A business that is not only people intensive but also future oriented is different in some important respects from the people businesses that focus on generating current value.
Being future oriented is predictive of job success, marriage success, and Szpunar says that "in life, people who are more future oriented just seem to do better".
He understands in Purgatorio how time moves in a uni-direction, which is future oriented, so it's really a time as future, that it turns out to be also a return to the Garden of Eden, but that is kind of second thought for him.
In addition, educators need to be future oriented; they need to be able to design and adopt new pedagogical innovations.
Educational leaders (within schools, not only principals) who could in principle take an initiative for future oriented school development are preoccupied with other things than probing research and future scenarios.
But it's also meant to be future oriented.
This stage complements the preceding ones, being future oriented and core in strengths-based mentoring.
Therefore, the use cases of white and brown goods portrayed in this chapter might to some degree be viewed as future oriented; however, they will not be fictional for long when observing the prospering market of smart home equipment.
They're less future oriented, more susceptible to peer pressure, are more volatile in emotionally charged situations, and take more risks.
"We know future thinking can make us more future oriented, but if we're taking certain drugs that can prevent us from being able to imagine the future in a lot of detail, then maybe it won't work as well for some people as compared to others".
Developmental psychology and certain subfields of sociology have been future oriented regarding children, focusing on children as human "becomings" (adults) rather than human "beings" [ 13].
