Full Description
Three Horizons is a simple and intuitive framework for thinking about the future. The framework explains how people often manage to disagree so violently about their visions of the future and how to achieve them - and it offers a practical way to begin constructive conversations about the future at home, in organisations and in society at large.
The three horizons are about much, much more than simply stretching our thinking to embrace the short, medium and long term. They offer a co-ordinated way of managing innovation, a way of creating transformational change that has a chance of succeeding, a way of dealing with uncertainty and a way of seeing the future in the present.
In this beautifully illustrated book, Bill Sharpe introduces the Three Horizons framework as a prompt for developing a 'future consciousness' - a rich and multi-faceted awareness of the future potential of the present moment - and explores how to put that awareness to work to create the futures we aspire to.
Contents
Introduction
PART I: THREE HORIZONS
A Heated Conversation
The Future in the Present
The Three Horizons
A Shared Future Consciousness
PART II: THE PRACTICE OF FUTURE CONSCIOUSNESS
Seeing Everything as Patterns
Putting Ourselves in the Picture
Convening the Future:
From Mindsets to Perspectives
PART III: JOURNEYS IN THREE HORIZONS
Case Studies: Introduction
Case Studies
Case Studies: Summary
Pushing out to Sea
PART IV: THE PATTERNING OF HOPE
Knowing and Living
Stepping into Future Consciousness
Hope
Transformative Society
Navigating on the Open Sea
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
