Envisioning the Future
Two days ago I talked about interacting with people’s internal maps of reality. Yesterday I went into the fact that the maps aren’t true, just useful, so it’s good policy to design your maps to drive you into success.
Today I want to talk to you about one of the craziest things ever – a global plan of action.
We know that if you want to win a race you need to know where the finish line is. We know that if you want to build the life of your dreams, it’s good to have an idea of what that dream life would be like. We know that having a business plan is critical for developing a successful business. However, for some reason, we haven’t extended the logic of creating a vision of our ideal future to the global scale. Well, today we do.
Years ago I decided to promote a vision for the planet that I thought was vague enough to be universally acceptable but strong enough to be of actual value in helping us move our planet and species toward success. It was originally created by a man named Hardin Tibbs and it goes like this:
In fifty years we hope to have a stable, peaceful, prosperous, diverse global civilization, which honours freedom of personal belief, and in which democratic political processes dominate, with a high level of universal education and health care, and a genuinely impartial and accessible system of justice, and in which both advanced and basic technology is applied in ways that are in balance with the natural environment, and produce an equitable distribution of social benefits.
Step one is understanding and accepting the idea of a global vision. Step two is realizing the simple power that vision can have in guiding us into a better tomorrow. The next step is making sure our own businesses are in-line with this vision.
How about you, is your business in-line with (or at least not running contrary to) this vision of a successful tomorrow?
