http://www.globalchange.com Message of this video will change your life and strengthen your business. Building a Better Business by building a better world. Show how you make a difference in the lives of your customers, clients, consumers. Biggest ethical test for every culture and every nation: creating a better world, improving life for people. Core value to drive every political debate, underwrites all laws, basis of all team leadership – impossible to lead effectively for long without this principle: will the world be a better place as a result of this activity or not? Key to management, marketing and motivation. Applies to every industry including banking, retail, communication, technology, manufacturing, health care, construction, energy, transport and aviation. Whose world? Fundamental principle. If everyone or every business followed this example, would the world be a better place? Define “better” and “world”. Example in pharmaceutical industry failure to adequately protect their own patents and intellectual capital in face of public criticism about global health inequalities and social justice. Failure by pharma industry to win the “better world” argument in media. The most important promise of every business: we will make life better at a price you can afford. The purpose: deliver on the promise. Profit comes from delivering on the promise.Futurist keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon at Stein Am Rhein Leadership Summit – questions and answers on purpose of business facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.

http://www.globalchange.com Show how market share grows with strong corporate values. Proce business case and value of corporate and social responsibility, impact on bottom line profits, market share, brand strength, corporate image, war for talent, retention and recruitment. How emphasis on shareholder value is changing with realisation that focus on shareholder value is fast way to destroy it unless also focussed on customers, ethics, corporate values and so on. Why public mood is vital to business strategy and predicting market swings. Why we need to look at emotion and realise that market pricing of equities is often irrational with overshooting and overshooting. Impact on banks, banking, investment.

http://www.globalchange.com Pressures on newspaper sales in America and Europe compared to huge growth in newspaper circulations in India and some other emerging markets. Impact of online news services and problems monetarising them. Demographic split of newspaper and magazine readers. Impact of online advertising on traditional advertising and marketing budgets. Futurist keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon at Stein Am Rhein Leadership Summit – questions and answers facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.

http://www.globalchange.com Most online social networking is with people who are known to their friends or colleagues in physical life. Impact of virtual communication on social gatherings. FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Bebo, YouTube are mainly communities of people who know each other. Why many people are physically present but mentally and emotionally absent. Impact of social networks on family life. Virtual relationships, video, videoconferencing, Skype, dating and Second Life. How relationships are changing in the online world. Impact of technology, mobile phones, computers. Keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon at Stein Am Rhein Leadership Summit – questions and answers facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.

http://www.globalchange.com Huge cultural gap between different world views eg Taliban view or view in America of things like technology and science. Popular views of science, ethics and morality. The Yuk Factor in reactions to science by general public. How emotions affect decisions about scientific research. Influence of religions such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism on attitudes to scientific research – eg use of embryonic stem cells, human cloning for research, transgenic animals, genetically modified food. Keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon at Stein Am Rhein Leadership Summit – questions and answers facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.

http://www.globalchange.com Expect massive urban migration to cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Madras, Bangalore and expansion of slum dwellings in megacities. At the same time expect rapid infrastructure investment with new roads, power, water and electricity supplies – as these cities expand. Depopulation of rural areas. Keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon at Stein Am Rhein Leadership Summit – questions and answers facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.

http://www.globalchange.com Dying out of human race? Risks from mutant virus and plague. Expect major antiviral research including vaccine technology. Lessons from Sars and Bird Flu. Pharmaceutical company progress slow on antiviral medication. Virus jumps between species – animal to human. Health care impact of viral infections. Hospitals, doctors, nurses and other health care workers were under huge pressure during Sars outbreak. Keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon at Stein Am Rhein Leadership Summit – questions and answers facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.

http://www.globalchange.com Why gene screening for insurance will be allowed to prevent fraud against life insurance companies. Over the counter gene testing kits create life insurance risks for underwriters because personal and private gene test results are not available to the insurer when assessing life insurance premiums. Keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon at Stein Am Rhein Leadership Summit – questions and answers facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.

http://www.globalchange.com scientific research into ageing. Can we stop getting old? Pharmaceutical company anti-ageing products. Market research into anti-aging. Longevity trends and why life expectancy will be a major issue for banks, pension companies and insurance companies. Demographic trends and length of life, and health care trends. Relationship between wealth and life expectancy. Why government actuarial life tables are incorrect. Impact on retirement age, ageism, discrimination against older workers. Senior citizens and planning for retirement. Keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon at Stein Am Rhein Leadership Summit – questions and answers facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.

http://www.globalchange.com Multiple scenarios and scenario development to test business strategy. Need more than one strategy in rapidly changing world where events happen faster than you can organise a board meeting. Scenario building techniques. Forecasting and trend analysis. Use people outside organisation for external view to test strategy. Example of private banking and wealth management. Future of banking and philanthropy. High net worth investors and family offices – wellbeing of children. Why high net worth clients are committed to philanthropy. New models for private banking and portfolio management. Out of the box thinking. Challenging institutional blindness. New leadership insights, innovations and management tools. Power of networking in strategy development. Keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon at Stein Am Rhein Leadership Summit – questions and answers facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.

http://www.globalchange.com Democratic models of government may not always be best. Risks from trying to impose a Western developed nation model on rest of world. Need to respect different political traditions, forms of government and cultural differences. Seeking to impose democratic system can be seen as form of cultural imperialism. Voting systems and government structures vary hugely. Keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon at Stein Am Rhein Leadership Summit – questions and answers facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.

http://www.globalchange.com Emotional intelligence video: questions and answers with CEOs on Leadership. Intuition is vital part of leadership judgment. Example from recruitment interviews and employment decisions. How do you assess new candidates? Right brain and left brain – intuition or logic or both. How to listen to both sides of your brain in decision-making. Leadership intelligence requires more than logic and numbers-based. Insight from Indian culture. Ethical dilemmas in leadership: where do we get moral values from. Leading with head and heart. Risks of too much emotion in leadership decisions. Managing by objectives: hard data and operational statistics and why they may give the wrong answers. Emotional intelligence in team development and team motivation. Video of keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon at Stan Am Rhein Leadership Summit facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.

http://www.globalchange.com Future of online brand development, advertising, marketing and corporate image. How corporate image is being challenged by social networks such as FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogs, YouTube and other online communities. Why trust has fallen in corporate brand messages. How to use social networking and viral marketing to strengthen brands. How online image is affecting investment, recruitment, workplace morale, staff retention and the war for talent. How to make keep your brand in the mind of consumers and customers. Video of Q and A session with CEOs and senior business leaders by Futurist conference keynote speaker: Patrick Dixon at Stan Am Rheim.

ACET is an international AIDS agency working in 23 countries to help prevent transmission of HIV (including mother to child transmission), home-based and clinic care for those affected by AIDS (including widows, orphans and vulnerable children), and mobilise communities including churches and Christian faith based organisations, fighting stigma, prejudice, ignorance and fear. AIDS programmes in UK, Uganda, Nigeria, DRC (Congo), Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Slovenia, Slovakia, Croatia, Czech Republic, India, Thailand, UK, Ireland. Brief introduction to ACET work by founder Dr Patrick Dixon. To make a donation: http://www.acet-international.org

http://www.globalchange.com Future trends in the pharmaceutical industry. Lack of innovation in pharma companies and empty product pipeline. Generic competition and product recalls. Drug development and novel substances. Large molecule and small molecule therapeutics. Risk profiles and clinical trials. Side effects, gene profile typing and pharmacogenomics. Health care, wellness, enhanced performance and lifestyle drugs. Patent expiry and intellectual property protection. Legal challenges and research scandals. Biogenerics and large molecule therapeutics. Cellular mechanisms of disease. Unmet needs. Government purchasing policies, future of medicare and health insurance cover. Online pharmacy price pressures. Over the counter and pharmacists - pharmacy products. Neutraceuticals and cosmetics. Search for new treatment blockbusters. Chronic disease, childhood disease, vaccines and orphan therapies. Rheumatoid and asthma. Antibiotics and multiple drug resistance problems. Search for powerful antiviral therapy. Future health funding and ageing populations. Contrast with emerging markets. Health economics: treatment access and justice issues. Pharmacogenomics and gene prophecy. Ethical issues in pharmaceuticals. HIV and AIDS. Patrick Dixon, conference keynote speaker and futurist.

http://www.globalchange.com How IT companies part of $40 trillion global race to reduce energy use over 20 years. IT major consumer of energy. “Greening of IT” is creating major new business opportunities, can improve corporate image, and may increase customer loyalty. Conference keynote speaker - futurist video by Patrick Dixon. 500 million obsolete computers in America, 130 million mobile phones thrown away each year. E-waste 2% of solid municipal waste in America, hazards polluting water supplies or endangering wildlife. lead pollution in land fill - printed circuit boards and components, mercury and cadmium, linked to cancer, reproductive problems, other illnesses. Apple banned asbestos, cadmium, mercury and lead and barium, brominated flame retardants and polyvinyl chloride. recycling. Hewlett-Packard has taken a lead. 1 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity was used last year to power the web – 5.3% of all global power use and 9.4% of electricity consumption in the US. Web servers alone already consume more than 1% of global electricity, growing 14-20% a year. A single 50,000 square feet data centre uses around 5 megawatts – enough to power more than 5,000 homes. more efficient power supplies for example. Other ways to reduce web server energy losses include: power management software (Windows Server 2008 boasts 10% energy savings, but Linux does better); more efficient chips; better cooling systems; better use of fibre-optics, turning additional servers on and off depending on load (200,000 servers can be powered up in less than 5 minutes). Other actions we can take include adjusting cooling systems to the numbers of servers actually active; using heat exchangers to cool server farms and heat nearby homes; more efficient data switching / networking and using solar power from local units; separating sections of IT rooms to run at different ambient temperatures according to equipment need; place air conditioning units closer to equipment to reduce distance air has to travel – and of course installing low energy lighting. Virtual servers save energy by allowing many different users or companies to share the same equipment. ...

http://www.globalchange.com Green IT for different reasons. Pollution in manufacturing or disposal. Save energy costs. IT directors pressure to save money, increase efficiency. Video by conference keynote speaker Patrick Dixon - http://www.globalchange.com. Meet environmental standards â??do all at almost zero cost, if capital outlay on Green IT offset against savings in future.. Corporations changing their hardware, better software, improving operating environment, increasing recycling and encouraging work more efficiently. â??Greening of ITâ? improve corporate image, customer loyalty, staff retention and productivity. IT, real estate example, electricity bills for office block and financial incentive for the IT department. Save the planet by reducing energy on paper printing and travel. Electrical power used in gadgets, computers and other equipment: mobile phone power supplies, wireless router, computers, plasma screens, digital TV receivers and so on. 1 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity was used last year to power the web â?? 5.3% of all global power use and 9.4% of electricity consumption in the US. Web traffic will grow 40-100 times over next 15 years, mainly as a result of video on demand. Web servers consume more than 1% of global electricity, growing 14-20% a year. 50,000 square feet data centre uses 5 megawatts â?? enough to power more than 5,000 homes. Web servers in large data centres across America use the equivalent of a full yearâ??s output from seven 1,000 megawatt power plants. Green IT means more efficient power supplies; power management software (Windows Server 2008, but Linux does better); more efficient chips; better cooling systems; better use of fibre-optics, turning additional servers on and off, adjusting cooling systems to the numbers of servers actually active; separate sections of IT rooms at different ambient temperatures; placing air conditioning units closer; using heat exchangers to cool server farms and low energy lighting. Virtual Servers to save energy. Virtual setup allows multiple operating systems and applications to run on same computers â?? not x86 computer hardware. IT infrastructure ...

Read for speed – faster than listening. Bandwidth of eye hugely faster than hearing. Impact on technology, phones, devices, screen size and communication. Part of presentation for Nokia by Conference keynote speaker Patrick Dixon http://www.globalchange.com Why reading is faster than listening. Bandwidth capacity of human eyes, ears and brain. Data flow and communication, speech recognition by human beings slower than scanning text by human eye. Why newspapers, magazines, books and other printed media are faster to read than text on computer screen and faster than voice calls / telephone. Impact on technology, innovation, design of devices, computers, displays. Ultra high resolution and digital paper limitations. Speed of reading e-mail compared to printed documents. Workplace efficiency and how to increase productivity. Video by Futurist conference keynote speaker Patrick Dixon.

http://www.globalchange.com Institutional blindness – thinking outside the box, radical innovation or just benchmarking against competitors. Reducing risk and issues in the credit crunch / sub-prime crisis. Convergence v divergence. Business strategy development and leadership insight. How to bring fresh perspectives into the organisation. Secrets of successful business and winning competitive advantage. Finding new approaches in marketing, banking and financial services. Innovative teams and new products, processes and services. Change management – new structures and ways of seeing things. by Futurist conference keynote speaker Patrick Dixon.

http://www.globalchange.com How to survive the credit crunch. 10 steps to take to control costs and juggle personal finance. Secrets of survival in slowdown of the economy, economic slump, recession or depression. Who makes profits in a downturn. Stop and think about all spending and personal finance, incoming and outgoing expenditure, household budgeting, cut utility bills, gas, electric, phone, water. Consolidation of loans. Take care before repaying mortgage early. Enjoy free leisure activities. Invest in key relationships and family. Comment by Futurist conference speaker Dr Patrick Dixon.