10.3.17 The Future of Board Leadership
10.3.17 The Future of Board Leadership
10.3.17 The Future of Board Leadership
Gazing
The Future of NFP Boards
This present moment
Used to be
The unimaginable future
14 March 2017
Adam Jorlen, Futurist. MSc, MMgmt Strategic Foresight
Member AssociaEon of Professional Futurists, World Futures Studies FederaEon
@adamjorlen @enkelcollecEve
Why think about the future?
Everything is interconnected
3: INTERPRETATION
Whats really happening?
THE LITANY
THE SYSTEMIC
FACTORS
THE WORLDVIEWS
POST-NORMAL TIMES
VUCA VolaEle, Uncertain, Complex &
Ambiguous
Hey, its crazy out there!
SOME BIG SHIFTS
#1: INCREASED COMPLEXITY OF SOCIAL
PROBLEMS
Wicked and complex problems need whole-system
soluEons.
CollaboraEon across sectors, departments,
communiEes
SOME BIG SHIFTS
#1: INCREASED COMPLEXITY OF SOCIAL
PROBLEMS
COMING SOON
Smart Cities
Solution to complexity
or creating further
complexity?
SOME BIG SHIFTS
#2: DISTRUST IN LARGE INSTITUTIONS
Populism
Increased Corporate
Influence
SOME BIG SHIFTS
#3: POWER SHIFT FROM INSTITUTIONS TO
PLATFORMS
Plamorm provided by big organisaEons and users
produce content.
#4 Purpose-driven careers
#1 Increased
Complexity of
Social Problems.
#2 Distrust in
large institutions
How do organisaEons collaborate for
be]er impact?
Everyone's talking about collaboraEon, cross-
sector iniEaEves & breaking down silos.
A majority of our organisaEons are not
designed for this. They are designed for
command and control, separaEon rather than
wholeness.
We need new ways of organising for social
impact.
What organisaEonal structures will emerge?
#1 Hybrids
CollaboraEon
People rather than organisaEons?
Focus on the whole, which is
greater than the sum of its parts
We need systems thinkers!
What organisaEonal structures will emerge?
#3 Edge Players, Third Spaces
Emerging innovaEons on the edges are
rising up to challenge the core.
Third Spaces, social surroundings separate
from the two usual social environments of
home, neutral place for collaboraEon. Edge
Space
We need to create spaces to accelerate
learning
Third
Space
THE FUTURE OF
Want to create the organisations of the future?
We live in a world where resilience, flexibility and
innovation are needed to thrive. More collaborative,