True leaders lead people to an impossible destination. It does not exist in the world. It exists in being. They lead us towards to our better selves. Those seared, impossibly, defiantly, courageously, with happiness, purpose, meaning. Lives which may swim in the mighty river of grace, and, because they give thanks for the boundless privilege… Continue reading
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Umair Haque: What’s wrong with TED thinking?
Excerpted from Umair Haque: ” let the phrase “TED thinking” serve as a shorthand for the way we’ve come to think about ideas and how we share them, whether it’s through an 18-minute talk, an 800-word blog post, or the latest business “best-seller.” Hence, this post isn’t really about TED (so please don’t leave me… Continue reading
Umair Haque on the Necessary Emergence of the Meaning Organization
Excerpted from Umair Haque: “It’s well past time to begin imagining an organization of a radically different kind — one that takes a quantum leap beyond strategy, marketing, and finance into a novel galaxy of unexplored, untapped economic possibilities. Here’s what I think that organization — call it the Meaning Organization — might look it…. Continue reading
Umair Haque: at the heart of the eudaimonic life and economy stands meaningful and impactful engagement
Excerpted from Umair Haque: “If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you’re going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life lived meaningfully isn’t denominated by digital friends, designer logos, or wads of paper notes. It’s denominated by what you’ve lived, what it’s worth to you, and what that’s worth… Continue reading
Umair Haque: The Protests and the Metamovement
With every day that we hold the square, we chip away at our fear, at our confusion, at our alienation. We improvise new ways of living, new relations, new forms of solidarity. We create. We meet each other. We share food, sleeping space, music and drink. We fight the cops together. We talk about what… Continue reading
Umair Haque on the new corporate road to serfdom
Far from innovating our institutions in this time of historic, sweeping global economic crisis and social fracture, the very opposite seems to be happening–our institutions are diminishing, regressing, devolving, sliding back tens or hundreds of years at a time into economically prehistoric practices and beliefs. Two some rather amazing examples from Umair Haque, comforting the… Continue reading
Umair Haque on Building a 21st Century Economy
Web recording on the occasion of TEDx Oxbridge: Watch the video: Building a 21st Century Economy from Umair Haque on Vimeo.
Book of the Week (2): Umair Haque on how to become a ‘constructive capitalist’
* Book: New Capitalist Manifesto. Building a Disruptively Better Business, Umair Haque. Harvard Business Press, 2011 In this second installment, the author discusses the case of Walmart in Chapter 2: Loss Advantage: From Value Chains to Value Cycles Umair Haque: “”The first step in becoming a constructive capitalist is learning to attain a loss advantage…. Continue reading
Book of the Week: Umair Haque’s New Capitalist Manifesto
“So here’s the twenty-first-century capitalists’ agenda, in a nutshell. To rethink the “capital” — to build organizations that are less machines, and more living networks of the many different kinds of capital, whether natural, human, social, or creative. And second, to rethink the “ism”: how, when, and where the many different kinds of capital can… Continue reading
Umair Haque on the structure of the Meaning Organization
Excerpt from the author of the New Capitalist Manifesto: Umair Haque: “Here’s what I think that organization — call it the Meaning Organization — might look it. It’s a nod to — but a step beyond — Peter Senge’s learning organization. It’s built not just to learn (and then do “business”) but, more deeply, to… Continue reading
Umair Haque on the new leadership
Excerpted from a longer critique of U.S. corporate culture, and its linkage to macho dominance. Umair Haque: “Maybe strength in the 21st century isn’t about dominance. My hunch is that it’s about the very opposite — it’s about the capacity to evoke. It’s about the willingness to serve a bigger purpose than yourself, the capacity… Continue reading
Umair Haque: The Generation M consensus and the Forcorporations
Umair Haque thinks there is a Generation M Consensus — the growing consensus of a global movement dedicated to toppling the old order, by doing meaningful stuff that matters the most. Here’s are the principles. The original article has links and a critique of the old order as well. Of particular interest, his concept of… Continue reading
Umair Haque: Towards an ethical economy based on allocative and creative advantage
The past of advantage was extractive and protective. The future of advantage, on the other hand, is allocative and creative. Umair Haque goes through four categories of business advantages, two new, and two old ones: “The future of advantage: Allocative. Google’s advantage was built on allocating attention to content and ads better than its rivals…. Continue reading
Moral capitalism for better economics: Umair Haque’s Betterness Manifesto
Institutions are emergent: born from the bottom up, they suddenly catch fire, and then transform the fabric of economies. It’s through small changes massively distributed, like those above, that 21st century institutions are most likely to spark and ignite a great reboot. Call it a new American Dream. Its details aren’t visible yet, but it’s… Continue reading
Umair Haque: Evolving leaders to builders
The 21st century doesn’t need more leaders – nor more leadership. Only Builders can kickstart the chain reaction of a better, more authentic kind of prosperity. A very important point made by Umair Haque in “The Builders Manifesto“: Excerpt: “Leaders don’t create great organizations — the organization creates the leader. 20th century economics created a… Continue reading
Umair Haque and Douglas Rushkoff on the Geithner plan
Umair Haque writes: – the Geithner plan is morally bankrupt, economically toxic, and ethically questionable. 1) Banks are already gaming the plan. 2) Why? Because Geithner has just written a put option. 3) Using your money. 4) Will the government sell you a put option? Nope, you’re not rich enough. Only hedge funds are eligible…. Continue reading