After a successful career in his own business in international trade, Verne Wheelwright went back to school. He enrolled at the University of Houston-Clear Lake in Studies of the Future, where he hoped to learn long term perspective and thinking. After earning his Masters degree, Wheelwright felt that the concepts and methods he had learned were extremely valuable, but that they were designed for large businesses and organizations. Convinced that futures methods were not only effective, he believed they were also scalable-that these methods would be just as valuable to individuals and small bu...