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Bonfiglio reviews . . .
Rethinking the Future: A Collection of Essays
(edited by Rowan Gibson) Below are excerpts from essays in this collection that capture the flavor of the message of this book. The essays make for truly interesting reading because they are
written by such agile and incisive minds.
"We are living in very confused times, because many of the things that gave structure to our lives are
disappearing. Institutions which we relied on, particularly the work organization, are no longer so sure or so certain....[However], the great excitement of the future is that we can shape it."
Charles Handy
Professor of Management
London Business School
"The point is you can replicate quality anywhere in the
world. So the competitive differentiation comes from swiftness to market and innovation. And, in that regard, small companies, right down to the individual, can beat big bureaucratic companies ten out of ten
times. Therefore, unless the big companies reconstitute themselves as a collection of small companies, they will just continue to go out of business."
"Personally, I think that the new political leader will not be unlike the new leader in business...[who] are facilitators. They facilitate the entrepreneurism and that's really important."
John Naisbitt
World's Leading Trend Forecaster
"The dominant competitive weapon of the twenty-first
century will be the education and skills of the workforce. In other words, we know the forces that are going to determine the future of capitalism. But what we don't know is the exact shape of the future,
because that's not determined by the stars; it's determined by what we do."Lester Thurow
Professor of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"You cannot create the future using the old strategy tools. Whatever you need to know to create the future you can know. The goal is to try to imagine a future
that is plausible—the future you can create."Gary Hammel
Chairman & Consultant
Strategos |
Bonfiglio Brief:"These essays make for truly interesting reading because they are written by such agile and
incisive minds." |
