Build Strategic Imagination with Business Sci-Fi
In the age of AI, imagination becomes strategy.
Every organisation has a strategy department. None has an imagination department.
And yet, when machines can think, imagination is the only strategy that survives disruption. While plans fail and predictions expire, the ability to envision alternatives continuously adapts. We keep trying to predict a single future when we should be rehearsing a multitude.
By training strategic imagination, you're investing in the one skill that becomes only more valuable as AI advances.
That’s what Practical Futures helps you practise: building strategic imagination with Business Sci-Fi.
Focus on futures worth building
Organisations spend millions on prediction, but nothing on imagination. And here’s the truth: people act on futures they want to live in.
The futures worth building hide in everyday moments of possibility.
Monday morning → Your performance preview replaces the annual review, mapping multiple growth paths as new skills emerge.
Over coffee → Teammates trade lifestyle presets like playlists.
Afternoon → Your augmented team suggests multiversing your business model to help you choose the best projects to commit to.
Evening →Your internet of plants pings you before a storm to strap down the trees.
This is Business Sci-Fi. Not prediction, practice. Not forecasting, rehearsal.
You’re only a few stories away from improving your confidence in leading futures-focused discussions and transforming “what if” scenarios into “here’s how” strategies.
Your first memory from the future
Every story is paired with “memory from the future” prompts, strategic thinking exercises rooted in episodic future thinking that help you mentally pre-experience tomorrow’s challenges to build better strategies today.
Try this now (60 seconds)
Your AI assistant flags that creative energy across attendees is at 19% and recommends cancelling your next meeting that starts in 5 minutes.
Do you override the AI, reschedule for peak energy, or switch to async?
What do you communicate to stakeholders?
This is narrative microdosing: high-frequency, low-intensity futures training that builds comfort with uncertainty and strengthens your imagination muscle week by week.
Simpler than design fiction. More accessible than scenario planning. More democratic than strategic foresight.
Think of it like interval training for strategic thinking. Short, frequent, intense.
Ready to practise your first future?
Science fiction lets you pre-experience what might happen next, before it costs you anything to be wrong.
Don’t predict the future. Rehearse it. Join readers in 40+ countries rehearsing decisions across 80+ futures.
One story. Five minutes*. Three questions.
Practise beats prediction. Pick a future you can try on.
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*Fair warning: some readers reported experiencing the “just one more story” effect.
Who’s behind Practical Futures
Pleasure to meet you, Pawel here. I’ve spent a decade designing complex enterprise products and another in the creative industries. Still, it took a global pandemic to make me realise imagination is the only strategy that survives disruption.
Now I’m on a mission to help leaders like you build tomorrow’s most essential skill: strategic imagination.
Share this with your most imaginative colleagues. Together, you can add resolution to your organisation’s visions of tomorrow and make imagination operational.
Practical Futures: Business Sci-Fi for strategic imagination. High-frequency, low-intensity futures training for professionals building tomorrow.
