One more day.
Well it’s the last day, and I am sorry to see it come to the close. Today is what is called the Professional Members Forum, titled: Global Futures Projects: Innovations and Outcomes. Thankfully there were no more hard choices to make as the programme was set. Particpants had dropped down to about 50 and...
Monday: the last day of the formal proceedings, except …
Today there were so many presentations I wanted to attend (9.00-10-30) and they were apparently all fabulous. We all met up for coffee and the room was abuzz. People in particular to Google include: Medard Gabel (Big Picture Consulting); Jerome Glen and Theodore J Gordon (The State of the Future Report, The Millennium Project); Stacey Aldrich, Les...
Into the heavy stuff
Today I attended a presentation by Dennis M. Bushnell, Chief Scientist from NASA, who was fascinating, but I was out of my depth. He is clearly a brilliant man who has an extremely good grasp of technology. Much of his thinking will feed into ‘7×7’ in August and the scenario work. After morning tea...
The Conference Begins…
Tonight the conference began properly with the Opening Plenary. The key speakers were Edie Weiner, co-author of FutureThink: How to Think Clearly in a Time of Change, and Bill Drayon, a founder of Ashoka and former assistant administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Washington D.C. I was particularly impressed by Edie who was, as one...
Book Review: The Way We Will Be 50 Years From Today
Edited By Mike Wallace Thomas Nelson, $42.95 What is our vision for the future and how do we achieve it? This is the simple premise that inspired Mike Wallace to interview sixty of the most inspired thinkers and pose the provocative question, what is the shape of the future? The outcome is superb. In The...
Book Review: The One Thing You Need To Know: About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
By Marcus Buckingham Free Press, RRP $29.99 Marcus Buckingham, in “The One Thing You Need to Know”, describes what common elements he sees throughout examples of outstanding achievement in managing, leadership and career success. His ideas need not be confined to the office, however. The key to success in these areas can also be applied...
Book Review: Five Minds for the Future
By Howard Gardner Harvard Business School Press, RRP $61.99 Five Minds is structured in five different parts, each representing a different “mind” that will “command a premium” in the years ahead. Each of these different minds will enable people to cope with the increasingly globalised and knowledge based society. The disciplined mind diligently employs the way of...
Book Review: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
By Alan Greenspan Penguin Books, $65. The combination of an increasingly globalised world economy and a change in the way we do business is rapidly changing the way the world works. In the long term, the sheer velocity of such change could lead us to just about anywhere. But in the short term, in 2030...
Book Review: Carbon Neutral by 2020: How New Zealanders Can Tackle Climate Change
Edited by Nikki Harre & Quentin D. Atkinson Craig Potton Publishing, $35. Climate change has become one of the central issues of our time, yet it is an issue weighed down by messages of doom and gloom and a pervasive sense of helplessness about how we should effectively respond. This book offers a positive response...
Book Review: Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
By Mark Lynas Fourth Estate, $35 Six degrees refers to the possibility that average global temperatures will rise by up to six degrees within the next hundred years. Utilizing highly up-to-date scientific research and political forecasting Lynas paints a reliable picture of how the collapse of our civilisation can unfold unless urgent action is taken....
Book Review: Reinventing Paradise: How NZ is Starting to Earn a Bigger, Sustainable Living in the World Economy
By Rod Oram Penguin Books, trade paperback, $35.00 This collection of columns by the highly influential and award winning business journalist, Rod Oram, is essential reading for those interested in NZ place in the global market. Pulling together his writing over the last 7 years the collection shows how NZ has fared in the global...
Book Review: The Upside of Down: Catastrophe Creativity & the Renewal of Civilization
By Thomas Homer-Dixon Text Publishing, trade paperback $40. This is not just a catalogue of crisis points and doom prophecy, “The Upside of Down” sets out a theory of the growth, crisis, and renewal of societies. Today’s converging energy, environmental, and political-economic stresses could cause a breakdown of national and global order. Yet there are...
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