Check your assumptions - it appears to be the hot new style
How funny that the tools and principles of foresight are coming into vogue, this time without even the mention of a flying car or a rocket pack.
Take my friend Jim Cramer for example, host of CNBC’s Mad Money, textbook definition of an extroverted personality, and one of the greatest fund managers in history. Even he’s doing it. Last night’s show was entitled “Don’t Assume - You Know They Say,” and in it he spent the entire half hour inciting his audience to challenge all of their assumptions about the global economy.
You know, CRAZY intellectual exercises like challenging your assumptions about the price of oil around the global (under $60!), asking if America will have an automotive industry, wondering if the United States will keep taking cues from Evo Morales’ socialist administration in Bolivia. To play with the different possibilities that come out of each tweaked assumption - it’s a good practice for everybody.
Wait, if all the television hosts start thinking this way, what will we do for a living at Competitive Futures? I suppose I’ll go back to playing Latin music and enjoying our new intellectual Golden Age. For the moment, I think I’ll keep showing up at work.
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