Leif Edvinsson Ph.D. The World´s first director of Intellectual Capital, Skandia. The Worlds´ first holder of Professorship on Intellectual Capital Lund University, Sweden. Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Appointed the Brain of the Year, The KEN Practitioner of the Year. Listed in The World´s 50 Most Influential Thinkers. Listed in Who is Who in the World. Luminary Award 2013 by Peter Drucker Foundation, Intel and European Commission for Thought Leadership. Knowledge Award 2017 together with UN.
The work presented and packaged in the impressive three volumes has significant contributions to Leadership thought. It is very timely and apt, as we are in a time of rough/stormy knowledge navigation.
The work's title, "A journey toward world peace", introduces an ongoing renewal process toward a better future, two dimensions of Intellectual Capital (IC). The subtitles of the three books, creating Leadership to transform the political economy and organizations, reinforce the connection with IC's process and renewal dimensions. Volume 2 focuses on the crucial role of spirituality in promoting inspiration and creation for the success of society, emphasizing the renewal dimension of IC. The first chapter focuses on creating knowledge and relationships, the two other dimensions of the IC. The following chapters explain the impact of knowledge creation, generating a vision of the future, building higher values, creating a Leadership culture, and promoting a continuous individual and social transformation process. Volume 2 concludes that spirituality promotes greatness and Leadership, introducing an understanding of Leadership as an ongoing renewal process with a social orientation. Volumes 3 and 4 investigate how our greatness and Leadership enrich the IC of nations and organizations, promoting social welfare.
Leadership is a challenging task, amplified by global geopolitics and the core of 3-dimensional knowledge navigation. The political economy is more than ever very dynamic. Part of it might be handled by learning life cycle maps from the late prof Jay Forrester at MIT. But also integrating forward into the contributions from Quantum Physics and Life Science, for example, genetic research. Such cultivation might offer life science perspectives to the old Leadership paradigms, as it will amplify the continuous RENEWAL dimensions beyond the often one-dimensional economic paradigm of growth.
Such navigation might be much more complex and require Leadership, as said above, of 3 D-dimensions. But also a renewal of the agenda of Leadership, in itself. A Leadership of flow rather than stock. Some core dimensions of Leadership are still related to the geophysics of the Longitude theory. Consequently, Leadership navigation is about position, direction, and speed. A harmonizing Leadership by modern GPS tools.
Perhaps we need to innovate and upgrade the new institutional Agency for Social Welfare navigation. The Agency for this new Leadership might operate with a much more refined compass. Core metrics will be in the eco dimensions and flow of welfare beyond the bulk thinking.
As prof. Johan Rockström, Potsdam Environmental Institute, is advocating that we need to initiate the thrust as a global knowledge alliance to initiate, prototype, and cultivate the new sailing course for future generations after the Industrial Economics Era.
A growing, dynamic paradigm of Life Science presents a Leadership role much more integrated with multi-talented knowing. The dynamics in a new agile agency of a networked global construct are more characterized by Intangibles, soft assets, and vivid flow, close to a DAO - Decentralized Autonomous Organisation.
This new Agency might be prototyped in a cross-disciplinary lab setup like we once prototyped in Skandia Future Center, Sweden. A new Navigation school and training program might be considered to initiate further learning and prototyping.
The escalating opportunity is waiting for our and your new initiatives.