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Cloning of Mouse - Frozen for 16 years
Futurist Topics - Cloning
Mice have been successfully cloned from another mouse which died 16 years ago, whose intact body was frozen at minus 20 degrees centigrade (1st November 2008). The Japanese research raises questions about whether extinct animals could be cloned from bodies preserved in permafrost, or indeed if a dead person could be "recovered", cloned as a time-warp identical baby twin made from tissue frozen at or before death. Cloning presents huge practical and ethical issues - with major risks to the health of cloned animals (or humans).
Leadership, Motivation, Great Corporate Events
Dr Patrick Dixon - Lectures
Why most conference formats are still stuck in a late-twentieth century time-warp. What has really changed in the last 15 years apart from Powerpoint replacing 35mm slides - and a few more videos? Corporate events can be the most powerful and time-effective drivers of business success - but can also be the greatest wasters of time and energy. So what does a third millennial corporate conferencing industry look like, in a world increasingly driven by time-pressures, online communities and networks, where attentions span is measured in seconds and multi-tasking in meetings is normal?
SustainAgility - innovation to protect our future
Futurist Topics - Environment
Sustainagility 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
Futurist Topics - Banking
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Urgent 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.
Work-Life Balance: Workplace Survival
Futurist Topics - Management
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Why 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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