By David Laveman | Bio
David Korten certainly seems to have a grasp
of the timely and seemingly intractable problems we face and a platform
from which to raise critical questions. I read his book “The Great
Turning” shortly after it was published and I found it provocative in
the best sense of the word, laying out in clear relief the choices in
front of us. His recent posts on “Beyond the Bailout” on Serene Ambition and on the New Economy initiative on his website spurred me to begin a deeper inquiry, the highlights of which I’d like to share here. [ Read More]
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 By Jim Selman | Bio
David Korten does a great job of showing us
how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer—how the ‘system’ is
rigged to create more for the’ haves’ and less for the ‘have nots’. It
makes sense. We can see it everywhere from the government’s disregard
for regulation, to the now inevitable necessity for a ‘bailout’, to the
way we measure the health of our society to the ‘either/or’
controversies that rage on while giving us more of what we resist. The
saddest aspect of this whole financial meltdown is that we probably
won’t learn our lessons. After all, wasn’t all of our current
regulatory apparatus created after the 1930s so the Great Depression
would never happen again?[ Read More]
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By Shae HaddenBio
David Korten’s opening remarks addressed all present at this conference
as ‘navigators’ of the Great Turning. I find the term interesting:
navigators, in effect, act as leaders. They are responsible for guiding
the ‘ship’: they envision arriving at the destination, chart a course
to it (however tentative or uninformed), and then direct the actions of
others to make that ‘vision’ reality. I agree with Korten that leaders
are of critical importance for navigating the sweeping transformations
happening in our world today.[ Read More]
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I had a great meeting with David Korten yesterday. He is the very
inspiring thought-leader I mentioned in a past blog and the author of The Great Turning.
His vision of some of the underlying issues that perpetuate the
persistence of many of the world’s nastiest problems is brilliant and
offers a framework for creating a ‘new story’ of who we are and what’s
possible.[ Read More]
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