Futurespective: framing a company's values from the future
Video · June 17, 2025
Hoang Huynh's assignment for the MIT Leadership and Innovation Masterclass (2019): an exercise in framing, using a futurespective to communicate values and company vision.
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This video is the assignment Hoang Huynh prepared for the MIT Leadership and Innovation Masterclass in 2019. The exercise trains framing: a futurespective looks back at the company from a point in the future, and uses that view to communicate its values and its vision.
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