{"product_id":"introduction-to-foresight-executive-edition-susan-fant-9781736558508","title":"Introduction to Foresight, Executive Edition: Personal, Team, and Organizational Adaptiveness","description":"\u003cp\u003eForesight is humanity's top superpower. We all use it every day, consciously or unconsciously, well or poorly, in a foresight-action cycle, to anticipate, create, and manage the future. Foresight professionals are anyone tasked to think about probable, possible, preferable, or preventable futures for others, over any time horizon. Foresight is both a set of time-tested empirical practices, many in use since the 1950's, and emerging models of adaptiveness and values, grounded in psychology and complex systems research. Great foresight begins with the minutes and hours of Today, takes us into Tomorrow, then the next Quarter, then a Lifetime. We owe it to ourselves, our teams, and our world to apply the best practices, models, and worldviews in this vital, exciting, powerful field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two books of \u003ci\u003eThe Foresight Guide\u003c\/i\u003e, written by our team at Foresight University, help executives and students become better foresight leaders, starting with self-leadership. Book 1 (this book), \u003ci\u003eIntroduction to Foresight\u003c\/i\u003e, covers personal, team, and organizational foresight practices, biases and traps. Organizational foresight emerged in the mid-20th century, and spans twenty specialties in strategic management, yet it is still poorly practiced by many executives. Book 2, \u003ci\u003eBig Picture Foresight\u003c\/i\u003e (Nov 2023), covers key 21st century trends, issues, models, stories, opportunities, and problems, in our world of accelerating change. Each book is available in an abridged Executive Edition (this book) and as an expanded Student Edition, with additional coverage on the nature of the firm, and more advice on foresight practice. This Executive Edition is ideal for busy professionals seeking better foresight for themselves, their teams, and their organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe focus of each book is not just \u003ci\u003estrategic foresight\u003c\/i\u003e, which makes us more effective in short-term strategy and actions, independent of our goals and values, but \u003ci\u003eadaptive foresight\u003c\/i\u003e, or the goals, values and practices that build our personal and group adaptiveness, in any environment, over the long term. Improving our foresight and action is the most satisfying journey each of us can take as we strive to live with greater meaning, purpose, and impact in the world. Come learn how.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Fant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1736558501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781736558508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Foresight University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.77d","brand":"Susan Fant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981276086527,"sku":"9781736558508","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_33e28e3d-b4c0-4408-aac9-125c8bc6e57c.jpg?v=1683254635","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/introduction-to-foresight-executive-edition-susan-fant-9781736558508","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}