Nobody can predict the future, but you still have to make sense of it to be successful. Leaders are facing a world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity--a world laced with dilemmas. It shows how to sense the future to provoke new ways of understanding the present. Institute for the Future's Distinguished Fellow Bob Johansen uses 35 years of 10-year forecasting to unpack complex…
"Finally a manifesto for management that makes sense of the past and takes us beyond the millennium" – Anita Roddick, founder and chief executive of the Body Shop Gives you a vision of the future, outlining the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. It will provide you with the new skills that you will need to be ahead of the crowd in the 21st century. Author : Tom Cannon is ch…
Strategic Management delivers an insightful, clear, concise introduction to strategy management concepts and links these concepts to the skills and knowledge students need to be successful in the professional world. Written in an accessible Harvard Business Review style with lots of practical examples and strategy tools, the book engages students with an easy-to-understand learning experienc…
China is the world's third largest economy and America's biggest trading partner in Asia. The path China takes over the coming decades will have a profound impact on business and the economy all around the world. The authors of this book are neither futurists nor experts on China, but practitioners of the art of scenario planning. In this book, Ogilvy and Schwartz draw on a range of studies co…
Business strategist and futurist Knoke maps out how wealth will be created, corporations will be organized, personal lives will change, and society will govern itself in the evolving "placeless society" he envisions. Lacks a bibliography and an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)