http://www.freedomblog.com Giving a voice to thinking people Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:06:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (From the preface of Saving America: The Generativity Solution.) As I walked past my TV on the way to work, I saw our President addressing the White House Job Summit: "...if there are things that we’re doing here in Washington that are inhibiting you, then we want to know about it." It is ... http://www.freedomblog.com/2010/01/01/the-prosperity-problem/ The fact is that America does create The Free Enterprise System. Without its Generativity, there is no Free Enterprise: No Breakthroughs! No Innovation of the Breakthroughs! No Commercialization of the Innovations!! The Generator creates the variability by generating the changeability. Without the Generator, there is only the increasingly restricted variability of ... http://www.freedomblog.com/2009/03/18/3-the-freedom-culture/ The central tendency in a Free Society becomes mobilized (see Figure 2). The first stage of The Construct System may be conceived of as a Focusing Stage. In a sense, the main body of the variance targets the cultures of marginal people. The people observe the success ... http://www.freedomblog.com/2009/03/18/2-freedom-and-changeability/ The differences between Freedom and Totalitarianism may be heard in the tale of the peasant who, upon his way to work, discovers a genie in a bottle. Having escaped the bottle, the genie inquires as to the peasant's "one wish." The peasant replies: "I have eight cows and ... http://www.freedomblog.com/2009/03/18/1-totalitarianism-and-variability/ The paradigm shift to GPS™ requires that all NCD Components contribute to the substance of the products being produced and delivered. The criteria of measurement revolve around increasing the "size of the pie" rather than redistributing the "sizes of the pieces." In this context, we have once ... http://www.freedomblog.com/2008/11/07/9-the-paradigm-shift-to-generativity/ The most critical function of this GPS™ source cell is implementing The Requirements–Capacities Matrix (see Figure 12). As may be seen, the Capacities of the organization are compared against the Requirements for Generative–Innovative Positioning in the Marketplace. Clearly, Generative Positioning is going to require the highest levels of New Capital ... http://www.freedomblog.com/2008/11/06/8-acting-upon-images/ No crises are insolvable. With generativity, crises are merely opportunities for greater growth. Even the Global Financial Crises may be transformed from problematic to possibilistic. First of all, we must analyze the assumptions involved: Leaders wrongfully assumed that finances generate wealth. Financial services mistakenly set out to become the market-driver and, in so ... http://www.freedomblog.com/2008/11/05/7-understanding-images/ The first phase of reasoning is exploring images. This means exploring or expanding alternative views of our images. For example, when we explore our image of The American Enterprise System, we discover that American corporations have settled into Innovator–Commercializer positioning (see Figure 9). This is often referred to as "The ... http://www.freedomblog.com/2008/11/04/6-exploring-images/ In fact, the market curve is not a normal curve. Indeed, nothing in God's universes is linear, normal and symmetrical. To be sure, the so-called market curve is comprised of multiple market curves: each, in turn, is multidimensional, interdependent and curvilinear as well as asym-metrical and changeable (see Figure 7). ... http://www.freedomblog.com/2008/11/03/5-representing-images/ The principles of generativity are simple, yet profound: Relate to images of phenomena; Represent images of phenomena; Reason with images of phenomena. These are the effective ingredients of thinking generatively. In reverse order, we cannot think generatively before we have represented the phenomena ideationally. Similarly, we cannot represent ideationally before we have related to images ... http://www.freedomblog.com/2008/10/31/4-relating-to-images/