By Norun Laahne Thomassen , Partner at Supertrends Institute If you aim for success, you are probably going to miss it. Follow your inner compass instead! Striving for success alone might bring you wealth, status, and power, but do not forget about fulfillment. In the long run, success without fulfillment will leave you feeling…
By Alexandra Whittington, Futurist, Educator & TEDx speaker This article is an excerpt from a report by Partners in Foresight, The Home of the 2020s: Scenarios for How We Might Live in the Post-Pandemic Future. Scenario 1: Hotel Life Hotels and abandoned malls become pandemic-proof senior citizen communities Travel and retail sectors were never…
By Alexandra Whittington, Futurist, Educator & TEDx speaker This article is an excerpt from a report by Partners in Foresight, The Home of the 2020s: Scenarios for How We Might Live in the Post-Pandemic Future. A “collab house” or “content house” is a house where social media influencers live while creating shareable digital content.…
By Alexandra Whittington, Futurist, Educator & TEDx speaker This article is an excerpt from a report by Partners in Foresight, The Home of the 2020s: Scenarios for How We Might Live in the Post-Pandemic Future. Should a home literally stimulate the mind? A 2020 global survey by Ikea found that the majority — 78% of…
By Yoga Nesadurai, partner at Supertrends Institute Were there times when you did not know what you needed to get you from where you were to where you wanted to be? And then gave up? We have all been there. Let’s call that space the gap. A hammer, a screwdriver, and screws are tools that…
By Tracey Follows, partner at Supertrends Institute In 2015 the United Nations committed itself to achieving seventeen sustainable development goals by 2030. The sixteenth of those goals relates to justice and, more specifically, clause 16.9 commits nations to ‘provide legal identity for all’. This is an important goal and we should remember that over one…
By Yoga Nesadurai, Partner at Supertrends Institute Do you know what you need today to achieve what you want for tomorrow – For your future path? I enjoyed watching the Tokyo Olympics during July of 2021. I watched sports that I do myself or where Malaysia, my home country, was participating. And the women’s diving…
Written by Liselotte Lyngsø, Partner at Supertrends Institute If you had the opportunity to work anywhere you’d like. Where would it be? Would you stay in bed, go to a café, pick a co-working space together with like-minded neighbors – stay in your regular office? What kind of atmosphere works best for YOU? Maybe its…
Written by Alexandra Whittington, Partner at Supertrends Institute As a futurist, I rely heavily on a skill called Scanning. Scanning is how we start to know the future and begin to expand our time horizon. It gives us a feel for the patterns that influence the future. Scanning is one of the most universal futurist…
Written by Liselotte Lyngsø, Partner at Supertrends Institute What if your work could be as fun as a game? Wouldn’t it be much more motivation and exciting to go to work, if you knew you would be rewarded as you would in a game? If for every client you gained or product you sold, you…