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Victoria Sakal, Managing Director of Brand Intelligence at Morning Consult, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim, host of Futurized podcast and author of Future Tech, Pandemic Aftermath, Disruption Games and Leadership From Below.
In this conversation, they talk about how big brands should deal with the US election, political intelligence, emerging survey results on how consumers think brands should react to socia -
Blog postFrom Thought Leadership Leverage podcast episode #265:
The podcast episode can be found on most major players by typing in the episode title or the podcast’s name. Today’s guest is Trond Arne Undheim, author of Pandemic Aftermath and Disruption Games, host of Futurized Podcast, speaker, and futurist.
Trond joins us to share how it can be tricky being a thought leader on a blend of topics and how there is an underlying common thread that connects it all -
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Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Sid Mohasseb, author, investor, professor, and known as the entrepreneur philosopher.
In this conversation, they talk about The Future of Flux. Entrepreneurial philosophy. Personalizing your journey. Listening to the Guru near you. Evolve like a caterpillar–again and again.
The takeaway is that the deepest motivation behind entrepreneurship is to seek happiness. We can only learn -
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Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech policy, business models, social dynamics, and the environment. I’m your host, Trond Arne Undheim, futurist and author. In episode 30 of the podcast, the topic is the Future of Work. Our guest is Ian Barkin, Chief Strategy and Marketing officer at Sykes and host of the One-Take podcast. In this conversation, we talk about the future of work, robotic process automation or RPA automated out -
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Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Furqan Nazeeri, Partner at Extension Engine, the online education platform consulting firm.
In this conversation, they talk about what learning is all about, how COVID-19 both (in)validates and facilitates online learning. They discuss online learning platforms, the best approaches at the moment, and where we are headed in the next decade.
The takeaway is that online learnin -
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Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Professor Soumitra Dutta, Cornell University, co-author of Global Innovation Index, published by the World Intellectual Property Foundation.
In this conversation, they talk about measuring innovation, the challenges of developing governance at the country level, across the globe, and how to improve innovation input and output.
The takeaway is that the future of innovation measure -
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Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Matt Wallaert, behavioral scientist and author of Start At The End: How To Build Products that Create Change.
In this conversation, they talk about how the field of product design has evolved, the value of experimentation, discovery of cutting edge products, who does it well, corporations and startups, and how the future of product design is steeped in science.
The takeaway is th -
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Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews David Brandes, Managing Director and co-founder of Peace of Meat.
In this conversation, they talk about the technology of cell-based, cultured meat, the sustainability benefits of removing animals from food production, consumer trust, regulatory forces, disruption, and the future of food tech.
The takeaway is that cultured meat is here to stay, although it’s introduction will tak -
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Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Savi Barrowes, host of the Dream Big and Live Free podcast.
In this conversation, which I initially had planned as a prep call, we instead dove straight in. We talked about Savi’s path to empowerment, her quest to empower one million women, her project on the future of work for American nurses which brought her to the White House, what she took away from her MBA at MIT Sloan, the meaning -
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Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Chris Weaver, Distinguished Professor of Computational Media at Wesleyan University, Director of Smithsonian Videogame Pioneers Initiative and Research Scientist at MIT microphotonics center.
In this conversation, which was initially planned as a prep call, which gives the episode a bit of a behind-the-scenes characteristic, with prep questions and the whole thing, they instead end -
Blog postToday, I launch Futurized, the podcast. Futurized goes beneath the trends, tracking the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics, and the environment. It took me about a month to get to this point. I’m launching with six episodes, a video and audio trailer, and a bit of initial traction from beta listeners. In this post, I go through what have I learned so far in eight lessons answering the following questions: What it takes to be a podcaster? Who list
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Blog postTechnology could be a panacea or it might disappoint most of us in the next decade. COVID-19 is only one influence, but may already set the boundaries of what’s possible to achieve. But we have human choices to make about what society we want to foster in 2030. Will it be one of these scenarios or a combination of them?
In Pandemic Aftermath (2020), out now, I chart five scenarios for the next decade: borderless world, nation state renewal, two worlds apart, Hobbesian chaos and statu -
Blog postBeing in the middle of a pandemic and wanting to read about it challenge the notion of books, because there is always a time lag, and because, in contrast to online media, there is an editorial and distribution filter that adds curation and, at times, censorship. In contrast, people understandably want up-to-date information so they flock to newspapers and online media instead. The fact checking as well as in-depth coverage in the daily or hourly news cycle and in the blogosphere obviously le
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Blog postWe are in the pandemic now, but what happens next? Being a futurist, I am among those who have thought about that for a long time. I think in terms of decades. That means I generally don’t predict specific developments. Instead, I envision — analyzing and projecting trends based on the forces of disruption that are already known and some that are unknown. In the futurist playbook it is called working with scenarios.
In January, I saw was about to unfold: a pandemic of unprecedented pr -
Blog postDesign is everywhere. From architecture to software design and policy making, the notion of a highly tailored, customized process following certain steps is appealing, not just in and of itself, but because it has superior results from merely making something up.
WeAre not users is a superb book out this late spring, published by MIT Press, from a triplet of authors, Carnegie Mellon Professor Eswaran Subrahmanian, Tel Aviv University Professor Yoram Reich, and writer and founder of th -
Blog postWhy already ponder what’s next? The world is, arguably, still in the middle of fighting the virus and its impact. What could possibly be said about the future? Well, the truth appears to be that if we don’t already start planning for the next virus—or even just for how to live with the current virus long term—we will face even more earth-shattering negative consequences.
Responding to this need, I have drawn up a few immediate scenarios—new ways to think about the future. Scenario thi -
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Blog postThere are 40 or more megacities in the world with more than 10 million inhabitants. Each has a different, but highly elevated chance of becoming incubators of cascading superspreader events for infectious diseases. Which city is most at risk? How can these risks be mitigated? What does it mean for the future of such cities?
In an attempt to limit a potentially highly complex analysis to something everybody can consider at face value and make up their mind about (or even input their ow -
Blog postI usually side with scientists, policy makers and parents. Each role can only be carried out well with trust. Personally, I have missed a steady hand in government in the US, in the UK, in Norway, and in the EU. In the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, I was indeed missing the voice of statistics over semi-educated guesses. But do you know what’s worse than a hunch? Presenting speculative numbers disguised as science is far worse, and it is happening now, affecting millions of lives.
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Blog postBy Gary Epler, M.D., Harvard Medical School and Trond A. Undheim, Ph.D., Futurist, Founder of Yegii, Inc
We are in the middle of a global financial collapse. Faced with health and financial disaster, our human instinct is to flee or take shelter. Short of that, we paralyze, at least for a moment. Don’t do that. Grasp this opportunity to thrive by embracing smart risks, being self-aware, and staying well. Crisis can make us all better.
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Blog postBy Trond Arne Undheim, PhD, futurist, educator, and parent
What does it mean not to be in school? How to students learn online? Great theoretical questions, but with widespread school closures across America, there’s time for a reckoning. Who is best suited to teach K-12 in the age of Coronavirus? We need an answer fast.
Over the past few weeks, the closing of schools, initially with no specific guidance beyond resources for “enrichment”, is a challenge, even for children of p -
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On 1 June 2013, my kids, wife and I were on the beach during the drowning of a 10 year old boy. This happened at Morses Pond in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the first drowning there in 38 years. The kid was found after 1.5 hours by a Fire Dept diver in waist high water, 30 feet from the beach. He was taken to the hospital but was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. Everyone’s question is: could this have been prevented? My answer is maybe, if leadership -
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Blog postStrategy is nothing more–and nothing less–than a succinct expression of where an organization is already going.
For more, see Searching for Strategy
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Blog postIn a surprising move, President Obama has appointed Governor Romney as Secretary of Business, in charge of new business creation and with the mandate to drastically simplify the regulations for small businesses.
Fantasy, you say? Yes, for now, but this would be a brilliant move. Here’s why.
Obama needs to demonstrate what he means by change. Obama’s second term is, among many things, about fixing Washington’s gridlock, putting America back to work, and delivering on the Americ -
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Flying used to drain my energy. Whether on a short or long flight, I could not sleep. I could not rest. I felt crammed. I got stressed. I was inconvenienced by airport security. All of this went on for many years. Then, I decided not to wait to be comfortable until I was in a position of control, could travel business class or could avoid flying altogether. Rather, I decided it was a question of attitude and technique. In short, I started applying my very own princ -
Blog postI recently spoke to a group of Product Marketing students at KU Leuven, the famous and ancient university in Belgium. Despite my warnings that they were taller, smarter, and funnier than me and that there was no reason to think that I should give them advice, rather the reverse, they actually listened to me for almost an hour.
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Since I wrote Leadership From Below in 2008, there has been a steady flow of management books about bottom-up leadership. In The Leader Who Had No Title (2010), speaker Robin Sharma has put together a modern fable on success in business and in life. There are no revolutionary insights in this book, but its speaks to the frustrated, overworked American, which seems to be in the majority. Sharma also avoids being too patronizing. Instead of the traditional format he cho -
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Taking forward the debate on Murray’s End of Management foray in WSJ recently, the new model is, in my view, not exactly Murray’s model. Instead, it is simply a hybrid of bureaucracy and entrepreneurship. Let’s call it entreprenocracy.
A few weeks ago, I went to a wedding at Oriel College in Oxford, UK. We had a wonderful time and as in all weddings, I eventually had to explain what I do for a living. It was late, so I resorted to the e -
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MacroWikinomics, the sequel to the bestselling book Wikinomics is out this week. Should we rejoice? Sadly, no. Sure, the book has raving pre-publication commentary. The topic is cool: the prospect that each and every one of us is changing the world. But unlike the more methodical vision of Bill Drayton’s Ashoka, where “everyone a changemaker” actually refers to taking real actions towards becoming social entrepreneurs in your everyday interactions with your local c -
Blog postContinuing the debate on Murray’s End of Management foray in WSJ recently, I would say that the true changes brought about by openness have been here all along. Whether we have put them to use depends on the culture. In Norway, an egalitarian country, health informatics is not just something the IT industry tries to push on doctors. The Oslo Innovation Clinic Offers Treatment for Ideas, writes Gaurav Bhalla in a Harvard Business Review guest blog:
The first-of-its-kind Clinic of -
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There is a growing trend to use toddlers as a model for positive (and negative) leadership traits. This is not lost on FT’s Lucy Kellaway who in the FT Business Life On Work column on 13 September 2010 describes Nicholas Brann’s theory of leadership:
● Toddlers are full of energy and enthusiasm. You can’t beat a toddler who is really into something and going for it 100 per cent.
● Toddlers are natural risk-takers. They throw themselv
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