Who better to help us foresee how emerging trends will help shape the agenda for business in the first decade of the twenty-first century than Global Business Network, the renowned futurist think tank and strategic consulting firm, where some of the greatest minds from these fields converge and converse? In What's Next?, GBN's President, Eamonn Kelly, and its "knowledge developer," Peter Leyden, weave together fresh, new insights from expansive interviews with many of the Network's key thinkers, including: Stewart Brand on civilization, Mary Catherine Bateson on cultural change, Paul Hawken on the anti-globalization movement, Esther Dyson on Russia, Kevin Kelly on thinking globally, and Francis Fukuyama on biotechnology. The result is a thought-provoking, and inspiring guide to the ideas, concepts, and forces that will influence business in an era of increasing uncertainty-and opportunity.Visit the GBN website at www.gbn.org.
Eamonn Kelly is CEO and president of Global Business Network, a member of the Monitor Group, and has been central to sustaining the company's thought leadership about the future. He also heads GBN's consulting practice, and has worked at senior levels with dozens of the world's leading corporations in many sectors, as well as with global and national public agencies. He was previously head of strategy for Scottish Enterprise, one of the world's most respected and innovative development agencies. He lives in San Rafael, CA. Peter Leyden is Global Business Network's Knowledge Developer, responsible for helping identify and share the best ideas of the network. Coauthor of The Long Boom, former managing editor of Wired magazine, and special correspondent in Asia for Newsweek, he previously worked as a journalist, writing and speaking about technology, economic change, and the future. He lives in Berkeley, California.