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Most people see that not everything works well in the world and I am often asked: “what can I do about it?”

Comprehensive thinker Bucky Fuller’s drive was to “make the world work for 100% of humanity”; Taking inspiration from an article (The Anticipatory Leader: Buckminster Fuller’s Principles for Making the World Work for 100% of humanity) published in 2006 in The Futurist & written by Medard Gabel & Jim Walker, I have compiled and summarized an easy to read list of Bucky’s leadership principles. This list gathers in one place some of the most important aspects of Bucky Fuller’s thinking and reflections about what a single, seemingly powerless individual can do, and how he or she can get started, to change the course of events humans have unwillingly set unto themselves.

Think comprehensively, act locally:

• Identify the most important thing to do at this extraordinary moment, and do it.
• Zoom out: “spy” the most remote fundamental cause that needs to be changed or revolutionalized. (You can “dig deeper” with the following posts studied previously by The Bucky Call: Start with the Universe, and also this one: Scenario Universe.)
• Change the environment, not the people; that is respect & trust the individual and his decisions.

Anticipate the future:

• Tune in on trends – Technological, world resources, human needs – Tune out the noise.
• Respect LAG & gestation times, understand the second derivative of speed: accelerating acceleration.
• Focus on a vision of what the world should be like; everyone’s basic needs, eternally regenerative, safe from war and social injustice.

Be a “trim tab”, an individual that can initiate big change.

Design and build artifacts that will change the environment and alter Man's behavior and habits

• Be a trim tab, leverage, do more with less. Have faith in the individual’s ability to build artifacts, tools and creative responses that “will move the rudder”.
• Know where the ship is, where it is heading, currents, winds, tides; where the ship ought to be going; when and where to apply pressure.

Take individual initiative:

• See what needs to be done that nobody else is attending to.
• Anti “Big Man”, anti central planning or authority; we all should be leaders, at least of our own lives.

Ask the obvious and naive questions:

• Ask simple and naive questions to initiate change. Why do we do things this way? —we always did it that way!
• With our expanding technical resources, why can’t we commit to feed, clothe and shelter all passengers aboard spaceship earth?
• Why don’t we simply look at how nature builds things, and then build our own structures accordingly?

Do more with less:

• What is wealth? money is not wealth; capital is seeking true productive wealth; wealth that knows how to do more and more with less and less.
• Create more output with less input, gain influence.
• True wealth = resources + know how applied to needs.
• We can only learn more, never less – as knowledge & understanding grows, so does wealth.
• The zero sum game of commodities is scarcity; human creation & ingenuity to do more with less creates abundance. (If you want more information about Malthus and Malthusian Principles, I invite you to read The Bucky Call Darwin Anniversary Special study materials that you can find at: Natural Selection and the Malthusian Principle or Competition for Limited Resources).
• Live off our daily sun generated energy income, not by spending off our balance sheet energy savings (fossil fuels). Understand “cosmic cost accounting”. Measure actual human gains, not financial statements.
• Money is a tool for making artifacts that will make the world work for 100% of humanity.

Seek to reform the environment, not man:

• Change the environment, leverage in infrastructure, not in habit ridden man.
• Reforming the environment will have a large impact on human behavior.

Thank you Dear Reader for reading this far; I kept the last principle of this “Bucky Bucket” list for you, it is now your turn and a “not to be wasted” opportunity for you to:

Solve problems through action:

-Richard Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller.

• What do you see that needs to be done that nobody else is attending to?
  
• What do you need to learn to be effective in attending to it in a highly efficient and inoffensive-to-others manner?
• What problem solving action are you willing to take?

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Other related (hand picked) articles & postings that you may like:

• A Better World Project. We are now 10 years into the 21st century and guess what: Progress? Not at all my dear…
• Opening The Bucky Call To All. Is it reasonable to suspect you are interested in becoming an active part of The Bucky Call?
• The Bucky Call. A study of Critical Path, Bucky’s starting point and road map for a world that works for all.
• Bucky Fuller list of 7 conditions for humanity to change its destiny