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We have been underselling the future. In fact, the future will be neither dystopia nor utopia (which is an actively harmful dichotomy) it will be what we do the work to make it. And the best way to the brightest future is to focus on what we CAN do, and make sure we are working to get there.
Between climate change, the impact on the future of work by intelligent automation, misinformation, and more, humanity faces several exponential changes and existential...
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International human rights standards were originally written by states to create a framework and set of goals for governmental action, and it was often argued that such standards did not apply to the private sector. For many, the obligations of businesses with respect to the subjects covered by international human rights standards were limited to compliance with applicable national laws, even if those laws failed to meet international standards. Certainly...
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The $22 trillion opportunity that can be unlocked only if you rethink everything you think you know about people over sixty.
In the time it takes you to read this, another twenty Americans will turn sixty-five. Ten thousand people a day are crossing that threshold, and that number will continue to grow. In fifteen years, Americans aged sixty-five and over will outnumber those under age eighteen. Nearly everywhere in the world, people over sixty are...
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Anyone who has visited a foreign place can relate how disorienting it is to lack a command of the local language. To orient ourselves within the human environment and operate effectively in our modern world, we must be able to communicate.
Organizations have languages too, and they also find themselves at a loss, when they don't have the language they need for the situation at hand. Future-Fluent: How Organizations Use Foresight to Thrive in Turbulent...
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Dan Pink, best-selling author of Drive wrote: "Work The Future! Today is an ebullient paean to the power of story. What we need is a new story based on purpose, not on profit. With a mind toward sustaining the planet rather than just amassing money, this book guides you to finding and aligning your purpose, passion, and goals to create that new life-embracing story for yourself, your organization, and the world."
Work The Future! Today is about the...
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It's clear: Massive systemic failure is rampant across all sectors of society-locally, regionally, nationally and globally... WTF! We all have a choice: Either we get on and drive the future bus, or we'll get run over by it.
Whitney Vosburgh, consulting Chief Marketing Officer for Fortune 50 companies, and Charlie Grantham, best-selling author and former Executive Director of R&D for global tech companies, offer a new story of possibility for organizations,...
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Always using the same recruitment and assessment methods means always getting the same kind of candidates. Post Covid-19, it's more important than ever to ensure we have a diverse workforce. Attracting a new audience of candidates means using new recruitment methods.Aimed at Talent Acquisition, HR and Recruitment professionals, this book is the essential How to" of inclusive and accessible recruitment.
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This is a handbook for visionaries.
Making outlandish predictions about the future is easy. Predicting the future normal is far harder. For the past decade, Rohit Bhargava and Henry Coutinho-Mason have been on the front lines of exploring the global forces shaping our future normal through their work independently leading two of the most successful trend consultancies in the world: Trend Watching and the Non-Obvious Company.
From donning full body...
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Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries face several common challenges in improving the quality of lives of women, and the coronavirus disease pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities. The CAREC Gender Strategy 2030 complements national plans for gender mainstreaming. It provides a regional approach for pursuing gender equality, women's empowerment, harnessed potential, and strengthened capacity for equal access of women...
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Are you really, ready for change? Are you, prepared for a world changing as fast as you can read this sentence? Most leaders say they are prepared for the future, yet many organizations and communities are doing things in the same old way they've been working for decades. We're living on the precipice of a new era in human history. Preparing For A World That Doesn't Exist - Yet offers an approach to getting ready for an emerging society that will...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Robert B. Tucker's book "Managing the Future" shows how no business can afford to rest on its laurels and on the successes of the past. If there's one hallmark of long-term companies, it's the ability to manage the future as well as the present. In his book, the author demonstrates how great companies do this and presents three strategies used by them which you can adapt and implement. This summary provides...
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The must-read summary of Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris' book: "Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning".
This complete summary of the ideas from Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris' book "Competing on Analytics" shows how the key to beating the competition in today's market is making use of the information available about the business environment to out-think your rivals. In their book, the authors explain how you can use analytics...
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How seemingly innocuous technologies are unsettling, the balance of power by putting it in the hands of the masses, and what a world without "big" will mean for all of us.
In The End of Big, social media pioneer, political and business strategist, and Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Nicco Mele offers a fascinating, sometimes frightening look at how our ability to stay connected, constantly, instantly, and globally, is dramatically changing...
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For decades, executive Martin Fiore has been advising leaders from a wide range of industries about technological trends that are reshaping the world of business, from artificial intelligence and the rise of autonomous systems to human/machine convergence. Now, in Humanity Reimagined, Fiore explores how these trends are disrupting industries, changing the world of work, transforming the economy, and creating both threats and opportunities for leaders...
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This book presents the theory of integrating implification and it provides a profound evidence based study of Buurtzorg Nederland. The case itself, forming the building block of the theory, has received tremendous interest in the Netherlands and abroad. This is the first international book on Buurtzorg Nederland and the first one departing from a management multidisciplinary perspective. The book demonstrates theory building by using the Grounded...
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Since its founding in 1921, the Detroit Historical Society (DHS) has been dedicated to safeguarding the history of our region so that current and future generations of metro Detroiters can better understand the people, places, and events that helped shape our lives. 100 Years of the Detroit Historical Society, written by senior curator Joel Stone, captures in words and photographs the little-known story of the people, who have been telling Detroit's...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Schwartz's book "Inevitable Surprises" shows that most of the "surprises" that will hit the economic world in the next 25 years are actually predictable and inevitable. In his book, the author explains how every savvy businessperson should be aware of these changes and their driving forces, as they will provide commercial opportunities, as well as pitfalls that they can plan to avoid. This summary will...
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"New York. Athens. Boston. Tohoku. Newtown. Oslo. West. Wenzhou. New Orleans. Dhaka. Moore. Nairobi. These communities are just a few among the many that have been hit hard by one of the "wicked problems" of today's world: natural catastrophe, disease and contagion, systems or social collapse. If you haven't been directly touched by one of these disruptions yourself, you are sure to have been affected by them in some way. They harm people, destabilize...
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With more than 100 checklists, diagrams, charts, tables, forms and pre-written documents, this is the comprehensive guide to a crisis plan that you need. Conversational prose makes complex concepts in risk and crisis management easily accessible. Case studies and anecdotes from real-life incidents remind readers of the dos and don'ts of crisis management. When you hear the expression, "He wrote the book on crisis management"-this is the book. This...
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