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Paradigm Shifts Need for School/Workplace Shootings

Paradigm Shifts Need for School/Workplace Shootings

Jim Schreier Feb 11, 2026

After the latest tragedy in Nashville (3/27/23), amidst the constant live coverage, I was overwhelmed by …

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Strengths-Based Careers – A Strategy Matrix Approach

Strengths-Based Careers – A Strategy Matrix Approach

Jim Schreier Feb 7, 2026

An experiment using Joel Barker’s Strategy Matrix* – Career Edition and Marcus Buckingham’s “GO Put Your …

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Strategy Matrix – S.W.O.T. Application

Strategy Matrix – S.W.O.T. Application

Jim Schreier Feb 7, 2026

S.W.O.T. Analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) is the classic, ubiquitous environmental scanning tool that is part …

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Transcend: A Paradigm Parable

Jim Schreier Jan 28, 2026
A New Way of Thinking about Technology

A New Way of Thinking about Technology

Jim Schreier Jan 22, 2026

Joel Barker co-authored a book with Scott Erickson, Five Regions of the Future: A New Way …

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Continuing Risk of Gaming – Gambling Convergence

Continuing Risk of Gaming – Gambling Convergence

Jim Schreier Jan 9, 2026

The convergence of online sports gambling and online gaming continues to accelerate, driven by technological innovation, …

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Gaming – Gambling Convergence

Gaming – Gambling Convergence

Jim Schreier Jan 7, 2026

The convergence of online sports gambling and online gaming, particularly among youth, is a rapidly emerging …

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Vision as Compass:  Aligning Today with Tomorrow

Vision as Compass: Aligning Today with Tomorrow

Jim Schreier Dec 11, 2025

Vision is not wall art. It’s a working picture of a future worth building—clear enough to …

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Possible Implications of NCAA Allowing Gambling by College Athletes

Possible Implications of NCAA Allowing Gambling by College Athletes

Jim Schreier Oct 9, 2025
Empowering Hope and Stability through Strategic Foresight

Empowering Hope and Stability through Strategic Foresight

Jim Schreier Aug 8, 2025

Integrating Joel Barker’s Strategic Exploration Tools to Help People and Organizations “See Possible Futures” A Fast …

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Future

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Learning

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Thinking

“Isn’t it strange that while we pay so much attention to quality, we do not yet pay attention to the quality of our thinking.”

— Edward de Bono
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