The Community of the Future (Drucker Foundation Future Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787910066 ISBN 13: 9780787910068

Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 1998

Synopsis

"This book of essays is full of rampant idealism. Its authors--educators, think-tankers, corporate executives, consultants, book authors, nonprofit association executives, and a German politician--share a desire to better the world through their ideas and actions. Many qualify as do-gooders in the best sense of the phrase."
--Christian Science Monitor

This third volume from the acclaimed Drucker Foundation Future Series focuses on the basis of society itself--the community. Featuring the examples of successful communities from New York City to Hawaii, The Community of the Future presents insights from Peter F. Drucker, Stephen R. Covey, Arun Gandhi, Elie Wiesel, James L. Barksdale, and many others. Their powerful essays explore what our communities will look like tomorrow--how we will live, work, communicate, educate our children, and govern ourselves.

This collection shows readers:
* How to recognize and anticipate the trends that transform society
* The impact of new communications technology, including global and virtual communications
* How to create organizational communities and communities in the workplace
* How to envision and shape communities that will build values and embrace humanity

From businesses, to communities of faith, to schools, to cyberspace--the gamut of human communities is explored by the world's foremost thinkers.

About this title

From the Back Cover

In The Leader of the Future, the Drucker Foundation offered insights into the future of leadership. In The Organization of the Future, contributors described the future of human enterprise everywhere-in government, business, and society. Now, in the much-anticipated third title in The Drucker Foundation Future Series, leaders from all sectors focus on the basis of society itself-the community.

The Community of the Future brings together such leading thinkers as James L. Barksdale, Stephen R. Covey, Arun Gandhi, Margaret J. Wheatley, Elie Wiesel, and many others to provide insight into the powerful notion of community. Their new, never-before-published essays explore what is important about our communities today and how they will look tomorrow-how we will live, work, communicate, and govern ourselves. This collection from the world's top thinkers shows us the challenges we face in building the communities of the future and what we can do today to prepare.

The contributors to The Community of the Future show
· How to recognize and anticipate the trends shaping the evolution of society
· The impact of new communications technology, including global communications and virtual communications
· How to create organizational communities and communities in the workplace
· Ways to strengthen the social fabric to build successful communities
· How to anticipate and shape the community of the future

From businesses, to communities of faith, to schools, to cyberspace-the gamut of human communities is explored by this group of forward thinkers. They speculate on the shape of changes coming in the new millennium.

[back jacket]

[head]The Drucker Foundation Future Series
[subhead]Over 300,000 copies in print worldwide
Sold around the world,The Drucker Foundation Future Series features the latest and best thinking on the future of leadership, organization, change, innovation and community life.

[ital]THE LEADER OF THE FUTURE
Over 100,000 sold
*Business Week best-seller *Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Executive Program Book Club * Voted One of the 30 best business books for 1996 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries *Translated into 12 languages

[ital]THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FUTURE
Experts tell you how to prepare today for the organization of tomorrow.

[ital]THE COMMUNITY OF THE FUTURE
Leaders from around the world share their vision of what our communities will look like in the future. Writing exclusively for this book, the authors include:

Peter F. Drucker
Margaret J. Wheatley
Myron Kellner-Rogers
Lester C. Thurow
Rita Süssmuth
Robert Buford
Stephen R. Covey
Claire Gaudiani
R. Roosevelt Thomas. Jr.
Arun Gandhi
James L. Barksdale
Marshall Goldsmith
Howard Rheingold
Gifford Pinchot
James L. Heskett
Dave Ulrich
Maria Livanos Cattaui
Frances Hesselbein
Noel M. Tichy
Andrew R. McGill
Lynda St. Clair
Bobby William Austin
Andrew J. Young
Hugh B. Price
Raul Yzaguirre
Suzanne W. Morse
Richard F. Schubert
Rick Little
Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika
James Augusto Zobel de Ayala II
Elie Wiesel
[Drucker Foundation Future Series logo with web page and address]
ISBN: 0-7879-1006-6

About the Author

FRANCES HESSELBEIN is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and editor-in-chief of Leader to Leader. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1998. MARSHALL GOLDSMITH has been rated by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top ten consultants in executive development. RICHARD BECKHARD is a former professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT and author of six books, is an organization development consultant. RICHARD F. SCHUBERT is chairman of the board of the International Youth Foundation, chairman of the Drucker Foundation, and president emeritus of the Points of Light Foundation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0787910066
• ISBN 13: 9780787910068
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 285
• Editor: Hesselbein Frances, Goldsmith Marshall, Schubert Richard F.