Editorial Team

Why This is an Age of Tragedy, Dystopia, and Rage We seem to be stuck, you and I, in an age that’s hell-bent, dead-set on repeating on the mistakes of the past. The Greeks might have smiled, and called that tragedy. But not just any mistakes. The biggest and ugliest ones. The ones the world … Read more

Or, Why Individualism, Materialism, and Competition Won’t Create the Future When I consider about the American way of thinking about things — maybe even everything— it appears to me to boil down to three interlocking elements. Individualism. Competition. And materialism (not just as in “having more stuff” but as in “stuff is all there is” … Read more

Or, Why Authoritarian Might Just Last the Rest of Our Adult Lives America collapsing — 5000 dead in Puerto Rico. Italy retreating — extremists elected to high office. Protests in Brazil, not against military dictatorship, but for it. It’s looking apocalyptic out there.

Or, How American Collapse is Made of a New Kind of Poverty Consider the following statistics.The average American can’t scrape together $500 for an emergency. A third of Americanscan’t afford food, shelter, and healthcare.Healthcare for a family now costs $28k— about half of median income, which is $60k.

Or, Why You Can’t Fight Authoritarianism With Magic I recently read a funny and odd fact:Democrats have already lost their leadgoing into the next big elections in the States. How can that be? And yet it’s true across the globe. Liberals are losing, and authoritarians are winning — making inroads here…

Or, Why Mega-Scale Organizations Can’t Do Tomorrow’s Work Bigger, bigger, bigger. Better, right? We’ve lionized big, mega, huge-scale — businesses, institutions, organizations — over medium, small, and tiny. So much so, that for example, American legal and economic thought tends to favour the hugest monopolies, the playing field tilted way, way…

How to Topple the House of Prosperity There’s a question that’s been on my mind — and maybe on yours. Why did America make it so easy for itself to collapse? Let me explain what I mean. American collapse has many causes. One cause is that it America grew socially destabilized, ruptured, fractured. It was … Read more

Why The Organizations We Build Must Be Models of the World We Want to Create Apr 11, 2018 Save Perhaps you think, as I do, that the world is in a troubled place these days. If so, then maybe you’ve observed what I have. Something’s going badly wrong in our organizations. At every scale. Whether … Read more

Or, Why an Economy Empty of Real Prosperity Isn’t Much of One Apr 5, 2018 Member-only Save One day in the not too distant future, they’re going to use Facebook as a case study. In how to do everything badly. From management to leadership to innovation to social responsibility. At business schools, executive courses, in … Read more

And Why Humanity’s Future Depends on What’s Next Imagine that I told you you had to build a machine with somewhere between a million and ten million parts, each one made to sub-millimeter precise specifications. Imagine I told you you’d have to build the organization of thousands of people to put it together. Imagine I … Read more