Could Boris be the next Prime Minister? - Page 2

Boeing Guy · 02-08-2012, 17:02

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Originally Posted by kestrelx

But why even bother "what iffing!" these scenario's?

What arn't going to happen anyway!

So why the H@@@l bother to post it in the first place

jaysay · 02-08-2012, 17:08

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Originally Posted by kestrelx

Actually found out that it's the Conservative Party membership actually voted that he is the most likely candidate to become the next party leader!

you could try a link or was it aired in the Guardian

jaysay · 02-08-2012, 17:09

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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy

So why the H@@@l bother to post it in the first place

Takes all sorts BG

susie123 · 02-08-2012, 17:33

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Originally Posted by kestrelx

But why even bother "what iffing!" these scenario's?

What arn't going to happen anyway!

If you really want to know...

Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development
– The Rockefeller Foundation

page 9

WHY SCENARIOS?
The goal of this project was not to affirm what is already
known and knowable about what
is happening right now at the intersections of
technology and development. Rather, it was to
explore the many ways in which technology
and development could co-evolve — could both
push and inhibit each other — in the future, and
then to begin to examine what those possible
alternative paths may imply for the world’s
poor and vulnerable populations. Such an
exercise required project participants to push
their thinking far beyond the status quo, into
uncharted territory.

Scenario planning is a methodology designed
to help guide groups and individuals through
exactly this creative process. The process
begins by identifying forces of change in the
world, then combining those forces in different
ways to create a set of diverse stories — or
scenarios — about how the future could evolve.

Scenarios are designed to stretch our thinking
about both the opportunities and obstacles that
the future might hold; they explore, through
narrative, events and dynamics that might
alter, inhibit, or enhance current trends, often
in surprising ways.

Together, a set of scenarios
captures a range of future possibilities,
good and bad, expected and surprising — but
always plausible. Importantly, scenarios are
not predictions. Rather, they are thoughtful
hypotheses that allow us to imagine, and then to
rehearse, different strategies for how to be more
prepared for the future — or more ambitiously,
how to help shape better
futures ourselves.

jaysay · 02-08-2012, 17:36

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Originally Posted by susie123

If you really want to know...

Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development
– The Rockefeller Foundation

page 9

WHY SCENARIOS?
The goal of this project was not to affirm what is already
known and knowable about what
is happening right now at the intersections of
technology and development. Rather, it was to
explore the many ways in which technology
and development could co-evolve — could both
push and inhibit each other — in the future, and
then to begin to examine what those possible
alternative paths may imply for the world’s
poor and vulnerable populations. Such an
exercise required project participants to push
their thinking far beyond the status quo, into
uncharted territory.

Scenario planning is a methodology designed
to help guide groups and individuals through
exactly this creative process. The process
begins by identifying forces of change in the
world, then combining those forces in different
ways to create a set of diverse stories — or
scenarios — about how the future could evolve.

Scenarios are designed to stretch our thinking
about both the opportunities and obstacles that
the future might hold; they explore, through
narrative, events and dynamics that might
alter, inhibit, or enhance current trends, often
in surprising ways.

Together, a set of scenarios
captures a range of future possibilities,
good and bad, expected and surprising — but
always plausible. Importantly, scenarios are
not predictions. Rather, they are thoughtful
hypotheses that allow us to imagine, and then to
rehearse, different strategies for how to be more
prepared for the future — or more ambitiously,
how to help shape better
futures ourselves.

Do these people ever sleep

kestrelx · 02-08-2012, 22:26

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Originally Posted by jaysay

you could try a link or was it aired in the Guardian

It was in a London Newspaper - The Evening Standard.

jaysay · 03-08-2012, 08:38

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Originally Posted by kestrelx

It was in a London Newspaper - The Evening Standard.

means nothing without a link does it

Neil · 03-08-2012, 08:56

I have just moved all the above posts from an Olympic thread to this new one as they were off topic.

jaysay · 03-08-2012, 09:26

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Originally Posted by Neil

I have just moved all the above posts from an Olympic thread to this new one as they were off topic.

Your such a nice helpful chap Neil

cashman · 03-08-2012, 09:37

Seem to remember good ole Boris was sacked from the Tory front bench,? was it deceitful conduct?

On that basis hes got all the requirements to become P.M. pmsl.

jaysay · 03-08-2012, 09:48

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Originally Posted by cashman

Seem to remember good ole Boris was sacked from the Tory front bench,? was it deceitful conduct?

On that basis hes got all the requirements to become P.M. pmsl.

Na he refused to have his hair cut

Ken Moss · 03-08-2012, 10:12

This has been discussed on Newsnight, The Andrew Marr Show and the Today programme on Radio 4 some time ago. Plenty of comments have been regarding Mr Johnson but it has to be said that he does come across as very likeable whenever he is featured in the media. I have to admit to enjoying listening to the man.

Get beyond all the posh bluster and there is a very clever bloke underneath.

cashman · 03-08-2012, 10:14

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

This has been discussed on Newsnight, The Andrew Marr Show and the Today programme on Radio 4 some time ago. Plenty of comments have been regarding Mr Johnson but it has to be said that he does come across as very likeable whenever he is featured in the media. I have to admit to enjoying listening to the man.

Get beyond all the posh bluster and there is a very clever bloke underneath.

Yeh can't be dumb if yer being deceitful.

susie123 · 03-08-2012, 10:51

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Originally Posted by Ken Moss

This has been discussed on Newsnight, The Andrew Marr Show and the Today programme on Radio 4 some time ago. Plenty of comments have been regarding Mr Johnson but it has to be said that he does come across as very likeable whenever he is featured in the media. I have to admit to enjoying listening to the man.

Get beyond all the posh bluster and there is a very clever bloke underneath.

Agree Ken, very much so with all that.

susie123 · 03-08-2012, 10:52

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Originally Posted by Neil

I have just moved all the above posts from an Olympic thread to this new one as they were off topic.

Thank you Neil, very helpful to have all these posts together and not mixed up with the Olympics. Glad you didn't delete them.