I would bet that you, the reader, is very much aware of all the amazing things happening around us. Things are becoming both more challenging and more beautiful and the most important thing is that we can choose on which side of the divide we want to be.
I speak to various business owners, entrepreneurs and managers on a frequent basis and many of them look at the changing world in disbelief. Either with misplaced self-confidence or perhaps some disdain they look at what the ‘young’ people are trying to do and simply laugh it off. Many times they are concerned about a lack of work ethic and perhaps they do have some ground to stand on. But…
In the face of dramatic disruptive forces such as quantum computing, new media ecology and jobless growth we need to consider a new way of living and breathing that unites timeless wisdom and timeous innovation.
If you are in business, want to have fulfilling work or you are an entrepreneur you cannot ignore what is happening all around you – besides, the best way to predict the future is to create it. So, today I want to give you a bit of a heads-up and introduce you to some of the most exciting developments in society and business in the last 100 years or so. I think you will appreciate this…
Have you heard?! Capitalism is still cool despite all the movements in anger because of what it has done to society. Guys like Said Dawalabani are re-imaging how we can go about the business of economics. Mr Dawalabani is taking on a bold project in the form of Memenomics which is rooted in Spiral Dynamics which has been spearheaded (among others) by Don Beck. The big idea is that we have overlapping levels of development that any society goes through in order to realise their full potential and that as we progress we have the ability to integrate each level in order to create a society that knows how to ebb and flow with challenges according to various groups and levels of development. You will have to explore more for yourself…
If you are interested to know how this could potentially impact your business then you will need to read the work of Frederic Laloux that focus on purpose, holism and self-management. Oh! And he has included various case studies that shows it works.
I’m gonna stop there for now but there are quite a few more groups and individuals that are either doing similar or related work. The point is there is definitely a wave of change upon us. Surf’s up!
