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40. THE ADVENT OF STAGE IVORGANIZATIONS

STAGE IV ORGANIZATIONS HOLD THE PROMISE OF BEING THE MOST ADAPTIVE INSTITUTIONS HUMANKIND HAS EVER DEVISED.

Developing the capacity to sense and actualize emerging futures constitutes a new form of knowledge creation. Learning to reliably apply the principles and practices expressed in this book, particularly in large organizations and institutions, is a high challenge. That challenge has been met by only a handful of exemplary enterprises. If even a small number of others begin to join them, we could stand on the edge of an epochal transformation. A small number of people in higher states of consciousness can have a disproportionately positive effect on the rest of society, because of the nonlocal effect ...