Education, banking systems, peace stability etc..... etc... our modern societies are based on a large number of factors and the world becomes ever more competitive the search for an advantage becomes ever more urgent.
We analyze how different countries cultivate success and one word crops more than anything else Innovation. I always to laugh when I hear businessmen discussing innovation, the systems required to run modern business efficiently, the discpline required to progress through the hierarchies often crush creativity.
We should not be talking about innovation we should be talking about creativity.
The crucial elements are education, risk, freedom, open minded thinking and enough people stimulating each other.... transferring this into $$$ will always be something else.. Anything else is just putting new words and buzz phrases to something older, stimulating creativity is not difficult, willing to embrace what is required to stimulate it is harder as it involves.... risk...... business is risk averse....
Business should cut the crap about eco systems, about how to stimulate innovation.... and simply say are we willing to take some risks and gambles... The bigger question is does modern society and shareholders allow companies to take risks..... we have to embrace risk if we want to be innovative.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
China and the Environment
I bought the American publication Foreign Affairs this week, primarily because there was an article on the coming environmental collapse in China. I look around at the world and so much that we discuss seems to ignore the fact that we live as part of an eco system.
We preen ourselves, try and separate ourselves from nature as much as possible, we get embarrassed when we talk about toilets..we discuss to the nth degree how countries, education system can be run efficiently, and most importanly how to keep our wealth expanding. Yet we cannot escape it we are part of nature and part of an eco sytem.
You go to dinner parties and people discuss obscure books and artists and how they are going to transform their properties.. yet.... where is there any acknowledgement that the most important thing in this world is to live sustainably both from a consumption and a population perspective.
The Earth is suffering from a tragedy of the commons and our generation will perhaps be the most hated in the history of mankind. China's coming environment collapse..... are you sure it will be just China's?
We preen ourselves, try and separate ourselves from nature as much as possible, we get embarrassed when we talk about toilets..we discuss to the nth degree how countries, education system can be run efficiently, and most importanly how to keep our wealth expanding. Yet we cannot escape it we are part of nature and part of an eco sytem.
You go to dinner parties and people discuss obscure books and artists and how they are going to transform their properties.. yet.... where is there any acknowledgement that the most important thing in this world is to live sustainably both from a consumption and a population perspective.
The Earth is suffering from a tragedy of the commons and our generation will perhaps be the most hated in the history of mankind. China's coming environment collapse..... are you sure it will be just China's?
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