Some organisations are now focusing explicitly on balance - e.g. on how economic, social and environmental well-being links with, and is influenced by, people's personal well-being.
According to Daniel Pink in A Whole New Mind, logical, linear "left-brain" thinking dominated the Industrial Age, but relationship-oriented "right-brain" thinking will shape the "Conceptual Age".
The idea that life should be one third learn, one third earn, one third return is attractive, even if not necessarily complete (where is the time for playing, for reflecting, for relaxing etc?), and provides a neat encapsulation of Charles Handy's advice that we should carefully "chunk" our time in order to lead a "portfolio life". Others are trying to scale this idea to the societal level, advocating living in intentional communities.
