FUTURIST UPDATE: News & Previews from the World Future Society is an e-mail newsletter published monthly as a supplement to
THE FUTURIST magazine.
CLICK OF THE MONTH: GuruLib
Music and video-sharing Web sites have made it easy to borrow playlists
from other people. Now, GuruLib lets you do the same thing with your
books, as well as games, software, and other media in your collection.
Sample collection: http://www.gurulib.com/coolabcgirl
Uploading your titles to GuruLib will also let you retrieve information
about the book from other online resources and to keep track of what
you loan to others.
The GuruLib cataloguing service now boasts more than 1,000 users,
including public libraries and video rental businesses seeking better
ways to track their rentals.
NEWS FROM THE FUTURIST COMMUNITY
* DEVELOPING YOUR FUTURING PROFICIENCY: The Institute for the Future at Anne Arundel Community College offers noncredit personal and professional development on the future. Mix and match these modular brief noncredit offerings to best suit your needs. Organizations may select sets of modules to meet their corporate training needs. Each
module is a "free-standing" learning unit that contains a set of
learning objectives, before-and-after self-assessments, a contributing
facilitator, and opportunities to meet others through online
discussion.
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FUTURIST UPDATE: News & Previews from the World Future Society is an e-mail newsletter published monthly as a supplement to
THE FUTURIST magazine.
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The WORLD FUTURE SOCIETY is a nonprofit, nonpartisan scientific and educational association with a global membership. Regular membership in the Society, including a subscription to THE FUTURIST, is $49 per year, or $20 for full-time students under age 25. Professional and Institutional membership programs are also offered; contact Society
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FUTURIST UPDATE
News & Previews from the World Future Society
February 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 2)
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STRATEGIC READING
The Association of Professional Futurists recommends these classic
texts for inspiring a "more nimble strategic planning approach":
* SEEING WHAT'S NEXT by Clayton M. Christensen et al. (Harvard Business
School Press, 2004)
* THE SIXTH SENSE: ACCELERATING ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING WITH SCENARIOS
by Kees van der Heijden et al. (John Wiley & Sons, 2002)
* STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE by Jay Barney and
William Hesterly (Prentice Hall, 2005)
* BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY by W. Chan Kim and RenŠ¹e Mauborgne (Harvard
Business School Press, 2005)
SOURCE: Association of Professional Futurists,
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