New Next Now (Trends for July 2017)

New Next Now (Trends for July 2017)

Endgame for oil: A new trend? Since the dis­cov­ery of crude off Dubai’s coast in 1966, the once-sandy vil­lage has trans­formed into a resplen­dent cos­mopoli­tan oasis. Sci-fi sky­scrap­ers and ritzy beach­front hotels dom­i­nate the sky­line beneath the...
Are humans really necessary?

Are humans really necessary?

It was two days of great minds exchang­ing thoughts about sus­tain­able lead­er­ship, man­age­ment, inno­va­tion — and tech­nol­o­gy. It hap­pened in War­saw on 26 – 27 April, and I was both a keynote speak­er and one of 61 peo­ple on six pan­els dis­cussing...
Pareto On Steroids

Pareto On Steroids

Vilfre­do Fed­eri­co Dama­so Pare­to was born in Italy in 1848,” wrote Kevin Kruse (@Kruse) for @Forbes [link] about a year ago. And he does as good a job as any­one at sum­ming up why Pareto’s think­ing is remem­bered today. Leg­end has it that one day he...
Seven Great Quotes by Alvin Toffler

Seven Great Quotes by Alvin Toffler

Alvin Tof­fler was emi­nent­ly quotable because he was emi­nent­ly bril­liant. His lega­cy will be a long one [link]. “The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order,” was one Tof­fler line that has stuck with me. And his sen­ti­ment that “our moral...

Do you know what you’re doing?

Stop. Are you fully and totally conscious of what you are doing, feeling, sensing, thinking — right now? Mindfulness has been around for a long time, with the concept traced as far back as the Buddha. But sometimes old news is new again. Mindfulness is Kate...