THE ART AND SCIENCE OF INNOVATIVE COLLABORATION: THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY AND HUMANITY  

ABSTRACT

The moonshot in this article is to find allies for the radical transformation needed to assure senior leaders bring character and inquiry to governance. This is for the sake of Democracy and Humanity. The test is in honoring their word, competence, moral principles, honesty, courage, loyalty, fortitude, and doing the right thing.

I’ve spent my life looking for one sentence that would explain everything, a picture frame, a Singularity to make sense of my experience of the world. For a long time, I’ve traveled with hero’s, ideas, geniuses, women, men, countries, jobs, marriages, corporations, politics, religions, families, certainty and confusion.

For 55 years, I’ve listened to coherent, organized, presentations from intelligent leaders in business, academia and religions.  I’m usually left with ideas, language and hope for forward movement but little trust in the possibility of it really happening.

What’s needed is a concrete, physical, thorough, dramatic change in form or appearance. An example is, “The landscape has undergone a radical transformation.”  But often what often happens is that many people do make a difference. But what always happens is that the people in power will stay in power.

Innovative Collaboration calls for a dance between intention and flow. What most people want from business and government should be consistent with how people really are. And this will not come primarily from analysis, measurement, ideas, and rules shaped by existing and historical culture and belief. It can come from realizing that relationship is the foundation of accomplishment.

NINE FREQUENCIES

I first imagined that this room was full of information I didn’t see — languages from all over the world, libraries and science. But I didn’t have the equivalent of a radio with frequencies that provided this.  The following insights are framed as Frequencies that stimulate thinking.

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