Dr. Peter Meier
Zürich (Switzerland)

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The Unwilling

The outward

  • verbal disagreement,

  • lack of meaningful communication,
  • remaining fragmented in space and time in view of focusing on matter and applying energy, e.g. money as a first priority,
  • virtual lobbying, gossiping and indulging in fantasies and
  • being suspicious of each others hidden agenda

If not prevented, the noise of the unwilling escalates into a conflict that overwrites justified interests, resets the process towards a solution, and replaces it with a chaotic development, for which nobody can be responsible any more! Just Longing for free-dom and peace with each other, like-minded people are forming C-people-minded, merely communication (C) based communities, "media-demo-cracy-s". This allows psycho-politicians to focus on common goals, and thus lead people towards law and order by which they can be governed. The remaining rest-risks of any thus man-made systems requires genuine scientists who care for an appropriate networking that gives new insights a chance through trial and error, understanding, and proof of desirable results. Success attracts trend-riding artists to embellish man-made achievements, and intellectuals, to claim it as theirs. And last, but not least, managers make economic use of it. The arranged meetings in a group field's way, make its outcome known as the trend, and position the participants in its name, e.g. all under the zeitgeist. Then, with the unavoidable conflict with other, e.g. personal interests, the media establish the C=communication about it as the spirit of the times. This process of trend setting, is known to those instrumentalized by it as the only, and thereby conditioning benchmark for the formatting of their minds; it results in thinking catastrophes! They  mask the real conflict; that between individual's personally relevant#3 connotations, and the collective denotations, based on simplifying, personally-neutral#2 wordy generalizations. And that leads beyond the point of NO return towards the known human catastrophes! The emerging New Trend of thinking in terms of global markets, e.g. the client's empty mind being the world, requires the art to represent winning marketing strategies! This entails to first empty people's minds from substance, and then replace its void with the desired goal for a target group. This way, seemingly "anything goes". However, this approach to human systems is obviously inadequate to address the new, and the necessity in any sufficient way. When it comes to survival of the single customer; there is no substance left after we have cannibalized all substantialities! Thus  organizational development is not just for business managers, it is everyone's responsibility! And if is not fulfilled, then organizations slip from men's control and develops their own, self-destructive dynamic.  When a trend gets into saturating its underlying assumption, anger surfaces on the personal, and chaos on the collective level among those concerned. Allowing an understanding of the so far suppressed substantialities in their strive for fulfillment with appropriate parameters, revitalizes the potential in otherwise chaotic transition periods. That is the point, where the transparency about the interests of those concerned has to lead to Timely Exchange of Project-Orientated Competence, TEPOC©, or the whole mental effort so far invested is just producing more and increasingly confusing quantities...

 

 

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