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The Art of the Long View
Book

The Art of the Long View

Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World

Currency, 1996
First Edition: 1991 подробнее...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Peter Schwartz evidences charming honesty and humility about his experiences building scenarios. He learned from his failures, so he includes them, as well as his rather impressive successes. Schwartz emphasizes that scenario planning is not the same thing as predicting the future and that complete accuracy is not the goal. Yet, it is still striking how accurately his 1991 scenarios played out. He may have missed a few specific events and trends but, if you’d based your actions on his scenarios, you would have been well-equipped for the last two decades. His very useful principles of scenario planning and multisource information gathering have not changed since he delineated them. The result is a classic. getAbstract recommends this book to entrepreneurs, organizational decision makers and anyone interested in strategic planning, futurism or change.

Take-Aways

  • The future is uncertain, but you can use scenarios to prepare for it.
  • Scenarios articulate possible futures in story form to help you make better decisions today.
  • Scenarios are not predictions. They are stories that stretch your thinking about what could happen.

About the Author

Peter Schwartz is a futurist, the co-founder of the Global Business Network and the author of Inevitable Surprises and When Good Companies Do Bad Things, among other books.


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