Perception pioneering and full spectrum thinking

I picked up “Full-Spectrum Thinking: How to Escape Boxes in a Post-Categorical Future” because I am a fan of Bob Johansen. He is the author of “The new leadership literacies”. One of my favourite books about leadership. His new book is very close to my perception pioneering programme.

The future will be a scramble

Bob Johansen is of the same stable as Jane McGonigal. The author of “Imaginable”. It is another book helping you to get a (positive) perspective on the future, and this time using what the author calls full spectrum thinking. The ability to move away from putting things into well-defined boxes or categories, in black and white, binary, polarised, or even certainty and control. Because the future will be a scramble: an asymmetrical patchwork of urgency, panic, imbalance, and hope. The scramble will be fraught with toxic misinformation (not necessarily intentional), disinformation (intentional), and distrust. You can expect an unusual number of unexpected consequences from the scrambling.

Full spectrum thinking

Full-spectrum thinking is about recognising patterns, seeking clarity, and resisting certainty. Accepting chaos, diversity and interconnections. Full-spectrum thinking is about pattern recognition. It is a nonlinear process that opens our thinking beyond categories and…