Guy Cloutier has made his Position Paper for the Globalisation Debate at TII's Annual Conference (Topic introduced elsehwere on this blog earlier):
The emerging world economy is bringing with it new challenges like low-wage economies and staying ahead in this ever changing environment means being able to anticipate as well as incorporate innovation and creativity.
To conquer these challenges, both the human and the organization will have to recognize, understand, then deal with the dependencies that are presently hindering their growth and preventing them from realizing their aspirations. Survival will require that they develop an innovative and evolutionary approach that focuses on prevention rather than reaction. This “evolution” will give rise to a new awareness which recognizes the Human and the Organization as a sum far greater than its parts.
To this end, entrepreneur and speaker Guy Cloutier sees those challenges as a time when human beings will finally regain the power to decide what is best for them by realizing that they hold the essential elements for their personal autonomy. As it now stands, we are victims of various control systems which tend to denature us, numbing any sense of our true reason for being. The evolutionary organization of the future will realize this as counter-productive, leading it to place humans first…ahead of finance and technology as the need for personal self-fulfilment must be satisfied if a collective well-being is to be achieved.
Many organizations view the competition or “the low-wage economies” as a threat and have unwittingly placed all their hope on the cutting edge of technology to avoid being outpaced in their market. Unfortunately, the supposed solution means a massive acquisition of technology at enormous costs or off-shore subcontracting in the hopes of reducing production costs and keeping the industry alive. What are the real costs and impacts of these decisions? The organization must deal with an ever-increasing financial burden. The employees and managers are in a quandary; their job security is in question, they are reluctant to change and have lost motivation. Are there other solutions? One possibility would be for upper management to acknowledge its most creative individuals who have certainly been waiting for this moment to put their latent potential to use. They will now be in a perfect position to bring technical, scientific and human improvements to the company’s development.
The following chart is a comparative table illustrating the advantages of creativity over high technology or
off-shore subcontracting.
A dynamic and humane business will attract members by valuing their creativity instead of ignoring it for the sake of short-term gain. This acknowledgement of human creativity can only strengthen long-term goals and develop the organization’s autonomy and freedom.
Human creativity is the heart of the evolutionary organization
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