Futurescaping
Subtitle: Using Business Insight to Plan Your Life
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781408156964; 9781408156971; 9781408156643
Subjects: Business planning; Self-actualization (Psychology); Self-efficacy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Strategic Planning
Description: Futurescaping is an engaging guide to making better life decisions by adapting the best elements of business planning for personal success. So many people manage brilliantly at work, making smart and accountable decisions, yet let their personal lives slide into gentle chaos. Futurescaping reveals the truths of corporate future planning, outlining the importance and benefit of accountability and a clear bottom line. It focuses on the enigmatic technique of scenario planning which enables organisations to plan decades in advance, and shows how individuals can use the same technique to plan for.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1 Your Future Quotient; 2 Future Philosophy; 3 How Companies Plan; 4 Human Drivers: The Inside Story; 5 External Factors; 6 Getting Objective; 7 Combining Complexity (Modelling Your Future); 8 Futurescaping: The Personal Version of Scenario Planning; 9 Driving Back from the Future and Early Warnings; Appendix; Acknowledgements; Footnotes; eCopyright.