THE HUMAN FUTURIST ARTICLES
PERSPECTIVES FOR A CHANGING WORLD.
Ideas, observations and questions at the intersection of human behaviour, decision-making, leadership and the future.
The world rarely changes in neat, predictable lines.
Technology accelerates. Leadership changes hands. Established assumptions are challenged. New pressures emerge. Decisions made today create consequences that may not become visible until much later.
And beneath the events themselves are often more interesting questions.
- What are we not seeing?
- Which signals matter?
- What happens when circumstances change faster than our thinking?
The Human Futurist Articles explore those questions. Drawing on Chris Styles’ experience across science, executive leadership, human performance and more than 20,000 hours of independent research, they examine the forces influencing how people think, decide, adapt and respond to change.
THE EVENT IS OFTEN ONLY THE BEGINNING.
Sometimes the more valuable question is what the event reveals.
A leadership transition can raise questions about power, judgement and timing. Artificial intelligence can prompt deeper questions about what remains distinctly human. A decision can reveal the assumptions that existed before it. An unexpected outcome can challenge what we thought we understood. And a changing world can expose the limitations of thinking designed for circumstances that no longer exist.
These articles move between contemporary events and enduring human questions, exploring leadership, decision intelligence, foresight, behaviour, change, uncertainty and consequence from a Human Futurist perspective.
They are not intended to provide predetermined answers. They are intended to make the question more interesting.
Events create questions → Questions challenge assumptions → Assumptions reveal possibilities → Possibilities change perspective.
And what we see can change what we do next.
IDEAS WORTH QUESTIONING.
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Contemporary perspectives from The Human Futurist…
Some articles respond to changes happening around us.
Others explore ideas emerging from Chris’ continuing research.
Some challenge familiar assumptions about leadership, intelligence, decision-making or human potential.
Others begin with a deceptively simple question and follow it somewhere unexpected.
Together, they provide a continuing space for enquiry into the relationship between people, decisions and the future we are creating.
IDEAS WORTH QUESTIONING.
. . .
Contemporary perspectives from The Human Futurist…
Some articles respond to changes happening around us.
Others explore ideas emerging from Chris’ continuing research.
Some challenge familiar assumptions about leadership, intelligence, decision-making or human potential.
Others begin with a deceptively simple question and follow it somewhere unexpected.
Together, they provide a continuing space for enquiry into the relationship between people, decisions and the future we are creating.
EXPLORE THE ARTICLES
IDEAS & PERSPECTIVES
A changing world. Different questions. New ways of seeing.
Explore Chris Styles’ perspectives on leadership, decision-making, human behaviour, foresight and change examining contemporary events, challeng
WHAT IF WE ASKED A BETTER QUESTION?
The IMB continues to evolve.
The future will continue to create situations for which yesterday’s assumptions are insufficient.
That makes curiosity more valuable, not less. Because foresight doesn’t always begin with knowing what happens next.
Sometimes it begins by noticing something others have overlooked.
- Look beyond the obvious.
- Challenge the assumption.
- Ask what happens next.
From understanding decisions to informing them.
Beyond the Research
The Business & Leadership archive examines consequential decisions after they have happened.
The Intelligent Mathematical Blueprint and Private Advisory take the underlying Human Futurist thinking into a different environment: helping leaders examine the circumstances surrounding decisions that have yet to be made.
