Powerful Transformations
Having worked extensively at the top of major corporations and government institutions, we have brought many complex initiatives to fruition. What are your most important challenges not yet resolved?
This is our high-level work page. Please read on when you can drop distractions and give some quality time to reflect on the depth and usefulness presented on themes core for the development of our societies, cultures and strategies.
This is our high-level work page. Please read on when you can drop distractions and give some quality time to reflect on the depth and usefulness presented on themes core for the development of our societies, cultures and strategies.
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The Societal Development Model is a highly potential tool to align ambitions for the development of organizations and societies. Harmonized with higher academia, it is simplicity beyond complexity. Representing vast knowledge, it's a rich source of good. For the first time, societal development is connected with the typical political associations and labels of our time. Core is the vertical center, the levels of societal adulthood, from tyrannic to the most inspiring. |
Creating divinely inspiring societies is a tall order, likely achievable with a conscientious and heroic effort over years and decades, with a maturing of the human psyche in general.
Being truthful and zooming out to the higher potentials of the future acoming, most societies today (here in 2022) are at level 7 at best, or below.
Being truthful and zooming out to the higher potentials of the future acoming, most societies today (here in 2022) are at level 7 at best, or below.
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This timeless societal development model has high potential value for strategists, politicians, leaders, journalists, researchers – those caring about societal development at large. To arise, we need to call out what in your own society leads us in a downward spiral, rather than upwards. Being conscious of how development decisions lead to certain outcomes, is awakening. Yes, it's time to wake up from our collective slumber, kept in place by we the people, our politicians and media.
For our definition of Healthy Leadership, a core foundation to initiate the monumentous work to uplift our societies, click on the image to the right to download the PDF. |
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New World: Wisdom Economy
The current state of affairs across the planet is clearly not sustainable. We overreact to threats, consume far too much resources, and the necessary cleaning of our suffocating oceans has just begun. Further, the distribution of wealth is too tall, and we ask for trouble not addressing this and other major issues at play.
The least we can do is addressing how we run our own businesses and organizations, towards more sustainability for the wellbeing of all. Welcome Wisdom Economy, a solution for the future which is with us right now. It encompasses sustainability for the planet and profit in the same breath. Looking at other major economy model initiatives, it's the most comprehensive. It's currently being rolled out by several of our clients.
The least we can do is addressing how we run our own businesses and organizations, towards more sustainability for the wellbeing of all. Welcome Wisdom Economy, a solution for the future which is with us right now. It encompasses sustainability for the planet and profit in the same breath. Looking at other major economy model initiatives, it's the most comprehensive. It's currently being rolled out by several of our clients.
Wisdom Economy for Your Company
To implement, there is a process for the leaders and an app for all. We facilitate the process for the leadership group to experience the deeply inspiring work this is, to make it work just right for your organization.
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Wisdom Economy covers the bases like nothing else we've seen. To prepare the facilitation of such comprehensive change processes, now delivered to multiple clients, we ventured to Iceland, for a cutting-edge knowledge development exploration. Together with 20 multi-disciplinary thought leaders from every continent, we explored how to apply the Wisdom Economy framework to create the most valuable applications for our joint future. Will you join us?
Diving in, Wisdom Economy is a comprehensive blueprint to inform any organization of size. It configures 10 capitals, 4 types of impact around 4 bottom-lines. It also enables multiple levels of perspective taking and enquiry of any number of evaluation metrics. The figure below articulates impact using metrics for ten types of Capital and how those contribute to the four bottom lines, or 4P: People, Profit, Planet and Purpose. 
Wisdom Economy framework with Ten Types of Capital.
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In the current complex and volatile global environment, it's no longer enough to measure impact or even have more impact. Rather we need to ensure that we take all relevant factors into consideration and thus ensure having significantly transformative impact to meet the needs of all stakeholders and society at large. What we measure thus becomes all the more important to know.
In 2011, The International Integrative Reporting Council (IIRC) began a multi-year global initiative to develop an expanded model of Capital. They identified six Capital that should be included in an Integrated Report. Sean Esbjörn-Hargens (PhD), the creator of Wisdom Economy and an associate of ours, has re-imagined the notion of capital even further, combining the knowledge from all the recognized financial models and now offering a model to enable more consciously chosen strategic plans and bottom-line financial goals. His conferences and customer keynotes deliver on:
Wisdom Economy is a significant Strategic Enabler to build and support thriving organizations, communities, and societies by expanding the notion of Impact, Capital, and Bottom Lines. It critically identifies the important ways these aspects are enmeshed and co-creating within any eco system. Understanding these relationships enables strategists to design Wisdom Economies that cultivate and track multiple forms of value in a way that preserves the wholeness of people, organizations and other system elements.
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Let's talk about how you could benefit from using this comprehensive framework to start transforming today's corporate economy towards the new truly sustainable and future-embracing way of running our economy. |
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Setting Course & Speed
The word Strategy comes from the military and means an overall plan on how to win the war. The best military strategies are still those that help us win the peace whilst avoiding bloodshed. Here is a client case reflecting our work.
As senior military strategist, our CEO crafted a strategy that helped prepare the nation of Norway for what was coming in new threats, realities and opportunities, to improve national security. This strategy broke through a stalemate that was keeping the military looking backwards, by painting a believable future. The work also reached out to other national security agencies, and initiated a strategic agency collaboration for the first time.
The officially main voice in assessing longterm military strategy said:
As senior military strategist, our CEO crafted a strategy that helped prepare the nation of Norway for what was coming in new threats, realities and opportunities, to improve national security. This strategy broke through a stalemate that was keeping the military looking backwards, by painting a believable future. The work also reached out to other national security agencies, and initiated a strategic agency collaboration for the first time.
The officially main voice in assessing longterm military strategy said:
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This is the most essential document on the future of our military, and I'm honored to deliver the official feedback to it. There are two completely different mindsets in this long-term strategy and that's a challenge. |
Military-Political Landscape Change
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To strategic insiders, the Norwegian military was a top-heavy organization which was about to become even more so, as a plan for base-closings was on the way.
Stepping in for a Major General, I was given the job of "Criticizing the New Defence Strategy" as one of three keynote speakers on a military-political panel with the upcoming Chief of Defence on my left, Sverre Diesen, and the then Chairman of the Defence Committee on our national assembly on the right, Hans J. Røsjorde. I was prepared. Gen. Diesen presented the strategy, reducing the number of bases to focus military might. My turn, I supported the plan, pointing out what was missing, a likewise reduction of the swelling top. Describing the current operational strength and weaknesses of our military, speaking as the Chief Exercise and Training that I was, I suggested an organizational transformation in replacing "Headquarters Defence Command Norway" with what became an unquestionable transformational change, the new "Integrated Strategic Leadership" (HQ) of the Norwegian Military. Organizational idea & concept was followed by innovative architecture – in tune with the original idea of combining tradition with modern – to create something wellworking for our time. The audience of officers, soldiers and politicians, welcomed the idea with resounding appreciation. Other players were naturally afraid of political interests overpowering military knowledge and core abilities, too early in any decision making process. Valid point. Later changes moved in that direction, unfortunately. A better balance between the number of soldiers in the entire defence organization, and the number of people at the top, was a core success factor realized. |
Now an inspiring work environment and co-location, it delivers closer co-operation and a more cohesively working military-political headquarter.
A recheck and further development of the organization in tune with changing times, will empower military ability and thrive. The military-political landscape is a powerful one, where transparency and governance has further potential. 
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The new HQ reflects the respectful architectural combination of tradition and modernity by design, adding glass & steel construction elements to old brick storage buildings now serving a higher-level purpose.
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SKÅL!
Meeting up in Kuala Lumpur, where the honorary bureaucrat of the Norwegian Ministry of Defence took a break from his official duties for a conversation with our CEO, also celebrating the successful joint efforts some years earlier. A rich conversation, we discussed current world and defense developments, also touching upon the observation that the industry of "Security", as it is labeled, is growing quite substantially. |
