Kokoro: Navigating Wise Decisions Assisted by AI
For wisdom is more precious than rubies and all things that may be desired are not to be compared with it.Proverbs 8:11 KJV Many users are thrilled by the arrival of AI, while others view AI with profound trepidation. This is altogether understandable, because AI like many economically strategic technologies (from the invention of fire to […]
Collective Blindness, Risk, Resilience, Emergence
We live in an age of cascading risks which portend societies’ collapse. In this Evolutionary Conversation we will discuss some root causes of our inability or unwillingness to discern and deal with risk, even when it is palpable, and we will explore opportunities for community and national transcendence and transformation. We will use our indifference […]
Neutralizing the Shadow Game and Winning by Finding the Leverage Points
Please enjoy this conversation and article at BBILAN.org by Julian. Neutralizing the Shadow Game and Winning by Finding the Leverage Points
Summary of Leveling the Playing Field #2 Resilient Negotiation—Decoding the Shadow Game
February 19, 2024, 12:00-1:15 pm Pacific Julian’s Presentation Notes and Essential Points Today’s webinar will focus on some of the elements of Resilient Negotiation, how I and you can decipher and decode the Shadow Game, and what you can do about it. My colleague, Odette Wilkens, will then provide a ringside seat on how she […]
Summary of February 25 Evolutionary Conversation — Discovering Your Inner Power, Part I
Leveling the Playing Field with the Wireless Juggernaut is a part of a larger response to the rapid deterioration of values essential to our collective survival—specifically, wisdom, caring, kindness, integrity, and intimacy and dialogue with Nature. As David Attenborough documents, we have already crossed seven critical planetary boundaries. There is considerable evidence that we — our movement and our […]
Revitalizing the Humanities
(Part II)
In Part II Professors James Engell and John Paul Russo joined the Evolutionary Conversation, enriching the inquiry. James Engell, Jean Paul Russo, Julian Gresser, Roger Malina, Ben Levi, and Bill Moulton The death of the Humanities is a collective loss for all humankind. The Humanities return us not only the glory and grandeur of the […]
We Can Have Peace in East Asia Through Regional Prosperity | Opinion
China and the U.S. are now hurtling by design or inadvertence into war, with no offramp or effective mechanism to prevent it. The present danger is acute for four reasons. The political and military leadership in both countries are framing the conflict as a struggle for world hegemony, with China seeking to shift the balance […]
Accelerating Innovation Integration in the Green Industrial Revolution
Overview In the Green Industrial Revolution Woodrow Clark and Grant Cooke describe the environmental, social, economic, and political forces and some of the critical technologies that are driving a third global industrial transformation. These technologies will shape the direction of Planet Earth in the 21st century. In an earlier book, Partners in Prosperity—Strategic Industries for the U.S. and […]
Big Heart Intelligence and Corporate Destiny
The idea that “character is destiny” is ascribed to the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus (535-475 BC) who taught that the world is constantly in flux.1 The two are related, because character is the quality that provides balance, foresight, and wisdom against forces seemingly beyond our control. Like people, organizations have character often referred to as “culture.” […]