Future Here Now: Future Ready Communities Part 1

Ground conditions

Last week I wrote about the practices necessary for future readiness in individuals and businesses/organzations. This week we’re examining the hardest - and also the easiest - arenas for future readiness: communities.

Communities are the hardest to move toward future readiness because they’re much more complex — more people, more points of view, more politics, etc. But they can also be easier, in some respects, because it’s more likely that someone, somewhere in the community is already working on - and modelling - future readiness. So the biggest challenge might be bringing that work to the surface, and engaging others in it.

But what are the characteristics of a future ready community?