In this episode Lorenzo is joined by Bob Johansen. He shows us how to think future back — asking the questions: What future do we envision? What changes are coming next? What shall we do now, to prepare ourselves for unprecedented futures? In his new book, Bob shows how COVID-19, with all its tragic consequences, also created an opportunity to ask this basic question: why do we work in offices at all? You’ll be surprised as to how this applies to the church as well. 

As you’ll hear, Bob’s book, Office Shock, may be the first book to have its own chatbot. You can try it here by asking the questions you have about office shock: Talk with Office Shock (https://officeshock.ai/) 

To get Bob’s new book go here: wwww.bkconnection.com and use code OFFSHOCK for 30% off. (eBook and Audiobook anywhere in the world) (Print U.S. only). For group orders contact Leslie Davis [email protected]. 

Bob Johansen is a distinguished fellow with the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley. For more than 30 years, Bob has helped organizations around the world prepare for and shape the future, including corporations such as P&G, Walmart, United Rentals, and GlaxoSmithKline, as well as a range of major universities and nonprofits.  The author or co-author of twelve books, including the best-selling Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present, Leaders Make the Future, The New Leadership Literacies: Thriving in a Future of Extreme Disruption and Distributed Everything, Full-Spectrum Thinking: Escaping the Boxes in a Post-Categorical Future, and Office Shock: Creating Better Futures for Working and Living. Bob’s books are used widely in corporations, universities, nonprofits, and at the Army War College.  Bob holds a B.S. from the University of Illinois, which he attended on a basketball scholarship, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University—as well as a master’s degree that focused on world religions.

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