Feeding Forward Reflections post TIGE 2016, Caux Switzerland Philip Koenig
Living in Sion, in the heart of the Alps and Europe, has been my inspiration over the last six years. I have been inspired by the beauty and peacefulness of the central Valais region.
Harnessing the reality we live in This document has been created to talk about the elephants in the room. We invite you to join the open, trusting, dialogue, and share our honest insights and experiences in order to take on the much needed actions to address some of the greatest challenges that society has ever faced.
understood. Other wise we take the risk of going back into isolation, ego, judgment and fear. This is what’s at stake in the current context. Can we accept it?
How can we move from the idea to create peace to reconnect with life? How can we co-create a decent life for humans and nature? Leadership should be We speak from the heart and from personal about unleashing potentials; breathing life back into transformational experiences; we have been there humanity. and, yes, it is complex - and will remain so. It is for this reason that we speak to our reality in the hope of We have gone through the chaos to find the essentials better equipping individuals, organisations and any and share them in a simple way. Now we can propose group to face these issues. processes, tools and services to support the transition. In order to change our mindsets we need to change We need to detox deeply and often to address our vocabulary to more positive constructive wordings complexity in a relevant way. Part of the detox is to and expressions. Through new rituals and silent move from doing and execution modes to more, better moments we help develop a more compassionate and wiser being, dreaming, listening, learning and and holistic world view. integrating. Materialism and short-term-ism is killing us at all levels; Too often we hold onto complexity in our minds/ spiritual, psychological, emotional, intellectual, and intellect and then it stays over our heads; we can physical. We need to bring life back into all of our now bring it into the conversations as well to start to anthropological dimensions. engage in collective intelligence and co creation. “If we don’t accept that we walk on our heads today Our goal is to make sense again; for that we need to we will never walk on our feet tomorrow.” have a container to hold safe spaces, build trust and integrity for basic ground rules to be clear and better
Note to reader: Each of these complex concepts have been developed over a number of years and it also takes years to learn about them. Consider these points as you move through the document: • The 4 parts can be considered completely separately at first. • These parts and topics are important because they allow us to better address and potentially solve societal issues more effectively, thanks to a more integrated, integral and systemic perspective. • These topics are complex, beyond conventional wisdom and knowledge. • They require quality time, reflection and engagement to comprehend the why, what, how, the root causes and consequences; which is why we have given a lot of hyperlinks and references. • The best way to learn is still combining reading on our own, reflecting in silence, listening to the inner voice and sharing with mentors, like minded and colleagues. • It might take many months or years to immerse oneself into these topics, feel the interdependencies and bring about lasting transitions and transformations. The perspective proposed is to implement them over a 10 year period. It is definitely not a next month’s flavour read or exercise. The Global Goals are intended to be met by 2030, even over the next 14 years.
• As long as we do not integrate into any of our ‘change management’ projects, small or big, private
or public the demographics of complementary values, talents and passions, world views, structures of interpretations, or action logics, we are doomed to fail, again and again, like we have for the UN Millennium Development Goals MDGs, between 2000-2015. • With the ongoing social, climate, war, financial and economic crisis we might not have the time and luxury to fail again ... without avoiding major human catastrophes, like those we have endured in the 20th century. • Let’s move on with new mindsets and perspectives, and invest in human development to become more conscious, wise, viable and thrive-able. • These topics are all interdependent and are optimised when considered at the same time, from a systemic and connected approach.
We have addressed all of these different dimensions during TIGE 2016, exactly as proposed in this graphic, courtesy of Pedro Langre - c-growth
How To Succeed in creating a better life for all
A big warm thank you to the TIGE team and the IofC framework, which allowed to make this happen! Please consider these comments as open positive potential inspirations for next 10 years.
Part 1: An integral business and human-centric perspective Key topics we have tackled during the 2016 TIGE meeting - with concrete products and services, which are, in my mind, foundational for a framework for the coming decade: • Humanity and the right to a decent life for all - Unconditional Basic Income and meeting human fundamental needs - See Manfred Max Neef • Insuring human development throughout life, at all ages, in education and at work, to bring about the necessary mindset shifts - HEL, Being at full Potential, www.oiecec.org, Robert Kegan’s “further reaching in Adult Development” • Business as a key societal stakeholder, contributor and beneficiary in the paradigm shifts required to stay within democracy, social inclusive prosperity, planetary boundaries.
• The UN Global Goals and the corresponding 2030 strategies; which are still to be conceived, planned, developed, and executed as an array of aligned and synchronized actions between public and private sectors, NGOs and civil society - Global Compact, Transparency International, Sustainable Brands and Bcorporation.net or Bcorporation.eu. • Ethical leadership and governance in finance, and financial and economical inclusion; to have the means and resources for all the points above!
Take heights, change perspectives; enjoy the beauty of nature and allow it to inspire you. Listen to the wind, listen to the silence and listen to the inner voice. Connect the harmony within with the wonderful mountains in the heart of Europe.
The best ideas come from intuition, experience, collaboration and the inner voice
Sustainable Brands, a conference convener of the world’s largest corporations to align them on UN’s Global Goals, starts to go into a very similar systemic integral approach, via 16 insights Aim: integrate into business and embody higher societal purpose, Global Goals, profit and prosperity for all. Without human development, HEL type programs, it
might not happen. The current mindset is not there yet. We would need as a society to move towards yellow and teal colours, on the far right, to get there. At least 80 % of all leaders, corporations, organisations are “stuck” below green. Breakthrough can be made with proposals like those of Frederic Laloux, reinventing organisations, or Semco, Ricardo Semler, Brazil.
Human centric perspectives proposed by spiral dynamic: Demographics by country/regions, segmented in values structures of interpretation and action logics
In this graphic, Spiral dynamics elements open our eyes to appreciate realistic human progress potentials, based on actual mindsets, thinking and actions logics. HEL does help to move faster along these lines; one person, team, business, community at a time. Please read the full article (see link below), to fully understand the root causes and consequences of our current human development. Source:http://www.integratedsociopsychology.net/global/the-eu-an-organisation-divided-by-values/
Integral thinking and action is the only way Integral economics
Note on Swiss politics and leadership:
I particularly like and support the integral and human centric economic system from Ronnie, Alexander and Peter Brew. I participated in the workshop to “meshwork” on these topics with Tony Bradley. This is an ongoing process and project, which would need a few “customers”, corporations and communities / regions (in UK ?) to bring the practice into play…
La “politique des petits pas” de nos CF ne marchent pas pour les transitions auxquelles ils nous soummettent, via les INDCs signés en Décembre 2015, post COP21!
We have also gone a step further by having joint presentations (workshops) customers and consultants to talk about realised transitions from both sides, theory and practice, process and embodiment. This allows to demonstrate theory of practice in real time lines, energy and perseverance required: there are no short term simple linear sequential solutions; a systemic holistic approach is required.
What most conventional politicians will do within their comfort zone is to address topics in small sequential linear steps. This does not work with complex topics!! A systemic approach is required, to bring back coherence and transparency for our societal model to become viable, sustainable and thrive-able for people and the planet (see Gallup and Global Footprint Network) We still have taboos in Bern, meaning we do not want to see the limits of some of our beliefs, underlying the system that is in place, which leads to inherent incongruence and incoherences: • Demography: we are upside down; an inverted pyramid does not allow to maintain an economical and social system based on growth • Social system: it is out of breath, because of the inverted pyramid demography and the slowing down economy, expressed by lower salaries and number of people employed • Endless economic growth is still our credo: we want to grow our population to 10 million inhabitants over the Geneva- Romanshorn axes, economically fueled by constructions of housing and infrastructure, based on the current ‘money creation’ - debt - crisis system meaning more debts for more people, and going through the same ups and downs, since the recurrent crisis schemes between 1990’s and 2008 (see Aldo Schorno) This image was taken at the Initiatives of Change TIGE Conference Centre in Caux this summer.
Part 2: Possible economical transitions and transformations to thrive together
Could the transcendental purpose of business become, over time, to contribute consciously to these 17 UN Global Goals, by participating and inviting From a meta perspective we have brought forth the their extended value chains to do so too? Making a profit while fostering prosperity and thriveability is following basic principles: real economy obviously not only OK, also a given. • Must be fed by a reinvented “direct financial” system, disconnected from speculation. Indeed today less than 20% of all the money created lands in the real economy - true over the last 30 years! During 2001-2008 it was even less, around 7 % only!
More examples and contributions from TIGE include projects presented by Sir Mark Moody-Stuart: http:// uk.iofc.org/how-businesses-are-responding-uns-sustainable-development-goals
Great examples and contributions from TIGE include: • Must evolve its accounting system to take into account externalities and intangibles, the impact projects presented by Enno Schmidt, Unconditional on human capitals, social, knowledge, relational, Basic Income, see BIEN, Sovereign Money; Jaime individual development, environmental capitals González Aguadé, to facilitate access to cash for VSE, infrastructures and natural resources, and ecosubsidies to excluded people in Mexico. nomical. This needs to be supported by notations agencies, audit, consulting and reporting to drive • Must be reset, rebooted and restarted from all the change evenly for all beneficiaries. (See for angles, bottom up, top down, across, transversally example Thriveability.zone, True Future Value, from an organisational, cultural and transdisciplinary, Reporting 3.0, IIRC, GRI, WBCSD, … 6 Capitals by human centric perspective, through the prism of Jane Gleeson-White) the 17 UN Global Goals. Now even they have been even better described for all, from 7 to 77 years old! This cartoon should permeate fast through all organisations and set the stage for collective intelligence and new governance, at national, regional and community levels. Why not via and around schools as well?
Each of these topics were also distilled in our Inquiry group with Bela by Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Global Compact, and a workshop lead by Mike Smith with Sir Mark and Laurence Cockcroft from Transparency international.
A road to a brighter future
Part 2: World View
As a human race, we need to meet the Global Goals by 2030. The art and science is for the public organisations and private companies, together with their communities, to knit these words and concepts into actions for all mankind, to win. This can only be achieved by writing common and aligned systemic strategies.
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These mind boggling topics might allow us to discover a ‘red thread’ and guidelines for the next 15 years. To work within the spirit of the founders, and in the context of 21st century challenges and possibilities. Working together in an inclusive form, with many IofC arms and legs, together, as we acknowledge the different complementary and necessary pieces of the puzzle. They all make sense, add human value and are humanizing to those who are touched by them.
Why and how to shift accounting from mono to multi capitalism: This is a way to make these accounting considerations more visual and simpler to follow: This is a way to make these accounting considerations more visual and simpler to follow: Capitals & perspectives
People capitals social
Planet capitals environmental
Profit capitals economic
Externalities & intangibles are not taken into account
Partially taken into account: CO2, emissions, …
People are costs, variables, coggs, productivity producers … not valued, not optimized
we are in an extractive model, fueled by lowest cost production, over consumption, consumerism
Financialization of the economy via money creation, debt, crisis, and ponzi schemes
> 80 % employees are disengaged emotionally and intellectually in private & public sectors - Gallup
We consume 1,6 times the available regeneratable biomass of the planet - GFN
Prosperity societal
ACCOUNTING SYSTEM
Today’s mono capitalism
Prime focus on money & short term economic returns, via P&L, Balance Sheets
Maximize dehumanized shareholder value leads us beyond social and planetary boundaries Stifles long term views, lifecycles, nature and life coherence
Our attitudes and mindsets
Consequences of today’s system, based on current silo type mindsets
We stifle human rights of being at full potential
Overshoot day is in August Rethink consumption to < 1 and become sustainable
Less than 20 % of all the money created reaches the real economy. Trickle down effect supposed to fuel the middle & lower classes does not work
We cannot thrive together in this partial, fragmented, biased view and measurements of our world. Our perceived value & decision criteria are flawed and insufficient
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Each of the following organisations encourage a new accounting vision: Thriveability.zone, Reporting 3.0, IIRC, GRI, WBCSD, and ... 6 Capitals by Jane Gleeson-White
People capitals social
Planet capitals environmental
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We value relational, knowledge, social, human development , spiritual capitals
We value infrastructure, manufactured and natural resources capitals
We value economical returns at its right value in front of other capitals.
We the People, notation auditing & consulting agencies value and support a reporting system that integrates all capitals
Our attitudes and mindsets
We understand and nourish all 10 human anthropological dimensions
We leverage latest knowledge and technologies to optimize a decentralized autonomous subsidiary system for water food energy
Money creation is sovereign and supports:
Thanks to our integral thinking, decision making criteria and human centric acting, we conceive & live to optimize True Future Value
Capitals & perspectives
Profit capitals economic
Prosperity societal
ACCOUNTING SYSTEM
We satisfy all fundamental human needs We invest in human development and learning throughout life
Permaculture in houses, buildings, communities and urban areas insure local food sufficiency
transitions required to align public & private organisations on common UN global goals and 2030 strategies
employees are intrinsically motivated, fully engaged intrapreneurs, creative and thriving
Circular economy is based on caring, sharing within planetary boundaries
Money creation serves the people, planet and a healthy glocal economy
Most people live at full potential, are societally engaged entrepreneurs who contribute to the common greater good
We cocreate a regenerative economy to give next generations a healthier planet than the one we inherited
Money is a mean, it is circulating freely, the debt-crisis cycles, hoarding have disappeared
We optimize human potentials of individuals and groups Consequences of the renewed system, based on systemic, integral and human centric approaches
well being of individuals, social needs for society to thrive as a whole
We cocreate permanently emergence via collective intelligence & societal governance All organisations are aligned, focused and reporting on multicapitalism We are a thriving democratic human dynamic system True Materiality and Integral thinking is actually embodied True federalism and its 3 principles reciprocity, subsidiarity and collegiality are lived
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“Find your strategic leaders. Most companies lack people in positions of power with the experience and confidence required to challenge the status quo” ... and address the world from a systemic perspective! - Strategy + Business, May 2016
- Strategic leaders are the only ones who can conceive, develop and help us execute the 2030 strategies required to meet the UN global goals. - They are the ones who will also help us transition from mono to multi capitalism. - They will be the first ones to support the brave people who are facing the elephants in the room. Please see this two minute foundational more holistic , integral and systemic mindsets. video. For further insights, click here. This will allow us to address better and wiser the meta, the meso, and micro perspectives. We need to find those strategic leaders: who can challenge the status quo, to help create Our aim should be to fully unleash human, governance tables, knit complexity together. organisational, and societal potentials, as well as to align the needed complementary 20/20 foresight. Many business leaders need roles and responsibilities: conceive, develop to improve their perceptual acuity. Here’s how and operational front line execution!
you can develop the ability to look around By following the theory of the “100th corners - and become a catalyst for change. monkey”, we can accompany the natural laws It’s a rare leader who can look through a of life transitions, and take full advantage microscope at every atom of cost while of metamorphosis energy and optimized simultaneously looking through a telescope paradigm shifts. at the competitive landscape on the horizon. It is all about accepting these complementary,
Working together is the only way Part 3: Leadership; silo, synergy, systemic perspectives, people and purposes
â&#x20AC;˘ We are not all the same in front of intuition, design thinking, conceptualizing, planning, developing, transforming and executing operationally Further food for thought that goes into the same direction and helps us become more effective in accelerating effectively transitions - it is based â&#x20AC;˘ Human development, maturity of presence and being are key to any organization in order on the principles: to make emergence and transitions happen and stick long term â&#x20AC;˘ Bringing the right people to the right places to do the right complementary things;
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Making Business an Engine for Sustainable Growth Panchgani, January 2016 Philip Koenig praneo.org
INTEGRATED BUSINESS VIEW FOR TRANSFORMATION EMPLOYEE MINDSETS Competition
Collaboration
Linear sequential thinking
Parallel & iterative action logics
Understand simplicity
Address complexity
Compassion Arborescent & dynamic consciousness
Embody theory of constraints
CORPORATE CULTURE
BUSINESS MODEL Pyramid Org.
Matrix / Project
Short term action few months
Business development 1 to 5 years
Innovation is about new products & services
Innovation is about a top of mind brand
Shared value Long term strategy 5 years and more Innovation is about creating new market and value propositions
EXTERNAL SOCIETAL IMPACT
Specialists
Multi-disciplinary
Transdisciplinary
ProďŹ t driven
Project driven
Purpose driven
Great employee is a good soldier
Entrepreneurial spirit is highly valued
All are coresponsIble cocreators
silos & ego-centric attitudes
Unleash people potential
Sustainability at the helm
Agreed upon certainty
Continuous improvement
Everything is always perfectible
Maximize for self
Optimize the parts
Govern for the common greater good
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India CIB and HEL show the way This was one of my messages at CIB in January 2016 to Sarosh, Sunil and Sujit, in particular and during my presentation to the broader audience: • Seek to find the systemic thinkers and actors in your organisations • Continue to develop them • Give them missions to address complex problems and address Corporate Societal Responsibility topics. • Let them co-conceive a brighter, inclusive, just business model, value propositions, purpose for the organisation and its extended value chain.
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Part 4: What can Switzerland bring to the global stage? We also understand that Switzerland can and should play a unique role by leveraging our direct democracy! We can and have the unique responsibility worldwide to pave the way for another future, truly regenerative for people, planet and prosperity! Here are some Swiss citizen initiatives we should be proud to develop and implement here. They are also translated into English to become eventually also examples for other countries and their civil society movements. We can prove that it can be done, in faith harmony, by unleashing the human, organisational and social potentials.
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In the past these type of social paradigm shifts - like paid vacations, a state paid retirement- education, including womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in direct democracy - take many decades of information to be accepted by a majority. We might not have the luxury of waiting that longâ&#x20AC;Ś as we want to reach the Global Goals by 2030!! This will require us to set a social level plain field to optimise everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presence, being at full potential, creativity, areas of strengths and development (Example to follow)
The Swiss foundational interdependent topics to Get there in a wise way, could be for
Example: • Monnaie pleine, sovereign money, campaign • Actual societal dialogues and alignment of for a monetary reform (Link) Swiss vote 2018 public and private 2030 strategies to reach together the 17 Global Goals by then! The Geneva • Revenu de Base Inconditionnel RBI: An Canton has some first pilot activities going in Unconditional Basic Income (Link) first vote this direction. The Geneva economic strategy was refused, summer 2016, and presented 2030 has also been outlined in vol.1 & vol.2 alone doesn’t make sens, must be linked to This is a pioneering prospective work, but the other three interdependent paradigm still done from a silo mindset, thus it is still shifts! misunderstood and incomplete. Ii feel sure that sooner or later, Geneva societal actors • Corporation Socialement Responsable, Swiss will need to go deeper, and so will other Coalition for Corporate Justice - The Responsible cantons. Business Initiative: protecting human rights Can our unique position be a lever and and the environment (Link) will be submitted benefit to our efforts, being so very close to the this fall 2016, probably to be voted in 2 years. international institutions, being in a rich, well educated and open minded international • Transform the BNS, Swiss National Bank into context? a citizen cooperative, via a Swiss association (Link) and inviting supporters to buy a share of the BNS and come to the annual shareholder meeting in May. We were 40 in 2016, and seek to be 400 in 2017. Anyone, Swiss or foreigner can buy a share!
Can we open our minds to unlearn and reinvent? Bela Havatny, Ronnie Lessem, Enno Schmidt, Yvan Maillard actually much appreciated this integrated view, and expressed great interest in bringing these perspectives to other countries. (Via IofC?) In order to vote consciously we will need to understand better the current financial-economic system, as it is, beyond what we think it is. Indeed, the vast majority have not spent enough time and energy to understand it, and see how it evolved throughout history and in particular over the past 100 years!
His next conference is set up at Lausanne, UNIL, on September 29th, to inform Swiss citizens about money creation, debts and crisis. How could IofC participate/contribute? Gerard Foucher: A French artist who has been talking about these topics in simple terms and comic ways for many years. Here during “Nuit Debout” in FR.
Un documentaire vidéo pédagogique de Gabriel RABHI, fils de Pierre RABHI - Founder Les Colibris Here are some foundational videos from Swiss and Mouvement. La monnaie fait partie de notre quotidiinternational citizens who support and communicate en. Elle est au cœur de nos économies: elle permet broadly these 21st century financial and monetary les échanges des biens et des services. Pourtant, perperspectives, to reset the real economy, via the middle sonne ne sait vraiment qui la fabrique, ni comment class, and beyond, on viable, sustainable inclusive elle fonctionne. En partant de ce que tout le monde regenerative prosperity, even in Switzerland. I do not connait, ce document explique les fondements des know English speakers for now… systèmes monétaire et bancaire, et en décrypte certaines conséquences. Car c’est bien l’incompréhenFrancois de Siebenthal - Former Swiss Banker http:// sion du système monétaire par la majorité des citoydesiebenthal.blogspot.ch/2015/08/initiative-mon- ens, des journalistes, des politiciens et de nos élites au naie-pleine-80-pour.html sens large, qui permet à la finance et aux banques de régner sans entraves. Audio conference January 2016, in FR; Video conference, in FR. Aldo Schorno, ex Swiss and international naker, Lausanne, see here.
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Philip Koenig Bio Born and raised in Geneva, Switzerland, lived a first transformational experience living a year in the US at age 17. The following life experiences and conscious evolution could be summarized by: Master in Physics at EPFZ, Zuerich, Switzerland. A period with experiences in Swiss Army, meeting Inuits in Greenland and lots of mountaineering, cycling and skiing. 10 years of Marketing career with Nestle in Latin America, holding different positions in Venezuela and Argentina, living and leading in crisis and influencing Brands positioning.
human side - engagement, leadership, education. Worked with McKinsey, Booz, Kaiser, Ducker, Corporate Executive Board on market research, strategy and think tank.
Since 2012 co-initiating praneo based on own experiences, drive for continuous improvement by seeking the next frontiers of consciousness and knowledge, convictions that removing organizational, cultural and human obstacles is possible; being in touch, meeting and collaborating with pioneer individuals and organizations to drive transformational 12 years of strategy and business development changes for the sake of more people centric and career with Caterpillar based in Geneva Switzerland meaningful lives, business, education, capitalism, and Peoria, IL, USA, significantly contributing to democracy, triple sustainability. design and development of circular economy, sustainable business model, customer centric value propositions, brand & organizational repositioning,
Get in touch: koenigphh@ gmail.com
Working around the world with one aim
My work and experiences have taken me around the world. This has helped me to add cultural mindsets to my systemic thinking. I feel that spiral dynamics is an under used tool in this complex world. Many of us have been driven by and judged on wealth creation over the last 50 years, however 21st century thinking encourages people to start talking about and valuing other types of capital. These include environmental capital and health and wellbeing of employees, for example. Whilst companies often feel unsure about how to apply these levers, the tools for
transformational change do exist to combat these challenges in a very real way. Ten years of TIGE has reinforced my belief that society does have the means for mankind to evolve into 21st century thinking. The art, and science, is to take time to listen to the inner voice and reflect on wisdom from around the world. We must then begin to act, not for self, but for the common greater good.
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Are we ready to challenge the status quo? Our journey has already begun. Join the conversation today and take action. koenigphh@gmail.com