Our mission to challenge our readers to explore the edges of their understandings and beliefs. The books will not always be best sellers but will always be intriguing and instructive. Why: Discover new authors, digest books that ignite conversation, and build learning that changes our professional mindsets and lives. Who: Leaders, executives, knowledge workers, change agents, sensemakers, futurists, techies, change navigators, futurists, venturists and the 50 shades of Grey Swan thinkers and doers. Where: Online forum discussions plus an end-of-year GSG Book Festival, with advance pre-reads and thought starters, and post discussion syntheis and takeaways. When: We will meet 10+ times per year for literary discussion, Special events concerning affiliated Cygnus Publishing and partners. What: We will cover off the full professional and literary range of: - leadership & culture - futures & foresights - sensemaking & complexity - change & transformation - behavior & psychology - the marketplace & economy - strategy & purpose - intelligence & knowledge - learning & craft - innovation.& ventures - technology & digital - workplace & skills - environment & sustainability - rights & ethics - events & beyond the headlines - decisions & actions We aim to become the smartest book shelf for change agents everywhere. Join us. GSG Book Club is a Cygnus Venture, affiliated with our global collective of minds from the global Grey Swan Guild whose goal is to help its members make better sense of the world, across content, events, intelligence, learning, networking and ventures.
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So great a tiopic we decided to host two - in july we are hosting two sessions of our book club with a great book "How Data Happened" by Chris Wiggins and Matthew Jones. Join us for an interactive discussion that engages and challenges your viewpoints. Grey Swan Guild Ralph Mercer, PhD W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Columbia Business School
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Book Club Number 5 is coming up for our Guild's book club choice for July "How Data Happened" by Chris Wiggins and Matthew Jones - join us for an interactive discussion on one of the smarter books today's and tomorrow's world. Grey Swan Guild W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Columbia Business School Ralph Mercer, PhD Giles Crouch Asha Singh Brett Peppler Olga Shaeva SJ Barakony Whynde Kuehn Oshawn Jefferson, Fernando Gutiérrez Olaizola Kheeran Dharmawardena Julia Claeys Freeland Joanna Dehn Jen Rice
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Join us on the 8th of July for the Grey Swan Guild Book Club review of “ How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms,” Written by: chris wiggins and Matthew L.Jones GoodReads Review https://lnkd.in/egcwyGbQ “From facial recognition—capable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform everything from who gets loans to who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn’t just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to the development of Google search. Expanding on the popular course they created at Columbia University, Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones illuminate the ways in which data has long been used as a tool and a weapon in arguing for what is true, as well as a means of rearranging or defending power. By understanding the trajectory of data—where it has been and where it might yet go—Wiggins and Jones argue that we can understand how to bend it to ends that we collectively choose, with intentionality and purpose. Book found at https://lnkd.in/eJwyytrx And if you’re short on time the audio version is found at https://lnkd.in/e4hz35Rv
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Join us for GSG Book Club #4 happening May 31st at 2pm ET/11am PT/8pm CEST as we discuss "Wise Animals" by Tom Chatfield and Pan Macmillan Hosted by: Ralph Mercer, PhD Buy the book: https://lnkd.in/gP53zkZS Register for the discussion - exclusive discussion limited to 25 seats
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GSG Book Club is hosting GSG Book Club #4 - Wise Animals. Make sure to attend it today.
Join us for GSG Book Club #4 happening May 31st at 2pm ET/11am PT/8pm CEST as we discuss "Wise Animals" by Tom Chatfield and Pan Macmillan Hosted by: Ralph Mercer, PhD Buy the book: https://lnkd.in/gP53zkZS Register for the discussion - exclusive discussion limited to 25 seats
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Join us today at 15:00 EST (Canada/Moncton). We look forward to seeing you all there!
We cover our Book Club Session #4 tromorrow - a book by Tom Chatfield "Wise Animals - How Technology Made Us". From one of our previous profiled authors Michael Bhaskar : "Powerful, prodound, and completely engrossing; this (Wise Animals) is a multitudinous medittation on not only technology but also history, culture, ideas, ethiocs, psychology and above all, what it means to be human." From the forum where we have smart minds tackling and adding to our smartest bookshelf. Join us. Pre-register here: https://lnkd.in/dkadm53N We'll aslo announce Book Club #5 feature book happening in June. #wiseanimals #gsgbookclub Karessa Torgerson, Foresight Ralph Mercer, Rob Tyrie Fathima Beckmann Sylvia Gallusser Mary K (MK) Marsden Rose Kemps Oshawn Jefferson, RBLP-T, DEIA in the Workplace, BMCEPC™ Kevin Urie Sonja Blignaut Chuck Metz, Jr. Prashanth Meka Juan Diego Ospina Ramirez Antonia Nicols Pan Macmillan
Great list of books to add to our bookshelf
"If we’re interested in ethics, and especially an ethics that is literate in the best knowledge we have about the universe and ourselves, we have to take a close interest in the human-made world..." It was an absolute joy to speak to one of my very favourite websites about technology, ethics and human thriving in a digital age - and to recommend five of the best books I've read about tech ethics. Do take a look, comment and share if you feel so moved. https://lnkd.in/grgx8_Y5
We cover our Book Club Session #4 tromorrow - a book by Tom Chatfield "Wise Animals - How Technology Made Us". From one of our previous profiled authors Michael Bhaskar : "Powerful, prodound, and completely engrossing; this (Wise Animals) is a multitudinous medittation on not only technology but also history, culture, ideas, ethiocs, psychology and above all, what it means to be human." From the forum where we have smart minds tackling and adding to our smartest bookshelf. Join us. Pre-register here: https://lnkd.in/dkadm53N We'll aslo announce Book Club #5 feature book happening in June. #wiseanimals #gsgbookclub Karessa Torgerson, Foresight Ralph Mercer, Rob Tyrie Fathima Beckmann Sylvia Gallusser Mary K (MK) Marsden Rose Kemps Oshawn Jefferson, RBLP-T, DEIA in the Workplace, BMCEPC™ Kevin Urie Sonja Blignaut Chuck Metz, Jr. Prashanth Meka Juan Diego Ospina Ramirez Antonia Nicols Pan Macmillan
Just a few days to get registered for the GSG Book Club Event featuring #wiseanimals by Tom Chatfield.
Join us for GSG Book Club #4 happening May 31st at 2pm ET/11am PT/8pm CEST as we discuss "Wise Animals" by Tom Chatfield and Pan Macmillan Hosted by: Ralph Mercer, PhD Buy the book: https://lnkd.in/gP53zkZS Register for the discussion - exclusive discussion limited to 25 seats
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