The Community of the future / Frances Hesselbein, ... [et al.], editors.
Contributors: Hesselbein, Frances.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Drucker Foundation future series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1998
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Community.; Community life.; Forecasting.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The paradox and promise of community / Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron Kellner-Rogers; title: Economic community and social investment / Lester C. Thurow; title: The future-capability of society / Rita Süssmuth; title: How boomers, churches, and entrepreneurs can transform society / Bob Buford; title: The ideal community / Stephen R. Covey; title: Wisdom as capital in prosperous communities / Claire L. Gaudiani; title: Diversity in community / Roosevelt Thomas; title: Lessons from Sevagram Ashram / Arun Gandhi; title: Communications technology in dynamic organizational communities / James L. Barksdale; title: Global communications and communities of choice / Marshall Goldsmith; title: Virtual communities / Howard Rheingold; title: Building community in the workplace / Gifford Pinchot; title: Managing for results in the community of the future / James L. Heskett; title: Six practices for creating organizational communities / Dave Ulrich; title: Opportunities in the global economy / Maria Livanos Cattaui; title: The dream that lies before us / Frances Hesselbein; title: High-tech inner city community development / Noel M. Tichy, Andrew R. McGill, Lynda St. Clair; title: Twenty-first-century leadership in the African American community / Bobby William Austin and Andrew J. Young; title: Gaining equal access to economic power / Hugh B. Price; title: The new American identity / Raul Yzaguirre; title: Five building blocks for successful communities / Suzanne W. Morse; title: Our children are the community of the future / Richard F. Schubert and Rick R. Little; title: Community in the Third and Fourth worlds / Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika; title: Anticipating the community of the future / Jaime A. Zobel de Ayala.