Weathervanes : Primary & Custom Research and Analysis ... for People Operating Slightly Ahead of Our Time
Our marketplaces workplaces, cultures, societies and planet are overheated, complicated, accelerated and out-of-control ... we don't need what's already popular, representative or expected, we need to know what's hidden, what's beyond superficial and what's next.
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Weathervanes (powered by Grey Swan Guild) - Going Deeper on Today’s and Tomorrow’s Most Relevant Subject Matter, Meaning, Probabilities, Possibilities and Wild Cards with our Guild panel of Global Sensemakers.
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Hindsight. Insight. Foresight. Crosssight. Together.
HINDSIGHT
To understand the present, we need to understand how we arrived at the status quo by looking at driving factors coming from values, events, world views, ideologies and shifts in context, formed in the past affecting our thinking and acting today.
INSIGHT
To understand the 'now', we need to deeply understand what is happening around and just in front of us by looking at seemingly disparate phenomena as part of a bigger dynamic whole, and understanding the shifts that are taking place as they are happening.
FORESIGHT
To understand the future we need to know what we are capable of imagining within the frames of what we deem as probable, possible and favourable. We need to engage that special group of people that can envision new anomalies, plausibilities and ways of being that aren’t straight-line projections of the past.
CROSSSIGHT
To understand the full picture, we need to look at all dimensions at play. We need to go beyond the narrow views of singular industries, communities or mindsets and go into interdisciplinary spaces, transformative collisions and bring together a multitude of perspectives.
Unlike many others, Weathervanes uses hindsight, insight, foresight and crossight together to make sense of Today’s and Tomorrow’s Most Relevant Societal Developments.
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Come find out the why, the how and the what of Weathervanes. Which way do your winds blow?
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“Let’s stop asking the average person what they think. Do you know how %$%#^&* the average person is?."
- Ricky Gervais
OUR 2023-25 WEATHERVANES SCHEDULE:
Our 3X annuall deep dives into some of the most relevant topics of the our day to day lives and professional worlds.
 UNCERTAINTY (Nov'23)Getting Upstream from Change, Disruption, Turbulence & Grey/Black Swans. In association with our Guild's first published book Uncertainty, we grapple with the world's biggest catalyst and paralyzer in this decade - Uncertainty, and all of its components. |  POST-PANDEMICA (Mar'24)On the fourth year anniversary that WHO officially declared a global pandemic, we ask the question what really happened with COVID, and what did we learn. With the benefit of hindsight, we tumble through the near, middle and long term legacies of the last four years of life interruption. Combining insights of our last three years of tracking. We focus on the biggest life, work and cultural reappraisals, sticky challenges identified, value changes, lingering malaises and potential solutions. |  AI REALITIES (June'24)So much hype, so much pent up enthusiasm and angst, but what are we really using AI for and where is it headed? We travel cross-industry and cross-silos to see where AI sits and what AI's trajectory looks like. |
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 The DNA of ORGANIZATION NEXT (Oct'24)Remote work, Headless organizations, DAOs, Coops, Ecosystems, Private/Public Partnerships, Trust Networks, Gig Economy. and others. All crashing together to form what? What does 'organization' mean in the future and what systems and shifts are required to support them. |  THE CUSTOMER ZEITGEIST (Feb'25)Not too near, not too far, just right. What is the 'Goldilocks Effect' of what customers will be thinking, how they will be behaving and why they will be valuing their world differently one-thousand days out. Let's navigate the actionable marketplace of the future. |  THE REGENERATIVE ECONOMY (June'25)How do we circle up our square economy, marketplace and mindset? Putting some real teeth in sustainability and purpose as we deal with some of the biggest existential challenges of our times. Let's take an honest view at what's probable, possible, imaginable and unimaginable from a regenerative economic rewiring of the economy. |
 THE HAPPINESS REPORT (Oct'25)Many of us can spend 1,500-2,500 full time hours at our jobs every year. We ask if we're productive, we ask if we're valuable, but we may want to ask if we're actually happy. We travel through the emotional octave ranges to figure our what makes us professionally happy and if there is an ROI to that. |
WEATHERVANES: EXPERTS AT SENSING & NAVIGATING THE WINDS
Not your average intelligence firm, ten reasons why Weathervanes is different, valuable and better.
 HOLISTIC"Four winds" lens - hindwinds, nowwinds, forewinds, crosswinds - looking back, scanning forward, pondering deep, peering wide |  INTERDISCIPLINARYFifty+ specialties, one unified approach |  CONTEXT-AWAREAlways aware of time, geography, societal norms and environment - System-coherent, Liminal-sensing, Cultural-savvy |
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 PARTICIPATORYOpen, Co-created & Collaborative Engagement |  BALANCEDBridges Diverse Perspectives,Reduced Bias |  Well-SupportedPowered by the global Grey Swan Guild and talented Global League of Sensemakers |
 EXPLAIN, EXPLORE, EVALUATELeads to Understanding, Discovery and Conclusions |  PIONEERINGExperimental Approaches, Edge-fluent, New Paths for New Challenges |  SUBSTANTIVEBeyond Superficial or Derivative, Expanded Depth & Fresh Originality |
 EXPANDINGSubscribe to 3X. Annual Weathervane Deep Dives, Weathervane Living Bank of Relevant Hindsights, Insights, Foresights & Crosssights |
WEATHERVANES - TYPES OF INTELLIGENCE:
Making tangible and credible progress and momentum on some of your most difficult, ignored, flawed and least expert disciplines.
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