Harari urges us to let go of our conditioning by Drawing from these emerging paradigms I Leadership agents of the future – and for the future Screenshot of computer aided content analysis of
the past and to “think in far more imaginative propose a trans-disciplinary model of Post- –, encompassing both leaders and followers in the Mars Trilogy (using the Leximancer Software)—did
ways about our future”. He claims that we need to Contemporary Leadership (PoCo). It can be more traditional nomenclature, will dynamically you do the analysis? Or is this an image for which
upgrade homo sapiens to “homo deus” through imagined as a complex and highly adaptive and artistically move in this multidimensional we need rights? I did the analysis on my licensed
“biological engineering, cyborg engineering, and system floating in the multi-dimensional time- space enacting various (or all) of these values, software
engineering of non-organic beings”. Goldin and space (dis-)continuum. This model can further be states, and modes at different (or all) times, Kutarna call for a “new Renaissance” wherein characterized by the following co-existing values, oscillating between various degrees of agency. we map new connections by reconnecting with states, and modes:
values and by seeing the bigger picture.
Avanessian and Malik’s claim that we live in a
“speculative time structure” where the “future
happens before the present”. They propose a
concept of the “postcontemporary” in which an
“open future” replaces an “automated future”
through transformative, speculative, and poetic
actions. Finally, Elkington, van der Steege, Glick-
Smith, and Green have presented their view of
“Visionary Leadership in a Turbulent World”, which,
they claim, helps us thrive “in the New VUCA
[Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Uncertainty]
Context”.
• local – global – trans spatial
• intra – inter – trans personal – trans gender
- transhuman
•
past (future) – present (past) (future) –
future (past)
• claim – enable – fail – sustain– disclaim
• disruptive – poetic – co creative – synthetic
– integrative
• dynamic – fluid – elastic – plastic
• emergence – design – change
• structure – process – influence – relationship
– system(s)
•
resisting – following – participating –
facilitating – leading
While human settlements on Mars – and even
human travel to Mars – might be “way out
As an avid reader of science fiction and also an there”, considering and moving towards a highly
emerging writer exploring this field, I became dynamic, participative and multi-dimensional
interested in how other writers imagine the way leadership model for the future is not.
leadership and followership plays out in their
futures.
I was curious whether their imagined
futures might inform or corroborate models of
futures-oriented leadership. Inspired by Tom
Lombardo’s work on studying science fiction
in the context of futures studies, I embarked on
analyzing how Sci Fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson
imagines leadership in the futures to unfold in his
Mars Trilogy. The findings well support a model of
egalitarian leadership, of leadership of the people,
where
teams,
community,
and
relationships
between every person play a major role.
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