Wolfgang Greek: Ten Lessions from the Future.
CEO of Future World, The Global Bisiness and Technology Think Tank
Verwerk deur Frederick Marais
The worlds of Horus and Seth
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo houses a mind-numbing number of artefacts that shed light on the way people lived and worshipped in the Nile Delta some three to seven millennia ago. In one particularly dimly-lit corner of the museum, I found a little-known statue of a pharaoh being counselled by two deities.
On the left is Horus, the god of structure and predictability. On the right: Seth, the god of chaos and disorder. Even thousands of years ago, the conflict between order and chaos, and the dilemmas created for those in authority, were well recognised.
In a very real sense, today’s business executive is in the same position as that stone pharaoh. Everything we have been taught about business was crafted in the Industrial Age – in an economy where central authority, predictability and control were the touchstones.
We are the sons and daughters of Horus. But we are living in Seth’s world!
Take a look at this table…
Wolfgang Gruke: Ten Lessions from the Future. CEO of Future World, The Global Bisiness and Technology Think Tank
Industrial Age ‘Culture’ Information Age ‘Spirit’
Learn a skill Lifelong learning
Security Risk-taking
Job preservation Job creation
Capital equipment Intellectual capital
Status quo Speed and change
Hierarchical and regulated Distributed and networked
Zero sum Win-win
Measure inputs Measure outputs
Charles Hardy
Steven Covey
Michael Porter
Peter Senge
Warren Bennis
Do we have corporate cultures that are anchors on change? Or cultures that enable us to adapt to the changing environment?
John Kotter
Marketers will move from focusing on large segments to targeting specific niches. In niches there are riches.
Phillip Kotler
John Naisbitt
Lester Thurow
Corporations are starting to take on the complexity of biological systems. And at that point, they become out of our control.
Kevin Kelly
Opdrag aan die leiers:Groepsbespreking oor leierskap
- Kyk na die aanhanlings en neem tien minute om te se watter van die aanhalings het iets te se vir die kerk en watter ons liefs moet ignoreer.
- Kyk na Gulke se paradigmas as ‘n inleiding. Skryf nou saam met die groep ‘n defenisie vir leierskap vir die finalejaarklas van 1983 op ‘n blaaibordvel
en dan een vir die die klas 25 jaar later: 2008 op die blaaibord
- As julle hiermee klaar is kan julle op die meeste 5 dinge op ‘n blaaibordvel neerskryf om met die groter groep te deel. Less is more
Doel van die oefening:
- Is om ons te laat nadink oor leierskap
- Is om te leer by wat in die wereld om ons aan die gebeur is tov van leierskap
- Isom begrip te ontwikkel dat daar ‘n groot verskil is tussen die styl van leierskap van 25 jaar gelede en vandag.