KOKORO: 8 Easy Steps

Hello. I’m Julian Gresser, the co-creator of Kokoro—The Awakening App.

Here are 7 simple steps to begin exploring Kokoro. Let me show you how the app actually works.

 


YOUR INQUIRY


 

Step 1. ASK KOKORO:

Frame your question as a wisdom decision, choice, or proposed action. If you wish, you can include a few sentences of explanation.

We live in an Age where wisdom appears in short supply and out of fashion. And yet wisdom may hold the key to our species’ survival. Our purpose is to place in the user’s hands a valuable resource, Kokoro, as an aide in making wise decisions, and avoiding or recovering rapidly from costly errors in judgement. Discovery Question: How can I render Kokoro easy and fun to use, while helping users achieve practical outcomes?

Step 2. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

If desirable, add a related Essential Question from the list. Once selected the text for that question will show on the Essential Questions box.  (This is optional).

 


THE RESILIENCE MATRIX


 

In the 3 columns of buttons titled CHALLENGE, RESILIENCE and WISDOM – to scroll within a box section move your cursor over it and use the mouse wheel (or click on the vertical black scroll bar).  To scroll the whole page down, move your mouse cursor to outside the colored boxes and do the same.

Step 3. CHALLENGE ISSUES

Select a few relevant items in Column 1, Your CHALLENGE, from the Resilience Matrix to ground and link your question to your important concerns (and/or write in your own challenge issue at the bottom of the button list). (at least 1 is required)

Step 4. RESILIENCE FACTORS

Select items from Column 2, Resilience Factors, which will deepen your wisdom inquiry. Select one or more Resilience Factor buttons. (required)

Step 5. WISDOM SOURCES

Now Choose one of the Wisdom Sources listed in Column 3 whose personal advice you might really value. If your desired guide is not on the list, simply type in a historical or fictional figure whose life and wisdom greatly inspires you. As you scroll down, you will see your choices in grey.  Now Click the Just Click button to receive a reply. Note this may take up to 10 seconds.

NOTE: if the app does not generate an answer, the AI servers could be getting busy, so please just try again, but if the problem persists contact us bill@justclick.earth

(When the Kokoro text reply is shown you can vertically expand the text box by dragging down the bottom right corner of the text window. Click More if you wish to go deeper with your Wisdom Source. Copy if you want to save the response to your clipboard.

Please note that you can continue the same line of inquiry with different Wisdom Sources; or generate new questions and ideas stimulated by the dialogue. For example:

  • How can I meet the obstacles, barriers, and disappointments ahead with compassion, humor, and flow?

The entire conversation can be copied. To start a new conversation, you must refresh your browser window to reload the app.

 


WISDOM PRACTICES


 

Step 6. WISDOM PRACTICES:

The next section of the app focuses on Wisdom Practices that may appeal to you. If you are unsure, you can ask Kokoro for guidance as to which practice is ideal for you. Just type your request as a Follow-up Question, as noted above. The key, of course, is to rely more and more on your own awakened intuition and inner wisdom. Let’s look at Resilient Negotiation as one class of practices.

(Once you select a single practice, it will link to a new browser tab with that Wisdom Practice. When you are done, you simply close that tab and return to the Kokoro app page. If you wish to look at more Wisdom Practices, simply select another, and it will open a new browser tab with the practice for you.

Step 7. THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT:

The more you cultivate wisdom and resilience, the more the benefits accrue to you personally, your circle of friends and associates, and your community. There are powerful ways to activate this Multiplier Effect.

After you have made progress in a few of the practices, you might explore creating synergy by combining them.

The simple act of Paying Forward is designed to produce a positive feedback loop: as you give freely away to help others in need, so the benefits return to you, quietly and often imperceptibly.

The Multiplier is enhanced by practicing in small groups of explorers, which will be supported by the various social media and other online educational programs we are offering.

 


CREATE A PLAN


 

Step 8. CREATE A PLAN:

You can Ask Kokoro to help you to create your own personalized plan. Simply reflect on the thread you have created by first posing your Essential Question, refined in The Resilience Matrix and cultivated by Wisdom Practices.

Now frame the key elements of your desired training and coaching program, select one action from the list, and click “Enter.”

Continue to test and enhance your Wisdom and Resilience by meeting practical challenges presented in your daily life’s encounters and negotiations.


That’s it. You’re launched! Congratulations!

 

TO START OVER:

To start over with a different selection of entries, simply go to the top of your browser window and click the circle arrow to refresh the page!

Note: If you are on a mobile device (e.g. cell), you will only see one column at a time and each list will be below the other. In this case, scroll down to make selections from each set (Challenges, Resilience Factors and Wisdom Sources).

For a more detailed tutorial:
Your Kokoro Roadmap
Organizations

Frame your question as a wisdom decision, choice, or proposed action. If you wish, you can include a few sentences of explanation. If desirable, add a related Essential Question from the list. Once selected the text for that question will show on the Essential Questions box.  (optional)

Select a few relevant items in Column 1, CHALLENGE, from the Resilience Matrix to ground and link your question to your important concerns (and/or write in your own challenge issue at the top of the button list).  (required)

Select items from Column 2, Resilience Factors, which will deepen your wisdom inquiry. Select one or more Resilience Factor buttons. (required)

Now Choose one of the Mentoring wisdom sources listed in Column 3 whose personal advice you might really value. If your desired guide is not on the list, simply type in a historical or fictional figure whose life and wisdom greatly inspires you. (required)

The next section of the app focuses on Wisdom Practices that may appeal to you. If you are unsure, you can ask Kokoro for guidance as to which practice is ideal for you. If you wish to look at more Wisdom Practices, simply select another, and it will open a new browser tab with the practice for you.

You can Ask Kokoro to help you to create your own personalized plan. Simply reflect on the thread you have created by first posing your Essential Question, refined in The Resilience Matrix and cultivated by Wisdom Practices.

Kokoro aims to enhance productivity significantly and measurably by first building 25 core competencies in cohorts, and then accelerate, track and measure the outcome metrics of learning these skills throughout the organization.

 

 

Ask KokoroTM

(and/or select one Essential Question below)

Essential Questions

Organizational Culture
How to find dynamic balance in a world that appears so out of balance?
How to stay in continuous dialogue with my Divine Intelligence and apply its wise insights in daily life?
How to create time?
How long do I have to live?
Where will I go after I die?
What will tomorrow bring?
What is the meaning of my life?
Why am I living this life?
For what am I here?
How optimally to align my Mind—i.e. professional experience (specifically intellectual knowledge and expertise based on 40 years of experience treating patients as a psychiatrist) with the Heart and Hand of effective action)?
How long can I continue to practice (e.g. as a physician) and still enjoy what I do?
How to make a meaningful difference to a world that seems caught by lethal dangers and forces beyond our making and control—expanding conflict in the Middle East, intensification of Anti-Semitism, climate collapse, nuclear war, advent of AI, US political hyperpolarization, to name a few—what can each of us usefully do, in our own way, to fend off these looming and proliferating catastrophes?
What can I do in the remaining years I have left in this life to leave the world a kinder, more peaceful, happier, and healthier place for my children, their children, and future generations?
Building Wise and Integrally Resilient Organizations (For Profit)
How to build a Integrally Resilient and Wise Organization?
How to naturalize wise action core competencies?
How to make 21st Century wisdom practices especially appealing for Millennials and Gen Z beyond mindfulness and emotional intelligence?
How most effectively to reach the Millennials and Gen Z consumers who are demand commitment to sustainability practices?
How to convert CSR, ESG, Wisdom practices into powerful financial returns (ROI) via brand loyalty, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency?
How can I cultivate resilience within myself and my team to navigate the uncertainties and disruptions of the 21st century?
How to anticipate, avoid making fatal decisions, and building integral resilience to recover from them?
How to understand and take strategic advantage from consensus trance, collective blindness, and entrenched beliefs?
How to create Dynamic Balance in a world of exponential change, turbulence, and uncertainty
What are the 10 greatest risks and challenges facing business enterprises in the U.S. and abroad?
Building Wise and Integrally Resilient Organizations (Non-Profit)
How to balance mission and financial sustainability?
How to address complex social problems with limited resources?
How can I and my organization become more attuned to and address Risk more effectively and imaginatively in order to avoid fatal and irreversible decisions?
Fatal Decisions. Is this a true “Tragic” (irreconcilable) choice we are facing, or rather a False Choice masquerading as a Tragic Choice?
How to leverage technology and data ethically?
How to ensure long-term impact in a short-term funding culture?
How to neutralize The Shadow Game and the Shadow Players with Big Heart Intelligence?
How to deploy Player Integrity Profiles (PIPS) effectively?
How can I lead in a way that encourages collaboration across diverse teams, cultures, and sectors?
What strategies can I use to build bridges between different stakeholders, ensuring that all voices are heard and respected?
How can I embed sustainability into the core of my leadership practice, ensuring that my actions support environmental and social well-being?
What role can I play in transforming my organization or community into a model of responsible stewardship?
How can I ensure that my leadership is inclusive, values diversity and empowers marginalized voices within my organization and beyond?
What steps can I take to create an environment where each person feels valued and has an opportunity to contribute to collective success?
How can I lead with compassion, understanding the needs and perspectives of those I serve and work with?
As a community philanthropic foundation, what are 10 essential questions we must be asking to advance our goal of delivering measurable breakthroughs in social, environmental, and financial impacts that strongly advance our philanthropic and charitable mission for our community, especially its most vulnerable populations?
Attracting, Motivating, and Retaining Talented, Wise, Resilient, and Happy Employees
How to give every employee an opportunity to become wiser and happier?
How to measure the financial and other outcomes in talented employee attraction, retention, and happiness when this happens?
What are the outcomes on customer brand recognition and loyalty when better team cohesion happens?
How can we increase fairness, imagination, creativity in compensation?
Where are we not listening or recognizing important opportunities or proposals from our own staff or partners because of institutional rigidity, bias, or blindness?
How can we build partnerships with local organizations, government agencies, and businesses to amplify our impact?
What innovative approaches can we adopt to address social, environmental, and financial challenges in our community?
How do we ensure that our initiatives are inclusive and equitable, particularly for marginalized and underserved groups?
What mechanisms do we have in place to gather feedback from the community, and how are we using that feedback to inform our strategies?
How to Attract, Motivate, and Retain Talented, Wise, Resilient, and Happy Employees?
How as a foundation are we ensuring the sustainability of our initiatives, both in terms of financial resources and community engagement?
Rebalancing ESG - Finding a dynamic balance between ESG and bottom line viability
How to transcend ESG overemphasis on decarbonization by emphasizing nearer term solutions for social and environmental responsibility?
How to avoid Zero-Sum thinking?
How most effectively to support private sector initiatives and leadership?
How to build successful public/private partnerships?
How can we create sustainable and scalable initiatives that address the root causes of social, economic, and environmental issues?
What are the causal relationships between CSR, green innovation and competitiveness? What are some important case studies and data for this proposition?
How to set the standard for achieving Dynamic Balance in ESG policies and other corporate areas of social responsibility in light of the retreat of corporations from these principles in a hyperpolarized environment?
How wisely to move beyond outdated ESG?What is the next frntier reflecting Dynamic Balance with other critical factors?
Helping organizations develop wise AI strategies and apps to anticipate demand for AI
Why is a Wise Decision Navigator one of the noblest and most practical humanitarian uses of AI that also largely avoids some of AI’s current challenges of reliability and bias?
How can AI support the development of Integral Resilience, and conversely how does enhanced AI supported Integral Resilience reliably enhance wise decision making?
How can AI tempered by resilience and wisdom become an essential ally and tool in predicting, assessing, and mitigating business risk?
How can AI assist in assessing in determining that a specific decision is wise?
How to optimize AI as a tool in unlocking user’s own inner wisdom?
How can AI assist in recovering from serious errors in judgement?
How can AI assist in effective communication of wise decisions?
How can AI become a valued partner in Resilient Negotiations?
How can AI support agile and wise adjustment in environments of high uncertainty, turbulence, and risk?
How can AI be used to check its own hallucinations in the context of wise decision making?
Circular Economy, Sustainability, and Long Term Climate Adaptation
How to reframe from Linear Economy (take-make-dispose) to Circular Economy Principles?
WHow specifically to manage toxic wastes, plastics, and supply chains based on extractive as opposed to recycling processes?
How will Circular Economy strategies deliver superior financial returns along with superior SROI?
Why and How does the Circular Economy offer a new paradigm for economic growth and value creation?
How to find common ground with opposing polarized interest groups?
How can we preserve and protect and also monetize the Earth's biodiversity and ecosystems, which are crucial for life on our planet?
How to build economic and energy resilience through Circular Economy practices and methodologies?
What are some leadership strategies to drive collaborative innovations in the Circular Economy?
What are the leading case studies demonstrating successful Circular Economy strategies? How are these outcomes measured and valued?
What are the economic costs of inaction of adhering to linear thinking and linear resource management models?
Can we find common ground by agreeing that carrying capacity of the biosphere and resource limitations must concern everyone?
Why and How does Circular Economy models meet UN Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs)
(if you make a selection, it will show above, then continue to the Resilience Matrix below)

 



The Resilience Matrix

Categories:


CHALLENGE ISSUE

(Select 1 to 5 challenge buttons and/or enter text at top)
Organizational Culture
Optimizing Operations
Retaining Essential Employees
ESG vs Bottom Line
Wise Uses of AI
Sustainability, Risk & Regenerative Economy

RESILIENCE FACTOR

(Select from 1 to 5 resilience factor buttons for better focus and/or add text at top)
Core Culture
Resilient Organization
Retaining Talented and Dedicated Employees
Profitable ESG
Wise AI, Wiser People
Regenerative Economy

WISDOM SOURCE

(Select 1 wisdom source button or enter text at top)
Culture Experts
Resilience Experts
Employee Talent and Motivation
Rebalancing ESG
AI Application Experts
Regenerative Economy Experts
(after entering your text and/or selections above you can now
submit your inquiry with the Just Click! button below)

  

 



 


Strategic Resilience Practices

Wise, Synergistic, and Resilient Leadership
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Culture is the Rosetta Stone of organizational behavior. Defining the essentials of an organization’s culture can positively and directly influence all important decisions.

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Big Heart Intelligence (BHI) combines wise capabilities of the human heart, the imagination and genius of the mind, and the raw grit and courage of the gut

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Trust releases synergy. The key is how to build durable trust, which is closely related to organizational wisdom. Here are a few principles that can be incorporated into an organizational Charter.

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Kaizen is a Japanese business philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement across an organization. The word “kaizen” translates to “change for the better”.

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The Organizational Score Card will provide an instantaneous picture of your organization’s strengths and weaknesses.

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The concept of shared value can be defined as policies and operating practices that enhance the competitiveness of a company while simultaneously advancing the economic and social conditions in the company communities in which it operates.

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One fundamental principle is to enable each team member to soar with his or her strengths. People have different skills and inherent capabilities.

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Evolutionary Values which if practices as an integral part of your organization’s culture will create a happy and healthy work environment leading to superior financial and other outcomes.

Resilient Negotiation Practices
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This tool enables you in a few minutes to gauge your physical, emotional, perceptual, spiritual, and relational resilience.

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Seeing the Big Picture is one of the attributes of Big Heart Intelligence. Seeing the Big Picture involves not only engaging your creative imagination.

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The basic rule is that an effective Mission and Purpose is always in the world of the other party. It is not what you want.

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The Action Log captures on one page the essentials of the Resilient Negotiation system. I urge that you prepare an Action Log in every negotiation that is important to you.

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The central presumption of the Separation Hypothesis is that we are alone, separate, fragile, and vulnerable. This premise of Mind shows up in our attitude toward what we truly Need in life?

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Every skillful negotiator seeks to understand the “Pain” of the other party. Pain is a source code of human behavior.

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It is one thing to advise “Few Needs”, quite another to embody this precept. A prime manner in which this happens is how we unthinkingly Assume and Expect things.

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Another way Need manifests in the unprepared negotiator is the untimely and unnecessary breach of your Integral Resilience Container.

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Conserve your Resilient Negotiator’s Budget (Time (1) x Effort (2) x $$$ (3) x Creativity (4)). Paying special attention to your Negotiator’s Budget.

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We cannot navigate wisely in the world today without acknowledging The Shadow Game and the Shadow Players.

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In many negotiations the parties are not revealing their actual intentions, conclusions, or concerns, and it can be critical to go behind the mask.

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Sun Tzu’s dictum, “Know Yourself, Know the Adversary” (i.e. the “Other”) is fundamental, but the great general philosopher doesn’t tell us how to know ourselves and how to know the other player.

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Most people fear getting a “No” and that moves them into greater Need. In reality depending on how you negotiate it, a “No” can be your great friend and teacher.

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Field Notes is where your Wisdom Practice meets the road. They enable you to track and to measure errors (“falling off”), wins, and recoveries.

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This is the famous advice of the Zen Master Bukko to Hojo Tokimune, the young Japanese shikken or regent to the shogun.

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In Homer’s Odyssey Mentor was a close friend of Odysseus, the wisest of the Greeks, whom Odysseus made the teacher and guardian of his son Telemachus, while Odysseus was waging war at Troy.

Organizational Culture DNA
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There are different kinds of listening and attending. In a busy world we tend to listen, partially, casually, with our ears and a mind diverted by many things.

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Mastery and efficiency form a powerful partnership. The path to mastery isn’t a luxury; it is imperative for organizational long-term success in a complex, changing world.

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A powerful Wisdom Resilience Practice is to design and Implement a powerful Living Organizational Charter, co-created and regularly (quarterly) updated by all members of the organization.

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Anthony’s Discovery Question: How can we reconcile the problem of not knowing whether I or my beloved wife will die first? How wisely to come to terms with it?

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Inspired by the wisdom and awesome power of nature and holistic thinking, this practice involves immersive, outdoor retreats where employees, supported by facilitators, engage in deep listening, mindfulness, and power building exercises.

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The Ancient Power of Storytelling is a hybrid digital and physical initiative where employees regularly document and share stories of how they bring values of trust, compassion, foresight, paying forward, and collaborative innovation.

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Research indicates that facilitating flow in the workplace can lead to enhanced employee engagement, productivity, and overall job satisfaction.

Attracting, Motivating, and Retaining Talent
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There is a direct relationship between overlapping essential “upskills” training, Soul’s Work Inquiry, and significant increases in employee productivity.

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Most people especially in busy senior managers of organizations listen with their ears, fewer with their minds, and almost no one with their hearts.

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The Innovators Gold lies at the “intertidal zone” between conventional domains of knowledge. The Explorer's Wheel responds to the challenge.

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One of the greatest gifts an organization can make to its employees is a proven system of navigation in a turbulent world.

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Leaders of 21st Century organizations that are willing to invest imaginatively in their talented and committed employees will likely retain these employees, and enjoy increasing productivity gains.

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Employee disengagement is a significant concern, with Gallup estimating it costs the global economy approximately $8.9 trillion in lost productivity, equating to about 9% of global GDP.

Organizational Resilience, Risk Management, and Wise Decision Making
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The first step in determining your organization’s Integral Resilience, and thereby its capacity to make wise decisions around risk and opportunities, is to complete an Organizational Integral Resilience Score Card.

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In the complex and interconnected world of today, decision-makers across sectors are often plagued by what can be termed as “individual and collective blindness.”

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Five important Wisdom Practices for organizations are first to become aware of how biases and noise can distort critical decisions by becoming familiar with Kahneman’s and his colleagues’ work.

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Wisdom is most challenged when life conditions present us with tragic and false choices. Many such “tragic” choices are false choices,

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It is possible to anticipate and to reduce serious errors and potentially fatal decisions through careful application of resilience-based protocols supported by Kokoro analytics.

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Here is a Case Example of Kokoro Risk Matrix Analytics supporting a new community leadership model addressing unexamined electrical wildfire risks in the Lake Tahoe Basin.

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What is your organization’s current “Negotiation System”? Most organizations do not have in place a systematic way to identify errors and rapidly recover, then turn serious errors into opportunities.

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Many of the same tools for building resilient organizations can be applied effectively in designing and implementing resilient and wise strategic alliances and collaborative networks.

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The current morass of ESG thus presents a unique challenge and opportunity for the wise and resilient organization.

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Risk management includes sensing risks in advance, implementing effective risk avoidance and/or mitigation strategies, then learning and adapting rapidly. The same Integral Resilience skills that apply to risk management can be used to manage our responses to Uncertainty.

Strategies for Adopting and Managing AI
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Kokoro begins with asking questions that are important to you and your organization. We offer the following to help you learn and perfect the Art of Prompt Engineering.

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Throughout the annals of human history, stories of coincidences have sparked intrigue and speculation. They pose fascinating questions about the interconnectedness of events, experiences, and even people.

Regenerative Business ROI in the Circular Economy
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Assessing and measuring combined qualitative and quantitative effects in the Fourth Sector Economy—a hybrid sector that integrates principles from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

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The Earth can provide enough, especially with advancing technology, to feed, clothe, house, and warm every human on the planet. Of course we need machines that yield, for example, maximum thermal efficiency.

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A practical roadmap to surf through the emerging planetary chaos by combining synergistically the following special elements.

(click to expand options, hover over each button to see a preview
and then click to open a wisdom practice page in a new tab
and then close the opened tab to return to select a different practice)


The Multiplier Effect

Combining Different Resilience and Wisdom Practices
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Kokoro core competency skills reinforce all circles. All circles reciprocally enhance competency in each circle and its components. Kokoro draws connections among all core competencies.

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The power of: 1. probing more deeply with one selected Wisdom Source (example: Leonardo da Vinci); 2. concentrating the wisdom of first another Source, and then many Sources on a central wisdom question or challenge.

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There are huge business opportunities opening in the Regenerative (Circular) Economy, Climate Finance, and the Fourth Sector, and these opportunities will be driven by breakthrough innovations. Here is a protocol for your organization to be on the cutting edge.

(click to expand options, hover over each button to see a preview
and then click to open a wisdom practice page in a new tab
and then close the opened tab to return to select a different practice)

Productivity Action Streams

(Kokoro can help you apply your strategic wisdom skills across a full spectrum of practical action plans.
Please select one of the buttons below, and enter your instructions at the end
to identify your actionable context, and then click 'Enter')

KAIZEN ROADMAP



CULTURE



OPERATIONS



OUTCOMES



KPI VALUE ADDED MULTIPLIERS


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