Turning the Future Into Revenue: What Business and Individuals Need to Know to Shape Their FuturesBy Glen Hiemstra

“A tour de force . . . Hiemstra displays an impressive store of knowledge, analytical acumen, and imagination.” - Boston Globe

“Rewarding reading.” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In business, it always helps to know what’s coming. How can you take advantage of the business opportunities of tomorrow if you aren’t planning for that tomorrow today?

In Turning the Future into Revenue, noted futurist and business consultant Glen Hiemstra explores the global changes that will revolutionize business and reveals the ways individuals and organizations can profit from those coming developments. Surprising demographic shifts, energy shortages, new technologies, environmental changes, and issues of race and religion will change the way we live. They will also lead to new and exciting business opportunities. Only those who foresee those opportunities will be in position to take advantage of them.

The Silver Ship and the Sea By Brenda Cooper

The colony planet Fremont is joyous, riotous, and very wild. Its grasses can cut your arms and legs to ribbons, the rinds of its precious fruit can skewer your thumbs, and some of the predators are bigger than humans. Meteors fall from the sky and volcanoes erupt. Fremont is verdant, rich, beautiful, and dangerous. Fremonts single town, Artistos, perches on a cliff below rugged mountains. Below Artistos lie the Grass Plains, which lead down to the sea. And in the middle of the Grass Plains, a single silver spaceship lies quiet and motionless. The seasons do not dull it, nor do the winds scratch itand the fearful citizens of Aristosos wont go near it. Chelo Lee, her brother Joseph, and four other young children have been abandoned on the colony planet. Unfortunate events have left them orphaned in a human colony that abhors genetic engineeringand these six young people are genetically enhanced. With no one to turn to, Chelo and the others must now learn how to use their distinct skills to make this unwelcome planet home, or to find a way off it.

Building Harlequin’s Moon By Brenda Cooper

From Publishers Weekly
Fans of both hard and softer, psychological SF will welcome veteran Niven and newcomer Cooper’s well-written tale of a 60,000-year layover in space, in which physical challenges of world building are matched by social challenges of collaboration among disparate groups. After arriving in an inhospitable solar system, the Earth Born, colonists on an interstellar journey, need to refuel their ship, John Glenn, with antimatter.

Since they lack laborers, the Earth Born construct a moon where they can build a particle collider and raise a work force, the Moon Born. Destined to be abandoned, the Moon Born struggle to gain as much knowledge and technology as they can before the Earth Born depart. Some of the technology includes artificial intelligences, whose unrestricted use caused the Earth Born to flee Earth in the first place. Niven and Cooper provide complicated characters, particularly the AI, which struggle with realistic moral dilemmas. If the novel loses a bit of its emotional credibility in a compressed climax, it errs on the side of telling a rich story completely in a single volume.

Strategic Leadership: Achieving Your Preferred Future, 3rd Edition by Bill Hainer & Glen Hiemstra

This is a leaders handbook for planning and implementing a preferred future within an organization or enterprise. Written to briefly explain each planning concept and then to suggest possible applications, the book provides a step-by-step guide for leaders. The book comes on a CD, in .PDF format for the PC. The table of contents can be searched interactively in this format. Original versions of the Three Cone Model and activities for planning can be found here. Read from the CD, or print out when you wish.