Pursuit of mission, vision, and purpose-driven organizations?Positive Contrarian Journal is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. What caused the pre-17th century institutions to cling to a worldview that saw the Earth as the center of the universe with planets revolving around it- the geocentric view of Aristotle and Ptolemy. A combination of three mechanistic human distractions- i.e., we default to them when we are trying to think about something. They were, and are, being self-referential, identified with others and others’ ideas, and have a tendency toward mental fabrication based on the ableness to imagine things pre its existence, or not yet existent, worlds. These are undeveloped human capacities, and so rule us unless we find our way into a Development School to evolve our inner being. And they are still at work in us today, four hundred years later, as we try to find the causes and cures for climate change, racial bias, and inequity in justice and economics. The cures are assumed to be above in the subtitle of this paper. But the causes are the same at every paradigm shift. The three undeveloped human capacities do not lead us to find the deep causes. The idea of missions, visions, and purpose focus is a mismatch between cause and cure.
The Modern Anthropocentrism.
The Modern Anthropocentrism.
The Modern Anthropocentrism.
Pursuit of mission, vision, and purpose-driven organizations?Positive Contrarian Journal is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. What caused the pre-17th century institutions to cling to a worldview that saw the Earth as the center of the universe with planets revolving around it- the geocentric view of Aristotle and Ptolemy. A combination of three mechanistic human distractions- i.e., we default to them when we are trying to think about something. They were, and are, being self-referential, identified with others and others’ ideas, and have a tendency toward mental fabrication based on the ableness to imagine things pre its existence, or not yet existent, worlds. These are undeveloped human capacities, and so rule us unless we find our way into a Development School to evolve our inner being. And they are still at work in us today, four hundred years later, as we try to find the causes and cures for climate change, racial bias, and inequity in justice and economics. The cures are assumed to be above in the subtitle of this paper. But the causes are the same at every paradigm shift. The three undeveloped human capacities do not lead us to find the deep causes. The idea of missions, visions, and purpose focus is a mismatch between cause and cure.