" If artifical scarcity, separation, judgement, win/lose, and alienation
are the assumptions our current organizations depends on, how can we
promote cooperation (belonginess=win/win) in a these smaller systems to
improve competitiveness (alienation=win/lose) in the larger economic
system and civilization? What economic system is required to promote
belongingness,unity, and systems thinking, and the capacity for ALL
individuals to create their future,achieve their purpose, and use their
given gifts and talents to the fullest? "
"I don't know. How can we avoid asking this question? Why are we afraid
to go there? Senge and Deming avoided the issue. Why? To me they were
non-systemic to promote cooperation to improve competitiveness? Am I
wrong?"
What about looking to the Native American culture and belief system for
some answers to this. They seem to have a lot of experience at dialogue
including ritual (smoke, pipe, talking stick, 7 stages, etc.) and we did
base our system of government on the Iroquois Nation's system. Their
concept of wholeness, the circle of life system, individual gifts on the
"good red road" path, learning from the oneness of Nature (plants,
animals, stones, cosmos), "all our Relations", etc. may provide insight
into this issue as well as how our government system could work.
Peggy Smith-Lewis
Johnson & Johnson Clinical Diagnostics
MSmithLe@cldx.com
--MSmithLe@cldx.com (Smith-Lewis, Margaret)
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