Creating Better Futures Scenario Planning As a Tool for a Better Tomorrow

Name: Creating Better Futures Scenario Planning As a Tool for a Better Tomorrow
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ISBN: 9780195146110

ISBN-10: 0195146115

ISBN-13: 9780195146110

Edition: 2002

Authors: James A. Ogilvy, Peter Scwartz

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As a founder and managing director of Global Business Network, James Ogilvy helped develop the technique of scenario planning, which has become an integral part of strategic thinking in both business and government. Now Ogilvy shows how we can use this cutting-edge method for social change in our own neighborhoods. In Building Better Futures, Ogilvy presents a profound new vision of how the world is changing--and how it can be changed for the better. Ogilvy argues that self-defined communities, rather than individuals or governments, have become the primary agents for social change. Towns, professional associations, and interest groups of all kinds help shape the future in all the ways that…

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List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/11/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 9.29" wide x 5.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



Aiming Higher



New Game



Religious, Political, and Economic Passions



The Limits of the Marketplace



Rethinking Representative Government



New Players



Beyond Individualism and Collectivism



Social Forces and Creativity



New Lenses



From Worldviews to Better Worlds



The Features of the Relational Worldview



New Rules, New Tools



Facts, Values, and Scenario Planning



Scenario Planning: A Tool for Social Creativity



Scenario Planning in Action



Better Education



Better Health Care



Cadenza: Earth Might Be Fair


Notes


Index