Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Kimmunications: Podcast: Interview with Neil Howe, co-author of The Fourth Turning

Quite the Thought provoking interview. I look forward to getting the book!

Kimmunications: Podcast: Interview with Neil Howe, co-author of The Fourth Turning:
"0:30 Neil Howe explains the 80 to 100 year generational cycle made up of four turnings
8:17 Neil gives the origin of the saeculum
10:17 Neil discusses the various generations that make up this saeculum (e.g. Silent, Boom, Gen X, Millennial)
12:53 Kim asks Neil if we should be afraid of the crisis period,or fourth turning, predicted by the book
18:00 Kim and Neil discuss Barack Obama and the Lincolnesque leader required for fourth turnings
21:35 What an individual should do to prepare for the fourth turning and how it will be different from anything we have known previously"

1 comment:

ConnectingTheDots said...

While Neil Howe has made some good contributions to our knowledge of generations, he continues to lose credibilty among generations experts by his sad attempts to undermine Generation Jones--the generation between the Boomers and Generation X. As is widely known within these experts' circles, he feels threatened by how popular the Generation Jones concept has become, because it makes his books out of date with current expert thinking. But his clearly self-serving and biased attempts to diss GenJones only serve to undrmine his own standing as a serious scholar of generations. This comment isn't intended as a personal attack on Howe, but rather to inform readers of this blog of important context re. Howe's views and role with generations.