Scientific Definition
Sensing the highest future possibility and acting from it — the bottom of Scharmer's U.
Plain-English Definition
Sensing the highest future possibility and acting from it — the bottom of Scharmer's U.
Feynman Explanation
It's not visioning. It's listening to what the situation is asking of you.
Core Principle
Sensing the highest future possibility and acting from it — the bottom of Scharmer's U.
Mechanisms
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Sensing the highest future possibility and acting from it — the bottom of Scharmer's U.
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The state most innovation workshops claim to produce and almost never do.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
It's not visioning. It's listening to what the situation is asking of you.
Examples
- Scharmer's interviews with 150+ innovators across science, business, and the arts.
- The state most innovation workshops claim to produce and almost never do.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Combine deep listening, stillness, and prototyping before scaling.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Combine deep listening, stillness, and prototyping before scaling.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
How will I feel about this in 10 minutes / 10 months / 10 years?
Inattention or forgetfulness caused by low attention, hyperfocus, or distraction.
Forgetting to compare an offer with the next-best alternative.
Outcomes that could have happened but did not.
Overthinking a situation so that decision-making stalls.
The first number on the table silently sets the range for every number after it.
Tversky & Kahneman's classic: identical outcomes flip from 'risk averse' to 'risk seeking' when framed as lives saved vs. lives lost.
Our perception is shaped by what we selectively pay attention to.
Favoring suggestions from automated systems over conflicting human judgment.
A color appears different depending on adjacent colors.
Decisions are constrained by available information, cognitive limits, and time.
The ability to focus on one voice in a noisy environment.