Teamwork
The need for collaboration continues to grow: sharing costs and expertise, not reinventing the wheel, improving projects because they are inclusive. The opportunity for collaboration continues to grow: immersion in communication with email, text, voice, video, social networking and other Web 2.0 technologies. The scope also continues to grow…
Creativity
When researchers looked at the places where really rapid economic growth was occurring, they found the population in those same places had an unusually high number of creative people. Creativity helped to create more innovative and dynamic businesses that adapted to new ways of doing things faster than others. Creative communities are distinctive and known for their uniqueness.
Local Knowledge
Local knowledge is the human capital of both urban and rural people. Local knowledge is developed and adapted continuously to a gradually changing environment. It is passed down from generation to generation and closely interwoven with people’s cultural values. A country’s ability to build and mobilize knowledge is as essential to development as physical and financial capital.
Environmentalism
Even the smallest of changes can bring about a lasting impact. Could this be considered the new… Butterfly Effect. The idea was that if a butterfly chances to flap his wings in Beijing in March, then, by August, hurricane patterns in the Atlantic will be completely different. How much would the world change if each one of us did “one green thing!” You could be the butterfly!
Vision
Visionary leaders are the builders of a new dawn, working with imagination, insight, and boldness. They present a challenge that calls forth the best in people and brings them together around a shared sense of purpose. They work with the power of intentionality and alignment with a higher purpose. Their eyes are on the horizon, not just on the near at hand. They are social innovators and change agents, seeing the big picture and thinking strategically.
There is a profound interconnectedness between the leader and the whole, and true visionary leaders serve the good of the whole. They recognize that there is some truth on both sides of most polarized issues in our society today. They search for solutions that transcend the usual adversarial approaches and address the causal level of problems. They find a higher synthesis of the best of both sides of an issue and address the systemic root causes of problems to create real breakthroughs.
