The 21st Century is an exponential age, information is doubling ever faster: 4,000,000 years from Stone Age to Rome; 1,500 years to the Renaissance, 250 years to the age of reason, the rights of man, the French and American revolutions, 150 years to the Industrial Revolution ... And every doubling brings major social and economic turbulence and conflict.
Technology is the driver. By 1980 there were more computers on earth than people. Information now doubles every year. By 2012 it’s set to double daily.
How do we prepare people for jobs that don’t exist yet, using new technologies to solve problems we still don’t know about? By sharpening our creative thinking skills: adaptability, innovation, flexibility; using lateral-connective thinking to escape box and silo and turn adversity to advantage!
Meanwhile, schools, businesses, organizations must improve and prosper. So, how do we balance the needs for operational effectiveness and creative resilience? By ensuring that all we do serves both ends equally, until the two become symbiotic!
Strategic and operational development models are combined with tools of narrative, dialogue and visualization to help you frame and clarify the systems to generate that symbiosis.
