I have just realised something that has been staring me in the face for 30 years about how entrepreneurial revolutionaries change the world
There's a triangle to chnage the world with. Start with the smallest most innocent voice but one that a milion parallel seeds exist to plant
BOTTOM UPI am doing this with 9 year old daughters - easy for me to think of mine- what's the question we need to voice for them so we can be proupd of a million of their futures, whta they learn and do and network
INTERTake this question to a media that if you can encourage it has the scale to relay the question worldiwde to ...
TOPDOWN...top down leaders and make it clear theiur future wil be valued by the transparency of their answers to this. I will keep doing this with The Economist because it was founded by a scot 140 years to be the space where social entrpreneurial revolution questions are debated in leaders faces and economics for the people systemically conquers economics for big gets bigger
so the triangle micro*inter*macro
* community rising small voice
*the media that can cross all boundaries of the world and value how..
*..top-down system leaders transparently answer, and systemise hi-trust relationships around the gravitational purpose their true governance exponentially spins
http://exponentials.blogspot.comany questions?
have a longer version of this at 27 April
http://www.omidyar.net/group/workshops/news/0/?min_score=-9999&show=1&page=3#id3and a picture of the 3 apexes and 4-hemisphere networks at
http://clubofdelhi.blogspot.com
INTRO TO GOODWILL WARS
IS A NETWORKED GLOBE SUSTAINABLE?
Writers of science fiction to the world's greatest mathematicians and many folks in between have forecast that the technology of networks will
exponentially lead us all to either a
better world or a globe incapable of sustaining our human race
Death of Distance & The WORLD IS FLAT
This future history genre began in
1984 with the book I co-authored with my father, who was The Economist's most productive editorials writer . We forecast that the 1984-2024 generation would be the one that would determine which way globalisation compounds. At least
7 waves would either uptilt or downtilt us all. To be sustainable we would need to collaborate in connectivity. Higher levels of goodwill (trust-flows betweeen people and transparency across boundaries) would be need to blossom everywhere to achieve that. Meanwhile, a few big powers driven by their short-term greeds would be the biggest risks to such collaboration flowing, as would be any measurement controls they sponsored.
The race is on; which future will be
exponentially spinning by 2024?
some further references:
scripts from
Washington DC as a place of great power for good or bad
we'll need every script from
The Economist's 140 years archives of how
entrepeneurial revolution enables people to take back productivity from powerful people who are socially controling them. London has always had a lead role to play with the world's largest public broadcaster able to offer a series of crisis documentary inquiries as stimuli to
project30000 debates on the internet, and because
London is a place where more culture cross than any other. We have documented 16 attributes needed for citizens to be free to colaborate worldwide- London scores 10/16 where most cities are only at about 5/16. If you want to take the survey for your own city - email
wcbn007@easynet.co.uk subject city collaboration profile.
India is where we first presented the white paper in 2004 on the coming wars of goodwill and badwill networks in a confernce whose chiedf guest was the minister of broadcasting and information technology. We have a dream that people will edit and present this paper their own way in every city -ask for a copy of it if you want to try. Meanwhile India's next worldwide gathering of peoples is for those who love
Gandhi's methods in 2007 and its continuous championing out of
Lucknow of children's education as potentially a great colaboration wave is one of the 7 wonders of the 21st C world
Australia's youth have always been globetrotters prepared to volunteer overseas before deciding where to settle down. When coordinated by one of the world's most caring professors of medicine, the meta-network of
Global Reconciliation remains the most amazing testimony to what one man can found almost overnight in a networking age that I have yet found. Have you discivered a network for humanity? I'd love to swap notes if you have - chris
wcbn007@easynet.co.ukSo the peoples goodwill networks are rising, but there's huge work to be done across cities. Love to hear what your city is doing to propagate goodwill around the world, and we are also mapping some gravitational contexts whose waves we believe will be critical to sustaining future generations. Come and join us if any of these topics resonate with you
sunshine's clean energy and biodiversity networks
younghubs - how can we make education altogether more courageoues and helpful so that people can discover their best mentors throigh life and help other likewise
brand - how can we amake all media spin goodwill instea of badwill; will the BBC live up to the greatest world service debates it could be linking across global villages such as why does poverty compound in some places and not in others
knowledge - which is the type of knowledge that liberates us (to use the question Gandhi launched his university with in 1920) - correspondence courses on that topic still available
entrepreneurs scripts over the last 140 years wnd maps of where their networks are blossoming all over the world
another world is mappable around 10 living commandments (if you find one too convoluted question it!):
*sustainable for every future child
*transparent
*where organisation or network leaders are those who are most trusted by all whom the organisation's deepest purpose compounds impacts around
*where nothing is valued or talked about more than a social project that resolves a vital crisis in one place and is ready for open franchising to peoples of any other place who coud sustainably benefit from it
*where internetworking progress for humanity is understood to involve open vigilance about conflict resolution and indeed the greatest innovations are understood to involve resolving how 2 or more groups of people who think they are in conflict with each other can find a harmony that compounds better consequences for both
*where people are devalued (in terms of fame, power) for having perfect answers wheresoever anyone can show that they are consciously forbidding deeper questions to be asked and openly debated
*where would be organisational leaders from 10 year olds up are helped to rehearse - and mentor each other - the systemic meanings of the above constructs until they never unknowingly do evil to them, and in all the roles we play as customers, community builders, cross-cultural developers -we can see which organisations are not living up to the above and devalue them by not serving or patronising them
*where there is sufficient open space and public media of every kind so that any organisation or leaders who spend money or advertising etc that pretends to be purposeful/responsible but isn't gets investigated; where the world pays no attention to G8 summits or World Economic Forums etc unless they accept that each of their sessions will be re-reviewed by a progress panel (eg last week Blair promised that any world leader event he participates in on Africa will be subject to re-review by an independent panel including Transparency's Eigen, Billanthropy's Gates, Popular media's Geldof)...eventually such panels will be valued as doing their job when all the world's media will report the judgement of that panel once it has had time to review whether a G8 etc communique has integrity beyond news soundbiting
*where economics of sustainable abundance is always celebrated over the apartheids caused by economics of scarcity; and any profession (Or global market sector) that serially abuses that has its licence to rule (or operate) over us withdrawn by worldwide civil society
*where "inconvenient truth" urgency becomes at this last call a tipping point of local to global understanding by anyone who wants most of the above; we have less than 10 years to start globalisation turning around in another direction before the badwill patterns we are currently being ruled by and spreadsheeted to will be irreversible; this is not a new consequence but one that the likes or Gandhi, Einstein, Orwell first clarified as compounding in the 1930s; in each generation since there have been people who have dared to mention the global consequences are still exponentially compounding loss of sustainability; ironically they have oft be praised by the biggest powers that be as long as they suggest this is a chnallenge that can be resolved ten years out, but they have so far always be vitrolised by the top people's media machines when they have suggested that the leadership issue involved truly is more urgent than that
http://asinworld.blogspot.com/2001_09_01_asinworld_archive.html http://project30000.blogspot.com http://goodwillwars.blogspot.com http://exponentials.blogspot.com
Intro- this post was written to put the cat among the pidgeons in the world's number 1 virtual study group on Communities of Practice
0 1 2 3. I was fiorst recommended by a prof at Harvard to start searching CoP around 1997. At that time a year-long hobby was to moderate by hand an egoroup called Organsiing Creativity. A lot of powerful representatives or organsiational keadership teams joined in over the 365 days that we jammed. This was before the internet had become commercial and drowning in spam. It was agreed that to the 20th C organsiation- Organsiing Creativity had become an oxymoron. In particular few studies of how to unlesh collaboration in creativity across groups of people had been realised. It was in this context I was advied to go search CoP. Mearly 10 years on, it felt like a good time for the cat to see if it could incite any openly provocative or actionable learnings.
I spent a lot of my Easter reading Gandhi who is my own world favourite architect of Community of practice-making. I am aware that if you have not read much Gandhi, the rest of this mail will be of no value to you.
I think it would be most interesting indeed to conduct a thought experiment - what would the tenets of community of practice be in a global village world whose sustainability will depend on linking together deep real communities and virtual spaces (this included) but not as done by the 3 great monopolies over thought which the 20th C somehow ended with
academics - who are incentivised to separate disciplines, in MBA arenas publishhundreds of copyright synonyms for constructs that actullay overlap systemically far more than they have any value separately whilst being ruled by one standard set of numbers that wholly pollute community's sustainability proiority to trust human relationships geared to context-rising exponentials
http://exponentials.blogspot.com antidote
www.takingitglobal.org (or tell me your fav)
professions- who by and large have shredded hippocratic oaths, exist now to profit temporarily from separating their own business case, and to serve those who want to make the big bigger or the top more powerful; no matter what we bubble up, we can short it and make a killing too antidote
www.ashoka.org (or tell me your fav)
governments of place where those with 4 or 8 year tenure use the excuse that (mathematically) wrongly conceived global economics give them to cut people out of jobs, to live everything by 90 day measures and soundbited (while of course developing alumni relationships to further their own career post-governing the people) antidote
http://www.simpol.org (or tell me your fav)
of course not all people employed by the top 3 submit; but systemicallly over the 22 years I have been evaluating these groups ,
each has viciously subcumbed to these traits, and should be assumed to be conditioned in approximately these badwilled ways unless they can prove themselves contextually not guilty
http://goodwillwars.blogspot.comconsequently, we can imagine that if communities of practice were facilitated in peoples open spaces, we might invent some constructs which would be let's say to take a case in point absolutely the opposite to what teh European Union means by communities of practice
http://openspaceraces.blogspot.comfinally, I love what I read in Wenger directly, but not so much in chinese whisper versions of CoP as spun over time through the way academic*professions*governemnt tend to multiply their monpolies against serving the peoples they were originally licensed to truly and fairly represent
A Japanese prof of KM calls this the coming crisis of learning slavery (where public funds are only ever awarded to narrower adgendas including the worst ones of the 20th Century "invest in machines, never in people" - every accounting number you ever spreadsheet is built on this immortal tangible folly - wrong maths copmpounds the most disastrous human conseqences wherever communities are ruled by it - don't you know? but where does The theory of CoP provide any opportunities to peacefully revolt against the maths of cutting people out of organsiations even though guess what we live in a service economy (where investing in people relations makes a difference and if we are ever to co-create economics of abundance through networks it would be a cherrful idea to be sure that people were in social control of amchines and not machines numbers soicialy controlling people - at elast in communities I would prefer to breathe in)
chris macrae
wcbn007@easynet.co.ukhttp://valuereligion.blogspot.com truth os god and god is truth according to ganhis all meaningful religions unite in same end, only means deviate
http://chrismacrae.blogspot.comhttp://clubofarran.blogspot.com scot clans were one of the first to be networked all over the world because english accountants 200 years ago convinced Scottish lords that sheep were more valuable to rear than people - lest we forget, The Economist was founded 144 years ago by a Scot so that we free don't!
http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com -relevant only in that after 30 years of surveys and scripts on differentiating entrepreneurial truth from fiction, the word has an open way of collaborating with any construct where leaders wish to facilaute the best of knowledge workers from ways that have no future value bcasue they are about bossing people out of experiencing and being their lifetime exponentials
Open Sourcing a vocabulary that's simply good enough for open source futures
I have noticed several pronlems with vocabularies of organisation
First academics often have about 20 words for an idea that is 90% the same - that's the way their separate publishers prefer it -the time needed to get permission for someone else's word can be excruciating; compounded with this is the thousands of different disciplines that have been evolved so that every academic can have a journmal to publish in; and then there are problems with refereeing hierarchies which block the pssibility that a once important idea may be on the wane, or worse turn out to be an error that only looks precisely right whilst 2 systems are kept separate (something professions have been doing a lot of over the last quarter a century)
Accidentally mots of the constructs I have spent my career on are pivotal as a constellation to open source. This is bad news because connecting constructs are only as valuable as other conecying contrsuctts. To be specific - suppose that an open source metworked map needs 10 constructs to be interfcaed with each other; and each construct has 5 different synonyms but instead of being agreed as synomyms most people use at most one of them. Then even if I just about understand all 5 synonyms for all 10 contructs my chances writing something that a person finds intelligible if they know one term for ecah construct is 5**10
So its with a bit of trepidation, I have started a blog wuth the purpose of the minimum vocaubary of words you need to practice the value multiplication of webbing communal relationships in te highest trust ways - I guess those interested will come and tell me what I have got wrong or volunter to come and co-edit it
http://valueofweb.blogspot.com Here's part of a rehearsal germane to the above. If we are talking to an audeince who gets that open source is the future of every living network, how do we also connect some collaboration and system vocabularies that go beyond just the OS of the language or the hardware architectures.
This is just a draft pot-shot at that.
Unless our 22 year tracking of
collaboration story - around the net as ultimate revolutionary adventure of humanity is found to be mathematically incorrect - and no mathematician has yet challenged it, open source "every which way" should be the belief that unites the world's peoples. It's all our DNA (you cannot open source if governed by a single loop such as top-down only) passports to there being a 22nd Century for our grand children
There are some exercises to look at the collaboration transparency and trust-flows we need which may extend beyond the compass of pure open source (depending how much of a System of System of System of ...) you already visualise when you use the term OS
Because webs or networks are S of S of S of... ,nature takes great umbrage to human beings who block what previously she had global village control before our scaling up of pollution and waste bothering her- indeed her value multiplying rule has always been the very open one of ensure one system's waste output is another's energy input; she wonders why we have made such a slow start in photosynthesis of energy- a source that literally cleans up carbon the more of the sun you use to generate it through algae
Because of nature's quirk as ultimate open source networker , many other waves of collaboration will hit this 1984-2024 (the first to be worldwide networked) generation all of which will do exponentially (
http://exponentials.blogspot.com) calamitous harm if we globally block them - these include please: open source health, open source enough for every global village to cross-culturally sustain its way (subcomponents of which seem to include open source learning, ending systemisatied corruption/poverty, safety)
At the core of transparency mapping , and so open source, there seems to be an open molecule of productivities and demands designed around the conflict resolving maths of enabling all to openly participate, to question the greatest future gravitaional risk any side may be about to knowingly or blindly impose on another;
The troubling inconvenience of knowing nature's simplicity becomes evident when you realise it is possible for mankind to design audits, economics etc around an opposite maths of the biggest power gets bigger - and which of these 2 games do you see being legislated to monopoly rule over peoples everywhere today? Laws that close sources are not just assasine, they are how we could define terror's lurking epicentre if we truly understood how to map networks
http://goodwillwars.blogspot.com
Goodwill wars updates
06.01 For those who want to celebrate gandhi cenetenary by developing gandhi.edu as the 21st C course of people economics, sustaianbility mba, how to teach children to connect their knowledge whilst exploring science and nature- my source in India has confirmed October 2007 is the date - email
wcbn007@easynet.co.uk goodwar601 if you want to be on the email of alumni preparing questions as to how the world and India can connect through this unique congress
06.02
London has become the open world investment centre for photosynthesis -email
wcbn007@easynet.co.uk goodwar602 if you want to be on email list questioning the architecture network of photosynthesis about:
how to connect your
city or
village with early waves of clean energy
abundant organic crops
desalination water experiments
the sun and algae's productivity as abundnat clean energy -all the gas USA ever needs can be built cleanly in desert area
and how people in the ost extreme climates 9and othen poverty) are early beneficiaries of this open source movemnts contributions to project30000
06.03 London has also become the battleground of world service media - see bottom of march's
gathering storm wire
Longer Details for media or mediation responsibility leaders
Hi Authors of the 30 books on Living/Learning the Brand Genre whether that is corporate national, personal or other -all tgopics relevant to goole as current grand central junction of all marketing, mediation and medias - on the wall, who is the do no evil-most of us all?
This may call you as an urgent responsibility of all marketing, media and
mediation professionals since it becomes the last British exit for brand to
reform economics through the bridge of entrepreneurial revolution which scots
have spent about 240 years working on
http://clubofarran.blogspot.com Unlike the late 80s crisis when fictional brand valuation algorithms were conceived by the accounting and ad agency professions to separate their own business cases (and so rule leadership communications by numbers spreadshheets), today's crisis = last time Britains (Great or Small) will likely have a paeacful opportunity to change the world goes with the media of The Economist and the BBC (media that well over 100 billion dolars of mainly
public money has been invested in as befits the last commonwelath led as a
Kingdom by ethical ladies, Queens) standing up for people economics- arran's
concept of replace sports olympics by social entrepreneur olympics is
sufficient to chnage economics as foretold back in 1984
http://www.normanmacrae.com/friends.html http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687 In 1988, The Economist's new 2006 editor then 18 years younger and I knew just
enough about the coming global brand crisis to end the year of the brand
survey like with the rose metaphor of Shakespeare's and Juliet's what's in a
name
http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com "What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."
--From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
Here Juliet tells Romeo that a name is an artificial and meaningless
convention, and that she loves the person who is called "Montague", not the
Montague name and not the Montague family. Romeo, out of his passion for
Juliet, rejects his family name and vows, as Juliet asks, to "deny (his)
father" and instead be "new baptized" as Juliet's lover. This one short line
encapsulates the central struggle and tragedy of the play.
http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/276 Themes/Keywords: name, love, family, rose -Goodold bard that just about where
all communal value multiplies around sustainably in a global village economy!
Of course those who know how the games people play with identifiers and anme
recall- as searched in the EIU's and my 1996 Brand Chartering may enjoy a bit
more about what 30 years of minding trust-flow and the rose can lead you to
recall -meanwhile Jack (John Moore) since you have accomplished your aim of
disconnecting me from feeding the
www.beyond-branding.com weblog could you change
the blog link to me to
http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com The mind is a very funny (peculiar not ha ha) battleground. I have researched
since 1976 how the world's big brands impact peoples across all societies.
After all the biggest brand be that brand usa ,or coca-cola, or google
connects billions of beings in their own memories of it. According to
Americans Trout & Ries in their 70s classic which ad agencies still tout:
positioning is the battle for your mind, using all the hidden persuaders a
corporate brand owner can muster
while I disagree with spending billions a year on global brand ad budgets
because the consequences of that image-making media game are too shrinking to
contemplate where that will all pied piper us to is a different story
http://brandchartering.blogspot.com http://globalcharters.blogspot.com http://boards.charlierose.com/board/topic.asp?ti=16196 for now let me guide you how odd my (or any mind of empassioned context) mind
is when it comes to the brand Rose -yes if you ask me for associations with
rose I may say a sweet smelling pink skinned flower first then today I will
sya how much I am missing Charlie because I have fallen asleep over his
replacements in ill health
then we had an awakening last night with an old anarchist -yale professor
interview - what amazing grace
http://boards.charlierose.com/board/topic.asp?ti=16805 that Rose blossoms, explaining how academia has its hierarchical
taboos that anyone who questions the truth will have his head cut off or in
this case be excommunicated from yale for a year or more (Yale a place of law -
excommunicates a guy like David Graeber) I know my uncle as an English QC got
very worried by how asinine and big booted law has become but Yale are you
dropping off the map of the world
the Rose also reminds me of the way a young journalist ended his 1988 survey
of The Year of The Brand in 1988 - with the Shakespeare quote comparing rose
and trust - where is that man now? Actually he replaced Bill Emmott in the
most serious global media job of all last month
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."
--From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
Here Juliet tells Romeo that a name is an artificial and meaningless
convention, and that she loves the person who is called "Montague", not the
Montague name and not the Montague family. Romeo, out of his passion for
Juliet, rejects his family name and vows, as Juliet asks, to "deny (his)
father" and instead be "new baptized" as Juliet's lover. This one short line
encapsulates the central struggle and tragedy of the play.
http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/276 Themes/Keywords: name, love, family, rose
since January's State of Union Conversion to 2 new space races - end US
addiction to petroleum economics, do what you can to get schoolkids to love
exploring science more than sports and pop idols, and the explanation of this
given by one of Bush's 20 Gathering Storm leaders Norman Augustine - as to do
with Death of Distance
- 5 times in one interview to do with that
http://boards.charlierose.com/board/topic.asp?ti=16196 http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com This helps me recall rose was also a
keyword in how Paris match reviewed the Death of Distance book I co-authored
on 1984 - Demain Sera Rose - sniad French journalism ha ha another great
economist writer and his son (so-called expert in learning networks) take us
to globalisation hell before saying its ok, the people will rise up and
web2.1 - well let's hope the rose brand is as exciting in your minds linkins
as in mine.
The denouement of the human race is being played out over the next
10 years; just do anything but lurk for all our gods and natures and peoples
sakes, liberties, egalities-the original associations of the word entrepreneur
(please note - but that's a different brand leader game, another post, another
time)
chris macrae usa 301 881 1655 wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
Alfonso Lingis Testimony at 2004 Annual Nongress of Global Reconciliation
Network, Delhi - see also my notes fro paper presnetd on coming wars between
goodwill and badwill networks
http://goodwillwars.blogspot.com One always sees things in joy. It seems to me that there is a very fundamental
kind of existential decision we make: do we believe our joy or do we believe
our neutralstates? In the latter case, the move is always one of prudence -
not to make decisions in a time of enthusiasm when one is carried away,
butrather to wait until everything cools down. I think one of the most
important things there is - I would almost say one could make this a kind of
maxim for life - is to always make decisions in a state of joy. ne should
believe one's joy more than one's prudence, or any cautious or fearful state
of mind"...Alfonso went on to say this is also the way that nature interact
people cultures and why we should be oh so respectful or every ciulture's
deepest belief even if as powerful white men wor whomever we haven't got a
clue why a culture states something is most deeply true to its communal DNA
Practically if never academically, this sure rings contextually true with researching society all round Asia which I have done on the ground since 1983...as part of the the world's first dtabank of market models coordinated out of Paris and MIT using express database software and the deepest perceptual models ever used to analyse communications by multinational companies
Across the world (wide and deep) the most terrifyingly destructive future exponentials are those which nobody has any future responsibility for. What communal and communications disaster for 6 billion beings!
As far as we can see, today's crises revolve round global markets at the sector level - be this energy, education, health, food and water, retail, consumer goods, professional services, media, charities, even place sectors such as nations
or any worldwide subsector
The number 1 questions of transparency of sectors are:
what is the future vision of this sector all round the world
and who has most influence over that?
Our
mapmakers,
economists, future journalists, globalisation brand experts, risk analysts *1, leadership scenario forum-makers, intercitizen families 1 2, and
mathematicians knowledge networkers and others who systemically interconnect human disciplines including what we teach our children -WE all only know one way in which all peoples can be sure of trusting that a sector is systemised so that over time it gets better for humanity and doesnt do the opposite which
Queen Elizabeth in her year-end speech of 2005 eloquently called : humanity turning on itself.For this way to be led: whichever organisation has single greatest power over the sector invites all other parties to collaborate over clarifying what deepest sector knowhow relates to the biggest sector risk to sustainability of all peoples (and nature) and transparently invites all involved to collaborate over preventing this risk's compound exponential downwards anywhere and everywhere that people live.
Trillion Dollar & Humanity Correspondence Network 1 : Now if you know an industry sector because eg you have worked in it lifelong, would you like to tell us whether you feel that sector's future is being transparently collaborated over so that its greatest risk is not compounding. We could then draw in ever more detail an expoentials picture like this - and your observation point can be ploteed anonomously or linked as you wish
Chris Macrae
* Trillion Dolar & Humanity Correspondence network 2: I have heard about 100 leaders of the world's top 5000 corporations speak, and only two have been clear that globally collaborating over a sector's greatest compound risk is where governance of all valuation and risk analysis begins and ends. Have you heard any other corporation leaders spek of these. I would love to compile a links of honor here. The ranking only relflects the serial order in which I heard leaders make this crucial plea for sustaining humanity:
1 Sir John Banham, Chairam of Whitbread and various UK Plc, Surbive Annual Risk Conference 2002
2 Ray Anderson, Chaiman Interface- filmed on The Corporation 2004, spoke at the Royal Society of Arts 2005
