Co-Creating Thrivability The Economics of Transformation

We are moving from a mechanical age of speed into a (complex adaptive) system age of flow http://www.flickr.com/photos/spursfan_ace/2328879637/

The stock market has become an illness indicator of our Global Network Society http://www.flickr.com/photos/flahertyb/3220133817/

From atoms to energies http://www.flickr.com/photos/myvector/2372487324/

Our Zombie-economy has become the post-post-modern version of capitalism. http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/219581402/

While the old economy crumbles, a new one is already forming to carry us forward. http://www.flickr.com/photos/waffl3/2310669237/

Unsustainable growth-> the outcome of the growth=progress paradigm. We succeeded! (and the consequences are killing us) http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldresourcesinstitute/2550699761/

Change happens! Old systems become obsolete and collapse. "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." ~ Buckminster Fuller http://www.flickr.com/photos/rooreynolds/560116735/

No more business as usual. Time for collaboration. http://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/1805374441/

What we will have is a FUNDEMENTAL CULTURAL RESET

The crisis is a space for the old order to panic. With discernment, a massive collaboration using collective intelligence sets a new vision - for thrivability. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasoneppink/86761499/

Boiling frogs will be revealed as the myth it is. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheahammond/2483513438/

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one most adaptable to change.... actually "it is the ones that are lucky, or already have the right features that can be passed on to the next generation." http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1469875/darwins_quotes_not_survival_of_the.html?cat=9

Global crisis is about THRIVING http://www.flickr.com/photos/telltaleheart/3383910292/

The DNA of our organizations has to change. Consider Umair Haque a geneticist. http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/2009/06/the_case_for_constructive_capi.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/kingcoyote/101629213/

New forms of collaboration make old forms, like firms and corporations, confused by the blurring of inside and outside the organizational boundaries.

The economics of thrivability http://www.hava.biz

We can still heal ourselves and our relationship with the planet. http://www.flickr.com/photos/molo/502041697/

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