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AS WE HAVE SEEN IN PART ONE, in the present critical phase of the macroshift new ways of thinking and acting are urgently required. We need new values, more up-to-date beliefs, better insight into current trends and possibilities, and a deeper sense of personal and professional responsibility. As a broader spectrum of the population embraces this new mindset, personal creativity will encourage civic and institutional reform. In a basically democratic world, the way to navigate a macroshift is not by top-down decision making but by bottom-up initiative and grassroots support.

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In Part Two we consider the values, beliefs, and ethics that can bring our macroshift to a humane and sustainable conclusion. These “soft” factors in the life of society are the new imperatives of our time—they are even more essential to success than the traditional “hard” factors of economic, political, and business engineering and reengineering.