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Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World

Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:53:15 -0500

Location:
Cooley Godward, 3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA

Event Date:
Thu, 2006-01-26 18:00

In 2025, how will U.S. historians describe the importance of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003?

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:57:06 -0500

Powerful Times Issue 2: Three Scenarios For The Future

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:51:36 -0500

In this podcast Eamonn outlines three scenarios for the future; that is three plausible stories about how the future might unfold.

Focus 580 on WILL radio

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:21:45 -0500

Location:
Urbana, IL

Event Date:
Fri, 2005-12-16 09:00

Powerful Times Issue 1: China

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:59:26 -0400

In this first podcast in the Powerful Times series, Eamonn Kelly talks about the looming threats and promises posed by the rapid rise of China as a global power.

Applications

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:35:32 -0400

The frameworks presented in Powerful Times provide an ongoing lens for understanding timely trends and developments unfolding in the world around us. Through this online accompaniment, Eamonn Kelly offers his own reflections on the implications of these changes for business and society in this series of videos and podcasts. We also invite you to participate in the discussion through a series of Powerful Times Polls.

Key insights, including poll data and other commentary from Powerful Times website contributors along with information on upcoming events are captured in our monthly Powerful Times newsletters, which are also archived here.

In 2025, what will the global power structure look like?

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:13:09 -0400

Commonwealth Club

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:57:26 -0400

Location:
San Francisco, CA

Event Date:
Wed, 2006-01-11 18:00

World Affairs Council

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:55:37 -0400

Location:
San Francisco, CA

Event Date:
Tue, 2005-11-08 11:30

Book Launch Presentation

Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:53:06 -0400

Location:
San Francisco, CA

Event Date:
Mon, 2005-10-24 18:00

Purchasing Powerful Times

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:45:03 -0400

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Understand the most revolutionary human transformation in four centuries... and prepare for it!

We're not just living through an age of change: we're living through a 'change of age': the most profound inflection point in human history since the Enlightenment. That's the thesis of Eamonn Kelly's remarkable new book Powerful Times. From terrorism and nuclear proliferation to emerging technologies and economic globalization, Kelly weaves together 7 powerful 'dynamic tensions' that will reshape human life in the coming decades. Kelly offers breakthrough insights into how these tensions will conflict -- and how they'll resonate, creating giant waves of change beyond anything we've ever faced. He takes on the truly big questions. To answer pivotal questions, Kelly draws on breakthrough 'scenario planning' techniques he pioneered: techniques hundreds of top organizations now rely on. Simply put, this book will help you prepare for humanity's most profound transition in 400 years. For every executive, strategist, manager, entrepreneur, public policymaker, and citizen interested in the trends that will most powerfully impact business and life in the coming decades.

Eamonn Kelly, the CEO and president of Global Business Network, the renowned future-oriented network and consulting firm, has for over a decade and has been at the forefront of exploring the emergence of a new, knowledge-intensive economy, and its far-reaching consequences for society, organizations and individuals. He has consulted with senior executives at dozens of the world's leading corporations in virtually every leading business sector; with key global and national public agencies, and with major philanthropic foundations. Kelly co-authored What's Next: Exploring the New Terrain for Business and The Future of the Knowledge Economy, and authored GBN's 2003 Scenario Book.

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In what ways might you personally be affected by the emergence of a bigger and more global sense of "we"? How might you contribute?

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:26:47 -0400

What might accelerate the emergence of a global "we"?

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:26:21 -0400

How might purpose and participation be better deployed within your organization?

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:26:03 -0400

How well does your organization harness and align the powers and passions of its people?

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:25:46 -0400