Update on the strategic wargame in St. Louis
A few weeks ago I decided to treat the events around the death of Michael Brown like a strategic wargame used by executives to predict actor behavior…
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Elegy for my mentor, Joe Coates
It was with great sadness that I learned recently of the death of my friend and mentor, Joseph F. Coates. It is with an equal sense of joy and…
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Eric Garland Keynote Speech on Intelligence at IBRAMERC
Iʼm very excited and proud to be at the worldʼs largest professional event for market intelligence. From what I have seen from the participants and the management, it may also be the worldʼs best as well. If anybody,…
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Five tips on how to run a great meeting on future trends
Every year, thousands of organizations look toward the future at conferences, seminars, and executive retreats. They talk about trends, fads, news…
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We Are Here – the Future of Maps, Imagery Analysis and Culture
Alex Bowles is currently Kickstarting a film about how our capacity to map the universe mirrors our entire culture. As we sit on the threshold of a…
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Garland Report, Ep. 1: The Truth About Peak Oil w/ Gregor Macdonald
In this episode, Gregor Macdonald, editor of TerraJoule and Peakfish, tells us how we’re at Peak Oil – period. It’s not a debate, it’s about data.…
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Forget Futurists: Unless You Plan on Doing Futurism Right
Right on time, the media is rekindling its affair with Futurists, the love that dare not speak its name.
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Lessons from forty years of intelligence analysis
This is a very cool piece from a deputy director at the CIA (not the Culinary Institute of America) about enduring lessons from a life spent doing the…
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Global Trends 2030 learns from past mistakes
I’m kind of excited to see what becomes of the Global Trends 2030 project, an official futurist project run by the United States National Intelligence…
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“You’re bitter” and other ways to avoid thinking about uncomfortable subjects
I have written some provocative things in recent days, and to be honest, I plan on writing even more pieces that have even less regard for the status…
