This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.
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Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.
I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.
There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.
People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.
The lack of available, good work inspires a lot of people to be self-creating.
More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.
Humankind is getting more and more connected.
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
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