Current Affairs | Richard David Hames

The Phantom Menace

March 17, 2018No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Knowledge & Intelligence, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World

The world turns on its dark side. The fabric of society is shredding. Many of our most life-critical systems no longer work. A few have already collapsed. No, this is not about Star Wars, nor am I referring to Geostorm,...

The Sociopathic Condition We Still Call Leadership

March 11, 2018No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Knowledge & Intelligence, Leadership, Politics & Economics, Society, State of the World

Several years ago, Manfred Kets de Vries, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organisational Change at INSEAD, a psychoanalyst by profession and a scholar I greatly admired, suggested that a majority of leaders he had encountered exhibit some kind...

Separation

February 10, 2018No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Learning, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, Technology, Wisdom

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe. Edmund Burke Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Nikola Tesla The Simpleton’s Solution The British colonial...

The Real Problem

September 29, 2017No CommentsBiography & Meaning, Current Affairs, Futures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Knowledge & Intelligence, Leadership, Learning, Politics & Economics, Religion, Scenarios, Science, Society, State of the World, Strategic Innovation, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

Ten years ago, when I wrote my third book, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, I saw my primary task as helping to shift our thinking about leaders and leading away from the customary notion of individuals with inspiring visions...

Ship of Fools

April 11, 2017No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Ideas & Memes, Knowledge & Intelligence, Politics & Economics, Society, State of the World, Strategic Innovation, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

Espousing substantive change, without making any adjustments to the underlying structure of the system, is the errand of a fool ~ Burying the 20th Century The past week has seen a confusing and increasingly confused scenario unfold in Syria. On-the-ground,...

Reframing the Human Canon

March 19, 2017No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Ideas & Memes, Knowledge & Intelligence, Learning, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, Sustainability & Ecology, Wisdom

Most readers are aware of my abiding concern that along with everything we have gained from our innate capacity for invention – the economic and material benefits - we have lost sight of what it really means to be human....

The Victim, the Quisling, and the Wayfinder

March 17, 2017No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Ideas & Memes, Knowledge & Intelligence, Leadership, Politics & Economics, Satire, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, Wisdom

If your penchant is to understand humanity there is plenty to be distracted by these days. We are all getting worked up into a dither of indignation and disquiet about what appears to be occurring in every corner of the...

A Time to Choose

March 6, 2017No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Knowledge & Intelligence, Learning, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

A Time to Choose On January 6th 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed the 77th US Congress with what has become known as The Four Freedoms speech. In those perilous days these four freedoms offered a vision for a much-improved...

Pax Americana

March 2, 2017No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Leadership, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

Departure today is from Gate 18 in Terminal 2 at Tullamarine Airport. I am just about to embark upon a 14 hour flight to the United States. This will be my first visit in five years. I have always tried...

The Preventers

February 19, 2017No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Learning, Management, Politics & Economics, Society

Over a lifetime of meeting people, facilitating search conferences, and curating conversations that matter, there is one human frailty I constantly encounter and that still irritates me. In an age when reciprocity creates value, cooperation is key to getting things...

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The Phantom Menace

The Sociopathic Condition We Still Call Leadership

Separation

The Real Problem

Ship of Fools

Reframing the Human Canon

The Victim, the Quisling, and the Wayfinder

A Time to Choose

Pax Americana

The Preventers

RICHARD DAVID HAMES