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The Sheer Volume, Speediest Newness, And The Permanently Changing
Future-Present Interrelationship: Deep Understanding And Practical
Prescriptions For A Daring (Man-Made And Otherwise) Third Millennium!
(Pictorially and semantically illustrated).
By Andres Agostini, December 16 / 2K8 - Arlington, Virginia, USA
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Robert Kennedy: The past is not the script of the future…Future is
not a gift; it is a daily conquest.
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Andy: 2008’s 'Perpetual Novelty' –after taking a bite of the first years of Century 21– appears
entirely, increasingly unleashed from precedent when analyzed from the longest and amplest historic
perspective (pursued by an exact-science practitioner), thus creatively disrupting (dragging the
FUTURE into this as-of-now PRESENT) a chain of past-time successions.
The links, between historic successions and other preterit sequences, not only are ‘broken’ and
against fuzzy discernment and counter-intuitivism (that of my beloved, yet-in-its-infancy Quantum
Mechanics), but also beginning to get unrelated to the essence, the substance, the depth and
breadth and scope as well as to the veritable and relevant facts and statistics, those facts and
statistics eternally undergoing massively ever-increasing dynamics. This material is hence anticipated
to seal a gap in the leadership and management literature.
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This saga that I pursue and share with the reader gained critical mass with the book “Future Shock”
by Alvin Toffler. So many intelligent, talented, and valuable people acknowledged having heard of it,
as they admit not having studied it thoroughly. My mind was caught in fire to learn much more on it.
Since the advent of this precious book, I got marveled by the subject matter. This theme – among
others – has been, is, and will be of my keenest interest until my life’s completion. Bertrand Russell
declared, “I know many people that would rather die than think.”
This is a time for us to change profoundly— changes that makes us more adaptable, resilient,
knowledgeable, and savvy— while committed to super-learning. SEE, IF WE GET
INTELLECTUALLY MORE PREPARED, DAY BY DAY THROUGH THE END OF TIMES, WE
EXTRACT FROM OURSELVES THE INSIDIOUS OBSOLESCENCE UNIVERSALLY SPOKEN
ABOUT THAT IS IMBEDDED IN THE HUMAN RACE’S GENOME. Super-learning makes the case
for us to be within and beyond the boundaries of hyper-dynamism. If we get ultimately “dynamical,”
we are in the optimum pathway to countermeasure threats, hazards, and vulnerabilities from this
increasingly daring Epoch. Business restoration and continuity is crucial as well.
This Epoch did not only change the known nature of risk, opportunity, change, and leadership, but it
is also flagrantly exploiting the unknown facets and dimensions of change per se. This ‘too futured’
change I call CHANGED CHANGES. Incidentally, there is CHANGE generated by others agents and
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factors. This is mostly the CHANGE THAT HAPPENS TO US AND THAT, AT TIMES, the one that
overwhelms us.
Then, there is the CHANGE brought into life by our own efforts and lack of them, directly or indirectly.
When technological, political, economic, societal, environmental, outer-space CHANGE is not
authored by our own direct efforts, WE MUST ADAPT, ADAPT, ADAPT, AS WELL AS
INDUSTRIOUSLY CHANGE THE MAGNITUDE, THE FREQUENCY, THE URGENCY, AND THE
INTENSIVENESS OF SUCH ADAPTATION, ROUTED BY YOUR OWN EFFORTS AND THAT ON
YOUR ONBOARD CREW. ADAPTING KNOWLEDGEABLY, TIMELY, UBIQUITOUSLY, AND
FOREVER IS THE WAY TO PROFOUNDLY CHANGE OURSELVES ALWAYS AND ALL OF THE
EPOCH. TO WHAT EXTENT? REPLY: TO AN AGELESS CONTINUUM OF HYPER-ADAPTATION.
The CHANGE, too, compounds, disrupting long-beliefs, value systems, and cosmovision (micro,
macro, and hybrid / blended ones). Other people’s changes get compounded with our own direct
effort to adapt, re-adapt, namely changing our minds, hearts, body, spirit, and soul. I timely share with
the reader, to the purpose of the present work, the personal motto of Dr. Stephen Covey, “Live Life
In-Crescendo.”
Please remember: The Rules and Skill Requirements have dramatically been altered and, even now
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while your intellect dialogues with my intellect (as you read) through this Technicolor-paper.
Nota Bene: This is the “Society of Knowledge” not only because there is immense availability of
knowledge, BUT BECAUSE YOU TOO MUST DEVELOP LEADING-EDGE KNOWLEDGE
(PATENTABLE) CONTENTS TO REINVENT THE WORLD RELEVANTLY.
Thereby, we are in a better situation to grasp a tiny bit of our destiny. If all of us were completely
determined and marshaled to sustained diplomatic efforts (non military ones) to be enforced by the
U.S., E.U., South Korea, Japan, China, Russia, and India, there may be, for example, a stop to North
Korea’s ambitions for nuclear weapons.
So that you know: When we extract illiteracy from ourselves and to some extent, we are helping
civilization to prevail. This effort, nonetheless, must be massive, collective, and cross-functional.
Extracting illiteracy from humanity is to institute, for example, sophisticated risk management on
humanity and all of its constituents to a great degree. Never ever the old map suffices to get to a
blurred, always-changing place of novelty. Subsequently, awesome and emboldened and ubiquitous
mind expansion is an unquestionable, day-to-day MUST-HAVE!
Said ‘risk management’ does not ever equates with (a) Insurance, (b) Co-Insurance, and (c) Re-
Insurance.
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I have known many great talents in global corporations and multilateral institutions. Unfortunately,
these incumbents don’t train and re-train themselves. There is abundant literature in the marketplace
to update their doctoral degrees. Why managers, professors, and teachers don’t read fact-driven,
hard-copied, paid-for literature? When I started college, both in Canada and the U.S., my academic
advisors—before paying the tuition—told me that the validity of my studies would last up to five (5)
years immediately after completion. I know manyy people that get a MBA and never ever get updated
again. Many of them paid a high premium for a doctoral degree so that they didn’t have to seriously
study any farther. Clearly, people with doctoral degrees—on the whole—habitually require fine
literature more than oxygen and other nutrients. The latter ones know that nothing is fixed, but
mutating and transmutating. One must become a knowlegist immediately for his own sake.
On the other hand, the status quo — sometimes an agent that does not foster change — is by
definition a static “elite” of society. I have nothing with noted elites that are always seeking to get
better and excellent for the greater good of the world. I just don’t like “fat” establishments that let
Earth rotate without executing anything fruitful. Some think-tanks are fluid and productive and
indispensable groups of elite. As you see the Nature with the naturalist eyes, you’ll see elites all over
in the Animal Kingdom. Take a look at bees, aunts to cite two cases. In my opinion, Her Majesty, the
Queen of England is instrumental to keep political / societal balances and counterbalances. Without
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His majesty, King Juan Carlos, Spain might need to check its collective mental sanity from
separatism. He, too, with great prudence is instrumental to keep political / societal balances and
counterbalances.
Subsequently, I have nothing against elites, establishments, and or status quo. Some features I might
not agree upon, but I respect them all. I even respect those that might not respect my thoughts,
ideas, theories, hypothesis, and/or conjectures. I do not, at all, belong to the called “counter-culture,”
though I do respect them too and what they stand for. Why? Because I like openness and democracy
to the utmost, especially that guarded by the rule of law.
Besides, one cannot practice truly advanced risk managements if he / she does not consider many
futures via the scenarios method. One cannot exercise true and adaptable innovation without a
conscientious and perennial consideration of (a) FUTURE and (b) RISK. As potential disruption
always involves the so-called “human factor” and its inherent personal cosmology, those who study
and research FUTURE and RISK must consider, too, Millennium-3 leadership well in advance. Zero
prognostication or divination here, just eliciting explosive and dramatically subtle trends to formulate
futuristic scenarios (plotted on its respective, developed trends) and contingency plans. Without all of
this, there is no management and/or business to be launched and maintain with success at all.
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There is an Arab proverb that states, “Whoever sees the future lies even if he tells the truth.” A
Chinese guru told his disciples, “attempt not to live in interesting times.” It has been our grace and
disgrace to live in such interesting times. The guru meant that times like ours are troublesome for all-
walks-of-life people, but hugely interesting for those who observe with a prepared mind. The
prepared minds, though, should responsibly be here to explain phenomena (scientifically,
phenomena belongs to realm of normalcy) and suggest pathways to overcome and navigate terra
incognita’s unchartered waters with an even keel. We all must make these times better. The classical
Beetles song goes, “take a sad song and make it better.” In other words, let’s make certain we can
make the best out of the worst with the greatest determination ever.
No matter how many global, frenzy, intertwined, superposed, shocking, overlapping, building-up
crises (e.g., climate, ecology, geology, economy, business, marketplace, terrorism, society, poverty,
(super) population and its transformations, demographics, globalization, re-regionalization,
geopolitics, rogue power and soft power waging, as-we-now-know-it democracy, pandemic disease,
energy, risk (downside risk), opportunity (upside risk), dangers, safety, security, reliability, quality
assurance, corporate governance, emergency preparedness, restoration (private or civil or
institutional), lifestyle, innovation, creativity, strategic/exuberant surprise(s), leadership, organizational
strategies, management, economics, accounting, finance, marketing (some pundits of this area say
that clients are too empowered to need a vestige of marketing/marketer anymore), customers,
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healthcare and life enhancement, institutions, biology, genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence,
intelligence amplification, biotechnology, nanotechnology, malfeasance from Wall Street / Other
Stock Markets and any 'Main Street', non-stop Universe’s expansion―'till Big Crunch’s yoctosecond,
as well as the science, and technology per se, etc.) of this and that.
For instance and just to cite three significant vital factors, risk (downside risk), opportunity (upside
risk), and leadership must be boldly re-conceptualized, re-imagined, and reinvented.
This way each one / all, en masse, will realize how forceful everyone must come together into unison,
as energized A-C-T-I-V-I-S-T-S in favor of the benefits and against the challenges.
CITIZENS MUST COME TOGETHER ON THIS CAUSE UNEQUIVOCALLY AND WITH THE
GREATEST SENSE OF URGENCY, DILIGENT URGENCY OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS. Have to
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get mind-prepared and ever-ready as per my firmest POV.
Pervasive measures and countermeasures –being before numerous vulnerabilities and threats
increasingly conspiring against humans– must become generally known and administered properly at
the public level. You might wish to download the latest official and public report by U.S. intelligence at
www.AgostniWorks.blogspot.com.
THIS IS, PERHAPS, THE REAL DEAL. It’s time (as it seems to me after deeply researching the
subject for almost 30 years), through esprits de corps talented teams of ‘rivals’, to institute the
systemic, systematic, holistic stewardship of UPSIDE AND DOWNSIDE RISKS à la Gestalt and with
the concurrent omniscience vista. Hope cannot be audacious without supreme faith and
empowerment with state of the art. What do I mean by instituting the omniscience perspective?
Before going any further with the focus of the present material, I will thoroughly define the term
“omniscience” for the reader my way. No problem, this is to be shared openly.
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What do I mean by instituting the omniscience perspective?
Omniscience, With The Perspective Of…
This is a compilation on the lexicon “omniscience” to illustrate its meaning. When it comes time to
manage risks, futures, opportunities, leadership and great challenges of this Era, via omniscience
you exploit the positive facet of the challenge by crippling the disruption potential, partly or
completely.
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Thereby, you center-stage SUCCES or desired outputs to your favor and that of your onboard crew.
This vital notion must be imbedded in the neurons of any Milleniunn-3 Leader, otherwise nonsense is
preached and practiced.
One must make the effort to get the closet possible to applicable, applicable omniscience in the day-
to-day battlefield. The reader is fully entitled to make his / her own conclusion. It takes hard work in
extremis and a tsunami of determination to somewhat embrace the practicality of this crucial concept.
I will first give the reader the dictionary’s definition of “PERSPECTIVE.” Why? Because the idea is TO
MANAGE WITH THE OMNISCIENCE PERSPECTIVE. As follows: “per•spec•tive (p…r-spµk“t¹v) n. 1.
The technique of representing three-dimensional objects and depth relationships on a two-
dimensional surface. 2.a. A view or vista. b. A mental view or outlook. 3. The appearance of objects
in depth as perceived by normal binocular vision. 4.a. The relationship of aspects of a subject to each
other and to a whole. b. Subjective evaluation of relative significance; a point of view. c. The ability to
perceive things in their actual interrelations or comparative importance. --per•spec•tive adj. Of,
relating to, seen, or represented in perspective. --per•spec“tiv•al adj. --per•spec“tive•ly adv.”
This is the unified compilation of the Omniscience Definition:
(all of the following at the same time)
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“ … Having total knowledge; knowing everything … One having total knowledge … Pansophy:
‘universal knowledge or wisdom...system or work embracing all knowledge ... pol•y•math: A person of
great or varied, updated learning … know•ing … all-knowingness … Possessing knowledge,
information, or understanding … Showing clever awareness and resourcefulness; shrewd ...
Suggestive of secret or private knowledge … conscious … having infinite awareness, understanding,
and insight … possessed of universal or complete knowledge … the omniscient narrator … A person
of great and varied learning … one who has rejected authority and dogma in favor of rational inquiry
and speculation … learning ; erudition ; teachers of great knowledge ; one who takes advice or
information from others … familiarity or awareness or understanding gained through experience and
study …the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, and/or learned … specific
information about something … narrative and numerical data gathered and assimilated … the
mastery of many areas of learning reflected in a scholar’s work … a collection of facts and data (A
man’s judgment cannot be better than the information on which he has based it) … that who
constructs expert systems … deep extensive learning … the instructed one that instructs other to get
further instructed … the methods, discipline, and attainments via academia, personal, professional,
organizational, and in-the-battlefield experience … extensive knowledge … infinite knowledge …
convergence of all wisdoms brought into one ultimate over-wisdom … the state or quality of having
infinite knowledge; knowing all things … universal knowledge or wisdom … system or work
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embracing all systems … a person of great and diversified learning … including in one view
everything within and beyond sight, insight, and farsight … having infinite discerned insightfulness …
a person of encyclopedic learning … omniscientia knowledge … having learned much in several
fields of study concurrently … educated, knowledgeable ; wise, sapient … that possessing great
wisdom and sound judgment … that who has been and remains schooled by the university of ‘hard
knocks’ … one that presumes that all things have not done sufficiently optimally … a self-dealing
person with his mindful transformation towards possessing all-knowingness … healthy obsession
with the nano-granularity of detail as it is pondering a collective multitude of subject matters ….
Profound knowledge, deep knowledge, total command or mastery; specialism, specialized or special
knowledge; expertise, proficiency; wide or vast or extensive knowledge, generalism, general
knowledge (updated), interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary knowledge; encyclopedic knowledge,
polymathy, polyhistory, pansophy … learning by inquiry … knowing all happenings in the life or
development of a people, country, institution, etc. … all scientific accounts of a system of natural
phenomena … eternal learning of the most complicated, fact-driven literature … hidden knowledge,
recondite knowledge”
Can I summarize it a pictorial illustration? See it now:
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In “Transformative and Integrative Risk Management, authored” by the undersigning, the
consideration of the omniscience application is of the maximum importance at all times.
(hard-core topic here resumes)…
Having addressed the definition of omniscience, I will get back to the chief subject matter of this
publication. Again, omniscience in the hands and minds of the right practitioners is a powerful tool
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that becomes worthless if violations of ethics and morality are what motivate some opaque souls. If
these violations keeps going and going, it is as if the entire civilization were teasing Armageddon into
crystallizing.
I wonder if this public effort can be ‘BRANDED’ (communicated efficaciously and virally) in a
functional and efficacious way! As long as there is not a 'MAD' catastrophe or a large
meteorite―science and technology will cogently drive mindful, inquisitive people / intelligent
hardware into enhanced transhumanity and super / overhumanity (with biological and non-biological
constituents) irreversibly towards the Socio-Technological Singularity (i.e., as per George Orwell’,
Alvin Toffler’, Vernor Vinge’, Ray Kurzweil’, Eric Drexler's, and, perhaps, that of NASA I'll, with great
pleasure, venture to mention).
THE MORE THE SO-CALLED CRISES HAPPEN, THE MORE THE EMPIRICAL-AND-OTHERWISE
PROGRESSIONS OF APPLIED 'STATE OF THE ART' WILL REGISTER WITHOUT A FAIL.
What might the human race get in exchange and by implementing all-encompassing MANAGEMENT
(all chapters thoroughly) via a compound, all-solutions toolbox, routed with the envisioning and
instituting of the optimal totality-of-knowledge? How? By operating the mind and the brains-driven
business battlefield (just a stratum among zillion strata) with THE COMBINED, INDUSTRIOUS
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ASSISTANCE OF OMNISCIENCE, PANSOPHY, POLYMATH, ALL-KNOWINGNESS.
If attention is indeed paid to world-class, ‘cross-pollinated researched' literature and media, What are
the good news? The current civilization can increase UPSIDE RISKS (benefits) and mitigate /
terminate DOWNSIDE RISKS (disruptions), some existential and others not. Incidentally, one
situation that does compound heavily (into terra incognita) is that of risks. CLEARLY, EVERYONE
ON EARTH MUST INDUSTRIOUSLY WORK UNDER THE ROGUE RULING OF THE ULTIMATE
DIVERSIFIED UNITY!
Diversity, when properly integrated and aligned, begets breakthrough innovation. QUESTION:
WHICH PATH / ROUTE WILL THE PROFESSIONAL / BY-OWN-DESIRE IGNORANT, LAZY,
MISTAKEN, IGNOMINIOUS, INDOLENT, OMINOUS, CORRUPT ONES TAKE? REMEMBER,
'ONE CANNOT GET TO A NEW PLACE WITH AN OLD MAP.' Just might need a GPS and a SAT-
Phone and Sacred scriptures.
Problem: Way too many supine ignoramuses, numbering a tough majority. Facing Century 21,
What / Where is your dynamic, real-time upgradable roadmap? Really? I just wonder! Kindly please
—to great fanfare— receive a warm welcome to attending the DEATH OF UN-RESUSCITATABLE
SCI-FI GENRE AND THE EVER-INCARNATION OF UBIQUITOUS SCI-FACTS. SUBSEQUENTLY,
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IT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE CRUCIAL TO BETTER YOUR INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL BEYOND
BOUNDARYLESS DREAMS.
Anyway, 'THE EMPIRES OF THE FUTURE ARE THE EMPIRES «OR MONARCHICAL STRATA»
OF THE MIND' (Churchill). HOW HAVE THE READER EXERCISED RADIANT AND PERVASIVE
MIND EXPANSION LATELY? The Human Race has always longed for progress, ultimately upping its
living standards for centuries. To that end, noted physicist, Dr. Stephen Hawking declares, ‘I believe
that the long-term future of the human race must be on «the outer» space.’ I ask myself, How lengthy
is ‘LONG’ for Dr. Hawking?
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In the process, the world stage has become a TREACHEROUS PROBLEM like never before (if one
desires to see more on what I mean, please go to: www.slideshare.net/andresagostini/a-challenging-
snapshot-summary-by-andres-agostini-arlington-virginia-usa-presentation).
One can use a plain, lay mode to envision it (i.e., sub-optimally). This is fun and stress-free, but, once
you capture a womb-to-tomb view of the world / universe (and what if the known universe is a sub-
universe of larger sets), one can easily realize that the world civilization is into a life-to-death
CHALLENGE, hugely and increasingly complicated. This is the Epoch of Complexity-Dom, and
simplicity burial! Simplicity can certainly have a role— that is, when judgment, pondering, and
intuition is flooded with leading knowledge assimilated and stewarded by and from the prepared
mind. It does not work the other way around. One can see grave complexity all over when he
observes in a plant the manufacturing process to make a plain, but indispensable, pencil.
It means that almost-700 billion inhabitants HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED FOR THEIR OWN
SURVIVAL. In my opinion, this clearly represents zero magic solution, just hard, brainy work, with nil
paradigms from and to everyone. There are too many out-crying, inflecting-point fronts. Behind the
complexity of these increasingly daring tribulations of 24 / 7 – if mitigated and terminated – there is,
though, a WEALTH OF OPPORTUNITY. Where? By way of example, in the development of called
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“green energy.”
Incidentally, this is not the taken-for-granted ‘Society of Knowledge.’ It is very expensive, since one
must daily mortgage their intellectual capital endlessly and to the utmost and for good. I, for example,
did not obviously give birth to hominoids, nor ever consider myself the supreme intelligence in the
universe (let’s just abide by facts and figures and preternaturalist thinking, as an amicable unasked
suggestion); Primates (including pre-humans and humans) were occupying the land and wandering
around, intrigued by copious wonders. A mind + A body + An opposable finger (thumb) + a rock can
equate to a great deal of fine and terrible, weaponized artifacts. These tools can build up a cathedral
or bring it down. What are the fundamental ethical principals involved?
Those, today, easily gain critical mass when the 7-billion souls wish to breathe and make a living and
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enjoy some world-class life standards, literally ‘de luxe.’ The adage, ‘one thing at the time’ will NOW
be replaced by ‘A PLENTIFUL, FOREVER-ONGOING [AND EVER-INCREASINGLY SO] CLUSTER
/ BUNCH OF DRAMATIC AND EXPLOSIVE PLUS SUBTLE THINGS [UNDER REGISTERED AND
UNREGISTERED PERVASIVE FORCES] IN REAL TIME AND ALL OF THE REAL-TIME TIME.’
As people have evolved and progressed, they have partly compounded the past into the present.
MEANTIME, THE FUTURE IS ALWAYS PRE-CLASHING THE CURRENT PRESENT. The more
FUTURE pre-clashes and/or clashes the as-of-now PRESENT, the more obsolete the PAST
becomes without a fail. GOOD TO KEEP IN CONSIDERATION, ‘IT IS OUR FUTURE THAT LAYS
DOWN THE LAW OF OUR TODAY’ (FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE). THIS ‘PRESENT’ IS
INFINITELY (NON-LINEAR-LY AND) MORE COMPLEX THAN OTHER PRESENTS.
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Now, we reached a canonical milestone that requires each one of us to do the best we know NON-
STOP-LY. Back in the eighties, life was much easier, say, in the West. It is difficult not to feel
nostalgia for those at-ease times. A great Scotsman speaks about this in length. He, Eamonn Kelly,
works for Global Business Network (Kelly is GBN’s CEO). He authored a great book, ‘Powerful
Times’. Thereby, ZERO EASINESS AND NONE SIMPLE SOLUTIONS, ARE NEVER EVER VIABLE
IN THIS FLUID EPOCH. If one were to apologize subsequently, (please) not me, not to me.
We have been called to revolt and act upon many techniques and methods compiled and compatible
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with a technocratic revolution. But to get the maximum output, the musical must be choreographed
(processes stemming from the respective throughput) and, above all, acted based on ‘esprit de corps’
unanimity. By the way, I am into frictionless capitalism, though I seriously doubt that the worldwide
stock markets will be the same. It is, at least, as important to determinedly look after the legitimate
needs, requirements, and expectations of humanity. At any rate, such humanity needs a viable
economic work of reference, especially with so many in needs.
By the same token I, too, strongly believe in assisting the people as an extremist humanitarian. I’m a
centrist + independent (without foolish ideologies, dogmas, doctrines) and within TRUE
DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND PRACTICES, OBSERVANT OF UNIVERSAL VALUES.
Thus and giving the challenging Eon, keep in mind the ageless sentence, ‘HE THAT WILL NOT
APPLY NEW REMEDIES MUST EXPECT NEW EVILS «CHANGED CHANGES THAT DISRUPT
OUR LONG-HELD SYSTEMS OF BELIEFS, COSMOVISIONS (MICRO AND MACRO AND
BLENDED ONES), ETHOS, AND COMFORT ZONES»; ‘FOR TIME IS THE GREATEST
INNOVATOR.’ (Sir Francis Bacon).
Incumbents, the civilization in its entirety, are entrusted with seeing (that is, seeing with the
granularity of detail) the big picture, namely the FLOWING, OVERRIDING W-H-O-L-E. If one does
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not comprehend it, seize assistance from a pro. This attempt is not only supreme within civilization’s
vested interest, but it’s ―also and indubitably― a sine qua non that humankind must not fail to
ignore. Ignoring it will be foolish for lack of a more grotesque profanity. Let’s keep in consideration,
‘an ignored issue is a problem invitation’ (Dr. Henry Kissinger). To further illustrate this whitepaper’s
focus, ‘a problem can never be resolved at the same level of knowledge that was created.’ (Einstein).
Can Andy recommend a success prescription for the presently-shifting Eon, let’s state yea! As
ensues:
Picture mentally radiantly.
Draw outside the canvas.
Color outside the vectors.
Sketch sinuously.
Far-sight beyond the mind’s intangible exoskeleton.
Abduct indiscernible falsifiable convictions.
Reverse-engineering a gene and a bacterium or, better yet, the genome.
Guillotine the over-weighted status quo.
Learn how to add up—in your own mind— colors, dimensions, aromas, encryptions,
enigmas, phenomena, geometrical and amorphous shapes, enigmas, phenomena, methods,
techniques, codes, written lines, symbols, contexts, semantic terms, magnitudes, longitudes,
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hunches, so forth.
Retroproject your wisdom wealth onto communities of timeless-connected wikis.
Cryogenize the infamous illiterate by own choice and reincarnate (multiverse teleporting out
of a warped passage) Da Vinci, Bonaparte, and Einstein.
Organize relationships into voluntary associations that are mutually beneficial and
accountable for contributing productively to the surrounding community.
Practice the central rule of good strategy, which is to know and remain true to your core
business and invest for leadership and R&D.
Kaisen it all unthinkably and thoroughly by recombinant, Gendaken-motorized judgment.
Provide a roadmap for drastically compressing the time it will take you to get on the top of the
job, nonetheless of your organizational level.
With the required knowledge and relationships imbedded in organizations, create support for,
and carry out transformation initiatives.
Offer a tested pathway for addressing the linked challenges of personal transition and
organizational transformation that confront leaders in the first few months in a new
tenure.
Foster momentum by creating virtuous cycles that build credibility and by avoiding getting
caught in vicious cycles that harm credibility.
Institute coalitions that translate into swifter organizational adjustments to the inevitable
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stream of changes in personnel and environment.
Mobilize the overriding energy of many others in your organization.
Step outside the boundaries of the framework system when seeking a problem solution.
Additionally, it is good and timely to remember some of Napoleon's wise words. I consider Napoleon
an ultimate authority on applied 'Scientific Systems Methodology,' even as per our present-times
standards. Napoleon (a noted Corsican of Italian heritage who overtook and led the French Empire
grandiosely) firmly suggested boys, graduated from the 'lyceum' (high school) and honorably
discharged from the army, to master two vital disciplines. One was the ENGLISH language and the
other was SCIENCE. Voltaire (a great French intellect), too, emphasized the essentiality of this
language. Put simply and briefly, this is it for now.
By Andres Agostini (Andy)
PS_1: Some people asked me where I get my ideas from. I have been involved with some of
the most demanding and capricious clients, employers, allies, and scholars. It is not always
fun, but I usually get hired when a noted institution needs a near-impossible situation to be
turned around into a fully possible one. Among my clients, there has been Toyota, Mitsubishi,
World Bank, GMAC, TNT Delivery Express, Packmail, and PDVSA (CITGO’s parent company)
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and its operations in the Western Hemisphere, also leading executives of General Electrics
and Abbott Laboratories. There are, within my professional career, some 30 years of deep
thinking, pondering, researching, managing, consulting, analyzing, strategizing, empirical
experimenting / testing, as well as surveying and privately interviewing world-class business
owners, entrepreneurs, managers, thinkers, and people committed to determined creativity
and innovation, seeking to instill value to the world. I do overwhelming studying, researching
and experimenting, learning from mistakes and positive findings early. I have the luck to have
been mentored lavishly by parents, master-degree students, senior professors, researchers,
and applied scientists, among many other representatives of prominent corporations and
institutions into sophisticated technocracy. I have and always will have the greatest respect
for science and applied scientists. To the extent that I habitually undertake any initiative with
the standard scientific method (rigor with vigor and accuracy), keeping my mind always open
and updated (as much as possible) through a detailed, all-encompassing vista of challenges
and efforts. In addition and for a number of years, I have been developing and instituting my
own methodology to developmental thinking, holistic thinking, and
systemic/systematic/Gestalt, insightful discernment based on the systems methodology,
systems methodology as it is utilized by eminent exact-science practitioners. I am also into
professional development, mentoring, and teaching. It is worth remembering that I teach to
learn. On the Web – among other occupations and skills – I am into extensive blogging and
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writing. This so that I learn a bit more every time.
PS_2: All terms hereof pertains to the grandiose Shakespearean lingua franca. Others
systems, not as enriched as the latter, are ineffectual and inconsequential and not as
delightful to communicate complex thoughts unambiguously.
PS_3: All quotations not otherwise cited are from the interviews conducted by the author or
personal communications sent to the author.
PS_4: In my case, when I mention the word “secular” I do not mean to express anything at all
against God. The universal values of sacred scriptures are in due place and completely
observed. Taking responsibility is my actual reality. The permanent and rampant and
increasing violation of ethics and morality we are seeing, at all levels, makes the application
of these values a sine qua non.
Andres Agostini (Ich Bin Singularitarian!)
(High-Tech Visionary and Researching Strategist on Management/Business/Leadership)
www.AgostiniWorks.blogspot.com
www.AgostiniNews.blogspot.com
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The following are pictorial
slides to underpin the subject
matter spoken of in this
material! …
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42. Let’s focus now on
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Let’s see: