PTFA: Past Trauma, Future Anxiety. Why Organisations Get Stuck
When the past runs the room and the future feels threatening, organisations cannot learn or prepare. PTFA names the pattern, and that is how you begin to move through it.
When the past runs the room and the future feels threatening, organisations cannot learn or prepare. PTFA names the pattern, and that is how you begin to move through it.
When every organisation improves in the same direction, the second and third order consequences aren’t growth. They’re narrowing.
The measure of a good future is not whether it is efficient or technologically impressive. It is whether the people living inside it can trust it, navigate it, and retain their dignity.
Most futures thinking tells you what might happen. Immediate Futures tells you what is already happening, and what you can do about it now, before the window closes.
A pigeon navigates with its liver. Parrots call you by name when you’re not in the room. And mammals didn’t lose the ability to regenerate — the switch was turned off. What three science stories quietly rewrite about what we are.
Most organisations respond well to the first wave of any change. It is the third wave, the one they did not see coming, that reshapes everything.