The Push Institute

The Push Institute is a non-partisan NGO that tracks the major forces shaping our future and their implications for business, government, and non-profit sectors over the next 5-10-25-50 years.

Our mission is to cultivate and spread Change Literacy, a working knowledge of the constant and predictable forces shaping our future. Read More...

We pay close attention to under-the-radar technologies, markets, people, and ideas that are pushing the future in new directions. That research forms the backbone of our highly curated programs, reports, presentations and training, all designed to promote strategic foresight.


Our goals: foster and reward long-term thinking, and build a brighter, smarter future. The ultimate objective is to stamp out short-sightedness and help people in every sector, at every level of society make better decisions today, for tomorrow.


Our point of view: is built on the following

The Change Constants
Shifts in the primary forces of change - resources, technology, and population - dictate the path and potentials of major global trends.
The limiting factor for change is society's ability to reconcile new conditions with its values. Societies make their adaptations through the rule of law and of markets.
Choice
While the forces and trends of change are predictable, outcomes are not.
Choice and curiosity are the most important human factors in determining outcomes. Exercising them in a disciplined manner is central to the practice of strategic foresight.
The 5% Rule
Crisis = unanticipated change.
When more than 95% of our time and resources are dedicated to short-term concerns, the risk of managing policy/business/life reactively is dangerously high. In its most benign form, it is management by default; in its most costly form, it is management by crisis.
Roughly 5% of time and resources need to be spent, in a structured fashion, on Curiosity - exploring new perspectives and disciplines related to change, imagining potential scenarios - and Choice - designing and planning the future.


Our commitment: is to provide the tools and training for the 5% future in the following ways: 1) make the dependencies among resources, technology, and population apparent, and 2) help individuals and organizations identify strategic imperatives that connect long-term global trends to right-here, right-now needs.



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