Paul Schoemaker: Vigilance, Foresight, and Business Schools

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4Sight Chats

Alex Fergnani

16 episodes

1 month ago

This video podcast promotes voices of public intellectuals & thought leaders (and their books!) on a range of topics including futures studies & foresight, metamodernism, organizational behavior, strategic management, psychology, Eastern Asian philosophies, and more importantly on the transdisciplinary combination of all the above. Its aim is to share pieces of wisdom applicable to personal and organizational life for those who study, create, design, and facilitate the futures.

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Paul Schoemaker: Vigilance, Foresight, and Business Schools - 4Sight Chats Ep. 9

4Sight Chats

1 hour 8 seconds

4 years ago

Paul Schoemaker: Vigilance, Foresight, and Business Schools - 4Sight Chats Ep. 9

9th episode of the 4Sight Chats Series, with Paul Schoemaker. Paul is an internationally renown expert, an entrepreneur, and an educator in the fields of strategy, innovation and decision-making. Alex is PhD candidate at NUS Business School (Singapore), and Associate Editor of the journal "World Futures Review"

Chat outline:

-What is organizational vigilance?

-What is the difference between vigilance and foresight?

-Why are organizations not vigilant?

-Why is vigilance not taught in business schools?

-Advice on how to research/teach vigilance in business schools

-Paul's journey though scenarios at Shell and how to excel at scenarios

Also available in video format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdtmJUPePNY

Books and articles mentioned:

Day & Schoemaker (2020). See Sooner, Act Faster (book): https://www.amazon.com/See-Sooner-Act-Faster-Turbulence/dp/0262043319/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=see+sooner+act+faster&qid=1616238607&s=audible&sr=1-1-catcorr

Schoemaker & Gunther (2016). Profiting from Uncertainty (book): https://www.amazon.com/Profiting-Uncertainty-Strategies-Succeeding-Matter/dp/150116175X

Day & Schoemaker (2008). Are You a ‘Vigilant Leader’? (article, MIT Sloan Management Review): https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/are-you-a-vigilant-leader/

Schoemaker (1993). Multiple Scenario Development: Its Conceptual and Behavioral Foundation (article, Strategic Management Journal): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220041993_Multiple_Scenario_Development_Its_Conceptual_and_Behavioral_Foundation

Fergnani & Chermack (2021). The resistance to scientific theory in futures and foresight, and what to do about it (article, Futures & Foresight Science) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ffo2.61

Schomaker (2021). Theory Development in Foresight Research: Commentary on Fergnani and Chermack 2021 (upcoming article, Futures & Foresight Science).

Schomaker & Tetlock (2012).Taboo Scenarios: How to Think about the Unthinkable (article, California Management Review): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289661696_Taboo_Scenarios_How_to_Think_about_the_Unthinkable

Schomaker (2008).The Future Challenges of Business: Rethinking Management Education (article, California Management Review): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2307/41166448

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