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Strategic Exploration Tools

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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The Possibilities Cone – Joel Barker

The Possibilities Cone – Joel Barker

Jim Schreier Jan 28, 2026

Joel frequently introduced his major presentations with an exercise and a description of “The Possibilities Cone.” …

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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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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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Three Pillars of Foresight

Three Pillars of Foresight

Jim Schreier Feb 8, 2025
Embrace Your Future

Embrace Your Future

Jim Schreier Jun 11, 2024

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Future

“The role of leadership is to find, recognize, and secure the future.”

— Joel Barker

Learning

Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.

— Richard Bach

Thinking

Is it not strange that while so much attention is being paid to “quality” in all matters that we have not yet paid attention to the “quality” in thinking?

— Edward de Bono
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