SOLUTIONEERING

A Solutioneer is someone who examines a situation, explores its possibilities, determines solutions, and effectively actions them to completion.

These web pages are a synthesis of ideas, ideals, philosophies and resources for empowering people worldwide interested in carrying on with R. Buckminster Fuller's ultimate goal:

"To make the world work in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone."
Solutioneering promotes the ideas of "QUESTIONS, NOT ANSWERS" because Questions are provocative and dynamic while answers are static and smug.

The word "Solution" is better than "Answer" because it suggests that while it may be a solution, it is not necessarily the only one, only that it solves the problem. This encourages flexibility and diverse concepts and helps escape the straitjacket of "RIGHT vs WRONG" or "BLACK/WHITE, ME/YOU" thinking that has caused so many of our problems in the world today.

Solutioneering covers all of the aspects that involve being effective into the future. It promotes environmental design, caring about what you are doing, and providing resources for furthuring basic human goals. Like THE WHOLE EARTH CATALOG, it offers "Access to Tools"

"In this era of complexity, great enterprises are designed and carried forward by the kind of man who has a vision of what might be and a practical strategy for getting there, a man with an idea in his head and a monkey wrench in his hand." -John W. Gardner

What is Solutioneering?

Solutioneering is a new word to describe a fairly large topic. R. Buckminster Fuller, who is the ultimate 20th Century Solutioneer realised that in order to be able to make the world work for all humanity everywhere what was required was a DESIGN SCIENCE REVOLUTION. He described himself as a "Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist." This description is an excellent initial description of a Solutioneer, but a Solutioneer is even broader. A Solutioneer is concerned about all aspects within Earth (and beyond) and is interested in EVERYTHING and ANYTHING and looks for solutions and ways to solve various problems in all areas of human and non-human concerns. She is concerned by the environment, and government, and taxes, and human rights, and anything else which needs examining or re-examining. It is what you make of it.

In order to be an effective solutioneer, you must first be an effective (or semi-effective) person. You must be positive. You must know there IS a solution, and it is up to YOU to discover it.

To help with this, we offer several Techniques and Methods towards becoming a Solutioneer. We also offer a glimpse towards our future and areas to explore and contribute.

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Solutioneering Personal Skills:

Hyperlinked Articles (By Bill Paton):

Solutioneering Inspirations:

Detailed Book Notes (By Bill Paton):

Online Do-Tank Notes & Proposals:

"Find something that needs to be done, and do it."--R. Buckminster Fuller


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