Comments on: Accelerate Your Career: Be a Futurist

By: Nate

Nate — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:20:16 +0000

My absolute dream job. I’m more on the cutting edge of our energy independence and see a HUGE potential to be a futurist in my company. Glad to know I’m not the only one that thinks like this. Great post!

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Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:32:24 +0000

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By: Andrea Emerson

Andrea Emerson — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:27:36 +0000

Very interesting. After reading this post, I picked up an old book and looked for a related paragraph I’d underlined months earlier:

“Our information society operates as a series of concentric rings, with the original and outlandish ideas on the outside. By the time something works its say into Newsweek or onto CNN, it’s moved to the center of the system, acquiring legitimacy and respectability as it goes. But out on the edges are the small-scale information sources that operate as gateways to the larger system…. If it’s truly different, it’s by definition marginalized. You look for it in the back alleys, not on Main Street.” (Jack Hart in A Writer’s Coach)

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:35:18 +0000

Speaking to Alexandra’s comment, it seems that a Futurist is not a specific career per se, but a mode of professionalism one can adopt in any field. How do you define it, Brandon?

You touched on this and I’ll back it up: positivity is a crucial characteristic of the successful Futurist. People are hesitant to follow a leader into an unfamiliar fray. A smile and a sincere belief in success goes a long way in coaxing people to support you.

By: Greg Rollett

Greg Rollett — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:00:35 +0000

Part of being a futurist is not always being first to market, but best to market. Signing up for beta testing and gaining access to things before they become mainstream, and then using that technology better than your competition is key in today’s fast paced world.

Be a leader in a new field before it is cool to be that leader. People like to follow, but are sometimes scared to be a futurist.

By: Alexandra Levit

Alexandra Levit — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:46:27 +0000

Wow, this is a great coincidence. Futurist is one of the dream jobs profiled in my new book, How’d You Score That Gig?, and it’s the one that I say I want when people ask me what I’d like to do if I wasn’t an author. Thanks for getting the info on this fascinating profession out there.

Best,

Alexandra Levit
Author, How’d You Score That Gig?
Blogger, Water Cooler Wisdom
http://www.alexandralevit.com