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Richard Neville has been involved with challenging and changing the ways we think, ever since his student days in the sixties, when he published and edited the magazine, Oz. It landed him in jail and gave Australia its nickname.
Since that time, he has regularly hit the headlines as a social commentator and best selling author, with subjects from sex, drugs and serial killers, to the rise of computers, the re-invention of work and the new role for business in the 21st Century.
How can you plan ahead when the ground rules tremble beneath your feet and the map is obsolete? While the future can often take us by surprise, it can also leave its signposts. Getting a feeling for what?s coming down the line is not as hard as it seems, even though the clues are often resisted. Eventually, even Macdonald?s adapted its menu to suit the shift in Australia?s dietary tastes.
While the road ahead is paved with perils and promise, we can often spot the driving forces of change and acquire the habit of ?living in three times zones? ? then, now, tomorrow. What are the driving forces of change? Where are the weak signals? How can we develop a set of mind-skills for an age of collaboration and creativity?
As a principal of the Neville Freeman Agency, he now helps management to create tools and techniques for decoding the future. He urges people to leapfrog time by tilting up their beams of foresight, to be pro-active, and to avoid becoming the victim of someone else's agenda.
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