The Firetail Guide to Time Travel: Part One — Firetail The ability to travel into the future isn't just for daydreamers or science fiction. It's a critical skill for strategy and planning, particularly when so much feels uncertain, volatile, and fast movi...

After years of peering anxiously into the future for civil society organisations, I've compiled my mistakes into something resembling wisdom www.firetail.co.uk/news/guideto...

You are also a fan of 90s japanese baseball video games?

Strategic Isomorphism: why do so many strategies look the same? — Firetail When strategies look the same across organisations due to unseen pressures, we call this 'isomorphic strategy'.  But this tendency towards sameness - and its causes - deserves closer examination,...

Lots of organisational strategies look the same. Why? I reckon 80s sociology has some answers www.firetail.co.uk/news/isomorp...

Beyond safe bets: How can philanthropy shape the future? — Firetail Discover how early, bold philanthropic investments can transform fringe issues into mainstream priorities. Learn why timing and risk are crucial in funding today's emerging causes to make them…

If foundations saw their job as taking on long-run, high-risk public experiments that no-one else can do, what would they be funding today that they are not already funding? What is weird to fund today that will be normal to fund in 20 years time?

Morning - can I ask to be added to this? Would love to connect to more futures people

Interesting fundraising data in the 2024 NCVO almanac. Total voluntary income for the sector has gone down...but so has spending on fundraising. Is it hyper competitive or have vol orgs just slowed investment?

Small Town Boys

Please enjoy this gargantuan playlist of smalltown boys! open.spotify.com/playlist/3jm...

(I like to put it on at dinner parties and see how long it takes people to notice)

Disconfirming evidence: from theory to practice — Firetail Firetail has developed a process to help trusts and foundations to incorporate disconfirming evidence into their learning systems

If you want to turn theory into practice, we have thoughts www.firetail.co.uk/news/newappr...

How else would you know what's in it?