Economic content and structure

The following ↓ is a condensed strategic brainscape that can be explored and modified to fit a user’s needs

major foundations ↓ for future directed decisionS

aimed at navigating

a world constantly moving toward unimagined futureS ↓

↑ In less than 150 years, management ↑ has transformed
the social and economic fabric of the world’s developed countries …

Take responsibility for yourself and
don’t depend on any one organization ↑ ↓ (bread-crumb trailS below)

We can only work on the thingS on our mental radar ↑ at a point in time ↓

The economic and social health of our world
depends on
our capacity to navigate unimagined futureS
(and not be prisoners of the past)

The assumption that tomorrow is going to be
an extrapolation of yesterday sabotages the future — an
organization’s, a community’s and a nation’s future.

The assumption ↑ sabotages future generations — your children’s,
your grandchildren’s and your great grandchildren’s — in
spite of what the politicians say …

The vast majority of organization and political power structures
are engaged in this ↑ futile mind-set …
while rationalizing the evidence

The future is unpredictable and that means
it ain’t going to be like today
(which was designed & produced yesterday)

The capacity to navigate is governed by what’s between our ears ↑ ↓

and the unpredictability of the future

with its unimagined natureS. ↓ ↑

(It’s just a matter of time before we can’t get to the future
from where we are presently)

Political ecologists believe that the traditional disciplines define fairly narrow and limited tools rather than meaningful and self-contained areas of knowledge, action, and events … continue

“The customer never buys ↑ what you think you sell.
And you don’t know it.

That’s why it’s so difficult to differentiate yourself.” Druckerism

“People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete —
the things that should have worked but did not,
the things that once were productive and no longer are.” Druckerism

“For what should America’s new owners, the pension funds,
hold corporate management accountable?” and
“Rather, they maximize the wealth-producing capacity of the enterprise”
Search for the quotes above here

Just reading ↑ is not enough, harvesting and action thinking are needed … continue

Initially and absolutely needed: the willingness and capacity to
regularly look outside of current mental involvements continue

evolution of refrigeration

Mission ::: Continuity and Change

sound players

October 16th, 2003 — “Hell Froze Over.” Apple launched – iTunes for Windows.
That opened up the iPod to the 97% of people who had PCs.
Their first iPods turned into their first iPhones
… switched to a Macintosh all together
… along the way Apple’s market cap climbed to
the most valuable company in the world …

music

Film to Point-and-shoot to Smartphones

picture tech

And management is the specific tool, the specific function, the specific instrument,
to make institutions capable of producing results.

Conditions for survival: Abandonment, Systematic continuing improvement, Organize for systematic continuous exploitation, especially of its successes, Organized for systematic innovation. A destabilizer

Parts and chapters in Drucker’s toward tomorrows and narrower time related books direct attention to economics (e.g., the poverty of economic theory) and the economy (e.g., trade lesson from the world economy or the U.S. economy’s power shift)

“Concentration—that is, the courage to impose on time and events
[one’s] own decision as to what really matters and comes first—is
the executive’s only hope of becoming the master
of time and events instead of their whipping boy.” PFD

Marketing ::: Innovation

micro

Larger view ↓

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Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business.

It can be justified only as being good for society.

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Larger view of the image above

Opportunities

Organization efforts: Problems or Opportunities?

Knowledge ::: Strengths
People
Information
Outside results ::: Performance

Management (a shock to the system)

Management Challenges for the 21st Century

What needs doing around here?
A local view from Google Earth ↓

local business

Try searching Google for "largest cities" then see what do they look like on the map in overview and in street view.

Along the road to Terra Alta ↓

Urban world: The shifting global business landscape

Implications for knowledge, information
and financial flows

urban world

Larger view ↓

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown ↑ ↓

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Since information knows no national boundaries,
it will also form new transnational communities of people
who, maybe with out ever seeing each other in the flesh,
are in communion because they are in communication

The Primacy of Knowledge + Doing Business in the Lego World

topics and time periods

McKinsey on the disappointing realities of change programs
and training

organization evolution

Find Have to be built on responsibility from within
in the long outline of Post-Capitalist Society

A world moving toward unimagined futures