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The Role of Productivity in Community Success: The Jesuit-Guaraní Cultural Confluence

The Role of Productivity in Community Success: The Jesuit-Guaraní Cultural Confluence

Satterlee, David

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Business General

ISBN10: 149053265X
ISBN13: 9781490532653
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 25 2013
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.07 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
(Note: This material appeared previously in Chum For Thought: Throwing Ideas into Dangerous Waters by the same author.) This historical essay, drawn from the deepest jungles of Uruguay in South America, examines the creation of a flourishing culture and economy that lasted for almost two centuries. It explores the guided development of a virtuous web of social and economic controls that mixed the philosophy of Catholic Jesuit missionaries with the traditions of the native Guaraní peoples. An unprecedented experiment in progressive community-building may have once created that rarest of cultural treasures - a functional and stable utopia... ended only by outside pressures of conquest and exploitation. This is a living parable for our changing world, now suffering from seemingly-intractable political, cultural and economic turmoil... and struggling to be born into a tenuous future on uncertain threads of hope and despair. Rapid introduction of technology, educational systems, health care systems and social order have succeeded before - balancing competition and consumption in a new kind of community - and might be made to work again as we seek to create our own new economy. In this startling synthesis, Mr. Satterlee brings together and introduces: -historical records, -the social theories of the Catholic Church, -the management theories of Peter Drucker, -the psycho-social theories of Don Beck's Spiral Dynamics Integral, and -the economics ideas of William Lewis and the McKinsey Global Institute on the power of productivity.

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