By Dr Roey Tzezana is a senior analyst at Wikistrat, an academic manager of foresight courses at Tel Aviv University, blogger at Curating The Future, the director of the Simpolitix project for political forecasting, and founder of TeleBuddy.
Managers consider foresight contagious; after a large customer viewed the internal foresight presentation, the customer contact requested that the practitioner conduct a similar project for them.
In one case, the practitioner noted that managers embraced foresight because their industry was changing rapidly and they wanted to stay ahead of change (I07).
Credit the United manager with some foresight then, but Pogba appears to have been more interested in the now rather than the past or the future, and who can say he was wrong?
Would any other manager have had the foresight to begin this strategy, and the fortitude to continue with it over such a prolonged period?
Some of these problems were cited in e-mail correspondence or in the minutes of the Mission Management Team meetings held during the flight, the person said, and showed "a lack of foresight" by managers.
The second most common response (27.2 %) was that managers did not track foresight results at all.
They conclude that the role of individual managers is crucial in foresight because their managerial attitudes to the future are the stimulus for the companies' foresight inclinations.
Incorporating evolutionary thought and foresight into management decisions essentially forces managers to consider each of their actions and the complex set of consequences that may arise in both the short and long-term.
The punitive suspensions, bizarre bail conditions and mass arrests students have faced in recent weeks represents a complete lack of foresight from university managers and serves only to recruit more students to their causes.
