The Art of the Long View: Paths to Strategic Insight for Yourself and Your CompanyWhat increasingly affects all of us, whether professional planners or individuals preparing for a better future, is not the tangibles of life—bottom-line numbers, for instance—but the intangibles: our hopes and fears, our beliefs and dreams. Only stories—scenarios—and our ability to visualize different kinds of futures adequately capture these intangibles. |
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Contents
The Pathfinders Tale | 3 |
The ScenarioBuilding Animal | 29 |
Uncovering the Decision | 44 |
InformationHunting and Gathering | 60 |
Creating Scenario Building Blocks | 100 |
Composing a Plot | 135 |
Three Scenarios | 163 |
Rehearsing the Future | 191 |
To My Newborn Son | 211 |
The Value of a Strategic | 219 |
How to Hold | 227 |
Steps to Developing Scenarios | 241 |
Endnotes | 249 |
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The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World Peter Schwartz Limited preview - 2012 |