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DRIVERS OF CHANGESustainability of People & the Planet
Anna Pollock, DestiCorpSydney, September 8th, 2011
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible Albert Einstein
The challenge of leadership today is to look at seemingly hopeless situations with new eyes, to see possibility where others see none, to bridge the chasm of impossibility. John Renesch
This decade is the first in history that offers the choice between being the last decade of a fading obsolete world or the first of a new and viable one. Ervin Laszlo
Humanity is experiencing the biggest threat in its 2.6 Million
year history
Conscious entrepreneurs will determine whether we make it!
The future is disorder. A door like this has opened up only five or six
times since we got up on our hind legs.
It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you
thought you knew was wrong.
Valentine in Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia
“We are at that point of time when a four-hundred-year-old age is rattling in its deathbed and another is struggling to be born – with a shifting of culture, science, society and institutions enormously greater and swifter than the world has ever experienced…. Dee Hock, Founder of VISA and author The Birth of a Chaordic Organization
We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history – a change in the actual belief structure of western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing their world. Willis Harman, Founder World Business Academy
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
What does this crossroads signify for you?What does this crossroads signify for humanity?
What does this crossroads signify for entrepreneurs?
DIFFERENT TYPES OF CHANGE
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Change TransformationVISIBLE THRU SENSES INVISIBLE, INTERNAL
SURFACE DEEP
MORE OR LESS BETTER OR WORSE
LOCAL UNIVERAL
INCREMENTAL, GRADUAL QUANTUM
Understanding “transformation”
Trends
Drivers
Paradigms
Organization,Structure
Outcomes
CultureValues
Worldview
Climate ChangeUnpredictablityNatural Hazards
Biodiversity & Cultural Diversity
Resource depletion: Energy & Minerals
Food & Water
Financial & Institutional System
Population, Political & Social Stability
Technology
Science
Educated Workforce
Global Connectivity
Rising Living standards, new markets (BRIC)
Creativity innovation
Einstein figured it out
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved with the
same level of thinking or consciousness we used to
create them.”
What’s causing this enormous planetary shift in perspective
right now?
How do I know it’s happening – it’s not on
the 9:0pm news?
1. Connectivity led to Conversations
Companies that don’t realise their markets are now networked person-to-person, getting smarter as a result and deeply joined in conversation are missing their best opportunity. 1999!
“intangible economy”
Intangibles – brand equity, human capital, intellectual property
now make up 60-80% of the market
capitalisation of public companies.
Source NASDAQ
3. Search for Meaning& Purpose
A transition from material want to meaning want is in progress on
an historically unprecedented scale and may be the principal
cultural development of our ageGregg Easterbrook:
The Progress Paradox
3. Search for Meaning& Purpose
In 1989 there were more people aged over 40 than under and values shift as we grow older
2. Search for Meaning& Purpose
Twenty-somethings desire their work to be transformational, not
merely transactional.
Is this a paradox we see within our young generation? They can be self-
absorbed and are used to getting their own way, but sixty-one percent
of Generation iY say they feel personally responsible for making a
difference in the world Tim Elmore, Growing Leaders
4. Humanisation of Business“Well you know, I was a human being before I
became a business man”. George Soros
“The idea that business is just about numbers is preposterous. I’m not good with numbers but I’ve done a reasonable job with feelings and it’s feelings that account for the success of Virgin’s brand’ Richard Branson
4. Humanisation of Business
100% of employees are people
100% of customers are people
100% of investors are people
It’s no longer share of wallet but share of heart
Humanistic companies seek to maximize emotional value first, then experiential value, then social value knowing they lead to financial value
6. Collaboration
”In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." - Charles Darwin
Source: BBMG
8. Conscious Capitalists•Whole Foods
•Southwest Airlines
•Zappos
•The Container Store
•Amazon
•Joie de Vivre
The Heart of Business
PeopleCommunityStakeholders
PersonalityPurposeValues
Place LeadershipFocus
Passion
Be Inspired!Anna Pollockwww.desticorp.typepad.comwww.conscioustourism.wordpress.comEmail: [email protected]