This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business
Executives at GE are bracing for a new future. The challenge they face is the same one staring down wide swaths of corporate America, not to mention government, schools, and other institutions that have defined how we’ve lived: These organizations have structures and processes built for an industrial age, where efficiency is paramount but adaptability is terribly difficult. We are finely tuned at taking a successful idea or product and replicating it on a large scale. But inside these legacy institutions, changing direction is rough. From classrooms arranged in rows of seats to tenured professors, from the assembly line to the way we promote executives, we have been trained to expect an orderly life. Yet the expectation that these systems provide safety and stability is a trap. This is what Comstock and Peters are battling.
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I’d sbuimt that it’s impossible, nay, *nonsensical* to desire to be left alone while advocating the voluntary society. It’s interesting to point to the free market, which requires so many interactions between people, and then in the same breath ask all of those people to give you what you want and nothing more. Like it or not, the politics we’re interested in prefigures a *society*. Our task is social.What does it mean to be left alone? Where do your interests end and mine begin? Even if we can get clear, unambiguous answers about those issues, how do we assert them over the long run?You may think I’m simply bringing up freshman philosophy to play devil’s advocate, but I’m not. For too long, the individual has been treated as a universal constant in the body politic. It is not it’s an arbitrary distinction that relies on the reciprocal apprehension of a society without which the individual has no meaning.If this strikes you as collectivist, so be it. I’ve never been convinced that collectivism and individualism were anything but two sides of the same coin. The question is not whether one will be sovereign over the other, but what the nature of either is, and how the definition of one side of the coin has consequences for the other side that cannot simply be dismissed with an appeal to being left alone.