Designing, Building and Launching a Trimtab for World Peace Based at SIU Carbondale: A Preliminary Exploration Steven G. Brant Trimtab Management Systems Making Global Peace & Prosperity Possible Fuller Future Festival SIU - Carbondale April 5, 2013 Note: Slide set modified to include key points made during workshop discussion
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Fuller Future Festive World Peace Trimtab Initiative Workshop
Slides and videos from my April 5, 2013 workshop on designing a "trimtab initiative" capable of transforming the global sociopolitical economic system to one in line with Bucky Fuller's vision of global peace and prosperity for all. Workshop was part of the Fuller Future Festival at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL
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Designing, Building and Launching a Trimtab for World Peace Based at
SIU -‐ Carbondale: A Preliminary Exploration
Steven G. BrantTrimtab Management Systems
Making Global Peace & Prosperity Possible
Fuller Future FestivalSIU - Carbondale
April 5, 2013
Note: Slide set modified to include key points madeduring workshop discussion
I dedicate this workshop to the people who have died in wars of all types:
• Wars between nations • Wars between states • Wars between religous groups • Wars between cultural groups or gangs • Wars between family members
Since 1979, I have been looking for a way to bring Bucky’s vision of global peace and prosperity into being.
This workshop is meant to start a conversation, not be the end of one.
However, there are certain foundational principles I’ve learned from Bucky, W. Edwards Deming, and Russell L. Ackoff - and Walt Disney - which must be followed so this Trimtab is built on a stable foundation.
But the details of the structure to be built on that foundation are an open question.
Meeting Bucky in 1983
My Personal Commitment
• This begins my conversation with the Bucky and SIU communities regarding how I can support launching this initiative for real
Foundational Design Principles of an Effective, Transformational Trimtab
• Offer a new world (Don’t fight “against”, offer a Blue Ocean Strategy) • Internal strength, despite your size (continuous improvement & learning)
• Understand the true nature of what you are aiming to steer (in this case, a human social system)
• Understand that transformation requires a new theory (not just “more and better” of what we have)
Foundational Design Principles Translated to the Mission of Achieving Global Peace and Prosperity for All
• The New World of Peace is about human (not just environmental) sustainability
• Internal Strength comes from transformational human relations and organizational development principles (Thinking win-win ie. Harvard Project on Negotiations; Being responsible & interdependent ie. Stephen R. Covey’s maturity continuum; Functioning in learning organization mode ie. W. Edwards Deming’s principles)
• The Human Social System is a dynamic not passive reality; World Peace must serve our need to explore and solve problems (currently applied to Weaponry)
• The New Theory for the global sociopolitical economic system: Cooperation and competition to be the best (think: Special Olympics) replaces cut-throat competition
One Final Foundational Principle
You MUST reach a critical mass of the public so the entire “ship of state” boldly goes to that new world, not just some of its parts.
The Disney - von Braun Partnership of 1955
In Keeping With Bucky’s Principles:
This trimtab initiative will offer an alternative model for how humanity can organize itself that makes war obsolete!
The Bucky - Deming - Ackoff “Intellectual Triangle”
• Externally: This initiative will benefit from a business world connection (how it will connect to larger business world part of society, including the Peace Through Commerce* movement)
• Internally: This initiative will benefit by helping us all “think differently” by using Systems Thinking
*Example: International Institute for Peace Through Tourism http://iipt.org
• Bucky developed the Word Game social science experiement to help people practice developing global win-win solutions
• Could today’s online gaming industry develop an “always on” version of the World Game, so people world-wide could practice living in the cooperation-based, win-win world of tomorrow any time they wanted to?
*Point made during workshop discussion
W. Edwards Deming on a world where everyone wins
Russ Ackoff on going beyond making what exists better