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Richard David Hames
Bangkok, Thailand
Philosopher-Activist, Futurist, Mentor & Author
Interests: Intentionally evolving a more benign, less exploitative, global worldview and praxis
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The Thunberg Effect
Mohandas Gandhi said that when trying to make any change that challenges the morality of the status quo, your opponents will at first ignore you, laugh at you, then fight you, before you eventually win. Over the past three years... Continue reading
Posted Aug 6, 2021 at The Hames Report
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In Free Fall....
Our civilization feels like its in free fall. Much of what we have previously taken for granted now appears to be broken as old operating strategies refuse to work any more. Just as humanity is waking up to the limits... Continue reading
Posted Aug 2, 2021 at The Hames Report
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Dancing Dragon
For at least as long as I can remember, pundits in the West have been predicting the imminent collapse of the Chinese miracle. If the speed of reform is not sufficient, then the unintended impacts of the one child policy... Continue reading
Posted Feb 11, 2021 at The Hames Report
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Round and Around We Go
There is something about the human mind and about the way we use it that is at once quirky and persistently primitive: seriously out-of-kilter with contemporary reality. Of particular interest to me in this regard is the way we try... Continue reading
Posted Feb 9, 2021 at The Hames Report
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Revisiting Leadership (Again)
In 2007, after ten years of intensive practical research, I published my third book - The Five Literacies of Global Leadership. Several critical breakthroughs in this work overturned much conventional wisdom. Yet today – a further 14 years down the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 9, 2021 at The Hames Report
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The Tyranny of Clockworks
For the past 25 years (at least) I have been trying to make sense of one paramount issue. How is it possible that Homo sapiens, possibly the smartest species to have inhabited this planet, is consciously hastening its own extinction... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2021 at The Hames Report
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The Machine That Made Too Much
The Machine That Made Too Much From about 2000 BC until the dawn of the 18th century the quality of life for most people remained pretty much the same. Discounting artistic and cultural endeavors, about four millennia passed during which... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2021 at The Hames Report
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Kings of Carrion
The Fate of Two Entangled Empires Scenes being beamed around the world today, of police officers apparently opening the barricades to allow right-wing supporters of President Donald Trump to storm the Capitol, incited by their champion in a lengthy speech,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2021 at The Hames Report
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Science, Litigation, & the Subversion of Knowledge
The year 2020 will certainly be remembered by those of us who lived through this extraordinary moment in human history. If it was not the rampant respiratory virus itself, it was the intermittent lockdowns that brought everything to a halt.... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2021 at The Hames Report
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Serious Play
A Deeper Look at Innovation & Entrepreneurship Innovation and entrepreneurship have become the new ‘in’ things. Fads par excellence. Some suggest they may be the prime source of future competitive advantage in business and, as a consequence, an imperative no... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2021 at The Hames Report
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The Absurd Illusion of Optimism
It really only struck me a few days ago how devoid of hope our predicament actually is. I was having a late breakfast, scanning the online pages of the Straits Times, Melbourne Age, and Washington Post. I had just spent... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2021 at The Hames Report
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The Vice Chancellor's Challenge
Universities have endured for centuries. Why should they need to change today? This was the question put to me just last month by the Vice Chancellor [Research] of one of Asia’s top-ranking business schools. After drawing in my breath sharply,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2021 at The Hames Report
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You Never Can Tell
My Mother's Wisdom & Other Sagas My mother was relatively uneducated. This is not a judgement but just a fact. She left school at the age of eleven to go into domestic service. But she was shrewd, not on any... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2021 at The Hames Report
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Strategies of Deception
The righteous quest of misrepresenting reality Concurrently, I found myself contemplating the catchphrase, Don't Be Evil, a motto firmly entrenched in Google's corporate code of conduct, rather like a zombie refusing to die, while watching spellbound the US Senate's grilling... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2021 at The Hames Report
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Kindling of the Flame
What we already believe prevents us from knowing any differently. Yet knowing differently is the only way to design the future we need. I have loitered around the sidelines of academia pretty much all my life. Occasionally I was seduced... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2021 at The Hames Report
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Totalitarian Tiptoe
My generation was not taken by surprise. There was no sudden shock. It happened so slowly, and with such little fuss – accumulating fictions secreted under the surface of normality. Well under the radar of any collective consciousness. The manner... Continue reading
Posted Aug 19, 2020 at The Hames Report
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A Collision of Worldviews
In October 2019 I was invited to speak at a private function in Shanghai - a city where I always feel among friends. The audience was a mix of party and city bureaucrats, senior academics, journalists and entrepreneurs, including one... Continue reading
Posted Aug 9, 2020 at The Hames Report
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Nothing is What it Seems
Nothing is what it seems, which is why I routinely interrogate my every thought and belief. To be capable of seeing the truth we must first shed all of the accrued garbage within our minds. And in my case, there... Continue reading
Posted Aug 4, 2020 at The Hames Report
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Litanies
1. Memories Old age brings certain gifts, as long as we are open to receiving them. For me, one of these gifts is sudden and unexpected recollections from a past fast-receding from temporal view. Now and again, yet increasingly with... Continue reading
Posted Jul 23, 2020 at The Hames Report
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The Swimmer, The Fisherman, and the Deep-Sea Diver
Knowledge is the condition of understanding something which is personally meaningful, and potentially useful in some capacity. As such it is deeply subjective. What may count as knowledge for one sentient being may not have the same meaning for another.... Continue reading
Posted Jul 6, 2020 at The Hames Report
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Naturally Speaking
In natural systems, physical matter flows in cycles. Nutrients from one form of life become food for another. Organisms live and die, eventually returning to the soil or the sea where the cycle starts again. During the industrial revolution, we... Continue reading
Posted Jul 6, 2020 at The Hames Report
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My Pact with the Devil
For us billionaires it was always about playing and winning. Winning is the main game. And money - that goes without saying. While winning is our passion, money is our addiction. An adrenalin hit. We are good at winning, which... Continue reading
Posted Jun 23, 2020 at The Hames Report
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The Great Unravelling
In case you hadn’t noticed, although I am not at all sure how you could miss it, many of our most life-critical systems are rapidly unravelling. The current pandemic has exposed some very deep fault lines in our civilisational model.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 18, 2020 at The Hames Report
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What is Education For?
I have skulked around the sidelines of the education industry all my life. Occasionally I have ventured into its alluring orbit only to beat a hasty retreat as I apprehended, again and again, how unaffected by its own product [that... Continue reading
Posted Jun 2, 2020 at The Hames Report
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Fear of the Light
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light ~ Plato Honest, sensitive, overpowering. His words leapt off the page - etched into my... Continue reading
Posted May 30, 2020 at The Hames Report
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