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Rick Smyre, president of Communities of the Future, descirbes a new kind of leadership that is emerging. Rick is a former CEO and he has often shared with me how difficult it was for him to change his thinking and move away from traditional, top-down leadership approaches.

Take a look at this quote from the Communities of the Future website (leadership page) and visit the links below to get an idea of how Rick sees leaders

I'm not convinced that there is much clarity on a Brand for Indiana of the Future. Not what industries will we be invovled in, but what will we be known for? What will people think when they think of Indiana? Today, in terms of how people in other regions or cities see Indiana, I think they see corn fields. But I don't beleive that statement is a bash on our capabilities, it is a reflection of our long-term vision.

You see, when people have a clear vision to move forward, and they orga

As the paper, Futuring - Part I, explains, the world is in exponential change, volatility and complexity at the same time major disciplines of thought are converging and technology is becoming mind-boggling.

In a world where people graduate from college already two years behind fast-moving knowledge advance and technology, how will we cope by continuing to rely on these traditional institutions?

Well, futuring in th

Here is a post from HyperAdvance covering a suprising List of Advances:

Some of the advances that are being made in a fairly quiet manner, are a bit of a mind blow when you look at them together as a list. I'll give you a small list here to give you an idea of what I'm talking about.

Keep in mind that these are all things that have already been done in the lab and some are in production.

In today's news, a fourteen year old boy injured dozens of people when he took over the controls of a polish railway system and was playing with live trains as if they were toys (article). Now, that's not the kind of thing you could have even imagined happening just ten years ago.

In another article