Full-Spectrum Thinking
  • Published: 19 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781523087518
  • Imprint: Berrett-Koehler
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $59.99

Full-Spectrum Thinking

How to Escape Boxes in a Post-Categorical Future

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Leading futurist Bob Johansen shows how a new way of thinking, enhanced by new technologies, will help leaders break free of limiting labels and see new gradients of possibility in a chaotic world.

Leading futurist Bob Johansen shows how a new way of thinking, enhanced by new technologies, will help leaders break free of limiting labels and see new gradients of possibility in a chaotic world.

The future will get even more perplexing over the next decade, and we are not ready. The dilemma is that we're restricted by rigid categorical thinking that freezes people and organizations in neatly defined boxes that often are inaccurate or obsolete. Categories lead us toward certainty but away from clarity, and categorical thinking moves us away from understanding the bigger picture. Sticking with this old way of thinking and seeing isn't just foolish, it's dangerous.

Full-spectrum thinking is the ability to seek patterns and clarity outside, across, beyond, or maybe even without any boxes or categories while resisting false certainty and simplistic binary choices. It reveals our commonalities that are hidden in plain view. Bob Johansen lays out the core concepts of full-spectrum thinking and reveals the role that digital media--including gameful engagement, big-data analytics, visualization, blockchain, and machine learning--will play in facilitating and enhancing it. He offers examples of broader spectrums and new applications in a wide range of areas that will become possible first, then mandatory. This visionary book provides powerful ways to make sense of new opportunities and see the world as it really is.
  • Published: 19 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781523087518
  • Imprint: Berrett-Koehler
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $59.99
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Praise for Full-Spectrum Thinking

Praise for The New Leadership Literacies
"Bob Johansen is the Rick Steves of travel to the future. He stimulates leapfrog thinking and provides a compass for scenario planning. The Salvation Army has been inspired by Bob's perspectives to help us find new ways to deliver our message of hope."
--Bill Burke, Chair, National Advisory Board, The Salvation Army

Praise for Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World:
"[A] wise and thought-provoking guide to success in a changing world. It's going to be a must-read at our company."
--Kenneth W. Lowe, Chairman, President, and CEO, Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.

Praise for The New Leadership Literacies
"Bob Johansen is the Rick Steves of travel to the future. He stimulates leapfrog thinking and provides a compass for scenario planning. The Salvation Army has been inspired by Bob's perspectives to help us find new ways to deliver our message of hope."
--Bill Burke, Chair, National Advisory Board, The Salvation Army

Praise for Leaders Make the Future: Ten New Leadership Skills for an Uncertain World:
"[A] wise and thought-provoking guide to success in a changing world. It's going to be a must-read at our company."
--Kenneth W. Lowe, Chairman, President, and CEO, Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.