“If a problem can’t be solved as it is, enlarge it.”
—Dwight Eisenhower

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
—John Muir

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
—R. Buckminster Fuller

Medard Gabel . . .

has conducted workshops, consulted, and given lectures for over 400 corporations, colleges, universities, high schools, organizations, and governments throughout the world—including the U.S. Congress, United Nations, GM, IBM, and Motorola. (For a more detailed list, see here.)

He is the former executive director of the World Game Institute, a UN-affiliated NGO. He worked with Buckminster Fuller for 12 years where he learned the power and utility of whole systems thinking, global perspectives and a good sense of humor. Mr. Gabel has been designing, developing, and delivering experiential educational programs since 1970. He is currently the CEO of BigPictureSmallWorld and BigPicture Consulting, and is the author of six books on global problems, resources and strategies, the global energy situation, the global food situation, the U.S. food system, planning, and multinational corporations.

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“The world needs a new vision of what is possible, that can galvanize people around the world to achieve higher levels of cooperation in areas of common concern and shared destiny.”
—UN Commission on Global Governance

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
—Martin L. King Jr.