Tuesday, November 5, 2013 Business
"All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant."
— Henry David Thoreau

From Ego-System to Eco-System

From Ego-System to Eco-System
"We live in an age of profound disruptions. Global crises in finance, food, fuel, water, resource scarcity and poverty challenge every aspect of our societies. These disruptions also open up the possibilities for personal and societal renewal. To seize these possibilities we need to stop and ask ourselves some basic questions: why do our actions collectively create results that so few people want? What keeps us locked into old ways of operating? And what can we do to transform the root problems that keep us trapped in the patterns of the past?" Read on to hear the thoughts of Otto Scharmer, senior lecturer at MIT and founding chair of the Presencing Institute.

Be the Change

Write a letter to yourself as if sent from someone in the future. See if this future figure has any advice to offer for what you can do now to be a part of the shift from an ego-system to a new eco-system.

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