In the Healing Business: Strategic Foresight Techniques for Diagnosing the Spiritual Condition of Mankind to Provide the Path to Eternal Life
In the Healing Business: Strategic Foresight Techniques for Diagnosing the Spiritual Condition of Mankind to Provide the Path to Eternal Life
Tanesha Johnson | 2022
Abstract
In today’s world, people are increasingly concerned about the future – Why? Because to think about the future is to make better decisions (Thorstad & Wolff, 2018). Take the United States Air Force (USAF) as an example. Knowing that the current operational posture is not sufficient to support the contested environment that is projected into the future, the USAF issued modifications to its Accelerate Change or Lose guidance in order that they would make the necessary changes today to be able to accomplish strategic goals into the future (Brown, 2020a; Brown 2020b; Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs, 2022). In the same way, people inside and outside of the work environment are refining current strategies, operations, and tasks to encourage better decisions so that strategic goals are met in the future. However, there is a dilemma.
While people are concerned for the future, that concern is a near future-sighted concern, meaning that they tend to look less far into the future, especially when it comes to their personal future – their future selves (McGonigal, 2017; Hagan, 2017). Therefore, their ability to make effective decisions for the benefit of their future selves is greatly reduced, causing them not only to “put their physical and psychological health at risk,” but also their eternal health (Thorstad & Wolff, 2018, p. E1740).
Therefore, the book, In the Healing Business , provides strategic foresight techniques to help build a person’s far future-sightedness so that they can make preparations for eternal life sooner rather than later. This is done by conducting a strategic foresight analysis on the number one cause of death in the world – heart disease, as a way to diagnose the spiritual condition of mankind’s heart and to provide them the path to success. By doing this, mankind will be given the far future-sightedness they currently lack to help them take serious the long-term implications of mankind’s heart problem so that they can take their God-given place In the Healing Business , knowing that it will lead them to eternal life.
If you desire a deeper understanding of God’s redemptive work, In the Healing Business, is available now as a paperback.
References
Brown, C. Q. (2020a). Accelerate change or lose. Air Force Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.airforcemag.com/app/uploads/2020/09/CSAF-22-Strategic-Approach-Accelerate-Change-or-Lose-31-Aug-2020.pdf
Brown, C. Q. (2020b). CSAF action order: To accelerate change across the Air Force. U.S. Air Force. Retrieved from https://www.af.mil/Portals/1/documents/2020SAF/CSAF_Action_Orders__Letter_to_the_Force_Dec_20.pdf
Hagan, J. (2017 April 13). Survey finds majority of Americans don’t think about the future. Institute for the Future. Retrieved from https://www.iftf.org/future-now/article-detail/survey-finds-majority-of-americans-dont-think-about-the-future/
McGonigal, J. (2017 April 13). Our puny human brains are terrible at thinking about the future and that has consequences. Slate. Retrieved from https://slate.com/technology/2017/04/why-people-are-so-bad-at-thinking-about-the-future.html
Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs. (2022 February 18). Brown modifies action order to lock in gains, accelerate change. AirForce.mil. Retrieved from https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2941130/brown-modifies-action-orders-to-lock- in-gains-accelerate-change/
Thorstad, R., & Wolff, P. (2018). A big data analysis of the relationship between future thinking and decision-making. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(8), E1740-E1748. doi:10.1073/pnas.1706589115