Higher Consciousness Management: Transcendence for Spontaneous Right Action

Business organizations, managers, and all of us need to adapt to a rapidly evolving socio-technical environment and to the climate change and other environmental crises we are all facing. Managers, and all of us, need to engage with the opportunities and threats posed by exponential development of technologies of production, distribution, and consumption and with innovative, and sometimes, risky approaches to dealing with climate change and other aspects of global unsustainability. Managers, and all of us, would do well to unlearn self-limiting beliefs and utilize the highest potential of themselves and their teams to generate visionary designs that will guide pro-social and environmental behaviors toward a flourishing world. We call Higher Consciousness Management (HCM) a way of being and operating that enables managers and others to tap into the source of unbounded potential within themselves. In essence, managers could benefit from transcending surface-level reality and developing problem-solving capabilities with adaptability, creativity, empathy, and vision. The V-theory of transcendence models a wide range of contemplation and meditation techniques to transcend surface reality and connect with pure consciousness, which is the unified field of all the laws of nature. This paper presents three key principles for HCM, and some ways of developing those capabilities in organizations. We model HCM using two case studies, and outline a vision of what HCM might portend for the future.

Infinitely many homoclinic solutions for double phase problem on integers

We consider a discrete double phase problem on integers with an unbounded potential and reaction term, which does not satisfy the Ambrosetti–Rabinowitz condition. A new functional setting was provided for this problem. Using the Fountain and Dual Fountain Theorem with Cerami condition, we obtain some existence of infinitely many solutions. Our results extend some recent findings expressed in the literature.

Multiple solutions of double phase variational problems with variable exponent

This paper deals with the existence of multiple solutions for the quasilinear equation{-\operatorname{div}\mathbf{A}(x,\nabla u)+|u|^{\alpha(x)-2}u=f(x,u)\quad\text% {in ${\mathbb{R}^{N}}$,}}which involves a general variable exponent elliptic operator {\mathbf{A}} in divergence form. The problem corresponds to double phase anisotropic phenomena, in the sense that the differential operator has various types of behavior like {|\xi|^{q(x)-2}\xi} for small {|\xi|} and like {|\xi|^{p(x)-2}\xi} for large {|\xi|}, where {1<\alpha(\,\cdot\,)\leq p(\,\cdot\,)<q(\,\cdot\,)<N}. Our aim is to approach variationally the problem by using the tools of critical points theory in generalized Orlicz–Sobolev spaces with variable exponent. Our results extend the previous works [A. Azzollini, P. d’Avenia and A. Pomponio, Quasilinear elliptic equations in \mathbb{R}^{N} via variational methods and Orlicz–Sobolev embeddings, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 49 2014, 1–2, 197–213] and [N. Chorfi and V. D. Rădulescu, Standing wave solutions of a quasilinear degenerate Schrödinger equation with unbounded potential, Electron. J. Qual. Theory Differ. Equ. 2016 2016, Paper No. 37] from cases where the exponents p and q are constant, to the case where {p(\,\cdot\,)} and {q(\,\cdot\,)} are functions. We also substantially weaken some of the hypotheses in these papers and we overcome the lack of compactness by using the weighting method.