Future of the European Union - Enlarged or Broken? What direction for the EU over the next two decades? Geopolitics keynote speaker

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What will historians will write about Europe in 2100. Did integration prevent a Third World War - as was the hope of the founders of the European Union? How stable was the Union after expansion to include Eastern bloc nations? What resulted from COVID and Russian invasion of Ukraine? What was the outcome of major showdowns between The Federal States of Europe and America through 2020-2030? How did the Union cope with influx of foreign nationals? What happened to national parliaments, laws, and cultures? Major challenges to the future of Europe lie ahead. If the great experiment succeeds, it will create an economic, political and military force to pose real challenges to the United States. 

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Wake up to stronger tribes and longer life - Financial Times article by Futurist Keynote Speaker Patrick Dixon

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Your company may have a reputation for brilliant leadership, outstanding innovation, clever branding and effective change management, but the business could fail if the world changes and you are unprepared.

Read on to watch the full video and to read the full FT article by Patrick Dixon - on managing uncertainty, agile leadership, the power of tribes (social groups of all kinds) and the opportunities from longer life expectancy.

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Surviving through global economic crisis - Agile Leadership Keynote Speaker

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Future of Europe - strains and stresses, economy, eurozone

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I wrote this back in June 2006 – about the future of Europe.  Judge for yourself against the realities of Europe’s challenges as they are today:

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Globalisation: Mergers and Demergers Chaos

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Examples from global banks, pharmaceutical companies and manufacturing. How market analysts push for mergers, acquisitions, demergers and company breakup.

Profits for lawyers and banks but most mergers destroy shareholder value. Rationale for global corporations and economies of scale.

Talent often leaves corporations soon after a merger is announced, taking intellectual capital, customer knowledge and relationships. Mergers of two corporations and two cultures can look ...

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Future of the Euro crisis in Greece, Ireland. Italy, Spain, Portugal. Eurozone impact.

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Euro crisis in Greece. Monetary union constraints in high inflation or deflation. Role of European Central Bank in balancing needs of high growth and low growth economies. Contrasts between Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Germany, France, Italy and countries which more recently joined. Loss of sovereignty to Brussels. Political issues in controlling budget deficits or imposing budget cuts on an unwilling nation. Political unrest and threat of strikes or instability. Challenges for the future. Comment by Futurist conference keynote speaker and author Patrick Dixon at London ...

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The Future of Business - Videos

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News that is going to change our business world.

Large number of Futurist conference keynote presentations by Dr. Patrick Dixon. Click for more.

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Take Hold of Your Future - be Futurewise - strategies for growth

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That means planning to change tomorrow, future-thinking at every level, taking a broad view to out-plot the opposition and grow your business.

Being Futurewise is about more than mere predictions, it’s about shaping the future, making history, having contingencies, having clear strategies, staying one step ahead....

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The Future of Almost Everything - 6 Faces of the FUTURE CUBE. Futurist methodology - global trends video

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Economic Growth in hard times - Video - Archive 2002

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Economic Growth: What's next in the business cycle? Radical change and impact of new values. What happens after you press the global RESET button? Sept 11 2001 was like pressing the computer RESET button. As if someone turned off the whole economy for a microsecond, followed by a flash and a pause. Yet now the reloading is complete, it's becoming clear the whole system is working in a different way, with early indications of the greatest shift in values we have seen for over 50 years. (Comments written November 2001)

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Deflation and Inflation – Winners and Losers - future of banking keynote speaker

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I have in my pocket a $10 trillion dollar bill – printed in Zimbabwe a few weeks ago, but when I was there, not enough to buy half a loaf of bread. Country hit by inflation running of 1 billion % a year. Zimbabwe experience puts global economic crisis into context.  I'm a Futurist, an advisor to many of the world's largest banks on global trends, and a keynote speaker at many of their most important events.

At a time of global fears about inflation (2007-8) and deflation (2009) it is good to look at the wider picture, why life will continue relatively unchanged for most people, why we are likely to see inflation become a major problem again, and why we are likely to see political instability in some nations, and even fall of governments.

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Trends and Countertrends - Futurist Tools to help predict future

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To every trend there is a countertrend, which is why media pundits are able at once to describe, for example, trends to greater liberalism and greater conservatism. Both are true - of different tribes in the same society. So gay rights movements continue to make advances at the same time as America is becoming gripped by cultural con¬servatism, with ideas such as marriage, religion and civil society seen as the answer for the future....

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Credit Crunch, Economic Crisis and Possible Recession

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Managing Uncertainty - Leadership Strategies.  Client event for HR directors and Finance directors of large multinationals (for Hewitt).  How to survive the credit crunch.  making sense of confusing radar signals. Focus on what matters.  Managing risk. Seizing opportunity with agile leadership, scenario planning, dynamic strategy and bold cost cutting - reshaping for future growth.  Longer term outlook for global economy. Credit crunch rescue package explained.  How to motivate teams through the crisis - engagement with passion and purpose.  Keys to keeping teams together and strong during rapid mergers and acquisitions.  See also videos on credit crunch impact for business and leadership strategy and videos on banking  trends.  Also videos on risk  management and leadership  videos.

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Growing Reaction Against Globalisation - Futurist Keynote Speaker

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Reactions against globalisation will threaten international trade and economic growt. Expect calls to grow for trade barriers in some nations, with retaliation by others. Despite these things, expect huge growth in volume and value of imported or exported goods and services, especially between emerging economies such as India or China.

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Sustainable growth - happynomics - key trends

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Inside the mind of a post-millennialist...  Can we survive another hundred years of increasingly rapid change? What about another thousand years? Could this be the last millennium?  Economic growth is at the centre of every government strategy, yet in the third millennium expect that economic growth as a goal will be increasingly questioned. Growth means more things, greater wealth, but does it mean greater happiness?

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