Planning Review: Volume 3 Issue 3
Table of contents
Astrology: A tool for planning
Doris KayeWould it surprise you to know that one of the chief functions of serious astrology is to enable an individual to develop better plans? Astrology utilizes accumulated data…
Human Resource Management in the corporate planning process
Calvin ReynoldsThis is the first article in the new Human Resources Management Department of Planning Review. The article has three primary objectives: 1) To highlight and emphasize the…
Pragmatism at the center — is it enough?
Carl H. MaddenBoth the Congress and the President come across after a few months as extreme pragmatists. Earlier fears of a “veto‐proof” Congress are dissolving. Huge mandates last November…
Communications — The art of getting through to people — Part II
John D. DrakeIn the last issue of Planning Review, a new concept in facilitating communication was discussed. This concept, called “I‐SPEAK Your Language,” concerns the modification of one's…
Goals for global society: A third‐generation project for the Club of Rome
Rudolf W. KnoepfelModeling of long‐range world trends began in a rigorous way in 1968, when the Club of Rome initiated the Forrester and Meadows studies which resulted in the computer models Worlds…
A Proposal for future‐oriented research at the United Nations
Ervin LaszloThe Need for Future‐Oriented Research and Information. Intranational and international crises and conflicts will increase sharply during the next several decades unless we manage…
The no growth economy
According to one school of thought, a state of slow growth, or perhaps even zero growth, will characterize economic life some time during the 21st century, maybe early in the…
News
Janice J. TaitReport on the Conference “Technology Assessment and the Limits to Growth” The conference was attended by some 400 representatives of business, government, and private institutes…
Business and the new federalism
Dan W. LufkinWe are coming into an era in which business will have unprecedented opportunity to deal with government on a creative and profitable basis. What has made this opportunity possible…
Do corporate executives plan for social responsibility?
Harry A. LipsonThe corporate planning process in large U.S. industrial firms must take a wide range of demands and pressures into account. Many different groups have an interest in the…