{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68357ec21b846c88bdcd7480/6a7ae678616564bf00d5d5a5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"148: Don't throw future you under the bus (many beefs with backcasting)","description":"<p>A friend of the podcast got hired to run a facilitation: \"vision on day one, backcasting on day two.\"</p><p><br></p><p>He asked Tom for tips on backcasting workshops. Tom rolled up his sleeves and out fell a number of beefs.</p><p><br></p><p>In this one we walk through why visions and step-by-step plans keep falling apart, and how to smuggle something that actually works into a workshop that's already been sold as backcasting.</p><p><br></p><p>Including:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Why the first hour of every exec visioning workshop is people scrawling \"seamless interactive experience\" on every sticky note</li><li>Our many beefs with backcasting (assumption of linear cause and effect being only the first)</li><li>Sidecasting, and the curious joy of paying attention to the evolutionary potential of the present rather than gazing forwards or backwards</li><li>Jabe Bloom's \"Ideal Present\" 2x2, plus an extra scaffolding step Tom adds so people don't freeze like deer in headlights</li><li>Why your organisation's \"maladaptive\" behaviours are actually adaptive (you just don't like them)</li><li>The rule that makes it all work: you're not allowed to throw future you under the bus</li><li>Why a strategic plan is really a holiday brochure</li></ul><p><br></p><p>For anyone who's ever been asked to deliver a vision on day one and a plan on day two — and suspects neither will survive contact with reality.</p><p><br></p><p>Get in touch: tentacles@crownandreach.com</p><p><br></p><p>References</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Dr Jabe Bloom's Ideal Present, explained by Ben Mosior <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19KUsV_qeyk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19KUsV_qeyk</a></li><li>Pavel Samsonov's recent piece on vision workshops and the ubiquitous \"interactive experience\" sticky note <a href=\"https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai-is-not-the-future-of-software-development-but-the-last-dying-gasp-of-the-past\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai-is-not-the-future-of-software-development-but-the-last-dying-gasp-of-the-past</a></li><li>Dave Snowden — Estuarine Mapping: <a href=\"https://cynefin.io/wiki/Estuarine_framework\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://cynefin.io/wiki/Estuarine_framework</a></li><li>Stafford Beer — POSIWID (\"the purpose of a system is what it does\")</li><li>The Serenity Prayer (Reinhold Niebuhr)</li><li>Intro to Multiverse Mapping: <a href=\"https://youtu.be/577_CXCfHMI?si=NhgLcF4KqL0n2VN7\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://youtu.be/577_CXCfHMI?si=NhgLcF4KqL0n2VN7</a></li></ul>","author_name":"Tom Kerwin"}