BEcoming an eco-response enabler

“If Everything around you seems dark, look again, you may be the light”Rumi

Creating a meaningful workplace is paramount when integrating younger generations who have most often been impacted by the actual conversations about the protection of the earth or questioning their motives to join companies.

Can you be the light?

There is a spirit of adventure in the conquest of starting a new company, or realizing a complex new project. And their success factors includes often the ultimate “lets make money, lots of money”.

It’s interesting to me that we often speak of business as a reference to money, as if it was its whole purpose. The archetype of the banker is ever present in our modern world, numbers speak volume.

America where the spirit of enterprise will guide you and help you become rich, as if rich was the only benchmark, is ever present as well in our psyche, hence so many people still see it as a perfect wish to ride along, like I did close to 30 years ago.

A teacher of mine, Robert Dilts, refers to two paths for a successful leadership:

—> the path linked to our soul

—> the path linked to our ambition

The first will bring a meaningful project to life, attracts the right stakeholders, and the second will have key indicators of performance including how much money this will produce. There are of course plenty of other criteria to consider.

How to do that, once you realize you are the light and wish to meet the present moment?

What about considering becoming an eco-response enabler?

Lets see what this encompasses:

1—> consider your company or project as a network of relationships existing between all your stakeholders, globally and locally

2—> assess risks and benefits linked to short terms and long terms goals and possibilities - of course you got to be a more convincing light to defend long terms goals, if you are in a public company, as investors are so geared towards the short term quarterly incomes levels.

3—> finding an equitable balance between the amount of profits versus the service you offers to your clients and altruistic service to your communities

4—> defining the levels of responsibilities you want to have towards younger generations, versus immediate gains. In Native tribes, the paradigm is to make decisions for the next 7 generations, when they meet in their wisdom councils.

It is my belief, that if we are not helping our youth “to cultivare their own creative possibilities, not to remain on proven biology and sociology, but to represent a movement of the species forward” (per Joseph Campbell’s anthropological analyses of Myths to Live By), this western civilization will decline, as many others did in the past two thousand years.

So can you be that light???

And meet the Present Moment by becoming an Eco-Response Enabler?

Hope to read you on the topic! Much love, Ed