Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World (paperback) - Couverture souple

Kelly, Eamonn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0131366246 ISBN 13 : 9780131366244

Editeur : Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2005

Synopsis

Powerful Times From terrorism and nuclear proliferation to emerging technologies and economic globalization, Kelly, CEO and president of Global Business Network, draws on breakthrough scenario planning techniques that he pioneered: techniques hundreds of top organizations now rely on. Simply put, this book will help readers prepare for humanity's most profound transition in 400 years.

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Understand the most revolutionary human transformation in four centuries... and prepare for it!

We're not just living through an age of change: we're living through a 'change of age': the most profound inflection point in human history since the Enlightenment. That's the thesis of Eamonn Kelly's remarkable new book Powerful Times. From terrorism and nuclear proliferation to emerging technologies and economic globalization, Kelly weaves together 7 powerful 'dynamic tensions' that will reshape human life in the coming decades. Kelly offers breakthrough insights into how these tensions will conflict -- and how they'll resonate, creating giant waves of change beyond anything we've ever faced. He takes on the truly big questions. To answer pivotal questions, Kelly draws on breakthrough 'scenario planning' techniques he pioneered: techniques hundreds of top organizations now rely on. Simply put, this book will help you prepare for humanity's most profound transition in 400 years.  For every executive, strategist, manager, entrepreneur, public policymaker, and citizen interested in the trends that will most powerfully impact business and life in the coming decades.

Eamonn Kelly, the CEO and president of Global Business Network, the renowned future-oriented network and consulting firm, has for over a decade and has been at the forefront of exploring the emergence of a new, knowledge-intensive economy, and its far-reaching consequences for society, organizations and individuals. He has consulted with senior executives at dozens of the world's leading corporations in virtually every leading business sector; with key global and national public agencies, and with major philanthropic foundations. Kelly co-authored What's Next: Exploring the New Terrain for Business and The Future of the Knowledge Economy, and authored GBN's 2003 Scenario Book.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Eamonn Kelly is CEO and president of Global Business Network, the renowned future-oriented network and consulting firm. For over a decade, he has been at the forefront of exploring the emergence of a new, knowledgeintensive economy, and its far-reaching consequences for society, organizations and individuals. He has consulted with senior executives at dozens of the world's leading corporations in virtually every leading business sector; with key global and national public agencies, and with major philanthropic foundations. Kelly co-authored What's Next: Exploring the New Terrain for Business and The Future of the Knowledge Economy, and authored GBN's 2003 Scenario Book

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0131366246
• ISBN 13: 9780131366244
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 368