Congrats to UH Foresight alum, Jim Lee! His newest book, Foresight Investing: A Complete Guide to Finding Your Next Great Trade hits the literal and digital shelves April 8th. Read about the book in his update below, and follow Jim for more foresight infused financial planning and wealth management at his firm, StratFi.
Futures studies, often interchangeably called foresight, is an evolving profession that is necessary for humanity to think about how to plan and prepare for the future as well as influence change. We now live in a world that is extremely interconnected and thus it becomes more difficult to understand the potential ripple effects of various dynamics, be it the emergence of the Internet of Things or a pandemic.
One objective of exploring a range of possible futures is “preparation” in the widest possible sense. What proactive steps can we take today to better prepare for and ultimately make more informed decisions in response to the future as it materializes?
"When I looked at the needs of humanity, society, and the world, I began to understand how quickly and fundamentally any industry, any company, any sector can be completely changed, be radically transformed, and reshaped, sometimes overnight. And the mismatch between societal and generational changes, climate challenges and the short-term, narrow corporate strategies."
This is a continuation, Part 2, of my COVID19 posts [...]
Right on the heels of a sold-out January seminar (shout [...]
