Ready for Anything: Designing Resilience for a Transforming World

Tony Hodgson's new book - Ready for Anything - offers a clear and honest look at the state of the world today. It introduces The World System Model as a new and holistic way to gain an understanding of our particular predicament - and The IFF World Game as a quick and effective way of involving others in the exercise. It goes on to examine the kind of resilient and adaptive solutions that can be most helpful to us - whether they are applied at the level of the school, the city or the Earth. Since so many of us (both human and other beings) have to live on this planet together, it sets out our best hope yet of finding sustainable ways of 'one-planet living'. Best of all, it helps ensure that we keep our heads out of the sand.

Tony Hodgson's career-long consulting experience spans the public, private and voluntary sectors internationally: from Hewlett Packard and Statoil to the National Health Service. He has taught on the Executive MBA at The London Business School and helped facilitate the foundation of SOL International (the Society for Organizational Learning). He is also a founder member of International Futures Forum (where he is World Modelling Research Coordinator) and is researching new ways of thinking about the future and acting in the present at the Centre for Systems Studies in the University of Hull