Adventures of an Optimist: A Progress Report on the 400 Year Project to Help You Improve 20 Times Faster

In 1995, Donald Mitchell began an audacious task: Demonstrate ways for the whole world to make 400 years worth of normal improvements in the 20 years between 2015 and 2035, a task he calls the 400 Year Project.

The results could be as dramatic for humanity as going from sending smoke signals to watching videos sent via cell phones and email had been for extending communications.

With guidance from management guru Peter Drucker, direction from clients, and assistance from talented colleagues and students, the project has identified many breakthrough solutions which meet the project's goals.

Mitchell describes the roots of his practical optimism, identifies how he organized the project, shares what he learned from pursuing this investigation into untapped breakthroughs, and spells out the focus needed to accelerate global improvements by 20 times from 2015 to 2035. Mitchell also summarizes the books he's coauthored on creating accelerated breakthroughs as part of the 400 Year Project.

• The Irresistible Growth Enterprise: Breakthrough Gains from Unstoppable Change

• The 2,000 Percent Solution: Free Your Organization from "Stalled" Thinking to Achieve Exponential Success

• The 2,000 Percent Solution Workbook: Practical Questions, Exercises and Suggestions to Create Exponential Performance Gains through Applying the Principles in The 2,000 Percent Solution

• The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Secrets of Continuously Developing a More Profitable Business Model

• The 2,000 Percent Squared Solution: The Fast and Effective Road Less Traveled for Creating 400Times Greater Profits and Effectiveness

• Adventures of an Optimist: A Progress Report on the 400 Year Project to Help You Improve 20 Times Faster

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic”. — Peter Drucker

The shift from manual workers who do as they are being told — either by the task or by the boss — to knowledge workers who have to manage themselves ↓ profoundly challenges social structure …

“Managing Oneself is a REVOLUTION in human affairs.” … “It also requires an almost 180-degree change in the knowledge workers’ thoughts and actions from what most of us—even of the younger generation—still take for granted as the way to think and the way to act.” …

… “Managing Oneself is based on the very opposite realities: Workers are likely to outlive organizations (and therefore, employers can’t be depended on for designing your life), and the knowledge worker has mobility.” ← in a context

These pages are attention directing tools for navigating a world moving toward unimagined futures.

It’s up to you to figure out what to harvest and calendarize
— working something out in time (1915, 1940, 1970 … 2040 … the outer limit of your concern) — nobody is going to do it for you.

It may be a step forward to actively reject something (rather than just passively ignoring) and then figure out a coping plan for what you’ve rejected.

Your future is between your ears and our future is between our collective ears — it can’t be otherwise. A site exploration starting point

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