The image here was used for a recent Meetup for Stockholm Futurists. It’s a graphic representation of futurist Jim Dator’s four alternative futures archetypes; continuation (a.k.a. growth, business-as-usual, all-is-fine, keep-calm-and-carry-on), collapse (systemic failure on a massive scale) discipline (simplicity, sustainability, fundamentalism) transformation (radical shift of some sort) These archetypes seem to come back over and over again in civilizations of the past, according to … Continue reading Where To From Here? Why Strategy in 2014 is so difficult.