Richard Hames

Hames, Richard

Hames, Richard

Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science;
President, Asian Foresight Institute, Bangkok, Thailand
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Fellow, World Academy of Art and Science;
President, Asian Foresight Institute, Bangkok, Thailand

Dr Richard Hames is an Australian citizen, born and educated in Europe, now resident in Asia.
Richard has qualifications in music, medicine and computer science and was until recently Distinguished Professor of Strategic Foresight at Dhurakij Pundit University in Bangkok.

Founder and Executive Chairman of The Hames Group, President of the Asian Foresight Institute and founding CEO of a global change initiative called Wayfinder, Richard works internationally as an adviser to governments and with many of the world’s most innovative and entrepreneurial business corporations. Richard is also personal mentor to heads of state, government ministers and company directors across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and South America.

A celebrated speaker and writer, Richard is the author of several best-selling books including The Management Myth; Burying the 20th Century and The Five Literacies of Global Leadership. He is currently working on two new books, The Expanded Now and Dancing with the Future. Both are concerned with the development of a new humanitarian cosmology and societal paradigms from advanced levels of collective consciousness.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

To Touch Eternity
Richard Hames
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Has humanity’s progress been hijacked by a pervasive scientific rationalism that trades spirituality and communality for cold efficiency? If so, does this cultural meme promise anything more than sterile technological miracles that, while solving past problems, ambush our ability to imagine how we might avoid civilized society descending into the barbaric once again? Have we permitted economic growth, wealth creation and the financialisation of almost everything...
A Civilized Society: Preparing the World-System for Redesign
Richard Hames
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Our shared worldview tolerates entangled factors that manifest in a pathological condition - a world-system. Certain factors constrain reflection that could lead to healthier alternatives. Depending on our perspective they cause us to perceive our reality as inevitable, or as a set of problems requiring solutions. But eliminating war, or adapting to climate change, for example, are complex issues. Linear problem-solving is ineffective. Yet most change efforts,...