About the Book
This Quick Guide To A Thriving Future is provided to help you and your family and friends, community, country and world survive and thrive. It shows how to build a thriving future using Thrive! Strategy and Action Plans. The "Quick Guide" quickly takes you through the basics of building a thriving future. For our selves, our future generations and the Earth on which we depend, you and we must, can and will achieve a surviving and thriving future for all forever. This future is Thrive! and is a bold vision and mission. This Guide describes what your life and your world will be in a thriving future where all survive and thrive forever, to the maximum extent possible. It lays out why you and we must care about a surviving and thriving future for you, your friends and family, your community, your country and our world. You and we all want and need that future because of our endangered future and our human need to survive and desire to thrive. The Guide shows you and all of us how to build, achieve and sustain a surviving and thriving future for you and your friends and family, your community, your country and our world. And yes, we can as we are now the most able in human history. To help achieve this better future, the Thrive! Next Generation Toolkit provides next generation strategy and tools. Finally, this guide shows how the Thrive! Endeavor, you and all of us together, builds, achieves and sustains a thriving future for all forever.
About the Author: GARY (CHRIS) CHRISTOPHERSON, throughout his career, has worked on strategic and operational planning, policy, systems, models, management, reform and performance toward reducing vulnerability, improving health and building a thriving future. He founded and leads Thrive!(R) which helps create, manage and sustain large positive change and build a thriving future for all (persons, local, State, regional, national, global). www.ThrivingFuture.org Similarly, he founded and leads HealthePeople(R) which helps build a healthy and thriving future for individual persons and communities (local, State, regional, national, global). www.HealthePeople.com These endeavors draw on 30+ years of experience in creating, managing, evaluating and sustaining large positive change at national/local levels in public and private sectors. He published Thrive! - Building a Thriving Future, a manual for creating and sustaining change and building a better, thriving future. Over his career, he has served in many senior leadership, management and policymaking positions, including with organizations with multi-billion dollar budgets and thousands of employees. His experience includes: Fellow, National Academy for Public Administration; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and Senior Advisor to Assistant Secretaries for Health and Reserve Affairs, Department of Defense; Associate Director, Presidential Personnel, Executive Office of the President, White House; Senior Advisor to Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Director for the Quality Improvement Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, DHHS; Senior Advisor to Under Secretary, Veterans Health Administration, VA; Senior Fellow and Scholar-In-Residence, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; Chief Information Officer, Veterans Health Administration, VA; Director of Health Legislation, House Select Committee on Aging, U.S. House of Representatives. He is a sculptor of abstract art, focusing on mobile and stabile sculptures and having created over 150 sculptures. www.GChris.com He is the author of a science fiction novel and a children's book. www.Amazon.com He received his bachelor's degree in political science and his master's degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and did doctoral work in health policy and management at the John Hopkins University School of Public Health.
