Wisdom | Richard David Hames

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tag: Wisdom

Separation

The Real Problem

Abandoning Progress: The Emergent Worldview

Ship of Fools

Reframing the Human Canon

The Victim, the Quisling, and the Wayfinder

A Time to Choose

Pax Americana

Architectures of Suppression

Blind Alleys & Alternative Tracks

RICHARD DAVID HAMES