🔴 NEW DIRECTION Ed. No. 14 / ON BETTER COMMUNICATIONS
“PLUG IT IN.”
Following my 91 year old Mother's pacemaker battery replacement recently I was met by hospital staff and handed over a very mysterious looking box with the introduction …
"Plug it in”. Nothing more. When I asked "What is it?" I was told. "It's important plug it in."
It felt like I was being lumped with yet another lot of techno babel that had to be pawed over and deciphered. We are now constantly being bombarded with the increasingly demanding busyness of this disconnected world for our time and attention. This appears as yet another example of poorly executed change making.
Some would say it is up to me to do the work and discover what it is all about. My view is that if this piece of equipment is so important to my Mother’s health then a better introduction than “Plug it in” is needed. I’m not pointing fingers at the front line hospital staff. They are already under duress. I’m pointing a finger at those behind the introduction of these new technologies. (I'll bet they're making huge profits. A pacemaker is worth $45,000 alone.
They might spend some money on a decent education programme.)
The harbingers of the Technological Revolution can do better than this…much better.
There are ways to introduce change and there are ways to introduce change.
The profiteers need to “Plug it in” and get connected to introducing change in a more humane way. Without some balance of courtesy, civility and just plain kindness we risk the decline in our society’s connectedness and therefore the gradual wasting away of our civilisation.
That’s how important good communications are to our well being.
It’s all enough to give you a heart attack. - NW
FOOTNOTE
I received a phone call today 11/06/24 from a representative of the Pacemaker company in response to my commentary here who said his company agreed 100% with my comments.
He said his company would be following up to improve the education programme associated with this device.
We have to speak up or the technocrats are just going to do what they want to do.
The programmed mantra spinning in too many heads is minimum effort maximum profit.
Technology should be working for us not the other way round.
The technocrats need to design for "connection".
NEXT TIME: The Subject of 'Connection'!
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ADDENDUM
Talking about communications my Telco seems to have a death wish. They have become weighted so much towards 'sales' rather than a 'customer service' orientation as to set in motion the wheels of their own decline.
Blind as bats to what they are doing to themselves.
They really do think that they are just cruisin' the wave of where it's all at. So very dangerous. After decades putting up with their 'disconnection' I will be moving on from this Telco soon.
But are the other Telco's any better?
This is about not understanding purpose clearly.
They don't know who they are so their priorities and values are wrong headed!
The action for better change is up to all of us.
🔴 NEW DIRECTION Ed. No. 13 / SUPERHEROES ARE FOR THOSE WHO WANT SOMEONE ELSE TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS FOR THEM
WHY DO WE OBSESS
ON OUR LEADERS…
. . . FOR ANYTHING ?
Leaders are there to lead but why is there such a focus on them?
Too much so. Particularly in the field of Politics! Why?
Sure there are people amongst us who can demonstrate extraordinary strength, capacity, resilience, humane kindness, tenacity and talent. And we can hope that they rise to the surface in our world. We can also benefit by helping those who’ve got IT to get there.
But those leaders don’t possess the ability to make us happy. They can move things around economically and come up with policies, rules and regulations that point us in specific directions. They may even inspire us to do better by exampling their talents.
Clover Moore for example is seeking a sixth term as Lord Mayor of Sydney. How does she keep going? It’s not the age that matters it’s the passion and ability to keep making a contribution that counts. Talk about strength, capacity and commitment.
But proven leaders like Clover or any other leader can’t make you happy. Only yoo can do that for yourself.
Time and again people want, if not expect, their leaders to have all the answers and deliver happiness otherwise they become all too often the focus for the inadequacies we ourselves have not dealt with within ourselves. Look at history.
In Australia we call it the "tall poppy syndrome". It hasn't gone away in the land down under where "women glow and men thunder". It distils down to the personal inadequacy of not being able to process what we don't seem able to reconcile or sort out within ourselves. A mysterious someone called "THEY" all too often gets the blame. You'd like to feel that we've outgrown it but we haven't. Neither is the "THEY" Syndrome unique to Australia.
Currently in the news are reports of increased vandalism against the offices of a number of politicians over the middle east conflict. As if pollies can wave a magic wand and make all the hate go away. They can’t. It’s not within their power.
Israeli leader Golda Meir once said:-
“Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children
more than they hate us.”
― Golda Meir,
A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography
Doesn't the primary responsibility rest closer to home?
Might it be said as a follow on from this leader's expressed feelings that. . .
Peace will come when we as individuals will love ourselves more than we hate others.
Hating destroys our sense of our own self worth no matter whose side you are on.
There's a whole lot of energy being sucked into the middle east conflict.
What might that energy being channelled creatively achieve?
The stubbornness of leaders (in no matter what area of life) is only a reflection of values that are well and truly embedded in the larger populace.
We need to find from within ourselves balanced leadership.
When more find the leader within themselves and learn how to accept responsibility for their own lives then we might individually and as a follow on collectively start moving somewhere positive. We will then be walking towards having the leaders we better deserve rather than the leaders we deserve.
This should be just common sense?
Leaders are not Supermen and Superwomen.
The current unhealthy focus on our leaders as supposed saviours plays into the cartoonish Hollywood ‘superhero’ foolishness that they can somehow solve our problems for us. NOPE and they won’t. And when they fail we all do.
More accepted shared responsibility across the spectrum of our world humanity is perhaps the answer. A little bit extra carried by a lot of people goes a long way.
Too much power (and money) in too few hands is dangerous for us all.
And brashness or arrogance is not strength it's hot air.
There is too much madness all round on our part for not knowing and loving ourselves enough.
Isn't it time for perspectives to change?
Know YOO. - NW
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