by Suzanne Whitby | Aug 7, 2023 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
One of the things I appreciate most about Questions Are the Answer is how strongly it links questioning to humility. Hal Gregersen suggests operating under the assumption that we don’t know things we need to know, and that this isn’t a weakness, but a strength. It...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jul 28, 2023 | Tips, tutorials & #divi
How to quickly insert placeholder text into your academic writing TLDR: This is a short tutorial to show you how to automatically turn a combination of characters – for example, .cite – into formatted text within your MS Word or other MS Office file so...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jul 7, 2023 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
We’re wired to treat uncertainty like a threat. Not metaphorically. Neurologically. Ambiguity scrambles our attention, tightens our thinking, and makes us reach for quick answers. But futures work isn’t about replacing uncertainty with certainty. It’s about building...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jun 13, 2023 | Notebook
The journey’s start and single steps There is an oft-quoted proverb that amounts to something along the lines of: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. First found in Chapter 64 of the classical Chinese Taoist text, the Dao De Jing,...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jun 7, 2023 | Faciliating Futures, Notebook
In futures work, hope is often misunderstood. It’s sometimes treated as optimism, a belief that things will turn out well. But in complex systems, that kind of hope rarely survives contact with reality. The kind of hope I’m interested in is different. It’s the...
