FullSpectrum Thinking, Bob Johansen
FullSpectrum Thinking, Bob Johansen
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Full-Spectrum Thinking
How to Escape Boxes in a Post-Categorical Future

Author: Bob Johansen

Narrator: Bob Johansen

Unabridged: 6 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 03/20/2020


Synopsis

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 problem is that we're restricted by rigid structures that do not serve our larger goals-we think they inform us, but in fact, they tend to limit us. Simplistic stories of what's going on will be alluring but dangerous. Just in time, new technology and media tools will make it much easier to think beyond the categories, buckets, slots, and boxes that people use today to prepare for threats and imagine new opportunities.

Full-spectrum thinking is the ability to seek clarity and understanding across gradients of possibility. Utilizing successful examples of spectrum-thinking, such as gender fluidity and the autism spectrum, noted futurist Bob Johansen reveals how a spectrum unifies us rather than divides us by seeing each individual as inhabiting various points on the same landscape. By recognizing technology as an integral part of creating this spectrum, Johansen demonstrates that we can apply full-spectrum thinking to achieve breakthroughs in business, leadership, innovation, politics, community relations, and many other domains.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on May 20, 2020

Bob Johansen has authored ten books on change management and leadership preceding his newest book, Full Spectrum Thinking: How to Escape Boxes in a Post-Categorical World, and serves a distinguished fellow with the world’s leading futures organization Institute for the Future after completing an eig......more

Goodreads review by El Estante on November 10, 2020

VIDEO RESEÑA: [URL not allowed] Una lectura futurista, entusiasta y reveladora. "Muchas personas tienen certezas, pero pocas claridades. La categorización es una forma de certeza cuando no se ponen en duda las categorías. Lo contrario a claridad no es confusión, sino certeza." Un libro sobre......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on August 09, 2020

I feel bad giving this a bad review. I'm sorry Bob Johansen, I just... I don't understand why this book exists. It was uninteresting enough that I with I hadn't read it, but not actually bad enough that I can be upset by it. Bother.........more

Goodreads review by Matt on January 15, 2025

In Full-Spectrum Thinking, Bob Johansen presents a comprehensive exploration of how individuals, businesses, and societies can adapt to and thrive in an increasingly complex, interconnected, and rapidly evolving world. The central thesis of the book is that we must break free from traditional ways o......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on August 28, 2021

I liked many of Bobs ideas and the book was well organized but it was really hard to understand and grasp Bob’s thesis and the chapters are all over the map and disconnected. It would be better titled “Heres a bunch of predictions for the future. “......more