From Ego-system to Eco-system Economies: How to Build Collective Leadership Capacity Strategies for a New Economy Conference June 2012 Bard College Otto Scharmer MIT Sloan School of Management Presencing Institute ENTERING THE AGE OF DISRUPTION 1. How to reinvent our economy? (relink financial capital with real economy) 2. How to reinvent our democracy? (relink state with citizens and communities) 3. How to reinvent our education? (relink learning curriculum with learners)  Who are we as human beings? (relink self and Self) The Matrix of Economic Evolution Stage Coordination Nature Labor Capital Technology Leadership Consumption 0.0 Communal (Mythical) Traditional community Mother Nature Selfsufficiency Natural Capital Traditional wisdom Community Survival 1.0 State centric (1 sector, Traditional) Regulation and hierarchy Resource Serfdom, Slavery Human Capital Tools Agricultural Revolution Authoritarian (sticks) Traditional (needs driven) 2.0 Free Market (2 sectors, Ego-centric) Markets and competition Commodity Labor (commodity) Industrial Capital Machines 1st Industrial Revolution Incentives (carrots) Consumerism: Mass consumption 3.0 Social Networks and Market negotiation (3 sectors, conflictg, Interest group) Regulated commodity Labor (regulated) Financial capital (externality blind) System-centric Automation: 2nd Industrial Revolution Participative (norms) Partly conscious consumption 4.0 Co-creative (3 sectors, co-creating, Eco-centric) Cultivated Commons Entrepreneurship Cultural Creative Capital (externality aware) Human-centric Technologies: 3rd Industrial Revolution Co-creative (collective presence) Collaborative Conscious Consumption ABC : AwarenessBased Collective action Shifting The Field of Economic Conversations Individual Commercials 1-Way Level 1 Markets 2-Way Level 2 Conversations Producers Propaganda PR Level 3 Co- 4 CC Voting Recipient CSR Level creation Victim Stakeholder Dialogues Elections 2-Way Lobbying, Corruption 1-Way Collective Consumers Users Citizens Downloading Performing by past patterns operating from the whole suspending Seeing with fresh eyes redirecting Sensing embodying Open Mind Open Heart linking head, heart, hand enacting Crystallizing vision and intention from the field letting go Prototyping the new by Open Will Presencing connecting to Source self - Self letting come Four Levels of Responding to Change Manifest action 1. Reacting: quick fixes Process, structure 2. Redesigning: policies Thinking 3. Reframing: values, beliefs Source of energy, inspiration and will 4. Regenerating: sources of creativity and self Resources and Literature • Scharmer, C. Otto (2007). Theory U: Leading from the Emerging Future As It Emerges. The Social Technology of Presencing, Cambridge, MA: SoL Press. • Senge, P., C. O. Scharmer, J. Jaworski, and B. S. Flowers. (2004). Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, Cambridge, MA: SoL Press. • www.presencing.com (put yourself on the Presencing Institute mailing list that will announce Otto’s forthcoming book on Society 4.0: From Ego- to Eco-system Economies) • www.ottoscharmer.com