Based on work by Forrest Landry. If you'd like to have an easy checklist to look for ways you can participate in the shift towards a better future, you've come to the right place.These are in no order of priority.
Points of Interest for individuals/agents/businesses desiring participation in win-win systems. Objective: Clear changes to actions that will prepare said agent/business for transition and/or set them into a transition system state.
Elements of an Emergent and Transition-Ready Business
Anti-Rivalrous
--Opt to NOT lose while also NOT winning
Endeavor to close loops in the system
--Extend this process towards regeneration
Complex and Anti-fragile
--Description
--motive/mode of conduct
Develops theory of choice to guide theory of causation
Prioritizes VALUE over profit margin
Global human systems sustainability
--While still maximizing individual optimal results
Feeds Commonwealth
--Contribute Information
--Contribute Non-finite digital assets
--Opt for asset sharing before individual ownership
Doesn’t create false scarcity while building access
Denies/counters Addiction promoting elements
Promotes trust/reliability between service provider and client
Biophilic Design Theory
Success determines price/investment not time-spent
--Assuming basic costs of service are covered at minimum
Scaleable Adaptive Capacity
Symmetric with Environment
Reality defined by measure & experience
--As well as additional methods of reality exploration
Reduction/removal of depletion and pollution
--Recycle/reclaim assets as much as possible.
Incentivizes sharing (commonwealth)
--With express intention of removing incentives ASAP
Identify industries that are “race to the bottom” incentivized
--Considers the “best practices” to be problematic by default
MINIMAL: Find elements that can be flipped to a “net positive best practice”
--Ex: meat industry is going for inhumane mass production, you go for highest quality organic.
--Cost to produce might increase to 1.2x, but retail price can be placed at 2x
OPTIMAL: look for opportunities to flip a “race to bottom” bust to a “race to top” boom
--Ex: Lifetime warranties
Look for symmetrical ethics as a priority
--If you wouldn’t trade positions in an exchange, consider it flawed and modify to fit
--Do not produce “Me Too” products
Do not promote or support the promotion of inferior products and services
--If you have the capacity to push a product/service to the top of the visible options, but that product is inferior to the alternatives, do not
--Ex: You have a decent but not excellent LMT as a potential client. You are an SEO expert. Do not optimize them for first-seen visibility when there are better LMTs in the area.
Avoids being subverted by use of obvious differentiation
--If you’re introducing an expertise, or offering one, others will copy your forward-facing to compete
--To maintain market share, demonstrate obvious superior differences ONLY if you
----ACTUALLY have a superior service
----Do not do so in a way that intentionally creates a lose for the other
----Do not do so by putting the other provider down
----Demonstration > Verbalization
Avoid being subverted by use of certified information
--Prioritize accurate info and evaluations of your product/service
--Do not use hype or exaggeration
PROVIDE TRUSTWORTHINESS.
--This is the greatest desire of humans in our evolution
--Words matched to truth matched to actions
Focus in your EXPERTISE
--Where you can help, improve, or provide greater service
--If you do not have superiority in an area you find joy, study/train before offering it for pay