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More than 500 years ago, Niccolo Machiavelli, Florence’s Second Chancellor, was asked to investigate why Pandolfo Petrucci, the Lord of nearby Siena, was so inconsistent in his behavior. Machiavelli was impressed by his explanation.

“Wishing to make as few mistakes as possible, I conduct my government day by day and arrange my affairs hour by hour, because the times are more powerful than our brains.”

His response resonates today. The world changes at what seems to be an unprecedented rate. Each shift and rift creates profound anxiety and deep confusion. Yet the worlds systems, be they financial, technological, social, cultural or political, continue to evolve and develop at an accelerating pace.

Eamonn Kelly, the CEO of the strategy consultancy Global Business Network, offers seven “dynamic tensions that he believes will reshape human life in the coming decades. They are:
• Prosperity and Decline
• Power and Vulnerability
• Intangible and Physical
• Clarity and Craziness
• Acceleration and Pushback
• People and Planet
• Secular and Sacred.

The “either/or” thinking that worked in the past, he postulates, is no longer effective. The ability to think in terms of “both/and” will be valuable to discerning in the future what is occurring around us.

“The test of a first-rate intelligence,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald in words that could not ring truer today “is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

Many of us fail the first part. We cannot hold two opposing ideas. If Kelly’s thesis is correct, this is an ability we will have to quickly acquire if we are to make sense of an increasingly complex and confusing world.
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PointedPundit | Mar 23, 2008 |

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