Scientific Definition
H1 (managing the present) + H2 (transition mechanisms) + H3 (transformative futures) held simultaneously.
Plain-English Definition
H1 (managing the present) + H2 (transition mechanisms) + H3 (transformative futures) held simultaneously.
Feynman Explanation
Most organizations are 100% H1 and call themselves innovative.
Core Principle
H1 (managing the present) + H2 (transition mechanisms) + H3 (transformative futures) held simultaneously.
Mechanisms
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H1 (managing the present) + H2 (transition mechanisms) + H3 (transformative futures) held simultaneously.
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Portfolios concentrated in H1 die slowly. Portfolios all in H3 die quickly.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Most organizations are 100% H1 and call themselves innovative.
Examples
- Bill Sharpe's foresight framework, used at IFF and across UK futures practice.
- Portfolios concentrated in H1 die slowly. Portfolios all in H3 die quickly.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Allocate explicit time, money, and people across all three horizons every planning cycle.
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.
- Allocate explicit time, money, and people across all three horizons every planning cycle.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
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Small advantages, applied consistently, become uncatchable.
How much we value the present over the future.
How vividly we connect to our future self predicts long-term decision quality.
An automatic action triggered by a stable cue — built through repetition.
A single habit whose adoption cascades into many other behavior changes.
Creative work needs blocks of hours; managerial work runs on 30-minute slices. They destroy each other when mixed.
Where you can go is constrained by where you've been.
A present-bias kink (β) on top of exponential discounting (δ): immediate rewards get a bonus, all future rewards trade normally.
People preferentially process experience visually, auditorily, or kinesthetically. Match the channel; match the mind.
We judge probability by how similar an event is to a prototype.
Our decisions are influenced by when events occur or when we evaluate them.
Pre-allocate every hour to a category before the day starts.