How to Thrive in the Next Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Thrive in the Next Economy write by John Thackara. This book was released on 2016-02-02. How to Thrive in the Next Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A visionary yet practical guide to building a more sustainable future, by one of the most important voices in environmentally aware design Are there practical solutions to the many global challenges—climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare—that threaten our way of life? Author John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs. In this clear-eyed but ultimately optimistic book, he argues that, in our eagerness to find big technological solutions, we have all too often ignored the astonishing creativity generated when people work together and in harmony with the world around them. Drawing on an inspiring range of examples, from a temple-led water management system in Bali that dates back hundreds of years to an innovative e-bike collective in Vienna, Thackara shows that below the radar of the mainstream media there are global communities creating a replacement economy—one that nurtures the earth and its inhabitants rather than jeopardizing its future—from the ground up. Each chapter is devoted to a concern all humans share—land and water management, housing, what we eat, what we wear, our health, how and why we travel—and demonstrates that it is possible to live a rich and fulfilling life based on stewardship rather than exploitation of the natural environment.
Quantified
Quantified - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quantified write by Joe Whitworth. This book was released on 2015-09-08. Quantified available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Quantified, Whitworth draws lessons from the world's most tech-savvy, high-impact organizations to show how we can make real gains for the environment. The principles of his approach, dubbed quantified conservation, will be familiar to any thriving entrepreneur: situational awareness, bold outcomes, innovation and technology, data and analytics, and gain-focused investment. As President of The Freshwater Trust, Whitworth has put quantified conservation into practice, pioneering the model of a "do-tank" that is dramatically changing how rivers can get restored across the United States. The stories in Quantified highlight the most precious of resources--water--but they apply to any environmental effort. Whether in the realm of policy, agriculture, business, or philanthropy, Whitworth is charting a new course for conservation.
Mutualism
Mutualism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mutualism write by Sara Horowitz. This book was released on 2021-02-16. Mutualism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A profound look at the crisis of work and the collapse of the safety net, and a vision for a better way forward, rooted in America’s cooperative spirit, from the founder of the Freelancers Union “Read this essential book to see how we can and must build the future.”—Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Linkedin Mutualism: It’s not capitalism and it’s not socialism. It’s the future. The twentieth century changed every facet of life for American workers: how much they could expect to earn and what they had the right to demand. But by 2027, a majority of Americans—from low-wage service workers to white-collar professionals—won’t be traditional employees. Benefits like paid sick leave, pensions, 401(k)s, disability insurance, and health care will be nearly extinct. To meet the needs of this new generation of workers, the government has done almost nothing. In this book, labor lawyer, former chair of the board of the New York Federal Reserve, and MacArthur “genius” Sara Horowitz brings us a solution to the current crisis of work that’s rooted in the best of American traditions, which she calls mutualism. Horowitz shows how the future of our economic safety net rests on this approach and demonstrates how mutualist organizations have helped us solve common problems in the past and are now quietly driving rural and urban economies alike all over the world, inspired not by for-profit corporations but by labor unions and trade associations, religious organizations and mutual aid societies, and vital social movements from women’s suffrage to civil rights. Mutualism is for anyone who feels that the system is not working for them, and is looking for a new way to build collaboratively, create the new American social contract, and prosper in the twenty-first century.
Building the New Economy
Building the New Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building the New Economy write by Alex Pentland. This book was released on 2021-10-12. Building the New Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How to empower people and communities with user-centric data ownership, transparent and accountable algorithms, and secure digital transaction systems. Data is now central to the economy, government, and health systems—so why are data and the AI systems that interpret the data in the hands of so few people? Building the New Economy calls for us to reinvent the ways that data and artificial intelligence are used in civic and government systems. Arguing that we need to think about data as a new type of capital, the authors show that the use of data trusts and distributed ledgers can empower people and communities with user-centric data ownership, transparent and accountable algorithms, machine learning fairness principles and methodologies, and secure digital transaction systems. It’s well known that social media generate disinformation and that mobile phone tracking apps threaten privacy. But these same technologies may also enable the creation of more agile systems in which power and decision-making are distributed among stakeholders rather than concentrated in a few hands. Offering both big ideas and detailed blueprints, the authors describe such key building blocks as data cooperatives, tokenized funding mechanisms, and tradecoin architecture. They also discuss technical issues, including how to build an ecosystem of trusted data, the implementation of digital currencies, and interoperability, and consider the evolution of computational law systems.
Strategic Thinking for the Next Economy
Strategic Thinking for the Next Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strategic Thinking for the Next Economy write by Michael Cusumano. This book was released on 2001-05-24. Strategic Thinking for the Next Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the acclaimed MIT Sloan Management Review comes a compendium of cutting-edge thinking about corporate strategy. Focusing on strategic imperatives of the new economy, leading thinkers in the field present their views in four general areas: strategy and value creation; flexibility in a volatile world; strategy making in uncertain times; and strategies for growth in fast-paced markets. Strategic Thinking for the New Economy shows that designing a successful strategy is a never-ending quest-and that effective strategic thinking is a process of continuously asking questions and thinking through issues in a creative way. The book's expert contributions include: * Sumantra Ghoshal, Christopher A. Bartlett, and Peter Moran on managers creating values * Henry Mintzberg and Joseph Lampel on the history of the strategy process * Arnoldo C. Hax and Dean L. Wilde II on adaptive management * Kathleen M. Eisenhardt on strategic decision making * Richard T. Pascale on treating organizations as complex adaptive systems * Eric D. Beinhocker on lessons learned from complexity theory and evolution * Peter J. Williamson on creating a portfolio of options for the future * Gary Hamel on strategy innovation and the quest for value * W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne on expanding markets * Constantinos C. Markides on dynamic strategy * C. K. Prahalad and Jan P. Oosterveld on transforming internal governance * Georg von Krogh and Michael A. Cusumano on managing for fast growth The Editors Michael A. Cusumano is the Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a noted competitive strategy specialist. Constantinos C. Markides is professor of strategic and international management and chairman of the strategy department at the London Business School.
