Big ideas and proven strategies to create the future you desire ... with Jim Lord
Many folks are wondering, after the events of the past few years: Can we choose to create the future we most desire, or are we at the mercy of forces beyond our control?
How might we enliven civic engagement … and revitalize social causes and organizations of social good?
We wrote What Kind of World Do You Want? to give encouraging real-life answers, drawn from more than a decade of intensive learning labs and interviews with leaders from more than 50 countries — and the latest insights about human and organizational behavior.
In the pages of this book, you’ll find support for your highest hopes for the world: Proven ways to enliven civic life, reignite confidence, and inspire people to act — with renewed conviction that we can change the world and create the future we most desire.
Let’s change the conversation and find the energy to tip the scales of history.
We’re making a gift of this book in honor of the people who made its arrival possible … the civic leaders, philanthropists, colleagues, and friends who make this world the kind of world we want to live in and leave behind. And in honor of your investments in the common good. We want you to have the same lift so many have gained from these ideas.
Watch this 90-second video for a glimpse into the lively global community behind the book.
Sign in here to download the book in convenient electronic forms: a complete, professionally-recorded audiobook and versions you can read on your computer, Kindle, iPad, or other e-book reader.
(All together, a $35 value, but yours today with our compliments. We want these ideas in your hands. Now.)
You’ll also get a weekly email from one of the authors with more ideas you can use to create the kind of world you want. Of course, you can stop getting the emails any time you choose — and your email address will not be shared with anyone else.

Here’s something to think about this week … If you really want to influence people, involve them instead of merely trying to inform them. You already know this. I started out as a communicator, a broadcaster and then a newspaper writer, and so I had this desire to inform. Then, I got really interested in… Click to continue »

Rather than hold the world as dismal and oppressive, we can allow promising stories to crowd out the others. One narrative that I find exhilarating is the story of how powerful we have become because so many of us are freer than ever before. Click to continue »

Last week, I told you I’d let you in on my conversation with Dick Boysen. The question on the table was this: How could a routine strategic plan have shattered their confidence in themselves, and done more harm than good? More to the point, what could we do about it? Inspired to the core “You… Click to continue »

I want to do more than “wish you the best” in our brand-spanking new 2011. (smile) I have an idea for you … Click to continue »

I’ve been wrestling with something, so I’m reaching out to my community in the hope that you’ll be able to point me in the right direction. Click to continue »

Is there a “right” time to launch into what you really want to do? To step out (and up)? Quest alum Kerry Judd landed in the papers last week for what she calls a “leap of faith” when she stepped out to create her own business. Click to continue »
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