Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux

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Original and thought provoking Gordon Brown

Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the future Valerie Amos
To thrive in the twenty-first century, we all need to understand the challenges coming our way. And start adapting, now.

We all know there are major, overlapping, global crises ahead of humanity: climate change, mass migration, new warfare, big tech, further pandemics, authoritarian capitalism. Rather than be daunted, this book charts a way that we can respond. With expertise from his work at the highest levels of international politics, education, activism and business, Tom Fletcher offers a practical manifesto that can help us transform the way we learn, live, and work together.

Amongst its key survival skills, this book offers ideas on how we renew education, restore society and reimagine the future. It helps us chart a course to take back control, to find purpose, and to become better ancestors. It helps us to learn the language of technology without thinking like computers. It offers 39 steps that each of us can start to take today to boost our survivability.

Vital, practical and accessible, this is a book about how we can anticipate the threats and opportunities of tomorrow and be ready for them individually and collectively.

Reviews

Original and thought provoking: a manifesto for a better way of educating humanity
Gordon Brown

Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the future
Valerie Amos

This manual for humanity is a call to action for all of us. Read it, learn from it, act aggressively and uncompromisingly upon it, let it guide the rest of your lifes work
General Sir Graeme Lamb, former SAS Commander

A scintillating humanifesto for creativity in how we learn. Inspiration not just for parents and teachers, but all of us
Andria Zafirakou, Global Teacher of the Year 2018 and author of Those Who Can, Teach

Global education has found a champion. Future generations have found a spokesperson
Andreas Schleicher, OECD

A magnificent book! As we (anxiously) anticipate the rest of this century, Tom Fletcher presents us with a brilliantly-timed, incredibly important, gem of a book overflowing with wisdom and much hope too
Zeid Raad, UN Commissioner for Human Rights

An excellent handbook on how to coexist not just with each other, but with technology too
Mustafa Suleyman, Founder of Google DeepMind

The international community needed a call to action. This is a must read for the inventors, dreamers and pioneers of our future
Dubai Abulhoul, Founder of the Fiker Institute

Brilliant, an absolute must-read. A riveting, superbly written account of the world today, and tomorrow
Matthew DAncona, author of Post-Truth
A fascinating and inspiring analysis of how the world is changing and education needs to keep up
Rachel Sylvester, The Times

His hints, tips, advice, comments and things-you-and-I-can-do-today to bring about change are so frequent that I lost count. Not 10 ideas, not even 57, but countless A provocative and hugely thoughtful compendium of positive and realistic thinking to navigate an increasingly difficult world
Gavin Esler, The National

Author Bio

Tom Fletcher CMG is a Visiting Professor of International Relations at New York University, and Visiting Professor of Diplomatic Practice at the Emirates Diplomatic Academy. He was British Ambassador to Lebanon ( 2011-15), and the Downing Street foreign policy adviser to three Prime Ministers, (2007-11). He is an Honorary Fellow of Oxford University, and the Global Strategy Director for the Global Business Coalition for Education, which seeks to harness private sector efforts to get 59 million children into school. He blogs as the Naked Diplomat, and chairs the International Advisory Council of the Creative Industries Federation, promoting Britain's most dynamic and magnetic sector overseas. Tom is leading a review of British diplomacy for the UK Foreign Office, and a report on the future of the United Nations for the next UN Secretary General. Tom is married to Dr Louise Fletcher, a psychotherapist, and they have two sons.