Future Search, 3rd Edition

Preface

Welcome to the third edition of Future Search, an action guide for those seeking to make the most of stakeholder engagement in a diverse, fast-moving world. With 10 new and five revised chapters, this is largely a new book. It reflects all we have learned in the past decade. We will show you how to achieve creative plans, high commitment, and fast implementation from a single meeting. You will learn how to get the “whole system in the room,” help people find common ground, and create long-lasting follow-up. With more than a quarter century of experience, we need not speculate on results. People are having successes all over the world. We hope you will be among them.

We use Future Search (FS) to describe:

A principle-based planning meeting ...