Many years ago, Albert Einstein taught us that you can't solve a problem using the same kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place. This book combines several approaches being used to describe today's global challenges into a broad but practical perspective on the future. It concludes that we must develop entirely new ways of thinking very soon if we want to pass on a high quality life to future generations.
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When I was first asked to chair a task force on the role of business in building a sustainable future, I took it on as a project to be managed. But when the task force adopted a 30 years in the future time horizon, I suddenly realized that my newly born grandson would be just reaching the prime of his life at the time we were talking about. I immediately became much more passionate about the work, and I hope that this passion shows in my writing of this book.
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John D. Adams, Ph.D., Author of Thinking Today as if Tomorrow Mattered, editor of Transforming Work and Transforming Leadership, and co-author of Life Changes, has been at the forefront of the Organization Development profession for more than 30 years. He was chair of the sustainable development task force at The World Business Academy and is the owner of Eartheart Enterprises, an international publishing, consulting, and speaking business.
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Consciousness is the key to sustainability,
By Janet L. Beazlie (Northern California, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Thinking Today as if Tomorrow Mattered: The Rise of a Sustainable Consciousness (Paperback)
In a day where we are flooded with sustainability books focused on technology, John Adams' book - Thinking Today As If Tomorrow Mattered: The Rise of a Sustainable Consciousness - charts a clear path from our unconscious destructive autopilot thinking to the new sustainable consciousness that can free us and save our world. Read this book!Janet Beazlie, Former Interim Executive Director of the World Business Academy, sustainability consultant, naturalist and environmentalist
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I would feel that Albert Einstein's statement that: 'We cannot expect to be able to resolve any complex problems from within the same state of consciousness that created them.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
autopilot mindset, sustainable consciousness, novelty management, habit management Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Questions For Contemplation And Dialogue, Cultural Creatives, The Natural Step, United States, Karl-Henrik Robčrt, New York, Life Management, Paul Ray, San Francisco Chronicle New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- In Our Face: Impolite Essays on Humanity's War Against Our Children and the Earth by John Enright on page 43, and Back Matter
- Leadership in a New Era by John Renesch on page 37, and Back Matter
- The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin on page 37, and Back Matter
- The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken on page 48, and Back Matter
- New Business of Business: Taking Responsibility for a Positive Global Future by Maya Porter on page 37, and Back Matter
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- Transforming Leadership, Second Edition by John D. Adams in Front Matter
- Transforming Work, Second Edition by John D. Adams in Front Matter
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