Is small beautiful?
Increasingly, people are warming to the “small is beautiful”, motto as a way of moving away from the hierarchies of big organisations. People are also seduced by the local as a better way of organising than the national or the transitional.
In his book,?Reinventing Organisations, Laloux charts the trajectory for how all kinds of communities have organised themselves to produce or distribute resources — from shamanic tribes to self-managing teams, via bureaucracies, shareholders and other networks.
It can be difficult to think outside, let alone behave outside of the cultural frames we’ve internalised, based around transactional thinking, rather than relational, hunter-gatherer over sharer-carer, or hierarchical over the networked forms of governance.
The pushback to these inbuilt norms has surfaced through people valuing emotion over rationality, rebels over the elites, even if the desire for strong charismatic leaders is even more pronounced.
How can local government become more self-managing and relational?
How can it support organisations they commission and their supply chain?
There's nothing so powerful as #TheWealthOfGlobalization whose time has come #BrightGlobalization #SystemicCivilization
3 年“The opposite of a false statement is a correct statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth” — Niels Bohr, Nobel Price-winning physicist. If small is beautiful is a profound truth, What’s the opposite? This is one of my open loops (as defined by?#DavidAllen?of the?David Allen Company) that I am trying to articulate for the first time right now, expecting feedback. In my research, which has concentrated on?#GlobalDebout?(I didn’t coined it, I guess some French person did, but I have used it very many, many times), the ordinary people on foot on the world. Somehow, in this one day later update it seems to fit what Schumacher intended as “if people matter,” but on a larger architecting scope than economics. I claim that?#GlobalDebout?needs to belong to a global community. My design effort has been be driven by the extraordinary effort of more than one decade by me, one individual. To do so, one of my recent stories is “Simplicity to approach the emergent reality (?https://gmh-upsa.medium.com/simplicity-to-approach-the-emergent-reality-115af415486f ).”