Proactiveness x Empiricism

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Proactiveness

anticipate future problems or opportunities, and act on them in advance.

The result is that proactive individuals often seek improvement.
They then test ideas systematically and refine their strategies based on outcomes.

"Let the mind be enlarged to the grandeur of the mysteries,
and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind."

- Francis Bacon, the father of empiricism.

Empiricism

Empiricism, developed in the 17th and 18th centuries and stimulated by the rise of experimental science, is the theory that all knowledge is based on experience derived from the senses. Empiricism heavily emphasises the use of experiments and observation to collect evidence and draw conclusions. Through experimentation you apply the theory to the real-world and observe what happens in reality. You record the findings and gather (empirical) data. You share back the findings to the relevant audience.

The empiricial mindset: iterative improvement through learning from results.

The path from reactiveness to proactiveness
is through change, and change is messy and unstructured!

Organisations aspire a proactive mindset, because it helps them to survive when there are hard times. But organisations also like stability and business as usual: the continuation of work. And before you know it, you have become reactive. The path towards proactiveness isn't lineair. It is a real change story. With organisations going through change more than ever, building a proactive x empirical mindset is crucial.

The proactive x empirical mindset helps to surf the constant waves of change and keeps probing the system, keeps probing the current reality, keeps experimenting for the better. And when we do that, we discover new patterns that helps us to find a structured proactive way of running our business.

Yet and most likely, that is never a final stage: you have to keep probing unless you want to become structured reactive again.

Proactiveness x Empiricism = Effectiveness ++

Future Thinking with 3 Horizon Framework

3 horizons support future and forward thinking.

Horizon 1 is how things work today. You can refer to that as what it normal for now. The thing is that it might not work forever.
Horizon 2 is where people try new stuff. Some of the ideas help to fix today’s problems, others lead to big changes.
Horizon 3 is the future you dream about. That future is different and better, but it starts really small.

All three horizons are happening at the same time. That means that some people stick to the old, some try new things, and some imagine the future. Because they are all running at the same time, it could happen that the old system (H1) tries to stop or steal ideas from the new (H2 and H3).

The goal is to help the good ideas grow so they can become the new normal. It’s like planting seeds today that grow into a better world tomorrow.

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