Sustainocracy, the new democracy

We have entered an undesired age of unethical overall behaviour and this now needs to be transformed. Two years ago we could still use multidimensional entrepreneurship to bring about change through competition on values rather that wealth. This was complicated due to the common material nature in business that considered money as a goal rather than means. But it was not impossible. Politics was then limited to an electorial challenge to maintain wellfare rather than the provoction of change. The unstability, caused by the credit crisis, changed this too. It brought to the surface that entire populations have grown into a sick culture of selfish, all destructing individualised greed. We can now relate this unwanted overall western human nature to the deterioration of our environment, ouw overweight problems, tax increases, etc.

The problem of change is not now anymore just within the scope of sustainable business development and responsibilities. Now politics need to understand that their electorial commitment to conservative wellfare maintenance refers not to generalised misuse of wealth. Politics was blind until recently focussing only on managing wealth rather than showing leadership for common values of respect, colaboration, added values and constructive natures. We now have encountered again the dark side of human existance and learned that material wealth is no guarantee to happiness or wellbeing at all. More is needed and that needs to be positioned and kept alive in a community or population.

In business we see exactly the same. During various decades the business community of large enterprises have developed a managerial nature of banking with their resources. The business excellence was not anymore measured by innovative business content but through innovative maintenance while the real business was done through material gambling with the activa which had been built up years. The development of real business content requires knowledge, vision and commitment. Under pressure of share holders the CEOs prefered to go the easy way and sell of business units, buildings and construct yearly share holders value around “special income”. They have evolved into brokers rather than business leaders.

In both worlds, the political and entrepreneurial, we now need transformative leaders who take the human nature back to where it prospers best: the honoust process of creating added value that is beneficial for all and motivating populations to work together for a better and stable world. Transformative executives have the guts to challenge our recent past and use the available resources of creativity, human energy and accumulated recent knowledge of the problems of the world to create an identity of action and common true benefit. These new age leades use multidimensionality to develop the ideological basis and walk upfront to lead us the way to the world that we really desire and that everyone up to now has failed to bring us.

We coach all who want to develop the know how and direction of transformative leadership.

The west has accumulated wealth for over 50 years now which has caused the local populations to grow an overall lazy mentality around power and material security. The wealth grew by using the low wage countries s.a. China and India to their own benefits. Those countries in turn created their own neo-capitalist development and growth of wages and wealth and prosperity. This is however not yet generalised and has not been turned into a social welfare system s.a. the west. Here we have huge mountains of accumulated funds that have been saved through hard labour and a social insurance system that was to cushion any individual temporary problems. Those funds reside in social security funds managed by governments, life and health insurances managed by insurance companies, pension funds managed by special fund keepers and banks, savings of people and the wealth of qualitative good housing the is a colatoral for morgages together with an economic climat providing work for all. The accumulated wealth of over 50 years of national saving evaporates within days after the credit crisis because of structural mismanagement of risks, motivated by the greed of share holders and the capital needs for an aging population. Most of this money has been gambled into risky environments, blowing up a cash ballon that was to blow up into our faces at any time.

The problem is that most of the economic stability is not based on the working mentality of the population but around those huge mountains of cash. When that evaporates suddenly the lack of initiative of the population is exposed and the overall dependence on such risky systems. The question arises how the governments and, more importantly, the populations are going to react when the real vulnerability shows and unstability proves to be more persistant than expected. In the line of rationality people who want to keep up their wealth within an environment of lack of sensitivity to common values, tend to take more irrational decisions potentially causing further instability and even chaos or terror.

The east and south are huge geographical areas with important populations that can now show their real power to the west to avoid a total decline. Meanwhile the growth in those areas, focused on their internal markets only or among countries in the east will be the best place to be for quite some time, until the west finds a stable course out of its own mess again. We only hope that the east learns from these unique mistakes for mankind and introduce safety systems in their accumlation of wealth to ensure the balance between social security development and the motivation of people to maintain it within the bounderies of common values of respect and common sense.