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1. The Non Linear era will be best suited
for the 'Female' gender who will thrive in this era. A
woman will make the ideal manager and decision maker wherever
the needs are for decisions to be based on flexibility, adaptation
and changing economic environments. This is inherently and
culturally the woman's strong suite whereas the linear era
has made the "male used to being very strongly ensconced in
pattern and control based systems that have battled to insure
minimal change". This has made the male "excessively focused".
He can either "overwork or overplay". The woman, on the other
hand, is better suited to changing environments based on the
simultaneous experience with complexity in family care, adaptability
and hard work. They are instinctively able to mix family and
work; a needed quality in a Non Linear era.
2. Once the past ceases to be the benchmark
for emulation, ASIA can break out of its dilemma because it
is currently stuck in the paradoxical situation of attempting
to emulate the past successes of the developed economies.
Expert advice given to Asia even from its own nationals is
based on the successful education models and systems that
have given huge linear growth to the west! These are not wrong;
just unsuitable for direct implementation.
3. Countries like India and others In South
Asia have been handicapped by "their inability to evolve
their own modern systems". These should be based on integrating
new solutions that include and strategically incorporate the
strong culture and social systems. This does not mean staying
within the past but 'initiating the process of change within
the overall mindset of its people'.
4. Currently almost all changes seem to traumatize
and alienate those who have not been fortunate to receive
education modeled on western systems. While this is necessary
for global integration, the need is merely to incorporate
the subjects which form the global syllabus, that enable us
to participate in global commerce and communicate in a global
language. We however do require to amend the objectives of
western education which were perhaps relevant to their low
population and ample opportunity environment. We. in India
and Asia. must enlarge our focus beyond 'individual success
and per capita consumption' as the only measure for progress
and growth.
5. Emulation of past success based on the
experience of the developed world is one of the main reasons
why some countries in South Asia/India are unable to provide
the main resultant benefits of free market economics to its
citizens…. And that is "equal opportunity". This is the paradox
of the Non Linear era as applicable to developing and
over populated regions where lack of infrastructure, and poor
governance has in turn established a democratic society with
vast disparity and economic divide. This has given control
of the limited infrastructure to the few and the State whose
entire focus has shifted from governance to desperate attempts
to retain control so as to perpetuate the hierarchy that can
further its own existence. A truly Non Linear era!
6. The success of western democracy and free
market economics has been entirely based on 'access to infrastructure
that then offers the opportunity'. Citizens in a democracy
should not have to be "given" their rights, they must be able
to exercise them when required !! They can only exercise them
if infrastructure support exists to allow them to do so!!
Equal opportunity is thus controlled and dependant on the
extent and free access to infrastructure; not paper based
rights. Poor infrastructure spawns disparity, corruption and
the resultant vicious cycle of poor governance.
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