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Chasing the Future Leader We Need
Marcus Bussey PhD Understandings of leadership and what makes a good leader tend to be framed by those in power. By contrast the ‘led’ get worn out models and poor role modelling as the infotainment industry’s standard serve of ‘News’. This is reinforced in most walks of life. The dominant model for leadership is not…
The Other Side of the Algorithm
Sudhir Tiku The world has never been evenly arranged. Borders, ideas, capital, and opportunities have never ever been equally distributed. The language of global development has always attempted to soften this reality with polite abstractions such as developing countries or emerging economies, yet the deeper historical geography of inequality is best captured in one term:…
Book Review: Watershed Worlds; Eight Indigenous Models for Planetary Survival and Resilience By Matt Oppenheim
Thomas Crowe “We must focus on sustaining water for a thriving future. Water flows are like the veins of our bodies, and when we treat the watershed as a giant womb, we allow the watershed to enliven the evolution of ourselves and all beings.” – Matt Oppenheim, Watershed Words The review is published in loving…
Another Singularity: Sarkar, Günther, Tegmark, and the Prerequisites for a Human AI Future
Dr. Hans-Joachim Rudolph Abstract: As AI advances rapidly, this essay explores why the future of intelligence must be guided not by code, but by conscience. Drawing on Tegmark’s scenarios and Sarkar’s PROUT philosophy, the author argues that real intelligence is spiritual, ethical, and collective — and that a just AI future depends on our ability…
An Opinion: Prophetic Leadership and Working Towards a Sadvipra Society
Marcus Bussey, PhD Strong visionary leaders are what many of us yearn for today. We feel the lack of justice and imagination in our bones. Yet when they arise they become targets for vested interests who violently strike them down. Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2025) has recently reflected on this in an excellent article entitled…
The Emergence of Enlightened Leadership
By Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar; excerpted from Problems of the Day (1958) Only psychic and spiritual education can create sadvipras. Only those who are established in Yama and Niyama [moral code] – who are imbued with Cosmic ideation – I call sadvipras. Political leaders cannot create sadvipras by haranguing people from public platforms – this…
Dialogues Between Neohumanism and Emergent Philosophies
Stephanie Ezra Abstract: This article investigates how participatory foresight methods, particularly scenario-based games, can surface, challenge, and reconfigure our assumptions about ethical leadership and moral systems in imagined futures. Drawing on a live online session of the Dreams and Disruptions game hosted by the Canadian Foresight Network in June 2025, the paper reconstructs a collaboratively…
Becoming Better Leaders: Applied Insights into Inner and Outer Transformation
Satya Tanner Abstract: This paper examines how leaders can become more masterful, capable, and ethically grounded by integrating inner development with systemic transformation. Drawing on behavioural science, developmental psychology, biopsychology, neohumanist philosophy, and real-world leadership stories, it argues that many leadership failures stem less from skill deficits than from unexamined habits, fear-based responses, and organisational…
Dynasties and Sages, Demons and Sadvipras: Using Macrohistory to Navigate the Crossroads of Time
Sohail Inayatullah Abstract: This essay explores the transformative potential of macrohistory by engaging three Asia based civilizational thinkers—Sima Qian, Ibn Khaldun, and P.R. Sarkar—in a comparative dialogue on historical cycles and the role of leadership in creating significant change. Drawing from Chinese, Islamic, and Indic traditions, it examines how virtue (te), social cohesion (asabiyya), and…