Bridges over troubled world LO29047

From: Chris Macrae (wcbn007@easynet.co.uk)
Date: 08/21/02


Replying to LO29043 --

Maybe I mix too many metaphors here but let's try...

I think Buckmister Fuller once said Technology will soon prove to be
mankind's final examination. The Gap for me is passing through that, to
connect to one world where all of humanity's win-wins come first, rather
than shorter-term fractional interests. And in The Gap I see a lot of Yin
Yangs, which (mainly) The West/North has contrived to see only as Yins.
( Admittedly this is a hobby horse with me because I believe it's
intimately about the bigger picture of The Systems and Lost Transparency
Crisis of Corporate USA... Corruption was only one minor blotch on the
whole canvass, and not to realise this will be the great leadership
irresponsibility of our life and times)

Here is a partial listing. Many overlap, and simplifying the language,
adding in the missing overlaps would be jolly helpful if you feel there
are better bridges to build around here. I will try and improve the
editing and linking of examples of this list at our authors' research
workspace http://www.valuetrue.com/home/glossary.cfm?letter=y Thanks to
any and all contributors to this "gap analysis":

YIN, versus yang

Globalisation catalysed by trends in technology's connectivity etc.,
versus local and global don't humanly exist without each other

Global corporate economy driven for West/North, versus driven for whole
world and promoting the needs of the most desperate as challenges to
resolve first

West/North mass public awareness (politics) for ourselves, versus for the
whole world (new activist/environment nets)

Mass media, versus 21st C networks . (One way mass media, versus all-way
net media. Command & Control, versus converse, communalise and learn)

Global advertising image as main communications model of big business,
versus economics of this is 'bust' and irresponsible. ( Some global
corporates spend a billion dollars a year on image-making; what about
making advantage by promoting real responsibilities instead - it is time
to educate consumers to walk away from those who prioritise image-make
over responsibility-make)

Paper command & control organization, versus digital flow organisation

Win-Lose transactioning core tenet of strategy and professional advice,
versus Win-Win core of strategy

Corporate Governance/auditing by system-negative measurements, versus by
system-harmonising measurements

Organisations absent of common multidisciplinary visual mapping language;
versus organisations embrace visual language

Primary economic form separate organizations; versus primary form networks

Separation of global corporate, Government, NGO; versus coordination at
least on selected issues

Idea that product competitors compete over everything; versus idea that
people in a worldwide industry partner over industry's biggest risk and
other responsibilities

We could afford non-transparency and short-term rules of leadership and
behaviour; versus we CANNOT afford anything other than moving relentlessly
towards transparency

Nobody is responsible for the organizations our society shapes; versus
everyone is responsible

Business is primarily for the shareholder; versus business is for a whole
community of stakeholders and an environment of responsibility beyond

(System) Responsibility is compliance; versus (system) responsibility is
advantage - the only way to sustain human growth for all which it is human
of us all to seek

Economics of transactions and tangibles and only money and separation,
versus economics of relationships and open networks and everything of
human value exchange. (The mathematics are very different but
unfortunately most of the classical business professions are not lorded
over by good enough mathematicians to know the human assumptions they are
burying)

A business age where innovation largely ceased because investing in people
learning patterns wasn't what the monopoly form of corporate governance
accounting included in its constitution, versus a business age where
knowledge working patterns and win-win human relationships are what true
corporate governance values dynamically and relentlessly

Chris Macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk London 0208 540 5304
Transparency Community www.valuetrue.com

> Gap 1: Although qualified by Mike, there is an implied gap between the
> percentage of population in "post conventional" development and the
> percentage that should be there. At least, that's the way I read it.
> This "gap," however, hangs on the application of the classification
> scheme/label/criteria summed up as "post conventional." Not sure what's
> behind that. See Gap 2.
[...snip by your host...]

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