Beyond Leadership: Balancing Economics, Ethics and Ecology, Revised Edition

The Paradigm Shift

“Raplexity”

This is the direction in which the world seems to be moving, almost imperceptibly but quite unmistakably. This is the paradigm shift which is being increasingly talked about now in mainstream business forums. The list below will facilitate translating these basic trends into meaningful implications at the micro-level, for managers:

I • quantitative	transience “raplexity”
• qualitative	revolutions:agricultural → industrial → technologicalinformation – – → consciousness
II • world view	mechanistic → holistic – – → holographic
• concept of man	economic → social → humanistic →holistic – – → transpersonal
• values	competitive – – → cooperative
• thinking	analytic → creative – – → intuitive
• living	survival – – → resonance
III • concept of wealth	land → cattle → money →information – – → consciousness
• role of business	power-driven → purpose-driven – – →planetary
• organizational culture	power → role → achievement – – → supportpurse/person – – → vision
• management style	control and aggression (threat/stress)caring and connection (trust/energy)
• role of manager	problem-solving – – → leadershipfear of losing – – → joy of doing

The constant change that is going on around you is both quantitative and qualitative. The magnitude and pace of quantitative change is so great that it has been described as “raplexity,” meaning a combination of rapidity and complexity. The nature ...