Foresight

Citation

(2005), "Foresight", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 54 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijppm.2005.07954aaa.003

Foresight

One of the hard things about getting old(er) is to try and avoid saying things like, “It was ever thus”, pointing out that you have seen the same situation before. Though experience is obviously very useful, it can at times seem like cynicism to older colleagues. (And, of course, sometimes it is more profitable to treat the situation as “new” others then take your solution as an innovation even though you – or more likely someone else – used it, or a variation of it, many years ago.)

Writing the above paragraph made me realise that the above situation (of using experience – carefully – to address current and emerging issues) could be described as using hindsight to create foresight.