Foresight Styles Assessment: Testing a New Tool for Consulting Futurists
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Journal of Futures Studies, August 2009, 14(1): 1 26 Is there a way to gauge whether one person is more proactive than another about the future? Furthermore, could any of an individual's proactive behavior be explained by their internal disposition, or what Dian (2003) calls a person's foresight style? This paper is a response to Dian's (2009) recent paper introducing the Foresight Styles Assessment (FSA) to practicing futurists. Future orientation is recognized as a critical competency of leadership, but few studies have empirically examined the construct of foresight. This is in part due to a dearth of quantitative research on foresight as a construct. Academics need validated scales to relate foresight to organizational theory. Foresight professionals need reliable measures that might tell us whether one individual has more foresight than another. To fill this gap Dian (2003) created the Foresight Styles Assessment (FSA) in 2001 as a 45-item survey instrument. At that time no statistical analysis was performed to confirm the styles, or refine the FSA's item pool of questions. Abstract
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