January, 2017 | Richard David Hames

Blind Alleys & Alternative Tracks

January 25, 2017No CommentsCommunication, Futures, Ideas & Memes, Leadership, Philanthropy, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, Wisdom

THE HUMAN CONDITION What do you suppose uniquely characterises our species over all others? Our intelligence? Wisdom? Compassion? Our capacity to converse, invent, or to bring order where none previously existed? None of these? Looked at another way perhaps it...

More Misleading Mischief

January 23, 2017No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Knowledge & Intelligence, Leadership, Learning, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, Strategic Innovation, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

Where are today’s political leaders? Why are the current batch of leaders failing to lead? When will we get the kind of moral leadership we need? These are three of the most commonly posed questions about those in government who...

Five Departures in Search of a Destination

January 3, 2017No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Game Theory, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Knowledge & Intelligence, Leadership, Learning, Politics & Economics, Religion, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, Strategic Innovation, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

The label philosopher-activist, routinely used to help classify what I and others like me actually do for a living, connotes a bias for transforming pure thought – explicitly matters related to existence, reason and knowledge - into informed and, one...

Month: January 2017

Blind Alleys & Alternative Tracks

More Misleading Mischief

Five Departures in Search of a Destination

RICHARD DAVID HAMES