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    Foresight: Embracing Future Change for Bold Transformation

      Hindsight brings insight which produces foresight. Strategic foresight professionals tell us the best predictor of the future is the past. In other words, past and present trends will continue unless something causes them to change. Humans are the perfect example: we’ll keep doing what we’ve been doing and we’ll keep getting what we’ve always gotten unless something changes.  What causes us to change? It isn’t actually seeing something we want more. Psychologists tell us people change when the pain of change is diminished by the pain of staying the same.  Change always feels uncomfortable, even painful. But we’ll do it when it looks preferable to what we’ve been doing…