Many CEOs I know are feeling battered and bruised right now. Hit by one event after another, there’s little time to regroup or reflect, and the top of a corporation can be a lonely place. Profit warnings, share price pressures, painful layoffs and great geopolitical uncertainties can sweep away even the most comprehensive strategies – and that’s despite outstanding management over many years.

Article published June 2002 - but also applies in 2022

Wal-Mart races ahead with Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs): electronic barcodes for manufacturing, distribution and retail - major concerns about data leakage, privacy and civil rights. 10 billion wireless electronic tags are about to impact manufacturing, distribution and retailing now that Walmart, Tesco and Pentagon are requiring future suppliers to tag products - raising sensitive questions about privacy, civil liberties and human rights.

"One of the most stimulating and challenging reads in this field for a very long time" - Sir Digby Jones, Director-General CBI.

Dr Dixon has been ranked as one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50 - 2005).

Enter the $20,000 Building a Better Business Challenge.

Discover how to create a better future - AND make a profit at the same time.

Truth about global warming research - Video. How consumers, business and governments will respond. Opportunities / threats from climate change. Response to global warming will be shaped by emotion rather than science. Companies will go faster and further than governments in a rush to save the planet, and consumer pressure will change every product and service sold. Energy companies are already changing policies and will reinvent themselves as saviours of humankind.

Patrick Dixon is author of SustainAgility, and a Futurist keynote speaker on a wide range of trends relating to the future of a more sustainable world.