The international bestselling author of “When Corporations Rule the World” shares a vital new vision for changing humanity's self-destructive course. We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society have set us on a self-destructive path. In “Change the Story, Change the Future”, Korten offers a new story that lets us reimagine society and navigate the critical needs of our time. Korten calls our...

"We humans live by stories. This defining human quality distinguishes us from other intelligent species and gives us a capacity to rapidly change our individual and group behavior in response to changing circumstances. On the downside, when we get our story wrong, the consequences can be devastating. In this extraordinary work, David Korten identifies three cultural stories ways of understanding the world that have contributed to our current economic,...