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Meta-business
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Looking for a common future for all of humanity? Businesses assisting this will outcompete inequitable and environmentally alarming enterprises. Meta-business!
Six values: Sandra Waddock on next economies
Our next narrative, meta-story is a much more life-affirming economics. It offers hope and life and is based around complexity and systems.
Transformation: Steve Waddell on new economic norms
A new economic meta-story. You-I-we are creating it and moving from GNP to how we share, collaborate, support each other’s happiness and achieve our own.
Steve on supporting experimentation and connecting to really give birth to this next economy for the majority of us.
It takes a village: Glenn Page
It takes a village. That’s the new paradigm.
We’re never going to be able to work through current meta crises as individuals. Glenn Page talks on creating the wellspring for collective seeing.
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Our world is changing. Our thinking patterns are shifting. To answer our pressing emergencies and, fortuitously, engaging in this brings an aliveness like nothing else.
We’re a worldwide civilisation now and can consciously engage in creating thriving, just, sustainable futures for everyone. Yet, sometimes, this seems like a very lonely path…
We hope this site helps us all accelerate positive shifts. Amplification, re-storying and sharing awe…
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Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
Doughnut economics: ambitious talk as action
In coming out of crisis, bouncing beyond the old economics that’s outlived its usefulness, actions speak loudly. Amsterdam and global cities are leading and demonstrating the next economies: these underpin solutions. They’re transformational systems for thriving into pandemic and climate crisis recovery.
The Commons: Next economies, politics and culture
Economic commons activities—there are many more already than you think!
These are initiatives that are socially driven. Risks and benefits are shared mutually. We avoid costly overheads and dominating hierarchies.
Wellbeing economy: in the USA
What’s the story? A wellbeing economy in the USA and a world we can create together—we have the resources. What do you envision?
A charging meme: The power of the stories
We are changing the purpose of business with clean energy leading the way.
Our new purpose is that we serve the world and all beings.
We need help! For transformations
Our world is changing, inside and outside of ourselves.
For climate and crises answers, we need to step into the extraordinary and then hold that with the ordinary.
Transformation: 8 steps to a new economy for the 21st century
We can put our rising awareness next to feeling empowered for change.
David Korten does so here taking what seems impossible to easy.
Trust, reciprocity and communication: collaboration bases
Our ability to cooperate is one of our most striking human features. We’ve been fixing issues like climate, collective action problems and dilemmas, throughout history. Emergency help is here, fortunately. We’re all entangled with these crises yet we have the collaborative capability solutions too.
Climate-x: Entrepreneurial step change
Shatter business as usual. This Climate-x story is about creating entrepreneurial, social and climate synergy. it’s a different level of thinking to action.
Meta-modern business: outcompete common practice
“Like all social constructs, the market could be different: we have created the market and we can change it," Tomas Björkman. * Looking for a common future for all of humanity while our businesses outcompete inequitable and environmentally alarming enterprises?...
Festina Lente
Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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