Imagination

If the mature market economy is to have a sequel, it will be the work, substantially, of imagination...
to come together, to develop ideas with brilliance and authority, being present, participating, investing imagination, being inspired by, and bringing inspiration to, the places we live in.

– David Fleming

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Growth

The industrial growth society is simply incompatible with collective human maturity. No true adult wants to be a consumer, worker bee, or tycoon, or a soldier in an imperial war, and none would go through these motions if there were other options at hand. The enlivened soul and wild nature are deadly to industrial growth economies,
and vice versa.
– Bill Plotkin

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Source

Why do our attempts to deal with the challenges of our time so often fail? The cause of our collective failure is that we are blind to the deeper dimension of leadership and transformational change. This “blind spot” exists not only in our collective leadership but also in our everyday social interactions. We are blind to the source dimension from which effective leadership and social action come into being. We know a great deal about what leaders do and how they do it. But we know very little about the inner place, the source from which they operate.
– Otto Scharmer

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The Challenge

We live in a time of massive institutional failure, collectively creating results that nobody wants: climate change, cancer, hunger, poverty, violence, terrorism. We are witnessing the destruction of communities, nature, life and the foundations of our social, economic, ecological, and spiritual well being.

In the 21st century, humanity is challenged to a radical and foundational shift in our global culture: from an egocentric industrial growth society to an ecocentric life-sustaining society.

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Leading From the Future

While most predictions rely on extrapolations of trends based on existing economic models — meeting the challenges of this century require updating our economic logic and operating system.

This time calls for a new consciousness and a new collective leadership capacity to meet challenges in a more conscious, intentional, and strategic way. The development of such a capacity would allow us to create a future of greater possibilities.

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Problem

Problem

Over the past 200 years, industrial civilization has been relentlessly undermining Earth’s chemistry, water cycles, atmosphere, soils, oceans, and thermal balance. Plainly said, we have been shutting down the major life systems of our planet. Compounding the ecological crisis are decaying economies, ethnic and class conflicts, and worldwide warfare. Entwined with, and perhaps underlying, these devastations are epidemic failures in individual human development. – Bill Plotkin

Practice

Practice

The currency that counts .. is not ideas. Anyone can have an idea. You can pull one off the Web at any moment. The currency that counts .. is practice. Practices are things that we do every day... listening, contemplation, mindfulness, social-emotional learning practices as well as .. sense and actualize one’s highest future potential. – Otto Scharmer

Future

Future

In the coming few decades, humanity is going to be called to radically shift its global culture: from an egocentric industrial growth society to an ecocentric life-sustaining society.
This calls for new consciousness, new ways of thinking and a new collective leadership, the development of which would allow us to create a viable, liveable, sustainable and promising future.
These new things will not come from the old familiar centers, where people are deeply invested in the existing system; rather, they will be born in unpredicted places in the periphery, where the ruling culture is not fully formed, and there is still space to imagine differently.

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Apuseni Mountains,
Transylvania, Romania