INDEX
ABC. See Awareness-based collective action
Absencing, 31–33
space of, 32
strengthening the sources of presencing to avoid the destructive dynamics of, 23–25
Absencing journey, 32
Ackerson, Carol, 180
Action learning, 244
Action research, awareness-based, 247
Action science, 253
Actions
inability to understand the origin of our, 143–144
See also Awareness-based collective action
Acupuncture points of economic and social transformation, 46, 77–78, 138, 176, 240–241, 252. See also specific points
Afflictive emotions, 165
Africa, 59
Age of Disruption, 1
Agriculture
See also Sustainable agriculture
April 6 Youth Movement. See Egyptian Revolution of 2011; Mahfouz, Asmaa
Arizona Cactus Pine Council (ACPC), 179–180
“Attending to the crack,” 23
Attention
attending to one’s, 149
bending the beam of, 154–160
Attentional violence, 264n6
Awareness, 15–16, 120–121, 236, 253
See also Consciousness
Awareness-based action research, 247
Awareness-based collective action (ABC), 121–123, 127–128, 196t, 215t
closes the feedback loop between parts and whole, 127
Awareness-based leadership technologies, 243
transformative eco-system, 232–233
Banking 4.0: banking as a vehicle for positive change, 230–235
Barnes, Peter, 133–134
Basic income grant (BIG), 88
Beijing. See Chinese government
Benyus, Janine, 81
Beuys, Joseph, 192
Biodiversity, 81
Biodynamic farming, 82
Biomimicry, 81
Blind spot(s), 15, 80, 127, 138, 143–144
of cognition science, 145–146
consciousness, 67–69
in global discourse, 3
how to lead from the emerging future, 3–5
source, 141–142
taking mainstream economic thought for granted, 15
of the 20th century, 143–144
See also Structural disconnects and system limits
Bojonegoro, East Java, Indonesia shifting the field of democracy to 4.0, 198–201
Bosch, 136
Bouazizi, Mohamed, 28
Boycotts, 118
Braungart, Michael, 81–82
transforming the secretariat of the National Heritage (SPU), 201–203
See also Natura
Brezhnev, Leonid, 63
Brill, Steven, 271n1
Britain, 135
Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative (BCDI), 248–249, 251
Bubbles
compensation, 94
financial, 6, 7, 7f, 8, 47, 48, 54, 58, 93, 95–99
outmoded mental models giving rise to systemic, 3–4, 11
profit, 93–94
speculation, 99, 234–235, 234f
technology, 7
Buber, Martin, 163
Burnout, 39
Bush, George W., 20
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), 89–90, 218–219
collectively creating, 100–102
myths about, 102
natural, human, industrial, and financial, 91–92
origin, history, and meanings of the term, 91
reclaiming our ownership of, 102–103
relinking financial with real, 90–103
Capitalism, 90
current crisis of, 137
evolution of, as evolution of consciousness, 51, 52f, 53–57
Joseph Schumpeter on, 96
Max Weber on, 79
shared ownership and, 135
stakeholder, 54 (see also Society 3.0)
Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, 63
Cardoso, Marcelo, 222–223
Catholic Church, 32
Challenge-response model of economic evolution, 51, 52f, 55–56
Cheney, Dick, 20
Chernobyl disaster, 34–36
Chinese government, leading learning communities in the, 215–217
Cicero, 130
Citigroup, 10
Civil society movements, problems with the first wave of, 41
Civil society organizations (CSOs), 227
Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), 181
Action Lab Event, 181–182
shifting the conversation on, 180–182
Clinton, Bill, 58
Closed-loop designs, 81–82
“Closing-in” points, 240. See also Acupuncture points of economic and social transformation
Co-creating, 205–206. See also Collective creativity
Co-creative eco-system economy, 56, 100, 122
Co-creative eco-system innovation, 178
Co-creative eco-system model, 14
Co-creative economy, growing the, 187–188
Co-creative flow, 189
Co-creative relationships, 192, 194, 195, 234, 237
infrastructures for, 188
Cold War, end of, 27
Collective action. See Awareness-based collective action
Collective creation and destruction, social spaces of, 24f, 25
Collective creativity
collectively creating capital, 100–102
intentional, 97
relinking technology with, 103–110
shifting from debate to, 23
See also Co-creating; Presencing; Social spaces of collective creation and destruction
Collective habits of thought, 2. See also Habits of thought and judgment
Collective leadership capacity building, 247–248
Collective ownership. See Shared ownership
Collective sensing and prototyping, 113–114
Commodity fiction, 80–81
Common pool resources, 130
Commons, 236
reclaiming the ownership and stewardship of our, 136–137
Commons-based property rights, need for, 133–134
Communication. See Conversation(s)
Companies 4.0, 217–225
Compensation bubble, 94
Competition
vs. cooperation, 187
See also Society 2.0
evolution of capitalism as an evolution of, 51, 52f, 53–57
evolution of economic structures follows the evolution of, 239–240
form follows, 18
See also Awareness; Consumption
Consumer movement, 118–119
Consumerism disconnect, 47
Consumers are not separate from one another, 118–119
from consumerism to conscious, 116
material consumption does not create well-being, 119
the power of collaborative conscious, 120–121
production and, 117–118
relinking the economy with well-being, 115–121
conversing about our, 149
create the world, 175–176
level 1: unilateral, one-way downloading, and manipulating, 177
level 2: bilateral, two-way discussions, and exchange of viewpoints, 177
level 3: multilateral stakeholder dialogue, 177–178
level 4: co-creative eco-system innovation, 178
leverage points, 179–188
See also Economic and conversational action
Cooperative initiative in the Bronx, 248–249
Coordinating our coordinating, 149
relinking the parts with the whole, 121–128
Coordination mechanisms See Economic coordination mechanisms
Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, 180–181
Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI), 229–230
Cosmetics. See Natura
Creativity-appreciating vs. creativity-depreciating technologies, 108
Cross-sector cooperation, 55
Cruyff, Johan, 124–125
Crystallizing, 29
Cunningham, Dayna, 154–156, 160, 161, 183, 248–249
Currencies, complementary, 101–102
Dalai Lama, 164–165
Democracy 4.0
directed, distributed, digital, and dialogic, 197–203
shifting to, 198–201
Deng Xiaoping, 60
Denial
the discourse of, 84–85
as obstacle, 174–175
Denmark, regional health transformation in, 207–209
Dialogue
economic, 119–120
multilateral stakeholder, 177–178
shifting from debate to, 23
See also Government 4.0
Diener, Ed, 263n29
Digital Revolution. See Third Industrial Revolution
Disconnect(s)
between actual ownership forms and best societal use of property, 7
consumerism, 47
between ego-system awareness and eco-system reality, 11–13
financial, 46
between the financial and the real economy, 5–6
governance, 48
between governance and the voiceless in our system, 6–7
income and wealth, 46
between infinite growth imperative and finite natural resources, 6
leadership, 46
outmoded mental models giving rise to systemic bubbles and, 3–4, 11
ownership, 48
between people and institutional leadership, 6
between real societal needs and technology, 7
between self (of the present) and Self (emerging future), 4–5, 33, 144–145
structural, and system limits, 13, 44, 45t, 46–48, 65, 72
systemic, that give rise to symptoms, 5–8, 14f, 65, 72
technology, 46
between well-being and GDP, 6
Disruption and breakdown, increasing intensity of, 121
Downloading (first level of listening), 20, 147
Eastern philosophy, 141–142. See also Buddhism
Eco-system awareness, 148t
Eco-system economies
a cross-sector platform for, 235–237
principles of emerging, 235
Eco-systems, 37–38
defined, 67
current and short-term symptoms, 37–38
Ecological footprint, human development and, 50, 50f
Ecological limits, 85
Economic activity arises from and returns to nature, 80
Economic and conversational action, shifting the center of gravity of the, 233–235
Economic condition of society, 48, 49f, 50, 50f
Economic coordination mechanisms, 55–56, 122f, 123. See also Coordination
Economic dialogues, closing the feedback loop through, 119–120
Economic evolution. See Matrix of Economic Evolution
Economic field, shifting the center of gravity of the, 233–235
Economic framework, 3, 15, 80–81, 239
Economic growth
the myth of, 85
Economic logic and corporate development, stages of, 225, 226t, 227
Economic monotheism, death of, 70–72
Economic operating system, 11, 15, 68, 73, 76, 84, 109, 138, 149, 240
what it would take to upgrade it to 4.0, 11, 15, 68, 73, 125–127
See also specific topics
natural law and, 15
origins, 69–70
structure of societal reality vs., 11, 14–15
taking mainstream economic thought for granted, 15
Economic value creation, 115–116
closing the feedback loop of matter and mind, 240–241
See also specific topics
Economy(ies)
disconnect between the financial and the real, 5–6, 92–95
from ego-system to eco-system, 2, 68 (see also under Ego-system awareness)
growing gap between the financial and the real, 92–95
is not a business, 126
of presencing vs. transactional benefits, 88
of scale, 9
Education 4.0, 209–217. See also University 4.0
Ego-system awareness, 148t
and the shift to eco-system awareness, 2, 13–16, 68
vs. eco-system reality, 11–13
Egyptian Revolution of 2011, 28, 30–31
Eisler, Riane T., 100
ELIAS (Emerging Leaders Innovate across Sectors), 183–184, 229
ELIAS prototypes: a global innovation ecology, 184–185
five learning experiences, 185–187
growing the co-creative economy, 187–188
Embodying the new, 29
Emerging Leaders Innovate across Sectors. See ELIAS
Empathy, 177–178
Entrepreneurship
igniting global fields of social, 89–90
relinking work and, 86–89
Environmental disasters, 8
Environmental initiatives, 41. See also Climate change; Sustainable agriculture; World Wide Fund for Nature
Eosta, 178
Essential self, 2. See also Self
Europe, 57–58
European sovereign-debt crisis (euro crisis), 12
European Union (EU), 12
Evolutionary economic framework. See Economic framework
Evolutionary stages, 14, 79, 131, 225.
See also Capitalism: evolution of;
Matrix of Economic Evolution;
Matrix of Social Evolution
Existential crisis, 152–153
Externalities, 8–9
defined, 8
Eye of the needle, passing through the, 22
Fair Trade Movement, 118
Fault lines, 36–42
Fear, 172
voice of, 23
vs. love, 221–222
Feedback loops, 201
delayed and broken, 7–8
Financial bubbles. See Bubbles
Financial capital. See Capital
Financial crisis, deeper structural problem of our current, 100
Financial crisis of 2007–2008, 8, 9, 50, 93, 97
Financial disconnect, 46
Financial mechanisms, function of, 97
Financial sector, 98–99
Financial system
collapse of, 27
as too efficient, 95
Fisher, Eileen, 227
Flowers, Betty Sue, 18
Food, shifting the field of, 223–225
Food industry, 10
Football, total, 124–125
Forster, Norbert, 206–207
France, Chernobyl disaster and, 35
Free-market model, 13, 14f, 52t, 54, 74t, 226t
Friedman, Thomas, 53
Froman, Michael, 10
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, 28
Fundamentalism, 32–33
Future
examples of sensing what wants to emerge, 248–252
exploring the future by doing, 188
how to lead from the emerging, 3–4
noticing the crack to the field of the, 171
relinking leadership with the emerging, 110–115
seeing our, 115
turning yourself into a vehicle for the, 167–168
“Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us,” 105
See also specific topics
Future possibilities
opening up to, 29 (see also Presencing)
tension between current reality and, 152–153
Gaddafi, Muammar, 28
Galtung, Johan, 27
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma), 62, 118, 253
Generative listening, 147, 154
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), 133
Germany, 12–13, 82, 132, 133, 135, 155, 156, 192. See also Holocaust; Nazis
Gifts, making, 99
Gillespie, Glennifer, 179, 180
Girl Scouts, 179–180
Global Alliance for Banking on Values, 103, 232–233
Global civil society, 253
Global Presencing Forums, 248
Global Well-Being and GNH Lab, 250
Globalization, 64–65
GLS Bank, 101
God, 145
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 110, 240
Goodman, Marian, 251
Gorbachev, Mikhail S., 34–36, 63, 261n12
Governance and the voiceless in our system, disconnect between, 6–7
Governance disconnect, 48
Government 4.0: directed, distributed, digital, and dialogic, 197–203
Grassroots movements, 118
decentralized, 27–29
Great Depression, 58
“Great Learning” (Confucius), 142–144
Gross domestic product (GDP)
disconnect between well-being and, 6
innovating beyond, 250–251
Gross National Happiness (GNH), 250–252
Ha Vinh Tho, 250
Habits of thought and judgment, 2, 20, 146
Habitual awareness, 148t, 151t
Habitual listening, 154
Haeckel, Ernst, 67
Hanauer, Nick, 168–169
Happiness, 250–251
Hayashi, Arawana, 208
Health, 162
Health 4.0, 203–209
Health and education systems transformation, parallels in, 214–215, 214f
Health and social problems, 48, 49f
Heart
following your, 170
shutting down the open, 23
See also Love
Heidegger, Martin, 108
Henrich, Robert, 135
Hierarchies
supposed antagonism of markets vs., 125–126
See also Society 1.0
Holocaust, 32, 155–158, 160, 162
Honecker, Erich, 32
Human-centric technology, 104–106, 110. See also Life-centric technology
Human development and ecological footprint, 50, 50f
Hungary, Nazi-occupied, 158
Hunger, 38
Husserl, Edmund, 240
Iceberg model of the current system, 3–5, 7f, 11, 14f, 25, 27, 31, 39, 44, 48, 67, 141
IDEAS Indonesia program, 198–201
Ideology. See One Truth
Income, economic human right to a basic, 87
Income and wealth disconnect, 46
Income inequality, 39
and health and social problems, 48, 49f
India, 62
Industrial capitalism and shared ownership, 135–136
Industrial Revolution, 53, 60, 78, 83, 91–92, 104, 116, 130–132. See also Second Industrial Revolution; Third Industrial Revolution
Inequality. See Income inequality
Infrastructures
for co-evolving, 188
to co-initiate, 187–188
to co-inspire, 188
for co-sensing, 188
for prototyping, 188
Ingerslev, Karen, 207
Institutional innovations, 76
Institutional inversion, 192–195
Institutional transformation, sectors of current, 196t, 197
Intention, 236
connecting to it as an instrument, 170
Interest groups, organizing around, 54–55
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 27
Inversion (Umstülpung), 192
institutional, 192–195
See also Conversation(s)
Inversion journey, 240
Invisible hand of the market, 70, 122
Jacob, Gail, 156, 161–163, 168
Jandernoa, Beth, 179, 180, 190
Japan, 59–60
Jaworski, Joseph, 17–18
Jews. See Holocaust
Jobless growth, 85
Jobs, Steve, 86, 114, 115, 170, 227
Johnson, Simon, 32, 71, 94, 100
Judgment, 172
suspension of old habits of, 146
Kabat-Zinn, Jon, 163–169
Kahane, Adam, 224
Kalungu-Banda, Martin, 180–182
Katjivena, Bertha, 206
Kegan, Robert, 214
Kelly, Dave, 114
Kimmitt, Robert, 93
Klatzky, Antoinette, 158, 161–163
Kuhn, Thomas, 73
Kwak, James, 94
relinking jobs with purpose, 82–89
Labor theory of property, 130–131
Landshare project, 135
Lau, Lawrence, 5
Leaders in an organization, multiple, 112
is about creating and communicating a vision, 113
as a distributed or collective capacity in a system, 112
myths about, 112–113
the only real leadership issue, 111–112
origin of the term, 110
shifting the locus from the center to the periphery, 191–192
the tao of, 143–145
See also specific topics
Leadership disconnect, 46
Leading from the emerging future, 19–20
Learning journeys, 224–225
individualized lifelong, 244–245
Legitimacy, 128
Lehman Brothers, bankruptcy of, 12, 27
Letting come, 29
going to the edge of, 162–163
Levine, Mark, 134
Lewin, Kurt, 253
Liberation myth, debunking the, 106–107
Lietaer, Bernard, 95
Life-centric technology, 104–106, 110. See also Human-centric technology
Linux, 109
levels of, 20, 147, 149, 154, 169, 201
Loan decisions, 9
Loans, making, 99
Locke, John, 130–132
Long, Michelle, 89–90
doing what you love and loving what you do, 86, 114, 170
vs. fear, 221–222
See also Heart
Loving attention, 220–221
Lowe, Juliette Gordon, 180
Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio, 63
Luria, Salvador, 166
Machines, 104
Majfud, Jorge, 116
Malik, Khalid, 53
Marx, Karl, 91–92
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. See MIT
Matrix, The (film), 105
Matrix of Economic Evolution, 72–73, 74t, 75, 126, 138, 239–241
reading the, 75–76
Matrix of Social Evolution, 146–147, 148t, 149, 239–241, 247
reintegrating the, 149–151
McDonough, William, 81–82
Mead, Margaret, 168
Mental models, outmoded
giving rise to systemic bubbles and disconnects, 3–4, 11
producing intellectual bankruptcy, 11
sources that give rise to, 16–17
terminology, 11
Meridians. See Acupuncture points of economic and social transformation
Michels, Rinus, 124
Mind
and matter, 142–143
shutting down the open, 23
Mindfulness, 253
moments of madness and, 33–36
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), 163–167
research publications on, 164f
MIT Center for Organizational Learning, 17
MIT IDEAS Indonesia program, 198–201
Mondragon Corporation, 136
Money
“aging,” 235
does not equal money, 99–100
flows the wrong way, 9
function of all, 97
intentional, for the realization of community, 97
is not a commodity, 96–99
is not capital, 95–96
options for using, 233
transfer of, 99
types of, 233
Mubarak, Hosni, 28, 31, 32, 51
Multitasking, 106
Nan Huai-Chin, 141–146
Natura, as shifting the field of business, 219–223
Natural resources, disconnect between infinite growth imperative and finite, 6
diversity in, 81
relinking economy with, 78–82
as zero-waste system, 81
Nazis, 32, 153, 155, 158. See also Holocaust
Neoliberal Reagan-Thatcher revolution, 58, 64
New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), 41
Newman, Kate, 229
Nhat Hanh, Thich, 159–160
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 213, 214, 221
“Man is a rope,” 152–153
Nike, 112
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), 112
NGOs 4.0, 227–228
Now, connecting and staying with the, 170. See also Presencing
Nuclear disarmament, 261n12
O’Brien, Bill, 18
Observation, 169
bending the beam of, 161, 240 (see also Self-reflection)
Occupation theory of ownership, 130–131
Occupy Wall Street movement, 28
Olson, Mancur, 10
One Truth (ideology/closed mind), 32, 33
One Us (closed heart/rigid collectivism), 32, 33
One Will (closed will/fanaticism), 32, 33
Open-door policy, 200
Open heart, shutting down the, 23
Open mind, shutting down the, 23
Open will, shutting down the, 23
Opening up, 29. See also U process
Openness, 236
to changing yourself and changing stakeholders, 171
Organizing our organizing, 149
historical perspective on, 130
of our commons, reclaiming the, 136–137
relinking ownership with the best societal use, 128–140
Ownership disconnect, 48
Ownership forms, 133
as socially constructed, 132
Ownership rights, legitimacy of, 128
Paradigms of economic thought. See Mental models
Parnes, Marc, 127–128
Participatory budget model, 202–203
Pellerin, Pierre, 35
Perry, Matthew C., 60
Perseverance, 172
Pickett, Kate, 49f
Playfulness, 236
“Please Call Me by My True Names” (Nhat Hanh), 159–160
Plotinus, 221–222
Police structure of Society 1.0, 52–53
Possibility, conditions of, 154–163
Poverty, 38
positive externalities flow to the top, negative externalities to the poor, 8–9
Practice fields, 245
Practicing, 171
rather than preaching, 169
Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future (Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, & Flowers), 18, 247
Presencing, 1, 19, 20, 22f, 29–31
defined, 19
economies of, 88
as the essence of leadership, 114–115
principles of, 21–25
strengthening the sources of, 23–25
See also Social Presencing Theater
Presencing coaching circles, 243–244
Presencing Institute (PI), 154, 179, 208, 229, 238, 245–250, 276
Presencing Institute Africa, 180
Presencing journey, 32
Private ownership
shift to the primacy of, 130–131
See also Ownership
Production, forces vs. relations of, 91–92
Profit bubble, 93–94
Property
disconnect between actual ownership forms and best societal use of, 7
See also Ownership
Property rights
commons-based, 47
efficiency, 132–133
evolution of, by economic stage, 128, 129t, 130
myths regarding, 132–133
See also Ownership rights
Prototype initiatives, 184–185, 188, 198, 209, 216, 247–251
mini-prototypes, 184
collective sensing and, 113–114
infrastructures for, 188
key mantra of, 113–114
Public goods, 130
Purchases, making, 99
Putin, Vladimir, 64
Rajan, Raghuram G., 100
Reagan, Ronald, 261n12
Real economy. See under Economy(ies)
Rebound effect, 37
Recycling, 41
Redirection/redirecting, 146, 148t
Reflective disruption, moment of, 13
Regional Delivery Units (RDUs), 205–206
Relational inversion. See Conversation(s)
Relationships, transformed from ego (I-in-me) to ecological (we-in-me), 194–195, 195f
Reschke, Alexandra, 201–202
Research and development (R&D) investments, relinked with pressing societal needs, 107
Rifkin, Jeremy, 105
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 58
Rosch, Eleanor, 16
Rousseff, Dilma, 63
Russia, 63–64
Scharmer, C. Otto, 17–18, 82, 156, 157, 162, 183, 265n6
Schmied, Claudia, 210–212, 214, 216
Schumpeter, Joseph, 95–96
Second Industrial Revolution, 104, 116, 131, 132
Self
disconnect between self (of the present) and Self (emerging future), 4–5, 33, 144–145
essential/emerging, 2
exploring the edges of the, 16
shifting the inner place from which we operate, 18–19
sources of, 144, 145, 154, 161, 240
Self-reflection, 149. See also Observation: bending the beam of
Selflessness, 222
Seligman, Martin E. P., 263n29
Sen, Amartya K., 100
Senesh, Hannah, 158
Senge, Peter, 17–18, 141, 183, 216, 217, 224, 253
Sensing, 29. See also Presencing
Seville, Don, 224
Shadow, holding the space for embracing the, 161–162
Shared ownership, 134–136
Sharing, 236
Silo-type approach (dealing with one symptom cluster at a time), 5
Skin care products. See Natura
Slowing down, 29
Soccer, 125
Social evolution. See Matrix of Social Evolution
Social fields, 69
Social limits, 85
Social-market economy, 14, 14t, 52t, 63, 74t, 92, 121, 122, 226t
Social Presencing Theater, 208, 216, 244
Social reality, inability to see the coming-into-being of, 143–144
Social spaces of collective creation and destruction, 24f, 25
Socially responsible investing, 118, 232
Society 1.0: organizing around hierarchy, 51, 52t, 53, 55–57, 60
Society 2.0: organizing around competition, 52t, 53–54, 56–58, 60
Society 3.0: organizing around interest groups, 52t, 54–58, 60
Society 4.0: organizing around the emerging whole, 52t, 55–57, 87, 231, 235, 245, 247f. See also specific topics
Socioeconomic divide, 38–39
Soil erosion, 37
Solar energy, 81
Sources that give rise to mental models, structures, and symptoms, 14f, 16–17, 142
Special interest groups, 193–194, 234–235
governance is driven by, 10–11
Speculation bubbles, 99, 234–235, 234f. See also Bubbles
Speculative transactions, making, 99
Spiritual-cultural divide, 4–5, 39–42
Stakeholder awareness, 148t
Stakeholder communication in economic systems, four levels of, 176, 176f. See also Conversation(s)
Stakeholder interviews, 189–190
Stakeholders
openness to changing yourself and changing, 171
relationships among (see Co-creative relationships)
using different language with different, 171
State-centric model, 13, 14f, 52t, 56, 63, 74t, 138, 226t. See also Society 1.0
Steiner, Rudolf, 240
Sterman, John, 174
Stiglitz, Joseph, 50, 71, 92–93, 100
Stock market crashes, 97
Stress reduction. See Mindfulness-based stress reduction
Structural disconnects and system limits, 44, 45t, 46–48, 65, 72
Structures
of eco-system reality vs. ego-system awareness, 11
of social reality vs. economic thought, 11
sources that give rise to, 16–17
systemic disconnects that give rise to symptoms, 5–8, 14f, 65, 72
Suicide, 39
Suspension/suspending, 146, 148t
Sustainable agriculture, 184–185. See also White Dog Café
Sustainable Business Network (SBN), 219
Sustainable Food Lab, 82, 223–225
Suyoto, Bupati, 198–200
Symptoms, sources that give rise to, 16–17
Symptoms level, as a landscape of issues and pathologies, 4–5
System, exploring the edges of the, 16
System dynamics, 17
Systemic imperatives, 105
Systems thinking, 82, 121, 198
Tahir Square. See Egyptian Revolution of 2011
Technological Revolution. See Second Industrial Revolution
Technologies, reclaiming our access to, 109–110
creativity and, 108
disconnect between real societal needs and, 7
evolution of, 103–105
as force of liberation vs. force of dependency, 106–107
origin of the term, 108
Technology bubble, 7
Technology disconnect, 46
Technology fix, 107
Technology-fix myth, debunking the, 107
Text messaging, 199–200
Theory U
debates over agricultural sustainability and, 224
Francisco Varela and, 145
innovation infrastructures and, 187–188
Matrix of Social Evolution and, 146
overview and core ideas of, 18–20, 145, 146
See also U process; U.school
See also Economic thought; Mental models Thinley, Jigme Yoser, 250–251
Third Industrial Revolution, 75, 77, 104, 105, 132
leading the, 108
Thompson, Phil, 41
Thought, suspension of old habits of, 146
Tiki-taka soccer, 125
Todmorden, West Yorkshire, 135
Tools, 103
Total football, 124–125
Town hall community meetings, 200
Tragedy of the commons, 12, 47, 131
Transparency, 236
lack of, 10
Triodos Bank, 101
Tyrants, the toppling of, 27–29. See also Hierarchies
U-based leadership program, 185
U process (of opening the mind, heart, and will), 113, 154, 169, 171, 189
applications, 183–184
definition and overview, 21, 22f, 105, 119
following the three movements of the, 21, 239
See also Theory U; U.school
U process journey, 22–23, 189, 216
Umstülpung. See Inversion
United Kingdom, 135
United Nations Climate Change Conference (2009), 180–181
United States, history of, 58–59
University 4.0, elements merging in, 243–245
Unterguggenberger, Michael, 102
defined, 246
need for, 249
putting students into the driver’s seat of profound societal innovation, 242–247
Value creation. See Economic value creation
Varela, Francisco, 119, 145–146, 154, 240
Vienna, reinventing the educational system in, 210–215
Voice of cynicism (VoC), 23
Voice of doubt and judgment (VoJ), 23
Voice of fear (VoF), 23. See also Fear
von Bismarck, Otto, 92
von Weizsäcker, Ernst Ulrich, 81
Wall Street, 8–9, 27, 71, 97, 98. See also Occupy Wall Street movement
“War on drugs,” 116
Waste. See under Nature
Water, supply and demand of fresh, 37
Weber, Max, 79
Well-being, 250
disconnect between GDP and, 6
relinking the economy with, 115–121
White Dog Café, creating a nationwide movement out of the, 218–219
Wikipedia, 108
Wilkinson, Richard, 49f
Will,
shutting down the open, 23
Wisdom, economic science performed with the mind of, 15
Woodbury, Tamara, 179
World Bank, 59
World War II, 32
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), 228–230