The Bigger > Reset starts with the economy

Our economic system is broken and it is time to reset. The global pandemic, economic crisis, and social turmoil — as well as the accelerating climate emergency — have revealed a deeper, more fundamental problem: Our current economic system rewards maximizing wealth over wellbeing and prioritizes individualism over interdependence. The linear economy and shareholder capitalism has pushed society and planet towards the abyss. How do we transform our society, businesses and markets to a more sustainable and circular, or even better the regenerative and inclusive economy? How do we ensure that we produce and consume within the limits of the planet and why does this not happen without a fundamentel decline in consumption? What is the ideal framework for a fair, more inclusive economy and what does this mean for governments, businesses, society and our lives?

 

From moment to MOVEMENT

This unique inspiriment and confronting experience reveals the opportunity to reimagine and redesign what comes next. A systematic reset of our economic system requires integrated activities to drive behavioral, cultural, and structural change. This fascinating keynote, workshop or boardroom intervention inspire and equips leaders, entrepreneurs and other game changers  with a proven framework and effective actions to accelerate their transition to stakeholder capitalism. Great examples of how governments, business and people can shift the cultural narrative about their role and responsibility in society. Only in radical interdependence we can realigns incentives and facilitates a supportive public policy environment.

We need a more fair and just economy that works for everyone and for the long term. Based on a collective vision of shared wellbeing on a healthy planet. This inspiriment reveals the imperatives for the 21st century and the design objectives for the economic RESET: design for interdependence; invest for justice; account for stakeholders.

For each imperative the emerging pathways will be illuminated, that come from a deep and long research and from great thinkers and policy makers, showing a direction of travel and mindset for decision makers across the private sector, government, and civil society. A vision and vital solution that will evolve over time.

Our thinking about market, profit and capital is based on historical concepts that depend on choices and perceptions, not laws. Which myths have led to great inequality and injustice and how can we break with fatalism, the breeding ground for today’s excessive identity politics? How do we give shape to the ideology of equality and how do we link capital and individual property more to social utility and collective ownership?

Generating renewable energy will become increasingly easier and cheaper in the future. The biggest challenges are posed by storage, intercontinental transport and the balancing of supply and demand. What will be the division of roles and power relations between government, suppliers and the small and large-scale consumers? Will consumers as a collective really become the largest, global energy producer and/or trader, if ultimately the community becomes the basis of the energy market?

And how can we ourselves contribute to the energy transition at home and at work? And what does the democratization of the energy market mean for existing and future stakeholders? Where are the opportunities that are currently not seen nor recognized?

We perceive food production as an industrial sector rather than a concern for our health, the environment and animals. The concept of efficiency and productivity must be given concrete meaning not only economically but also ecologically and socially. Farm differently and above all eat differently. Making smarter use of technology and natural processes and also by dealing more economically with raw materials and nature.

What does this require from the government, the sector itself and especially from trade and consumers? And do healthy food and the free market actually go together? What can we do ourselves? How can we achieve shorter chains, fewer links, fewer kilometers and more connection between consumer and producer?

Real sustainable recovery requires more. More circular and regenerative agriculture and less hyper-efficiency. Less global and more local and connected. With nature and Self.

Radical action is now inevitable and we are on the verge of a tipping point toward a new kind of ecologism that is in balance with our planet and its ecosystems and how nature really works. If we want to keep Mother Earth livable we must act together now and start doing things we fear and that are beyond our imagination. Never before has the moment for fundamental change been so opportune and necessary. From an old world based on exploitation of nature and people, to a world that almost everyone desires and where we feel we can create it if we really want to. A world where we live and consume within the limits of our planet and its ecosystems on which we are so dependent.

This unique inspiration provides a mindset and framework that shapes this new world and carries concrete steps and examples of how we should relate to nature and each other, based on collective support and justice for all.

As the damaging effects of neoliberalism and free market thinking are becoming obvious, it is time for reflection to prevent further erosion of the public sector and the welfare state. Privatization and deregulation have led to market fundamentalism and shareholder capitalism.

We need collective action to reform our market thinking and democracy. After all, a dominant market that piles crisis on crisis requires strong, regulating government and a transparent and more direct democracy. After all, freedom in a complex society involves more than free enterprise. A primary goal of democracy and government is also to rein in the market to protect our humanity.

By restoring principled democracy and learning from the corona crisis, we can further re-imagine and redesign and rebuild on the radical decision to place the well-being of people above the interests of the market and the economy to a democracy where everyone is seen and heard.

When people are more able to determine where, when and how work is done, they not only become healthier and happier, but they also create better results and more impact. Yet before the corona crisis, this hardly ever happened. This also means that we have to let go of the belief that humans are a resource that we must use effectively and efficiently.

By flipping Human Resource Management to Human Being Management, people’s individual potential becomes more central rather than their efficiency and productivity. And by working from the profound purpose: creating financial, social and ecological added value, work becomes more meaningful, increasing intrinsic motivation and the will to contribute.

What will the world of work look like in the future and what are the jobs of the future? How do we transform from Human Resource Management to Human Being Management? What does it mean to work from purpose and how do you make sure everyone is connected with the true intention and meaning of the organization?

As we can see around us daily in our current world, the beauty and importance of leadership only becomes apparent when it is absent. Our world is overpopulated with well-meaning executives, who lead by control towards the desired short-term results. Often exclusively for a limited group of stakeholders, such as shareholders or politicians. But in turbulent times of system crisis and fundamental disruptions, conscious and courageous leaders are of paramount importance. Brave women and men, who fearlessly and independently dare to lead complex and challenging transitions that lead to real progress for all stakeholders.  They have an eye for externalities and the impact of their decisions and actions.

What characterizes inspiring leaders in the 21st century and why is their following and influence growing so rapidly?  What does it mean to lead from the profound purpose and the emerging future? How do you connect people to this purpose and intention and its inextricably linked non-negotiable values?