The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time Fisher Richard
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time Fisher Richard A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.Humans are unique in our…
Specifikacia The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time Fisher Richard
The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time Fisher Richard
A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.Humans are unique in our ability to understand time, able to comprehend the past and future like no other species. In medieval times, craftsmen worked on cathedrals that would be unfinished in their lifetime. Yet modern-day technology and capitalism have supercharged our short-termist tendencies and trapped us in the present, at the mercy of reactive politics, quarterly business targets and 24-hour news cycles.It wasn't always so.
And in the early twentieth century, writers dreamed of worlds thousands of years hence. Indigenous leaders fostered intergenerational reciprocity. Now, as we face long-term challenges on an unprecedented scale, how do we recapture that far-sighted vision?Richard Fisher takes us from the boardrooms of Japan - home to some of the world's oldest businesses -
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