Brad Fregger, futurist, businessman, author, professor, international speaker, publisher, father, grandfather, and soon to be great grandfather, shares his solutions for many of the world's global crises. "I haven't seen many reasonable solutions coming from those in charge, it's time the rest of us let them know what we think. The world my great grandchild will inherit depends on the decisions we make (or refuse to make) today." I feared the future, feared my children's world, the outcome of the massive changes taking place in our country. My imagination runs wild with visions of the breakdown of society, millions dead and dying,| cities empty and decaying, our way of life gone for centuries. The future like a steamroller rushes madly downhill no one at the controls. Doubt and fear of things to come still haunt me . As I move forward into the unknown, Hope beckons. Brad Fregger "Is there hope? Can we, as a society escape this pessimistic future and instead begin the century with hope and faith as we enter a new age of plenty, where the challenge of preserving our world and its ecology becomes a goal consistent with the survival of humanity and our way of life?" My Thinking Cap - Chapter 1 "In the following chapters I will, at times, point an accusing finger at the media, because their fixation on 'bad news' is creating a negative image of the future-in large part, the global crises we are experiencing are due to the stories being told." My Thinking Cap - Chapter 2 "So, how do we become energy independent, ... while minimizing pollution, especially carbon-based pollution, and creating an environment where individual choice is a commitment, business can thrive, and our nation can look forward to decades of socio-economic health?" My Thinking Cap - Chapter 3 "... the belief that polar bears are endangered because of global warming is truly an ignorant belief . or, one held by those, with their own agendas, who are using the polar bear and spinning its story, in order to accomplish something else, ..." My Thinking Cap - Chapter 4 "The idea that the United States is somehow not living up to its heritage of welcoming immigrants is very wrong; the United States is, in fact, continuing to be the most welcoming nation in the world. ... accepting almost as many immigrants as the rest of the world combined. My Thinking Cap - Chapter 5 "... from all appearances, the media sees only two choices, you are either a Darwinist/Atheist or a Creationist. In other words, you either believe that God doesn't exist now and has never existed, or you believe that (God created the world) between 6000 and 10000 years ago. ... There is no place for those of us who believe that something is going on that can only be explained by a conscious force in the Universe. We may not be able to define that force, but we have faith that it exists." My Thinking Cap - Chapter 6 This is a taste of what My THINKING CAP - Solutions for Global Crisis is all about. If you're concerned about any of these issues ... this is a book you want read. Brad's style of writing is entertaining and conversational, "I'll never win a Pulitzer, but there's a real good chance that you'll understand what I'm trying to say."

My Thinking Cap

Business & Money

Fregger, Brad

Management & Leadership

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<p>Brad Fregger, futurist, businessman, author, professor, international speaker, publisher, father, grandfather, and soon to be great grandfather, shares his guiding principles for creating and leading organizational teams. "Find the right people, show them how good they are, and then get out of the way." Fregger believes that very few people, including the top business people and academics understand organizational leadership, the leadership that the middle manager must exhibit if they are going to be able to get done, what needs to get done. Top business people tend to be, because of the process of selection that goes on within every organization, managers, not leaders. Warren Bennis agrees, bemoaning the lack of leadership that exists within America's corporations, while at the same time creating the environment where this was bound to happen. Academics tend to have little understanding of organizational leadership because, again in the main, they have not "walked the walk." The only way to understand true leadership is to have, "learned it on the job." Studying successful leaders, doing research on leadership, doesn't work. There's also the problem that most academics, especially the ones from the top schools, only study successful top executives, individuals who are defined as leaders because of the position they hold. But ... as Bennis recognizes, very few of them are true leaders. Additionally, the very successful organizational leader, the Effective Leader, is relative rare. You can not be an Effective Leader until you have attained Mastery, until you know exactly what you are doing and why it is working. Most successful organizational leaders aren't quite sure why they are able to get things done better and easier than their counterparts. The result, they tend to see themselves as being lucky, often giving full credit to the team. In his foreword to The Living Company, Peter Senge touches on the importance of "practical experience," essentially, saying that the best information comes from those who have been there, "It has been my experience that extraordinary practitioners like Arie can make unique contributions to management thinking ... . Unlike academics who write about what they have thought, practitioners think about what they have lived through. Because the source of their thinking is experience rather than concepts, they show how sometimes the most profound ideas are the simplest." And, Brad's response, "This is the truth that I have to bring: Effective Leadership is profoundly simple at the concept level. There will be nothing in this book that you will not quickly understand; many of these simple concepts, however, are surprisingly difficult to implement." From reading his book, it seems that the basic reason that these ideas can be difficult to implement is because they often conflict with the traditional manager's ideas as to the best way to get things done.</p>

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