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Dear John Thanks to New Zealand On Screen, I came across this great clip: http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/close-up-big-dealers-john-key-1987 You’ve come a long way, haven’t you. Did you always know that you were going to be our Prime Minister? Looking back on you as a 25 year old, I can’t help think just how much the world has changed. I’m glad you got contact lenses. That was a smooth move. There are some other smooth moves that you are being called to make now. What is holding you back from ‘Leading’ this country into the second decade of the 21st Century?  It seems to me this Country is not leading anything at the moment, rather it is being led down an unsurvivable path by old-school economics. I bet your assumption of new economic theories is that they all result in losses for you and your biz-mates. But the world of business is changing rapidly - whether we like it or not - and those who are positioning themselves now will be the ones to benefit most. I am seeing the world over, progressive thinking business leaders seizing opportunities to collaborate with the third sector to create stunning outcomes - financially, socially, environmentally. If you believe in Little Government and BIG society then this is clearly a good way forward. I wonder if you are actually getting the best advice from the people close to you. Are they standing too close, or are they just too old and stuck in their thinking? Because it seems like you can’t see another future emerging. I think it is your responsibility as a leader to prepare us for it. Consider this: “The crisis of our time is not about financial or economic bankruptcy. The real crisis of our time is about an intellectual bankruptcy: the bankruptcy of mainstream economic thought. Just as the crumbling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the end of one fundamentalist approach to society and the economy—socialist state-centric fundamentalism—the toppling of the Wall Street house of cards marks the end of another—neoliberal market-centric fundamentalism. But the public debate and crisis response continue to be framed by the same old categories and frames of economic thought that got us into the whole mess in the first place. To paraphrase Albert Einstein’s famous observation, “The significant problems we have cannot be solved by the same type of thinking that created them.” Yet that’s exactly what we are busy trying to do. “ – Otto Scharmer, from The Blind Spot of Economic Thought: Seven Acupuncture Points for Shifting to Capitalism 3.0 And if you want more perspective on this - you should get into relationship with these people; The Champions of Change; New Zealand’s Young Professionals. (cross posted from www.DearJohn.co.nz

Dear John

Thanks to New Zealand On Screen, I came across this great clip: http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/close-up-big-dealers-john-key-1987

You’ve come a long way, haven’t you. Did you always know that you were going to be our Prime Minister? Looking back on you as a 25 year old, I can’t help think just how much the world has changed. I’m glad you got contact lenses. That was a smooth move.

There are some other smooth moves that you are being called to make now. What is holding you back from ‘Leading’ this country into the second decade of the 21st Century?  It seems to me this Country is not leading anything at the moment, rather it is being led down an unsurvivable path by old-school economics.

I bet your assumption of new economic theories is that they all result in losses for you and your biz-mates. But the world of business is changing rapidly - whether we like it or not - and those who are positioning themselves now will be the ones to benefit most.

I am seeing the world over, progressive thinking business leaders seizing opportunities to collaborate with the third sector to create stunning outcomes - financially, socially, environmentally. If you believe in Little Government and BIG society then this is clearly a good way forward. I wonder if you are actually getting the best advice from the people close to you. Are they standing too close, or are they just too old and stuck in their thinking? Because it seems like you can’t see another future emerging. I think it is your responsibility as a leader to prepare us for it.

Consider this:

“The crisis of our time is not about financial or economic bankruptcy. The real crisis of our time is about an intellectual bankruptcy: the bankruptcy of mainstream economic thought. Just as the crumbling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the end of one fundamentalist approach to society and the economy—socialist state-centric fundamentalism—the toppling of the Wall Street house of cards marks the end of another—neoliberal market-centric fundamentalism.

But the public debate and crisis response continue to be framed by the same old categories and frames of economic thought that got us into the whole mess in the first place. To paraphrase Albert Einstein’s famous observation, “The significant problems we have cannot be solved by the same type of thinking that created them.” Yet that’s exactly what we are busy trying to do. “

– Otto Scharmer, from The Blind Spot of Economic Thought: Seven Acupuncture Points for Shifting to Capitalism 3.0

And if you want more perspective on this - you should get into relationship with these people; The Champions of Change; New Zealand’s Young Professionals.

(cross posted from www.DearJohn.co.nz