Title: Our childrens future hangs in the balance
1Our childrens future hangs in the balance
- The choices that we make now about how we work
and what we work towards are pivotal. - And we are new to this. Our minds are trained in
the old way. We have to learn new thinking fast
if we are to work with purpose to build the world
we want.
2Where are we heading?
- Look at some predictable trends that are changing
our world NOW
3The 4 Global Mega-Trends are
- Monetary Instability
- Global Greying (an ageing global population)
- The Information Revolution
- Climate Change
4Together these form The Time Compacting Machine
Monetary Instability
Climate Change and Biodiversity Extinction How
can we resolve conflict between financial
interests and long term Sustainability?
Age Wave How will society provide the elderly
with the money to match their longevity?
Information Revolution How to provide a living To
billions with jobless growth
5By 2020 these mega trends collide
- We should expect as much change in the world
over the next 20 years as over the past 200
(Peter Russel) and as much change in
consciousness about money as over the past 5,000
years (Bernard Leitaer)
6 When these trends collide it is probable that
one of 4 dominant global realities will exist
No Monetary Crash
Corporate Millennium
Sustainable Abundance
Lower Individualistic Priorities
Highly Individualistic Priorities
Hell on Earth
Careful Communities
Monetary Crash
7Which reality do we want in 2020?
- Corporate Millennium? Where Governments are
disbanded, central banks become irrelevant and
the world is run with Big Brother control by huge
corporations with their own currencies.. - Hell on Earth? In which the breakdown of life as
we know it is followed by a highly
individualistic free-for-all, resulting in an
ever more obscene gulf between rich and poor - Careful Communities? After a monetary crash,
people retreat into small, self-sustaining
communities, like tribes (with the tribal
tension, warfare and protection that goes with it - Sustainable Abundance? A world where we take
better care of the environment, re-engage the
poor and the unemployed in mainstream society and
give back time and fulfilment to the over-worked,
while providing the elderly with a high level of
personal care
8What is Sustainable Abundance?
- It is NOT about taking away from the haves and
distributing to the have-nots - It IS about giving everybody a fair chance of
creating new wealth - By learning the principles of Sustainable
Abundance, you can become part of this quiet by
momentous evolution - In times of extraordinary change it is no
failure to fall short of realising all that we
might dream the failure is to fall short of
dreaming all that we might realise Dee Hock,
Founder and Chairman Emeritus VISA International
9Sustainable Abundance is achievable, if we
- Re-think our money systems to make abundance
available to all - Evolve our personal responses to money
- Use tried and tested money innovations
- Become clear about the contribution we want to
make through our work - Evolve our thinking and behaviour around work
- Design business systems that nurture and support
our best good - See health as a business advantage
- Stop forcing and start evolving a planet we are
proud of, becoming people we respect
10We are all relying on you, not organisations, to
be the major agents of change
- By 2020 the new values and structures will be
in place to direct future societies and power. - Ours is the generation that decides what those
values and structures will be. - At MeUnLtd we coach individuals and
organisations to develop new approaches to work
and money, to serve their best good, run
businesses and careers that light up their
spirits, and provide abundance for all
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