Creating a dynamic learning process in the fast lane!

It’s imperative to bring creativity to learning, enabling us to be innovative!

Greatest challenge to innovation: reinventing our whole way of living!

Walking the positive road!
Building the NEW! Cultivate change! Do it with passion!

PASSIONS create future!
Find strength in your uniqueness of your purpose, your gifts & your passions!

Imagine what could be, to be the future!
Happiness is a journey not a destination!

“Forget about the ‘fast lane’. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion!” ~ Oprah Winfrey

from obsessed growth to healthy progress

presentation available on SlideShare (follow the link)

 

Speaking engagement at International Training & Development Summit (Circuits of Learning and Development)

Presentation for PSDT (Philippine Society for Training and Development) annual convention November 2017

http://www.pstd.org

Emerging Future of Organizations, Communities and Humanity!

Facilitating change through the Transition Narrative towards Society 3.0 (Humanity 4.0)

Transition from surviving to sustainable development, from resilience building towards a thriving world in which humanity is inspired by & lives in balance & harmony with nature.

5P’s of sustainable thrivability

People – Planet – Progress – Purpose – Passion

INSPIRE people in HARMONY with the planet
for BALANCED progress towards
building communities that THRIVE!

Facilitate transformational changes in social values, resource needs and technological advancements, in which people, their capacities and human values matter and are central to the approach.

UNlearn to RElearn

Focus on CAPACITIES
= uniqueness + limitations
of self, team, company & extended enterprise to enable
collaboration, co-design and co-creation

 

Inspire one – 1^x = X¹ – motivate many!

 

Learn from the changing world and share your change to the macro!
Learn how you can participate your contributive change at the micro!
We change the way we LIVE! We change the way of LIFE!
Thriving in the flow of Life! Ideas for Life! Soul of Life!

For humanity and communities

(self and your immediate environment)

From ME to WE,
from EGO to ECO,
from SILOS to COLLECTIVE CREATIVITY

Connecting the econological shift (following the sequence is essential)

• spiritual connected: connection between self and self
• social connected: connection between self and others
• ecological connected: connection between self and nature

Encouraging entrepreneurship (social, community and/or commercial)

For organizations and extended enterprise

(corporates, institutions and their stakeholders – extended enterprise)

From SHAREHOLDER to STAKEHOLDER Economics!
From GROWTH & PROFIT to PROGRESS!
Adding the 2Ps: PASSION & PURPOSE
Think, act and lead without the box!

Transforming organizations and the extended enterprise to form lattice TEAL circles and working environments, which are agile, holistic and open.

Encouraging intrapreneurship (innovation, co-creation and agility)

 

How to ignore the box

• apply lateral thinking techniques (TEAL – lattice circles & agile OD)
• rethink situations as opportunities
• connect the dots between creativity & innovation
• walk the positive road – Learn to dream (Ai)
• generate innovative opportunities aligned with your needs
• promote intrapreneurship | encourage entrepreneurship

Lattice or TEAL organization forms take on worn-out corporate ladder inproductivity and adopt more agile ways to engage its people, processes and ultimately the extended enterprise in which a corporation operates.

Whole Systems Transformation is a journey!
Systemic change is required at all levels of our society!

Whole System Transformation modality (Sullivan Transformation Agents)

Some references in this emerging evolution

– Otto Scharmer (Theory U & Presencing Institute)

We are collectively creating results nobody wants. That’s why leadership should help people to see the whole system. It is time to change our organizations and institutions, and bust three leadership myths.

3 visible divides:

The ecological divide: we currently use 1.5 times Planet Earth; that is our ecological footprint. This is the divide between self and nature.

The social divide: 2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day. Here we see the divide between self and other.

The spiritual-cultural divide: people are excluded, experience lack of meaning and more and more feel depressed. The divide between self and Self. Capital Self represents your highest future potential that you may develop – what you are here for on Planet Earth.

– Frederic Laloux (Reinventing Organizations)

If we define Tops, Middle, Bottoms, and Customers, not as static boxes on an org chart, but as relational spaces or contexts, then they are still very much present. People just flow and navigate between these different spaces, including within the same day. So, on one initiative I am leading it, and I am in a Top space. Another time, somebody else is leading and I am just following; I am the Bottom. And in another situation, I might be sort of the Middle, somebody else is really leading the big picture of it, but I am designing some elements; I am coordinating some stuff.

And what this brings I think, is an enormous relief for the Bottoms and the Middles, and also for the Tops! We tend to think that being Top is so great. We often underestimate the weight of the poor people at the Top of the organizations who constantly have to be Top, and can never relax into Bottom, where I can just follow. I will do my share, but I don’t need to be in a leadership position”.

Hierarchy isn’t abandoned at Teal; what is dismantled is the static form of hierarchy that is in the buttress of the org chart. The goal of self-management is not to make everyone equal, to have everyone having the same say on all the questions. It is really the opposite. It’s to have natural hierarchies, and to have lots of natural hierarchies.

 

The following illustrations may assist you in understanding the evolutionary transition of humanity and how we transform communities and organizations to adapt to the changing future:

Evolutionary breakthroughs in human collaboration

The evolution of organizational paradigms

 

Evolution from Change Management to Change Facilitation

Kotter 8 step change model

Stages of human evolution according to Frederic Laloux and Otto Scharmer

The challenge response matrix

Social Evolution Matrix co-creative eco-systems

Paradigms of Economic Thought: symptoms of systemic disconnects

From hierarchical control structure to ecological approach with whole systems transformation.

Theory U – Leading from the Emerging Future

 

Biomimicry – applying nature’s principles

Further reading:

Reinventing Organizations
~ by Frederic Laloux
www.reinventingorganizations.com
www.reinventingorganizationswiki.com

Leading from the Emerging Future
~ by Otto Scharmer
www.ottoscharmer.com
www.presencing.com

Perspectives on Teal: Laloux & Scharmer
~ by Michael Stern, Integral Alignment, for Enlivening Edge Magazine
www.enliveningedge.org/features/weaving-perspectives-teal-organizational-economic-mystical
www.enliveningedge.org/features/weaving-perspectives-part-2-response-ability-living-systems/

 

Other sources of reference active in this transition:

Alexander Laszlo – Leadership and Systemic Innovation, International Society for the Systems Sciences
Anna Blume – Impact Journey – Creating the Future
Arthur Brock – Agile Learning Center
Bernard Lietaer – The Future of Money: Beyond Greed and Scarcity Rethinking Money, Complementary Currencies
Bert-Ola Bergstrand – SoCap – Living Bridges, LUSIC, Skoll Foundation
Charles Eisenstein – Sacred Economics
Dana Pearlman – Global Leadership Lab
Dave Snowden – Cognitive Edge
David Cooperrider – Appreciative Inquiry
David Eggleton – Applied Ecologics
David Hodgson – Global Leadership Lab
David Suzuki – Solutions are in our nature, interconnected and interdependent with nature.
Della Duncan and Robert Raymond – Economics for Transition
Edgar H. Schein – Humble Leadership, The Essence of Change: Brainwashing, Culture Evolution and Organizational Therapy
Ellen MacArthur – transition to a circular economy
Erwin Van Waeleghem – Teal-for-Teal, Tealpirator
Eugen Oetringer – Leading in a Complex Environment
George Pór – Enlivening Edge
Giles Hutchins – Future Fit, Illuzion of Separation, Cultivating Leadership
Giorgio Bertini – Learnign Change
Gunter Pauli – The Blue Economy, ZERI
Holger Nauheimer – Radical Inclusion, Change Facilitation
Irma Wilson – Social Innovation Europe, the Next Edge, FutureSharp
Jae Sabol – One Community
Jean Russell – Thrivable.org, Co-creation
Jeff Mowatt – People-Centered Economic Development
Jennifer Sertl – Agility3R, Strategy,Leadership and the Soul
Jeremiah Owyang – Collaborative Economy
Jeremy Rifkin – The Zero Marginal Cost Society, The Third Industrial Revolution
Johan Roels – Crucial Dialogues
John Elkington – Breakthrough Business Models
John Hagel – Deloitte Center for the Edge
John Kellden – ConversationLab
Kathryn Ananda – Positive Handprints, 5P’s of Thrivability
Katie Teague – Money and Life Movie
Kelly Teamey – Enlivened Learning
Kevin Parcell – The Reconomy Global Cooperative
Klaus Bravenboer – Biomimicry in Organizational System Design
Leif Edvinsson – New Club of Paris, Universal Networking Intellectual Capital
Marcella Bremer – Leadership Change
Mario Fleurinck – Digital transformation
Maureen Kelsey – Call2Change
Michael Reuben Stern – Integral Alignment
Michel A. de Kemmeter – Otherways – UHDR
Michel Bouwens – P2P Foundation, Safe the World
Michelle Holliday – The Age of Thrivability, Thrivable World
Paul Polak – Design for the other 90%, iDEorg
Peter Senge – System Thinking, Society for Organizational Learning, The Fifth Discipline
Peter Vander Auwera – Sacred Spaces, InnoTribr
Rafael Staelens – Planetecova
Ralph Thurm – GISR – Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings, A|HEAD|, Embedding ThriveAbility
Robert Reich – Inequality for all, Saving Capitalism
Robin Lincoln Wood – Embedding ThriveAbility Foundation
Roland Sullivan – Whole Systems Transformation
Sarah van Gils – Syntony, Evolutionary Leadership
Stanislas Jourdan – basic income, Quantitative Easing
Steve Keen – Debunking Economocs, Debt Deflation, IDEAeconomics
Thomas Friedman – The World is Flat
Torben Rick – Organizational Culture Change
Yasuhiko Genku Kimura – Vision in Action

and many more.

Also @econolgics may be a good source for keeping up to date on the subject of our changing world.

Join the dialogue & participate with a circle of people making a difference growing from surviving to sustainable development, from resilience building towards a thriving world in which humanity is inspired by & lives in balance & harmony with nature.

We drive change for a better environment, life & future for generations to come.

@econologics unites people making a difference in our socio-economic & -political society. We share & brainstorm ideas & practices around new models from around the globe, exploring opportunities for collaboration to establish both public and corporate sustainability, resiliency and thrivability.

The group aims to advocate change to our global-2-glocal environment – from our smallest circle of family, friends, acquaintances to the professional circles & circles of influence we develop in this connected world.

@econologics – sustainable balance in our social & economic circle of life!

LI: www.linkedin.com/groups/Econologics-3825482
FB: www.facebook.com/groups/Econologics
G+: http://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116249886169285481548
PaperLi: http://linkis.com/paper.li/Zj1Rr
Follow us on twitter @knowledgEnabler
www.twitter.com/knowledgEnabler

You can also contact us for coaching and speaker engagements

www.expertfile.com/experts/joris.claeys

or connect with me on LinkedIn:

www.linkedin.com/in/knowledgenabler

We facilitate and cultivate change

For companies, teams and CXO levels:
Intrapreneurs coaching & branding/strategy for corporations

CAPix – expanding horizon
Think, lead & act without the box!
Moving Knowledge & Solutions Forward!
www.linkedin.com/company/capix
www.facebook.com/CAPix.horizon

For communities and entrepreneurs:
Entrepreneurs & incubation coaching for the creativity sector

ecoNOVATE – community driven innovation
Making communities & business human again!
www.linkedin.com/company/ecoNOVATE
www.facebook.com/ecoNOVATE.net

The Teal-Evolutionary paradigm!

Frederick Laloux examines the evolution of human consciousness, explaining how Humanity invented a new, more productive organizational model every time when it shifted to a new stage.

Creativity and innovation in business seem to be more important than ever. Many companies are desperately seeking new ideas, trying to keep up while still applying a traditional organizational structure that has not been reviewed and changed for a long time.

It seems obvious that continuing to push for innovation without innovating the system itself is flogging a dead horse, but since this is the norm, we take it for granted that this is the only way. The well-known hierarchical, rule-based management style has its benefits and has worked well for a long time, but as the world is changing, it seems to have reached its limits and cannot serve us anymore.
It is time to realize that if we want to unleash human potential, we need to change the surroundings and provide the right conditions for those new ideas to thrive.

One of today’s disruptive trends is doing exactly that. A new organizational paradigm is emerging, turning our current concept of work and management upside down. This gamechanger that might transform the way we work is called “Teal”.

full story by Julia Marczi at
http://www.startupsuccessstories.com/the-new-big-deal-is-called-teal

“By breaking the box we can empower people to get out of it!” – Frederick Laloux

Lean and Agile Adoption with the Laloux Culture Model by Peter Green

Teal organizations bring the following three breakthroughs:

1. Self-management: assuming that people are trustworthy, good and accountable, and can deliver without being controlled all the time, Teal organizations work without (traditional) managers, dogmatic rules and policies. Project management is also radically simplified. Job titles are abolished and are replaced by roles that are picked up based on each individual’s talents, interests and skills.
2. Wholeness: people are encouraged to show up at work with their whole personality, not just a professional, edited version of themselves. Being human, having doubts and emotions and making mistakes are OK. “Failure” is considered as an opportunity to learn.
3. Evolutionary Purpose: instead of considering the organization as a mere vehicle for delivering management targets and maximizing shareholder profit,  it is seen as an organic, living entity with an ever-changing purpose. Teal organizations ask questions like: How can we serve the world best? How can we deliver real value? The organization and its members are actively listening all the time to this purpose, adjusting its activities to it, instead of following well-defined, detailed management plans.

Teal organizations as “complex adaptive systems”

An Evolutionary-Teal organization exhibits many properties of a Complex Adaptive System

1. It has a purpose of its own, distinct from the purposes or objectives of its members,
2. It consists of a number of elements (members or teams),
3. The elements interact, in a non-linear way, to achieve the purpose of the system,
4. The interaction and relationships between elements are based on a few simple rules or guiding principles,
5. The nature of the relationships and number of interactions between the elements result in emergent behavior – the behavior of the system is not the sum of the behaviors of the elements,
6. The elements produce and use signals and information (sensing) from both external and internal environments and react accordingly,
7. There is no central control,
8. The elements self-organize, that is, change the relationships between themselves to adapt to changes in the environment,
9. The elements learn from history, and from the environment, and adapt accordingly to ensure the survival of the system.

Teal organizations are run by self-managing teams. These teams consists of workers who each fulfill certain roles, including functional and managerial duties. All decisions are made using a simple advice process and/or a conflict resolution process when appropriate. There is no centralized control. Values are no longer given perfunctory attention but are actually lived in how people behave in the organization. Everyone listens to the organization’s purpose and takes action accordingly while sensing for changes in the environment. Out of these collective actions, the behavior of the organization emerges.

 

more info on Frederic Laloux‘s Reinventing Organizations at:
www.reinventingorganizations.com
www.reinventingorganizationswiki.com

Inspire one – 1x = X1 – motivate many! People – Planet – Progress – Purpose – Passion

Follow the blog by @knowledgEnabler & @econologics and discover the 5P’s of sustainable thrivability.
knowledgEvolution – incisive knowledge converged

@econologics – sustainable balance in our social & economic circle of life!
ecoNVERGE – inspire ● balance ● harmony
Think, lead and act without the box!
We change the way we LIVE! – We change the way of LIFE!

2017—Trump—Are We Ready To Rise? | The Huffington Post

“Our moment to wake up to our real intention, to be calm, compassionate, and courageous in environments that will be full of dispute, despair, and delusion.” – Otto Scharmer

Charles van der Haegen's Blog

Source: 2017—Trump—Are We Ready To Rise? | The Huffington Post

I like the spirit that emanates from Otto Scharmer in this article very much:

It ends with:

There has never been a generation on this earth whose collective actions—the stuff we choose to do or not do in 2017 and beyond—will have such a profound impact on the future of our children and our planet. Let’s not sleepwalk into this year, where so much is at stake, as the leaders of Europe did a hundred years ago when they launched into World War I. This is our moment to wake up to our real intention, to be calm, compassionate, and courageous in environments that will be full of dispute, despair, and delusion.

The root of the word leadership means “to cross a threshold.” That threshold now is right in front of us…

Are we ready to rise?

He comes with…

View original post 333 more words

Was the Brexit Lesson hard enough to stop Solving Symptoms and start Solving Root Causes? ‒CALL TO ACTION

As long as the symptoms of crisis are being ‘solved’ whilst their root causes remain intact, more ‘new’ symptoms will pop-up. The crisis will worsen and downward spirals continue.
– Eugen Oetringer

Call to Action

For the sake of EU citizens and especially for the sake of our children!

Whatever your position as a leader or decision maker, whether it is in a small city government somewhere in Europe, in a ministry, parliament or a pan-European organization, in a political party or in business, let’s please stop solving symptoms, stop the shame and blame culture and start solving root causes.

Leading in a Complex Environment

with Nancy Hoffmann and Geoff Slater           Deutsch – Nederlands

It must have been some 15 years ago when I was first confronted with something peculiar. Practices and methods that had worked well in the past did not work any more. This created unwanted complications such as people losing their jobs for the wrong reasons, project failure rates going through the roof and ever increasing costs e.g. of health services. Despite the huge suffering this created, nobody in charge was willing (or able) to do anything about it. Instead, all the attention moved to treating the symptoms this created. With the results of the Brexit referendum at hand, it is now painfully clear that this is no longer sustainable. One wonders, was the lesson hard enough for our leaders to stop solving symptoms, stop the shame and blame culture and start solving root causes once and…

View original post 1,338 more words

Whole Earth as Emergent Sentient Entity: Report Documentation.

Collaborative Evolution toward a Successful Future Civilisation

via Whole Earth as Emergent Sentient Entity: Report Documentation..

by Glistening Deepwater

 

Communication is a fundamental prerequisite for any collaborative endeavour. Communication is at its heart the exchange of information and this is ubiquitous to the manifest universe at all scales. It is through this exchange of information that life arises, continues to increase in complexity and evolve through stages of integration and divergence. 

ecoNOVATE – community driven innovation! INTRO – Dream-2-Destiny Journey

Cultivating Change! Do it with PASSION! 

econological inspired 

inspire people ● harmonize planet ● balance progress

Making communities & business human again! 

Promote entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, SMEs & cooperative communities! Building on your Dreams towards communities that THRIVE!

Building on your dreams towards communities that THRIVE!

Bringing a new dimension in makingcommunities & business human again!Promote entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, SMEs& cooperative communities!

Inspire people in harmony with the planet for balanced progress

towards building communities that THRIVE!

Strengthening, connecting and mobilizing people, resources and tools to enhance community values for better life & work balance, creating a vivacious environment in which participants contribute their share as community leaders of change and participate in collaborative efforts to advance solutions towards thriving communities

Providing mentorship, coaching and participation to build communities that thrive, promote entrepreneurship, SMEs & cooperative communities to widen and strengthen the middle-class

Extending our expertise in change facilitation to the corporate and public sector, enabling their teams to embrace new challenges and strategies in an ever changing world

from appreciating to creating (AI)

– Discover and walk the positive road

– Dream and imagine what could be

– Design what should be (ideal)

– Deliver what will be creating the future

ecoNOVATE inspires people, in harmony with the planet, for balanced progress, building on their dreams towards thriving communities!

Bringing a new dimension in making communities & business human again!

Promoting entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, SMEs & community cooperatives!

 

ecoNOVATE is an incubator platform for SMEs, start-ups and community cooperatives, geared to entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, social entrepreneurs and cooperative communities, providing the means to grow their potentials, creative innovation and effective leadership in moving from surviving to thriving within their targeted communities.

Through community engagement, mentoring, coaching and participation, we inspire and empower individuals to take an active role inrealizing solutions towards thriving communities, rather than merely complaining or being complacent about it. They contribute their share by participating in collaborative efforts to advance their community towards building a strong, healthy and economically secure society. We focus on orchestrating the ecosystems that facilitate collaboration, converge knowledge into practice and mobilize ecosystems driven by people’s capacity to do-design, co-create and co-develop, connecting participants in the ecosystem.

ecoNOVATE extends its role as a mobilizer in change facilitation to the corporate and public sectors, to connect and collaborate in order to unlock the collective knowledge of the ecosystems they represent or operate in, moving from competition to collaboration. ecoNOVATE enables their teams to embrace new challenges, become part of the transformation, rather than simply being impacted by it, migrate to and integrate to new socio-economic models, supply chain concepts and marketing strategies, including Whole Systems Transformation, Appreciative Inquiry and Organizational Development. Providing winning strategies for companies and governments to adapt to and position themselves successfully for the future.

 

Enticing people, their PASSIONS & CAPACITIES

• Leaders and community builders of tomorrow
• Anyone with passion and/or skills to initiate entrepreneurship or community leadership & building
• Enterprises embracing new socio-economic models and marketing strategies

Dream-2-Destiny Journey from appreciating to creating

1. Discover and walk the positive road
2. Dream and imagine what could be
3. Design what should be (ideal)
4. Deliver what will be creating the future

Adapting the MACRO to the MICRO (going glocal)

We are pioneering as ecoNOVATE, focusing on encouraging the creative capacity of communities towards the Tourism Sector, piloting in Cebu, elevating the potentials in the Visayas, later to be extended across the Philippines.

Future developments will reach out to other cities, countries and regions worldwide through compatible partnerships.

www.ecoNOVATE.net

Joris.Claeys@ecoNOVATE.net

Visit and follow us on Social Media

Follow us on our journey in making a difference and join our community driven programs.

ecoNOVATE – community driven innovation!

Inspire people in harmony with the planet for balanced progress, building on your dreams towards thriving communities!

Bringing a new dimension in making communities & business human again!

Promoting entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, SMEs & community cooperatives!

www.facebook.com/ecoNOVATE.net

www.linkedin.com/company/ecoNOVATE

@ ecoNOVATION – community based innovation!

Interactive CoP/Think-Tank by ecoNOVATE, around “ego-2-eco shift!”

Econological inspired – inspire people ● harmonize planet ● balance progress

From ME to WE, from EGO to ECO, from SILOS to COLLECTIVE CREATIVITY

• ecological connected: connection between self and nature
• social connected: connection between self and others
• spiritual connected: connection between self and self

Visit and participate in the dialogue on our CoP/Think-tank around community based businesses and articles from around the globe on entrepreneurship and new socio-economic models that make communities and business human again at

www.facebook.com/eco.NOVATION

an ecoNVERGE initiative – inspire ● balance ● harmony

Inspire one – 1^x = X¹ – motivate many!

We change the way we LIVE! We change the way of LIFE!

Think, lead & act without the box! @ Econologics

 

www.facebook.com/ecoNVERGE

www.linkedin.com/company/econverge

The Unbearable Lightness of Tactics

Daring to dream big and kill mediocrity and simplistic goals!
– by Peter Vander Auwera (PeterVan)

We should invite each other to reflect and be self-critical – not necessarily about our individual contributions and the corporate reactions to them – but about our collective company culture in general:
• Where do we want to stop or should we go the full way and really let others look into our soul?
• We should be disappointed if we only get buy-in on a tactical list and not on a bigger “story”, or better “narrative”, that withstands the signs of the time of being fashionable and “street-cred” without credibility
…
It is precisely that lack of depth, context and intention, looking for a higher ideal and potential, making something memorable and worthwhile, and even having the ambition of offering some moral compass that me and many others are deeply missing these days.
Daring to do complex things. Dare to do ambitious things.
The concept of eternal recurrence imposes a “heaviness” on our lives and on the decisions we make (to borrow from Nietzsche’s metaphor, it gives them “weight”). Nietzsche believed this heaviness could be either a tremendous burden or great benefit depending on the individual’s perspective.”
I feel I am on a crossroads of doing something with this only one life. Unshake the bag of heaviness.

Petervan Studios

Picture from Tomorrowland Music Festival, Boom, Belgium, by imgkid.com

During the last summer, there was a sort of house-festival organized in the small village where I live. A sort of Tomorrowland, but then very small scale and for the local youth only.

The organization looked professional, I had been listening to the soundchecks during the hot summer afternoon, and I decided to check it out, very much aware that at any moment one of the millennials may ask “hey granddaddy, what are you doing here?” 😉 That did not happen. More interestingly, I started to wonder what inspired these young folks here.

Maybe the weather had something to do with it. After a hot summer day, a thunderstorm had transformed the ground into a muddy spectacle. The moisture was still very much in the air and in the clothes of people, and I could smell a sickening mix of boredom…

View original post 991 more words

Resilience over strength!

Principles for Open Innovation and Open Leadingship! 

– by Joi Ito, transcripted with a wealth of notes by Peter Vander Auwera

Diminishing cost of innovation makes those having the money behave a little bit better. Who is thinking about those ideas that don’t start small? Thinking about it as a community. This is less about empowering the individual, more about empowering the community.

Disruptive technologies and business models

Today, the majority of the start-ups in Silicon Valley no longer are tech companies. The ruthless new-borns are there to disrupt entire industries: it is rife with pioneers that are aiming to shake up the world of healthcare, medicine and many more.

In a brief address delivered at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, Media Lab director Joi Ito proposed the “9 Principles” that will guide the Media Lab’s work under his leadership.

“What was new for me in this tour was the power shift towards “fan-base” and “peer-base”. And the difference between platform-thinking and peer-thinking.” – Peter Vander Auwera

All these companies are lean and on target using the latest sophisticated technology to drive the social physics deeper and deeper.. Shopping no eBay with pay pal can have item in hour now in Manhattan.. This is just the tip of iceberg… of this exponential movement into accelerating returns.

While many enterprises are hesitantly making their first moves into platform-thinking, trying to avoid the Uberization of their own business, we are already witnessing the appearance of full peer-to-peer networks, where the infrastructure and business frameworks are owned by the peers, by the commons.

The 9 principles of open innovation – by Joi Ito

1. Disobedience over compliance
2. Pull over push
3. Compasses over maps
4. Emergence over authority
5. Learning over education
6. Resilience over strength
7. Systems over objects
8. Risk over safety
9. Practice over theory

The Uberization of Everything, and beyond – an evaluation by Peter Vander Auwera

Resilience over strength

In stead of bulk-up and resist failure, invest the same money on recovery and resilience. You tend to try to minimize failure, rather than trying to work on resilience. It’s also kind of a Zen thing too. If you are extremely present and ready for anything, your are in an extremely resilient state. And it you are not present, you are always focused on the future, or the past, you try to build up walls and trying to make sure that you don’t get choved. And it is hard when you are surrounded by other planners in an institution like this (Knite Foundation) you tend to focus on structure, strength versus resilience, the structure vs this bounciness. On the Internet, a lot of the pieces are very resilient, when you are in an institution that uses a lot of planning; it is hard to create that interface.

How to share knowledge?

The conference model is a great system. A lot of people have experimented with ways to try to share knowledge, but it seems to be one of the hardest problems because everybody has a day-job, they are very busy, and people are talking sort of different languages, and when you are face to face you can coordinate your language in real-time

 

How to you get people who are working on things coordinated?

At the Media Lab we have several approaches: we have this sort of big data, data mining, machine learning, predicting things through causalities and patterns vs something where people are more in charge and people are more active.

 

From authoritative to creative leadership

“The natural perspective of artists and designers — who thrive in ambiguity, fail productively, and rebound naturally — will be become more and more useful in leadership contexts.”

The chart was originally created for a workshop at the Davos World Economic Forum in 2009 and became the basis of ‘Redesigning Leadership’ written with Becky Bermont.

There are authoritative leaders and creative leaders everywhere — it’s not something wholly determined by industry, generation, or position. And every leader will need, on any given day, a little bit of both types of leadership.

‘Redesigning Leadership’ By John Maeda

Joi’s talk makes us reflect on the openness of innovation, Maeda adds the openness of leadingship.

See also:  “The End of Leadership”, by Peter Vander Auwera – on principles for Leadingship vs. Leadership

Leadingship vs Leadership Peter Vander Auwera

By granting power to people in gaining personal control and in becoming personally responsible for their actions, we are at the same time granting them real freedom to become true equals and fully human beings.

It is not difficult to understand that being an object of delegation and a recipient of giving (as a token of shared power), a person can naturally feel the humiliating bitterness engendered by being a powerless and subservient receiver and not having the authority in exercising personal freedom.

The result of this type of submissive role-behaviour, would possible entail the undermining of self-esteem, self-worth, and self-respect.

The most obvious flaw in the context of power concentration in the hands of persons in charge of others is the assumption that delegated responsibility is analogous to a commodity that can be shared among individuals or groups.

 

Awareness-based collective action leadership!

Collective Mindfulness: The Leader’s New Work! 
– by Otto Scharmer

Collective sleepwalking results in three deep divides that are the signature of our civilizational crisis today:
1. the ecological divide — the disconnect between self and nature (resulting in overuse of planet Earth’s finite resources — we are using 1.5 planets today);
2. the social divide — the disconnect between self and other (resulting in two societies: the 1 percent vs. the 99 percent); and
3. the spiritual divide — the disconnect between self and self (resulting in suicide now taking more lives than war, murder, and natural disasters combined).

 

Theory U — Leading from the Emerging Future

 

The Blind Spot

The root cause of our current economic and civilizational crisis is not Wall Street (although the decoupling of the financial and the real economy is a huge problem). It’s not infinite growth (although overusing earth’s finite resources is another enormous problem). It’s not Big Business or Big Government (although their disconnect from the real needs in our communities needs to be fixed). It’s also not leadership, governance, or ownership. The primary root cause is more fundamental than any of these structural issues or systemic disconnects.

Our current crisis originates between our ears: in our outdated paradigms of economic thought. It originates in the disconnect between our dominant models of economic thought (which gravitate around ego-system awareness, in which stakeholders maximize benefit only for themselves) and the collaboration imperatives of our global eco-system economy (in which stakeholders seek to improve the well-being of all, including themselves). We have an enormous disconnect between ego-system thinking and the eco-system reality.

What’s really needed is a deeper shift of consciousness. We need to care and act not just for ourselves and a few close partners, but in the interest of the entire eco-system in which economic activity takes place.

• The Leader’s New Work: Bending the Beam of Observation 
• Personal Transformation: From Me to We
• Relational Transformation: From Ego to Eco
• Institutional Transformation: From Silos to Collective Creativity
• Building An Awareness Based Collective Leadership School

To support this ego to eco shift we need a new type of awareness-based collective action leadership school — a distributed platform that focuses on pioneering profound innovations by an approach that links and integrates all sectors (business, government, civil society), system levels (micro, macro, mundo) and all intelligences (head, heart, hand).

Rights of Nature and an Earth Community Economy!

Around the world, we are seeing the emergence of creative alternatives to destructive economic paradigms. The good news is what is healthy for an ecosystem is also good for people: key ingredients are localization and regionalism. The best economic and environmentally sound solutions are place-based, diverse according to region, and are responsive to local communities and social needs. Instead of fearing a transition to an Earth Community Economy, we can support and enjoy local organic food, vibrant local businesses, a healthy local economy, jobs with justice and the development of clean decentralized energy. I’m not talking about utopias, but rather regenerative, functional, local communities.

The “Rights of Nature” approach promotes a structure of law that recognizes that our living planet has rights of its own. If a Rights of Nature legal framework were implemented, activities that harm the ability of ecosystems and natural communities to thrive and naturally restore themselves, would be in legal violation of nature’s rights.

The Rights of Mother Earth framework recognizes the inherent meaning, sacredness, and value of the natural world: that which is not tradable or subject to commerce.

These rights along with respecting human rights are what being civil means.

“Our life-giving rivers, forests, and mountains are treated as property to be sold and consumed,” the author writes. “In our legal systems, because nature is property, it is invisible to courts.”

Countering the Market-Driven Economy:

All of these actions herald not simply a declaration of new rights in the traditional sense, but a new consciousness of the Earth as a living organism with which we as humans must coexist. In order to live in harmony with the Earth and to halt the most destructive aspects of our modern life, we need to advance a new economy based on the carrying capacity of our Earth and finite planetary boundaries. Recognizing that nature has rights can inform and help to legally re-enforce principles that counter a solely market-driven economy, thereby fostering a new sort of sustainable economy—an “Earth Community Economy,” if you will—based on respect for natural laws and governance systems that uphold the rights and needs of nature in balance with the rights and needs of humans.

This way of thinking globally takes into account and includes the entirety of the Earth Community: human communities together with ecosystem communities of river, forest, desert, ocean, mountain—and all that those imply. There is room for growth of understanding as well as the health and prosperity of each community over time, if we act without further delay.

A Framework to Support Human Well-Being:

Rights of Nature legislation will encourage the formulation and implementation of new economic structures and indicators such as Gross National Happiness, Genuine Progress Indicator, Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, and others that do not rely upon GDP as the only true or acceptable metric. We must question defining worth, wealth, value, and well-being based on only the measuring of money and quantities of material goods. The vital force of life itself and human happiness cannot be forced into a monetary system; they do not equate. In the language of the “new bottom line” put forward by the Network of Spiritual Progressives in its mission statement, we are called to evaluate our social and economic institutions “not only to the extent that they maximize money and power, but also by how much they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacity to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.”

At the core of our global societal and environmental crises is a need to change our fundamental personal values and what we uphold as meaningful in our lives. When we honestly look at the level of systemic change now required to meet the urgency of our time, we can see that personal transformation and changing how we are living on the earth is critical to mitigating our global crises.

Working Toward an “Earth Community Economy”:

We must change the way we think about what an economy is for, and how we measure it. Today, we measure economic well-being using flawed instruments such as the GDP. Yet even the generation and dumping of toxic waste is part of the GDP—a wildly inaccurate measure of progress. We must begin to develop new metrics like the Gross National Happiness Index, which assesses economic performance based on the health and well-being of people living in balance with each other and nature.

Cultures living close to the Earth have shown a balanced way of life quite unlike newer, consumer-driven notions of simply having more. “Living well” in the Kichwa language of the Indigenous people of Ecuador, is called sumak kawsay; in Spanish, it is buen vivir. The Buryat people of the Lake Baikal region express it this way: “To live a life of honor is to live with tegsh,” meaning to live in appreciation and balance with all of life. An Earth Community Economy envisions a future that has not come from enslaving Nature and treating all other life as mere resources for human exploitation and unchecked material growth.

While a Rights of Nature framework does not solve all of our daunting problems, it does offer a foundation upon which healthy economic principles and sustainability can be built. Advocating for a systemic economic alternative that balances the rights of human communities with the rights of ecosystems should be at the heart of all international sustainable development and climate negotiations. As we look to completely transform our responsibilities and relationship with the natural world, this Earth Community Economy based on Rights of Nature is an idea and a necessity whose time is now.

 

Learn to be Nelson Mandela!

Find Your Inner Mandela: A Tribute and Call to Action!

HBR – Find Your Inner Mandela: A Tribute and Call to Action

 

Don’t just mourn Nelson Mandela. Learn to be Nelson Mandela.
He was the consummate turnaround leader.

He knew that he was an icon and shaped a culture for others. His goal was to change behavior, not only laws. The head of what was then Daimler Chrysler South Africa, who had returned to his native South Africa after apartheid ended, motivated a hostile, unproductive black work force by engaging with them in their dream of building a Mercedes for Mandela. This was all about culture, not about financial incentives. People raised their aspirations because Mandela encouraged them.

He also understood the power of forgiveness. Despite 27 years in prison, he emerged with his sense of justice intact — but no discernible bitterness. He maintained his faith in people no matter what, that people would come right in the end, he said.

 

Mandela’s legacy is larger than racial justice and more widespread than his country or continent. His legacy lies in the lessons about leadership he left for all of us. We can pay tribute by channeling him: Discouraged because things don’t break your way? Consider Mandela’s 27 years in prison. Unwilling to give up the perqs of power? Recall Mandela’s no-more-than-five-years promise. Tempted to crush the competition, eviscerate enemies, or publicly humiliate those who make mistakes? Find your inner Mandela, forgive, and move on.

 

 

If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can’t I paint you!

Once Upon a Tragedy: A PhotoStory of When Haiyan Struck the Philippines
– by Carla Marez Peruelo (Wannabe)

#YolandaPH #reliefPH #BangonPH #Visayas #Haiyan2121 #RebuildVISAYAS

by Carla Marez Peruelo
Blog: Wannabe – InkBlots and IceBergs
Original blog article: click the picture for URL

 

Once upon a time, somewhere between the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea…
…there lay a unique archipelago named the Philippines.

• • •

It boasted of pristine-white beaches with clear blue waters…
…abundant natural resources found nowhere else in the world…
…and picturesque sunsets of the kind that’ll take your breath away.

• • •

But despite these stunning treasures, the Philippines hosts a people of notable humility and simplicity.

The Filipinos are a remarkable people. They are hard-working and resilient, patiently bearing the hardship of life…
…but they never forget to smile.

No matter what month of the year it is, there’s always a festivity somewhere in its 7,107 islands.

They are among the happiest people in the world…
…and indeed their smiles are among the most beautiful…
…the most authentic…

But as in all stories, it can’t be all smiles and peaceful days for the main characters; a stormy time has to come. Only, for this particular story, the “stormy time” is quite a literal one.

• • •

Supertyphoon Haiyan.

Believed to be one of the strongest typhoons ever — the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane, packing estimated maximum sustained winds of 195 miles per hour — Typhoon Haiyan had the whole world on tenterhooks.

Unlike its fellow supertyphoons which have come and gone without causing much fuss (as they did not make landfall and simply contented themselves raining down upon vast oceans), Typhoon Haiyan wanted to be a show-off and decided that it had to make its presence felt on inhabited land.

At first, it wondered where it ought to go, and then something unique down South China Sea caught its eye (no pun intended).

Hmm, the Philippine archipelago, perhaps?

Thus Haiyan (local name Yolanda) rained down on the Philippines that fateful day.

Okay, so “rained down” is totally an understatement.

“Ravaged” seems to be the more fitting term. Entire cities were flattened in Samar and Leyte, the worst-hit parts of the country.

The Filipino people living in these worst-hit areas faced a terrible ordeal. The widespread devastation Haiyan brought upon Central Philippines was nothing short of apocalyptic.

Power and communication lines were cut off…
…and the damage and rubble extended to as far as any of them could see.
Transport vehicles were destroyed.

But even if our jeeps weren’t destroyed, asked Juan, where would we use them? The roads are unpassable.

And even if the roads were passable, added Pedro, where would we go?

Certainly, we have no office today…or for quite some time.

We have no class.
We have no market day.
We don’t even have a roof…
…and in fact, we have no home.
We have but a small bundle of scavenged things…
…but we have lost more than our possessions.

We have lost our community.
We have lost lives.
Where do we go from here?

• • •

The Filipino people cried desperately for help.

No sooner had the Filipinos called, when the world was quick to respond, “We are here. We will help.”

And bit by bit, the Filipino could smile again.

Hope was born amidst a sea of hopeless destruction…
…and the Filipinos could only be grateful for the great helping hand of the world’s nations that pledged and delivered aid…
…and look up to the warm generosity with which the rest of humanity embraced it.

As much as a happily-ever-after would sound good right about now, the real story dictates another plot twist. The outpouring of help from both within and outside the Philippines did not manage to easily flow into the hollow vessel Haiyan bore into the middle of the country.

As days passed, the country began to speculate on why only trickles were making their way out of a full pitcher when so many glasses needed to be filled.

The Filipino people were divided on the issue.
Was it lack of organization and incompetence in leadership?

Or are we expecting too much and being too hard on the government?

The rest of the Filipinos wondered and debated and thought some more, while those badly afflicted could only hold on to hope that help would come sooner than the hooded black figure with a scythe.

• • •

Meanwhile, a few other matters were irking Filipinos.

Philippine broadcaster Korina Sanchez, wife of DILG Sec. Mar Roxas, clashed with CNN’s Anderson Cooper didn’t know what he was talking about
Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay earned the wrath of the Filipino people when relief goods for Haiyan-hit areas were boldly stamped with his name
Korina Sanchez also received additional backlash when netizens spotted her name imprinted on these slippers donated for Haiyan victims
But such issues of political gimmickry, attempts to protect the government’s image, and finger-pointing battles between the LGUs and the national government are, as Anderson Cooper would put it, “all just kind of a bizarre side show.“ Cooper continues, “The only thing that matters is what’s happening on the ground, and is aid getting to people who need it most?”

That is indeed the right question to ask. And while individual civilians can only do (and rage) so much to help in the relief efforts and try to hasten the delivery of aid to the needy, there’s no denying that in the aftermath of this tragedy, we saw no shortage of inspiring acts of altruism and kindness by people from all walks of life, from all across the globe.

With the outpouring of such help and support from a world that no longer recognizes borders in times of calamity, of heroic acts of volunteerism and sacrifice, and even of small yet touching acts of kindness, the Filipino people is bound to pull through. After all, their resilience is unmatched…
…their fire to survive no matter what the odds cannot be quenched by any typhoon…
…their well of optimism goes deep…
…their faith is strong…
…their sense of humor even in difficult times is unparalleled…
…and their smiles are still among the best.

Their flag may currently be worn and torn in some places, but they continue to raise it up.

As the world joins the country in clearing out the debris of the Haiyan aftermath…
…in rebuilding homes and lives…
…in contributing small acts of kindness that snowball to great change…
…and in lighting hope amidst darkness…
…the Filipino people will once again rise up, smiling.
Because typhoon or no typhoon…
…this people knows how to bear hardship and uphold incredible resilience in daily life.

 

Such is the story of the Filipinos as a people, lived out in day-to-day battle, and only challenged and highlighted by the great tragedy that made the rest of the world shudder to even witness.

A happy-ever-after is not near in sight, and the story of the Filipino people’s recovery from the devastation brought by Supertyphoon Haiyan is far from over. But this story will not have to end in a tragic scene, either.

¨

The flattened cities in Central Philippines — in Leyte, Samar, and others — will rise up again. Their wiping out was catastrophic, but it brings the potential of a clean slate for a fresh start. Hope is not lost. Amidst all the rubble, the Filipino flag will continue to unfurl proud and strong, with no hesitation in its wave and no hiding of its sun…

For as beautiful and picturesque as its sunsets are, the Philippines’ sunrise is even more majestic. No matter how many earthquakes rock its beds and no matter how many typhoons lash out at it, every morning, the sun still rises to smile down on this country…

…Or more probably, the sun only reflects the smile the Filipino people has for the world, every single time it rises to face another day.

Getting out of our comfort zone … or there will be no comfort soon!

This blog is based on a presentation by Prof Stephane Garelli, IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook author

There is no doubt that the world is upside down!
The name of the game is the world as we know it is broken!

Discovering the “New Normal” and mastering a “New Reality” are the key success factors for the future. Markets are changing quickly and opportunities emerge everywhere. New players and new brands enter the world economy at a faster rate. Competent people are not necessarily competitive people. The mind-set makes the difference at a national and an organizational level.

 

A Competitiveness Outlook for 2013 and beyond! Orchestrating winning performance!

This video analyses how governments and their priorities shape our economic and business environment, investigates how companies adapt their business model and increase their resilience in a world which is still global but increasingly fragmented and explores what are the management competencies and the personal skills which lead to success in this brave new world.

 

 

 

 

Notes by ecoNVERGE: 

The main word showing up: “debt” – is keeping us from thriving! It is not the zero-growth phenomena. That is only a result of the debt-mountain we keep carrying forward!

But the main issue is that we keep on focusing on the sovereign debt, not the private debt!

 

Taxing the people more is therefore no solution! The international organized conglomerates have created tax heavens where no global entity exists to coop with the real tax-avation … The western financial structure has failed itself! So where do we need to focus on? Obviously clear, but no actions are taken, except for the thousands of additional local and regional rules, which are not making affect to the base root of the problem!

 

So we need a true game changer! We need to come out of our comfort zone, or there will be no comfort soon!

 

Rather than the west dictating how to grow the middle class in Asia and Africa to become consumer-like societies, we better give the example that it is only a short lived illusion. We need to give the example that we need to grow towards a different society, rather than trying to gain from the booming Asian and African markets.

 

We can no longer outsource our mess to the developing world! We need to clean up in our own garden first!

 

The trends from the industrialized world towards diminishing employment due to further innovation and automation is a clear indication that GDP and unemployment figures are no longer valid in our global society … Why keep on wasting our time focusing on the wrong incentives for society to thrive!

 

The world has gone truly upside down! Where the West has been claiming to manage and contribute / share their wealth with the developing and 3rd world for the past centennial, now they are being hunted by their own debt mountain, having stopped all so-called growth and not knowing how to handle the situation. The chaos is evolving… We may be on the right track, unfortunately for the short term, towards thriving for future generations. We are heading into the Transition Narrative.

 

Relative to the oil dependent driven old economy, developed by the Western capitalist world, there is only one remedy:
STOP 90% of the oil-driven energy requirements, replacing by RE-mix!
Germany is proving it, so the world can do it in a timeframe of 5 to 10 years.
We don’t need and don’t have another 50 years to adjust!

 

We can thrive and turn our society into a sustainable one for generations to come. the only thing we need now is the GUTS to make it happen, NOW! along the way of the Transition Narrative, accept uncertainties, abuses, chaos, … but it is the only way forward!

We need a new type of leadership to make it happen and make time to implement the necessary changes at global level
BUILD the NEW, not keeping the old alive for sake of the 1%!

As Garelli states:
The key to success is in bringing the management of efficiency, change and complexity to the ‘why not’-mindset and even dear to bring ‘why not NOW’ and ‘why not ME’ – engaging in commitment, so that WE can thrive again!

Inspire one – 1x = X1 – motivate many!
ecoNVERGE – Inspire ● Harmony ● Balance
WE can make a difference! WE are Unlimited!
http://www.knowledgenabler.wordpress.com/
http://www.facebook.com/ecoNVERGE
http://www.linkedin.com/company/econverge

Join the dialogue
@ Econologics – Sustainable Balance in Our Social & Economic Circle of Life!

G+: http://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/116249886169285481548
LI: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Econologics-3825482
FB: http://www.facebook.com/groups/Econologics

or follow us on twitter @knowledgEnabler
http://www.twitter.com/knowledgEnabler

 

 

 

Let go to gain more! Access is more important than ownership!

The Collaborative Economy for Corporations! 

– by Jeremiah Owyang, Partner at Altimeter Group
Click on the image below to access the full presentation on Slideshare

 

The sharing economy revolution is unstoppable!

 

What companies must do when customers share, rather than buy…

The challenges, examples, causes and recommendations for corporations to adopt the Collaborative Economy.

 

Don’t fight the sharing-economy, embrace it and identify its opportunities.

 

Ownership and access is shared between corporations, start-ups and consumers!

The sharing economy revolution is unstoppable!

Activate idle resources!

 

Imagine collaboration! Embrace the stakeholders!

 

Challenge the way we think.

• products become services
• services become marketplaces
• marketplaces build your products

 

Don’t fight the sharing-economy, embrace it and identify its opportunities.

• Companies must change the relationship and offer renting, subscribing and event lending
• Motivate a marketplace through collaboration and guidance, enabling or keeping the brand trust
• Activate the value chain in the collaborative economy to enable market for your future products, empowering the crowds to build these products and services (co-producing)

 

Activate idle resources!

 

Potentially, providing a marketplace in the collaborative economy: co-ideating, co-designing, co-funding, co-building, co-development, co-customizing, co-creation, co-distribution, co-storage, co-deliver, co-marketing, co-selling, co-revenue, …

 

This way the market becomes employee (kind-of), supplier, designer, client, … true stakeholder to be reckoned with, which in turn reduces the cost for the company. Thus the crowd becomes the company, fulfilling almost all of the corporate functions.

 

The challenges we may expect!

 

Counter-forces:

• companies want to keep control
• challenged revenue models
• governments, lobbyists and instituions oppose
• fragmented start-up environment creates confusion
• excess start-up creates uncertainty – which ones will last

 

The only way is to let go to gain more!

 

Benefits for letting go!

• more efficient as the crowds is helping in the process from R&D to go to market
• long term relationship – bonding – with vested customers and markets
• new value created between people = new revenues
• if you act now, you have first-mover advantage
• new business transactions
• selling new value-added services

 

To gain this new economy and market, you must leap across, leaving behind old business models!

 

 

The 4 Step Path to Human Thriving

The 4 Step Path to Human Thriving!
– by Michel de Kemmeter and Joe Brewer

Like the tree, be solid and eventually you throw off healthy fruits.

How to achieve human thriving both personally in your life and for all of humanity!
It is time to state clearly what is needed to live in a sustainable world.

There are four steps that you will need to take in order to become fully alive. As you set off on this journey (or continue from somewhere midway), be sure to keep in mind that the single most important thing you can do is to know and love yourself. With that in mind, let’s dig in!
1. Anchoring
2. Love
3. Purpose
4. Action

Your purpose is the combined outcome of anchored self-knowledge as it is fueled by love of self and others.
Now go forth and find your own thriving!

OTHERWAYS

This article is co-authored with Joe Brewer and published concurrently on his blog at Chaoticripple.

It is time to state clearly what is needed to live in a sustainable world.

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

– Mahatma Ghandi

We have all heard these prophetic words.  But exactly what do we have to do in order to be the change?  Conversations about sustainability rarely focus on the personal elements that must be present in our everyday lives.  They simply miss out on the importance of human thriving at the personal and social levels.  In this post, we explain how to become a fully thriving human being.  That way you can achieve the greatest fulfillment in your life while also helping humanity tackle our global challenges.

There are four steps that you will need to take in order to become fully alive.  As you set…

View original post 1,350 more words

Who is who at Big Brother? Do we care!

15 reasons why Big Brother already lost his “new world order”

– by Michel de Kemmeter, UHDR UniverseCity

http://uhdr.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/15-reasons-why-big-brother-already-lost-his-new-world-order/

We are in the middle of “the last battle” between good and bad. Between Big Brother and the humble, between machine and humanity…

But now, 2013, I pretend big brother has lost the war. We are over the tipping point.

Why ?

1. Demography and “Generation Z” tsunami: The « old school » were very powerful business, political and lobbies – I say guys because if they were women the whole picture would be very different – they are now close to retirement age, if not way over. Succession is not guaranteed. Lots of Gen X and Y have gone through ordeals of life, mid-life crisis and so on, and have done a detour through personal development and a search for purpose and meaning. They are waiting for « the old generations » to leave, so they can build a truly new sustainable human added value world. This will mark history, whether we want it or not, whether it pleases us or not.

2. SME’s much more are in charge now: they are 99% of the employers. Their survival instinct is stronger than any attempt to globally control people. Big corp has shown their vulnerability, incapable of entering new agile business models through smart and systemic innovation.

3. Internet – social networks – public opinion: What the new world order people did not expect, is the power of interconnectedness, what it would carry as collective consciousness raise, awareness and information.

4. Topping economies – Volatility – Vulnerability of currencies: Our debt-based consumption economy has reached a glass ceiling. It can only survive with 2.25% growth. We are very far away from it, and western states are cheating on the figures to fake continuity. Ecological disasters, recessions, currencies floating on hot air, are just a few consequences of this obsolete model.

5. Resources peaking: The big corporate managing extraction have protected their shops by manipulating governments, public opinions, through billions of lobby, bribery and wars. Rare minerals, fossile fuels, wood and fishery, and all other exhausted natural resources ALL have alternatives waiting to emerge. They were pushed under the carpet in numerous dirty ways. “They” even have been dreaming about speculating on the oil barrel price to over 400$ by controlling all the resources of their « friends », but they have lost the game. It would have been the biggest robbery in history. Now time has come for truly sustainable alternatives to exist. Whether « they » want it or not.

6. Hyper-regulation, inertia and burnout of supra-national organisations

7. People move: manage diversity – enriching education about different cultures

8. Stress and psychological distress: The vortex of life has accelerated so much that people cannot stand it anymore. Information travelling at speed of light, time spend in traffic jams, pressure for results, austerity. Normal rythms of life have been trespassed.

9. Complexity & Risk: Another funny phenomenon is that our structured linear 2D industrial capitalist debt-based ego-driven world has opened to 3D interconnectedness. But a consequence of that is a fantastic complexity; everything is connected to everything in a systemic way.

10. A liability is an opportunity: manipulation and provoking conflicts leads to inventing new solutions: They kind of forgot their basics of financial analysis. A problem, a need, a liability on the right side of a balance sheet, is considered as a resource balancing the assets. The monkey business ran by the « big guys », in collaboration with international politics and big corp, is pushing people to find new creative solutions. To survive!

11. Immaterial value = human value = over 250 trillion euros of potential: New value streams are invisible. Knowledge, information, communication, relations, diversity, service and social value, new processes and methodologies,… these all cannot be grasped. They are all carried by people who want to progress and learn, and also even who want to survive. « They » cannot grasp all these and thus cannot control them. It is scientifically proven that purpose is the highest motivator of a human being. It gives energy to go through fire. Well, opportunities to find purpose in a world full of challenges will emerge by millions, driving all these people on their personal quest – blowing away any attempt to control them. Yes, the new world order will have a hard time…

12. Blindness for emerging businesses: Western countries are entering long term recession. Emerging economies are slowing down. Dictatorships are being transformed bottom-up. While « they » are trying to recuperate lost causes, day after day, smart people (esp. young people because the old are way too afraid for that) are learning, experimenting, finding alternatives to old fashioned big corporate solutions. These people are humble and work in silence. They don’t make high waves. Like the forest grows.

13. Collective consciousness: So for us it just means: go on with your personal development, team up with others in meaningful projects, contribute to common good, create multiple value streams radiate around you love and light as well as connecting to your pragmatic roots, penetrating mother earth.

14. War for talent: War for sustainable talent will be harder every day to serve new world order. Even their own next generations are questioning family values, and go on their personal quests to serve common good.

15. Law of the market: pension funds are shifting their investments from big corporate to impact investing. It has been proven that impact investing pays better, sustainability pays better, responsible behaviour pays better, investing in human capital has huge ROI. Well, if those old boys walk away from them, they quickly will be left alone. No regrets.

 

What does this mean for us?

We will be less and less dependent on « them », being the welfare state, big corporate for lifetime jobs, from powerful political parties and lobbies. They will have no control any more over our lives, and thus we’ll have to :

• be more independent, developing autonomy
• learn every day about new technologies, understandings, societal models
• be more « human », offer purpose and mobilize around projects creating human progress
• get out of your comfort zone; put yourself in danger to explore new dimensions of your life and of the world
• Don’t believe people – even with a nice speech – who are in ego-trips. There are several notorious cases of “new paradigm” ego gurus or supposed facilitators surfing on just another hype wave. Follow your intuition, your heart. Because they could enrol you into a new world order with another hat…
• Together, let’s make this new world order the “old world order” and push it into our humanity’s archives of history.

~ by Michel de Kemmeter

 

The Transition Narrative – It’s an exciting world we are living in!

From Money & Life interview with evolution biologist and futurist Elisabet Sahtouris

 

“Why do you stay in your prison, while the door is so wide open!” – Elisabet Sahtouris

We are living in a huge choice era!

Think global, act local – glocal approach!

 

In her unique approach, called “Living Systems Design,” she applies the principles of biology and evolution to organizational development so that organizations may become more functional, healthy living systems, with increased resilience, stability, and cooperation. She wrote “Earth Dance: Living Systems in Evolution.”

 

Ecology and Economy are both household terms (Greek roots), where as economy relates to the rules of the household and ecology relates to the organization of the household. Therefore they should never be separated as they should go hand in hand.

 

Nature has millions of years of experience of its closed loop ecosystem. Our economics has to be adapted to that valuable non-waste, learning from the science of nature.

 

Elisabet demonstrates clearly how economics and financial systems can equally balance as would nature and our own body balance its evolution through constant cooperation and collaboration, sometimes competition. However that competition turns into negotiation, turning competition in friendly creativity.

 

Taking people and nations to the level of cooperation and collaboration is our true task in human evolution.

The internet is the largest living entity – not of a combination of computers, but of people driving the content and the collaborative dialogue and knowledge sharing.

The transition to a mature collaborative society is happening like the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly, into a total new society, going through a harsh transition (crisises and chaos).

 

This transition is essential, though frightening, we have the capacity to transform. Humanity will get through that evolution becoming more and more cooperative and create a new human society with different approaches to economics.

 

There is a lot of work, starting with unlearning and learning new ways of how we live, work and consume. Mainly the Western world needs to adapt, away from our developed mis-values and lacking education about resilience building and creativity during crisis and chaos.

 

Each individual has to take their responsibility up and act within that transition narrative, rolling-up your sleeves and engaging with local communities and making more use of arriving advanced technologies.

We can also learn from inventive ancient ways of how to withstand the impossible!

Even our democracy system should go back to its roots: for example choosing leaders through wisdom.

We have to create economics that serve the well-being of all people and creatures on earth, through being more pro-active and adjust our education system.

We need to go to a gifted economy using gifted currency, in which we value each other and our gifts we offer in building the new phase in humanity. We are building it but we are limited because we still deal with the debt-based economy. This is part of the Transition Narrative, but it is up to the new generations to fasten the process, using their new ways of doing things through the experience we are building today in the new socio-economic models.

 

 

We can make the Transition Narrative happen through building an economy based on motivation and our capacities, not on debt! A community owned economy based on relationships – a living system!

 

Climate change poses highly uncertain but potentially destabilizing costs on society!

Green Economy Macroeconomic Model and Accounts (GEMMA) framework.

One of the most important challenges facing economics today is the need for economic activity to remain within ecological limits. The rising threat of climate change, alarming losses in biodiversity and emerging scarcities in essential natural resources all represent a significant threat to the integrity of ecological systems and all who depend on them. They also threaten the stability of economic systems.

Developing a demographic sub-model and an Input-Output Structure for the Green Economy Macro-Model and Accounts (GEMMA) Framework

From the original article “Developing an Ecological Macroeconomics!” by Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

 

a stock-flow consistent financial framework within GEMMA. This framework is an essential prerequisite for answering the difficult questions about financial viability raised by the investment needs of the transition to a green economy.

 

Climate change poses highly uncertain but potentially destabilizing costs on society. The cost of not acting against climate change could be equivalent to losing between five and 20 percent of GDP each year, indefinitely, according to the influential Stern Review. But the costs of addressing climate change are not inconsequential either. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that the transition away from fossil fuels will require additional investment of at least US$11 trillion between now and 2030. Meeting climate change targets could render existing fossil fuel investments “stranded assets,” essentially worthless in financial terms. Some fund managers are already beginning to exclude such holdings from their portfolios.

Responding to the dilemma of remaining within ecological limits in a growth-based society has often been construed primarily as a microeconomic task — one that governments can address with conventional fiscal instruments of tax and subsidy. The “external” costs associated with environmental and social factors should be “internalized” in market prices, according to familiar axioms. Incorporating “shadow prices” for environmental goods into market prices will send a clear signal to consumers and investors about the real costs of resource consumption and ecological damage, and incentivize investment in alternatives, according to this conventional wisdom.

But this prescription has been hard to implement over the last few decades. Even before the crisis, it proved difficult either to forge agreement on fiscal measures to internalize environmental costs or indeed to stimulate appropriate levels of private investment in alternative technologies. The financial crisis has certainly made both of these tasks harder. Despite an early focus on “green stimulus” as a way of invigorating the global economy, subsequent responses have failed consistently to address the ecological challenges.

Fears of damaging economic growth have led politicians to shy away from both ecological taxation and green investment. In fact, fragile private and public sector balance sheets have slowed down investment in the real economy generally, let alone the additional (and less familiar) investment needed to make a transition to a low-carbon economy. Conventional responses have focussed instead on cutting public spending (austerity) and stimulating consumption growth (consumer spending) as the basis for economic recovery. Unfortunately, these responses tend to ignore the structural problems of the conventional paradigm and delay the investment needed in the green economy.

Climate change poses highly uncertain but potentially destabilizing costs on society.
The scale and nature of this dilemma suggest that the combined challenges of climate change and resource scarcity require macroeconomic as well as microeconomic responses. In fact, there is a need to develop a fully consistent “ecological macroeconomics” in which it is possible to maintain economic stability, ensure full employment and yet remain within the ecological constraints and resource limits of a finite planet.

This task — to develop an ecological macroeconomics — is the one we set ourselves three years ago. Working together from clear first principles, we began to build our Green Economy Macroeconomic Model and Accounts (GEMMA) framework. The fundamental building blocks of our approach were three-fold.

First, we wanted our model to reflect accurately the basic structure of the real economy — that is, to provide an account of incomes, spending, investment, taxation, demography and the structure of industry consistent with the United Nations System of National Accounts for any given country. Second, we wanted our framework to make a full and proper account of the ecological and resource constraints on the global economy — as they applied at the scale of the national economy. Finally, we wanted our model to incorporate a consistent description of the financial economy, including the supply of money from and to economic actors, and the effect of the money supply on both nominal and real demand. An ecological macroeconomics must show us not only how much investment is needed, for instance, in order to reach ecological goals, but also how that investment is to be financed.

This last goal was particularly important in the wake of the financial crisis. One of the main shortcomings of conventional economics was its failure to anticipate the impact of fragile balance sheets on the stability of the economy. In fact, most conventional economic models virtually ignore the balance sheet structure of the national economy, in spite of warnings by some far-sighted economists of its importance for economic stability.

 

Tim Jackson and Peter Victor’s final CIGI-INET report is Developing a Demographic Sub-model and an Input-Output Structure for the Green Economy Macro-Model and Accounts (GEMMA) Framework.

 

Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey and Director of the Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group. From 2004 to 2011 he was Economics Commissioner on the UK Sustainable Development Commission, where his work culminated in the publication ofProsperity without Growth.  

Peter Victor is Professor in Environmental Studies at York University. He is an economist who has worked on environmental issues for over 40 years as an academic, consultant and public servant. His book Managing without Growth was published in 2008. In 2011, he was awarded Canada Council’s prestigious Molson Prize.

 

Wanted: Truly innovative Sustainable Business Models

See on Scoop.it – ecoNVERGE® – Inspire • Harmony • Balance

The promise of business-model innovation has long captivated the sustainability field, generating plenty of hype.

knowledgEnabler‘s insight:

Along with product and process innovation, we urgently need to make fundamental changes to business models – and the systems that support them – to meet our current and future sustainability challenges. Companies have the opportunity to use their unique foresight and influence to improve their own competitive positions and lead the way to better business models for others.

See on www.sustainability.com

Overview of new economic models by Michel de Kemmeter from S-Economy – UHDR Universecity UniverseCity

An overview of the economic models under development, in testing mode, in practice or in its idea phase. An evolving list updated by Michel de Kemmeter from UHDR UniverseCity on what these models represent, why they are new, where it started, where they add value and which issues it tempts to resolve. Together with reference sites and key indicators.

What the f..k is new economy ? – click for full article

 

1. Market-based debt economy
2. Circular economy
3. Knowledge economy
4. Social entrepreneurship – social economy
5. Informal complementary economy and local barter
   – Complementary economies
   – With complementary currencies
   – Black market
   – Volunteer work
   – Barter
6. Gift Econom
7. Performance or Functional Service econom
8. Sustainable Development or Green Economy
9. Blue Economy
10. Sharing Economy, collaborative economy, collaborative consumtion or coöperation capitalism
11. Swarm Economy
12. Asset-based Economy
13. Transition Economy
14. Long Tail Economy
15. Co-operation Economy
16. Agorism, Counter-Economics, Economic secession
17. Ethical Economy
18. Quantum economics
19. Purple Economy
20. S-Economy economical paradigm where 2 aspects are crossed: the notion of ecosystem of stakeholders (instead of linear models), and the notion of value balance sheets on 7 levels (instead of only one value measuring balance sheet: 7D-Value algorythm)
21. ecoNVERGE/@Econologics Econological Lattice Model & Germane Progressive Economics

Other initiatives of change:

• Breakthrough Capitalism
• Prosperous Communities
• Impact Investing
• Collaborative Consumption
• Hyperconnectivity
• Alternative measures of success
• Alternative financing
• Conscious Capitalism
• B-Corporations & B-Business

12 ways to leverage transition : how a mosquito can nick a dinosaur

Let the value flow through yourself, up and down through the organisation, so it adds strength and resilience.
– by Michel de Kemmeter at S Economy – UHDR Universecity

Uhdr UniverseCity blog

How to manage healthy transition – from the world of our parents to the world of our children ?

1. Do with, no fight against : Insert doubt into hypnotic beliefs
2. Your presence is impact – feel and measure it : seek for light & team up – find usual suspects
3. Accept everything and let go
4. Make a planetary scan of new entrants and emerging value
5. Test with the most demanding stakeholders, even small or underdog : connect resources and needs into projects serving common good
6. Detect areas where business is dying and others where business is emerging in connex areas
7. Make your business case – A good idea is not enough. Its like preparing the earth and planting the seed right, watering it right.
8. Listen, talk, work, live and project goals with your heart
9. Qualify and Quantify immaterial assets and immaterial liabilities
10. Alchemize liabilities together
11. Breathe value up and down, and around you : create multiple value streams
12. Every heart that opens, every track that becomes viable, is automatically and unconsciously send « into the cloud »

We are all connected. You are not alone. Everything you thing, every feeling or intuition goes into a cloud, and “egregore”, like your emaile or facebook groups who “think alike”. You can plus into those to tap energy and information. So, to change the world, send positive emotions, happyness, and constructive ideas into the ether, instead of complaints, anger, hate, depression, or hopelessness.

This is how Ghandi was right: become the change you want to see around you.

 

From Ego-system to Eco-system – Leading from the Emerging Future!

The problem with capitalism originates between our ears!
– by Otto Scharmer of Theory-U and Presencing Institute brings the best-ever overview of requirements of the Transition Narrative (ecoNVERGE / @ Econologics) for humanity to evolve to a new Paradigm Shift.

The root cause of today’s global crises originates between our ears

 

Profound personal, societal and global renewal is not only possible; it is crucial for our planetary future. What is needed are change makers willing to lead from the emerging future; leaders who are willing to learn about and practice the journey from ego-system to eco-system economies. We have the places, living examples, frameworks and tools in hand. Now what we need is the co-creative vision and the common will to bringing it into reality.

10 insights from our new book Leading From the Emerging Future: From Ego-system to Eco-system Economies

We live in an age of profound disruption. Global crises, such as finance, food, fuel, water, resource scarcity and poverty challenge just about every aspect of society. Yet, this disruption also brings the possibility of profound personal, societal and global renewal. We need to stop and ask: Why do we collectively create results nobody wants? What keeps us locked into the old ways of operating? And what can we do to transform these root issues that keep us trapped in the patterns of the past?

1) The root cause of today’s global crises originates between our ears — in our outdated paradigms of economic thought

A structural disconnect between:

• the infinite growth imperative and the finite resources of planet earth;
• between the Haves and the Have Nots;
• between the financial and the real economy;
• between technology and real societal needs;
• between institutional leadership and people;
• between gross domestic product (GDP) and actual well-being;
• between governance mechanisms and the voiceless in our systems; and
• between actual ownership forms and best societal use of property.

 

Three Levels: Symptoms; Systemic Disconnects; Paradigms of Economic Thought

2) The blind spot of modern economic thought can be summarized with a single word: consciousness
3) The evolution of the economy and of modern economic thought mirrors the footprints of an evolving human consciousness

The stages of economic development that come with them:

• 1.0 Organizing around centralized coordination
• 2.0 Organizing around decentralized coordination
• 3.0 Organizing around special interest group driven coordination
• 4.0 Organizing around commons

4) To paraphrase Einstein, the problem with today’s capitalism is that we are trying “to solve problems with the same consciousness that created them”
5) Helping stakeholder systems shift their way of operating from ego-system to eco-system awareness is the central leadership challenge of our time
6) The shift from ego-system to eco-system awareness requires a journey that involves walking in the shoes of other stakeholders and attending to the three instruments of inner knowing: open mind, open heart, and open will

 

Theory U: One Process, Three Instruments (Open Mind, Open Heart, Open Will)

 

The effectiveness of accessing these three instruments depends on the ability to deal with the sources of resistance (“three enemies”):

• VoJ (Voice of Judgment): The VoJ shuts down the Open Mind by habitually judging self and others. All creativity techniques start with somehow suspending the VoJ.
• VoC (Voice of Cynicism): The VoC shuts down the Open Heart by offering an easy alternative to making oneself vulnerable. The problem with that easy exit is that it does the same thing as the VoJ: it blocks one’s opening process for accessing the deeper sources of creativity.
• VoF (Voice of Fear): The VoF tends to shut down the Open Will by not letting go but holding on to old identities, ideologies, and Us vs. Them belief structures.

7) Addressing the current global crisis at its root calls for a 4.0 update of the economic operating system through reframing eight “acupuncture points” of the global economic system

They are:

1. Nature: Close the feedback loop of production, consumption, reuse, and recycling through “earth-to-earth” or closed-loop design.
2. Labor: Close the feedback loop from work (jobs) to Work (passion) by building infrastructures that foster and ignite inspired entrepreneurship.
3. Capital: Close the feedback loop of capital by redirecting speculative investment into ecological, social, and cultural-creative renewal.
4. Technology: Close the feedback loop from technology creation to societal needs in underserved communities through needs assessment and participatory planning.
5. Leadership: Close the feedback loop from leadership to the emerging future of the whole through practices of co-sensing, co-inspiring, and co-creating.
6. Consumption: Close the feedback loop from economic output to the well-being of all through conscious, collaborative consuming and through new well-being indicators such as GNH (Gross National Happiness).
7. Coordination: Close the feedback loop in the economy from the parts to the whole through ABC (awareness-based collective action).
8. Ownership: Close the feedback loop from ownership rights to the best societal use of assets through shared ownership and commons-based property rights that safeguard the interests of future generations.

Eight Acupuncture Points of Transforming Capitalism to 4.0

 

8) Shifting the system to 4.0 requires a threefold revolution

Inversion means turning inside-out and outside-in:

• Individual inversion means to open up thinking (open mind), feeling (open heart), and will (open will) in order to learn to act as an instrument for the future that is wanting to emerge.
• Relational inversion means to open up communicative relationships from downloading (conforming) and debate (defending) to dialogue (reflective inquiry) and collective creativity (flow) in order to tune as groups into the field of the future.
• Institutional inversion means to open traditional institutional geometries of power from 1.0 and 2.0 forms of coordinating and organizing — centralized hierarchy and decentralized competition — to 3.0 and 4.0 forms of coordinating around co-creative stakeholder relationships in eco-systems that generate well-being for all.

The Matrix of Social Evolution (all system levels, all structures of attention)

the three transformations for the individual (column 1), the relational (column 2) and the institutional inversion (column 3 and 4) in the form of a Matrix of Social Evolution that integrates all system levels (micro-meso-maco-mundo) and all structures of awareness (1.0 to 4.0).
9) We need new types of innovation infrastructures in order to build collective leadership capacities on a massive scale

These infrastructures will include:

• Co-initiating: Creating spaces for convening stakeholders around a shared eco-system
• Co-sensing: Going to the places of most potential and observing with one’s mind and heart wide open
• Co-inspiring: Creating spaces for connecting to the sources of creativity and self
• Co-creating: Creating spaces for exploring the future by doing (prototyping)
• Co-shaping: Creating spaces for embodying and scaling the new through practices

10) The shift from an ego-system to an eco-system economy requires a global movement that needs to be supported by a new leadership school. That school should create collaborative platforms across sectors, systems, and generations and work through integrating science, art, and the practice of profound, awareness-based change

Such a new leadership school would be a home base for the emerging global movement of 4.0-related transformation journeys. At the same time, it would prototype a 21st century action university that integrates three forms of knowledge:

• technical knowledge (know-what),
• practical knowledge (know-how) and
• transformation knowledge (know-who: self knowledge).

 

An Ego-2-Eco Transformation Leadership School—A Set of Global Acupuncture Points

 

Set of principles that are essential for this type of school and which are designed for global-local replication:

1. Engage systems at all levels and states: Engage systems by using the entire Matrix of Social Evolution.
2. Engage all levels of intelligence: Integrate open mind (IQ: intellectual knowledge), open heart (EQ: emotional and relational knowledge), and open will (SQ: self knowledge).
3. Systems Thinking: Integrate methods and tools derived from 30 years of organizational learning research and practice. 
   
4. MOOCs: Use massive open online courses that combine course delivery with interactive personal, small-group dialogue and the presence of a global community of change makers that effects transformative change.
5. Deep immersion: Use deep dive learning journeys and generative listening practices in order to connect communities and places of most potential.
6. Science 2.0: Use scientific methods that let the “data talk to you.” The challenges of this century involve extending the concept of science beyond looking exclusively at exterior data (third-person view). We need to bend the beam of scientific observation back upon the observer in order to investigate the more subtle levels of experience of the second- and first-person view.
   
7. Presencing: Use practices that allow leaders to sense and actualize the emerging future and to clarify the two root questions of creativity: Who is my Self? What is my Work?
8. Power of Intention: Focus on the capacity to connect with the deeper intention of one’s journey, connecting us more deeply with one another, the world and ourselves.
9. Prototyping: Link head, heart, and hand in order to create living examples and prototypes that allow us to explore the future by doing.
10. Power of Place: Complement the massive expansion of online learning with an equally massive global network of vibrant entrepreneurial hubs that focus on activating co-sensing and co-creating as a gateway for unleashing entrepreneurial potential. Great innovations happen in places. Learning how to design and hold spaces for reflection, generative conversation, and system-wide transformation is a mission critical capacity today.

S-Economy for the future – whether you want it or not

S-Economy is based on 3 principles! – by Michel de Kemmeter @ Uhdr UniverseCity blog

1. The business-model has to serve common good

2. Value is to be measured and created on 7 levels (earth, material, processes, emotional, communication, knowledge, common good)

3. Business-model has to be systemic, meaning using resources of its ecosystem from stakeholders, answering their needs.

Why S for S-Economy ?

Pre-requisites:

Serve: your project should serve common good.

Satisfaction: everybody in and around your project should be happy and satisfied about it.

Stakeholder: your ecosystem is your stakeholders model – who are they , what assets do they have in abundance , what do they need ? Give and take…

Sensible: it should be meaningful, sensible, purposeful.

Sensitive: you should be feeling what’s going on around you, what agendas are alive, who wants what, what is the inner state of people around you, what are the signals coming from the environment important for your project.

Skill: develop yours on constant basis, learn everywhere and with everybody.

Say: communicate a lot, talk and aks questions, and learn to listen…

State-of-the-art: look for the best thinking, the best technology, the smartest models around on the planet.

Self (-esteem, -confidence, -conscious, -drive, -knowledge, -respecting): it all starts with you, how good you are connected to your talents and potential. Never stop developing yourself.

OTHERWAYS

The new S-Economy is based on 3 principles:

1. The business-model has to serve common good

2. Value is to be measured and created on 7 levels (earth, material, processes, emotional, communication, knowledge, common good)

3. Business-model has to be systemic, meaning using resources of its ecosystem from stakeholders, answering their needs.

Why S for S-Economy ?

Pre-requisites:

Serve: your project should serve common good.

Satisfaction: everybody in and around your project should be happy and satisfied about it.

Stakeholder: your ecosystem is your stakeholders model – who are they , what assets do they have in abundance , what do they need ? Give and take…

Sensible: it should be meaningful, sensible, purposeful.

Sensitive: you should be feeling what’s going on around you, what agendas are alive, who wants what, what is the inner state of people around you, what are the signals…

View original post 1,003 more words

5 lessons learned from the 2 biggest fails in history

Add Curtain over Nokia – The end of an era!
5 lessons learned from the 2 biggest fails in history!
by Michel de Kemmeter

Well they are not too big to fail guys !

1. We all have to be on a 360° perception of “weak signals” – instead of following hypnotically the masses running into the grand canyon

2. We all should invest in people, in ourselves – instead of in consumer products or naive illusions like bonds in euro

3. We all should learn sustainable collaboration – instead of being afraid and egoistic

4. We all should be able to detect value where it is, and transform immaterial liabilities into value on higher levels – instead of hypnotically focusing on money.

5. We all should dare to follow our dream and develop our talent – instead of wasting your time and your employers moneyyour thoughts here… (optional)

OTHERWAYS

The one missed the smartphone train, the tablet war, the reliable operating system game…   And I know from first hand that Bill Gates did NOT believe in the internet in 1992.

The other missed the smartphone train too, sitting on its ego, staffed like no other. How comes they couldn’t innovate with such a great team and so much resources ?

The one buys the other virtually bankrupt for over 5 billion…

Well they are not too big to fail guys !

Very smart new entrants are shocking their old rigid system, and guess what: they are also, like you, looking on short term to protect their assets, business, and probably are not going to be able to anticipate radical change in their sector (which is only beginning).

And you, are you anticipating or not ? Do you still naively believe in teletubbies and wonderland ? That euros and…

View original post 539 more words

Why the sea levels will have to go up to our noses…

We all dream of a better world but all are so afraid to follow their dream and build it to last!
– by Michel de Kemmeter (Why the sea levels will have to go up to our noses…)

Its publicly known that our economical and financial system is based on a major historical scam and that it has absolutely no future, yet all of us still frenetically hold on our old currencies and models. Mechanical leverages will make this whole game implode, wether you want it or not – sooner or later – just draw the few fundamentals’ lines (resources, demography, interests, recessions,…) on 30 years, you’ll see for yourself.

…

But I can’t blame us, it’s our limbic brain which is guilty. Conditioned like a herd animal, we cannot do and see elsewhere than the grand canyon in front of us we are running to … unless…

It all will be solved when catastrophic events happen – it’s been observed that people all of a sudden become creative and smart, and solidarity unfolds. So, wait for the sea levels raizing to your nose, and yes, see what happens.

Or there is another solution: awareness. Bring peace into your mind, open your heart, and bring smart holistic & systemic solutions to our challenges. But, it takes time, basic human education, and faith in yourself, which are rare resources for you.

Yes, yes I know, you need money.

So, maybe wait until the water rises.

For the others, lets meet up any time.

OTHERWAYS

I had a mediocre day.

Its publicly known that our economical and financial system is based on a major historical scam and that it has absolutely no future, yet all of us still frenetically hold on our old currencies and models. Mechanical leverages will make this whole game implode, wether you want it or not – sooner or later – just draw the few fundamentals’ lines (resources, demography, interests, recessions,…) on 30 years, you’ll see for yourself.

It’s measured that over 36% of the total western population suffers from mental disease due to stressful lifestyle, yet we still stubbornly dive into time-consuming commuting drives to our stress -producing jobs. Easier than suicide, hè ?

Over 70% of working population does not like their job, still their fears keeps us rivited to our payrolled chairs.

Over 50% of human talent is thus wasted, representing over 250 trillion dollars of liability on…

View original post 880 more words

Understanding the historical fall of rupee

Understanding the historical fall of India Rupee!
– by Dharmesh Patel

How global (Western economic policies) are and will influence the future of developing countries!

What lead to the changes in rupee value?

Indian economy, like any other, is very much dominated by political forces and so, the government is under a great pressure now to improve the economic enviornment as general elections approaching next year. However, before that it is very much necessary to understand how such scenario emerged?

As Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, announced that Fed to cutback on its Quantitative Easing policy rupee along with many other asian currencies started plummeting. However, India’s currency is the worst performing currency losing over 19% of its value in this year. The Fed will start tampering its QE this year and may halt entirely by the middle of 2014, if the economy and job market continues to improve. This announcement to stop QE reversed these investment flows and many Asian currencies such as India’s rupee, Indonesia’s rupiah and Thai baht depreciated due to increase in BOP deficit.

Officials from Fed thinks, the economy is strong enough to warrant an interest-rate rise and phasing out of the Fed’s economic stimulus program. The implication is that if this happens, with rise in interest-rate, foreign funds that have been moving to emerging markets looking for better returns will return to the United States once interest-rate increases. Low outflow of foreign funds from USA means low-inflow of foreign monies to emerging markets, including of India, which would pressure the balance of payments and in turn the domestic currency. This is a point that Indian government has been emphasizing, that rupee’s fall is part of a global phenomenon and so there is no reason to worry as things will settle down eventually. Is it so? Shouldn’t we worry?

The current problem of India is not like Asian Financial Crisis but it’s a matter of losing an opportunity, rather than being hit by incredible debt that you can’t pay. Due to India’s rigid policies many companies don’t consider India for Investment, aggregating with the problem of corruption and scandals, it might become a nightmare for many MNC’s. All in all, rigid and contradicting policies of India have contributed a lot in aggravating this situation, which calls for fundamental reform issue.

Dharmesh Patel

Introduction

The world is witnessing the making of new history in Indian forex market. Rupee fell to record low 64.13 Rs. per USD then 64.47 Rs. per USD , then to 66.23, which collapsed to 68.85 Rs. per USD, recording new life-time low each time. Lets look at the fundamental and sentimental factors that made the rupee fall.

What lead to the changes in rupee value?

 Indian economy, like any other, is very much dominated by political forces and so, the government is under a great pressure now to improve the economic enviornment as general elections approaching next year. However, before that it is very much necessary to understand how such scenario emerged? Given below are the major reasons, which I believe had hurt the Indian forex-market.

 i. Scale back of unconventional monetary policy of FED (Fundamental)

 As Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, announced that Fed to cutback on its Quantitative…

View original post 938 more words

Exploring openness in radical video: Jason Silva at TEDGlobal2012

Exploring openness in radical!
Evolutionary change! We want to be tranformed!
– by Jason Silva at TEDGlobal201

Jason Silva is a “performance philosopher” driven by the concept of awe. Inspired by Buckminster Fuller and Timothy Leary, his background of film and philosophy has given him the tools to create movie trailers for ideas — what he calls “philosophical shots of espresso.” In his eyes: Awe is ecstatic rapture. It is the antidote to existential despair. Awe makes you gawk at everyday wonders you are taught to ignore. Awe is an experience of such perceptual vastness that you are forced to reconfigure your mental schema. Best of all, once experienced, awe leaves you with residual benefits. Timothy Leary described computers as the LSD of the ’90s. Because of awe’s abilities to make old things new again, Jason believes it is ultimately the best drug in the world.

In terms of his videos, their aesthetics, music and presentation all matter — because Jason believes we want to be transformed. We want spaces where ideas can accelerate the evolution process. We want to be able to contemplate space and time on a scale just short of the infinite. And so does he. That wow at the end of this single-take video? That was Jason’s reaction to his awe-inspiring ecstatic moment.

New economy types explained! – Applied Systemic Economy

“The economy is not able to grasp the complexity of the world only by models ” – Olivier Blanchard

A market-based economy is where goods and services are produced without obstruction or interference, and exchanged according to demand and supply between participants (economic agents) by barter or a medium of exchange with a credit or debit value accepted within the network, such as a unit of currency and at some free market or market clearing price.
The sole intention is the maximisation of shareholders value.
It is boosted by creation of debt by the banking system.

 

 

1. Circular economy

The circular economy is a generic term for an industrial economy that is, by design or intention, restorative and in which materials flows are of two types, biological nutrients, designed to re-enter the biosphere safely, and technical nutrients, which are designed to circulate at high quality without entering the biosphere.

2. Knowledge economy

The knowledge economy is the use of knowledge technologies (such as knowledge engineering and knowledge management) to produce economic benefits as well as job creation.

3. Social entrepreneurship – social economy

Social economy refers to a third sector in economies between the private sector (business) and the public sector (government). It includes organizations such as cooperatives, nonprofit organizations, and charities.
The social economy spans economic activity in the community, voluntary and social enterprise sectors. The economic activity, like any other economic sector, includes: employment, financial transactions, the occupation of property, pensions, trading, etc.
The social economy usually develops because of a need to find new and innovative solutions to issues (whether they are socially, economically or environmentally based) and to satisfy the needs of members and users which have been ignored or inadequately fulfilled by the private or public sectors.

4. Informal complementary economy and local barter

Complementary economies are systems where exchange of goods and services take place, outside official circuits.
– With complementary currencies : the products and servces are paid for with mutual or local currencies. Most of the time they are « soft currencies », and are tolerated by the government for their social added value. But there are « hard » complementary currencies, integrated in the accounting system, like C3 or WIR in Switzerland.
– Black market : illegal trading, or outside balance sheets and accounting
– Volunteer work : people working for the common good wiothout waiting any payments ; it’s a gift economy.
– Barter : is a system of exchange by which goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange, such as money. It is distinguishable from gift economies in that the reciprocal exchange is immediate and not delayed in time. It is usually bilateral, but may be multilateral (i.e., mediated through barter organizations) and usually exists parallel to monetary systems in most developed countries, though to a very limited extent. Barter usually replaces money as the method of exchange in times of monetary crisis, such as when the currency may be either unstable (e.g., hyperinflation or deflationary spiral) or simply unavailable for conducting commerce.

5. Gift Economy:

A gift economy, gift culture or gift exchange is a mode of exchange where valuables are given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards.

6. Performance or Functional Service economy

Performance or Functional Service economy replaces the sales of a good into a service or integrated solution answering the same features, or more, whilst using less resources and energy, creating positive social and environmental externalities. Under some conditions, it is an exchange modality which allows a better integration of sustainable development to the economy.

7. Sustainable Development

Sustainable development refers to a mode of human development in which resource use aims to meet human needs while ensuring the sustainability of natural systems and the environment, so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come.

8. Blue Economy

potential benefits in connecting and combining seemingly disparate environmental problems with open-source scientific solutions based upon physical processes common in the natural world, to create solutions that are both environmentally beneficial and which have financial and wider social benefits.

9. Sharing Economy, collaborative economy or coöperation capitalism

The sharing economy refers to economic and social systems that enable shared access to goods, services, data and talent. These systems take a variety of forms but all leverage information technology to empower individuals, corporations,non-profits and government with information that enables distribution, sharing and reuse of excess capacity in goods and services.A common premise is that when information about goods is shared, the value of those goods increases, for the business, for individuals, and for the community.

10. Asset-based Economy

Asset-based economy refers to a post-industrial macroeconomic state of capitalism in which growth is based largely on appreciation of equity assets, typically financial instrumentssuch as stocks, as well as real estate.

11. Transition Economy

A transition economy or transitional economy is an economy which is changing from a centrally planned economy to a free market.Transition economies undergo economic liberalization, where market forces set prices rather than a central planning organization. In addition to this trade barriers are removed, there is a push to privatize state-owned businesses and resources, and a financial sector is created to facilitate macroeconomic stabilization and the movement of private capital.

12. Long Tail Economy

The term long tail has gained popularity in recent times as describing the retailing strategy of selling a large number of unique items with relatively small quantities sold of each – usually in addition to selling fewer popular items in large quantities.

13. Co-operation Economy

Co-operative economics is a field of economics, socialist economics, co-operative studies, and political economy, which is concerned with co-operatives.

14. Agorism, Counter-Economics, Economic secession

A libertarian social philosophy that advocates the goal of the bringing about of a society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics, thus engaging in a manner with aspects of peaceful revolution.
The Counter-Economy is the sum of all non-aggressive Human Action which is forbidden by the State. Counter-economics is the study of the Counter-Economy and its practices. The Counter-Economy includes the free market, the Black Market, the “underground economy,” all acts of civil and social disobedience, all acts of forbidden association (sexual, racial, cross-religious), and anything else the State, at any place or time, chooses to prohibit, control, regulate, tax, or tariff. The Counter-Economy excludes all State-approved action (the “White Market”) and the Red Market (violence and theft not approved by the State).
Economic secession has been variously defined by sources. In its narrowest sense, it is abstention from the state’s economic system – for instance by replacing the use of government money with barter, Local Exchange Trading Systems, or commodity money (such as gold).

15. Ethical Economy

Ethical Economy introduces to ethical economics and interprets the begin of a new, radically different economic system in which production is mainly collaborative and social, and in which the value is based on the quality of social interactions and relationships rather than on the quantity of productive time.

16. Quantum economics

Bank money is indisputably the starting point of Bernard Schmitt’s analysis. Referring to double-entry bookkeeping, he shows that the emission of money is an instantaneous event taking place every time a payment is carried out by banks. Since no positive asset can be created out of nothing, quantum economists maintain that, far from being a net asset, money is a purely numerical vehicle issued by banks in a circular flow defining its instantaneous creation and destruction. Money is therefore nothing more than a means of payment, a numerical vehicle through which payments are conveyed from purchaser to seller and whose existence in chronological time coincides with that of the payment it conveys: a mere instant.

17. Systemic economy

An economical paradigm where 2 aspects are crossed: the notion of ecosystem of stakeholders (instead of linear models), and the notion of value balance sheets on 7 levels (instead of only one value measuring balance sheet: 7D-Value algorythm).
The projects, companies or ventures are all based on contributing to “common good” (instead of only to shareholders value).