Soothsaying and Fortune Telling: Learning about Scenario Planning through the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Universe
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Insight Editions Tarot Decks: Modern Pop Culture Meets the Pop Culture of Yore Divination is never science, despite the mind-bending Hulu trip that was Devs. That doesn’t stop people from believing that objects, like Tarot cards, can be used to portent the future. A page from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Insight Editions Tarot Deck.…
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Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Changing the Rules of Magic The deepest level of scenario planning requires a release of certainty. Not only is “lock-in a myth” (see Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Myth of Lock-in) at the grand scale, but the best planners revoke the very idea of certainty. Any idea…
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Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Resurrection and Consequences Like the character Buffy, the show proved resilient in the face of change. Following cancelation, Team Buffy announced that Buffy the Vampire Slayer would return to the air for at least one more season on the now-defunct UPN network. The network’s advertising campaign clearly hinted at Sarah…
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Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Glorificus and Black Swans Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Black Swans: Season Five introduced a major existential threat to Sunnyvale in the form of the goddess Glorificus, better known as Glory. Glory might be better categorized a Black Swan than a predictable uncertainty. Although the team had encountered gods…
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Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Myth of Lock-in James Ogilvy, writing in Strategy + Business, states, “The old production economy was predictable because it operated in the realm of necessity; it produced goods and services people needed, and those were relatively stable. The new economy plays in the realm of freedom; it produces…
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Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: An Introduction Scenario Planners Can Sink Their Teeth Into
Uncertainty in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: An Introduction for Scenario Planners “William Shakespeare, Sonnet CVII” Incertainties now crown themselves assured, And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time, My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I’ll live in this poor rhyme,…
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