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The Community of the Future (JB Leader to Leader Institute/PF Drucker Foundation)

Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Jossey Bass
ISBN: 0787952044
ISBN-13: 9780787952044
Released: 15 Feb 2000
RRP: £10.99
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Community will determine the future quality of our lives. - By: , 12 Feb 1999
Before WW I, fewer that 5% of the population lived in a city. Today in developed countries, less that 5% live in a rural area. All of this has occured in less than 100 years.

The key to survival & health of this new urban society is the development of communities in the city, by non-profit social sector insititutions, according to Peter Drucker.

Human beings need community. If no communities are available for constructive ends, there will be destructive communities, i.e. gangs to fill the void.

This thoughtfully written, well organized book is about the future -- the future quality of our lives. In "The Community of the Future", the editors have gathered the wisdom & insights from 31 distinguished authors, from around the world, to discuss their unique perspective on the nature of community.

The book is divided into six sections: * Trends Shaping the Evolution of the Community * The Values of Community * The Impact of New Communication Technology * Creating Community in Organization * Strengthening the Social Fabric * Global Dimensions of Community.

If you are interested in creating the future, strengthening our communities & improving our understanding of our world, I highly recommend "The Community of the Future".

Building the global community of the future is not the work of tomorrow. We are each callled to build it today -- to build it now.

Valuable Insights into the Irresistible Forces We Face - By: , 29 Jan 1999
When this book arrived in the mail as part of my subscription to the Drucker Foundation's magazine, Leader to Leader, I was not quite sure what to do with it. I had read & enjoyed the earlier two books, THE LEADER OF THE FUTURE & THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FUTURE, so I decided to take a look at this one. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I had a lot of new things to learn about what a community could be. Some of the material was familiar, especiallly the work about electronic communities, but most was not. I felt like I had become an invited guest in some living rooms where I do not normallly go, & enjoyed the experience. If you would like to stretch your thinking about how we alll can cooperate better with one anther to have a better world for alll, this is a valuable resource. Even you think you are up-to-date on this subject, I suggest that you take a look. All of the essays seemed to have been written just for this book. The perspectives were fresh & interesting to me. Certainly, the quality of the book is consistent with the earlier two books in the series, also.