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21st-Century Governance:
Strategic Resources
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collapse of global markets in the 1930's led to worldwide government
restructuring. The days of laissez faire economics vanished
and the world turned to regulated economic systems. These systems
redefined the way one viewed national government, and much of
our social interaction. It caused people to adopt a functional,
as opposed to a strategic view of the activities and responsibilities
of what Peter Drucker calls the three sectors of society, public,
private, and social.
In order to build a sustainable 21st century society one needs
to grow beyond the functional blinders limiting his or her perspective.
In other words: If people build an effective society, what ingredients
are essential to success?
The Public Governance Institute identifies five strategic resource
areas which are: Human Resources, Natural Resources, National
Resources, Security Resources and Economic Resources.
Human Resources encompass activities that promote mankind's
intellectual, physical, moral, and professional development.
They enable citizens to make productive contributions to society.
Some examples of human resources include: families, churches,
educational opportunities and unwritten core values that govern
our interactions, the values range from personal responsibility
and compassion to justice, equality and beauty.
Natural Resources are the planet's energy, plant and animal
life, water, minerals, and air. These resources sustain society
and instill a common interest among us for their protection
and cultivation.
National Resources provide not only structure and process to
society, but preserve and protect ones individual liberties
which promote creativity, innovation, and a nation's entrepreneurial
spirit. National Resources are summed up in the written law
of a nation and in properties and procedures held in common
by all of its citizens.
Security Resources encompass elements whose responsibility is
to protect the physical, financial, and personal well-being
of each individual and group within the society. They range
from the fundamental belief in individual honesty, personal
security and local police, to national defense, and international
security organizations.
Economic Resources refer to entrepreneurial and organizational
influence governing the production and consumption of society's
goods and services. These range from small local retailers to
the largest corporations and industries.
The application of the value inherent in each of these resources
is, in turn, developed most effectively by one or some combination
of the three sectors of society: public, private and social.
Each fulfills a unique role in society. |
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