http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/2009/08/24/did-you-know-2/ "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." - Japanese Proverb Sun, 16 May 2010 07:19:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/2009/08/24/did-you-know-2/comment-page-1/#comment-7319 mbeckford Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:05:46 +0000 http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/?p=531#comment-7319 Hi Caleb, thanks for commenting AND reading. I'm not holding back really. The "Did you know" posts are more interesting factoids that catch my eye that I'd like to share with the readers of this site to spark discussion. I could opine on each one of these in detail in separate, longer posts. I plan to take on democracy given the reflections I have on working in China for the last five years, as well as the impact of our respective cultures on how we think and do business. Appreciate your well written comment. Hi Caleb, thanks for commenting AND reading. I'm not holding back really. The "Did you know" posts are more interesting factoids that catch my eye that I'd like to share with the readers of this site to spark discussion. I could opine on each one of these in detail in separate, longer posts. I plan to take on democracy given the reflections I have on working in China for the last five years, as well as the impact of our respective cultures on how we think and do business. Appreciate your well written comment.

]]> http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/2009/08/24/did-you-know-2/comment-page-1/#comment-7301 Caleb Beckford Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:30:40 +0000 http://www.disruptiveleadership.com/?p=531#comment-7301 I cant help but feel that you are holding back the hammer with this post. I follow your posts fairly religiously (in a secular sort of way or course), and I sense that you wish to expand on this thesis quite a bit further than you have above. I add my anthropological/sociological two cents now: Cultures, just as businesses, enter three phases at differing times in their life-cycle; growth, maturity, and decline. In order to feed a mature business, and i would suggest cultures require similar inputs, you must have a constant commodity style source of inputs. In the US we have deemed "services" and "higher education" to be the commodities that are under the highest demand and therefore the resources of our planet and surroundings play a backseat. Today, as was the case 400 years ago governments are formed from necessity and not choice. Whether we are seeking protection from a taxing foreign body or freedom to navigate capital markets the way we choose, the economy drives the government and by default the culture as a whole. Democracy is in fact not always good for your health, and in fact your health is more closely tied to the stage your local (read national) economy is existing in, than any church attendance or social construct. We must accept that in order to save ourselves from dysfunction we must reinvent ourselves, as in any mature business, and create a new model for our government to support. I cant help but feel that you are holding back the hammer with this post. I follow your posts fairly religiously (in a secular sort of way or course), and I sense that you wish to expand on this thesis quite a bit further than you have above. I add my anthropological/sociological two cents now: Cultures, just as businesses, enter three phases at differing times in their life-cycle; growth, maturity, and decline. In order to feed a mature business, and i would suggest cultures require similar inputs, you must have a constant commodity style source of inputs. In the US we have deemed "services" and "higher education" to be the commodities that are under the highest demand and therefore the resources of our planet and surroundings play a backseat. Today, as was the case 400 years ago governments are formed from necessity and not choice. Whether we are seeking protection from a taxing foreign body or freedom to navigate capital markets the way we choose, the economy drives the government and by default the culture as a whole. Democracy is in fact not always good for your health, and in fact your health is more closely tied to the stage your local (read national) economy is existing in, than any church attendance or social construct. We must accept that in order to save ourselves from dysfunction we must reinvent ourselves, as in any mature business, and create a new model for our government to support.

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