economy started giving way to the industrial economy, you have an ‘epoch of uncertainty.’ Now we’re at a point where the uncertainty may never stabilize — there is … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Source: Inc.com | Subjects: Future, History

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Content: Quotation | Source: CGE&Y Center for Business Innovation (CBI) | Subjects: Future, Innovation

Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.

Content: Quotation | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Future, Perception

Most people overestimate the effects of change in the short term, underestimate them in the long term and fail to spot where change will be greatest.

Content: Quotation | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Change Management, Future

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Future, Preparation