The Hames Report

From a global perspective there are any number of co-evolutionary patterns that have been remodeling society culturally, geopolitically and economically, over several centuries. All have profound implications for society, especially in their current trajectories. But one stands out as the...

The history of our civilization is littered with wars, bloodshed and genocide. Conflict is deeply ingrained within our culture. So too is intolerance, repression and violence. We fight each other at the slightest provocation in the name of religion, race,...

Economists and bankers one day; university vice-chancellors the next! Life is never dull in the world of corporate philosophy. Especially when traditional belief systems deserve a good shake up. Universities have endured for centuries. Why should they need to change...

Recently I was sitting down to lunch with an eminent group of people from the financial services sector in New York. Those present, who had come to hear me talk about the future of the global economy, were chief financial...

Water is running out! So warned United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos where he told delegates that actions to prevent discord over water shortages would need to be at the very top of...

Since last year’s publication of The Five Literacies of Global Leadership I am often asked for examples of leaders who practice the five literacies. I confess to treating such requests with disinterest, even disdain. In truth there is probably an...

1. Predictions-R-Us! Predictions. Forecasts - especially highly contentious ones. That’s what people want (indeed what they expect) from one so branded. What are the omens? Tell us what the future will be, they ask. Which trends are important? Which merely...

I started work as a corporate strategist in the late 1980s. For anyone with half a brain (the left half mind you - no creativity was expected) life was a cinch. For some decades the standard business proposition had been...

In 19th century Europe there was a unitary sense of self. Most people held a clear image of themselves, of their relative place in society and of the future. Over time we came to experience this concept of self as...

By the latter years of the 20th century most of us had become accomplices in a silent conspiracy – that of sustaining the debilitating impact of empirical authority over our commercial, governmental, welfare and educational enterprises. We did this simply...