AUTHORS: Richard David Hames
Richard David Hames is a philosopher-activist, author, mentor and strategic foresight practitioner. Working at the interface between business enterprises, politics and society, he is among the world’s most influential public intellectuals – referred to by Forbes Asia as “one of the smartest people on the planet”.
Richard has been honoured with numerous awards including a French Government Scholarship, a Leverhulme European Fellowship, the Mondadori Professorial Fellowship and the inaugural Lord Attlee Fellowship. Founder of the Centre for the Future and currently Chairman of the Asian Foresight Institute, he has degrees in music, medicine and computer science. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science. Richard is best known for pioneering Deep Design – a ground-breaking regenerative approach to 3rd-order change based on the integral nature of complex living systems. He’s also admired for his passionate advocacy of real-time humanitarian models of governance. Richard’s methodologies, including Transformational Narrative, Systemic Acupuncture, and Strategic Navigation (the latter codesigned with behavioural modeler Marvin Oka), apply generative learning principles to the strategic management of organisations in dynamically complex environments. Richard was accurately predicting the impact of the climate crisis on business from as early as 1987. In 1998 he warned of the possibility of hijacked planes being flown into the World Trade Centre. In 2005 he described to a group of Wall Street bankers the patterns that would lead to a global financial crisis just three years later. He correctly anticipated the socio-political conditions that gave rise to the Arab Spring, and the rise of Donald Trump. He is currently talking about Chinese state capitalism, public surveillance, pre-crime policing, cybersecurity, threats to the European Union, unregulated development of artificial general intelligence, and the growing irrelevance of the Westphalian model of nation states. Based purely on performance Richard, an elder statesman in the field of foresight, is considered by his peers to be among the most erudite of futurists in the world today. Richard is author of the best-selling book, The Management Myth: Exploring the Essence of Future Organizations. His second book, Burying the 20th Century – New Paths to New Futures, was published in 1997. The Five Literacies of Global Leadership (2007) was the result of ten years of research and presents the source code for an entirely new philosophy of leadership independent of role or status. His most recent books include Open Mind – Open Heart; Heresies: Essays on the Future of Humanity; The Unacceptable Gift: Fourteen Insights into Societal Transformation, and Contagion: Living with and through the Plague - which is a collection of essays on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Richard's writings can also be found online at ‘The Hames Report Limited Edition’, published fortnightly on Substack, and ‘The Virtual Activist’, published daily on Patreon. He is now putting his experience to work in his legacy project, The Ecority Trust. www.richardhames.com |
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