Tables are Turning…
The “Center of Gravity of deep regeneration”, new business and next value-based economy is shifting to Latin America, Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, away from the ageing Europe and USA. Live experiments azre starting everywhere.
Tables are turning. We had a first chapter after the Ukraine war, with a global geostrategic shift from NATO to BRICS. Then we had the collapse of the petrodollar. Entire industries are moving from Europe to USA, attracted by the billions of Biden.
A VIP, high speed train has left the station, and most of us europeans “just” missed it. We are right in the middle of the most interesting era of human history — and… we have everything, but are unable to really “do” anything any more.
Basicly, Europe has been robbed with high energy prices, better cond-itions for industry in Asia, then in USA, hyper-regulation, hyper taxation, inflation, unefficient sclerozed states and administrations, ... Now its been robbed of their most precious resource: young bright people. Those who studied, did an Erasmus somewhere far away, understood that the entrepreneurial space was better outside, and for the managers, the expat status was 10x more profitable and exciting than at home. The good ones are leaving. Gone - in an incredible silence. We are left with and old population, sitting on ego and cash, conservative and afraid of losing. There where we entered in the biggest societal shift of all times.
But then, what has real value ?
- Thriving nature and ecosystems (=> food security and climate stability)
- Entrepreneurial creativity and adequate space to create the new (=> guarantee for jobs and societal stability, and economic future)
- A healthy, smart and open minded population (=> guarantee for the next chapter of society)
- Resilience: capacity to act and react in case of shocks (=> surviving)
- Visionary governance: engaging, strong, pragmatic vision, with capacity to implement
Which country has that ? Not in Europe, but in countries that are still “awake”. Our Extrapreneurs projects and other observed experiments, are the best in countries like: Columbia, Chile, Argentina, DRCongo, South Africa, Lebanon, Ukraine, Australia, Tanzania, Pakistan,… The worse projects and teams, are in Europe. We are imploding under ego, fear, trying to protect a system which has died years ago.
The “new” will emerge from smart, humble and open collaborations with “emerging” communities, who still have entrepreneurship energy, combined with a fertile entrepreneurial space. There is where our young professionals are migrating, away from the naivety of has-been boomers egoistic societies. We started to organize courses delivered by our Extrapreneurs in Benin, DRC, Columbia, they are fantastic.
We will have to wait to “hit the bottom” in Europe, to learn from those who went there, who did it. Maybe 5 or 10 years from now ? By that time, Europe will have been robbed from all their financial reserves and resources. Sucked out of what is left of life. I think USA will wake up earlier, because the symptoms of the failure of the “american dream” are now totally visible. Americans do not have the naivety to thing their governments are going to solve those problems. They will wake up in time.
Wait and see…
Michel A. de Kemmeter
