New Ways of Determining Value

David Phillips asked me to comment on a post he wrote over at LeverWeath.  I ended up writing a bit of a novel, but I like some of the thinking that emerged as I wrote it.  The last couple of paragraphs:

Jerome Glenn and Theodore Gordon, through the work of the Millennium Project of the American Council for the United Nations University, have stated that the question, "How can the capacity to decide be improved as the nature of work and institutions change?" as one of the 15 Global Challenges for our world in their 2005 State of the Future Report. Related to this is another Challenge, "How can the global convergence of information and communications technologies work for everyone?" These questions acknowledge that the sheer amounts of information, combined with rapid rates of change and a need for a global ethics, among other items, are increasing the complexity of decision making. Learning to deal with this is an absolutely critical task for our leaders, our societies.

These needs open up new spaces for professional communicators to extend their influence and improve their practices.

Also running through these challenges:  learning how to cooperate across boundaries of religions and cultures.

We need new ways of determining value. Maybe demonstrated, consistent good decision making will become the scarce resource we base future worth on. Food for thought anyway!

Go read the whole piece and let me (and David) know what you think.