Institute for the Future

And I think to clear that fog, at least what I have been working on in my own leadership style and the approach is to focus on clarity.

And I've had the opportunity to attend training on the Institute for the Future.

It's actually something that Art had recommended.

And the futurist side of the organization, Bob Johansson in particular, talks about the future will reward clarity, but punish certainty.

Yeah.

Well, I, I guess the, the one other, um, polarity I'd like to add to it, and we learned this from, uh, our friend Bob Johansen at the Institute for the Future.

This is quite a few years ago.

Um, but the polarity still, I think is even more relevant today than it was then, is that, um, one of the risks of the A3 process is that you end up with this confirmation bias leading towards certainty about a flow or about a direction or about a, you know, a root cause.

Yes, and you know, We had so many ideas, and now you reminded me of how I got into Game B.

And I actually met Jim at the Institute for the Future in California, where we were both invited at the governance weekend, where they were exploring future ways of governance.

And then after I introduced myself, and we all introduced ourselves, and in the break, Jim came to me, and he just said in his typical style, Howdy.

What is your contact? I'd like to invite you to something.