The Power of Scenarios to Open New Perspectives

Idea posted: February 2016

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford   

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The word ‘scenarios’ has many different meanings in a variety of fields and disciplines. In strategic planning, scenarios refer to a small set of carefully structured and tailored narratives about the future…

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Aristotle, Ethics and the ‘Art’ of Leadership

Idea posted: September 2013

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford    University of Nottingham   

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In Aristotle’s great work the Nicomachean Ethics, happiness (eudaimonia) is not a feeling so much as a state — and a state with a distinctly moral dimension. Synonymous with ‘living…

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Scenarios Planning + Early Warning Scanning = Strategic Advantage

Idea posted: May 2013

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford   

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Scenario planning (SP) and early warning scanning (EWS) are considered important to ‘managerial cognition’. They help leaders understand how the future might unfold and they alert top management to new…

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