Day 2: Ron Bloemperk (Schneider Electric) - The necessity of enchantment during transformation of the modern workplace: a work of fiction?

Ron Bloemperk

What’s the score?

20th Century:

Some good things...

Beginning of managerial capitalism

Greatest destruction rate ever:

▪ Ecological and environmental

▪ Human lives

▪ Most bloodshed....?

“ The Better Angels of Our

Nature”

-Steven Pinker

Current Business Economics

Goods get better treatment than people

Our today’s footprint on the planet...

Homo Economicus

Profit over people

Shareholder protection

Change is the

daughter of time!

Seeing Vacancies in Error

Redundancy Undone

Individuality Rationality & bureaucracy Technology Economic growth & efficiency as norm Instant gratification Learning for immediate economic application De-humanization

The Concorde

Fallacy...

“ Profit for a company is like oxygen to a

person. If you don’t have enough of it, you are out of the game. But if you think that life is only about breathing, you are missing the point...!” ▪ - Peter Drucker

SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE

Despair and pessimism

CIVIL SOCIETY PERSPECTIVE

Hope and optimism Restoring the environment Fostering social justice Collective genious of

humanity Re-imaging our

relationship to nature and to one another

Effective Altruism

Sustainability and atopic leadership Business has the leverage in the global arena Doing well by doing good! Significance & imagination Making a difference!

Economic & Technological Development Human Development

Creating imagination & innovation through humanities & the arts of life learning

Critical thinking

Systems & creative thinking Inspiring hope Human satisfaction & well-being Definition of common good & human

discourse Broad based education: professionalism, citizenship & world issues

Seeing and learning with

the Heart!

Smart = Collective

Whatever we do, will be

forever what we have done...

“ Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number Shake your chains to earth like dew Ye are many they are few” - Shelley