- In 1944 FDR stated; “We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.” Bernie Sanders “He was right. People who are hungry, homeless and without health care are not truly free. The struggle continues.” (Twitter 11/27/21)
- The life-affirming economic values are stewardship of the whole; co-creating collective value; cosmopolitan localist governance; regenerativity, reciprocity, and circularity; relationality and connectedness; and equitable markets and trade. These values can be linked to principles that give life to systems, which include wholeness, purpose, boundedness, connectedness and diversity, and human consciousness or awareness.” Sandra Waddock 2021
- The structures that once held the illusions of society in place appear to be at least beginning to turn to sand. And in this moment law, health, economy, tech, education and politics stand naked in the face of the storms each day seems to bring. Doctors are being asked to heal poverty, the law is asked to treat trauma, teachers are tasked to create “home” for their pupils who do not know the experience of such a thing. ― Nora Bateson
- Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed. ― Carl R. Rogers
- It’s been a difficult year for many companies. Yet employee-owned businesses continue #PuttingEmployeesFirst despite hard times: keeping employees safe, protecting jobs, preserving and expanding benefits, prioritizing transparency and communication, giving back and more. ― Employee-Owned S Corporations of America (ESCA)
- How do we work together? How do we talk together in ways that will open up our best capacities and our best gifts? My own feeling that I try to share again and again, is that when it comes to creating a multiracial, multiethnic, multireligious, democratic society, we are still a developing nation. ― Vincent Harding
- Number of people in the world without electricity falls below one billion. Global access to electricity has been steadily rising in recent decades. In 1990 just over 71% of the world population had access; by 2016 this had risen to over 87%. “On any average *day* in the last 11 years there were 314,770 people who got access to electricity for the first time in their lives.” ― https://ourworldindata.org/number-of-people-in-the-world-without-electricity-access-falls-below-one-billion
- The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” ― Jane Addam
- Otto Scharmer Singapore Institute of Management Systems Leadership Conference on awareness based system change:
- 1) You cannot understand a system unless you change it.
- 2) You cannot change a system unless you transform consciousness.
- 3) You cannot transform consciousness unless you make a system see, sense and invert itself.
- 4) You can’t lead system’s transformation unless you sense and embody the future as it emerges. (Dennis Liu on LinkedIn November 11, 2022)