#CopeWithCovid network power: Learn, innovate, lead and thrive in addressing the injustices of inequities
#CopeWithCovid

#CopeWithCovid network power: Learn, innovate, lead and thrive in addressing the injustices of inequities

Rick Botelho Rick Botelho

Rick Botelho

Unite Equity Muses | Cultivate equity meta-governance: co-design and build an equitable, sustainable and regenerative future

发布日期: 2020年6月23日
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Blog series (07/11/2020). My open peer-reviewed, sense-making learning journal is updated regularly based after discussions with others. Happy to chat with you if curious. This iterative work-in-progress invites you to join a learning journey about addressing the Covid crisis and the 21st century mega-problems from a long term perspective. If inspired, make a comment and share.

Blog warning: Allow time for slow thinking and deep self-reflective learning. Book mark blog to read and re-read the sections. This blog series will stretch your imagination in what you can learn, explore and discover together in communion with others in addressing complex problems. Click on hyperlinks to learn more about key concepts. Make notes in response to any questions that you feel called to discuss.

Read servant leadership development, covid revelations and netinar blog first to understand the rationale for developing network power. Sense-making netinars prepare and enable learners to understand the vulnerabilities, volatilities, uncertainties, complexities and ambiguities (V2UCA) of addressing mega-problems.

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Call for virtuous network power and economies

The Covid crisis has done what no leader or organizations could have ever done. It revealed the injustices of inequities on a global scale. In most countries, governments, organizations and networks working on these inequities do so in dis-continuous, uncoordinated and non-comprehensive ways.

Our neoliberal corporate, business and economic models are broken and failing to serve the common good for the greater good. Corporate crony capitalism is raping the earth, destroying the planet and extinguishing biodiversity. Profit above people, purpose, passion and the planet will lead to run away inequities, wealth inequalities and climate change disasters in the post-covid era.

True heroic patriots stand up for conscious capitalism and deliberative democracy.

The fourth politico-economic revolution calls for unrigging political systems and re-purposing our neoliberal technocratic information economies into moral, purposeful and virtuous ones.

This Covid crisis is our wake-up call to expand human consciousness about taking national and global actions, with comprehensive public policies to scale-up actions in addressing the injustices of inequities.

How will we effectively:

  • Address the cultural entanglements of implicit biases that sabotage efforts at deconstructing systemic racism?
  • Open and align our mindsets to create a new dawn of civilization and build a sustainable and equitable future for the greater good of all?

To do this, we need to design a network of networks: a meta-network. Meta means looking behind, above and beyond what has happened, what is happening and what needs to happen. These networks reflect back on themselves to facilitate synergies of purpose and virtues by interconnecting movements and building organizational interdependence to address these injustices and reduce these inequities. Using meta-views and meta-thinking, we create meta-strategies to generate meta-network power for transformational change.

Self-reflective question

  • What is your take on the idea of creating meta-network power?


Adopt integrated whole systems approaches

This integrated whole-systems approach is essential for creating a new dawn of civilization that has the resilience, robustness and anti-fragility to address the mega-problems of the 21st century. This is the antidote to the reductionist, individualistic and competitive approaches of disconnected causes in working to address the injustices of inequities.

  • What will help us to create whole-systems of interconnectivity and interdependence to exponentiate meta-network power for transformational change?
  • How will businesses and corporations go beyond the rhetoric of inclusion and diversity and take action in addressing the deep root causes of inequities?

One way to initiate meta-network power is to host #CopeWithCovid netinars amongst the leaders and members across kindred organizations to learn and support one another.

  • How can we heal the Divided States of America and unite in addressing the injustices of inequities?

This calls for mobilizing the poor and low-income people to vote in the 2020 election and unrig the system to implement the American Anti-corruption Act. This podcast below explains why voters have no influence over public policies.


Self-reflective question

  • What is your take on adopting integrated whole systems approaches to addressing the injustices of inequities?


Inspire heroic patriotism and servant leadership

Connecting the dots between individuals, groups, organizations and communities is essential for designing a sustainable and equitable future for the greater good of all.

United we stand. Divided we fall.

Scaling up meta-network power to mobilize mass movements will restore our common humanity and regenerate gaia (whole earth systems). Only together can we thrive toward developing a flourishing civilization.

Unite the divide with truth, justice, equity and freedom

This calls for hosting online Town Forums about using patriotism to unrig the system. Politicians who are most adept at manipulating the ideals of patriotism, whether based on truth and integrity or not, win. Ask all 2020 political candidates, CEOs and religious leaders this question.

What is your heroic credo of patriotism to serve we, the people?

Scaling up meta-network power for transformation involves political organizations, social enterprises and corporations developing their own heroic credo of true patriotism as part of learning collaboratives. This will produce a plurality of credos with common and unique features.

  • How can we create scalable models of servant leadership development to facilitate ethical, political moral, legal and economic transformations?

Another way to begin this healing process is by hosting inter-organizational netinars to develop models of servant leadership development.

Self-reflective question



List of organizations

All of the following organizations listed below advocate for truth, justice, equity and/or freedom, to varying degrees. What organizations would you add to the list below to help solve the mega-problems of the 21st century?


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Read blog series: Covid relevation, netinar, leadership failures, journey journal, macro-perspective blogs 1, 2, 3 and 4.

The next blog will further explores the leadership and cultural challenges of developing dynamic agile learning systems, networks, organizations and communities needed to address V2UCA and create a sustainable future.

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Candor and feedback appreciated about #CopewithCovid netinars. Any ideas about leads, connections or organizations to host netinars appreciated. Happy to chat too with kindred spirits. Contact via Linked-in. Pro-bono exchange offer.

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Prashant Sheth

What if contribution was the subject of the day?

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Powerful share!!

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