In her book The Human Age, author Diane Ackerman contemplates time and change on a planetary scale to to explore how humanity’s relationship with earth has changed in the last several centuries. As a result, in her words: Without meaning to, we’ve created some planetary chaos that threatens our well-being. Yet despite the urgency of … 
How to anticipate change, understand it when we are in the midst of it, and grapple with its potential implications are terribly slippery subjects. Over the course of 2017, I have recommended a number of new and slightly less new books that do a great job of putting these complexities into plain, elegant English, while …
The conditions for success are undergoing a revolution right now, as new technologies, business models and modes of communication transform before our eyes. As a result, organizations need planning models that are grounded in these emerging assumptions. Yet, the forms of strategic planning that some organizations continue to use are grounded in the industrial era …
In the recently released annual Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends Report, 88% of respondents reported the need to redesign their organization to meet the needs of the future as Important or Very Important, making it the most important issue of the year for the 10,000 executives in 140 countries that were surveyed. No less striking: Only …
Many of us in the United States learned the term “filter bubbles” by way of their effects on our civic lives and national politics. When we search for news or current events information on media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, predictive algorithms are applied that assume that we will want to see the same …
A Review of Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek A decade ago, it was not difficult to find exuberant claims for the internet as the engine of a new kind of economy. Some called it the sharing economy, others described it as grassroots or by other names. The point was that several centuries of industrial capitalism, …
Can the tourism industry create the perfect algorithm? One that precisely predicts where a traveler wants to go and what she wants to do when she gets there? Asked to consider this question recently on behalf of the Vixouze Discussions , an annual conference on the future of tourism, my short answer was, Yes. Predictive …
As both an avid vegetable gardener and someone professionally consumed with organizational transformation, I have reasons to be interested in caterpillars. In my garden, they are an object of complex judgement calls. Left to their own devices, they devastate parsley, dill, tomatoes, cabbage, but they also transform into striking moths and gorgeous butterflies. Caterpillars are …
It is also about remembering. As both an avid vegetable gardener and someone professionally consumed with organizational transformation, I have reasons to be interested in caterpillars. In my garden, they are an object of complex judgement calls. Left to their own devices, they devastate parsley, dill, tomatoes, cabbage, but they also transform into striking moths …
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