How to Predict the Future and what to do about it so you Win!: The world's preeminent business strategy manual on how to strategically use strategy, . six sigma, long-tails, waterboarding,

As much as we say through business books and keynote speeches that we want to expect the unexpected, provide early warning, think outside of the box and create the future – we don’t. Not usually. Bureaucracies are designed to maintain their current structure, not to evolve to meet future challenges. Is this the result of fifty years of futurism, of thousands of executive retreats, of millions of pages of trend analysis? With decades of advanced intellectual techniques in foresight, why do we seem to keep stumbling into housing bubbles, financial collapse, disruptive technologies and wildcard events and then declare, “Nobody could see it coming!” In this world of superconnected economies and increasingly fragile institutions, we must restore our ability to imagine the future, based on critical thinking instead of fear. In How to Predict the Future…and WIN!!! Eric Garland illustrates how bureaucracies avoid actual discussions of their futures and recommends how we can turn our organizations around to become truly future-focused. His narrator in this intellectual journey is P. Hughes Egon, the world’s “premier futurological predictologist” for the past forty years who doesn’t realize how 1988 his visions of the future really are. In the book, Garland exposes Egon’s twenty-five “tips” on foresight so that our organizations can achieve actual vision of what’s next.

Eric Garland is a professional Latin jazz bassist who has worked in competitive intelligence and strategic forecasting for a couple of decades now. In between salsa gigs, he provides trend analysis for dozens of huge companies you have heard of, quite a few governments, two school boards, and one constitutional monarchy.

Eric plays regularly with Gato & the Palenke Music Company, Verny Varela, Los del Barrio, the DC Latin Jazz All-Stars, Sin Miedo, and is the author of Future, Inc: How Businesses Can Anticipate and Profit from What's NEXT. He has a Master's degree that was expensive which nobody ever asks about. He splits his time between St Louis, Washington DC, Paris, Montreal, Vermont, and wherever they have really great guitar stores.

Eric plays John Suhr guitars, Fender, Pedulla and Ampeg basses, as well as using Headstrong, Polytone, David Eden and Genz Benz amplifiers.