Tag: scenario simulation
Backcasting to the future
In Sci-Fi, the Grandfather Paradox hypothesises that if one should travel into the past and change certain key events, the future will also be changed or even become unrecognisable.
But what if we turn this hypothesis on its head, defining a desirable future and then reverse engineer the requisite actions to achieve this future? Unlike the Grandfather Paradox which, as far as we know, only lives in Sci-Fi movies and novels, backcasting is completely possible.
Training vs coaching – the future of behavioural coaching
It was former Colorado football coach Bill McCartney who said, “all coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.”
And McCartney would know. In his 13-year tenure, he won just shy of 100 games, three Big 8s and a National Championship, earning him a well-deserved place in the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame. Yet, within an organisational or business context, how can coaching take people where they are unable to go on their own?