During times of technology, digitization, quantification, economic growth, disengagement etc, it is vitally important to incorporate learning and exposures on humanities, the arts of life and reflection as a way toward purpose & vision , meaning, innovation, shared value and for making a difference ("Whatever I do will be forever what I have done...")

1. Ron Bloemperk

2. What’s the score?

4.  20th Century:
 Some good things...
 Beginning of managerial capitalism
 Greatest destruction rate ever:
▪ Ecological and environmental
▪ Human lives
▪ Most bloodshed....?

5. “The Better Angels of Our
Nature”
-Steven Pinker

6.  Current Business Economics
 Goods get better treatment than people
 Our today’s footprint on the planet...
 Homo Economicus
 Profit over people
 Shareholder protection

8. Change is the
daughter of time!

9. SeeingVacancies in Error
Redundancy Undone

10.  Individuality
 Rationality & bureaucracy
 Technology
 Economic growth & efficiency as norm
 Instant gratification
 Learning for immediate economic application
 De-humanization

12. The Concorde
Fallacy...

13.  “ Profit for a company is like oxygen to a
person. If you don’t have enough of it, you
are out of the game. But if you think that life
is only about breathing, you are missing the
point...!”
▪ - Peter Drucker

14. SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE
 Despair and pessimism
CIVIL SOCIETY PERSPECTIVE
 Hope and optimism
 Restoring the environment
 Fostering social justice
 Collective genious of
humanity
 Re-imaging our
relationship to nature and
to one another
 Effective Altruism

15.  Sustainability and atopic leadership
 Business has the leverage in the global arena
 Doing well by doing good!
 Significance & imagination
 Making a difference!

16.  Economic &Technological Development
 Human Development
 Creating imagination & innovation through
humanities & the arts of life learning
 Critical thinking

18.  Systems & creative thinking
 Inspiring hope
 Human satisfaction & well-being
 Definition of common good & human
discourse
 Broad based education:
professionalism, citizenship & world issues

19. Seeing and learning with
the Heart!

21. Smart = Collective

24. Whatever we do, will be
forever what we have
done...

25. “ Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Ye are many they are few”
- Shelley