Joel Barker 
Joel Barker is author of Future Edge and was the first person to popularize the concept of paradigm shifts for the corporate world. His first videotape, Discovering the Future: The Business of Paradigms, by 1988 became the best selling business video in history. In 2001, he updated this film to include contemporary examples and a shortened version and has been translated into over 16 languages. His second video, The Power of Vision, became his second best seller and has also been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Category: Future Thinking
Web Sites:
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Interviews with Joel Barker»See all
Move over Goldfinger. Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on a laser weapon the U.S. Navy has produced that can take a plane down, not unlike the fictional one Goldfinger used against James Bond almost 40 years ago.
The new normal is getting exciting. Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on greenhouses on top of supermarkets, and new brain imaging technology that shows a very orderly organ.
Joel told us 3-D laser printing would be part of our future. Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on some of the ways 3-D laser printing of objects will create opportunity and cause disruptions, like laser printed pistol recently demonstrated.
Books by Joel Barker
Drawing essentially from the pioneering work of Thomas Kuhn, who wrote the classic, The Theory of Scientific Revolutions, in the 70's, this author has very artfully expounded the concept of paradigm shift & pliancy in the world of business, in contrast to the world of science. From a strategic exploration viewpoint, this is an excellent guide book.
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