by Dr. Ed Brenegar | Apr 10, 2020 | Centralized Institutions, Circle of Impact, Community, Conversations, Decentralized Networks, Elitist, Ideas, Impact, Questions, story, The Pressing Issues, The Spectacle of the Real, Transition, Two Global Forces
“You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power–he’s free again.”
– In The First Circle, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
by Dr. Ed Brenegar | Aug 13, 2019 | Circle of Impact, Impact, persistent, Relationships, residual culture, Structure, Transition
Squeezed is the appropriate word. It is why people feel vulnerable, rather than them feeling the desire to be vulnerable.
This is vulnerability imposed from the outside, by the structures of the world and their companies.
The kind that Chris Lister writes about in his FastCompany article – I thought I knew what it meant to lead with vulnerability. Then I became CEO – is a choice that we make to be a particular way. Lister is correct. It isn’t as easy as Brene’ Brown suggests. Though I’m not sure Brene’ is saying it is easy but necessary.
by Dr. Ed Brenegar | Aug 6, 2019 | Circle of Impact, Community, Relationships, Structure
The Two Global Forces describe a transition that is unprecedented in human history. The transition is from hierarchy to networks. It is emerging through two developments. The obvious one is how personal technology provides people the capacity for independent action like never before. The second is a growing awareness of a detrimental impact that organizational hierarchy is increasingly having upon human experience.
The Hong Kong Moment
An illustration of this historic transition is taking place in Hong Kong. Protesters are daily demonstrating against the Chinese Communist government in Beijing over its treatment of Hong Kong’s citizens. The protesters represent a force of decentralization against the highly centralized government of China.