Knowledge Base: Six Pillars: Futures Thinking for Transforming by Sohail Inayatullah.

You should read this if… you are a CEO or board member looking for a proven, structured way to move beyond short‑term planning and actively shape your organisation’s future. This article introduces Sohail Inayatullah’s Six Pillars of Futures Thinking—mapping, anticipating, timing, deepening, creating alternatives, and transforming—as a comprehensive framework for understanding change and designing preferred futures rather than defaulting to inherited or “used” ones. It explains how the six pillars help leaders recover strategic agency, challenge dominant assumptions, explore alternative pathways, and align action with long‑term transformation in an increasingly complex and uncertain world.