Rebuilding Society from the Ground up. Corporations and Citizens as a Source of Inspiration for Society
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Our societies have come to the end of the road. We need a fundamental reconstruction of the systems and institutions that now govern us and redefine the roles of all the players with a stronger focus on making things work by respecting the human dimension. This is not a choice between socialism, and capitalism or any other –ism. There is no future for any pure –ism. Life is too complex and interdependent for that. We need organic institutions with a clear view of purpose and values. We need governments that guide and inspire, rather than direct and control. We need corporations that pursue value creation for all stakeholders and finally we need citizens that reassume their personal responsibility for the wellbeing of society.
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Rebuilding Society from the Ground up. Corporations and Citizens as a Source of Inspiration for Society - Mickey Huibregtsen
SUMMARY
Our societies have come to the end of the road. We need a fundamental reconstruction of the systems and institutions that now govern us and redefine the roles of all the players with a stronger focus on making things work by respecting the human dimension.
This is not a choice between socialism, and capitalism or any other–ism. There is no future for any pure –ism. Life is too complex and interdependent for that. We need organic institutions with a clear view of purpose and values. We need governments that guide and inspire, rather than direct and control. We need corporations that pursue value creation for all stakeholders and finally we need citizens that reassume their personal responsibility for the well-being of society.
Mickey Huibregtsen
BACKGROUND:
THE DEMISE OF DEMOCRACY
The wellbeing of our societies is determined by many important actors. In our view each of these actors has lost their pre-eminence in making our societies successful. We will not attempt to fully elaborate the weaknesses nor the causes, but limit ourselves to a few observations for each player that many will share.
The Citizens have in large part lost their sense of individual responsibility for the wellbeing of our society and tend to look to government and corporations to meet their as well as society’s every need.
The Corporations have focused increasingly on creating shareholder value thereby failing to recognize their instrumental role in the functioning of all stakeholders in their local, national and ultimately global societies.
The Institutions have not been able - primarily as a result of rapidly increasing scale and pace of change, as well as fundamental recalibration of their values – to provide for the natural anchors they once offered.
The Political Parties have lost their moral prestige and find themselves enslaved by - in practice counterproductive - electoral systems.
The Governments