萨利姆•伊斯梅尔( Salim Ismail)  1965年出生于印度，后移民加拿大。1989年，毕业于加拿大滑铁卢大学。  奇点大学创始执行理事和“全球大使”，并亲任奇点大学最初几个项目的负责人。  曾任雅虎公司副总裁兼新产品开发部Brickhouse负责人。  创立PubSub Concepts、Confabb.Com和Angstro等公司，后者于2010年被谷歌收购。  Ted演讲人。  2003年入选瑞恩媒体（Crain’s）“40位40岁以下商业人士”名单。

W·理查德·斯科特(W．Richard Scott)生于1932年，美国斯坦福大学著名社会学家，独著或台著的著作主要有《正式组织：一种比较视角》(1962)、《组织：理性的、自然的与开放的系统》(1981)。《制度变迁与医疗保健组织：从专业人员支配到看护行政化》(2000)。《组织与组织化：理性的、自然的与开放的系统观》(2007)等。1988年获得美国管理学会管理与组织理论分会杰出学者奖，1996年获得美国管理学会理查德·D·埃尔文奖。

汉斯·罗斯林（1948—2017），1948年出生于瑞典乌普萨拉。“开启民智”基金会创始人，《时代》杂志“全球100位最有影响力人物”之一。曾先后担任世界卫生组织、联合国儿童基金会和其他援助机构的顾问。1997年，汉斯开始在卡罗林斯卡学院任教，他发现受到高等教育的学生对 世界抱有极大的误解，他们的想法和决策都相当情绪化。于是他走上TED的演讲舞台，用动态数据图像生动地展示了世界正在经历的真实变化，涉及人口、经济、环境等多个备受关注却从未被真正了解的主题。他的演讲视频获得了上千万次的点击，每一次演讲都大受媒体好评，也受到人们的赞誉：“数据在汉斯手上会唱歌”。多年后，汉斯决定将他毕生的想法写成书。在生命的最后一刻，他还在反复修改书稿，力求向人们更好地展示他一生都在追求的思维方式和思考世界的方法。 欧拉·罗斯林，“开启民智”基金会联合创始人之一，汉斯的儿子...(展开全部)

In the public and nonprofit arenas, leaders face the unique challenge of protecting the public interest while implementing organizational change initiatives. To succeed, these leaders must build organizations that are “change-centric,” carefully weigh and prepare for the risks of change.

In the public and nonprofit arenas, leaders face the unique challenge of protecting the public interest while implementing organizational change initiatives. To succeed, these leaders must build organizations that are “change-centric,” carefully weigh and prepare for the risks of change.

Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends―what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school―we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at rando...(展开全部)

The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, John Padgett and Walter Powell develop a t...(展开全部)

This book is the most comprehensive treatment to date of the scenario planning process. It offers a thorough discussion of the evolution and theoretical foundations of scenario planning, examining its connections to learning theory, decision-making theory, mental model theory and more.

Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)? Written in an approachable style, The Politics of Innovation provides readers from all backgrounds and levels of expertise a comprehensive introduction to the debates over national S&T competitiveness. It synthesizes over fifty years of theory and research on national innovation rates, bringing together ...(展开全部)