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Sunday, June 11, 2006

Enron: The Ultimate 3T Story. For a good lesson in how a generational constellation can achieve an extreme of behavior which is ultimately dysfunctional, watch Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

This movie demonstrates how the rise of the company and its malfeasances � both how it took advantage of deregulation to game the marketplace and how it used fraud to prop up stock prices � were enabled by the Third Turning generational constellation. It focuses on three individuals in particular: Andrew Fastow, the Gen-Xer who cooked the books, Jeff Skilling, the Boomer executive whose inventive practices justified the company's schemes, and Silent CEO Ken Lay, who gave the firm its veneer of respectability.

You also get a good look at the Gen-X traders, the workhorses who shamelessly manipulated energy prices. Jeff Skilling's idea of accounting for "hypothetical future value" to reward an idea immediately, because otherwise different people unfairly get the credit further down the development cycle, is very selfishly fitting for the Boomer generation and the dot.com era.

All in all, this documentary movie is an excellent lesson in how the generational constellation in the 3T directs energy at enriching the few (execs making mega-millions, traders retiring young) at the expense of the many (Californians suffering rolling blackouts for no reason other than Enron�s manipulative schemes).

Posted by Steve at 4:19 PM

Current ages of the living generations
Lost	106+
G.I.	82-106
Silent	64-82
Boomer	46-64
Gen-X	25-46
Millennial	?-25
Homeland	?

Millennial Saeculum
High	1946-1964
Awakening	1964-1984
Unraveling	1984-?
Crisis	?-

The Roaring '90s vs. the Raging 2000s

the count at the ageless project 8/15/2006

G.I.	7
Silent	65
Boomer	278
Gen-X	1095
Millennial	265

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