Personal Scenarios
(from P. Senge)
This trigger exercise is a start for personal planning. It helps you to identify some potential outcomes of the plans you are about to develop. Take some time to go through the questions, one by one.
- What two questions (regarding your future) you most want to ask an oracle?
- What is a good scenario? Assume the world works out well, how would the oracle answer your own questions?
- What is a bad scenario? What if the world would turn into your worst nightmare?
- If you look back two years, what would have been a useful scenario then?
- What would it have been good to foresee?
- By contrast, what did you actually think was going to happen?
- What are the most important decisions you are facing right now?
- What constraints do you feel in making these decisions?
