SPOTLIGHT: Global Leadership
New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
02/08/24
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We live at a unique moment in human history. We—and, by “we” I mean practically all of civilization—have experienced roughly 70 years of widely shared prosperity, human development and even peace. Almost everyone alive today is better off than almost everyone who was alive in 1950, at the end of what essentially had been one devastating war that had started after the turn of the century.
Now, however, our prospects are less Great Expectations than maybe Bleak House to steal from Dickens. Accelerating climate change, disruptive technology, increasing conflict and war, massive numbers of displaced people seeking safety, the breakup of the post-war global order that framed and facilitated the great human advances of the past decades.
But there’s hope: human agency can change our course.
In this thought piece for New Thinking for a New World, Alan Stoga, Chairman of the Tällberg Foundation, shares exactly why and how the Tällberg Foundation supports global leadership through two initiatives: the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize and the Tällberg Leaders Mentoring Leaders program
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•19m
The Greek philosopher, Epicurus, wrote “The art of living well and dying well are one.” However, most of us spend our lives desperately trying to avoid even thinking about dying, never mind preparing for it.
An exception is Dr. Christian Ntizimira, a Rwandan surgeon, who founded the African Center for Research on End-of-Life Care. He has thought long and hard about the social, psychological, cultural, and spiritual factors, as well as the physiological ones, that shape the final days of someone who is dying. Of course, it's not just the patient about whom he is thinking, but also family, friends, and community.
Admittedly, death is not one of those topics that make for a comfortable conversation or a comfortable listening experience. But as Shakespeare wrote for Julius Caesar, “Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” So listen to this episode of New Thinking for a New World and tell us if it helps you think a bit differently about your own inevitable demise.
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Climb a Tree!
February 15, 2024
•24m
Winners of the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize typically have several things in common. They look at the big challenges confronting society as opportunities for innovation. They don’t celebrate process: instead, they measure success or failure by outcomes. And they don’t reject conventional wisdom; they ignore it.
Above all, they share the need to try to make the world what it could and should be, rather than what it is.
Dr. Margaret Lowman, a winner of the 2023 Prize, fits that bill. Her passion is the health of the global forests that are essential components of the natural systems that keep us all alive. That drives her science, her advocacy and her educational initiatives which circle the globe. For a world that has destroyed 50% of the forests that existed seventy years ago, her work is—literally—critical to any hope of coping with climate change.
Listen (and watch) this special episode of New Thinking for a New World. And then go out and climb a tree!
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