Open Heart: Open Mind

by Richard David Hames

Overview

Those men and women inhabiting the corridors of corporate and government power and who practise obsolete forms of leadership are bluffing. They cannot resolve the most critical issues of our time. If they could, they would have done so by now. This book is based on the premise that an organization’s ongoing success will be shaped by people exhibiting a very different suite of leadership competencies than prevail in most organizations today. Five Literacies leaders recognize that new ways of understanding, analyzing and responding to change is required in business, and that this also demands a different style of leadership. This style is characterized by a shift from short-term, anthropomorphic, narrowly economic and control-orientated thinking to a longer-term, systems-based, evolutionary perspective where humankind is but a part of the global ecosystem. The key to such leadership is reintegrating human knowledge, and posing sharper and more perceptive questions based on an appreciation of the interdependent, ever-shifting dynamic between issues (content) and the framework in which those things interact (context). Open Heart - Open Mind is a primer for business executives who want to access and practice Five Literacies leadership in their own organizations.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044222359
Publisher:	Richard David Hames
Publication date:	12/07/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	451 KB

About the Author

Dr Richard Hames is an Australian citizen, born and educated in Europe, now resident in Asia.

Recently described as one of this century’s most insightful philosopher-activists, and by Forbes Asia as one of the smartest people on the planet, Richard is considered to be among the world’s most influential intellectuals and strategic knowledge designers.

Richard is the Executive Director of the Centre for the Future, Executive Chairman of The Hames Group, and President of the Asian Foresight Institute. Richard works internationally as an adviser to governments and with many of the world’s most innovative and entrepreneurial business corporations. Richard has been a personal mentor to heads of state, government ministers and company directors across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and South America and is also known as one of the world's most accurate futurists.

A celebrated speaker and writer, Richard is the author of several best-selling books including The Management Myth; Burying the 20th Century and The Five Literacies of Global Leadership. He is currently working on two new books, The Expanded Now and Dancing with the Future. Both are concerned with the development of a new humanitarian cosmology and societal paradigms from advanced levels of collective consciousness.