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Economic Turn-Around Leads to Slow Recovery: Glen Hiemstra Quarterly Forecast Q2 2009
By Glen Hiemstra, March 31, 2009 The world economy, mired in recession, will reach a turn-around point sooner than expected. However, anyone waiting to get back to doing what they were doing before the recession will be disappointed. As I said in my first speech this year, on January 8, 2009, to the Cobalt company, [...]
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Readers know that I am pretty relentless in finding how and why things are going to work in the future. Current realties make that a challenge. Today’s announcement by Caterpillar, Home Depot, Sprint, Texas Instruments, and others of total job cuts, just today, Monday, of 65,000 is stark. It means that time grows shorter by [...]
Full StoryFuturist Speaker Glen Hiemstra: Outlook 2009
Outlook 2009 Watch the video of my Outlook for 2009 as a futurist, speaker, and consultant. This is my final blog entry of 2008, before we take a couple of weeks off. I am cautiously optimistic about 2009. This may surprise you. Here is why. Future of EEE – Economy, Energy, Environment Economy: When I [...]
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The Future. It is mysterious, looming, full of possibility. To understand the future, and to create it, we ask three questions: What is probable? What is possible? What is preferred? Explore the future in these Video features and interviews produced by Futurist.com on a range of future topics. Video Features and Interviews Introduction to Futurist.com [...]
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The Future. If you listen carefully, you can learn what the future is telling you. Glen Hiemstra, futurist speaker, Founder of Futurist.com, author, blogger, has been listening the future professionally for two decades. Glen’s popular keynote speeches examine the important events, trends and developments that are shaping the future, with a particular emphasis on how [...]
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