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April 5, 2013

How To Make Too-Big-To-Fail Businesses Obsolete

By Rob Kall

While there's been some talk of getting rid of too-big-to-fail businesses, it doesn't seem like there's been any progress in getting rid of them or stopping them from getting bigger. Here are some ideas that fall short of banning them outright or breaking them up:

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While there's been some talk of getting rid of too-big-to-fail businesses, it doesn't seem like there's been any progress in getting rid of them or stopping them from getting bigger. 

R. Buckminster Fuller, the out-of-the-box thinking architect who invented the geodesic dome said, "

In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.

Perhaps it's better to come up with ways that organically lead to the extinction of too-big-to-fail operations. Here are some ideas that fall short of banning them outright or breaking them up:

Make it LESS profitable for businesses to be too big to fail. Give smaller businesses some advantages that the biggest businesses, that conglomerates that have acquired other companies don't have access to. 

Make it less attractive or downright unattractive for big companies to acquire smaller companies. 

Develop new models and approaches that enable fast growing companies to leverage the benefits of economies of scale and find finance opportunities that don't require being acquired. 

Develop utilities that help smaller companies collaborate with each other for development, research, distribution, production-- so it is not necessary to become acquired or cut exclusive deals with one company. 

There are some new ideas here. Some of them could create new kinds of middle companies that help other companies coordinate and work together. Fund small business innovative research grants to help develop these operations. Fund research at universities to develop models and approaches that prevent big and empower small.  Encourage foundations to to fund academics with funds to create departments specifically focusing on maintaining small and medium sized businesses that stay connected to local communities. 

There is a massive bottom up revolution well under way, with some of the biggest, most fast growing new companies using bottom up approaches. Explore ways to use bottom up, connection, cooperation, interdependence approaches to keep small businesses small, or at least independent and not acquired by fortune 1000 companies. 

It would be nice if too-big-to-fail companies could be outright outlawed-- broken up or shut down. But that does seem to be likely. If the above approaches, and perhaps risk taxes-- these giant corporations have proven they are dangerous, so charge them risk insurance/taxes that make them not so profitable-- and reward them for breaking themselves apart. 

We need a new economics that supports local communities, that protects industries that produce good paying, meaningful jobs. It will take out of the box thinking to do it. This IS doable. 

Here's one good reason-- smaller businesses create a lot more jobs. If we keep businesses smaller and encourage bigger businesses to get smaller, we'll create more jobs. Let's approach getting business smaller the way we approached the Apollo moon landing program and the Manhattan project. Make it a priority, invest in it and get it done. 



Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.


Check out his platform at RobKall.com


He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity


He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com


more detailed bio:


Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.


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