A New Year's Proposal for the Re-Organization
of
a Servant Nation of Mankind
Stephen Engelking, January 2007
Because it is and was intended to be the common wealth (coming from the ancient word 'commonweal' which means 'for the common good') of the citizens of the world, sharing is an inherent component of the Servant Nation . As the first attempt to constitute this nation took place in 1956, the prevailing paradigm was still one dominated by ideas which can be related to prevalent concepts of management such as those emanating from Taylor and Fayol. These were predominantly hierarchical concepts where decision making was delegated to managers who felt that functions like controlling and commanding were prime functions of management.
Let us consider a more modern approach, based on the fact that in the meantime we have a much more highly educated populous than fifty years ago and have developed our understanding if not our practice of democratic organization. Taking the modern models of management, commanding is certainly no longer considered to be appropriate. Instead, one talks of empowered teams of individuals making decisions at the lowest possible level of the organization.
Applying this modern paradigm to the organization of a world people, we could imagine groups of individuals taking responsibility for and receiving recognition for particular areas of serving mankind (I have intentionally avoided the word 'government' in this context).
Using modern communication methods, this could become a platform where we could share in the greatest experiment of all time - building a serving world people. Here, blame would have no place, only the desire to experiment and share ideas in an objective yet caring way.
The only guidelines in this adventure would be the universal principles, that no-one is an enemy, no-one is foreign, service to all and to work for Peace, Equity and Justice.
The advantage of this methodology is that it opens the way to all to bring in their special expertise and interests without the need for a complicated and bureaucratic hierarchy. It can grow organically and spread and does not distract from other worthy initiatives. It underlines the prime purpose which is nation-building rather than the furtherance of organizational objectives. The partakers purely enhance their strength of servant nationhood.
The outcomes of any empirical experiment should be open-ended. We do not know what the results of our experiments will be in advance, we can only hope that they will be for the ultimate benefit of mankind and contribute to a world order based on peace and the common good.
With these thoughts and hopes in mind, I wish everybody a year of progress for mankind and this wonderful planet for 2007.
Steve
