Showing 1-13 of 13 Books
2011
A better time for your business starts in the next decade. Are you ready? In this fast and furious time machine of a book, Richard Laermer shows you how to...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Strategy
2030
Once upon a time, the world was neatly divided into prosperous and backward economies. Babies were plentiful, workers outnumbered retirees, and people aspiring towards the middle class yearned to own...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Inequality, Law

Communicating with the Future
Our journey into the future is never ending. It begins at the moment of our birth and continues forever. Until now, we have viewed ourselves as “victims” of the future,...
Forecasting, Strategy

Future Shock
Future Shock is the classic that changed our view of tomorrow. Its startling insights into accelerating change led a president to ask his advisers for a special report, inspired composers...
Culture, Disruption, Forecasting, Social Sciences
Future-Fluent
Anyone who has visited a foreign place can relate how disorienting it is to lack a command of the local language. To orient ourselves within the human environment and operate...
Forecasting, Strategy

Gigged
The full-time job is disappearing—is landing the right gig the new American Dream? One in three American workers is now a freelancer. This “gig economy”—one that provides neither the guarantee...
Forecasting, Future of Work, Inequality, Unemployment
Non-Obvious 2017
What unexpected insights can a holographic Holocaust survivor and a Japanese film about soy sauce offer us about career development? How do self-repairing airplane wings, touch-enabled “skinterface” tattoos and smart...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Strategy

Seeing What’s Next
Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data and lead to costly errors...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Strategy

Strategic Foresight
Revised and fully updated in August 2017, with an important new section on Scenario Tools and Scenario Planning. his is a book is for leaders, to aid their practice in...
Forecasting, Leadership

Superforecasting
Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week’s meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Psychology
The Future Is Faster Than You Think
In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Social Aspects of Technology, Strategy
The Signals Are Talking
Amy Webb is a noted futurist who combines curiosity, skepticism, colorful storytelling, and deeply reported, real-world analysis in this essential book for understanding the future. The Signals Are Talking reveals...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Strategy

WTF?
WTF? can be an expression of amazement or an expression of dismay. In today’s economy, we have far too much dismay along with our amazement, and technology bears some of...
Business & Economics, Forecasting, Public Policy, Strategy, Technology & Engineering