This week, Bob Johansen, a futurist from Institute for the Future, outlines action steps leaders can take to prepare for the technologically augmented workplace of tomorrow and stay competitive in a rapidly evolving digital marketplace. Johansen advocates for a “future-back approach” to leadership vision, positioning leaders to identify patterns of change and navigate the chaotic, evolving business landscape with clarity, intent, and flexibility.
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Bob Johansen
Bob Johansen began working with IFTF in 1973 and has worked as a professional futurist for nearly 50 years. The author or co-author of 12 books and a frequent keynote speaker, he recently completed a trilogy of that details the types of leadership that will thrive in the next decade. The New Leadership Literacies focuses on essential practices of leadership, picking up where Leaders Make the Future, its more skills-oriented precursor, left off; in 2020, he published Full-Spectrum Thinking, which focuses on the need for a futureback mindset. His latest book, Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Working and Living, is co-written with IFTF colleagues Joseph Press and Christine Bullen. Bob holds a B.S. from the University of Illinois (which he attended on a basketball scholarship), an MDiv from Crozer Theological Seminary (where Martin Luther King, Jr., attended divinity school), and a Ph.D. in Sociology of Religion from Northwestern University.
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