S.C.Johnson Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at Northwestern University ● Author ● Speaker
There are no easy answers. Instead of coming together to solve the world's most urgent problems, our leaders are busy creating new ones. Another world is possible. https://lnkd.in/duz2SRFp
Indeed. Let’s decide collectively how we can connect to the futures we want. Already here, some signs of them.
creating more problems than we had is the best way to keep everyone busy and not change anything at all it is a systemic thing that no one is to blame for and that no one can solve for now until we have a new engagement model that does not exist today yet
Phil: It's a systems problem. Since all actions represent the system that generated them, once you try to change merely the 'behaviors' without changing the system - the rules, beliefs, norms, mental models - that created them, the system collapses. For new behaviors/actions, a new system must be created that will express itself via new behaviors. Right now those idiots are merely attempting to change behaviors without understanding a systems change is needed.
Philip Kotler, thank you for sharing! "The authors identified seven overarching problem categories (the Wicked 7) by mapping 162 global issues, focusing on POWER and CORRUPTION as the ROOT CAUSE of systemic failure. They argue that solving these requires systemic, regenerative transformation rather than fragmented, symptom-based interventions."
What are the 162 global issues "mapped to" - the W7 Issue Groups? Just fyi - IndustryKG.com maps (associates) issues + trends by Industry (at the 5 forces micro industry level) for the 24,576 Industries that make up the global economy.
These are not problems to be solved. We are in a predicament that we need to navigate to a livable outcome. That starts with strengthening our right relationships with one another and will all other living things on the planet. None of these impacts would exist if we "fixed" that core problem first.
Perhaps the answer is to emerge new systems which do not rely on top down leaders to solve the world's problems? Perhaps the era of central leaders figuring things out for us and telling us what to do is over?
GK VanPatter is this 👆 a systems thinking example? Design 4.0?
We need to team up and help each other. It is never too late to start….
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