Strategy Meets Reality Podcast From Futures to Action: Collective Sensemaking with Eva Tomas
Apr 15, 2025
In this engaging discussion, Eva Tomas, a futurist and founder of Simple Thinking, shares her insights on transforming strategic planning through futures thinking. She challenges traditional linear strategies, emphasizing the importance of understanding multiple outcomes and embracing complexity. Eva introduces the Banyan model, which connects past, present, and future, advocating for collective sensemaking over prediction. Her approach encourages leaders to embrace uncertainty and diverse perspectives, fostering adaptability and innovation in ever-changing environments.
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Futures Thinking for Leaders
- Leaders often feel overwhelmed by the unpredictable, fast-moving world and resort to passive reactions.
- Futures thinking helps leaders lift their gaze beyond the immediate, opening up new choices and informing present decisions.
Making Futures Usable
- Understand complexity's impact on daily life to grasp futures thinking.
- Embrace the idea of multiple futures as a landscape of possibilities, not a fixed point.
The Importance of the Past
- The past often influences future decisions, a concept called path dependency.
- Eva Tomas' Banyan model recognizes the importance of acknowledging and integrating the past into future thinking.