Futurist Life: Take Hold of Your Future

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Over 12 million different people have visited these Futurist pages, with 2.7 million views of videos, and 100s of presentations on future trends by Patrick Dixon, Chairman of Global Change Ltd. He has been ranked one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers50 2005), and is author of 14 books including Futurewise, Building a Better Businesss and Sustainagility. News of NEW VIDEOS AND ARTICLES:  join 30,000 followers of Patrick Dixon on Twitter - he will follow YOU and answers most posts, see @patrickdixon conversation.

 

SustainAgility book: innovation to protect future

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You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube videoSustainagility is about how smart innovation and agile business will help protect the world, in practical ways and at affordable cost.  Title of new book by Patrick Dixon and Johan Gorecki.  The $40 trillion green technology boom:  winners and losers in the race to develop new greener products and services.  Sustainagility covers the future of energy, manufacturing, cities, transport, food, forests, water.  Sustainagility describes major consumer and lifestyle shifts which will dominate the next 30 years.

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Future of Fund Management and Banks

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You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube videoUrgent ethical questions. Over the last decade I have lectured to thousands of fund managers from many different institutions including banks, responsible for hundreds of billions of actively managed investments, mainly entrusted to them by pension funds.  The global economic crisis highlighted a number of fundamental problems within the industry, that had been there for many years, and remain unresolved.  Issues such as over-charging, low performance, lack of confidence of fund managers in their own funds.  Restoring trust has to be an urgent major priority. Without it, the industry as it is cannot survive.  Wat ch keynote at Mercer client event.

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Leadership, Motivation, Great Corporate Events

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You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube videoWhat would you say to 4,500 event organisers in Las Vegas?  Most conference formats stuck in a late-twentieth century time-warp.  Little has changed in the last 10 years - but delegates have shorter attention span and hate boredom. Corporate events can be powerful drivers of business success - but often waste huge amounts of time and energy. So what does a great conference look like, in a world of intense time-pressure, online communities and networks, where attention span is a few seconds and multi-tasking in meetings is normal?

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Work-Life Balance: Workplace Survival

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You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube videoWhy is it that work-life balance is so often talked about, and so little shown?  Work-life balance is the key to developing high-performance teams. Keynote to European Commission.  I have spoken to audiences in over 50 nations about these and other issues, and wherever I go in industrialised nations, people talk about getting a better balance – especially women. Surveys show that work-life balance is number one or two priority for those leaving business schools. In a recent UK survey, 6 out of 10 of 25-35 year olds said they were looking for a higher purpose at work.  The more passionate people are about the work they do, the less they complain about work-life balance.

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Future of Marketing - Marketing Videos

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You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The future of marketing - watch videos on online communities, mobile apps, direct mail, network marketing, email, strategies, ideas, relationship marketing, campaign slogans, market research, selling to consumers, consumer trends - four videos. Using online communities in marketing. How to build strong brands, trust and loyal customers. 10 steps to a stronger Marketing Plan. Why traditional advertising is dying - impact of new digital channels. Many other marketing videos to watch on YouTube - 2 million video views.

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