One of the hardest things to do in the area of futures thinking is to keep away from wishful thinking.
It is phenomenally hard to do so, to inject one’s own desires and wishes into one’s futures work.
In our new thinking of multiple capitals, the role of business would not be just about creating profits in the economic sense, but also about creating value in social, natural and other aspects.
There is a lot of grief to go around. Many groups of people are claiming a kind of loss. Some people have converted that grief into anger and grievance and vengeance. Others use that to continue their activism.
This is a discussion thinking about what some concepts from the discipline of Science, Technology, and Society can do for us in our thinking.
The approach that we want to take in enhancing/improving the environment can be similar to how we might do it with social deficits.
Although it would be difficult to account for the non-economic kinds of capitals, it is still possible to track the activities and flows associated with the different kinds of capitals. This is a way to side-step the…
In the multiple capitals framework, it is possible to start with things we experience today. For instance, say there are clearly defined social deficits in…
I had previously thought about the convertibility of the different kinds of capitals, and had thought that they ought not to inter-convert into each other, and certainly not for economic capital.
Previously, I mentioned how futures, change management, and grief can actually be deeply connected with each other. The main thing is this: in futures thinking, we think a lot about what happens if key assumptions about the…
At first glance, it might seem strange to see the three concepts placed together in a sentence. Hear me out. I would argue that all three things are really intimately connected, and the better we deal with grief and change, the…