Ari Wallach: 3 ways to plan for the (very) long term
أري والاش: 3 طرق للتخطيط على المدى البعيد (جدًا)
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which is a term I made up --
وهو مصطلح قمت باختراعه --
I would sit down with people,
let's talk 10, 20 years out."
عشر أو عشرين سنة من الآن."
with a CEO two months ago
المدراء التنفيذيين منذ شهرين
our initial conversation.
I want to talk about the next six months."
أريد التحدث عن الأشهر الستة القادمة."
that we are facing.
that we use right now
التي نستخدمها حاليًا
technical work is being done,
we need to solve for a priori, before,
إلى حلها مسبقًا، قبل ذلك،
move the needle on those big problems.
بخصوص هذه المشاكل الضخمة
There's no bracelets.
لا توجد قيود
to be against short-termism.
ضد التفكير قصير المدى.
nook and cranny of our reality.
that you're thinking, working on.
move-the-needle world stuff,
how far out you tend to think
يمنع المدير التنفيذي
expensive safety equipment.
one-on-one time with their students.
فردًا لفرد مع تلاميذهم.
drops out every 26 seconds.
in here from Congress --
into a real infrastructure bill.
is the I-35W bridge collapse
I-35W
We did the Panama Canal.
لقد أنشأنا قناة بنما.
have eradicated global polio.
شلل الأطفال عالميًا.
the Marshall Plan.
مشروع مارشال.
infrastructure problems and issues.
الكبيرة المادية للبنية التحتية فحسب.
past the next tweet or timeline post,
هو التغريدة أو المنشور القادم،
their war-torn country,
التي مزقتها الحرب،
and we put them away for life.
ونسجنهم مدى الحياة.
without even thinking
دون حتى أن نفكر
to get between them and their job.
for a lot of these problems,
بالعديد من هذه المشاكل،
sandbag strategies.
استراتيجيات كيس الرمل.
no one's put any money into it,
the water level goes down,
after storm after storm.
than the one we have right now,
our mental models and our mental maps
إن لم نغيّر نماذجنا وخرائطنا الذهنية
is something called "longpath,"
شيء يدعى "الدرب الطويل،"
a kind of one-and-done exercise.
at some point has done an off-site
خصص مرةً ركنًا بعيدًا عن العمل
and whiteboards,
الملحوظات وألواح الكتابة،
in here who do that --
هنا ممن يقوم بذلك --
everyone forgets about it.
If you're lucky, three months.
إذا كنتم محظوظين، ثلاثة أشهر.
it's not necessarily a thing that you do.
to revisit different ways of thinking
that you're working on.
those three ways of thinking.
الطرق الثلاث للتفكير.
kind of looking into this.
for their entire reality
how to do something good in the world
ما إذا قمنا بعمل حسن في هذا العالم
our birth and our death.
in any bookstore,
with some of these major issues.
transgenerational ethics,
how you think about these problems,
طريقة تفكيرك بهذه المشاكل،
in helping to solve them.
be done at the Security Council chamber.
تطبيقه في قاعة مجلس الأمن فقط.
in a very kind of personal way.
my wife and I like to go out to dinner,
أحب الذهاب مع زوجتي لتناول العشاء،
under the age of seven.
it's a very peaceful, quiet meal.
all I want to do is just eat and chill,
أن آكل وأسترخي فحسب،
and totally different idea
and take out the iPhone
this transgenerational thinking cap.
because it would be bizarre,
I learned it was bizarre.
تعلمت أنه كان غريبًا.
"OK, I can do this."
if I actually bring some paper
and I'm making this very personal.
وأنا أجعل منه شخصيًا جدًا.
that I work on in the world --
التي أعمل عليها في العالم --
here in the present with me,
معي هنا في الحاضر،
of transgenerational thinking ethics --
للتفكير العابر للأجيال --
going to interact with their kids
سيتعاملون فيها مع أطفالهم
but think in your head.
about the future right now:
في هذه اللحظة:
a technological lens,
عبر عدسة التكنولوجيا،
and there's nothing wrong with that,
وليس من خطأ في ذلك،
really think deeply about
on these major issues,
بتلك المشاكل الكبيرة،
of what the future could be,
عمّا يمكن أن يكون عليه المستقبل،
into that future. Right?
تكاليف ذلك المستقبل. صحيح؟
to my speakers to everything.
from the high priests in Rome
عن عرش المستقبل
قساوسة وادي السيليكون.
how are we going to deal with climate
كيف سنتصرف حيال المناخ
through a technology lens.
التفكير عبر عدسة التكنولوجيا،
that we go to this guy.
للتوجه إلى هذا الشخص.
only looking at the future in one way,
رؤية المستقبل بطريقة واحدة،
through the dominant lens.
are so big and so vast
not to talk about the future.
أن لا أتحدث عن المستقبل.
on this major issue --
about something beyond technology as a fix
بحلٍ يتجاوز التكنولوجيا
about technological evolution right now
مهتمون بالتقدم التكنولوجي
to get out of short-termism
من التفكير قصير المدى
This comes from the Greek root.
وهو من الجذور الإغريقية.
you asked yourself: To what end?
سألت فيها نفسك: إلى أية نهاية؟
how far out did you go?
على "أية نهاية" خاصته
of what he wanted --
because of the work that I'm doing,
we have lost our Ithaca.
لقد خسرنا (إيثاكا) خاصتنا.
so we stay on this hamster wheel.
ولهذا لا نغادرعجلة الهامستر هذه.
to solve these problems,
people aren't going to move.
this isn't just about business --
who break out of short-termism
تكسر حلقة التفكير قصير المدى
are family-run businesses.
هي أعمال تسيرها العائلة.
They think about the futures.
إنهم يفكرون بالمستقبلات.
They're 175 years old,
يبلغون 175 سنة من العمر،
is that they literally embody
in their brand,
على الدرب في شعارهم،
you never actually own a Patek Philippe,
ساعة (باتيك فيليب) مطلقًا،
throw 25,000 dollars on the stage.
25.000 دولار على المسرح.
for the next generation.
لأجل الجيل القادم.
actually have total control over.
we end up feeling like we don't.
ننتهي إلى الشعور بالعكس.
of thinking and doing,
في التفكير والفعل،
and also with my family at home,
في المنزل على حد سواء،
I get more comfortable in that fact.
أصبح أكثر ارتياحًا مع هذه الحقيقة.
are really uncomfortable with,
and you can push yourself past
وستتمكنون من تخطي
very, very uncomfortable.
with yourself asking this question:
هذا السؤال على أنفسكم:
the next three years or five years?
في السنوات الثلاث أو الخمس القادمة؟
a little bit bigger
huge problems out there.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ari Wallach - FuturistAri Wallach helps leaders more consciously and ethically shape tomorrow.
Why you should listen
Ari Wallach challenges the perception that "the future" is solely a technology-fueled project occurring at some far off point in time. By exploring the underpinnings of civilizational potential over the ages he shows the future is actually manifesting right now -- and that it is very much human.
Wallach founded Synthesis Corp. in 2008 with the belief that individuals, organizations and leaders have more power to shape what comes next than they realize. Synthesis Corp. has created and built full-scale future focused innovation labs and strategies for organizations ranging from CNN and the US State Department to Auburn Seminary and the Pew Research Center. Most recently, Wallach and his team created and launched the global innovation lab for the UN Refugee Agency as well as their US focused The Hive. As founder of Fast Company magazine's "FastCo Futures with Ari Wallach," Wallach convenes and hosts conversations with world-changing thinkers and doers focused on future-proofing their business.
His original Longpath essay in Wired magazine about the need to move beyond short-termism to ensure social progress brought Wallach to the forefront of conversations in the sustainability, urban planning and long-range forecasting sectors. As an adjunct Professor at Columbia University, Wallach lectures on the impact of technology on intertemporally resilient public policy and democratic institution building.
In the summer of 2017, Longpath will launch as a networked action-tank focused on helping individuals and organizational leaders make critical decisions that take into account transgenerational impact.
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