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An MBA (Master of Business Administration) degree confers a status
to the holder that makes them desirable as business managers and
leaders. They have learned to analyze transactions and interactions
that help pinpoint cost reduction for labor and raw materials, maximize
cash flow, increase market share, and fine-tune supply chain management.
Unfortunately these experts, who are today’s dominant business leaders,
seem on the verge of disconnection from the habitats and inhabitants of
our planet. Worse, their narrow focus on one core business blinds them
from recognizing viable opportunities outside their sphere of interest or
knowledge. Our production and consumption schemes are outdated,
incapable of responding to the basic needs of all. They must either evolve
or be replaced by ones that thrive by functioning harmoniously with all life,
promoting diversity, and fairly ensuring food, shelter, health, and livelihood
for everyone. It is with this conclusion that we turn our admiration and
attention to nature’s MBA – Mastery of Brilliant Adaptations.

Ecosystems offer tremendous inspiration for devising economic models
capable of responding to the needs of all. Natural systems always change,
always evolve. That is their power and their beauty. When we attend to
nature’s MBA, we can begin to understand how to integrate innovations
into multifaceted models cascading nutrients and energy, supplying energy
from integrated and renewable sources, designing structures that capture
and utilize what is minute and transform it into what is grand, into networks
that become so efficient that nothing is wasted and we have a net energy gain.Industry is resistant to continuous change. Predictability is the name of
the game. The model of core business and core competence pursues
productivity in a manner that actually inhibits the natural path of evolution
and change. This is in fact the logic by which industry arrives at solutions
based on genetic manipulation. Once you know how to alter genes, you
believe you know how to predict their outcomes. Where industry leaders
prefer a predictable production system that uses harsh chemistry to
stabilize molecules forever, and genetic modifications that stifle natural
evolutionary tendencies, natural systems offer a different solution. Water is
the solvent; molecular bonds are temporary to permit high biodegradability,
so that molecules can be combined over and over again. Genetic
modifications naturally occur in the realm of bacteria as this is part of their
evolutionary pathway.