Need and frustration lead to innovation--that in turn is always opposed by inertia of prior system...

Soldiers who won in the long lasting Dacian wars were given land in Dacia after its Roman conquest of 106 A.D., in payment for military service. After colonization of North America from 1492, in a watershed decision, the U.S. Supreme Court in Johnson v M'Intosh (1823) took property ownership of U.S. land for federal government from First Nations so that Virginia could pay its militia that fought the Revolutionary War. 

About 1700 years apart the same pattern creates property rights where none existed. Discovery doctrine, used in both cases, spreads as property rights are needed. 

A system based on rule of law that guarantees property rights, in order to survive, needs to have its currents reach every element that the flow may reach. Constructal law predicts a global property rights regime. Before, constructal law predicted free roaming bison over prairie lands of First Nations. What happens when two systems meet, or compete?

Monetary system evolved from transactional money-less exchanges, through the middle ages, Bretton Woods, US Exit from gold standard (Nixon shock), Bretton Woods II, to Euro-zone creation in late 1990s, and aftermath of 2008 crisis. We live the competitive & cooperative nature of a system with multiple currencies of last resort (with China's arguably winning). Many actors felt a disconnect between their perceptions about their own net worth and their access to the controls of the financial system. Young professionals, frustrated with a system out of their control, asked: "Why not make a start-up for monetary instruments directly, without intermediation of any product or service?" Hence the rise of "alternative virtual currencies."

Read all about it in the:

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY

Series A:

Mathematics, Physics, Technical Sciences, Information Science 

SPECIAL ISSUE
THE XTH CONSTRUCTAL LAW AND SECOND LAW CONFERENCE

AT THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY 15–16 MAY, 2017, IN BUCHAREST 

(May 2018)

Adrian S Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.

ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org

“When in doubt, ask a child...”

Two great lessons I learned in life occurred serendipitously. 

Part of my research in Brussels in 1999 with EU businesses and institutions, seeking factors of creativity and innovation leading to business success in startups in particular, was to interview the leadership of a team of researchers facilitating watching children interact with and through technology. I later witnessed myself the frustration of the 2-3 years old trying to figure out why the DOS/Win laptop was not touch screen... The team was taking notes originating ideas that we as adults were not seeing due to our already established anchors coming with our prior learning. The work never fully made it into my Ph.D. thesis or the two theses for certificates in European affairs. My own child treated her 2006 laptop as touch screen because the car GPS was already so. Touch revolutionized every devise eventually. The team I mention didn't originate the ideas though. Did they keep and originated any other ideas from their list? Maybe funding was cut & the center closed:(

I write a list of things I did not use sufficiently in research over time. I parse it for inspiration for future projects. I share them.

Minds of children are anchor free.

What's on your list? What have you learned recently from a child or children?

I used to say as a result of this little lesson: "When in doubt ask a child. It turns out we have one handy at all times. It is us. Earlier on. Before we were taught it cannot be done." You are thus absolutely right. Self observation it is, if it works. Let's remember in the alternative what the master did. As he aged Edison adopted a street child in his teens and made him his senior assistant who was always pointing out to Edison the question "why not?" I always saw that as even the master loosing his spirit from his own teen years and needing a boost of teen "can do attitude." 

Today we may call that coaching.;)

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.

Chief Future Architect, InnovationTrek

We got here. What's next?

Accelerate Innovation. 

In companies and self.

Grow flow. Naturally.

ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org

Mastering and harnessing the power of our own addictions

On leadership we all have our own perspective and that makes the entire difference. From answering the classic question if leaders are born or nurtured to whether leadership is always or only top down or it more often bottom up and thus distributed, everyone and every research outlet have their own take.

Yet, one perspective will always prevail, and that is the one that is assessing leadership characteristics through actions that systematically bring everything closer to the way nature evolves, or works. 

The general question "is your life or your business like water?" meaning that everyone around depends on it with their life comparatively more than their dependence on anything else. Let's notice things that release dopamine become like that. Others have mastered that gate into our brain. With tobacco and alcohol or FB or social media likes in general. 

We however can "fight back" and lead a movement from the ground up to self-become addicted to our own success... that in turn would be the truly next generation of distributed systemically radically different leadership. Naturally. 

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.

Chief Future Architect, InnovationTrek

We got here. What's next?

Accelerate Innovation. 

In companies and self.

Grow flow. Naturally.

ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org

Oh all the stories you’ll hear. Ah, what about all that I’ll miss?

A student's criticism opened my eyes time back. I was teaching public policy & economics in a graduate program I was running. I had just learned that nobody in the graduate seminar had read W Edwards Deming. I assigned it for a couple of weeks down the road, and placed a personal copy on library reserve. Each student could take the book out a day, and I asked them to self organize and assign chapters every one was responsible for, and each to skim the rest, plus to have a debriefing session before class. I was just suggesting techniques we'd used in graduate school to survive and cope with the six-ten readings a week workload. 

My students didn't do it. Everyone came to class as if nothing happened. One student was quite vociferous on how dared I assign an entire book on such short notice. People seem to have a sense of entitlement vis-a-vis knowledge. We may want to accomplish and achieve without work. I confess I felt and still feel responsible for not knowing in advance that Deming was not a requirement in all undergraduate curricula irrespective of a student's major. To me it was like Newton's comprehensive work or like Sun Tzu's Art of War, that we're all called to know. 

My student's critique showed me that we miss a lot. We ought to look again and take on some classics, even if late in life. 

Fuel curiosity and tomorrow you'll know a little more that humankind already knew.

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.

Chief Future Architect, InnovationTrek

We got here. What's next?

Accelerate Innovation. 

In companies and self.

Grow flow. Naturally.

ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org

Fwd: Your Application with Midland University

He he. I filed an application for a position as Dean of a College of Business with a small regional university. I got my doctorate from the number one public university graduate school in global affairs, with a focus on economics of science and technology for innovation. I led graduate programs all over the nation with creativity and innovation, promoting new innovative curriculum and advocating for and introducing new technology and new means of meeting the needs of unconventional graduate students in the classroom for over twenty years. My Juris Doctor degree focused in part in international business contracts and intellectual property law and I was there working for our federal court when the largest patent lawsuit in Nebraska's history happened right before my eyes—lowly law clerk impressed with seeking all these million dollars a year attorneys landing in our state from DC for over a month with a tens of millions of dollars patent infringement case against a once small now nationally reputed Nebraska grown manufacturing business. One that will hurt a lot because of the new tariffs in steel imports. The hurting will pass to Nebraska farmers and other small businesses. Wait... I advocated new business trans-Atlantic relations inside the framework of the NATO Parliament since the early 1990s, at a time when the US was barely waking up from the Cold War and the White House was still struggling for far too long to find solutions to South East Europe's crises. Today more than ever the nation and every one of us relies on businesses and communities supporting entrepreneurship and small business development from the ground up in response to the global and national crises that continue to face us. Yet, we all too often don't get it. Because we don't want to learn to get it. 

As you pass Fremont NE, where this little University is, to head to the lakes for a swim, the poverty and missed opportunities of the place strike you. The University got a President who left right after he got the Presidency because he won the race to become Nebraska's then junior Senator to Washington DC. Turnover at this little University has been just as strong as with its President. Student numbers must be dropping and hence finances are tight, and the curriculum has been frozen in time for over two decades if not more, at least that I know of. Just as the country's policies on business and in international trade now are inspired by and come from the era of before the Great Depression. 

I got a letter via email in response to my job application. It took the search committee no more than 14 minutes (from 8 to 8:14 am) on a Saturday morning to assess my credentials against the requirements of the position. Really? They found a better candidate during such time. 

I can only be impressed at how well HR works in this day and age. Congratulations. As for the business college... Best of success. It seems that new business graduates will invade America from China, India, Brazil and the like before we get a chance to even wake up from our decades long sleep. 

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.

InnovationTrek

ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu

ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.

Chief Future Architect, InnovationTrek

We got here. What's next?

Accelerate Innovation. 

In companies and self.

Grow flow. Naturally.

ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org

Begin forwarded message:

Resent-From: <aspetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu>
From: "Human Resources" <no-reply@applicantpro.com>
Date: March 24, 2018 at 8:14:32 AM CDT
To: aspetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu
Subject: RE: Your Application with Midland University

Dear Adrian Petrescu,

Thank you for your interest in employment at Midland University and for the time you have invested in the process. Your application was carefully reviewed for the role of  Midland University Dunklau School of Business. At this time, there were other candidates who more closely matched the qualifications we were seeking.

Please continue to stay abreast of our employment opportunities and consider applying for a future or alternate role within the University.  If you have already applied for other position(s), your resume will continue to be reviewed in the context of those roles unless you hear otherwise.

We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.

Sincerely,

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“I am one of you.” is the most powerful empathy device there ever was. We too disliked authority and decisions against us. Then we learned why they had to be.

In fifth grade I broke the chair in my class in public school because it was wooden and I was balancing myself on its hind legs out of boredom in classes that had too much lecture and too little engagement of us learners. I hated my Dad most for siding with my head teacher when she told him. This went on for ages. I got to often dislike my parents for not defending me in situations when I felt I was right. I learned one thing though. Just because you think you're right doesn't truly make you right. Time may teach you a perspective that in the moment you may simply miss by far. I learned the skill of questioning my own thinking and behavior without even being asked by external forces to do so. And of asking what would it look like in five years! In ten? How about in twenty? In one hundred and twenty? If folks would remember you then after you are long gone, and if they remember you well and for all the good reasons then your life, day in and day out, mattered. I learned all that from breaking the chair at school in fifth grade? No, from a caring father who had the patience and love it took to let me figure out things at my pace without judging but by being firm and what may have looked unfair & uncaring sometimes. Let's thank a patient mentor and let's mentor in our turn. 

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.

InnovationTrek

ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu

ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org

Tap into humanity’s overarching wisdom from history. You may be amazed what new perspectives you’ll find.

The hardest to help are those of us who think we know everything and who don't open ourselves to the fear from accepting the unknown overwhelms us. That fear fuels all of our excuses why we can't do it. Yet, that same fear can be transformed into the most powerful self-motivator if we treat it with the one mantra that made humanity survive and thrive for thousands of years: I can do this. As if my life depended on it.

Let's see. We learned to plant purposefully, to domesticate animals, to produce, to overproduce & trade, to travel, to map, to build, to discover & make new forms of energy, to master internal combustion & the atom, to fly, to master millions of operations on a silicon nail-size circuit, to communicate in space, & with each other globally from our hand, & other things. We learned to overcome instinct to violence with empathy toward one another. At least sometimes—when we reckon peace & understanding are much more beneficial than a fight or war every time... we still have things to learn on this front, from a courthouse to international relations.

Often there was nobody there to teach us how to do these. We can improve. We have the greatest skill of them all—to learn by need. By ourselves. Let's never deny ourselves the goal of reaching our fullest performance!

Adrian S. Petrescu, Ph.D., J.D.

InnovationTrek

ASPetrescu@alumni.pitt.edu

ASPetrescu@InnovationTrek.org