High Noon: Chapters 7,8, & 9
1. Why are networks better than hierarchies?
Information will stay at organization base where people connect to customers, suppliers, or partners. The information will stay at a level that is easy to manage when change is needed.
2. What is a nation state and how is it being threatened?
The nation state is a territorial concept defined by a geographical border. Inside there is a political system, economic system, and environmental system. When the nation state is in control of all 3, the sovereignty meter is at 100, but has never happened. What is threatening the nation state is the two big forces, the economy force and the demographic force, will take the economic system and the environmental system outside of the national borders.
3.
How is civil society gaining legitimacy over government agencies? Give
an example of a NGO (Non-Government Agency) whose goals and services you
think are beneficial to solving a global problem.
Some groups are so well ahead of detecting momentous changes to come and are further in global activism and surveys show that the U.S. and Europe show that the public at large trusts civil society far more than government agencies.
4. How can business be a helpful global enforcer?
Businesses do a better job than governments of looking beyond the next few years.
5. What can too much economic and social change lead too?
A gap where human institutions are unable to handle the stresses at hand by the economic and demographic forces.
Most people would probably say "global warming" is their biggest concern, but not for me. I'm more worried about the financial crisis management and the oil problem. Oil is a non-renewable resource and once it's out, it's out. So, what's going to happen? And I fear that whenever that awful day comes, there will be a financial crisis so large, nobody is going to know what to do.
Yes! We need to start planning for the inevitable now!
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