Managing bows and arrows in time of war was easy, but now we have nuclear weapons, whose impact upon this planet could last for centuries. Whilst our weapons are witness to some evolutionary development, our thinking and perception of each other remains locked in the time of the bows and arrows.
Surely it is here, in the plight of our human condition, that we need a new leadership that can focus more upon our own personal development as a species, in seeking to improve our daily lot. We have so much potential, readily evidenced by what we surround ourselves with, but the real change must come from helping us to evolve along with what we develop.
Leaders who can identify this continuing gap and address it will attract immense interest and support in awakening something that has been dormant and suppressed within us for centuries, if not millennia. Freeing people to realize their true potential will not only provide the desperately needed levels of accountability our present activities so urgently require, but bring forth a new culture that business can only thrive within.
The starting place has to be how we educate our young. To increase the emphasis upon teaching them how to reach informed decisions about how to live life must be amongst the most essential of requirement for a new culture.
Change like this does not threaten our existence but elevate our whole game. Providing the type of control and responsibility over our evolution that never before been achieved.
This type of change, in my opinion can only relieve the pent up frustration that is increasingly breaking out around the globe. People can now talk directly to each other in a manner that they have never ever been capable of before.
They can compare life experiences and educate each other. This has to be harnessed not suppressed – it is also called evolution and cannot be resisted.
Surely the change we seek in our leaders would be seen in their recognition that we are not just “consumers”, “workers”, “punters”, “profit centre’s”, “units of profit” or a “commodity” to be traded.
And from this basic respect stems a whole new political agenda of change which could lead us away from global warming, create more balanced corporate management and a renewed respect in the political system.
A “fairy tale” or something worth striving for? - You chose!
(Authors note: I do not direct these observations at the American people but at world leadership. We seem to be coming more aggressive as a species and the bigger prizes made available by Globalisation seem to be at the root of it. We must direct our attention to who and what we are if we are to survive the changes now happening around the world. It is also inspiring to see such robust turnouts and interest in the Presidential elections - something we can only dream about in the UK at present!
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