Generativity Stimulus Package:
3. The Prosperous Community
The second most important plank in the presidential platform emphasizes a return to Community Development as the basic mechanism for implementing Generative Economic Positioning:
- The Prosperous Community must be dedicated to the entrepreneurial generation of self-sustaining prosperity, participation, and peace.
Community Enterprise is the basic mechanism for solving community problems and achieving community goals through generating Prosperity. As may be noted, The Prosperous Community processes interdependently (see Figure 3).
Figure 3. The Prosperous Community
In turn, each component of The Prosperous Community contributes synergistically to the others’ growth:
- The homes and neighborhoods prepare the human potential.
- The schools and training empower the learners to discriminate information resources.
- The colleges and technologies empower the human and information capital as generative processors.
- The government and services generate the organizational processes in which the human and information capital are applied.
- The business and industry generate the marketplace processes that “capitalize†upon the organizational, human, and information capital.
In this context, each component of The Prosperous Community emphasizes processing systems which are developmental and cumulative:
- Homes — S–R Conditioned Responding;
- Schools — S–O–R Discriminative Learning;
- Colleges — S–P–R Generative Thinking;
- Governance — S–OP–R Generative Organizational Processing;
- Business — S–MP–R Generative Marketplace Processing.
In summary, The Prosperous Communities are dedicated to the Generative Economic Mission of The American Enterprise Model. Cultural Relating empowers the Peace that enables the Participative Government to accomplish the Free Enterprise Economic Mission.
April 27th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Dear Bob,
As a nation we approach our domestic and foreign challenges as if we have “one hand” tied behind our backs. Within the domestic arena we create for example, economic policy that is, as you clearly describe, rooted in a political “tug-of-war” regarding assumptions as to the distribution of wealth rather than building economic policy based on an assumption of generation of wealth. In the international arena we devote our foreign policy to maintaining our defense and security which is certainly a need. However, as a nation we fail to provide a choice of alternatives to the world marketplace that reflects our nation’s definition of and direction for freedom moving through the Twenty-first Century.
As we as a nation become clear as to what we seek, we then free the “hand” tied behind our back to bring to bear our full capacity to address domestic and foreign challenges. Bob, your Generativity Stimulus Package based on Generativity Positioning actualized through Entrepreneurial Enterprise, the Prosperous Community, the Productive Organization and the other elements of the Stimulus Package, provide us with a foundation for freeing our “second hand” to meet our domestic and foreign challenges.
Thanks Bob. Let’s free our “hands” as a nation and the “hands” of the international marketplace to move toward community, national, and international prosperity.