Governance | Richard David Hames

Five Ways to Prepare for the Plague

April 1, 2018No CommentsGovernance, Leadership, Politics & Economics, Scenarios

The fear we all harbour when we are old enough to understand our own mortality is an open secret. It is the suddenness with which disease can strike us down, and the terrible ways it ravages the body. Cancer has...

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...

Different from the Present

July 27, 2017No CommentsFutures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Knowledge & Intelligence, Leadership, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World

Art is thought from the future. Thought we cannot explicitly think at present. Thought we may not think or speak at all. If we want thought different from the present, then thought must veer toward art - Timothy Morton Not tomorrow....

Abandoning Progress: The Emergent Worldview

June 29, 2017No CommentsFutures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Knowledge & Intelligence, Leadership, Learning, Religion, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, Wisdom

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions yet without becoming disillusioned - Antonio Gramsci Cracks in the Glass Human societies have always relied upon stories to light their way. In each civilisation, the prevailing narrative serves to unite people...

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...

Architectures of Suppression

February 6, 2017No CommentsFutures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, Wisdom

The state was a European invention. Initially nothing more than a convenient juridical phenomenon, it supplanted various multi-ethnic empires that stretched across much of the world and destabilised the doctrine of the divine right of monarchs to rule by arguing...

Tag: Governance

Five Ways to Prepare for the Plague

The Sociopathic Condition We Still Call Leadership

Separation

The Real Problem

Different from the Present

Abandoning Progress: The Emergent Worldview

A Time to Choose

Pax Americana

The Preventers

Architectures of Suppression

RICHARD DAVID HAMES