Full-Spectrum Thinking

NOTES

Introduction

1. I debate in my own mind whether to use spectrum or spectra, since I don’t want to imply just one continuum. This book focuses on the value of considering a full spectrum of whatever issue, topic, idea, phenomenon, system, or any other future you confront. Spectra is a less familiar and less clear term, but it also implies a different way of thinking—which is exactly what I’m suggesting. Broad spectrums may work better for some people than full spectrum.

2. This notion is from John Fowles and Frank Horvat’s The Tree (Toronto: Collins, 1979), a beautiful book that does not have page numbers.

Chapter 1

1. Peter Drucker has been referred to as the founder of modern management. He coined the term knowledge worker and was an early ...