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Suppose that one day we realize that nature sees all of us as one, and we begin to treat one another as different parts of the same body. How would this affect the business environment, organizational strategy, product and service development, and the nature of competition in markets?
It is clear as daylight that connectivity between everyone is increasing, and with it mutual dependence. Whether we want it or not, life has placed us all in the same boat, in one large network of connections. The problem is that in our perception, in our attitude to ourselves, to others, and to society, we remain stuck in the old approach: “I am competing with you.” “It is either me or you.” “The strongest one takes everything.”
When will we advance to the integral perception of reality? When will we harmoniously connect and adapt to the new increasingly interconnected environmental conditions? Here we have a place of choice. Either we continue as before without changing our perception, and increasing suffering across the board—on personal, social, international, economic, and ecological scales—will eventually force us to change it, or we begin now to study the integral approach to human relationships and implement it within our organizations and in society as a whole.
If an entire body of wisdom were reduced to a single paragraph, the integral approach to education states that nature is advancing the human species to function in harmony, connection, and complementarity. Just as nature is unified and the integral connection between its parts creates a wonderful fabric of life, so human beings are also meant to be interconnected. However, unlike nature’s still, vegetative, and animate levels, which instinctively act through mutual complementarity, humans need to achieve such connections through awareness, recognition, and choice. Ultimately, we will become like one community, living according to the principle of “love your neighbor as yourself,” open to one another, supportive of one another, and realizing the full potential within us as individuals and as a society.
With this broader picture in mind, we can consider how implementing the integral approach would influence the business environment.
Competition will of course remain, but it will change from destructive to constructive. Organizations will compete with one another over who can contribute more to developing integral human connections. Anyone who can add something positive in this direction will be welcomed to act and flourish, and others will support it.
No one’s goal will be to maximize profits at the expense of consumers or competitors. Instead, the general goal will be to better meet the needs of human beings. Reasonable profit margins will be maintained, with an effort to reduce prices as much as possible. The quality of products and services, as well as the level of customer service and care for consumers, will be excellent.
In such a reality, consumers will feel that organizations that have developed an integral approach genuinely act for their benefit, sincerely and wholeheartedly. This will attract them to consume their products and prefer them over organizations that still hold the old, narrow, egoistic approach.
Where do we begin? With developing the integral approach within the organization itself. This is an ongoing process that requires time and investment. We need to undergo an inner change and replace our approach from its very foundation. We must understand where we are headed, why we are heading there, and for what purpose. The integral connection that will form in the organization will raise us to a new level of perception, from which it will gradually become clear what should be changed in our business conduct and when.
As we progress through the process, adapting to the integrality within the system of nature will open before us what will feel like a wholly higher world. We will experience an expansion of feeling and intellect. We will begin to see and hear things we do not perceive now. Insights and ideas of an entirely different level will come to us.
Just as nature gives life to its creatures, we too will join it with the desire to provide people with everything they need for their lives. Defining such a goal will connect us with nature and attach us to it. We will feel the love that exists in nature and its positive influence. It will fill us with a higher force and bring inspiration. No one will be able to harm us or our success. We will have stability, security, health, enjoyment, joy, satisfaction in our actions, and a profound sense of meaning in everything we do. The next evolutionary stage that is pushing us to globally interconnect demands our realization of harmonious integral connections.
Based on “New Life 109 – Building a Business Strategy for the Future, Part 2” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.