Italian businessman Giacomo Pedranzini, a previous Budapest Business Journal Expat CEO of the Year, was named the 2023 Business Hero and Atlas Award winner at a ceremony on Nov. 7.
Article: IMAGINING OUR FUTURE: PERILS AND PROMISE: Story 2. Humanity Is on a Heroic Journey - What if the most difficult challenges facing humanity are not devising solutions to the energy or climate crisis or our other self-generated predicaments?
What if, instead, we are challenged to bring positive images of the human journey into our collective awareness?
We need to be able to step back: to disidentify from stories about destruction and raise our vision to see the other side of the coin.
Article: IMAGINING OUR FUTURE: PERILS AND PROMISE: Story 2. Humanity Is on an Heroic Journey - What if the most difficult challenges facing humanity are not devising solutions to the energy or climate crisis or our other self-generated predicaments?
What if, instead, we are challenged to bring positive images of the human journey into our collective awareness?
We need to be able to step back: to disidentify from stories about destruction and raise our vision to see the other side of the coin.
Article: Species Forerunners: Can Humanity Grow Up in Time? - The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. Individual thought is mostly the result of collective thought and of interaction with other people. The language is entirely collective, and most of the thoughts in it are. Everybody does his own thing to those thoughts - he makes a contribution. But very few change them very much. David Bohm, Physicist, On Dialogue
Article: Paradigms, Domination, and Trance - Bringing It All Back Home - Part 13 - 1 (Summary: Transcending Paradigms) - It is possible, as we face the fearful complexity of life-destroying problems, to experience recurring moments of grace and joy.if we choose not to flee or withdraw from reality. It is possible to use our influence and power to create islands of sanity in the midst of a raging destructive sea. A path to engage well and sanely with the destructive dynamics of this time.
Meg Wheatley