Here is the third installment of a quarterly check-in on what the signals are saying regarding After Capitalism. (See Q2 …
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Use productivity for more or less?
So, we meet again. Another opportunity to decide how we want to use productivity gains on the road to After Capitalism. …
Scharmer’s Eco-System Approach fits After Capitalism
This semester in our Alternative Perspectives course at Houston Foresight, we ran into Otto Scharmer a couple of times, …
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Top Ten Drivers of the Future 2023
We all love lists. I posted a drivers list a year-ish ago. I thought it would be fun to revisit and see if anything …
Future of Values
This week I’m sharing a podcast I did with futurist Joanna Lepore on the future of values. It's a favorite topic of mine …
Values and After Capitalism
The three guiding images for After Capitalism each have their own story and appeal. Today, let’s look at the values …
Traditional values have problems, too
I have “picked” on the postmoderns a few times with posts about the “mean green meme.” Green, by the way, comes from the …
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Money still does not buy happiness
For years I’d been relying on the World Values Survey data that showed that when one is poor more money increases …
The Red and Blue Values Split
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently wrote about “Facing America's Second Civil War.” While he sees it more as a …
Think critically and integrally
I saw a slogan today to “demand data and think critically.” Demands for data too often serve as a lazy substitute for …
Looking forward rather than backward
I’ve talked about the mean green meme a few times in the last year as an unfortunate detour in the long-term development …
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Values Shifts the Key to After Capitalism?
I think so! As I get closer to the end and conclusions are dancing around in head, more and more I’m in some sense …
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Covid-19 and the Mean Green Meme
Reading the Covid-19 coverage, in particular as presented by the New York Times, and looking at the state government …
I Am Not a Consumer: Values and After Capitalism
Shifting values are a key part of the “after capitalism” story. It’s not just about economics, it’s really about our way …
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Wiring or Choice?
I’ve got a few books to review for the blog for “After Capitalism” that come at what’s next from different perspectives. …
ConsumerShift availability on Amazon fixed
If anyone has tried to get ConsumerShift in the last few months, you may have wondered why the price was routinely over …
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Careful in mixing ideology and values
My first reaction to a Sunday NY Times piece asked “Are Western Values Losing their Sway?” was to ask whether the …
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Values and Our Spiritual Journey
A Sunday New York Times piece on “the new allure of sacred pilgrimages” suggested “one in three tourists worldwide is on …
A preview of integral organizations
Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with integral values at the leading edge of values change today, with …
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Values and the Holidays: Gray Thursday and Where Do We Go from Here?
I’ve done a few media interviews on the hot topic of shopping’s imminent encroachment into the Thanksgiving holiday. …
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Values shifts, innovation, and Integral
Clients are most often curious about values shifts as they seek new understanding about their current or new customers …
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Values Shifts and the Future of Happiness
Came across a nice post The Future of Happiness -- Up or Down? by Deepak Chopra on the Huffington Post site. He starts …
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Millennials at the postmodern and integral transition
The Sunday New York Times had a piece on Millennial Searchers that sought to dispel the myth that they are lazy, …
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Sacred Values and the Values Types
I had the luxury of a free Sunday morning to soak in the New York Times (yes, it should be a necessity!) and came across …
Decline of consumption no longer a weak signal
Thought I'd tie a couple of themes we've been talking about here together: consumption and weak signals. I've had a …
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Tracking weak signals: sharing economy
The talks and presentations on the sharing economy are proliferating and improving. New descriptors are emerging, from …
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Will values shift “in time?”
In a new paper, Shifting Values: Hope and Concern for "Waking Up," I took up the challenge of exploring how changing …
The practical application of values in organizations
Thought I’d share some observations from a wonderful book I just read: Fred Kofman, Conscious Business: How to Build …
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Modern Values Bulldozing to the Future
The full spectrum of values seemed to be in play in China in reading the Sunday New York Times. The eye-popping story …
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Glass Houses
A great post by "The Consumerist" on a social-media driven issue on Future of Artificial Dyes in Kraft Macaroni & …