| Catalyzing the Second Renaissance - Chapter 1 - A decade ago Dr Robin Wood wrote the award winning book, “Managing Complexity”, which asked the question: “What kinds of organizations will survive and thrive in the hyper-complex world of a globalizing digital economy?” He also predicted the possibility of a second Renaissance emerging from technological breakthroughs and social innovation arising in the shift from managerial to collaborative capitalism.
Today, he trains his evolutionary lenses on a much bigger question: “What kinds of lifestyles, organizations and societies will survive and thrive in the chaotic conditions of the shift from a fragmented world driven by fossil fuels and materialism, to a global civilization powered by the sun and social innovation empowered by conscious evolution?”
In his groundbreaking new book: “The Great Shift- Catalyzing the Second Renaissance”, Dr Wood outlines a pragmatic vision of a resilient, renewable global economy together with a thriving global civilization, while also providing us with pathways to making this a reality at personal, organizational and social levels. It offers the first ever world-centric, integral synthesis of what individuals, organizations and governments can and should be doing to ensure we bequeath a thriving world to future generations. |
