Deep Currents

The Global Business Network now publishes a quarterly publication called GBN: Bulletin and its second issue is now online. The content is partly an update on GBN’s recent work but is largely a series of interviews and book reviews on topics relevant to long-term change. Both of the boutiques that I’m a part of within the Monitor Group grew out of GBN, so my view may be colored, but I’ve found both of the Bulletins’ first two issues a deeply worthwhile read. This one contains:

• Workbook: featuring summaries of GBN projects with UNAIDS, COSE, the Chicago Urban League, and the SCI FI Channel; Q+A with Nick Turner, head of GBN in Europe, on the current financial crisis
• Network News: highlighting Clay Shirky, Amory Lovins, David Sibbet, Rafael Ramirez, Rusty Schweickart, Chuck House, and Mimi Ito
• Interview: Barbara Bylenga, president and founder of Outlaw Consulting
• Book Club by Stewart Brand: The Bottom Billion, Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth, Power to Save the World, Daemon, and The Rise and Fall of Alexandria

Written: July 14th, 2008