In my 2011 satire How to Predict the Future…and WIN!, the fictional guru Dr. P. Hughes Egon gave this advice for scenario planning: keep your focus on the sexy future of gadgets, and stay well away from “moribund topics such as fertilizer or rice or coal or railroads or industrial manufacturing or sea shipping.” Wait,…
SPLC’s own court filing confirms it ran a paid, numbered informant network through cover companies. Measured against the SCIP Code of Ethics and the FBI’s source rules, the SPLC informant case shows the legal risk any private organization takes when it collects from human sources.
On the morning of November 14, 2017, I gave the breakfast keynote at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Tech Mahindra: a talk and conversation called “Disruption by Design,” moderated by Will Lewis, then chief executive of Dow Jones, and C.P. Gurnani, then chief executive of Tech Mahindra. The room…
What strategic foresight is, why it pays, and the six-step method behind it, from Shell’s scenarios to Future, Inc. By Eric Garland.
In 2011 I published my second book, my favorite, called How to Predict the Future…and WIN! Most of it is satire: twenty-five terrible tips for thinking about the future, delivered by a fictional strategy guru named Dr. P. Hughes Egon, a composite of every empty suit who ever said “the future” while staring at next…
What cognitive bias is, the six families that wreck strategy, and the methods that work, from Richards Heuer’s CIA classic to the premortem.
Anthropic’s IPO filing shows a company run by a trust that owns no stock and a founders’ share that wins the vote. Here is what that means for anyone buying in.
Iran is not just a country — it is a 70-country network. An open-source assessment of the oil, parts, drones and criminal proxies behind the Islamic Republic.
On September 18, President Trump announced on Truth Social that CNN, MS NOW and Politico were banned from the White House, and the outlets’ hard passes were…
President Trump told the 81st United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2026, that he has “a big decision to make” on Iran: a deal that lets Iran…