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Article: The Organizing Principle
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There is an Organizing Principle inherent in the Present Moment that pervades life. There is no place it is absent nor a time when it is not active. It resides in Nature as what we outwardly observe and in mankind as what we inwardly experience and when life is in accord with it we experience success and an evolving sense of wellbeing.
To the extent that belonging, respect and abundance are found to pervade society, that much “right relationship” with the organizing principle of life is at cause. To the extent that poverty, illness, crime, stress, pollution, etc. pervade society, that much “wrong relationship” with the organizing principle of life is at cause.
Fortunately, Life is intelligent: endowed with the capacity to self-organize, self-assess and self-correct. It is due to this capacity that discomfort arises as our invitation to reassess our thinking, feeling and behaving so that we may self-correct. And though society's failure to do so is everywhere evident, Life's Organizing Principle will not be deterred from achieving accord.
Historically, it has been the philanthropic impulse that inspires action to remedy society's discomfort. Often this impulse takes the form of humanitarian, social, and environmental initiatives. However, since the cause of discomfort issues from a collective practice, efforts to address it on the level of its expression are ineffective. Only efforts that address society's “practice of humanity” will yield the desired results. And while the philanthropic impulse is absolutely necessary, compassionate and inspiring, at present, it is ill equipped to affect those changes in society.
For society to align with Life's organizing principle, a fundamental shift in the practices of the greatest number of people must take place. The best place for this is the world of business because it participates in the lives of the largest portion of the world's population and is where society learns and habituates its "practice of humanity."
Historically, businesses have been generators of wealth in society, but what's been overlooked is the fact that there are two kinds of wealth: one is the means of “exchange” and the by-product of business while the other is the means of “change," the true product of society.
Because of this, the problems that face society stem from confusing the by-product for the product and therefore the goal of society for those of business. As human beings, we have lost sight of this and have allowed the world of business to unknowingly cause the problems that plague us. Fortunately, the self-correcting nature of Life's organizing principle offers a way for CEOs to become champions of transformation by uplifting the quality of life in society through practicing “right relationship” with the organizing principle of Life in business.
Corporate CPR exists to support that process by evoking the willing, feeling and thinking of the CEO into “right relationship” with Life's organizing principle; thereby generating an evolving sense of wellbeing for those in the company and through them the society at large.