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FUTURE-OF-WORK-LITERACY5 MIN READ

Spot the scenario planning anti-pattern

Identify the scenario planning mistake that turns alternatives into disguised forecasts.

Executive scenario workshop in a modern conference room, large four-quadrant board with abstract blank sticky clusters, leaders standing around, one corner shows repeated identical colored hiring cards, realistic setting, no text, words, letters, numerals, logos. Executives review a four-quadrant scenario board. The suspicious area shows the same hiring cards repeated in every quadrant, suggesting the scenarios do not change decisions. Four labelled futures, one suspiciously identical answer. Find the anti-pattern that makes this scenario exercise weak. The same hiring answer appears in every scenario quadrant Correct: repeated decisions can be a no-regret move, but here it signals the team may…

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