摘要：Traces human societies’ organizing and leadership modalities, from early nomadic tribes to settled agricultural villages, towns, companies and today’s mega-cities, multi-national alliances and the United Nations (UN). Scaling these human organizational processes involved leadership, persuasion, coercion and violence. Initially these processes were steered by warlords, conquerors, religious authorities, secular autocrats, monarchs and emperors. Leadership styles evolved from these earlier often violent means toward loyalty, ideologies, myth-making, communication skills harnessing technological innovation: from printing to today’s radio, television, social media, advertising, marketing, computers, big data, algorithmic decision-making and the rise of surveillance in both public spheres and monetizing personal information by private, for-profit corporations. Economic theories see money and prices as behavioral incentives, assuming their social benefits expanding into unpaid, voluntary social communities, as in Arrow-Debreu’s model of “market completion”, with progress measured in money-based macro-statistics, such as GDP. These market models are too narrow, leading to ecosystem and societal destruction. Expanding economic models and metrics include scientific understanding of dependence of all life on Earth on the sun. New chaos theories and mathematical models expanding our awareness map how human organizations are evolving through global interconnectedness. Diagrams of “Three Zones of Transition” and “Two Major Types of Cybernetic Systems” expand human cognition to help navigate the existential threats to our future survival, based on new ethics, beliefs and behavior, including the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the traditional Golden Rule..
