The Five Literacies of Global Leadership

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,...

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...

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...

Power Shifts

December 27, 2016No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Knowledge & Intelligence, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Science, Society, State of the World, Sustainability & Ecology, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear - Antonio Gramsci Scary Stuff Recent events can seem scary, vapid, or...

Hail Caesar!

December 5, 2016No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Leadership, Learning, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

This is the third essay in a series critiquing one of society’s most venerated idees fixes – one that not only makes possible the preservation of an explicitly bankrupt notion of leading as a dualistic concept, most obviously exemplified in...

Leading Somewhere

November 24, 2016No CommentsFutures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Leadership, Learning, Society, Strategic Innovation, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

Leading Somewhere All around the world people cry out for leadership. The question on everyone’s lips is, Where are today’s leaders? I can tell you. They are trapped in prisons of our own invention, snared by obsolete beliefs underpinning a...

Leading Nowhere

November 17, 2016No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Governance, Knowledge & Intelligence, Leadership, Learning, Society, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

Leadership isn’t what it used to be. I realise this sounds like the opening line from a Monty Python comedy sketch. Only its not funny! We need look no further than the UK’s Brexit muddle, post-election rifts in the US,...

Tag: The Five Literacies of Global Leadership

The Real Problem

Ship of Fools

A Time to Choose

Pax Americana

More Misleading Mischief

Five Departures in Search of a Destination

Power Shifts

Hail Caesar!

Leading Somewhere

Leading Nowhere

RICHARD DAVID HAMES