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4 The Afd2025 scenarios Box 15 Is a “culture of mindfulness” entering organizations? Foresighting for Development Development agencies, steering through future worlds. Afd2025 I The dynamic of an increasing awareness of the challenges and risks associated with the environmental transition has gradually led to shifts towards more responsible behaviors. Meanwhile, new leadership and management styles, which are more horizontal, transparent, collaborative and fully empower individuals, have grown and encouraged the search for meaning in business and society. One illustration of this trend is the growing popularity of “mindfulness” (11) in the Western world and its potentially positive impact on the pertinence of action. This trend is based partly on greater recognition of the limiting nature of the tools that support current decision-making and of the problems created by the frenetic race that operates under the illusion of control and which leads, for example, to an over-production of procedures. Once set in motion, creativity and complex thinking give organizations a greater capacity to innovate. These changes are easier when the frameworks for accountability are relaxed and a more flexible approach is adopted. Since the early 21st century, employees in large companies have placed a growing importance on ethics and the meaning of their actions. This has been part of a worldwide movement that has helped propel these companies towards a more sober form of capitalism with a medium- and long-term societal impact. (12) 11/ See works by Ellen Langler, notably her article “Mindfulness in the Age of Complexity,” Harvard Business Review, October 2014; Matthieu Ricard’s “La méditation face à la science,” in Question No.1; Kabat-Zinn, creator of the Mindfulness approach. 12/ The multiple information leaks in the 2000s are another illustration of this change, with the need for transparency rendering the widespread disclosure of confidential data acceptable. 58
A drawing by eight-year old schoolboy, Carlos, who won first prize in the children’s drawing competition “Como imagino el mundo” organized in Mexico with support from the Centro Mario Molina and AFD, among others.
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