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Inspiring Vision and Purpose for Regional Change: Part I

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I strongly believe that the Niagara Region could take on a leadership role for 21st Century societies. If only we were to see the world anew and dare to reach for it.

Being a New Society Strategist gives me a chance to share visions of bold new worlds toward which Niagara is capable of reaching. As a New Society Strategist, I encourage the fusing of personal visions, professional missions and community sustainability as a focus for restoring legacies under threat of being lost to future generations. Regions that successfully harness resources to support the aspirations of a new breed of entrepreneurs may well enjoy renewed prosperity.

Niagara is but one of hundreds of North American regions thrown back into stagnation that sunny tragic New York morning of burning fuel, steel, concrete and flesh-filled ash. Industrial age economies were fatally crippled along with the mind-numbing destruction of the World Trade Centers. By all accounts the world has turned to new pages filled with harsh realities from which global communities will not easily escape. Our own needs for a renewed Niagara must be met else we suffer for our lack of socioeconomic foresight along with the rest of the world. Motivation to meet the challenges set before us will emerge with each catalytic crisis. The sooner we take the higher road to establishing a region dedicated to meeting the need for sustainable development § Δ the sooner our creativity and social innovation will see the emergence of leading-edged sociocommercial undertakings.

September 11th pushed a growing movement for societal change into fast-forward. According to Dr. Paul Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, authors of 'The Cultural Creatives' some 50 million adult Americans are changing the world even though most are unaware of belonging to the movement. The cultural creative profile however, would seem to better fit most Canadians. As the world enters into an anticipated period of Breakpoint change beyond which all current rules of daily life and work will no longer apply, these insights could prove invaluable.

Beyond question, profound global change is afoot. As a region, we could choose to just go with the flow. Better still, we could claim our leadership by stewarding its course!

 

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Inspiring Vision and Purpose for Regional Change: Part I [Continued]

Niagara's recent interest in Smart Growth is proof of a willingness to explore new possibilities. By embracing the emergence of socioeconomic trends and adapting sustainable developments § Δ that comprise many of these impending changes, any region could so easily pioneer a world-class leadership. Vast amounts of creativity and social innovation will need to be unleashed just to meet our own demands for societal change. The socioentrepreneur's supreme purpose is rooted in filling the interconnected societal needs for improving diverse relationships, creating new learning communities and devising sustainable economies most likely to restore natural and social environments to good health. These are but some of the larger picture objectives for which Smart Growth § Δ was envisioned. New society strategies such as sociocommercial undertakings are most likely to achieve smart growth.

We are sitting on such an explosive powder keg of potential. We just need to find the means of releasing our region's dormant energies, provide what wisdom, support and encouragement we can - and then stand back to let great things happen.

For 25 years, an American Internet counterpart of mine has been the General Coordinator for a community corporation. Bill Ellis's TRANET motto proclaims that, "People are not the problem, people are the solution. If the people lead, the leaders will follow." Our time has come to take the lead so that our leaders will follow. We can make concerted efforts to regenerate our communities with a 'made in Niagara' socioeconomy that is so within our means. I'll wager that if we hop on it sooner than later, our leaders will then follow.

The magnitude of change demanded for total community regeneration never has, and never will come from obsolescent institutions and bureaucracies, nor from select groups of privileged individuals. This is why Albert Einstein said something like, 'we can not solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. We must learn to see the world anew'.

We do have wiser choices that are ours to make before it is too late!

Helping you to see the world anew will be at the heart and soul of this particular New Society Strategist. For our families' future sake, join me in not just seeing Niagara anew, but in actually affecting a Niagara renewed and proclaiming our region as a true 21st Century leader.

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