Modern society is a complex system, therefore, small alterations can indeed give rise to strikingly great consequences. These small changes in Gandhi's ever widening, never ascending circles sustained by Engelbart's knowledge improvement communities provide a possible framework for social engineering for our times.
Unfortunately the business schools are too occupied with a management philosophy for yesterday's enterprise where exploitation of capital and labor and 'unfair competitive advantage' was the key to success. Even one of the richest man created by yesterday's post-industrial economy, Bill Gates, is grappling with the concepts of creative capitalism.
Stanford's James March made a film with Steven Schecter, "Passion and Discipline: Don Quixote's Lesson for Leadership" where he enquires into "...the relationship between public & private life, between cleverness & conscience (?), imagination & intelligence".
March's poem in the program with the film screening read:
Quixote reminds us
That if we trust only when
Trust is warranted, love only
When love is returned, learn
Only when learning is valuable,
We abandon an essential feature of our humanness.
According to March, Don Quixote teaches us that life is to be challenged. Quixote doesn't accept reality. Don Quixote addresses the questions:
- Why fight when success is not assumed?
- Why be virtous when virtue is not rewarded?
- How do we use vision and imagination?
- How do we sustain commitment?
- Possibility of joy—deep emotion of the soul.
See Peter Chou's WisdomPortal for more detailed analysis.
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