Huge messy file of involvement on EU KM Board (May to Aug 17, 05)
Created | Updated Aug 17, 2005
Date: 01-Aug-05 (GMT)
Subject: Intellectual honesty and emotional intelligence(Replies: 0, Read: 81)
From: Benoit Couture
Dear EU members, can we aim to enter in complete clarity of the invitation that we are given with the tools of KM and of transparent open source. The clarity to reach in this thread is the question/answer's theory for which, the next thread will report, on the step-by-step account on the development of the initiative aggred upon here. The main directive is to establish the "Faculty of Living". So the question/answer I suggest that we agree upon first and to commence the reporting on the next thread is: "Where is the authority to engage emotional intelligence, mental health, family and community living to grow from stranger to family?" In order to make this project credible and gravitational, I offer to continue taking the hot seat as the "stay at home dad-citizen-voter-tax payer", who is publicly looking for the universal treatment of the human condition, starting from my own off-balance condition, as I have made obvious to all who read me. I am the client who is troubled in the same way that any human being gets to be troubled when put under too much stress and who's recovery is found on the same ground as anyone else's need for well-being and welfare. By coming out in the open by joining restorative justice and community mental health from Canada, I seek to beat down the trail across the discomfort and unawareness which prevents humanity from reaching the universal, standard passage from self-destruction to self-control to communal self-governing. What is my personal location? So far, at 47 years old, I have alienated my love ones from me and estranged myself from most relationships, through each stages of life so far. I did so as a son, as a brother, as a star of our local sport and now, in exile at 2500 miles away for 27 years, in a different language, I sit as a husband and father of four who fails to lead. I've recently become grandfather and communal maturity is the only hope to make sense of my existance. What have I found so far? In my long, tedious and near insane search for intelligence that could balance my emotions, I decided in Nov 2004 to run in the provincial elections, for the Green Party in Alberta. On the one hand, I was going public to find allies for my vision of addressing national unity from a socio-cultural communal healing movement. On the other hand, I wanted to send a clear signal to the underground people who know me, that to reach my aim, I am moving from the Establishment of The Code of silence to the Quietning Silence of Patient Wisdom. Official secrecy in democracy=The Code of silence. I wanted to show-off my non-threatening approach to those of the underground world who know me that I am going out of secrecy by means of transparency. My strategy is to charter my journey in line with the Alberta agenda, which is to seek out the best that the world has to offer in the advancement of Health, Education and for the Environment. Interestingly, during the campaign, I was sent a report by a grassroots association for mental disease and mental health. It was an organisation made of 35 of the professional mental health disciplines and self-help groups. The most amazing fact that came up in my discussions with the spokesperson of this association was that: MENTAL HEALTH IS YET TO BE OFFICIALLY DEFINED. He informed me that the Senate of Canada had sent a Commission to establish the definition of mental health in a cohesive manner for all disciplines to work from. After 10 years, the Commission returned empty. Professions of the mental health sector are too confused to define their science??? So the Senate sent the Commission back on the road for another 2 years, to try to define mental health to work from and toward. If they cannot, then their mandate is to define "suicidal personalities". I wont begin to speculate what this means as I would sound quite negative. What is true to mental health as far as being in need to be yet defined is also frighteningly true concerning most other faculties of the humanities. And yet, the one major expense of our democratic societies is to maintain the status quos of the ruling ignorance of all these expertises who do not know where they are going. Mental health and intellectual honesty depend on one another for balance. Lets put the Faculty of Living in position to invite all other faculties to intellectual honesty, in a non-threatening way in the completion of each one's journey to the balance of thought in the harmony of action! What do I invite you to? In practice, the I propose to become the point of entry into the audio-visual living room of ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... which was introduced to the EU KM Board with: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2910 It expanded to become: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U1590685 The first chapter is called: "...quest for Home..." http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4491876 The first episode is called: "From domestic oppression to domestic health". If I can produce an amateur home made video to graphically show what I am describing here, will it be enough to allow for swift gravity to deploy the initiative or am I causing too much confusion to bring thoughts into actions?
Date: 09-Jul-05 (GMT)
Subject: All in the Family(Replies: 0, Read: 56)
From: Benoit Couture
Dear fellow-citizens of the earth, please, see if you can allow this document to be at centre of our microscopic gravitational generating power. It is writen and put here as an immediate alternative and antidote to be applied in respose to the activities from the entity of terror-anti-terror. The motion is to apply transparency in going from the domestic oppession powers of money to domestic health of the Faculty of Living. We presently have in Canada, a perfect conjuncture of two separate conflicts that establishes the perfect live mass educational link for all of the French-Anglo-Abotiginal-Spanish-Commonwealth-Francophonie-Europe-Americas-Australia-Middle-East-Asia connection to unravel. The individual case is of a former national grand Chief who yesterday was convicted of a hate crime against the Jewish people. This individual case deals directly with the dark effects of the Judeo-Christian history of backroom deals, while mostly smoke and mirrors of politics kept the "public opinion" informed enough for satisfaction. As an individual judical case, it then stetches into a collective-national juducal case under the form of the national unity sponsorship scandal. The judge of this inquiry is presently simmering its report, to be readied for December. This local legal-politico-socio-cultural-econo conjuncture offers a perferct opportunity for www open source to come alive and relevant for all, viewed from one angle or any other. It hereby opens to us a flowcalizable(focal-local-flowing) window to connect transparently from the deepest levels of accumulated historical divisive mistrust's consequenses, which sits us in Europe and North America, on the verge of tipping into an all out surrender to the reactive powers of frustration. You have no ideas how quickly all of the Americas can be turned into pitch dark violence and cahos. We have been given a demonstration a few times in recent times past. Our native population has accepted a treaty of non-violence with the Crown. They have kept their end of the bargain under genocide circumstances; so far that is! The Crown is dissolving in front of their eyes and what's coming behind is even worst from their point of view. Who and what else can they now turn to, as they are forced into the same mentality as those who just dished out some of it upon London's people?!? Please UK and your majesty, my Queen, I realize that I am nothing more than a visionary with my ear on the ground, but here is an opportunity for all of the inspirational content that I read in our common history, to unearth from this opportunity, the solid ground to move from local conflict resolution to a perfectly adaptable globalizing embryo for the BBC and CBC to join in with ...cleasing our vision of the Crown... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U1590685 This conjuncture provides us with the needed terms and conditions of everything that could possibly be relevant as "the" case study on how to free knowledge from military reflexing, with the pausing capacities of intellectual honesty and all the way to the drive of clarity in the balance of IQ-EQ, as to where and how we host knowledge in the completing application of love's intelligence. Can this entry move to harness the energies from such an organism and to brew from near-cahos into an initial micro-community of universal sustainability? What do we think? SUBSENSE PUBLISHING and PROMOTION (SPP) The name SUBSENSE is composed with the words: Substance-essence. Substance from the essence=SUBSENSE. SPP comes into existence to spread the experience of spiritual unity as articulated and/or demonstrated by the existance of Subsense Publishing and Promotion. The question we addressed is: How do we host the discipline of life’s sanctity, from the individual personal care to the maturity of mutuality in the family and in the community, adapting to any socio-cultural context? The spectrum of our work is focused on verbalizing the answers to the twofold question on the discovery of applicable meaning (essence) and how to cultivate its embodiment to completion (substance), when and where the need arises individually, domestically, culturally or socially. The service we offer is to develop methods of approach to reach out and/or to train individuals, families and communities to develop healthy lives and conditions, always addressing both simultaneously, until sustainability. To begin our publishing and promotion service to Canadians, we studied four questions. They are: 1-“What is the essence of a relationship and how do we substantiate its dynamics to go from strangers to family, into the ongoing renewal of a healthy mutuality?” 2-“What is the essence of health, education and environment, and, how do we substantiate personal and communal awareness in the state of maturity and wisdom, free from the confinements of uniformity and of conformity?” 3-“How do we absorb the energies of individuals who are withdrawn in self-destruction and/or violence, in exchange to commune to and with them, in the essence of the inner life that ignites human existence to the substance of complete caring?” 4-“How can the answers to these questions be harnessed, refined and processed as the essence to foster our multi-cultural identity, and to thereby, substantiate unity amongst Canadians, secure in the bond and the growth of our citizenship’s heritage of personal, cultural and social health and wellness…amen?!” The stages begin with one’s personal Acquisition of the taste for Health. Then, once stabilized into The Faculty of Living, he/she joins amongst the Correctional Family Circuiting until the firm establishment into the Ministry of Reconciliation. Thus is being built the Canadian Health Trail, emerging upon the Land of Emanuel, in the perpetual celebration of Easter. TENTATIVE PROPOSAL “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of the PATIENT WISDOM” “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of the PATIENT WISDOM” is the name for the arrow of justice to reach the target of Canada’s constitutional completion. This arrow is made of the hunger and of the thirst for the justice and for the peace needed to be blessed upon the Aboriginal people first, and for all who can relate with the need for the renewal of the mature socio-cultural development of our citizenship. This is the name of the healing movement entering the multi-generational currents of living nourishing inner waters. We shall start to take Canadian citizenship safely out of the snare of our accumulated past mistakes of timeless proportions. The target of this exercise is to raise the community life until it reaches the fulfilment of the preamble, at the top of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. At the moment, that preamble says in English: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principals which recognize the Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law”. In French, instead of “Rule of Law” it says: “The Pre-Eminency of the Right”. When Subsense Publishing and Promotion is done with their purpose, the preamble will read in all concerned languages as opposed to each its own: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principals which recognize the Supremacy of God, the Rule of Law balanced with the pre-eminency of the Right, meeting to be fostered in “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of PATIENT WISDOM”. This will happen as a result of Justice deploying its restoration in the broken hearts and spirits and cause balanced living to grow. The patient wisdom shall guide each open heart from the Road House to the inner home, where the quietning silence is received and causes balance to grow in the joyful fulfilling of serenity. Then comes the discipline of questing together for home in the Correctional Family Circuiting, by the union of the powerful Spirit of peace, joy, love and wisdom. This is the entry into the Land of Emmanuel, where the Cleansing River is, which shall bring us to the renewal and the transformation from the old to the new living, for all who so desire to enter into the better future now, the perpetual Easter. The stability in developing this culture depends on how faithfully the three hosting cultural elements of Canada accept the mutual subjection to one another, upon the integrity of the ground to acquire and to spread the desire to live well and the discipline to foster the taste for health and happiness. Debbie, Benoit Couture and children
Date: 09-Jul-05 (GMT)
Subject: All in the Family(Replies: 0, Read: 56)
From: Benoit Couture
Dear fellow-citizens of the earth, please, see if you can allow this document to be at centre of our microscopic gravitational generating power. It is writen and put here as an immediate alternative and antidote to be applied in respose to the activities from the entity of terror-anti-terror. The motion is to apply transparency in going from the domestic oppession powers of money to domestic health of the Faculty of Living. We presently have in Canada, a perfect conjuncture of two separate conflicts that establishes the perfect live mass educational link for all of the French-Anglo-Abotiginal-Spanish-Commonwealth-Francophonie-Europe-Americas-Australia-Middle-East-Asia connection to unravel. The individual case is of a former national grand Chief who yesterday was convicted of a hate crime against the Jewish people. This individual case deals directly with the dark effects of the Judeo-Christian history of backroom deals, while mostly smoke and mirrors of politics kept the "public opinion" informed enough for satisfaction. As an individual judical case, it then stetches into a collective-national juducal case under the form of the national unity sponsorship scandal. The judge of this inquiry is presently simmering its report, to be readied for December. This local legal-politico-socio-cultural-econo conjuncture offers a perferct opportunity for www open source to come alive and relevant for all, viewed from one angle or any other. It hereby opens to us a flowcalizable(focal-local-flowing) window to connect transparently from the deepest levels of accumulated historical divisive mistrust's consequenses, which sits us in Europe and North America, on the verge of tipping into an all out surrender to the reactive powers of frustration. You have no ideas how quickly all of the Americas can be turned into pitch dark violence and cahos. We have been given a demonstration a few times in recent times past. Our native population has accepted a treaty of non-violence with the Crown. They have kept their end of the bargain under genocide circumstances; so far that is! The Crown is dissolving in front of their eyes and what's coming behind is even worst from their point of view. Who and what else can they now turn to, as they are forced into the same mentality as those who just dished out some of it upon London's people?!? Please UK and your majesty, my Queen, I realize that I am nothing more than a visionary with my ear on the ground, but here is an opportunity for all of the inspirational content that I read in our common history, to unearth from this opportunity, the solid ground to move from local conflict resolution to a perfectly adaptable globalizing embryo for the BBC and CBC to join in with ...cleasing our vision of the Crown... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U1590685 This conjuncture provides us with the needed terms and conditions of everything that could possibly be relevant as "the" case study on how to free knowledge from military reflexing, with the pausing capacities of intellectual honesty and all the way to the drive of clarity in the balance of IQ-EQ, as to where and how we host knowledge in the completing application of love's intelligence. Can this entry move to harness the energies from such an organism and to brew from near-cahos into an initial micro-community of universal sustainability? What do we think? SUBSENSE PUBLISHING and PROMOTION (SPP) The name SUBSENSE is composed with the words: Substance-essence. Substance from the essence=SUBSENSE. SPP comes into existence to spread the experience of spiritual unity as articulated and/or demonstrated by the existance of Subsense Publishing and Promotion. The question we addressed is: How do we host the discipline of life’s sanctity, from the individual personal care to the maturity of mutuality in the family and in the community, adapting to any socio-cultural context? The spectrum of our work is focused on verbalizing the answers to the twofold question on the discovery of applicable meaning (essence) and how to cultivate its embodiment to completion (substance), when and where the need arises individually, domestically, culturally or socially. The service we offer is to develop methods of approach to reach out and/or to train individuals, families and communities to develop healthy lives and conditions, always addressing both simultaneously, until sustainability. To begin our publishing and promotion service to Canadians, we studied four questions. They are: 1-“What is the essence of a relationship and how do we substantiate its dynamics to go from strangers to family, into the ongoing renewal of a healthy mutuality?” 2-“What is the essence of health, education and environment, and, how do we substantiate personal and communal awareness in the state of maturity and wisdom, free from the confinements of uniformity and of conformity?” 3-“How do we absorb the energies of individuals who are withdrawn in self-destruction and/or violence, in exchange to commune to and with them, in the essence of the inner life that ignites human existence to the substance of complete caring?” 4-“How can the answers to these questions be harnessed, refined and processed as the essence to foster our multi-cultural identity, and to thereby, substantiate unity amongst Canadians, secure in the bond and the growth of our citizenship’s heritage of personal, cultural and social health and wellness…amen?!” The stages begin with one’s personal Acquisition of the taste for Health. Then, once stabilized into The Faculty of Living, he/she joins amongst the Correctional Family Circuiting until the firm establishment into the Ministry of Reconciliation. Thus is being built the Canadian Health Trail, emerging upon the Land of Emanuel, in the perpetual celebration of Easter. TENTATIVE PROPOSAL “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of the PATIENT WISDOM” “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of the PATIENT WISDOM” is the name for the arrow of justice to reach the target of Canada’s constitutional completion. This arrow is made of the hunger and of the thirst for the justice and for the peace needed to be blessed upon the Aboriginal people first, and for all who can relate with the need for the renewal of the mature socio-cultural development of our citizenship. This is the name of the healing movement entering the multi-generational currents of living nourishing inner waters. We shall start to take Canadian citizenship safely out of the snare of our accumulated past mistakes of timeless proportions. The target of this exercise is to raise the community life until it reaches the fulfilment of the preamble, at the top of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. At the moment, that preamble says in English: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principals which recognize the Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law”. In French, instead of “Rule of Law” it says: “The Pre-Eminency of the Right”. When Subsense Publishing and Promotion is done with their purpose, the preamble will read in all concerned languages as opposed to each its own: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principals which recognize the Supremacy of God, the Rule of Law balanced with the pre-eminency of the Right, meeting to be fostered in “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of PATIENT WISDOM”. This will happen as a result of Justice deploying its restoration in the broken hearts and spirits and cause balanced living to grow. The patient wisdom shall guide each open heart from the Road House to the inner home, where the quietning silence is received and causes balance to grow in the joyful fulfilling of serenity. Then comes the discipline of questing together for home in the Correctional Family Circuiting, by the union of the powerful Spirit of peace, joy, love and wisdom. This is the entry into the Land of Emmanuel, where the Cleansing River is, which shall bring us to the renewal and the transformation from the old to the new living, for all who so desire to enter into the better future now, the perpetual Easter. The stability in developing this culture depends on how faithfully the three hosting cultural elements of Canada accept the mutual subjection to one another, upon the integrity of the ground to acquire and to spread the desire to live well and the discipline to foster the taste for health and happiness. Debbie, Benoit Couture and children
Benoit Couture
More and more, we read articles about how much the sciences serving mental health are realising the benefits of personal faith in maintaining good mental health. In the last 31 years, I have been worked on and working as a free lance evangelist, available to be reached and reaching out to the individuals of the "street". In Canada, I have spent the last 20 years trying to bring together the alliance between restorative justice and community mental health in generating the socio-cultural healing movement where needed. The following is a posting I made at the Miciu Soda open source lab yesterday. Benoit Couture
Blessings and peace Andrius, Chris and all,
I am here in the public domain, in the hope to contribute at refining and defining the spiritual personal touch until we reach the essence of human relationship. Here, at Minciu Soda, I am granted the opportunity to work at organizing my life, so that the
apprentiship that I have acquired in the wild side of the Canadian Law for some 35 years, may contribute to the betterment of humanity as a whole. Here, I will try to demonstrate how simplification can be applied to experience spiritual human unity in our daily life and how from such basis, to deploy the unifying movement of organic open source for individuals to develop into communities, while turning thecnology's misuses into the coming together of humantiy from
stranger to family.
Open source should become understood as the organic reality of the united community of people who live their lives in the service of deploying unity with the renewing treatments to health, to education
and to the environment. And KM should be known as the systems we use to serve the open source. The tools to operate km openly on the internet need to follow up the dispositions of people to open up to the source of our being human and to live so amongst ourselves. It all boils down to the human drama. I write here to volonteer my service to openn up in complete the intimacy that will remain within the spirit of dignity and sanctity, but I will work to embody the
journey to reach the univeral open source of being human, from the essence to the substance. In doing so, I want to supply the inspiration needed to cause the wave of completion from personal knowledge management to the open source of living well here and now.
I come to you all, travelling for the last 27 years upon the road known in certain circles as the recovery road. Prior to that 27 years, I was spending myself, addicted to some acceptable behaviors and to non acceptable behaviors. To those who know someone else who lives on that road, they usually accept the nessecity for "that" person to live "like that" but most can't relate to abusers and self-destrutors. Addiction is a term usally used for substance abusers
and/or individuals with "compulsive behavior" of any kind. To those who are on that road, it is the experience of battling one's own evil and deceitful heart with the daily discipline of investing my
whole person into the genuine measure of authentic grace and truth I dispose of, here and now. The recovery road is a personal map that draws itself at the speed of each one's own impulse until it
stabilises with others with the give and take of relating with one another's daily needs.
The factual understanding and our experience to relate in the blooming of being human is microscopic, while km is equipping to operate thecnologically at the macroscopic level of human interaction. At the present time, the statistical use of the internet shows the evidence that sex and gambling are the most
profitable and fastest growing markets of www. The province where I live in Canada is one of the few debt free jurisdiction in the western world, as we are the largest supplier of domestic fossil fuel to the US. When I ran as a Green candidate last Nov. 2004, I came across the info that mental health is yet to be defined amongst mental health practitioners, of whom, many are in the field of
addiction treatments. The number one reason our population goes to see their family physician is for mental illness related conditions. When mental health sciences go on treating the symptoms without having a destination to guide patients to, then where does
anybody and everybody find themselves guided to when mental illness strikes? This is, but one example of a generalised professional reality that governs our entire dispositions and direction as a civilisation. We have a chronic collective intellectual dishonnety
syndrome to deal with. That collective syndrome is the sum of personal compulsive behaviors that are socially acceptable. Law, education, politics, banking...all busy and in a hurry to compete
while ignoring or unaware of the passing moment in the rush to successfully be independant from one another? So much time, energy and resources of the professional class are spent on safe guarding
personal and material aspirations and on mutually propping personal image and status, that the needs which are intented to get served by their tax money in the endeavours of our systems gets to become a
cultivated commodity of addictions by which the systems manage the appearance of serving while in fact, deceit rules both sides of the equation. All that activity is the current ruling process of km
that is in place institutionally that Mincius Soda and the likes works at turning around. The whole dilema of such leading dishonesty and the choice of direction that faces humanity personaly, localy and globally can be reduced to a choice between:
ADDICTION or THE RECOVERY ROAD.
In order to make that choice with complete nderstanding, we need to establish contact in the spiritual rapport, experiencing to be and to live the essential connection of relating as a person, with the
whole. My needs to make it through each day are the same as you. How can we help one another is in the contact which I and you invest ourseleves to do here and now at all time, redemming each moment in
the love making of the Spirit, with Whom I breath in the rapport with the essence of being and breath out to make room for more currency to carry me in the bond of the all in all inclusiveness of eternal life. The recovery road and the battle to journey through
time with growth are the redeming exercise. In our day and age, our civilization has come to define addiction to be: Compulsive behavior. The source that deploys the personal energies that become social trends of compulsive behavior is in the innate nature of self-rightousness. Each human's make up is uniquely carved to his or her own sense of right and wrong, inherited and conditioned in the immediate daily contacts and experiences. Our decisions and the
nervous impulses form the dictation throughout our physical bodies and acting-reacting paterns until the day comes, when personal awareness strikes of the true state of non-being I am made of.
However intensly it does strike, strike it is that brings me to discover the irrelevancy of my existance. When it happens, spiritual reality has begun and the recovery road has reached me...
DRAWN TO ENCOUNTER
Well, here you are baby girl
here you are baby boy
newly born with us
into humanity's messed up journey.
Now oh young one
be it known to you that
this life you've received for free,
you'll have to earn it
for most of your duration on earth.
The gift of life wears off quite swiftly for most people,
Soon giving way to the struggle for survival.
You'll find yourself wondering
Why is civilization a human jungle?
A discovery was made which shows
that in the first five years of living
we develop up to 60% of whom we'll ever become.
At that tender age we are like a sponge;
partly beneficiary, partly victim
of all who come in contact with us.
As we get older
we become executor of what we've sponged in!
Alerted by the implications of such a discovery,
take the time to find in you the child, this child,
the one whom only God knows better than you.
Tune in your whole attention and notice
how complex is the process of your own becoming.
See how far away you have grown from who you really are because of all the ignorance we are born into.
The snare of doubts, fears and confusion drives you on
to naturally be rebellious to the Creator and to your own good.
What you will, ends up being your very own worst enemy.
This is because you see,
this life we are given from mom and dad, well,
it is short-circuited by a living death.
This power is in you and it's in me and that is why
each of us must get on the quest that leads on
to the path of deliverance.
To be released from this living death is the only experience
that provides each human with the opportunity
to penetrate the state of freedom.
The dimension of our being where the living death dwells and radiates from is the spiritual dimension, inside each of us, throughout our whole being.
To find the path of deliverance one must be honestly sincere and sincerely honest,
always accepting the facts for what they are.
For instance, no matter how much we understand the need for love, we just can't seem able to apply it where it is needed most of the time?
So as you go on asking such questions for which there seems to be no answers, your thirst and hunger grow.
You begin to have an idea of what you don't want
but you don't know what you need.
Your search goes on inthrough yourself
and is driven by a deep sense that life ought to be much more than what you've been limited to know thus far.
This deep sense is a definite sign that you are on the path of deliverance.
There comes a time when, to be penetrated by and to penetrate the state of freedom, will alone satisfy the thirst and hunger.
You eventually become aware that a mysterious attraction is drawing you,
bringing you an aroma of what to be free could taste like.
Someone who knows you better than you know yourself is calling.
One, you realize, who can outkill the living death.
The point of Encounter is when you are made aware in a very personal, mysterious and unexpected way, that without Him, you are prisoner of the living death.
As you quest, He finds you and accepts your invitation
to the very core of your being, bringing you a new nature; one free, eternal and divine nature.
To meet Him generates the impulse that settles and quenches all human need, be it for love, truth, justice, peace or for any higher state of living than what the living death offers us under the disguise of deceived perceptions of free will.
That deep sense that life ought to be way more,
happens because of His absence from our inner core.
That living death is in each human from conception on; so come on the path of deliverance
and the Christ-Jesus will reveal Himself and penetrate inthrough your spirit by His Spirit and provide you with all that you need to be made whole.
Welcome to the Church of Jesus-Christ, built well beyond all the blinding and deafening Walls erected in His name.
Welcome!!!
I have come across many people over the 27 years of struggling ministry, with who the name of Jesus-Christ was not involved at all but with whom I definetively had a delightful bond of eternal life
with. So is the opposite very true, where the name of Jesus was everywhere and I could not relate one bit. That is because of conditioned self-rightousness, personal and collective. Very often, the mental understandings of Jesus does nothing to change one's
compulsive behaving nature and on the contrary, it only serves at switching behavior by joining a religious group but the source of energy production to get through the day does not change. So years
and in the case of most religion structures, centuries end up waisting away in the name of irrelevant religiosity rooted in the same source as what it claims to be free of. Either we buy up the
opportunity to get closer and to relate to one another or we go on to accomodate one another's distance and indifference. The choice lies all the time for each one of us between the spiritual source or the animal reflexing of existance.
The point of this whole essay is to invite you to ponder ways to help me and my family in developing the universal recovery road that will go from self-destruction to self-control to self-government by
offring the ground and the training that will convert the resources that go on the war on drugs to the victory over addiction.
IMMEDIATE
DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY
The production of a simple home video as soon as possible, set out to be started at Sacred Heart School. A website ready and going with its easy viewing as quickly as possible. The title of the first
episode is "From domestic oppression to domestic health". It will serve to accommodate a live Canadian family situation whose quest for home generates the core activity from the essence to the substance of universal community living. This exercise will
cultivate the personal appreciation of each other until the functional home maturity is reached. From the acquisition of the taste for health, we grow into the discipline of assembling within the correctional family circuiting. As the core lights up and the news spread, the movement grows to become the Canadian Health Trail.
The mission is to proceed with the communal regeneration where from the brown humus of our socio-cultural history, personal and otherwise, get to proceed into becoming the green life of simple trust and enjoyment of one another. The experience to enjoy life and to genuinely appreciate one another, form the one basic common denominator and framework of all functions and directives. There are 4 stages of development to unfold for anyone to complete this socio-economic entrepreneurship, from its microscopic cultural basis.
-acquisition of the taste for health
The basic element of self-government begins with self-control which comes from my personal ability to care, to maintain and to strengthen health awareness and well being. Authority of justice and of peace is maintained by residing within the proximity of
relationships, made of dynamics open enough to bond in the mutual care for our complete health. This is the experience of intimacy that produces unity and which is needed to cultivate the blossom of
individuals, families and communities.
- correctional family circuiting
From this small video production, we will raise the interest among neighbours to establish a pattern of weekend retreat to accommodate between 12 to 20 couples. The purpose of that weekend is to establish our contact to each other in the bond of the
acquisition for the taste for health. The circuiting experience is the mutual subjection under the authority of the bond to "live and learn" to grow healthy with one another. The discipline involved in
apprenticing to live in the community of this mutual subjection to strengthen our health with the appropriate changes, is the correctional part.
-Canadian health trail
From such a socio-cultural healing process grows the microcosm of community self-government. With enough episodes on tape, I hope to convert the simple production into a docu-dramatisation TV series.
As the Establishment and the underground population learn to meet, the series grows by joining in the creative dynamics and activities that come together upon the meeting ground of the reconciliation. At that point in time, we go from small website home production to full fledge televised series. We do so by adapting the live situation into the docu-dramatization, with the help of writers, actors, producers and with the volunteer legions that will grow from the initiative.
The TV series will be to bring on a faithful deployment of the microcosm to adapt into the national transition of scale, so as to extend into municipalities, province and nation. At the moment the
populations of Canada are facing a conjuncture of opportune synchronicity by simply accepting the sequence of events that we are in right now. The Canadian Health Trail can be developed from the
campaign I run, to the March SUFA review, to these discussions we are having, to the centennial of Western Canada to the visit of the Queen in May, to the Round Tables with the Aboriginal nations to
the up coming Federal election. The citizenship is called to please rise up to our full measure of blessing and responsibility to humanity...
-Ministry of reconciliation
is the Spirit binding the Canadian citizenship within the state of human living that keeps Canada out of reach of the powers of the terror-anti-terror entity. The Spirit of the Ministry of Reconciliation is the ground upon which the line was drawn by Mr. Chretien and, through his decision, by all Canadians, when we stood against the war in Iraq. Canada is not deceived by the equation of terror versus anti-terror, treating it in the reality that both sides are of the same entity. It is the nature of divide and conquer at its peak.
The line drawn by the refusal of Canadians and of the other nations of the G8 sheds the light on terror and anti-terror to show it from the same animal side of humanity, and can get defeated by cultivating the local alternative.
MONEY WILL GO TO…
The goal of the first stage is to define the personal focus of home interest. We do so by developing the settings needed to host families who are in situations of complete emergency, one family at
the time. My wife and I volunteer to be set up at Sacred Heart School, to be established as the initiator of the Correctional Family Circuiting who will be supported to complete the Canadian Health Trail within the framework of the initiative of …Cleansing our vision of the Crown…
Our family will beat the trail down to get from domestic oppression to domestic health, with a parallel positioning between local and global. This serves as the starting point to build the prototype of
a hours a day community centre to stand by as the presence who hosts the immediate need for individual and neighbour stablelization as the call arises. The process to develop the centre is mentioned under the name "correctional family circuiting".
The home made video production will define the civic ground, reasons and remedy, to empower the communities to help themselves from the bottom line of acquiring the taste for health and to join in the
correctional family circuiting, all the way to the suspension of the Canadian citizenship until community satisfaction is established.
With the contribution of family and neighbours, the civic authorities of Canada will facilitate the maturity of communal interaction within their each one's own midst. By so doing, we'll define the acceptable boundaries to apply the reach of community
mental health along with the practices of restorative justice.
This initiative is already growing on record to develop the lay out, the fund raising and the work force structure of the whole project within the existing relation that are established between the
clients and the various agencies sponsored by United Way and the Edmonton Community Foundation. We all win now by supporting the contribution of our experience, to what has been missing in the past that would have helped prevent most of the pain along the way to maturity.
-Establishment of beat cop shops across the city to become the illicit drug corner store of the community. This is being established temporarily to phase out the criminal aspect of the illegal market by setting the parameters of neighbourhood renewal
with the customers. It gets done by providing the resources for the dispatching force needed.
--CS becomes the umbrella of the large scale communication from the artistic agents to the public as a whole. The deployment of movement of CS participation takes on a visual manifestation of the
Animation album. It all comes to celebrate the recognition of the Aboriginal population as hosts of Canada and complete participants in hosting and shaping the Canadian identity.
-Pedway construction to tie Sacred Heart School-Vic-Royal Alex with an elaborate underground triangled plaza to provide a venue to individuals and to each culture to describe the journey they have to go through to get from their position of strangers and to reach their own belonging and celebration into the wealth of Canadian Heritage.
This work will serve as a model where Canadians equip themselves to reverse the under-overwhelming trend that says to mmigration; "Make yourself at home" before we have guided them to:
"Welcome to the life of our house. We will help you settle in the good spirit we live and build our house in until you can make yourself at home and help the people of your far off land do the same home questing".
THE CALLING
Now that you have been seized by the Lord
you know, you quiver, you experience His radiant Presence;
you are connected to the justifying peace and joy
flowing inthrough you by His Holy Spirit.
You want everybody else to know as well as you know
but beware of your enthusiasm; it will deceive you into thinking that you can do God's work.
Instead, sit back for a while and find in you the point of stillness where His sweet Presence radiates from.
Into this stillness you shall enter the rhythm and melody of your character,
in tune with the Father of all spirits.
Get yourself well acquainted with His Word, mainly the New Testament at first.
Look earnestly for brothers and sisters who delight in His Presence.
You can recognize them by the love they have for one another and by the mutual subjection they have one to the other in response to the supremacy of God.
His calling is the same to you and to me and the process for growth is the same.
Who you become and who I become is unique, but for you to be fully you and for me to be fully me comes from the same inner calling and from the same worshipping response to the Lord from each one of us.
For now you are newly born. Let yourself be fed, bathed and dressed.
To grow means to know Him more and more.
Our mind, soul, heart and strength are vastly unknown territories.
The simplicity of your devotion to Him is what protects you from the confusion and heartbreaking that comes from opinions and beliefs.
No one, other than the Lord Himself, can lead you.
You must learn to recognize His voice when He speaks inside you as well as in the fellowship of His people or in the surrounding circumstances.
What you want is to seize His voice.
He'll show you how to live your life in the fusion of your will into His.
He is not calling us to do our best for Him, but rather, He is calling us to let Him do His best for us, in us and through us.
Our connection with the Lord begins by His showing us
the doom of our life so that our response is to invite Him to take away our old life and to bring in the new.
This new life is the flow of pure divine grace and the fusion of our will to His is the river bed that carries all the leading that our life needs.
Our growth is made of the same calling and of the same adoring response all the way.
As you feed on His best, you learn how not to depend on your own understanding and to recognize Him in all of your decision making.
He gradually provides you with the nutrients to become
whom you've been created to be.
Soon you become aware that you either respond to the living death or to the law of the Spirit of Life and that free will is nothing but a choice.
As your bond reinforces with our Father so does your knowledge of yourself.
You eventually realize that your very person is the battleground in the invisible war between light and darkness, between the Spirit and the flesh,
the Kingdom and the world, God and the enemy.
Maturity in the faith of Jesus-Christ is reached when intimacy with Him inspires me to deny all in me that is independent of His lead.
The fruit Adam and Eve ate was from the tree of the knowledge of good as well as of evil.
Be it good or bad, if it is independent of His lead,
it is born of the living death;
The victory of His resurrection is what conquers the living death; as we go on saying no to the old self in favour of following Him, the regeneration takes place and brings forth the sprouting of our
partaking in the exalted nature of our Lord and brother.
Don't be misled into trying to earn any of it.
The price for all of this has been paid.
That's what His death on the cross was all about.
The victory over the living death is accomplished by His resurrection!
From His exalted position, the Lord is calling all of humanity to receive Eternal life and to that end, He is calling us to let all that we are, all that we do and all that we say to be immersed in His Presence.
To worship Him in truth, we must know Him in our spirit.
As our union with Him grows, we become better acquainted with those vastly unknown territories of our mind, heart, soul and strength.
At that point, faculties we never knew to possess begin to light up.
Soon, our whole being is consumed in loving Him from all the access we have to our heart, mind, soul and strength and we each blossom by channelling His love to all humans as our very own self.
YAWEIGH's calling is to satisfy His desire to bond and to fellowship with His own.
WELCOME TO GLORY!!!…
Benoit
Blessings to you all,
I sent the following reply to this knowledgeboard
question: "Do you know how to vision? Do we know how to vision?"
Vision comes to those who exercise themselves to see what they hear, as they listen, who learn to see what is said and who enter in the experience of simple perceptual connection with the wide open personal completion to the moment's happening. As one develops the maturity of full participation with the moment, so does the perceptual envisioning dexterity. From the normalization of envisioning into one's perceptual connection getting firmly established in the daily living, then comes the invisioning. The
invisioning is the imagination's inner screen lighting up in context of where the envisioning grows. To envision is to become aware from soaking in the atmosphere. To invision is the focus coming in
contact with the natural deployment grown from the whole envisioning atmosphere I soke in daily. The essence of vision is from the personal relatedness development in its whole simplicity of perceptual connection of the moment. The sign of a vision is
confirmed when it gets communicated in the context that it addresses and that the focusing message lights up a healthy stimulation of the imagination screen and creativity from each listener's own personal perceptual relatedness. It is also recognised from the pure joy of effortlessly knowing beyond any possible argument, Benoit Couture
In closing for today, I am also sharing what I recently sent to Chris Macrae...
Chris,
Conflict resolution, media leadership model, BBC, CBC, Canadian unity, ground activities to train and to equip the manpower to serve conflict resolution, as well as to research the ongoing improvement of that service!!!
To accomplish that, how about igniting and establishing the artistic inspiration that will open the pathway to experience the slipstream hat reaches from self-destruction to self-control to self-
government. The time of education to establish the connection is called "healing of meaning". The meaning spoken of here is the experience of the inner ground that reaches and connects one's self
to the enjoyment to be, and to relate as such from each me to each you, well beyond distance and beyond the reach of time killig energies. The initial confirmation of the experience of the slipstream is in the live conversion of the expression: "To make
love".
This expression has been kidnapped, enslaved, tortured, brain washed and exploited by the confinements of sexuality in most languages.
To experience the complete meaning of making love between 2 individuals or more, is to connect in the substance of our human essence. A love making person is one who has experienced the slipstream, where
is sourced each's own personal essence of being, where we each have talent and inclinations to live in love and to love to live. In growing with one another's intimacy in the experience of such a
slipstream, there comes a steady release of flowcalization that takes humanity from self-destruction to self-control to self-government.
To understand flowcalization properly, it is made by compounding the meaning of the words focal-local-flow--ing in their application to socio-cultural wellbeing of the person. It is the slipstream from animal humanity to the spiritual humanity. The operation of this word is confined to the following image: A large pot with dirt in it. Two plants in the pot. One plant with a poisonous berry and the other with a wolfberry that supplies nothing but goodness to health. If I pluck out the poisonous one, I will damage to death
the other one at the root level. If I leave it, it chokes the production out of the wolfberry one. My only option is to skillfully feed the roots of the wolfberry plant so well so as to get them so strong that they will consumate all the nutrients away
from the other one. The other one becomes humus to feed and to become the wolfberry plant. Such is the unfolding of overcoming evil with good in humanity, with the sliptream of flowcalization.
So far, from the bit I have gotten to know of you Chris and the love making I keep experiencing from your drive, we seem to be poised to arouse the family bond between Britain and Canada. Future of London
becoming the Present of London by hosting the Permanent People Summit's meeting of the minds. While occuring in London, the conclusions of the Summit's sessions coincides with the arrival of age, in the present response of Canada's Permanent People Sunnit to serve at implementating the slipstream's caculations that will produce the Present of London. Thank for bearing with me. Benoit
Date: 24-Jul-05 (GMT)
Subject: Spiritual Wealth? Yes, we need to catch up fast!(Replies: 0, Read: 27)
From: Sadiq Baig
Really laudable efforts deserved to be replicated across the globe. Yes, the most complex of machines is the 'human machine' and if not properly upkept goes wild - No wonder, : Americans say WW-III is likely
Kindest regards
Sadiq
Date: 29-Jul-05 (GMT)
Subject: Intelligence's first 2 opposite rules(Replies: 0, Read: 52)
From: Gillian Bush
I am not sure what these couples are but invite creative ideas
I am interested in mixing a view of intelligence of a person to others and of communal inteligence to one person
1 Regarding improving an individual's intelligence. Why not suppose my intelligence is very time constrained. If you assumed that, would you make a simpler introduction to this thread's main conversation opener than above?
2 Regarding communal intelligence. I feel strongly American academics (and their rewards systems -let's be the monpoly way to measure...) biassed the whole field of intelligence towards individuals (separation of intelligents) instead of communal collective, cooperative, connecting intelligence. Goleman's way of presenting Emotional Intelligence may be the first time academics in America have challenged this huge and discriminatory blindspot; though equally if someone more academically read than I have another more accesible first source, let's hear from you here
Date: 25-May-05 (GMT)
Subject: Delayed answes(Replies: 0, Read: 58)
From: Benoit Couture
Chris,
The first question you ask is: Who are the other characters? The role of NAF TA is to synbolise the transition from the old to the new. To do so, he will be hosting the superstars who will join in the ongoing TV series that docu-dramatises the reality of that transition with the unity deployment at the ground level of what is universally needed for humanity.
The female protagonist will the wise and humourous role of her majesty in response to NAF TA and his endeavor.
If you need to know of a more direct female connection to me, I am married to a Lloyd, of the 1688 clan of the LLoyd's castle in Whales. There is no meaning to it other than one of those coincidences that happened 25 years ago, you know? As a rebel Quebecois, I had to learn English through the genes exchange of marriage. That experience in itself should get all the laughs we need out of NAF to get the unity ball rolling amongst the initiated and powerful, so as to release the trump card of entertaining wisdom for us all. Benoit
Date: 25-May-05 (GMT)
Subject: Experience of unity from Canada to London(Replies: 0, Read: 173)
From: Benoit Couture
Greetings, can the journey of oneself tread to one other's self and to another and forever more uncovering the bond of unity in humanity? Can a live symbol embody humanity's quest for home? The symbol I propose is design to come on the scene of public awareness for the sake of vanishing with the powers of the old order. Deceit, divide and conquer, and all that selective justice to order in spite of inept or simply corrupt authorities, as we are now going through in Canada. From a divided situation, I introduce to you Norty American Frog Terribly Apprehensive or NAF TA for short. By Benoit of Canada:
Who is he and what is he after?
In a nutshell, NAF TA is a fictional voice, rooted in reality, that aims to settle the confusion that threatens the common destiny of our identity. He is a promotional emblem of what is trapped between the local and the global. He is designed to address Canada's identity crisis as a whole from the individual to the completion of mutuality. He is an altered ego from my journey. His personality and pilgrimage are a tragically humorous reflection of Canada's identity crisis. He is coming with a wise approach to tap into our unified potential, which has been growing and cultivating the French, English and Aboriginals for 5 centuries as host of the life to contribute to humanity's need of inspiration and direction. From "pure laine" Quebecois, he breaks away in '78 after having been blown up into a future star of hockey, owned, operated and destroyed by the mishandling of Molson's big hockey family and moves to Alberta at 20 in a "welfare shape". Learning and settling in English started his healing from the peer pressuring paradox of independance-sovereignty that he experienced as a birthright and as a drop-out. Getting acquainted with Canada from Alberta, brings him on to a mystic Quebec-Alberta connection that sparks him up into the healing vision of Canada's universal identity. Within him now, is the burden to pray and to follow through to the realization of the matured Canadian citizenship.
How does he proceed? By first gathering the initial community support and participation to the operation of "Cleansing our vision of the Crown". There are 4 stages to the promotion of this operational journey. They are: Quest for home. NAF TA and the Prince. The pilot of the Universe-City. Celebration of the Canadian Majesty. Quest for home is the call to rally the Canadian Mother And Father International Association or, the Canadian M.A.F.I.A. for short. The research, development and implementation of the Faculty of Living is the point of focus that defines the essence and the substance of all endeavours. The connection between the fiction of NAF TA and the needs of my life in reality are intertwined. This is where health, education and the environment are given a vehicle with the project, to consolidate life of the individual among the family, the neighbourhood, the school and back home to complete the circuit of living well. Once off the ground with NAF TA's quest for home, Canadians emerge with the social class antidote, by sending NAF to invite Prince Charles to the next stage. The pilot of the Universe-City allows for the disappearance of NAF back into myself, where I can attend the grade one class of the Faculty of Living, not as an expert but as the con man that I have been toward my loved ones, because of this vision that I am pregnant with until the delivery of the baby. That baby seems to be the same as all who care for life and who long for the real life to appear; and so, celebration of the Canadian Majesty is the life of freedom that is no longer governed by the rule of our collective ignorance.
Here is an example how I make use of my citizenship, to ignite the political will needed to adapt to the drastic changes that are called for by nature and civility.
From micro...
I live with my family for the last 7 years in a "socio-cultural lab" in Edmonton, Canada. The police call it the ghetto of the province of Alberta. I promote from here, unity in Canada, with the starting point of the "personal acquisition of the taste for health". From here, we grow the "correctional family circuit" that heals, maintains and strengthens the governance of: "to live and learn", by overcoming the rule of ignorance personally and into our midst, one day at the time. The circuit grows the organic bond between the families, shaping the discipline of implementing decision from consensus.
Living unity appears from individual to another and grows from home to school and to work, to re-enforce home life in the neighborhood, providing the community league's development, with this renewal process. By this involvement, the population practices the application of both, unity and sovereignty, within the political context called Alberta, Canada. Once the microcosm of Abbottsfield is ready, we invite a small area of Quebec to accept our challenge to establish a parallel Quebec version. Eventually, as soon as possible, the whole scene gets to be taken on by writers, actors and producers who bring this on to the national attention via a docu-dramatisation series. Along with the televised series comes an invitation to Canadians and a process to join in. The "official" long story made short is contained in the following motion that I made to the Supreme Court of Canada. I was turned down, but in order to be turned down, they had to consider it; I take heart in that.
...to macro...
To the Supreme Court of Canada I wrote: -------The following writings are steps and thoughts that I utilize, to promote Canadian unity, by tapping into the course of history's feeding to maturity, the health of the universal human identity, in the Canadian context. . The actual project is the idea of launching the research, development and implementation of an elementary, grade one class, made of experts from all the governing fragments of our western civilization. The goal of their endeavour is to lay the foundation for the Faculty of Living, where governing of decision making no longer has to live under the pressure of the wild climate of division and conflict that rules the play ground of kinder garden, outside that class. The class is to become the point of focus so the authorities can open and enter the door of consensus, where objectivity and subjectivity do not separate, for political reasons that go on, terms after terms, only to reach the excuses that explains failure. Do I need a judgment from the Supreme Court to carry on the following appeal to the Queen? Thank you. Benoit Couture
In the conjuncture of all legitimate aspirations of the Empire's
self-determination, along with the whole meaning of the "Stone of Destiny", I call upon the person who is the Defender of the Faith in Canada and in the Commonwealth, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the 2nd, to bless, to support and to activate the motion titled: "...cleansing our vision of the Crown..."! Truly and sincerely Benoit Couture And so Chris, my journey since Oct. 2001, has been a relentless stimulation of the Supreme Court, the Privy Council and all offices of Premeirs and of the Prime Minister. Many, many other offices have received communications promoting the national unity from a socio-cultural healing movement as opposed to propaganda. Today, we are in the midst of a the polical chemistry that can implode into political fragmentation. Canadians must be shown their position in relation to justice and peace on the planet. To finish this entry, I am sending you a copy of the clear cut message I ran with as a Green candidate in last Nov. provincial elections. The part to consider is that I ran where French Quebecois with a strong accent as I have, are usually welcome to work and to learn English, but to run 2500 miles away in provincial politics with a message of national unity and sovereignty was quite far from normal for anyone, but I did not get shot. I am telling all of that so that you can see that I have laid a lot of logs for the fire of political will to eventually ignite locally here so as to fit the global calling. Your energy is obviously burning bright and I hope to find some efficient wheels to get on from fiction to reality. So here is this simple campaign. Benoit
Old New
Beverly Clarewiew
Renewing Energy
Correctional Family Circuiting
-Voter, taxes, force of Law and legal tender
together, to serve the Tender Living…!!!
-Beam of hope against terror and anti-terror…!!!
As a voter, I understand that 4 levels of government take my tax money by force of Law, to keep us all well served, protected and guided. They are: School Trustees, Municipal Council, Provincial MLA's and Federal MPs.
As voters, we need to develop the model of Community
Self-Governing, to draw neighbours and tax spenders at the same table, to decide on where and how our tax money is needed to be spent, day by day, until community trust and efficiency is restored and/or established, as the need may be.
Beverly-Clareview is learning to know each other with the English language, from a rich contact of Metis-Native-Ukrainian-Dutch, gracefully hosting Canadian multicultu-ralism for several generations now.
Confident of our heritage, Beverly-Clareview serves Albertans, Canada and the world, with a refreshing addition to inspire our provincial vote, with the nation’s unity at heart and in mind!
As voters of a blessed province, let’s accept the mandate to strengthen and to promote our community governing model. It is growing from the old and the new cultural fabrics of Beverly-Clareview. Let’s move on from here to the Alberta Legislature, to release the mature resource of human energy into our midst and as far as the nation will receive it! Let’s have deeper meaning to drive our vote in this coming provincial election. Vote for Canadian unity to rise up from Beverly-Clareview, Alberta, in the discipline to love from a pure heart, with a good conscience, living of a genuine faith!
Also: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2910
The point of this exercise is to draw a movement to absorb and to ease the state of generalized stress by spreading the vision of the quietning silence of patient wisdom. Benoit Couture
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Date: 20-May-05 (GMT)
Subject: who are the other characters?
Date: 25-May-05 (GMT)
Subject: Experience of unity from Canada to London(Replies: 0, Read: 173)
From: Benoit Couture
Date: 24-May-05 (GMT)
Subject: ...cleansing our vision of the Crown...(Replies: 0, Read: 139)
From: Benoit Couture
Project: To bring democracy to maturity by easing the Permanent People Summit from self-destruction to self-control to sel-government from London to Canada to the world. Introduction of the vision is verbalised in the following letter, with the personal invitation to the established head of state. Here is a letter intended to be brought to the attention of her majesty, Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. I post it here so that, if you feel compelled to share it and/or to spread it, please do so. This is a personal invitation to her into a dream of mine as a Canadian citizen, written so that its reality may reach anyone on earth as well. I invite her to a strategy, for Britannia to begin the ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... by the release of The Permanent People Summit into the Canadian reality, while she visits Edmonton on today and returns tomorrow on the 25th of May 2005, from celebrating the centennial of the province of Alberta, Canada, or by returning to do so. Your highness, History is moving and destiny is calling; we must answer! There is no legal nor even maybe a moral protocol to allow me to address you, your highness, other than my calling upon the mercy of Lord and to your grace, so that you may know of the vision I have been granted to carry so far. Like a pregnancy, there comes a time for the delivery. I have been in "THE" state of transition your highness, since 9, 11, 01, most likely the same state as anyone who is aware of the times. So in Oct 2001, I phoned the Privy Council Office of Canada from my stay at home, imbalanced life. I asked if I could have the following question answered: " Can someone with a not so good reputation, have a motion that actually gets implemented all the way to the Clerk of the Council, in the PMO and across the nation?" After a little probing, the receptionist became distinctly vibrant, as the lady insisted that I call right back if I had not gotten through to where she was hooking me up. After a few tries, I reached an analyst in the social think-tanking, two doors down from the Clerk's office. Once past my initial question, he asked what was my idea. My prep to this question was the following statement: "I, Benoit Couture, call upon the Canadian Mother and Father International Association to support my motion to activate the Role and Structure of the Privy Council of Canada into cleansing our vision of the Crown, by growing into the Faculty of Living, so as to consolidate the Canadian Heritage." And so after an hour or so of beautiful. casual, relieving and soothing brain storming, he said, and I love to quote: "...Mr Couture, I wish you...no, let me rephrase, I wish us all as Canadians that your motion gets implemented..." With this kind of wind hitting my sail, I lifted to glide on to the SUFA review. It is: Social Union Framework Agreement. It was signed in Feb of 1999 by all provinces except Quebec. The federal and the territories also signed. It was up for review in Feb 2002 and I sent my submission. They scanned it in, in an unreadable fashion. So with fire up my belly, I sent it to the PMO and to all relevant offices across the nation. I've been relentless since. Reminding Mr Klein, Premier of Alberta whom you will spend time with on the 23rd and to his staff and to the PMO and to the Privy Council that I am still at it, promoting Canadian unity from personal health and mutual completion in maturity, instead of propaganda. This campaign is a natural development of a totally unusual journey. It is by spontaneous feed and feedback that I operate. It is the reason I write to you this way, on such a short notice. Democracy needs to capture the moment in time and to mature rapidly from the leftovers of colonisation's motherhood as well as to be released from the grip of paternalistic federalism. As you well know from your sovereign position, Canada is where Britannia gave the French, Europe and the Aboriginal populations with an opportunity to demonstrate how the people and the Crown can get along just fine in the completion of mutualaty. Your highness, we are now in the era of the entity of terror-anti-terror. One does not go without the other. Because of this global crisis, time is ripe for the essence of Britannia to regain its voice from the time spent in the "Quietning Silence of patient wisdom", since constitutional monarchy came about. In the province of Alberta, your former Lineament Governor, Lois Hole, has conceived a legal embryo with the Premier Klein, to offer you and Britannia the possibility do so with all the beauty of sanctity and the simplicity of being. She extended the power of that experience to bring sovereign leadership in the daily decisions, where service was going astray from the well-being of the people. Democracy is ready for the completion of unity under the Crown with the crown, with all of God's children on the earth. The democracy of a mature people of all people needs to be deployed in full bloom by your invitation to Mr. Bush and to Benedict the 16th to join in Canada and to let the vision emerge together, from upon the Land of Emmanuel, in the celebration of the permanent Easter that's being granted to the inner person of each human by the Covenant of the Lord with humans. Please help seize the moment to make of Canada, the place where from the gates and walls of this entity of terror-anti-terror shall not prevail and shall be pushed backward from upon humanity's horizon! In closing this first personal and intimate letter to you your highness and to all of Britannia as a start, I enclose the lyrics of 2 songs to put the vision in context of your visit to western Canada, next week. Sincerely, Benoit Couture Ps: Your highness, from now on in my next letters to you, I will write under the name: NAF. TA. To most people it means North American Free Trade Agreement but in my case, I use it as the name of my stage persona and in this case it stands for: "North American Frog Terribly Apprehensive". He is designed to embody the crisis with humour for your pleasure and to vanish into serenity with wisdom for our mutual long term security, by hopefully leaving behind by God's grace, a tide of healing for humanity. INVISIBLE GOLD RUSH OF BEING ALBERTAN 2005 is the year when I turn one hundred years old! One century spent to define the life within brand new borders, where borders had never existed before, but where nations had flourished for thousands of years, and in 1905 the time had arrived for the Empire to stretch to the west in hope for improvement. When I was named as a Canadian province, John Campbell wrote to his wife: "In token of the love which thou has shown for this wide land of freedom, I have named a province vast and for its beauty famed by thy dear name. " Thus was I introduced to the nations, with a name of the 4th daughter of Queen Victoria Alberta is my name, t'was inspired with honour from a man's love for his wife, known to be strong, artistic with exquisite taste! That couple was forward-looking people, concerned for the less fortunate. The name they gave me placed me well to avoid the Eastern mistakes of the Empire. I've now been led past the threshold, 2 at the top of the material world. Not long before my centennial, the Empire was dragged into terror. And so if I am to celebrate It must be from a wise vision of humility and of service for mankind. There's just no time to pretend that all is well the way it is. Let the ones who are and who will be me into Life's sacred fire, the invisible gold rush.. thus, entering the celebration that never ends, the celebration in the Spirit of Life, Oh nobly bright and illustrious. Radiant of the Spirit of justice, peace and joy. And so from Emily Murphy to Betty Hewes to Jan Arden to Lois Hole from Grant MacEwan to Ian Tyson to the Mannix and Manning families. We can see through my past century enough potency of meaning for anyone to catch on fire in the Faith and Hope that settles our humanity Into the simplicity. Of the majesty we are all created to be living in, the majesty of the Eternal, who's love secures my destiny in the meaning of my name: "Nobly bright and illustrious" is what Alberta means. Such Albertan I grow to be by the Spirit of wisdom and love, as I care for the less fortunate. Benoit Couture © Subsense Publishing and Promotion ...then to English Canada from French Canada... CALL to CANADA Could we reach the agreement that it's the whole world who is in need to see a place like Canada to show that free will can be a good thing. In 1945 we were invited to join a deal. Most of the nations had great hope to bring peace among humans. After fifty some years, great challenges are facing us. The deal has not provided what we forgot to look after. We just cannot go on, building wealth for me, myself and I, while our loving for each other remains hidden behind divisions. We've got to grow from that bottom line that has been in use and bring about that sense of belonging, bonded beyond the business fences. Maybe we haven't understood that prosperity only comes to us from who we are together and not from what we do to each other. We have all it takes to become heaven on earth; we have been blessed with wealth, now let's lead wealth to prosperity. Believe it or not, it is the whole world who is in need to see a place like Canada to show that the renewing Covenant is unity for humanity. Benoit Couture © Subsense Publishing and Promotion
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Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this story. Legal NoticeNumber of comments: 34 Benoit Couture , 12 August 2005 @ 15:00 PM Is Canada made for the human race or is it just a race being ran deceitfuly?(part 1a)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureAlthough, it was from the government's invitation to which I responded, I never heard of anything to help. SUFA http://www.socialunion.ca/news/020499_e.html is who I deal with. I still do not know if it is a smoke screen to protect a hidden agenda or a reality to work from together. LETTER for SUFA review Dear SUFA,When you were born in 1999, the human race was not aware yet of the global mess that was to re-enforce all economic and political dynamics on earth in the hands of the war lords. Western world war lord or others, dear SUFA, you are now in a league of your own!!!You now stand alone in the world, as the one Canadian initiative with the potential to rise above all the forces at work to drag the human race down to it’s worst animal instincts. The frame working its way to circle humanity in a military climate of “ armed terror versus armed security” requires a separate agent that will remind the human race that such climate is only needed if we make it so. The picture is now bright and clear for all to confirm that the very nature of the human race itself is animal first and called to become spiritual. The progress of human civilization itself is the ongoing response of humans to the call out of the animal and into the spiritual. That is the one embellishing process that binds any and all nations that carries on through the centuries.I dropped out of high school to pursue that embellishing process. What I bring to you dear SUFA is a journey through the bowels, in the history of your very existence. The writings I am sending you are the freeing enterprise I’ve learned along all that is good about you and in spite of the ignorance left to conquer. Without going in any details, I and my family are a prototype of a “case” that lives right on the front line of where the question marks are for the policy makers. Our experience forces us to see that there is a fundamental approach that must be massively addressed by all concerned institutions and individuals. We cannot go on with contradictory operational definitions in all matters of social functions the way it is now. The main definition of human living to be fixed and that will provide the ground to rally and to reconcile the operational definition syndrome is the word INDEPENDENT. ...(continue next post)...
Benoit Couture , 12 August 2005 @ 15:00 PM Is Canada made for the human race or is it just a race being ran deceitfuly?(part 1b)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...(continue from previous post)...The human experience begins from the joining of two and lives on to become autonomous through inter-dependency; the independent drive opposes such autonomy. For you to address the word independent and to replace it at the basic level of Canadian function, dear SUFA, will provide Canadian banking and politics, the landmark Canada needs in order to join in as the facilitator of globally going from animal to spiritual humans. In the global context, Canada is a young baby blessed with a population that has been cultivated to protect such embellishing process. To aim for anything less than to secure and promote this process would demonstrate dear SUFA that you are shying away from the lead role you are created to facilitate.Social Union Framework Agreement must expand to become the “Human Union Framework Agreement” and boldly move toward the consolidation of that Union with the rise of the “faculty of living”. ...(continue next post)...
Benoit Couture , 12 August 2005 @ 14:37 PM Is Canada made for the human race or is it just a race being ran deceitfuly?(part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...(continued from previous post)...SUFA must accept to become a flaming torch of inspiration to feed the core of Canada identity, which lives on to bring about a citizenship who learned tediously the science of caring for each other and where individuals desire to practice the art of making peace a living reality. Such a torch will serve to light up the path ahead to reach the universal life style of the united state of humans, without which America is rapidly becoming a global travesty.All the elements needed to successfully go from SUFA to HUFA are in place in the current events of our national history and are ready to be assembled. They can all be found in the simple name “The Jean Chretien Family Project”. Transparency is the first thing that democracy is dying for and the retirement of Mr. Chretien will serve as the practical starting point to constitutionally regenerate peacefully from the confusion and the ignorant rule that lives on in the gap between private and public.At the individual level, we need to develop the standard to assume the responsibility of growing in the acquisition of the taste and knowledge of health for the well-being.Inspiration and the direction to promote the inspiration with are needed more than anything at this point in history and the rest of these writings aim to ignite the political will to achieve the move from SUFA to HUFA. It is an audio-visual project rising as a docu-dramatisation televised series that emerges on the air directly from a living context of cultural and social healing. The theme song is named and goes as follow: CALL to CANADA Could we reach the agreement that it’s the whole world who is in need to see a place like Canada to show that free will can be a good thing. In 1945 we were invited to join a deal. Most of the nations had great hope to bring peace among humans.After fifty some years, great challenges are facing us. The deal has not provided what we forgot to look after. ...(continue on next post)...
Benoit Couture , 12 August 2005 @ 14:36 PM Is Canada made for the human race or is it just a race being ran deceitfuly?(part 3)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...(continue from previous post)... We just cannot go on, building wealth for me, myself and I, while our loving for each other remains hidden behind divisions.We’ve got to grow from that bottom line that has been in use and bring about that sense of belonging, bonded beyond the business fences.Maybe we haven’t understood that prosperity only comes to us from who we are together and not from what we do to each other.We have all it takes to become heaven on earth; We have been blessed with wealth, now let’s lead wealth to prosperity.Believe it or not, it is the whole world who is in need to see a place Like Canada to show that the Renewing Covenant is unity for humanity… This song is part of a promotion package to be used in the context of the “Solving heir of the Seargent Pepper lonely heart club Band.” It already has access to the US Presidency and the PMO in Canada through Bono of the U2 rock band. This is so because U2 already has access, through inspiration, to about 2 billion hearts…!!!So, dear SUFA, your review is a whole lot more than just another round of academic exercises. If you don’t accept the expertise of the ones you serve, like my family and that all you end up with is a re-enforcement of red tape to give the illusion of transparency, then you’ll have missed out on your reason to exist and Canada should dissolve in a hurry because all that will be left of us will be the climate of the “rat race” leading on to the “dog eat dog” and forced to please the war lords of the “new world order”! One citizen one vote it is said of democracy. Can my vote count for more than ongoing hot air production from the governments of Canada or can democracy begin to lead openly and inclusively of all citizens' participation? I look forward to see a Canadian federal Minister to join me here on the EU open source KM to seek out the solutions openly and to implement the "immediate local and global response" of the citizenship.
Benoit Couture , 10 August 2005 @ 12:58 PM Time to get down to the higher businessStay at home dad Benoit CoutureFROM ALBERTA, WITH PRAYER AND HOPE Alberta is a Canadian province that has a large area of dinosaur fossils. So much so that they supply museums world wide. When we speak of dinosaurs, we speak of some of the greatest evidence of the Earth's age. As early as 2001, Canada's conservative political side of politics was being led by a man who came from Alberta's provincial politics and he went on to become the leader of the party representing the conservative values. In spite of the evidence from his own province, the man went on national telivision, defending the christian fundamentalist view that the Earth and creation are 6000 years old. That anecdote gives a glimpse into the depth of ignorance that Aboriginal poeple are being treated with, still up to this day. It was 1960 before they were allowed to vote, although they constantly helped various Europeans who would not have survived through their first winter, if it had'nt been for the help that Aboriginal people gave them. When we speak of the Aboriginal people of the Earth, we speak of the remanant that made it through the ice age. The scope of our ignorance toward them is only starting, in the last few decades, to be observed politely from the cold and distant scientific evidence. Before God, her majesty, Queen Elisabeth cannot avoid to recognise the tragedy of the near genocide inflicted upon them, in trying to "civilize" them the European way. To me, one of the greatest way to know them has been when I heard a chief describe how his language was visual language. They convey meaning with images of tribal struggle for survival, of hunter's and of warriors to one another. The specificity of meaning are contain in the experience of each one's life. Another way to know them is when an elder who was testing the truth of my quest said to me: "Where there is a will there is the way to go." This struck me with meaning and scenes that went all the way to the ice age and to a people who had to wait for the movement of the Spirit of the Lord to guide them in no uncertain terms. So when the Aboriginal people speak of the Creator, the dont do it the kind of specifications of our young and specialized way of doing things. They do it with the wisdom learned from millions of years of conditions so harsh that only the Innuit people of the high Artic or of the Antartic can offer us a glimpse of it. When Aboriginal people speak up to say ouch, we should pay complete attention. They have been saying so and her majesty hears them. Shall we do so on time to avoid tipping into the social terror that this situation causes in the world? Their needs must be addressed and in doing so, Europeans must learn to learn and to apply our entire devotion with all dilligence into the recovery road that is called for by justice, peace and common sense. Guide us all, oh Great Spirit of Holiness...
Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 13:59 PM Intellectual honesty and Canada's governing (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Euriopeans, In Canada, we are struggling with national unity anf you are struggling with continental unity. Your basic equation is made of a much more complex texture than our's. Yet, the solution is the same, which is unity. As people of the 21st century's democracy, are we not faced with the need to establish a permanent "core" dynamic to constant need to feed into the union from and with ongoing reconciliation? If we say yes to that question, then the next question is: How does reconciliation come in focus as the status force of all governance? Intellectual honesty is the start andI suggest that the answer can only begin to be taped in by allowing the scope of assessment to cover a minimum of 3 generations. The spark that I suggested in Canada during the SUFA review http://www.socialunion.ca/news/020499_e.html of 2002, reads as follow: THE JEAN CHRETIEN FAMILY PROJECT “Jean” means beloved of God and “Chretien” means one who is given the life of the adopting Spirit, in the family of the resurrected Christ.The simplicity in the meaning of “The Jean Chretien Family Project” offers us as Canadians a user friendly image to get a grip on the live currency of our history, and to demonstrate our privileged cultural and social obligation to activate Canada’s economy and politics into the maturing of the just society. Humanity’s need of inspiration calls us all, but in particular Canadians, for a time of deep adjustment to the new reality of living in the after “9-11” era. Mr. Chretien’s personal and public life are directly inter-woven with the very fabric that Canada is made of. In general terms, this means that whatever is good about Canada is also fine and well in the personal life of the Prime Minister and whatever needs some looking after in Canada, also needs to be addressed in the personal life of the P.M. and family. (continue on next post)
Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 13:59 PM Intellectual honesty and Canada's governing (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...By accepting to retire into the role of “The First Ministered Family”, “The Jean Chretien Family Project” opens up the trail of a deep National retreat, that has the potential to launch the healing journey, for Canadians to address inter-personal as well as the ethnic distance and animosity that politely lives on. In so doing, we will let the masks of pretension, social ranks and intimidation fall off, so as to reset democracy up to date in the discipline of the mature decision-making that will re-emerge from the family on.Timing is everything in politics they say! The conjuncture that our citizenship is brought to by the fast and unexpected global turn of events, is where the personal need to be nurtured together into a just, peaceful and joyful living is calling the Canadian governments to set the healing in motion.Perfectly timed by destiny is the upcoming review of “The Social Union Framework Agreement” (SUFA) that was signed by all governments in 1999 except Quebec. Between that review, the PM’s retirement, the outlined intents of the Throne Speech, Her Majesty visiting the country and the necessity of humanity since 9-11 for a global, focal flame of hope, it is now time! History has set the pace and Canadians are called to be lit up in the radiancy of the Just One, to inspire the solemn beauty of being human by harnessing the drive of the ancient voice of humanity’s youth, to journey from the rule of ignorance to the organic-spiritual growth of the human-divine education! May God bless us all in the presence of His Fatherhood! That letter was given to the SUFA review of 2002 and ever since 2004, we have been watching "the sponsorship scandal on Canadian unity" unfold in the mud. Perfect circumstances for reconciliation to emerge right where a focus can be turned on for all of humanity to benefit from... So if need be, I accept to switch the name of Jean Chretien for mine, Benoit Couture. It means a seam blessed of God. In the language of my vision, it means minstry of reconciliation.
Benoit Couture , 02 August 2005 @ 15:33 PM Open window in Canada (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear EU members, can we aim to enter in complete clarity of the invitation that we are given with the tools of KM and of transparent open source. The clarity to reach in this thread is the question/answer's theory for which, the next thread will report, on the step-by-step account on the development of the initiative aggred upon here. The main directive is to establish the "Faculty of Living". So the question/answer I suggest that we agree upon first and to commence the reporting on the next thread is: "Where is the authority to engage emotional intelligence, mental health, family and community living to grow from stranger to family?" In order to make this project credible and gravitational, I offer to continue taking the hot seat as the "stay at home dad-citizen-voter-tax payer", who is publicly looking for the universal treatment of the human condition, starting from my own off-balance condition, as I have made obvious to all who read me. I am the client who is troubled in the same way that any human being gets to be troubled when put under too much stress and who's recovery is found on the same ground as anyone else's need for well-being and welfare. By coming out in the open by joining restorative justice and community mental health from Canada, I seek to beat down the trail across the discomfort and unawareness which prevents humanity from reaching the universal, standard passage from self-destruction to self-control to communal self-governing. What is my personal location? So far, at 47 years old, I have alienated my love ones from me and estranged myself from most relationships, through each stages of life so far. I did so as a son, as a brother, as a star of our local sport and now, in exile at 2500 miles away for 27 years, in a different language, I sit as a husband and father of four who fails to lead. I've recently become grandfather and communal maturity is the only hope to make sense of my existance. What have I found so far? In my long, tedious and near insane search for intelligence that could balance my emotions, I decided in Nov 2004 to run in the provincial elections, for the Green Party in Alberta. On the one hand, I was going public to find allies for my vision of addressing national unity from a socio-cultural communal healing movement. On the other hand, I wanted to send a clear signal to the underground people who know me, that to reach my aim, I am moving from the Establishment of The Code of silence to the Quietning Silence of Patient Wisdom. Official secrecy in democracy=The Code of silence...(see next post)
Benoit Couture , 02 August 2005 @ 12:02 PM Open window in Canada (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...I wanted to show-off my non-threatening approach to those of the underground world who know me that I am going out of secrecy by means of transparency. My strategy is to charter my journey in line with the Alberta agenda, which is to seek out the best that the world has to offer in the advancement of Health, Education and for the Environment. Interestingly, during the campaign, I was sent a report by a grassroots association for mental disease and mental health. It was an organisation made of 35 of the professional mental health disciplines and self-help groups. The most amazing fact that came up in my discussions with the spokesperson of this association was that: MENTAL HEALTH IS YET TO BE OFFICIALLY DEFINED. He informed me that the Senate of Canada had sent a Commission to establish the definition of mental health in a cohesive manner for all disciplines to work from. After 10 years, the Commission returned empty. Professions of the mental health sector are too confused to define their science??? So the Senate sent the Commission back on the road for another 2 years, to try to define mental health to work from and toward. If they cannot, then their mandate is to define "suicidal personalities". I wont begin to speculate what this means as I would sound quite negative. What is true to mental health as far as being in need to be yet defined is also frighteningly true concerning most other faculties of the humanities. And yet, the one major expense of our democratic societies is to maintain the status quos of the ruling ignorance of all these expertises who do not know where they are going. Mental health and intellectual honesty depend on one another for balance. Lets put the Faculty of Living in position to invite all other faculties to intellectual honesty, in a non-threatening way in the completion of each one's journey to the balance of thought in the harmony of action! What do I invite you to? In practice, I propose to make of my personal and family's journey, the point of entry into the audio-visual living room of ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... which was introduced to the EU KM Board with: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2910 It expanded to become: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U1590685 The first chapter is called: "...quest for Home..." http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4491876 The first episode is called: "From domestic oppression to domestic health". If I can produce an amateur home made video to graphically show what I am describing here, will it be enough to allow for swift gravity to deploy the initiative or am I causing too much confusion to bring thoughts into actions?
Benoit Couture , 26 July 2005 @ 15:24 PM Canadian authorities and marijuana community (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureHow to bring to life the Ministry of Reconciliation from Canada to the UN To address national unity and our democratic deficit, we need to cultivate sovereignty at the family and community level in the training of consensus. We begin by bringing the parents, the teachers and the judges to meet in schools, to cause a point of quietning stillness to calmly emerge in wisdom within the community. The quietning stillness is the communal exercise to set the tone of the assembling. The relatedness that assembles these people becomes the tuning fork to proceed into the atmosphere of trust and comfort to shape decision making in our midst. This familyhood becomes the catalyst to the Canadian Mother and Father International Association. Together, we usher in the Canadian fabric the rise of the personal sector. On the short term, this personal sector acts as the antidote to the causes of apathy, exclusion and reclusion, by fostering the common denominator that converts the divided and conquered state of our subdued multiculturalism, allowing for the transition from strangers to communal family partaking. On the medium term, the personal sector is the focal life of inter-personal trust and of community comfort, that becomes the base of renewing communications to Canadian democracy, rising to absorb and to fill the voiding dynamics that make up the basic decision-making of our present system of secretive complicity between private and public national institutions. This void of never ending secrecy, manipulation and deceit is where much of the tax power gets shredded into ongoing excuses and power struggles of unresolvable opinions, amongst the 4 levels of political decision-makers, the Law and the banks...(next post)
Benoit Couture , 26 July 2005 @ 15:19 PM Canadian authorities and marijuanna community (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...By dimming the light on with the personal sector, we will arrive to the starting point of the non-threatening site and sight of communion that will gather parents, teachers and judges. Families and neighbours get then to be drawn by the inviting nature of meeting to regenerate and/or to restore the human spirit in love and wisdom, where justice is hosting decision-making of serenity in growing joy. On the long term, the personal sector becomes the socio-cultural ground to make room to accommodate the non-prosecutional zone. This zone gradually grows with the maturing of communities who become exercised in the translation from the old and distant decision making to the renewing family and community bond. Canadians need to see arising from the personal sector, the shaping of authority and discipline of a round table that will bring and sit together the Mother and Father International Association (MAFIA) the Real Community of Moderate People (RCMP) and the Canadian Blessed Communion(CBC). The aim of this exercise is to ignite with the help of the media, the path of inspiration that will raise our national self-awareness. We will consolidate the restoring power of justice on the ground, from the underground to the preamble of the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedom. This preamble says: "Where as Canada is founded upon principles which recognise the Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law." In French it says the same except for the Rule of Law. Instead it says: "The pre-eminence of the Right". We will bring this difference to completion of one another's language and add on to this delicate balance: " and the quietning silence of patient wisdom", in order to open the door for justice to grow the inner disposition by which we can heal our history with the First Nations and amongst us all. From here we invite humanity to join us, Aboriginal, English, French and the rest to secure the Assembling of the One Nation...amen...
Benoit Couture , 26 July 2005 @ 15:03 PM How Canada can face a national problem of global proportion Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureCanadian politicians are debating a Bill to decriminalise marijuanna. The world needs Canada to be bold enough in the process, to adapt the Bill to reach the following impact: Embryo of a Bill for the Ministry of Reconciliation INTRODUCTION Since the United Nations adopted a list of illegal drugs in 1948, there has been a systematic deployment of a confrontation, which has developed into the war on drugs. It goes on, being perpetuated in the fields of addictions, at the expense of the public purse, spreading its confrontational damages over two generations now, through out the earth. As a result, there is ongoing multiplication of the confrontations amongst families, neighbours, communities and nations. The costs to individual and communal peace are perpetuating the state of cultural and social divisions such, that the human and the economic costs have gone on spiralling in the wrong direction. This vicious circle has decayed democratic societies from the inside out and keeps the doors wide open to the entity of terror-anti-terror to feasting off all sides at the same time, for the benefit of the very, very few. Governments and the people must join forces to transfer all resources that are going into the war on drugs and to invest them into the individual and communal victory over stress and compulsive behaviours. Motion of the Bill for the Ministry of Reconciliation “WE the citizens of Canada and of all Nations who care to join, declare our resolution to endorse and to move with our resources from out of the war on drugs and to deploy ourselves with our resources, into the victory over stress and compulsive behaviours. We do so to provide to individuals, families and the communities of the member Nations, with the common ground and with the framework to set in motion The Ministry of Reconciliation. The Ministry of reconciliation is the instrument by which we, the people of the participating Countries, take on the right we have, to fulfil our needs to host, to develop and to deploy the Faculty of Living with our tax money that now go in the war on drugs. The itinerary of the motion is to secure the passage from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government. I -----------, hereby pledge my personal interest into the Ministry of Reconciliation, to establish and to deploy the victory over personal and community stress and compulsive behaviours, in the simplicity of good health and happiness.” Signed: -------------- Date: ---------------- Address: -------------- Ph # -----------------
Benoit Couture , 11 July 2005 @ 15:24 PM Unique opportunity for Canada and Bono to join KM and live intelligenceStay at home dad Benoit CoutureIn the news last night, it was said that the National Hockey League is on the verge to announce that the lock out, which costed the world of hockey a whole complete season off, might be reaching the end. At one point, in the beginnings of the lock out, 3 rich boys offered to the owners to buy out the whole league all at once for 3 billions dollars. It was refused instantly without further discussion, as if a can of worms had just been opened. It demonstrated that there was a lot more to the picture than meet the eyes. It showed that the lock out had as much to do with money as with the power of ownership over natural human resources, not to mention the death of the meaning of the word sport, burried deep by the business world, at the heart of competition's meaning. As one who has been personaly owned, operated and systematically destroyed shortly before my 18 years old by one of the oldest owner in the game of hockey, it again confirms so much the visionary stance of civility of Valuetrue and of DM. Every time I read: "Which one of these 2 organisations would you prefer to work for...", it sure hits home. The moment of truth is here for Canadian hockey players as well as the population, to decide if their national sport is worth saving from such treatment or will they let ownership of the old order prevail? By joining this cause of hockey players along with the university of stars concept, bring them on in the context described in the link I give you here and build on with the momentum of Live8 and suddenly, we;ve got ourselves the movement taking on a new dimension. The perspective of multi-disciplines joining to follow the lead of spiritual intelligence. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F2130629?thread=682993 Does it add to you?
Chris Macrae , 12 March 2005 @ 16:48 PM space & place don't just a community or knowledge society makeMr Chris Macrae---they sustain people at least that has been the idneifying EI belief of developing a thread for each country's situation as a knowledge society I am therefore over the moon to report this sighting in Canada, Tornto http://www.the215.ca/ This splits 2 ways:for those lucky enough to be in Toronto- does it merit the trust its web demands? for the rest of us, has our city got even one of these? if not, is there any part of the EU still helping such places and spaces to breathe life? I didnt find this space by myself so I should credit the seqeunce of links that led up to it: I was rereading the postbag of www.egroups.com/group/onlinefacilitation - I realise I keep on erring in not mentioning this resource enough as its better for me on CoP than other lifelines I then went to check that moderator Nancy White http://www.fullcirc.com/ is still in Seattle -a hard place for me to travel via then I say she was reviewing this blog's contribution to good spaces for community activismhttp://www.furl.net/forward.jsp?id=2253836 and I guess all of this is connected to my role in demonstrating that London is up tere in the top 5 of knowledge cplaborating cities even if we dont have a 215http://cluboflondon.blogspot.com/http://futureoflondon.blogspot.com/
Chris Macrae , 12 October 2004 @ 08:23 AM social lawyer networkMr Chris MacraeWhen I first started face to face interviews of world leading luminaries in the systemic change that intangibles valuation evolves, I was a bit surprised. I had been told to go and interview the coordinator in DC of Brooking's 2 volumes on Unseen Wealth, and found that she was a social lawyer (primarily employed by Georgetown Law School). Ironically in 2001, she hoped the EU would lead the world with intangibles reserach which it was until the abortion fo funding FP5 end of Prism excellence network. Of course this introduction made it less surprising when another social lawyer - Canadian Joel Bakan - emerged as leading hub for societal reformation of Global Corporations with all the networks that a film and book can muster http://www.thecorporation.com. Londoners are particularly fortunate that October 2004 brings us a season of The Corporation including Q&A opportunities with Joel. Through these people we connect into truly reforming transparency and global corporate responsibilities where more US reformation lawyers and sustainability analysts come into the picture. You will find the likes of Robert Hinkley & Robert Monks closely networked into Bakan's deepest research notes. You can then connect these to campaigning author/journalist Marjorie Kelly (both author of Divine Right of Capital and for 16 years editor of the leading corporate responsibility journal http://www.business-ethics.com ) Alongside this we have the longest running researcher of net generation demands come transparency system developer Don Tapscott and we have the world's leading investigative journalist of globalisation gone locally disastrous (and mass media vicious) in Naomi Klein. Canada is also rich in leading sustainability conference centres and open space alumni. It also has annual McMaster World Conferences which are a chance for Policy Capitalist to change to open governance and hi-trust measurements. I wish I knew where the European equivalents hub into these networks because all sustainable visions 2010 of European Knowledge Society need such parallel researchers to come to the fore in changing authenticity in the way big business and big governments measure performance contexts and behave transparently as powers over people's time, knowledge, emotional intelligences, and abilities to make a lifelong difference that serves other people. When you set up google alerts for the key terms I mention, its interesting how often more and more Canadian resources linkin. We'd love to sign up more co-blogging correspondents for whynotTORONTO
Chris Macrae , 08 February 2004 @ 02:31 AM network of 5 for performing artsMr Chris MacraeCanada has led the way in providing the first person to take us up on our offer to try to form micro networks of excellence around people's deep rooted concerns http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=122789&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y Here's the 5 person network call we are aiming to assemble for a lady from Toronto who has devoted most of her career to the performing arts. If you are or know someone who might make a perfect member of her 5-person micro-network of excellence , please emai, me at [email protected] with some details that you would like me to relay on thankschris call for a micro network of excellence from Linda R writes:Here's the cluster of issues that I am interested in discussing that relate to my life and work:How do we fund the arts in order to ensure that they are sustainable? What is the correct balance of state support and marketplace support for maximum health of each discipline? Once that is established, how do we get buy in from governments and voters to support arts funding? How do we counter the pressure to let the marketplace decide, which demonstrably leads to only the lowest common denominator surviving as saleable art?
Chris Macrae , 31 January 2004 @ 04:23 AM Peace Networks of excellenceMr Chris MacraeMy friend Lilly Evans introduced me to this Canadian Jewel whose calendar of events for 2004 is a great exemplar:http://www.peace.ca/upcoming.htm This also liked me to a virtual univesrity of peace and Network of Excellence Transcend http://www.transcend.org/t_database/members.php This is a formidable looking network & searchable by country I note also the link to the canadian magazine http://www.peacemagazine.org/
Vitaly Titov , 28 January 2004 @ 10:48 AM fast forward into uncertain futureVitaly Titov Dear knowledgeboarders! There you can download PDF file: "The Anatomy of a Transformation in 1985-1995", that put the explicit vision from Canada into uncertain future.
Chris Macrae , 27 January 2004 @ 20:34 PM conversation on corporationMr Chris MacraeI have loaded an off-board conversation on corporation that lit up tehse last few days. http://www.knowledgeboard.com/download/3274/corporationacademics.docIts quite academic and I do not wholly understand - actually a question I would like to raise is why is it so easy to start a conversation like this by emailing a few friends, but relatively speaking like pushing water up hill to get a conversation going on kboard-it seems that a typical batting ration is 100 people reading to 1 person posting- is this normal for -boards?chris
Chris Macrae , 24 January 2004 @ 01:34 AM The Corporation - part 2Mr Chris Macrae"This fine book was virtually begging to be written. With lucidity and verve, expert knowledge and incisive analysis, Joel Bakan unveils the history and the character of a devilish instrument that has been created and is nurtured by powerful modern states. They have endowed their creature with the rights of persons -- and by now, rights far exceeding persons of flesh and blood -- but a person that is pathological by nature and by law, and systematically crushes democracy, freedom, rights, and the natural human instincts on which a decent life and even human survival depends: the modern corporation. This incisive study should be read carefully, and pondered. And it should be a stimulus to constructive action -- not at all beyond our means, as the author outlines." -Noam Chomsky "Bakan's "The Corporation" is one of those rare books that opens up a new world. It's message is compelling-- and more important now than ever. With exquisite historical evocations and incisive contemporary examples, the author challenges us to recognize the flaws inherent in the very nature of the corporation and the practical possibilities for reform. You will want to have the book at hand for frequent reference for many years to come." -Robert Monks "Since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring began to expose the abuses of the modern industrial system, there has been a growing awareness that profit at the expense of Earth--of individuals, society, and the environment--is unsustainable. Joel Bakan has performed a valuable service to corporations everywhere by holding up a mirror for them to see their destructive selves as others see them. The clarion call for change is here for all who would listen." -Ray Anderson
Chris Macrae , 24 January 2004 @ 01:33 AM The Corporation: Could this film and book have an impact?- part 1Mr Chris Macraehttp://www.thecorporation.tv/filingcabinet.html#book Book: " The Corporation - The Pathological Pursuit of Power" Eminent Canadian law professor and legal theorist Joel Bakan contends the modern business corporation is created by law to function like a psychopathic personality. Beginning with its origins in the sixteenth century, Bakan traces the corporation's rise to dominance. Simon and Schuster: “the most revolutionary assessment of the corporation since Peter Drucker's early works,” THE CORPORATION makes the following claims: • Corporations are required by law to elevate their own interests above those of others, making them prone to prey upon and exploit others without regard for legal rules or moral limits. • Corporate social responsibility, though sometimes yielding positive results, most often serves to mask the corporation's true character, not to change it. • The corporation's unbridled self interest victimizes individuals, the environment, and even shareholders, and can cause corporations to self-destruct, as recent Wall Street scandals reveal. • Despite its flawed character, governments have freed the corporation from legal constraints through deregulation, and granted it ever greater power over society through privatization. Bakan urges restoration of the corporation's original purpose, to serve the public interest, and calls for re-establishment of democratic control over the institution. Concrete, pragmatic, and realistic reforms are proposed.
Chris Macrae , 12 January 2004 @ 02:11 AM The Commonwealth of LearningMr Chris MacraeSounds like an interesting idea- would love to hear reports from any stakeholders http://www.col.org/about/Building Capacity in Open and Distance LearningThe Commonwealth of Learning is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, COL is the only official Commonwealth agency located outside Britain and is the world's only intergovernmental organisation solely concerned with the promotion and development of distance education and open learning. COL is helping to increase the capacities of developing nations to meet the demands for improved access to quality education and training.In part due to the efforts of COL and its Commonwealth-wide network over the past ten years, distance education is now a part of the mainstream of education and training. It enables students to learn at the location, time and pace of their choice, for less money and with improved results. COL's goals include maximising the transfer of information, ideas, innovations and resources to support this rapid evolution of distance education.Commonwealth Governments financially support COL on a voluntary basis. Major contributors have included Australia, Britain, British Columbia, Brunei, Canada, India, New Zealand and Nigeria. http://www.col.org/Consultancies/02virtualu.htmWhile not envisioned in COL’s Three-year Plan, 2000 – 2003, COL has responded to a request by Commonwealth Ministers of Education that it explore the creation of a virtual university to support higher education in small states. After technical collaboration and wide consultation, COL presented a report on the purpose, design and economics of establishing such a virtual university to Commonwealth Ministers of Education when they met in Edinburgh in October 2003 (available for download above). The university, as conceived, would function on the basis of collaboration amongst a consortium of existing educational providers. Ministers strongly endorsed the proposal. Subsequently, in Abuja, Nigeria, Commonwealth Heads of Government "received with appreciation the Report of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and accepted its recommendations, in particular, the proposal of the Commonwealth Conference of Education Ministers for a Commonwealth Virtual University for Small States." (CHOGM Communiqué, 8 December 2003)
Chris Macrae , 11 January 2004 @ 18:27 PM Open CanadaMr Chris MacraeOpen Spaces in canada Ontario -references
Chris Macrae , 12 December 2003 @ 18:08 PM McMaster CongressMr Chris MacraeI'm giving a paper on cporpoarte governance not as usual at the 2004 McMaster conference Jan 14-16 Anyone else going? would love to meet up cheerschris macrae update Jan -04A list of some of our featured speakers include: Don Tapscott, Author, The Naked CorporationLeif Edvinsson, UNICHubert Saint-Onge, Saint-Onge AllianceMary Lee Kennedy, MicrosoftJoe Chidley, Canadian Business MagazineDavid Brett, Knexa SolutionsCindy Gordon, Helix Commerce InternationalDave Pollard, Ernst & YoungMichael Raynor, Deloitte ResearchJohn Evans, TorStarFinn Poschmann, CD Howe InstituteRick Camilleri, CanWest GlobalHoward Deane, KPMGRafik Loutfy, Xerox Research CentreRichard Livesley, Bank of MontrealBryan Davis, Kaieteur Institute for KMJay Chatzkel, Progressive Practices Check out the full agenda of speakers for this event here: http://worldcongress.mcmaster.ca/pdf/25agenda.pdf
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 19:08 PM IC Anthology - part 3Mr Chris MacraeMihnea Moldoveanu Rotman School of ManagementUniversity of Toronto Original Chapter: Epistemology in Action: A Framework for Understanding Organizational Due Diligence Processes Janine NahapietSumantra Ghoshal Templeton College, OxfordLondon Business School 1998 AMR Article: Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage Ikujiro Nonaka School of Knowledge ScienceJapan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology 1994 Organization Science Article:A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation Steve PikeAnna RylanderGoran Roos Intellectual Capital Services Original Chapter: Intellectual Capital Management and Disclosure Ron Sanchez IMD, Lausanne Original Chapter:Modular Product and Process Architectures: Frameworks for Strategic Organizational Learning Deborah SoleAmy Edmondson Harvard Business School Original Chapter: Bridging Knowledge Gaps: Learning in Geographically Dispersed Cross-functional Development Teams J.-C. Spender School of Business & TechnologyFashion Institute of Technology Original Chapter: Knowledge, Strategic Problems, and The Theory of The Firm William Starbuck Stern School of BusinessNew York University 1993 JMS Article with New Commentary: Keeping a Butterfly and an Elephant in a House of Cards Katsuhiro Umemoto Graduate School of Knowledge ScienceJapan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Original Chapter: Managing Existing Knowledge is Not Enough: Knowledge Management Theory and Practice in Japan Georg von KroghSimon Grand Institute for ManagementUniversity of St Gallen, Switzerland Original Chapter:From Economic Theory Towards A Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm: Conceptual Building Blocks Sidney WinterGabriel Szulanski The Wharton SchoolUniversity of Pennsylvania Original Chapter: Leveraging Knowledge by Replicating Routines Youngjin Yoo Ben Torrey Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve UniversityAccenture Original Chapter:National Culture and Knowledge Sharing in a Global Learning Organization: A Case Study Michael Zack College of Business AdminstrationNortheastern University, Boston 1999 CMR Article with New Commentary:Developing a Knowledge Strategy
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 19:08 PM IC Anthology Part 2Mr Chris MacraeRaghu Garud Arun Kumaraswamy Stern School of BusinessNew York University 1995 SMJ Article with New Commentary:Technological and Organizational Designs to Achieve Economies of SubstitutionRobert Grant McDonough School of BusinessGeorgetown University Original Chapter: The Knowledge-Based View of the Firm Brian Hackett The Conference Board Chapter adapted from the Conference Board Report:Beyond Knowledge Management - New Ways to Work (2000) Constance Helfat Ruth Raubitschek Amos Tuck School of Business AdministrationDartmouth CollegeUS Department of Justice 2000 SMJ Article with New Commentary:Product Sequencing: Co-evolution of Knowledge, Capabilities and Products Ard HuizingWim Bouman University of Amsterdam Original Chapter: Knowledge and Learning, Markets and Organizations: Managing the Information Transaction Space Kazuo Ichijo Graduate School of International Corporate StrategyHitotsubashi University Original Chapter: Knowledge Exploitation and Knowledge Exploration: Two Strategies for Knowledge Creating Companies Anne Marie Knott The Wharton SchoolUniversity of Pennsylvania Original Chapter: Exploration and Exploitation as Complements Seija Kulkki Center for Knowledge and Innovation ResearchHelsinki School of Economics and Business Administration Original Chapter: Knowledge Creation in Global Companies Dorothy LeonardSylvia Sensiper Harvard Business School 1998 CMR Article with New Commentary:Tacit Knowledge in Group Innovation Sharon Matusik Jesse Jones Graduate School of ManagementRice University Original Chapter: Managing Public and Private Firm Knowledge Within the Context of Flexible Firm Boundaries Will MitchellJoel BaumJane Banaszak-HollWhitney B. BertaDilys BowmanUniversity of Michigan Business SchoolUniversity of Toronto Rotman School of ManagementUniversity of Michigan School of Public HealthUniversity of Toronto Dept of Health Administration Original Chapter: Opportunity and Constraint: Chain-to-Component Transfer Learning in Multiunit Chains of US Nursing Homes 1991-1997
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 19:06 PM IC Anthology -part 1Mr Chris MacraeThis Anthology edited from Canada by Nick Bontis and Chun Choo looks impressivehttp://choo.fis.utoronto.ca/OUP/default.htmlthough I wonder if the editors haven't made their favorite selections over the last decade whether or not everyone would recognise them as directly on the book's title The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational KnowledgeContributors (in alphabetical order): Paul Adler Marshall School of BusinessUniversity of Southern California Forthcoming Organization Science Article with New Commentary:Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism Melissa Appleyard Darden SchoolUniversity of Virginia 1996 SMJ/1999 JKM Article with New Commentary: Knowledge Diffusion and Flow in Semiconductor Industry Vincent BarabbaJohn PourdehnadRussell Ackoff General Motors CorpUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe Wharton SchoolOriginal Chapter: Above and Beyond Knowledge Management Paul Bierly IIIPaula Daly College of BusinessJames Madison University Original Chapter: Aligning HRM Practices and Knowledge Strategies: A Theoretical Framework Frank Blackler Lancaster UniversityManagement School 1995 Organization Studies Article with New Commentary: Knowledge, Knowledge Work, and Organizations Max Boisot ESADE School of Business Adminstration, Barcelona Original Chapter: The Creation and Sharing of Knowledge Chong Ju ChoiAnastasios Karamanos NGSM, Australian National UniversityCBR, University of Cambridge Original Chapter: Knowledge and the Internet: Lessons from Cultural Industries Claudio CiborraRafael Andreu London School of EconomicsIESE, University of Navarra Original Chapter:Knowledge Across Boundaries: Managing Knowledge in Distributed Organizations Kathleen Conner C K Prahalad University of MichiganSchool of Business 1996 Organization Science Article: A Resource-Based Theory of the Firm: Knowledge Versus Opportunism Mary CrossanJohn Hulland Ivey School of BusinessUniversity of Western OntarioKatz Graduate School of BusinessUniversity of Pittsburgh Original Chapter: Leveraging Knowledge Through Leadership of Organizational Learning Donna De Carolis LeBow College of BusinessDrexel University Original Chapter:The Role of Social Capital and Organizational Knowledge in Enhancing Entrepreneurial Opportunities in High Technology Environments Charles DespresDaniele Chauvel Graduate School of Business, Marseille-ProvenceThe Theseus Institute Original Chapter: Knowledge, Context, and the Management of Variation Harald FischerJoseph PoracJames B. WadeJoyce BrownMichael DeVaughnAlaina Kanfer School of BusinessUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonGoizueta Business SchoolEmory UniversityBORN Original Chapter: Mobilizing Knowledge In Interorganizational Alliances
Chris Macrae , 16 July 2003 @ 07:40 AM great first impressionMr Chris MacraeNew to me but making a great first impression is the Human Rights Internet - linking the Digital Divide at http://www.hri.ca/about/intro.shtmlhttp://www.hri.ca/welcome.asp Does anyone have contacts/info on how productive a group this is?
Chris Macrae , 07 July 2003 @ 18:25 PM responsibility bookmarkMr Chris Macraea canadian bookmark from my archives: 2) Responsibility in Canada http://www.cbsr.bc.ca/ ****Canada is to the Americas as Nordica is to Europe - a beacon where knowledge openness and governance responsibility for human and social capital multiplying the intellectual capital of firms is emerging with a lot of promise. Extract:(CSRwire) LONDON - Companies are not normally shy when it comes to telling the world how well they are doing. So why are Britain's biggest companies so coy when it comes to talking about their record on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?
Chris Macrae , 05 July 2003 @ 18:09 PM value evolutionMr Chris MacraeIt should surprise nobody that as we hurtle in a network age - with virtual network learning contacts as well as real ones - and most value already created by service or knowledge differences rather than dead product-based comparisions- smart value isn't strategised the way it was when victorian britons put people in production line factories. Yet our leader's view of strategising clings oddly to old command and control notions rather than ones that value people's diversity of skills within a living system pattern On pages 256 to 258 of her latest book 'The Future of Knowlledge', Verna Allee classifies a hierarchy of strategy which I broadly interpret at 3 levels: the lowest value strategies cling to tangible measurements; at best these organisations seem to be perpetuating commodity patterns of work through which their employees have no pathways to grow; ultimately this means that such organisations are going nowhere valauable either second level value strategies broadly improve processes through action learning and other modes that were discovered in the Total Quality Benchmarking Movements of the 1980s; whilst these systemise companies, their 'dis-equilibriums for growth' are far away from the relationship dynamics of living systems; balanced scorecards are the furthest this level of value can reach in its metrics; and that's not far at all copmapred with where worldiwde networking can take us in out local diversity of value exchanges and multiplying learning, where this is most humanly neeeded where we need to go, if you want to enjoy the leadership value add of both organisation vision and network or organsiaion vision integrates all the capitals human, social, intellectual of organisation and of nation, and does so transparently so all who want to participate loyally and by bringing unique differences relevant to an organisation's focus are truly rewarded in the trust-flow that compounds, and this openness propagates truly through all systems of systems
Chris Macrae , 05 July 2003 @ 17:56 PM Value of the FutureMr Chris MacraeTwo Canadians have changed my whole perspective of how organsiations work dynamically to produce value for all involved They are Don Tapscott http://www.digital4sight.com/lne.php and Verna Allee whose work closely interconnects Both show that huge organisational changes in strategy are`required to be of value in the future:defensiveness must go, openness come in static long-term plans must be replaced by dynamic short-hops within a systemically valued vision no value sustaining organisation is an island, system of system transparency of value exchanes is the way forward and this must interweave social democratic values as well as more purely economic ones As Verna is participating at a K'board event and I am reading her newest book, some of my posts may focus on her first. But lest I forget to state it being a transparency adviser , Tapscott is worldwide the first person I look to in refreshing valuations of which organistions have a future. Verna is participating at a Kboard event later in the year
Chris Macrae , 05 July 2003 @ 03:25 AM thanksMr Chris MacraeVal, thanks for your bookmarks- I see why you feel that Canada's parliament will give eg Finland's and Nordica's a race in to openly multiply knowledge to and for the people. Bonne Chance. I look forward to more countries' parliaments making this transformation. Is there any particular moment or person who you feel started Canada's approach? What sort of magic breakthrough do other countries need? I noticed elsewhere that you made the suggestion: "Why not try to turn KB into a global virtual think tank on KM". Could you elaborate on ideas on how we could experiment with that? K'board , as far as I understand it, is in one of those transitionary stages where we should try out any member idea within the reach that 5000 the reach of people passionate about all of knowledge's potentials in a networked world.
Open Community 1 of ENGLAND @ knowledgeboard.comFin Rus Bra USA Swe Den Ind NZ Aus Can Jap Ger Fra Net Eng Ukr Wal Gre Spa Por Fra Slo Mal Leb Chi Mex Lat Cze My favourite foreign country Some UK Inputs : UK Cabinet Office pdf on Social Capital 20 year's ago one of the country's leading economists believed that the value mulitplying epicentre of knowledge begins with intrapreneurial teams and went on to explain how the networking age's great social economies would only multiply if big organisations stopped trying to command and control every digit. We don't take back a word of it; there is no knowledge economy and KM is bunk unless you liberate human productivity and people's networks within a trustworthy and transparent system of leadership and governance.Nordica went on to implement inspiring views multiplying human, social and intellectual capital, whereas Britain and America became addicted to accountants numbers and cutting people down. Could we please now unlearn these depressing mistakes of living by numbers alone? Please post:any details of EU research into KM that is primarily taking place in the England any notable aspects of KM which the rest of Europe should benchmark with depth/breadth of learning gained in the England; for example if you were to list 3 webs out of the England that every KM person should know of, what might they be? ideas for integration events that the England would most like to be a hub for in knowledgeboard or knowledge angels open advancement of knowledge practices; linking this where relevant to particular intellectual, social or human capital found in the England or particular regions any big questions of knowledge that the England (its leading companies or its most entrepreneurial people) might have about identifying exchange links across Europe? If you feel another question should have been listed here, please phrase it in your post
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Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this story. Legal NoticeNumber of comments: 68 Stella Kemp , 10 August 2005 @ 17:28 PM with deepest respect, coming back to threadIf I understand correctly, this thread invited Londoners and those who love what London tries to stand for in influencing societies At our core we are trying to say we take responsibility for London being a test case for the future of all open multicultural cities; and invite anyone of deeply caring culture or cities to collaborate in this future reconciliation between world's richer cities and poorest places noting that many of the compound crises around the world also compounded by errors like slavery which the British Empire was one of the first to globalise. We also accept that 20th C Economics has compounded extraordinarily dangerous apartheids, separating people in ways that nobody who loves diversity or transparency can tolerate. It may have been all that could be done before the net; its externalities policies now terrify us. We thank whomever helped the BBC to understand that Colin's lifestory merited the resomnating around the web's airwaves as you can see here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4741333.stmextract:Tributes have been pouring in from all over the globe for a man who really did try to change the world. Colin Morley, a 52-year-old father from north London, was described as a genius in the world of advertising and marketing. He used his brilliant communication skills to try to help charities and businesses understand their brand and, on a wider scale, he tried to change the world of media and marketing into a force for social good. His latest project, called Be The Change, encourages people and organisations to find ways to improve ethically, socially, environmentally and personally. Bringing joy to other people was his aim, he once said. Our lives are forever changed, but we carry his positive spirit in us and will continue to spread his desire for peace and love in the world, and his wish to make the world a better place. Ros Morley And a glimpse at the Be The Change website (see internet links right), where 25,000 words of tributes have been posted, shows how Mr Morley's work and philosophy touched the lives of so many. He was killed on the Tube train near Edgware Road, but some of the messages posted on the website suggest his ideas will live on
Benoit Couture , 10 August 2005 @ 12:19 PM ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... and Open Geospacial Consortium( part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureIN THE HOPE TO BRING ON A LASTING SMILE OF DEEP RELIEF FOR ALL CONCERNED WITH THE POWERTO BEThe project of ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... (cvC) comes at the tale end, in the history of one of the longest monarchy to ever exist, the Commonwealth. I come from the North American jewel of the British Crown, Canada. The times in which cvC is being introduced, is at a moment in history when humanity is faced locally and globally with the very continuum of human existance. Only nature has ever been able to send upon the collective awerness, signals of danger with such magnitude as what the war in Iraq and against terrorism is forcing the human reace to face. With the nature signals, we are only forced to address the return to narmal. This time, there is no return to normal for anyone. The norms and standards must be re-addressed to adapt with the recovery of good health and happiness. The concept of cvC is for the sake of being a user friendly tool of focus and of rally to promote and to train for the sharp reforms that Western populations are faced with, locally. Voters, taxes, force of Law and Legal Tender working together for the tender living. The image of promotion, is that of carachter who comes into existance for the sole puporse to embody the depth and the spectrum of the transformatoion we are faced with as citizens, consumers and voters with "free conscience". cvC must find the unisson resonance in the Spirit of God, from the Winsor family and demonstrate to humanity how we proceed from stranger to family. Canada is five centuries of history making between two of the worst enemies to ever inhabit the Earth: English and French. The odds were made more complicated with fifty-four nations who's existance dates back from before the ice age. This is a fact that is only beginnig to emmerge in the twenty-first century, and it is only starting to take on its significance in our understanding of the big picture of the human speceies. We are still far from having adjusted any of the wrongs that we go on doing by ignoring the wisdom of simplicity offered by Aboriginals from all over the Earth...(continue next post)
Benoit Couture , 10 August 2005 @ 12:17 PM ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... and the Open Geospacial consortium (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureFor the promotion of cvC to work at rallying the focus and to infuse inspiration, we need to laugh and to cry together. Our national condition must be embodied with such an intimate and personal reach, that the message will go on and the messenger will vanish with the emerging reforms and the renewed distribution of common wealth. So here is a tale, to introduce the messenger of cvC. He is born out the light that came from two key rivals from the big chess board. In French, next to the monarchs are the "fools". the same position in English is held by "bishops". Recently, the two found themselves stuck for quite a while, next to each other, waiting for the struggling players to finaly make up their move. And so, for the first time in history, the seriousness of the Anglais bishop was directly exposed and forced to endure the raw jokes of naked truth from the fool instead of hypocritical reverence. Likewise, for the first time in history, the fool has to endure blunt wisdom trown at him instead of continuous mindless laughter, until he is told to get out of sight. The players took so long to get back to the fools and to the bishops, that by the time they returned, there was no more chess board. The message had come to life and says that power and decision-making over human affairs is not made to be a chess game in the hands of hypocrisy and ignorance. And so, in order to embody with humour and wisdom the healing of the meaning, sraight out of a peculliar situation on the big chess board, I introduce to you the messenger of cvC. NAF. TA. North American Frog Terribly Apprehensive. Who is he and what is he after? Please see: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2911
Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 17:01 PM Appeal to the true majesty of Britania (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureHere is a letter that was intended to be brought to the attention of her majesty, Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. This is a personal invitation to her into a dream of mine as a Canadian citizen, written so that its reality may reach anyone on earth as well. I invite her to a strategy, for Britannia and Canada to begin the ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... by the release of The Permanent People Summit into the Canadian reality, while she visits Edmonton on today and returns tomorrow on the 25th of May 2005, from celebrating the centennial of the province of Alberta, Canada . Your highness,History is moving and destiny is calling; we must answer! There is no legal nor even maybe a moral protocol to allow me to address you, your highness, other than my calling upon the mercy of Lord and to your grace, so that you may know of the vision I have been granted to carry so far. Like a pregnancy, there comes a time for the delivery. I have been in "THE" state of transition your highness, since 9, 11, 01, most likely the same state as anyone who is aware of the times. So in Oct 2001, I phoned the Privy Council Office of Canada from my stay at home, imbalanced life. I asked if I could have the following question answered: " Can someone with a not so good reputation, have a motion that actually gets implemented all the way to the Clerk of the Council, in the PMO and across the nation?" After a little probing, the receptionist became distinctly vibrant, as the lady insisted that I call right back if I had not gotten through to where she was hooking me up. After a few tries, I reached an analyst in the social think-tanking, two doors down from the Clerk's office. Once past my initial question, he asked what was my idea. My prep to this question was the following statement: "I, Benoit Couture, call upon the Canadian Mother and Father International Association to support my motion to activate the Role and Structure of the Privy Council of Canada into cleansing our vision of the Crown, by growing into the Faculty of Living, so as to consolidate the Canadian Heritage." And so after an hour or so of beautiful. casual, relieving and soothing brain storming, he said, and I love to quote: "...Mr Couture, I wish you...no, let me rephrase, I wish us all as Canadians that your motion gets implemented..." With this kind of wind hitting my sail, I lifted to glide on to the SUFA review. It is: Social Union Framework Agreement. It was signed in Feb of 1999 by all provinces except Quebec. The federal and the territories also signed. (continue on next post)
Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 17:01 PM Appeal to the true majesty of Britania ( part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureIt was up for review in Feb 2002 and I sent my submission. They scanned it in, in an unreadable fashion. So with fire up my belly, I sent it to the PMO and to all relevant offices across the nation. I've been relentless since. Reminding Mr Klein, Premier of Alberta whom you will spend time with on the 23rd and to his staff and to the PMO and to the Privy Council that I am still at it, promoting Canadian unity from personal health and mutual completion in maturity, instead of propaganda. This campaign is a natural development of a totally unusual journey. It is by spontaneous feed and feedback that I operate. It is the reason I write to you this way, on such a short notice. Democracy needs to capture the moment in time and to mature rapidly from the leftovers of colonisation's motherhood as well as to be released from the grip of paternalistic federalism. As you well know from your sovereign position, Canada is where Britannia gave the French, Europe and the Aboriginal populations with an opportunity to demonstrate how the people and the Crown can get along just fine in the completion of mutualaty. Your highness, we are now in the era of the entity of terror-anti-terror. One does not go without the other. Because of this global crisis, time is ripe for the essence of Britannia to regain its voice from the time spent in the "Quietning Silence of patient wisdom", since constitutional monarchy came about. In the province of Alberta, your former Lineament Governor, Lois Hole, has conceived a legal embryo with the Premier Klein, to offer you and Britannia the possibility do so with all the beauty of sanctity and the simplicity of being. She extended the power of that experience to bring sovereign leadership in the daily decisions, where service was going astray from the well-being of the people. Democracy is ready for the completion of unity under the Crown with the crown, with all of God's children on the earth. The democracy of a mature people of all people needs to be deployed in full bloom by your invitation to Mr. Bush and to Benedict the 16th to join in Canada and to let the vision emerge together, from upon the Land of Emmanuel, in the celebration of the permanent Easter that's being granted to the inner person of each human by the Covenant of the Lord with humans. Please help seize the moment to make of Canada, the place where from the gates and walls of this entity of terror-anti-terror shall not prevail and shall be pushed backward from upon humanity's horizon! In closing this first personal and intimate letter to you your highness and to all of Britannia as a start, I enclose the lyrics of 2 songs to put the vision in context of your visit to western Canada, next week. (continue on next post)
Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 17:01 PM Appeal to the true majesty of Britania ( part 3)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureFamily blessingOh young lives, granted from heaven to us parents and who painfully suffer with us and because of us, the discovery of spiritual maturity! The difficult upbringing that we’re being through, has been and will forever be inexcusable in our own eyes and in the eyes of the world. It is so, that we may all be trained in God’s power to forgive and to free us from what He forgives, as we learn to pray, to praise, to be thankful and to rejoice no matter what, in the blossom against and because of all odds. May we each live on by ongrowingly knowing God’s Fatherhood to us, where we each seek Him from, to where He seeks to be hosted within and amongst all of His own, in the quietning stillness of His Holiness to adore Him from! Dear spouse and children, the present of our lives comes to us from a specific dictation, grooved in the people of our past, and scripted in a future of the Life, as we radiate the spiritual-organic journey of the……Spheric Knighthood of Humanity’s Round Table In British terms, the knights represent the noblest of chivalry. They are the ones who are sovereignly appointed to serve and to protect with all the passion of their personal devotion to God and king or queen as the case may be. Since Camelot, the British monarchy and the knights of the round table have been adapting to the deeper calling of justice and of peace, while chivalry went on a quest of its own, looking for new ground to grow roots with. It reached beyond the realm of the Empire, and has now covered the whole sphere of the Earth. Having been forced to survive the underground rule, chivalry is sprouting back from upon the Land of Emmanuel, with knights who are equipped to serve and to protect the universal completion of personal and mutual community care. The round table we work from, is to inspire and to ease in the consensus of living freely with and for all who choose to host chivalry’s sprouting Royalty. The torch of Faith we carry is ignited to radiate the peace caused from the Solemn beauty of Being human who answers the ancient voice of humanity’s youth in the fluid adaptation of common sense, united by the Glory of our Father in heaven...amen!
Gillian Bush , 29 July 2005 @ 12:21 PM seeds of cross cultural harmony Ms Gillian BushOne of the inspiring stories told by Paul Komesaroff, founder of Global Reconciliation Network, is how youth of Melbourne are sponsored by the state to go meet, greet refugees and asylum sinkers , organsaing cultural festivals that intgrate the world's different dances, musics, foods, and other human celebrations. Have you heard of any other places in the world who greet their new nationals? All cultural experts know that first interactions compound. Clearly Britons need to learn that this is a people to people development issue from communities up not something that governments from the top can control, though they could perhaps mentor openness and spiritual kindredship in more open spaces than they have for a generation or two. And let people's media like the BBC have freedom of speech from every positivist perspective of life and our globe.
Gillian Bush , 28 July 2005 @ 08:09 AM a seminal postcard on diversity issues from LondonMs Gillian BushJon Snow, Channel 4 news:A day in the life of London, maybe even a commonplace day in the life of a Muslim. I am cycling back from Channel 4 at ten thirty seven this morning past the back of Horse guards parade in line of sight of the back of number 10 Downing Street - suddenly on the edge of the park I notice armed police, four of them, their guns raised surrounding a tall Muslim man with a dark beard. He is smartly dressed and has a brand new silver coloured camera bag on the ground at his feet. The voices are raised with the guns, in the time that I take to pass the guns lower, the bag is searched, the incident passes, no one seems to notice. Up on the mall a small knot of tourists are looking from a distance. One now normal unreported, maybe unreportable incident and a searing experience for one innocent Muslim man. Which isn't to say that the level of anxiety and tension which prompts such a scene isn't all too understandable. I am white, crazy-looking on a bike, with a shoulder bag across my back, yet I am not stopped in line of sight of number 10: here lies tonight's central dilemma - do only bag carrying bearded Muslims need to worry about passing public buildings? Soon they will begin to keep away from them and what is shared, what is all of ours, will become places they no longer come to. Not just the pubs where they never might have drank anyway, but now the places that are central to our democracy and our identity... Something we are addressing at seven with John Denham chair of the commons Home affairs select committee. He's arguing Mr Blair has got some of it wrong and must make amends. What questions do Transparency Mediators use this case to raise. I would love to hear from others in our practice community but I would start with:How is it that the coverage of our diversity crises by a small commercial channel can so shame (the muzzled reporting of ) the people's BBC channel? Do all Europeans realise that London is just a test case for the future of all our capital cities? Or do they bravely sneer at Londoners? If we could exorcise nationalism between our own 25 nations, just maybe E & U could help harmonise divesity relations in other hemispheres. Why doesn't Brussels come out of the globalisation closet. E & U could peacemake at a stroke. Rip up the common agricultural policy wherever it impacts countries in extreme poverty and call Bush's G8 poker cards on this issue. Blair is just one lonely person viewed from the sea of 6 billion beings. Why does 21st C safety of the world's citizens depend so much on stressed decision making of such a one & the tempraneity of media of mass agitation?
Chris Macrae , 26 July 2005 @ 12:39 PM after a final word, next big questionsMr Chris MacraeIt would never be the spirit to exclude a big question if anything comes to mind or learning from what we tried to interpret absent of Colin Morley. Otherwise, in searching for a final word through Colin & Open Space , I quickly came across this prescient blog entry of Colin's which will be pertinent if not forever, for as long as Londoners have lost our peace Opening space versus activismThe Open Space email group has been discussing Iraq and anti-Americanism as have many other people. This is a dilemna that I have wondered about, particularly being part of the Be The Change organising team, where we found ourselves both wanting to stand away from blaming people or holding the space at the same time as wanting to persuade Americans to vote against Bush. Harrison Owen, the originator of Open Space has summed it up in a way that helps to clarify my thoughts a lot. "Holding space and being an activist are two ends of a spectrum, and attempting to do both at the same time usually gets you in trouble, if not in schizophrenia. But the ends of the spectrum are always connected, and at any given time we (certainly I) find ourselves somewhere along the way. If my intent is to Open Space, I must let go as much as possible all thoughts of action, and a 14,000,000,000 year perspective can be very helpful. And when I choose to act, I must do so with every ounce of passion and talent at my disposal, even though I take up a lot of space.
Benoit Couture , 26 July 2005 @ 11:09 AM Fire of refinementStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and Guillian, I feel that this thread is entering in a zone where experience, knowledge and intelligence are being unveiled deeper and deeper into the simplicity of reality. One way that comes to mind to describe what I'm saying here, is that the learning curve of humanity's life experience as a whole goes from grossworking to networking. Thanks to both of you and to Collin's inspiration for having applied such graceful refinement to my experience from grossworking into networking. By the time you both took here, I am brought on to work through the experience in a more net way, in this wide open thread of England's Open Community. Thank you for such practical application of what you mean all along. I sure hope and pray that the 2 of you can spread the wings of such energy into the communal reality of all the big ideas and dreams being expressed here with such purity and clarity...
Chris Macrae , 26 July 2005 @ 08:32 AM Learning orbits from Colin - partial sampleMr Chris Macrae1) Colin had become deeply interested in experiencing Western approaches to collective consciousness training and consequential actions; in this we could understand how Open Space facilitation patterns conflict resolution and communal understanding. But I have never been able to get past my suspicion of other Western approaches to meditating or circular reconciliation flows of real-time communion etc whereas Colin was way ahead. In contrast, whilst not a practitioner I love the emotional intelligence "authenticity, deep context-led, open and fear-abolishing" consequences of what alumni of such Eastern sources as the Dalai Lama and Gandhi schools compound. Every time I met Colin we debated what were the missing links between us in this area, and agreed to defer to another round. 2 Colin as you can see from the links we have given in our recent posts was one of the most stunning successful social networkers of this age, at least around London and the contexts he was in. Anyone exploring the dynamics of social networks or community would find from his practice many clues; mind you Colin & I inspired by Meg Wheatley would talk about messy deep practice not theorised tidiness. 3 Having together studied mass media each with over a quarter a century of working practice, I believe we are both concerned to train children as well as adults on how to innoculate yourself from its spin. There are 2 joys: one sustaining, one destructing. Sustaining is about the joy of learning through an experience which makes your being able to make a difference. Destructive joy is about self-gratification. Knowing this: you can analyse any media's execution on you once you can feel the difference of those 2 communications intents. Call these value liberating or value chaining if you need. When researched, over 90% of mass mediated marketing, as currently practised, aims to waste people's development inviting self-gratification spirals not fufilment ones of joy. Colin more than I had knitted together at least 100 marketing experts who if they trusted you would help you change media use, whilst many of us are also caught up in professional conflicts that to make a living its easier to sell image-making rather than reality-making. One of Colin's great achievements , imo, was to have freed himself from needing any such dependency. Making him one of the most open communal advisers to enjoy being with. 4 I do not know of anyone who asked Colin for help on a humanly valuable issue to which Colin failed to reply in a truly modest way: however long it may take to be the change, I can help if we keep in touch and you deeply care
Chris Macrae , 26 July 2005 @ 08:00 AM time to be - part 2Mr Chris MacraeI hope you can see from part 1:that the choice of questions (more here) does become personal for you to make (what you value) and looking ahed to 3 - it is possible to imagine the same questions applying wholly to organsiations or people or any intermediary dynamic such as networks Mathematically, one other advice is: choose your value questions to be independent of each other rather than correlated (ie answering the same characteristic of relationship health). By doing this you can forecast future imacts with a model that is multiplicative in direction. Supose for example you surveyed 2 organisations and one was 10% ahead of your standard on compounding each of trust, courage-openness and person's time invested and the other 10% below. Then so far with those valuation factors, one systems' exponential is on a compound growth path of 33% (1.1*1.*1.1) the other on a decay path of 27% over the next few years. 3 So you then can test : does your survey apply to people relationships you make as well as valuing organisations. The variables in my survey appear to. But you can also refine your survey if it turns out that you come across a person whose relationships impacts are extraordinary as well as many views of that person. I will try and give some appropriate learnings in Colin's case in the next post, though do please accept my reason at this time and space is to select out positive dynamics of his impact that are most valuable because they as yet appear to be under-used by most networkers or communal interactors. Before moving on 3 observations:a) at this time on the loop of action learning, I would ask you for god's sake to learn (test the diversity of your experinece) before you actb) Colin and I had spent most of our life exploring the dark side of global media; when its used to lie, dumb down or socially control; so we explored a common big picture; but we had different personal ways of doing so; though many people helped us see harmonies in linking in c) I believe we also shared the view that today's greatest innovations and system transformations are wholly about conflict barriers and moving all peoples simultaneously and safely over them to higher integration of diversity- aka harmony. This is the Practice of Peace community renewal model that Harrison Owen has mentored thousands of Open Space Alumni in. Search Colin & Open Space
Chris Macrae , 26 July 2005 @ 07:59 AM time to be -part 1Mr Chris MacraeI spent some time thinking do I want to try to answer the peculiarity of Benoit's question and if so is there a simple whole way to do so without boring others in this thread who may feel its context peculiar. On balance as someone who does not value lurking - ie emotionally you are either in a learning community (its Q & A) or out of it but not sitting on its fence - I'd better try, fumbling attempt as it may be. The best way I can make this attempt is to recap on a recent breakthrough many of us have openly making: CONTENTS1 Knowledge of system spin as being dynamically equivalent to what sustainability exponential is being compounded around here2 How do you construct your own valuation survey of system spin3 Testing whether your survey applies to organisations and to people and any system in-between 1 If you have done any learning on people systems you will likely have heard the pattern rule : to know a holistic view of impacts, every system is already spinning- discover if its spinning virtuous or vicious spirals. Sustainability analysts find it valuable to translate this into the equivalent frame: any system is compounding a future exponential around it of growth or decay 2 If we get that far in construct logic: a breakthrough seems to be why not construct your own survey of system spin? It can help you and your communities see what is spinning sustainability or decay; and then decide whether your choice is to avoid getting connected into decaying systems or whether you are up for intervening with the goal of turning one such system round. It is up to you to sift through how you survey this because context matters. Having spent many years reporting emotional intelligence of intangibles my survey bias includes some profiles like:-does this system reward or destroy those who spend a lot of their time connecting in it: does this system proagate hi-trust or loow trust relationships? does this system nurture openness and courage needed to learn, chnage and innovate as oposed to just performing in an unlearning way?
Benoit Couture , 26 July 2005 @ 00:12 AM My mistakeStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGuillian, I apologise if it sounded too directed but in the same desire to see positive change happen, I seek to ask the questions as if I were Collin, who died and who could say: "Dont waste time on me, take up the torch yourself and run with it".So keep up the good work Guillian of seeking to apply Collins life work to your own and to ours. I was trying to drive his memory into actions now, while we are converging in the middle of strong emotions. But it is certainly not to reach negative grounds. Again, my apology, as I speak to us all, through the names involved here and that includes me.
Gillian Bush , 25 July 2005 @ 23:32 PM peace be with usMs Gillian BushBenoit from where I am your first paragraph is not right; your second paragraph asks whether there are actions I should be taking or helping people take that I am not. Leave that with me.
Benoit Couture , 25 July 2005 @ 20:30 PM Obvious questionStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Guillian, Collin meant so much to so many people that the moment of sadness is a moment to understand and to join in closer to one another who are in the same life pursuit as he was. Why dont we take his essence and move on to accomplish it ourselves, those of us who clainm to care for what he stood for? From what I am reading from the admiration of all who write of him, there's got to be enough inspiration and direction to get on with overcoming evil with good! What is missing? Or are we just here to demonstrate how helpless humanity can go on being? IS IT NOT TIME TO GO FROM SEEKING TO HAPENNING, dear new world of Europe and Americas?
Gillian Bush , 25 July 2005 @ 11:13 AM Guardian Obituary of KB member Colin Morley - part 2Ms Gillian BushHe was still sharing his enthusiasms and his joys with huge numbers of people, stimulating all who met him, right to the moment of his death. There are some fine tributes at the Be The Change website, which give some idea of how many lives he touched, and in such a positive way. If you ever see the Martin Luther King "Who do you want to have a one to one with?" advertisement again, on some show called The 100 Greatest Adverts, that was Colin - showing us a hero, inviting us to raise our goals as human beings, to acknowledge that all men are brothers. More recently he was involved in Rights and Humanity. It would be fitting to remember him by contributing to this attempt to build a better world. • Keith Clarke, Putney BeTheChange @ KB @ London @ Delhi @Empowerment
Gillian Bush , 25 July 2005 @ 11:13 AM Guardian Obituary of KB member Colin Morley -part 1Ms Gillian Bushhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1535497,00.html Marketing genius who tried to change the world Monday July 25, 2005The Guardian Colin MorleyAge 52 To attain an understanding of Colin Morley, to fathom how many lives he touched and the sense of loss that prevails since his death in the Edgware Road blast, log on to Bethechange.org.uk There, on a website he helped create, hundreds of people have posted almost 18,000 words of tribute. They come from Sweden, the US, New Zealand, Switzerland, Australia, Great Britain and a Tibetan monastery in Nova Scotia, Canada. They come from his wife, Ros, his son, Gavin, his friends and work colleagues - and people he barely knew. They come in regular form and haiku poems. They come from best-selling authors (Deepak Chopra) and quote Buddhist teachings. They talk peacefully ("Enjoy your well earned place in heaven") and in fury at his murder ("I feel empty, speechless, angry, upset and full of disbelief"). "He was a rare shining star in all ways, and he touched the hearts and souls of so many," said Ros Morley. "Our lives are forever changed, but we carry his positive spirit in us and will continue to spread his desire for peace and love in the world, and his wish to make the world a better place." His son, Gavin, added: "Dear Col, your fathering was superb. Later, we were close friends, and it is for this that I am most grateful. A lot of love passed between us and the flow continues." Mr Morley, 52 from Finchley, north London, was a father of three, a genius in the field of advertising and marketing and an idealist. Much of his time recently had been spent with the Be The Change movement, where he used his communication skills to unite people to try to improve the world. He had previously worked on ad campaigns for Quaker Oats, Vodafone UK and One 2 One. Described by one friend as a "hippy in the corporate machine", Mr Morley once entertained notions of becoming a musician, playing piano in a band called Nexus. But his talent for marketing led him into the business world, a platform he used to travel the world and attempt to instigate change. "His story will be shared and he will be remembered, and others will find inspiration, because this work we do, this work that Colin was a leader of, will not halt with death, your death, my death," a friend wrote. Tribute In 1969, I was on a bus in Liverpool with a group of schoolfriends, on our way to a rock concert. Another boy asked us if were going to the concert,and could we show him the way. It was Colin Morley. He burst into our lives with such a joy, such an enthusiasm, that he changed us all. He introduced us to new (to us) music, new books, new philosophy. He told us to read Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies, to try to understand the right way to live our lives, to stay childlike in our appreciation of new and wonderful experiences.
Gillian Bush , 24 July 2005 @ 09:43 AM learnings from beings in London these last few daysMs Gillian Bushownership is not difficult to do real if you are close to its gravity of purpose and love the care for it if you are many hierarchies up, its not difficult to do imagery but very difficult to do the real most loving thing; worse to protect your high up position you co-opt every circle below in guilt or displacement from having down the most loving thing; both through direct pressure within the organosation and through broadcast media or other professional expenditures co-opted to self-justify your retention of power the irony is that as the world gets bigger, there are some decisions that are needed involving big systems; however these should be done as transparently as possible from the top not with as closed need to know loops we can assume that big organisations of every kind are spiralling and compounding his system the most vicipous ways round unless they are openly preperaed to subejct themselves to an audit of potential conflicts unless we reverse this soon, we are all heading for sustainability disasters of societal and economic meltdowns; truth-testing audits are not hard; anyone with common sense and love of context can help facilitate them; the final insult is when people from the top say it is unproductive or not positive to question what resulted from their own distance or lack of attentive and context deep questioning
Gillian Bush , 24 July 2005 @ 08:26 AM critical stuffMs Gillian BushCritical stuff Chris made the more urgent to learn about given Friday's police-chaotic- state execution of an innocent Brazilian I think the clue may be that citizens and now in 3 systems:--local which is communally practiced--global, where worldwide learning in a profession or because of an interest or love of culture is also networked communally up wherever it is multiplying value for all who invest their time, tgrust and passion to make differences truly--national, where all the systems from time immemorial propagate hierarchy first; any system that is over-heavy with hierarchy cannot see how closed and controlling it is getting; it becomes the cancer to open society whilst using the people's media and taxes to shout the opposite imagery Londoners as one of the most locally and globally connected peoples in the world are not being openly supported by their national system in ways that pattern love or joy or courage. (Bookmark us evidence if you disagree) It's strange that in the 1990s , when time was plenty, the greatest thinkers about networking of knowhow flagged up the citizen issue as clearly as words can express- eg Manuel Castells: The global city is not London, New York, Tokyo or Jo'berg -- it is the part of each which is connected to an analogous part in each of the others. The global city is a distributed phenomenon. There is only one global city, and it floats on top of the others like lace. BUT where is KM supporting citizens pracices now? Would that be a wonderful special interest group to be a part of? If anyone can send me links to where it is emerging or being openly explored for all people's sakes. GB
Chris Macrae , 23 July 2005 @ 15:32 PM thanks GillMr Chris Macraereminscing: 21 years ago, on my first vist to India, an elderly citizen from Bombay hobbled across the street. I will never forget his greeting: are you from London? You poor thing- I hear you are ruled by an Iron Lady. In India, we have so much luckier. As far as my being can, I have loved all of Asia's diverse people ever since. Cut: A few months after Enron, I was sitting with one Brussel's main open minded budget holders. Chris he said it will take 4 disasters of the financial equivalent to Enron in the same year before the politicians wake up to loving the value of working people and innovation differently in a networked age. Well Collaborative Londoners cannot wait any more whilst media manipulators and financial speculators profit from putting people at risk and other vicious volatility games.. More on what to do with blind British politicians over here.
Gillian Bush , 16 July 2005 @ 12:17 PM Colin Morley - with all our loveMs Gillian BushOne of the communally deepest Brits to died in the 7/7 bombings at Edgware Road tube, London He was a knowledgeboardera Be The Changera fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and go-between for the great speakers on Sustainability, and a deep linkin supporter of Tomorrows Global Companya bloggera waiki-editora simpoleana critic of globally careless marketing and abusive media who helped changed the superficilaity and image-making addictions of the communications profession and so much more than any one person can ever begin to describe in a poor thread one of the great reformers of shareholder value and incorporation; one of the most deeply caring communal people that Londoners have ever been blessed with as a facilitator an open space alumni a resonating hi-trust centre of anyone's open network and dear person and family mam we will never forget the value of good spirits and true learning and open relationships. we will never forget your generosity of time and how many of our brains vibrate with action learning you gifted us Love from all your communities
Benoit Couture , 10 July 2005 @ 15:18 PM Thanks for the courageStay at home dad Benoit CoutureI have engaged shortly after 9/11, into a personal campaign, to denounce the fact that terror-anti-terror is one and only one entity in need of its confrontational division in order to extst. As it says beside my name: "stay at home dad". As such, I reacted to the threat that this event represent to the very meaning of "home" on the whole scale of humanity. I began proceeding, based upon my life experience, to deploy the microscopic socio-cultural potency that this position can contribute, once fully activated in maturity. The value of this societal position is yet to be recognized, supported and completed in the communal fabric. So I proceeded since Feb 2002, insisting to remain in the position of stay-at-home-dad-citizen-voter, trying to develop a niche as a social enterpreneur. The preceeding postings of this thread are touching the simplicity needed to quietly emerge in unisson and to draw away from feeding the entity. The post by you Gillian, compelles me to tune in with your music by quoting: "The just shall live by faith." The name of my campaign is: ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... and invites the populations of Britain, Canada and Europe as a starting point, to join in the experience of spiritual unity and to deploy this experience with a socio-cultural healing movement rooted and growing from personal inner justice and serenity. Are we hearing the call with enough clarity to renew our response from this thread and on to spreading the seamless reconciliation of humanity with eternity in the face of our here and now?... For further relevant readings about this week's strike from the entity of terror-anti-terror visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A4415546?s_fromedit=1 Let the search of wisdom to rise in completing maturity from here on...wisdom from England...
Gillian Bush , 10 July 2005 @ 11:58 AM wisdom from London -part 2Ms Gillian BushFurther, I have just dug out these two pertinent references to our engagement with justice. Peter ------------------------------------ From COMPENDIUM OF THE SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH Liberia Editrice Vaticana – 2004 isbn 88-209-7716-8 [552 pages £19.99] CHAPTER SEVEN ECONOMIC LIFE [ pp 185 – 212] I. BIBLICAL ASPECTS a. Man, poverty and riches 323. In the Old Testament a twofold attitude towards economic goods and riches is found. On one hand, an attitude of appreciation sees the availability of material goods as necessary for life. Abundance - not wealth or luxury - is sometimes seen as a blessing from God. In Wisdom Literature poverty is described as a negative consequence of idleness and of a lack of industriousness (cf. Prov 10:4), but also as a natural fact (cf. Prov 22.2). On the other hand, economic goods and riches are not in themselves condemned so much as their misuse. The prophetic tradition condemns fraud, usury, exploitation and gross injustice, especially when directed at the poor (cf. Is 58:3-11; Jer 7:4-7; Hos 4:1-2; Am 2:6-7; Mic 2:1-2). This tradition, however, although looking upon the poverty of the oppressed, the weak and the indigent as an evil, also sees in the condition of' poverty a symbol of the human situation before God, from whom comes every good as a gift to be administered and shared. and 341. Although the quest for equitable profit is acceptable in economic and financial activity, recourse to usury is to be morally condemned: "Those whose usurious and avaricious dealings lead to the hunger and death of their brethren in the human family indirectly commit homicide, which is imputable to them". 714 This condemnation extends also to international economic relations, especially with regard to the situation in less advanced countries, which must never be made to suffer "abusive if not usurious financial systems". 715 More recently, the Magisterium _used strong and clear words against this practice, which is still tragically wide-spread, describing usury as "a scourge that is also a reality in our time and that has a stranglehold on many peoples' lives".716 714 Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2269 715 Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2438. 716 JOHN PAUL II, Catechesis at General Audience (4 February: L'Osservatore Romano, English Edition, 11 Feb 2004, p.11
Gillian Bush , 10 July 2005 @ 11:57 AM wisdom from London -part 1Ms Gillian BushSome friends and I had a vote on the wisest mail we'd received from London in recent tragic days. We came up with this. Doubtless it will be unpopular at (or budgetary beholden to economics of) the EU with those whose knowledge is driven by a different overall system. Greetings,Now the 6/7 Olympic jubilation that swept London turns to a shuddering horror, 7/7 should remind us of the true nature of Jubilee, restoring structures of justice that work for everyone and protect the earth.We should all be eager to hear of, and to propagate, positive initiatives in this regard.This neat letter ( I've put the quote in front!) in the G today is neat is apposite too :“Terrorism is the war of the poor;and war is the terrorism of the rich” There can be no solution while we continue to proclaim that "our" violence against “them" is always a just war; while "their" violence against us" is terrorism. It is all evil and wrong and our common humanity must come to acknowledge this if we are to begin to live together in peace on this planet. Rev. Brian Matthews Wrexham continued in part 2
Chris Macrae , 07 June 2005 @ 07:08 AM Café Debate Tonight - Can Londoners’ Pensions Crisis Change Organisations for the Better?Mr Chris MacraeLast year in London Al Gore founded a Sustainable Investment firm http://www.generationim.com which has this to say about investment:We believe:• Investment results for long only equity strategies are maximized by taking a long-term investment horizon. • Sustainability research must be fully integrated with rigorous fundamental equity analysis to achieve optimal long-term investment results. • A concentrated approach allows maximum leverage of an intense research effort as investments will be entered into only when very high levels of conviction exist. Add in two facts:More and more Londoners are finding themselves in a future pensions crisis Most people distrust the world’s largest organisations as no longer wholly designed to compound better futures for peopleWe will discuss ways and means that a movement Pensions for People can demand changes today’s short-termism, lowering trust and lack of true organisational purpose. Something as valuable to humanity as sustainability is highly profitable over time. Intangibles (Unseen Wealth) research shows that analysts and leaders who deny this are mathematically wrong. Is it not time to understand that the economics of service and learning to network transparently is wholly different from last century’s age of investing in machines and cutting people down as costs? Free café debate tonight Tuesday 7 June Starbucks 51 Great Russell Street London WC1 sponsored by Royal Society of Arts, bbcICAN and Starbucks – more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/G1161 chris [email protected] 0793 144 2446
Chris Macrae , 20 May 2005 @ 12:48 PM knowledge of leadershipMr Chris MacraeThere are some pretty interesting conversations and materials building up to this London conference next Thursday http://www.getfeedback.net/plseminar/ Let's be quite frank, the evidence from trust surveys is overwhelming - the integrity of leadership has been devalued, and if people at the top are not going to rediscover priciples of transparency fast, democratic countries will take them down What's more interesting is why have leaders got so lost. Have they drowned themselves in numbers Are they unable to see that if you make incompatible promises to different stakeholder groups, you will be devalued are they misadvised? have their budgets got stuck on costly processes that dont work; any company that budgets a billion dollars a year on advertising is basically being conned by image-makers. This sort of spin is just not what any customers in 21st C networked markets want. My professional friends and I at World Class Branding Network over the last 10 years have researched almost every customer group assailed by such globally branded garbage - not found one group that wants this high cost waste. HOLO! I note some much stronger conversations (mentioning the fraud word) than this going at the current goverance inquiry among 1700 KM experts at http://www.kwork.org Why lurk on a discussion about knowledge of leadership? Does KM exist if we dont understand KL? Let alone KM for Transformation or KM for Sustainability. Comes a time, comes a community, is it this space, now?
Chris Macrae , 12 May 2005 @ 09:57 AM lawyers for corporate justiceMr Chris MacraeAt a management meeting of SIMPOL/ISPO yesterday, it was agreed that our Fall meeting will invite city lawyers to speak on the conflict they find between why they joined the profession and aspect of work devaluing humanity that various big corporations are trying to get them to do. If you know of anyone who may wish to speak at this eminent platform, please get them to contact me Chris Macrae, [email protected] , 24 Effra Road, London sw19 8pp. You can judge the nature and influnce of the meetings simpol stages from our most recent one. Worldwide the efforts of scholar of law networks for Human KM should be recognised by all of us. Among the 5 events that put KM so high on the map of disciplines systemising organisational value was scholar of law Margaret Blair's extraordinary praise for KM experts in the intangibles valuation crisis book Unseen Wealth published by Brookings 2000. Whether KM people have advanced this line of work the way she hoped is a question I can leave you to cross-examine.
Chris Macrae , 18 April 2005 @ 11:00 AM Who does your city/country vote as number 1 informant on 20th C organisations?Mr Chris MacraeDo mail us with other nominations. Meanwhile, here's why I nominate Drucker as a benchmark. I often get into deep water by asserting that people who have never read any Drucker fail to know much about what organisation is capable of - which incidentally can be humanly great or wretched. The same goes for leaders, another subject that I see Drucker as pre-eminent (along with Meg Wheatley, and who please email us to insert here... ) in informing us on One of the reasons why this water boils is that Drucker typically pioneers a higher path than academics or practitioners What he doesnt do that academics often do is:Develop silos- he's interdisciplinaryJargonise - he preaches that organisation is about common language- at least ethical, purposeful and transparent organisations Academics may also be jealous of Drucker. Because he writes in books and magazines; I am unsure if he has ever had to write for a journal; he certainly doesn't rate his productivity by numbers of papers written for journals On the other hand, in terms of practice, I am unclear whether Drucker has ever been the main developed of a methodology. That's certainly not what I remember his works for. What he has done is develop whole new emerging economies- eg what knowledge workers can systemise that virtually all workers in the prior era of machine-driven industry could not example 1 One of the stories Drucker tells (and I read this in a book written when he was about 80) is how every 3 years through life he has been concerned to learn a whole new subject or topic area. We could ask why a text on organisation suddenly presents this case in several deep pages of emotionally warming detail. Only recently one clue has come back to me. How many leaders of big organisations truly approach learning -in this somewhat humbling and certainly curious way - compared with how many who seek to extract knowledge and always appear to be perfect. Why is there a mindset that professional now involves always appearing to know? Even as it’s impossible to know how to apply anything worldwide in all the diversity that statement actually merits! I would rather we taught in our schools that lifelong learning of new subjects is not just a human right, but something we require leaders of large organisations to demonstrated they do, or retire from the top. How about you?
Chris Macrae , 12 April 2005 @ 18:07 PM A continent wide networking of Make Poverty History?Mr Chris MacraeTrade Justice Week some stories from Mali, Ghana, Senegal, India, Banmgladesh, Senegal, Mozambique, Haiti, Jamiaca, ZambiaMuch remains to be done if the Millennium Development Goals are to be achieved by the 2015 target date. The world is not making enough progress … We cannot afford to miss this chance. Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for International Development, UK MDG Report 2005 Globally aid spending is between US$50 and $60 billion. Globally spending on defence is $900 billion. If we spent $900 billion on aid, we would not need to spend more than $50 billion on defence.James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, Financial Times, 26 April 2004 If there's anyone in other EU countries/cities outside Britain interested in this jigsaw puzzle, then pro bono side of the Club of London could sure do with linking in- chris macrae, [email protected] Tomorrow's learning experience in London: As part of the build-up to the UK Presidency of the EU, this event is an opportunity for BOND members and MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY (MPH) partners to strategise and explore the EU's role in delivering on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2005 and beyond. Debate aims and objectives for the UK Presidency of EU and the degree to which new Member States prioritise or support the MilleniumDevelopmentGolas. Does the European Commission's (EC) development aid have a poverty focus and is it coherent in relation to other EC external relations policies and practices, especially trade. This focus on aid and trade issues therefore ties in with the EU work of the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY coalition and the Global Week of Action for Trade Justice. Speakers:Baroness Northover, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on International Development at the House of LordsTom Sharman, ActionAidCostanza de Toma, Save the ChildrenDr Peter Stephens, Department for Trade and IndustryAdam Novak, TRIALOG Could also do with knowing whether there any fellow readers of the millennium assessment report. There's so much of it; one wonders how anyone could possibly see where the world is spinning without extraordinarily open collaboration efforts- where in Europe do people get a chance to practice collaboration on the scale needed if goodwill is ever going to takeover from badwill?
Chris Macrae , 03 April 2005 @ 11:45 AM Drucker Spotting -part 3Mr Chris MacraePublished back in 2001 in The Economist: This is a really great article (it has a few flaws recognisable to any connoisseur of Drucker) but its so bravely what KM needs to converse round if its to be a subject that engage leaders of top companies in exceptional KM (or forever after hold its peace) Which quote that I haven't extracted below do you like best? The recent failure rate of chief executives in big American companies points in the same direction. A large proportion of CEOs of such companies appointed in the past ten years were fired as failures within a year or two. But each of these people had been picked for his proven competence, and each had been highly successful in his previous jobs. This suggests that the jobs they took on had become undoable. The American record suggests not human failure but systems failure. Top management in big organisations needs a new concept. According to an old saying, you cannot hire a hand: the whole man always comes with it. But you cannot hire a man either; the spouse almost always comes with it. And the spouse has already spent the money when falling profits eliminate the bonus or falling stock prices make the option worthless. Then both the employee and the spouse feel bitter and betrayed. Of course knowledge workers need to be satisfied with their pay, because dissatisfaction with income and benefits is a powerful disincentive. The incentives, however, are different. The management of knowledge workers should be based on the assumption that the corporation needs them more than they need the corporation. They know they can leave. They have both mobility and self-confidence. This means they have to be treated and managed as volunteers, in the same way as volunteers who work for not-for-profit organisations. The first thing such people want to know is what the company is trying to do and where it is going. Next, they are interested in personal achievement and personal responsibility — which means they have to be put in the right job. Knowledge workers expect continuous learning and continuous training. Above all, they want respect, not so much for themselves but for their area of knowledge. In that regard, they have moved several steps beyond traditional workers, who used to expect to be told what to do, although later they were increasingly expected to "participate". Knowledge workers, by contrast, expect to make the decisions in their own area.
Chris Macrae , 03 April 2005 @ 11:39 AM Drucker SpottingMr Chris MacraeOn the prior post's assumptions were founded the industrial research labs, beginning with Siemens's, started in Germany in 1869, and ending with IBM's, the last of the great traditional labs, founded in America in 1952. Each of them concentrated on the technology needed for a single industry, and each assumed that its discoveries would be applied only in that industry. Every one of these assumptions remained valid for a whole century, but from 1970 onwards every one of them has been turned upside down. The list now reads as follows: • The means of production is knowledge, which is owned by knowledge workers and is highly portable. This applies equally to high-knowledge workers such as research scientists and to knowledge technologists such as physiotherapists, computer technicians and paralegals. Knowledge workers provide "capital" just as much as does the provider of money. The two are dependent on each other. This makes the knowledge worker an equal — an associate or a partner. • Many employees, perhaps a majority, will still have full-time jobs with a salary that provides their only or main income. But a growing number of people who work for an organisation will not be full-time employees but part-timers, temporaries, consultants or contractors. Even of those who do have a full-time job, a large and growing number may not be employees of the organisation for which they work, but employees of, eg, an outsourcing contractor. • There always were limits to the importance of transactional costs. Henry Ford's all-inclusive Ford Motor Company proved unmanageable and became a disaster. But now the traditional axiom that an enterprise should aim for maximum integration has become almost entirely invalidated. One reason is that the knowledge needed for any activity has become highly specialised. It is therefore increasingly expensive, and also increasingly difficult, to maintain enough critical mass for every major task within an enterprise. And because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organisation an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence. The second reason why maximum integration is no longer needed is that communications costs have come down so fast as to become insignificant.
Chris Macrae , 03 April 2005 @ 11:37 AM Drucker-Spotting -not so odd that a 90+ year knows more about management purpose than you or meMr Chris MacraeThis is a really great article (it has a few flaws recognisable to any connoisseur of Drucker) but its so bravely what KM needs to converse round if its to be a subject that engage leaders of top companies in exceptional KM (or forever after hold its peace) Which quote that I haven't extracted below do you like best? there is the upsurge in interest in Joseph Schumpeter's postulates of "dynamic disequilibrium" as the economy's only stable state; of the innovator's "creative destruction" as the economy's driving force; and of new technology as the main, if not the only, economic change agent — the very antithesis of earlier economic theories based on the idea of equilibrium as a healthy economy's norm, monetary and fiscal policies as the drivers of a modern economy and technology as an "externality". For most of the time since the corporation was invented around 1870, the following five basic points have been assumed to apply: • The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa. • The great majority of employees work full-time for the corporation. The pay they get for the job is their only income and provides their livelihood. • The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product. The theory underlying this was not developed until after the second world war, by Ronald Coase, But the concept itself was discovered and put into practice 70 or 80 years earlier by John D. Rockefeller. He saw that to put exploration, production, transport, refining and selling into one corporate structure resulted in the most efficient and lowest-cost petroleum operation. On this insight he built the Standard Oil Trust, probably the most profitable large enterprise in business history. • Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. • To any one particular technology pertains one and only one industry, and conversely, to any one particular industry pertains one and only one technology.
Chris Macrae , 01 April 2005 @ 12:24 PM could it be simpolMr Chris MacraeWhere does the Globalisation of Nations irony snake stop? I doubt if KB or funding for KM would exist if politicians hadnt got the millennium dream bug at the edn of the 1990s? Do they think the public forgot why all the vision 2010 and ebusiness scenarios that jusified all the spends to get into the networking age? I note that I am not the only one: Andrew Neil in Sunday Times of 3 April says: What divides them no longer necessarily divides us. They are still stuck in notions of right and left, capital and labour, middle and working class that have their origins in the 19th century and still reflect the divisions and concerns of the industrial age. But the British people now live in an information society, which has a different political discourse. If the political parties find it hard to engage the public, it is because they haven’t. http://www.simpol.org.uk recently became a first network to link between Human KM opinion leaders in the UK and Japan, here's top this social capital coming together 5 April, 10:00 amSt. Stephen¹s Entrance, Parliament MPs and candidates with global vision set to gain as the first Simultaneous Policy general election begins MPs and candidates who have seen the potential of the international Simultaneous Policy (SP) campaign to address global problems such as climate change, unfair trade and unsustainability are set to gain votes from campaign supporters in the forthcoming general election. A photo shoot of MPs, who have signed a pledge to implement SP alongside other governments, will take place outside St. Stephen¹s entrance to Parliament at 10:00 am on 5 April. Simultaneous implementation removes the fear governments have of becoming uncompetitive and losing investment and jobs if they take unilateral action. At the time of writing 9 MPs, 2 MEPs and 6 candidates have signed the pledge in the UK and many more are expected to do so once the election proper begins. A full list is kept updated at www.simpol.org.uk In Australia where the SP campaign began only recently, 59 candidates signed the pledge during the election last year, bringing support for SP into the senate. East Timor¹s Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner, José Ramos Horta, has also given his support. The campaign is coordinated by the International Simultaneous Policy Organisations (ISPO) and has Adopters in many countries who are in the process of forming national and local groups. Anne Campbell, Labour MP for Cambridge, said on signing the pledge of support in principle: ³There are a number of pressing social and environmental issues on which we can only make progress if there is international co-operation.² The campaign arises from the 2001 book The Simultaneous Policy, by John Bunzl, founder and director of ISPO.
Chris Macrae , 07 December 2004 @ 09:53 AM Britain's main intercity blogs in the 100 member whynot familyMr Chris MacraeUpdates - Blog focus of the Month· April -who do you value most in the world to learn from· March- Launch of Club of City format - uniting all citizens who believe long-term investment builds community be they investors in pension funds, analysts, opinion leaders, or built to last leadership teams· February - Gravity Pursuit & other games developing around the first ever network of 5000 organisations· January - how the world's largest corporation got lost in spinning purposeless unfiltered truthAll our blogs share html code if you want it whynotcity blogs exist so that people located in particular cities can describe networks whose context is particularly vital and vibrant in that city and which want to make intercity connections. Also to co-syndicate ideas on what meeting formats work to maximise communal intelligence, to action projects, to move from virtual chit-chat to doing stuff. If you want to represent your region be it in Britain or elsewhere please say, so we can help you join the family [email protected] The format we use is timeless so you only need contribute when live stuff is about to happen or you are sharing urgent info anyway across other spaces/networks you connect with British Collaboration of 100 intercity co-blogs includes -eg London, Bournville,West England,Cambridge,Glasgow Particular thanks to SIMPOL for trailing the first 5 live collaboration cafes with whynotLondon, Debra Amidon's Knowledge City Observatory Net for clarifying why anyone can openly knowledge manage a city that is most important to them, Piero Formica for introducing me to how to publish the KM which big academic powers dont want opened up for the people, Prem for the greatest regional context example I have seen one person assemble, 1000 open space facilitation friends whose 25 year practice of this skill is the greatest real meeting KM advance and others too numerous to mention
Chris Macrae , 07 June 2004 @ 06:05 AM 9 June 17.30 Cafe Meet with George Por - Islington, LondonMr Chris MacraeThis is a free opportunity to spend some time with George Por for anyone who loves George's leading edge foci - one of the pioneers of how the internet impacts communal intelligence (all the modes that people with a communal purpose share and practice knowhow), radical innovation, and George's latest focus: mentoring leaders in 10 fold improvements of impacts on all who work around them. George together with 3 other extraordinary mentors in the fields of change, theatre and united nations policy making are launching mentoring circles across Europe starting in Amsterdam, early Julyhttp://ecademy.com/node.php?id=24307 Come to listen and question George on this new chapter in his life's work. email me at [email protected] to confirm location in Islington ----------------------more on George George Pór is an elder of cultivating communities at work, a business philosopher,and executive coach who combines European values with Americandynamism and ancient wisdom traditions. He is the founder of Community-Intelligence, a transformation agency that helps people and organisationsincrease their evolutionary fitness by gearing up to radical innovation andboosting their collective IQ.Community Intelligence supports the emergence of a world in which people’scapacity to reach their full potential is strengthened by all humanorganisations. He has worked as Visiting Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD,and currently he is a Visiting Researcher in the Complexity Programme of theLondon School of Economics. He is the author of “The Quest for CollectiveIntelligence,” a chapter in Community Building: Renewing Sprit and Learningin Business, and the chapter on “Liberating the Innovation Value ofCommunities of Practice” in the forthcoming textbook, KnowledgeEconomics: Emerging Principles, Practices and Policies. He has alsocontributed to the forthcoming book, Evolutionary Leadership by Peter Merry.George is a member of the Collective Wisdom Initiative.
Chris Macrae , 03 April 2004 @ 11:11 AM cases of how lobby communities were bornMr Chris Macraewell done the BBC some quite extraordinary testimonies to how people developed social campaigns http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/casestudies love to hear more bookmarks on how lobbies were born; also would love to hear of innovative ways public sector tv may be using the internet to bring community constructs to life one of the most extraordinary BBC icans seeks to change political parties at every nation state so that they also take on the most pressing humanitarian agendas worldwide - simpol must be worth you connecting to if you feel the world needs more than national politics to be worth inhabitinghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/Club28 of course if anyone's got a more practical idea of getting politicians to take on sustainability issues as well as projects that return kudos in under the lifecycle of a parliament, I'd love to know
Chris Macrae , 10 February 2004 @ 16:08 PM Inspiring news: Can we right the british empire's conflict compounding pastMr Chris MacraeIn the Fall of 2003, Australia brought a peace-making offering to London in the form of a 2-day gathering of reconciliation experts: The first 2 speakers:Mary Robinson, ex-president of Irelandhttp://www.eginitiative.org/told the story of how in the deepest potato famine Ireland had ever known, a previously unheardof community in America sent assistance whereas london centre of World Empire did nothing A leader representing aboriginees told us how she had thought long and hard as to whether she really wanted to travel to the plavce which had started her race's conflicts Well now there is some good news, this human network of people have linked me with deep in the heart of the financial city which begot all global financial flows- the church that was blown up by the IRA is reborn and is creating space for all those who wish to knowledge-share on how to reconcile religious and other humanitarian divideshttp://www.stethelburgas.org/Programme.htmhttp://www.stethelburgas.org/Articles.htm PS Should you think that one good turn deserves another, then our friendly down-unders are currently sponsored by the state of victoria to develop rich city youth movementshttp://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/wyr.htmland as you may know poorworld youth movements are co-explaining what they would ask of leaders here http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=122836&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y Those who wish to have some very raw data for social network mapping the who's who of renconciliation networking can look herehttp://www.valuetrue.com/home/community.cfm?intClassID=3The only way this data will become clearer is if people who have an issue tell us how to edit its networking links. Ta!
Chris Macrae , 31 January 2004 @ 15:38 PM What role in international harmony could mass media play now?The world's biggest media need reinventing- and that starts with asking huge questions as the media are the biggest social platforms that could unite both nations in terms of internal passions and externally in terms of collaborative knowedge of the sort that 25 countries will need to multiply more benefits than just "bowling alone" as separate nations . Being a Brit, it is fitting that one of the most urgent media crises afflicts the BBC. It got caught up in the Hutton Inquiry- ostensibly as bearing part of the guilt over a government scientist committing suicide over his role in the whole Iraq destruction-weapons mess. This is the first co-creation idea I have for the BBC - have you a better one? There is a huge opportunity to learn from Hutton inquiry and the governemnt-scientisr suicide debacle acredited to investigative journalism into did Iraq have weapons of mass destruction?. The big question for our country's transparent future being: what would make public media so valuable to Britain's people that it would be trusted as having a leadership job separate from politicians. An idea that commercial tv would never dream of: Help groom superstars to be responsible heroes as well as specifically talented and broadly celebrated. When competitions like Fame create stars why not make part of the prize meetings with leaders of great humanitarian charities with the hope that the star will adopt one big world issue? Only the greatest social media will change Britain's impact in making a better world, and the BBC needs to invent a 21st C equivalent to why the world service was loved. It is not just the BBC but all big mass media that needs to transparently ask why should human beings trust its role in developing the inter-network learning agencies of 21st C community linking and deeply human issue progress. America's largest network stands accused of abusing freedom of speech as you can see herehttp://www.beyond-branding.com/blog/blogger.htmlhttp://www.fastcompany.com/poll/?x=1127 For those who wish to prepare more academically before addressing this question - review how Castells and Fukuyama made these the number 1 trust question before ordinary human beings -like my kids and yours - will ever enjoy the collaborative value of any form of networking technology.
Chris Macrae , 31 January 2004 @ 15:36 PM What role in international harmony could mass media play in 21st C?The world's biggest media need reinventing- and that starts with asking huge questions as the media are the biggest social platforms that could unite both nations in terms of internal passions and externally in terms of collaborative knowedge of the sort that 25 countries will need to multiply more benefits than just "bowling alone" as separate nations . Being a Brit, it is fitting that one of the most urgent media crises afflicts the BBC. It got caught up in the Hutton Inquiry- ostensibly as bearing part of the guilt over a government scientist committing suicide over his role in the whole Iraq destruction-weapons mess. This is the first co-creation idea I have for the BBC - have you a better one? There is a huge opportunity to learn from Hutton inquiry and the governemnt-scientisr suicide debacle acredited to investigative journalism into did Iraq have weapons of mass destruction?. The big question for our country's transparent future being: what would make public media so valuable to Britain's people that it would be trusted as having a leadership job separate from politicians. An idea that commercial tv would never dream of: Help groom superstars to be responsible heroes as well as specifically talented and broadly celebrated. When competitions like Fame create stars why not make part of the prize meetings with leaders of great humanitarian charities with the hope that the star will adopt one big world issue? Only the greatest social media will change Britain's impact in making a better world, and the BBC needs to invent a 21st C equivalent to why the world service was loved. It is not just the BBC but all big mass media that needs to transparently ask why should human beings trust its role in developing the inter-network learning agencies of 21st C community linking and deeply human issue progress. America's largest network stands accused of abusing freedom of speech as you can see herehttp://www.beyond-branding.com/blog/blogger.htmlhttp://www.fastcompany.com/poll/?x=1127 For those who wish to prepare more academically before addressing this question - review how Castells and Fukuyama made these the number 1 trust question before ordinary human beings -like my kids and yours - will ever enjoy the collaborative value of any form of networking technology.
Chris Macrae , 31 January 2004 @ 15:32 PM Reinventing mass broadcasting's responsibilities for international cooperationThe world's biggest media need reinventing- and that starts with asking huge questions as the media are the biggest social platforms that could unite both nations in terms of internal passions and externally in terms of collaborative knowedge of the sort that 25 countries will need to multiply more benefits than just "bowling alone" as separate nations . Being a Brit, it is fitting that one of the most urgent media crises afflicts the BBC. It got caught up in the Hutton Inquiry- ostensibly as bearing part of the guilt over a government scientist committing suicide over his role in the whole Iraq destruction-weapons mess. This is the first co-creation idea I have for the BBC - have you a better one? There is a huge opportunity to learn from Hutton inquiry and the governemnt-scientisr suicide debacle acredited to investigative journalism into did Iraq have weapons of mass destruction?. The big question for our country's transparent future being: what would make public media so valuable to Britain's people that it would be trusted as having a leadership job separate from politicians. An idea that commercial tv would never dream of: Help groom superstars to be responsible heroes as well as specifically talented and broadly celebrated. When competitions like Fame create stars why not make part of the prize meetings with leaders of great humanitarian charities with the hope that the star will adopt one big world issue? Only the greatest social media will change Britain's impact in making a better world, and the BBC needs to invent a 21st C equivalent to why the world service was loved. It is not just the BBC but all big mass media that needs to transparently ask why should human beings trust its role in developing the inter-network learning agencies of 21st C community linking and deeply human issue progress. America's largest network stands accused of abusing freedom of speech as you can see herehttp://www.beyond-branding.com/blog/blogger.htmlhttp://www.fastcompany.com/poll/?x=1127 For those who wish to prepare more academically before addressing this question - review how Castells and Fukuyama made these the number 1 trust question before ordinary human beings -like my kids and yours - will ever enjoy the collaborative value of any form of networking technology.
Chris Macrae , 20 January 2004 @ 18:38 PM London Lecture questions truth values of KMMr Chris MacraeSounds very interesting - do tell us if you are attending 17 March 2004 (PST) - The Darker Side of Knowledge Management speaker: Professor Frank Land - LSE This lecture traces the evolution of the concepts behind knowledge management, contrasts this with the actual practice and highlights the ethical problems that the development of ever more efficient tools for the dissemination of ‘knowledge’ poses for the systems designer Knowledge Management is widely regarded as the way an enterprise can leverage the know how of its employees, trading partners, and outside experts for the benefit of the enterprise (Chun Wei Choo, 1998, Bellaver & Lusa, 2001, Ackerman et al, 2003). Indeed some its advocates regard knowledge management as the essential tool for success in the highly competitive world of the global economy. Further, it is argued, the management, and with it the sharing of knowledge, not only enhances the enterprises ability to compete by increasing the competence of its employees also enriches the welfare of all those who are able to engage in the process. Hence, for those involved it is a win win game. The advocates fall into two groups - those who focus on technology as the mechanism for managing and sharing knowledge, and those who place a greater an emphasis on human relations, on conversation and on the elicitation of tacit knowledge. But both groups appear to share the assumption that knowledge management is beneficial, and that in some senses the knowledge which is managed and shared is equivalent to the ‘truth’. Hogg / CG79 Lecture TheatreWestminster Business School, Marylebone Road (opp. Baker Street tube)Time: 6pm - 7.30pmCost: Free. All welcome!
Chris Macrae , 12 January 2004 @ 02:30 AM China Britain CouncilsMr Chris MacraeI'm optimistic about Chian's impact in the nexy quarter century, both for China and the rest of the world. So I'm very interested as a Brit to understand what learning exchange spaces we have - is thye China Britain busienss Council a benchmark? http://www.cbbc.org For example in an area I know about, this exchange program kicking off during the first quarter of 2004 looks sensible The principle objective of the seminars is to provide a Chinese marketing audience with the UK's latest thinking on brand development strategies and methodologies, experience by example and an understanding of the importance of valuing their own brand property, whilst concurrently promoting the UK as the primary source of innovative, cutting-edge brand development expertise. Proposed topics include: 1) An Umbrella Introduction 2) Innovation - Vital as part of brand building and China's futuresuccess. Providing models for innovation strategies for product development and service development 3) Research and Consumer Insight - focusing on qualitativeresearch, what it is and why it is useful, discussing the benefits of focus groups, one-to-one groups and providing anecdotal experience 4) Brand positioning strategies & Differentiation - a UK strength,delivering differentiation strategies and examples 5) Taking A Holistic Approach to Communications - from promotions,to below the line and internal communications 6) Corporate Social Responsibility - how this is integral to brandbuilding 7) Brand Valuation - what is the brand worth, how is it valued. 8) Sponsorship and the Olympics - how Chinese firms can generatebrand value by sponsoring events and working in partnerships chris's brand references 1 2 3
Chris Macrae , 22 December 2003 @ 11:37 AM enterpriseforall & community bankingMr Chris MacraeWonderful initiative sponsored by 2 UK banks (Natwest and Royal Scotland) and openspacing inner city regeration ideas from the grassroots with the Treasury listening athttp://www.enterpriseforall.org Also great links on community banking at http://www.cdfa.org.uk/
Chris Macrae , 31 August 2003 @ 14:41 PM why the net chatters but doesnt doMr Chris MacraeHere's an extract of conversation currently going on among Gaian Democracy networkers who I have previously referred to Despite best communal intent, this discussionseems to lead back to the more abstract world of consciousness and spirituality with little in the way of the trials and tribulations of those of us who are actually trying to DO something on the 'material plane'. ...............These are universal problems of the internet. 1) They promote discussion not DOING. and 2) The discussions wander all over the world, particularly as new members join in. 'A Coalition for Self-Learning' solved this problem by 1)drafting a clear mission statement say that our goal was Doing Something. 2) It was " to create learning communities", 3) that any one could join, 4) that everything would be decided by consensus (any one member could "block" any proposed action, but 5) a "Core Group," (the 12 founding members) would act as a supreme court and could override and "block" by a 100% vote. This works well.
Chris Macrae , 09 August 2003 @ 18:32 PM collapsing world conference London, Sept 19-21Mr Chris Macraeseee www.collapsing-world.org or ask me at [email protected] if I can help find you more details Friday 19th September 2003 , London 6.30 pm opening addressMary Robinson, Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland, Chair, Ethical Globalization Initiative. Saturday 20th September 2003 9:00 –11:00 am Concepts of reconciliationJakob Finci, Chair, National Coordinating Committee for the Establishment of the Truth Bosnia Herzegovina; Charles Villa-Vincencio, Executive Director Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, South Africa, Former ; Lowitja O’Donaghue, Chair, Reconciliation Australia 11.30am – 1.00pmConcepts of civil societyChantal Mouffe, Professor of Politics and Social Theory, University of Westminster, UK ; Kersten England, Head of Policy Development, Bradford Council, UK 1.30– 2.30pmPolitical action and reconciliationRoberto Unger, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, USA2.30– 4.00pmLocal and global politics and issuesHans D’Orville, Director of Strategic Planning, UNESCOAzam Kamguian, Writer & Women’s Rights Activist, Chairperson, Committee to Defend Women's Rights in the Middle East 4.30– 5.30pmReflections on the experiences of the modern worldAlfonso Lingis, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, USASunday 21st September 2003 8.30– 9:00amThe problem of terrorismMarcus Einfield, Former Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, National Vice President, International Commission of Jurists (Australian Section)9:00– 11:00amResponses to terrorism in cultural, political and religious lifeMojtaba Sadria, Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Japan; Xu Youyu, Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing ; Pervez Hoodbhoy, Professor of Nuclear Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad 11.30am -1:00pmOn the ground: reconciliation and cultureHaggith Gor Ziv, Kibbutzim College of Education Center of Critical Pedagogy, Tel Aviv; Tanya Hosch, Director, Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre, Executive Policy Officer, Strategic Development Unit, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Commission ; Joan Anderson, Professor of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Canada 2:00– 3:30pmDemocracy, citizenship and ethicsMary Crewe and Christoff Heyn, Centre for Study of AIDS and Human Rights, Pretoria University, South Africa; Ian Campbell, International Health Consultant, Salvation Army and UNAIDS 4:00– 5.30pmDevelopment of draft communiquéAll participants5:30 – 6:30pmConference conclusion: closing remarks Paul Komesaroff, Director, Monash Centre for the Study of Ethics in Medicine and Society, Monash University, Australia
Chris Macrae , 28 July 2003 @ 20:20 PM Business Modelling for SustainabilityMr Chris MacraeMet Jon Grayson at Imperial College (its delightfully at the back of the Albert Hall) today. He's researching how to change ordinary business model speak into something where sustainability enters into the company's conversation and turns out to act like win-win glue all across the model. A jolly good idea as he can also help companies benchmark as they co-learn how sustainability can be a great innovation driver too. Update: Enjoyed a wonderful session among 12 of the deepest thinkers and practitioners of sustainability constructs- good to see Imperial College as epicentre of such vital work
Chris Macrae , 07 July 2003 @ 14:53 PM What exactly are the systems of governance and democracy that now dominate the world?Mr Chris MacraeBack June 14 I mentioned some great system's change research that Roy Madron and others are doing in areas l;ike sustainability, changing governance to be pro-people etc I am delighted to say there is now a very active topica egroup at http://www.topica.com/lists/wdn-co-learners/ WDN is a network of people and organisations asking questions: * What exactly are the systems of governance and democracy that now dominate the world?* What is wrong with these systems?* How can we change them?* What are, and what should be, the roles of ordinary citizens and of political leaders?* What can we learn from natural systems?* Can the large-scale change processes developed in other fields be applied in the political arena?* Can we develop democratic systems robust and agile enough to deal with the ever-increasing complexity of our globalised world?* Where will the energy necessary to bring about political change come from?
Helge Kreutz , 18 June 2003 @ 09:26 AM BBC Antiques Roadshow: an outstanding knowledge practice that every KM can benefit fromHelge KreutzHere is my nomination for a leading knowledge practice originated in the UK: BBC's Antiques Roadshow (TV program and website at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/antiques/antiquesroadshow/ ) The program contains so many best practices for knowledge sharing that it is impossible to name them all, here is just a short selection: 1) Title sequence (an old car, in it a massive clock, is driving towards the show): It invites everyone to join 2) Blend of virtual & face-to-face contact (the show is transmitted every week from another place around the country, everyone has a chance to join a few events in person, others virtually as a TV viewer) 3) Blend of valuables and trivials (no knowledge contribution is small enough to be unimportant): the show always takes place in the setting of a high-status historical building, trivial collectors items are thus connected to true historical treasures.4) Blend of active participation (by bringing along collectables) and passive participation (by viewing the collectables others brought along and listening to the discussions). The camera spends equal amount of time on the objects, the owners, and the passive spectators. 5) Equal knowledge contribution from everyone, the collector ( who describes the personal aspect of the object) as well as the expert (who explains the historical meaning). In all knowledge sharing it is difficult to manage the experts, usually the authority of the expert shuts up the discussion of the less experienced members and blocks out-of-the-box ideas. 6) Young and old, experienced and inexperienced, collectors & historical experts come together: Knowledge sharing is always a blend of personal (social) & professional interest, any categorisation will exclude valuable groups and diminuish the personal interest, everyone can benefit from the others. 6) Nearly all object descriptions end with an unexpected high value estimate, the collectors delight about the estimate is filmed as the close-out to the sequence: (a) together we discover treasures that we can't find on our own. (b) celebrating success is important.
Don Mezei , 18 June 2003 @ 01:02 AM KM and Einstein's equationKM involves 4 basic parameters. On the tacit side we have the conscious/subconscious mind, and on the explicit side we have information and data. Knowledge is comprised of these 4 elements or dynamics. How they work together can be viewed as a gif at http://www.islandnet.com/~dmezei/kmdynamic.gif So knowledge then involves managing these 4 related elements, conscious/subconscious/information/data. I was reading about Einstein's equation, that matter/energy tells space/time what shape to have, and space/time in turn tells matter/energy how it will exist within it. The KM dynamic is a similar approach - two interdependent dynamics co-exist and influence one another. That's why KM isn't simple to understand, anymore than how the universe operates is simple to understand. What stands at the heart of managing this complex relationship called knowledge are processes which affect the outcome. But a lot of study will have to be done towards exactly how this can be understood. For example, the more we know about a particular area of information, the less we can know about the data associated with it. And vice versa. So I believe the km dynamic outlines the basic relationship of knowledge as power. But it's certainly no cakewalk... Donhttp://www.kmprofessor.com
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Does Europe Lead the World on Knowledge Policies for Human & Social Capital?
All presentations from EU conference on Social Capital of Knowledge Society are now online. Has Europe taken the lead in open debating connections between the knowledge economy, social capital and culturally preferred futures in the networking age?SC- definitive research links Annotated Bibliography on the Business Value of Social Capital- Putnam defines social capital- Social Capital and engaging civic community- Wonderful library on social capital at World Bank
INTRODUCTIONI am writing this from Brussels where I have been privileged to attend an extraordinary conference on social capital hosted by the European Union. SPEECH/02/523 by Anna Diamantopoulou:European Commissioner responsible for Employment and Social Affairs Information Society, yes. Information élite, no Brussels, 28 octobre, 2002Ladies and Gentlemen, The themes you are dealing with today and tomorrow the knowledge society, cohesion, skills and learning are as you know, at the top of the Union's economic and social agenda. With the dot.com boom and bust of the 90s behind us, we can now take a closer, more realistic, and more measured look at what the knowledge society holds for the Europe of today and tomorrow. For me this conference has three main aims: First, to look at the knowledge economy in its broadest context. To examine the impact it is having on employment. On work. On social relations. And to look at how we can exploit the knowledge economy for greater productivity, wealth and well-being. Secondly, we need to look at the knowledge society in an enlarged Europe. Of 25 Member States and more. To look at the specific challenges that candidate countries face. The imbalances that need to be addressed. The opportunities that need to be seized. And thirdly, we need to look at how best to tackle social and human capital issues in holistic, even interdisciplinary way. How we can learn from and build on the different experiences, different viewpoints of social partners; researchers; policy makers. The knowledge society is at the heart of the strategy agreed at the Lisbon Summit - to make Europe a global economic front-runner by the year 2010. To make businesses more competitive, innovative and dynamic. To make our workforce more skilled and adaptable. To achieve full employment or at least as close as we could get. And to significantly reduce poverty, exclusion and marginalisation. Human capital the knowledge, skills and attributes that a person holds - is vital to achieving these goals. It is perhaps the most important input into the knowledge-based economy. Vital for productivity. Competitiveness. For quality jobs. If we are to maximise the potential of the new economy, our workforce must be skilled and trained. To meet new labour market needs. To meet the demands of new and rapidly changing technologies. Over the past 5 years, over 60% of all new jobs created have been in the high-skilled sectors. Yet, we see that: 150 million EU citizens lack even a basic level of secondary education; School drop-out rates have reached up to 25% in some countries; Less than 10% of adults take part in further education and training. Fewer and fewer jobs can be filled with only a basic education. Skills to operate computers are vital. But so are conceptual and interpersonal skills. The ability to work in teams, to solve problems, to innovate. Self-management and communication skills. All these are increasingly sought after by employers. The message is clear: Skills, training and education are vital for Europe's future economic growth, productivity, well-being and sustainability. As far as social capital, and social networks and relationships are concerned, our fundamental challenge is to ensure that the knowledge society is open and accessible to all people. We must not create a new class division of 'digital haves' and 'digital have nots'. Whether between countries, regions, groups or individuals. ICT and the knowledge society are not panaceas. But they can offer new opportunities. Especially to help integrate and empower disadvantaged and vulnerable people. Human and social capital are closely interlinked. They are mutually reinforcing. They enable communities, firms and societies to cope with the demands of rapid economic change. Together, they represent a key resource for sustainable development. When we look more widely at social capital, we must also ask ourselves how the knowledge society is affecting the other aspects of life not least how we work. On the positive side, ICTs allow us to do jobs in more flexible ways. Opening doors to new, innovative, ways of working and organising our working time differently. Allowing greater flexibility in the workplace. Improving the quality of work and job satisfaction. At the same time though, new technologies can mean more stress and information overload. Impacting negatively on relations at work and at home. We must also examine the links between flexibility and security. And avoid that a more flexible economy means more vulnerability for workers. The EU is firmly focused on making the knowledge economy and society work for Europe. Investing in both human and social capital. Turning the spotlight on improving and modernising education and training systems. Creating a culture of education and life-long learning for people of all ages. Increasing access to new technologies. Encouraging governments and public services to get on-line. To achieve these goals we are using a broad range of policies, programmes and initiatives. The Employment process. The European Social Fund. The Social Inclusion strategy. European-level social dialogue. The 'E-Europe 2005 action plan'. To achieve our aims we must work on building broad partnerships. With regional and local authorities. With employers and trade unions. With NGOs. With job centres. With research bodies. With training institutes. This conference is I believe an important and practical step in this direction. I wish you well in your discussions and I look forward to hearing the results. I am passionate about exploring all the interdisciplinary learnings and development issues connected in the title question. I have a dream that we can simplify the contexts and pattern dynamics of these systemic issues so that government and corporate policies can make the social-economic leap forward from the relatively closed leadership habits of industrial age to the more open humanly inspiring ones that the architects of the net and web intended. Can we design and evolve a knowledge economy which brings inclusivity to all humanity? Can we collaboratively access more meaning in our lives at work, and beyond that to the time we spend with family and in the communities and personal networks which each of us socially constructs? Half of my last seven years has been spent in Bethesda Maryland (just North of Washington DC) and half in London. So herein I propose to share my experience and ask you to pick up the conversation. Please join in and thread your views; mine are here to be edited, to a total perspective I can hope to reach on my own. 7 YEARS IN THE SOCIO-ECONOMY OF KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKSUntil very recently, I used to think that the USA was the clear leader of the knowledge economy, with other countries destined to be followers in its wake. It fathered the software tools we use together with much of the information architecture of nets and webs. It originated great virtual communities and manifestos from The Well to cluetrain.com. Profiles of West Coast teenagers created our understanding of the net generation due to detailed research by the likes of Don Tapscott. Similar surveys have been taken to the American workplace to produce manifestos like that of Work2.0 by Bill Jensen. Directly, and indirectly, the US government sponsored great knowledge taxonomy websites like Brint and some of the landmark models for open information usability (the US Inland Revenue Service web remains a model for ease of use and more informed citizen participation). Equally, networks of Knowledge Management gurus like Debra Amidon’s KM 100m whilst worldwide, appeared to have their centre of gravity in the USA, as did genres like Communities of Practice, Learning Organisation Systems, Social Network Maps and clusters of leading innovation strategists such as Hamel, Prahalad, Collins and Tapscott. But then in the last 2 years, I have come across three emerging and interconnecting pathways to the knowledge economy, nurtured and animated by The European Union: - The Intangibles Age Report funded by the European Commission’s DG Enterprise The open community of www.knowledgeboard.com seeded out of the European Commission’s Directorate-General Information Society and the 1ST KM Research Programme. The high level forum for Social Capital Idea Leadership (The work leading to the organisation of the conference “Social and Human Capital in the Knowledge Society: Policy Implications” has been managed by The European Commission’s DG Employment and Social Affairs. The bookmark above will contain all major conference presentations by middle of November.) In exploring these references, you may quite quickly discover that the Nordica region leads the world in corporate governance reporting of the sort that all knowledge workers can transparently see the future their company seeks to create and collaborate around. In extraordinary contrast, in 2002 this has become corporate America’s system crisis of big business with people from President Bush down urging that US ushers in a responsibility era. Through the use of the latest content co-management features, knowledgeboard.com has become a model for open professional collaboration and change debates that is the envy of the world, or at least of Harvard Business School - http://hbswk.hbs.edu/websites.jhtml?t=knowledge And now at The Social Capital Conference (“Social & Human Capital in the Knowledge Society : Policy Implications”, Brussels, 28-29 October 2002) from which I am filing this report, the dynamic connectivity of the issues featured in the title question have been progressed in a way that I do not believe any American assembly has begun to assimilate. WHAT’S TRULY REVOLUTIONARY ABOUT SOCIAL CAPITAL In our knowledge age, networks are the primary systems that determine whether economic success is possible, as well as what social dividends will be achieved from every relevant human perspective. Social capital is seen as the core enabler of networks determining whether they spin virtuously or viciously both in an individual context and in interactions between systems. We can conclude that social capital architecture is the core policy issue if people are to be governed in a way that connects the individual’s own productivity rights to the social goods and open relationships that sustain human progress at community, national and international levels. The paradox is that whilst social capital involves a most simple and human idea, we should not underestimate how challenging it will be to plant in every powerful space. The EU high level report on intangibles has shown that our most powerful organisational systems govern in ways that do not integrate people, process, trust worthiness and open relationships. Mathematically, the transactional numbers which accountants provide to executive governance can actually be shown to be the main root cause of social capital destruction! It seems reasonable to conjecture that the policy issue of social capital will stand or fall on this question: does the will exist to map a new and transparent system of knowledge governance that all of Europe’s most powerful organisations commit to learn to systemise? So that you can quickly assimilate an opening picture of the great debate that has started, below I reproduce the transcript from the opening contextual welcome delivered by Anna Diamantopoulou, European Commissioner for Employment & Social Affairs. BIG QUESTIONS THAT COME TO MIND - what are yours - lease thread us? here are some starters on my mind... Where else in the world have you seen such commitment to progressing systematic understanding of the defining work and social issues of our age? How can we continue to build on this start in an open collaborative mode directed towards investing in preferred futures? What indeed are the inspirational futures which our whole world needs to focus on first? Can we see our way forward to healing our old cultural divides with a truly open commitment directed at enabling all of humanity enjoying the wonderful freedoms of access to social productivity, social capital networks and open knowledge economies.
Tranparency Mapping Communities: Pro: goverance by human beings. Against: governance by numbers Attachments: (No. of attachments - 1) 350 k Peacemaking Brand Architecture
Brand Architecture is the main method brand experts use to assure that partnering strategies are brand aligned for all the stakeholders of both partners. When it comes to peacemaking on the world's biggest conflict issues there are clearly many potential partners and the whole human race has many stakeholding rules. We have tried to map four open sources that are connecting all this and invite sincere relationships with all transparent parties. (22-Nov-03)
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Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this story. Legal NoticeNumber of comments: 23 Benoit Couture , 9-Aug-2005 The practice has begunStay at home dad Benoit CoutureThe big questions being asked in the last paragraph as well as the aspirations and challenges which are depicted in this condensed of Oct. 2002 presentation, are all about the European contribution to humanity's hope for a better future. Hope is moving with great stride toward efficient dialogue. Read the recent thread title: KM in the Middle-East: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=142410&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y Now in 2005, I suggest that our editors of the EU KM Board be given great lattitude to bring up a reconciling open space, made from all the progress that the EU KM Board has cultivated so far, such as the one mentioned above and the ones that connect the most directly to our immediate conditions as well as the short term and all the way to the long term justice which deploys the peace that will keep intact the joy of living in the children and families of our speicies. For this new collective venture, I propose the name: "The EU KM 's open diplomacy"!
Chris Macrae , 15-Dec-2004 community betrayed?Mr Chris MacraeDecember 04 update- sadly for many of us the ecademy has imploded its community model by effectively introducing a charge to converse, after 7 years of believing in freedom of speech. Conversely, this may make knowledgeboard the last chnace salon for all who want to question social futures of the knowledge age in the greatest blossoming diversity. A scary social responsibility for management to review and make most transparent use of how top billing links converse on the home page. What is the point of having a top page thet over focuses on 5 conversations at a time if there isnt ba content-related host waiting to socialise the conversation their work begun
Chris Macrae , 18-May-2004 social capital stars at the ecademyMr Chris MacraeSocial Capital is becoming a subject that is making Collaboration Cafe one of the hottest clubs of www.ecademy.com the 15000 professional network that figures uniquely in the world's 2000 most used webs http://www.ecademy.com/module.php?mod=club&op=forum&c=1550 Look forward to any cross-fertilisation of conversation; questions for either thread etc Meanwhile if the gap between knowledge sopciety and knowledge management is a topic that concerns someone, I would love them to enter into the debate raging on KM's greatest gaps at http://www.kwork.org
Chris Macrae , 6-Mar-2004 knowing our common assets -25 country mapping of responsibilitiesMr Chris MacraeThis section from the following bookmark looked important to me. It raises the question in my mind- to the extent that the EU visions united wealth exchnages across our 25 countries, how do we identify areas of common assets, democratically how do we find out who (can I have any bookmarks you have locating such who institutions?) is accountable for our common assets both at national and Euroepan levels?http://www.redefiningprogress.org/programs/commonassets/What Are Common Assets The American commons include tangible assets such as public forests and minerals, intangible wealth such as copyrights and patents, critical infrastructure like the Internet and government research, and cultural resources such as the broadcast airwaves and public spaces. —David Bollier, Public Assets, Private Profits, 2001. Collectively, common assets are the basis for our common wealth. Our common assets -- what we share and own together -- are critical to the well-being of current and future generations. "Old" economy common assets like forests, minerals, water and clean air played a major role in America's industrial dominance of the last century. Under the New Economy, a new set of common assets has emerged to fuel our growth, including the Internet, human genome, and bandwidth. Yet some of the oldest common assets like parks and schools are those that support community and quality of life. These things we hold in common and these spaces we share, help us to connect socially and politically. What we own in common helps us stay together.
Chris Macrae , 23-Jan-2004 reading list of world summit on information society part 2Mr Chris MacraeFrom http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/bibliography.html McPhail, Thomas, Global Communication, Allyn & Bacon, 2002 Miller, Daniel and Slater, Don, The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach, Berg, UK, 2001 Murelli, Elena, Breaking the Digital Divide, Commonwealth Secretariat & SFI Publishing, UK, 2002, Norris, Pippa, Digital Divide, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2001 O’Brien, Jeffrey M., The next Intel , WIRED Magazine, The Condé Nast Publications Inc., USA, 2002 OECD, Learning to Bridge the Digital Divide, without date, OECD publications OECD, Towards a Global Information Society: Global Information Society (GII-GIS): Policy Requirements, OECD Publications, 1998 O’Siochru, Sean, Global Media Governance: A Beginner’s Guide, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002 Ossama, François, Les nouvelles technologies de l’information, L’Harmattan, France, 2001 Page, David and Crawley, William, Satellites over South Asia: Broadcasting, culture and the public interest, Sage Publications, 2000 Price, Monroe E., Media & Sovereignty, The MIT Press, England, 2002 Quéau, Philippe, La Planète des Esprits. Pour une Politique du Cyberespace, Odile Jacob, 2000 Raboy, Marc, Global Media Policy in the new Millennium, University of Luton Press, 2001 Sabel, Robbie, Procedures at International Conferences: Study of the Rules of Procedure of International Inter-Governmental Conferences, Cambridge University Press, UK, 1997 Servaes, Jan, Walking on The Other Side of The Information Highway – Communication, Culture and Development in the 21st Century, Southbound, Penang, Malaysia, 2000 Shapiro, Andrew L., The Control Revolution: How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know, New York, Century Foundation, 1999 Slevin, James, The Internet and Society, Malden, Blackwell Publishers Inc., 2000 Stallman, Richard M., Free Software, Free Society, GNU Press, 2002 Stefik, Mark, The Internet Edge: Social, Technical and Legal Changes for a Networked World, MIT Press, 1999 Tawfik M., Bartagonon G., Courrier Y., World Communication and Information Report 1999-2000 (3 exemplaires), UNESCO Publishing Torvalds, Linus, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary; Harper od. Texere, 2001 UN/ECE, Simplification.com: Electronic Business and the Simplification of Administration; United Nations UNESCO, La société du savoir, Revue internationale des sciences sociales, Éditions Eres, France, 2002 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Cooperation South – Getting Connected: Information and Communications Technology for Development, 2001 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 2001: Making New Technologies Work for Human Development, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001 Wilsdon, James, Digital Futures: Living in a Dot.Com World, London: Earthscan Publications, 2001
Chris Macrae , 23-Jan-2004 World Summit on Information Society -part 1Mr Chris MacraeAnyone a clue on what this 2-leg summit (Switzerland December 2003) and Tunis 2005 co-sponsored by the UN is about? Below summit's reading list- anyone know which of these books is seminal for what? http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/bibliography.html Anheier, Helmut et al., eds., Global Civil Society 2001, OxfordBedi, Kiran, et al; Government@net, Sage Publications, India, 2001 Berners-Lee, Tim, Weaving the Web – The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor, Harper, 2000 Boyle, James, et al, Harvard University Press, USA, 1996 Castells, Manuel, The Rise of the Network Society – The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture – Volume I,2,3 1997-2000, Blackwell 2000 Castells, M, The Internet Galaxy: OUP, 2001 Chardonnens, PD, Dictionary of the digital medias, Swissmedia, Switzerland, 2002 Compaine, B M., The Digital Divide, MIT Press Sourcebooks, UK, 2001 Duff, A, Information Society Studies, Routledge 2000, UK, 2001 reprint Dyson, E, Release 2.1: A Design for Living in the Digital Age, Broadway Books – New York, 1998 Foray, D, L’économie de la connaissance, Éditions La Découverte & Syros, France, 2000. Fraser, M, Free-For-All: The Struggle for Dominance on the Digital Frontier, New York: Stoddart Publishing, 2000 Garson, D, Social Dimensions of Information Technology: Issues for the New Millennium, Hershey: Idea Group, 2000 Hafner and Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins Of the Internet, Simon & Schuster – USA, 1999 Hamelink, Cees J., Ethics of Cyberspace, London: Sage Publications, 2000 Hilbert, Martin et al, Building an Information Society, ECLAC, Chile, 2003 Himanen, P, The Hacker Ethic, Random house Trade Paperbacks, USA, 2001 Kalathil, et al, Open Networks, Closed Regimes, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA, 2003 Kaul, et al, Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press – UK, 1999 Kirkman Geoffrey S., Cornelius Peter K., Sachs Jeffrey D., Schwab Klaus, The Global Information Technology Report, Oxford University Press, UK, 2002 Kurzweil, Ray, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, Viking Penguin, 2001 Lessig, Lawrence, Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Basic Books, New-York, 1999 Lessig, Lawrence, The Future of Ideas (The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World), New York: Random House, 2001 León O., Burch S., Tamayo E., Social Movements on the Net, 2001, Quito, ALAI Loader, Brian D., ed., Cyberspace Divide: Equality, Agency and Policy in the Information Society, London: Routledge,1998 Mansell, Robin and When, Uta, eds., Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998 McLuhan, Marshall, War and Peace in the Global Village, Gingko Press 2001 (several editions)
Chris Macrae , 10-Dec-2003 Human Capital World Epicentre of ReportingMr Chris MacraeTo my knowledge , countries in the Nordica region of Europe are way in advance of anywhere else in requiring corporations to start reporting and tracking their investments in human capital in transparent ways. I therefore regard it as quite sick to receive this email today announcing that the American Professors whose accountiong discipline spawned Balanced Scorecards are now hosting Europe's first Human Capital conference: FIRST EVER HUMAN CAPITAL EUROPEAN SUMMIT 2004 Based on the outstanding success in the US, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative and Leading Minds proudly present the Human Capital European Summit 2004, “Aligning Human Capital with Business Strategy through the Application of the Balanced Scorecard” 25-26th March 2004 in Amsterdam. Understand the alignment of Human Capital to strategy Measure the contribution of Human Capital to business performance Create a framework for organizational alignment Create HR strategy maps and BSC’s Register before 31 January 2004 and receive a free copy of Kaplan and Norton’s new book, “Strategy Maps: Turning Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes.” Go to www.bsceventportfolio.com/hcnl0304 or contact [email protected] or call 377 97 97 39 46 to register. -------------------------Vested Interest Declaration - as someone who has been openly researching mathematical maps of intangible capitals for 5 years - see eg http://www.valuetrue.com -I also hate the idea of K&H's new book using map and intangible titles in ways that will systemically rule the opposite way round from the research which the EU has been inspiring by and through http://www.euintangibles.net
Chris Macrae , 21-Oct-2003 interesting social capital networksMr Chris MacraeScotland has started a most promising one at Any other sightings of clusters of people interested in social capital exchanges Aims of Scotland's Assist SC: • Promote the concept of social capital as an effective tool in community and personal development • Raise awareness of the fundamental value of social capital in addressing issues, especially in deprived and vulnerable communities • Raise awareness of the value of social capital to individual and personal development • Highlight the potential of social capital for economic and social development in both rural and urban areas of Scotland • Highlight the wider benefits of social capital in the community which have been documented elsewhere: improved health, crime reduction, greater community involvement, improved educational achievements, sustainability
Val Samonis , 21-Oct-2003 Transaction Cost Theories- Social Capital PredecessorsVal SamonisEurope may be leading (e.g. compared to the USA) the world through its EU institutions in the area relating to public goods (e.g. continent-wide standards) so important for minimizing transaction costs in modern societies. Social capital notion does involve that issue of transaction costs. But the current discussion on social capital should acknowledge its predecessors, like the whole school of transaction economics and the related school of new institutional economics (e.g. Douglas North) that was built by international scholars, mostly from North America.
Chris Macrae , 2-Sep-2003 conference swapMr Chris MacraeAnyone going to this conference - would you let me know? Perhaps we could swap conference notes- I'm already at same dates at http://www.collapsingworld.org The European Academy of Business in Society's 2nd Annual Colloquium on the theme of "Partnerships for Learning and Innovation on the Role of Business in Society" at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark on 19-20 September 2003. With 200 registrations our field of CSR welcomes companies, academics, policy-makers and other stakeholders all interested in building cross-community partnerships on research, teaching and training. Key note speeches from Michael Porter - Professor, Harvard Business School, John Elkington - Founder and Chair, Sustainability and others, discussion panels on leadership, the European Multistakeholder Forum, the business model and the future of business education, ... The event will also see the launch of the first European Survey on CSR Research and Teaching on CSR, covering all of the top business schools in Europe. Please visit the our website www.eabis.org or www.cbs.dk/centres/cvr/conference.shtml for further details. Speakers - Previously confirmed speakers include:Michael Porter - Professor, Harvard Business SchoolJohn Elkington - Founder and Chair, SustainabilityLaura Tyson - Dean, London Business SchoolGabriel Hawawini - Dean, INSEADPedro Ortún - Director, DG Enterprise, European CommissionMads Ovlisen - Chair, Novo NordiskViscount Etienne Davignon - Vice Chair, Société GénéraleAndre Van Heemstra - Personnel Director, UnileverHoracio Gutierrez - Associate General Council, Microsoft Gilbert Lenssen - Dean, EABIS Newly confirmed speakers:Tony Marchak - Vice President, Human Resources, IBM EMEAPaul Culleton - Vice President, Human Resources, Johnson & Johnson Mark Wade - Head of Leadership and Learning, Shell Lise Kingo - Executive Vice-President, Stakeholder Relations, Novo Nordisk Finn Junge Jensen - President, Copenhagen Business School Peter Pruzan - Professor, Copenhagen Business School Xavier Mendoza - Dean, ESADE Business School Alyson Warhurst - Director, Corporate Citizenship Unit, Warwick Business School Andrew Kakabadse - Vice-Dean, Cranfield School of Management Andrew Wilson - Director, Centre for Business and Society, Ashridge Jeremy Moon - Director, International Centre for CSR, University of Nottingham Judy Samuelson - Executive Director, Aspen Institute Jette Steen Knudsen - Director, The Copenhagen Centre Denise Auclair - European Policy Co-ordinator, CIDSE/Europa Caritas Workshops on Learning and Innovation on CSR* "Learning and Innovation Through Business Education: Mainstream Teaching Cases" - Chris Marsden, Chair, Amnesty International Business Group* "Stakeholder Orientation as a Catalyst for Learning and Innovation" - Susanne Stormer, Manager, Stakeholder Relations, Novo Nordisk.
Chris Macrae , 19-Jun-2003 invitation to discuss social and human capital by countryMr Chris MacraeIf your country doesn't appear in this table yet, and your are willing to contribute, tell me so that I can add in your country's thread. Germany New Zealand Finland England
Brazil Ukraine Wales Sweden The Netherlands
Japan Greece Spain Portugal
Chris Macrae , 1-Feb-2003 Information from the EU Knowledge Society webMr Chris Macraehttp://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/knowledge_society/themes_en.htm On this web site you can find more information on the opportunities and risks of the Knowledge Society as well as on the EU policies and activities (in particular of the Employment and Social Directorate General) in the following domains: Society (e.g. e-Inclusion) Economy and Work Education and Training (e.g. digital literacy) Quality of Life Regions / World (e.g. local development and the Knowledge Society) http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/totterdill.pdfDrawing on our analysis of research and case study evidence, as well ason dialogue with a wide range of actors, we have identified some coreprinciples for workplace innovation. Sustainable, ‘win-win’ approaches towork organisation are most likely to be achieved when:1. Employees are regarded as active partners, treated as responsiblepeople who will react constructively and who want to contribute to thefull extent of their individual capabilities.2. The workplace has developed a culture which values participation andinvolvement, with a work environment in which everyone contributesfor the benefit of the organisation as a whole.3. Participation and involvement at the workplace level are linked to thedevelopment of new competencies. Sometimes this means findingways of utilising existing skills more effectively, but very often newinvestment in training will be required. Learning should become anintegral part of job performance.4. When organisational innovation is initiated in the workplace,employees can see immediately that it is directly related to theachievement of transparent performance measures.5. New forms of work organisation are explicitly informed by a win/winperspective. This means that the worker must be able to recognise andinfluence the potential for improvements in job quality and workinglife.Employees have some control over their work environment, includingthe ability to strike a balance between routine tasks and moredemanding roles.
Chris Macrae , 1-Jan-2003 wonderful contributions OlafMr Chris MacraeOlaf, I love you contribution to increased understanding of EU Knowledge Society and your blog at http://ngomap.blogspot.com/ I look forward to discussing these matters in person when we meet in Amsterdam. Are you going to the EU Knowledge Angels meeting a week later? It seems to me (and I say this having no paid Eu affiliation whatsoever but being a passionate observer) that over the next 3 years we Europeans need to demand that the EU marries 2 great assets that are currently under different commissioner branches Knowledgeboard as the world's best co-content managing practice community - by which I mean a whitebox good enough to replicate to any policy sharing or open profession application together with the experiences of one community host and 21 sig editors and 4000 members in developing content that progresses openly and better and better plus an emerging understanding of how to network angelically beyond what actually gets seen on the knowledgeboard itself Within the Commissioner of Employment and Social Affairs vision -and network of 25 cabinet offices and all sorts of supporters from Europe's great and the good - the most wonderful idea of using the net ,web and knowledgeboard-style understanding and structure to openly develop policies of social and human capital to maximimum benefit of Europe 25 united countries It would be one of the biggest lost opportunities of Europe in this decade if we are not able to unite these 2 commissioner's branches onto a common map. It might also be a far greater waste since the world desperately needs co-content best paradigms to heal all sorts of conflicts between rich and desperate local worlds, and to rediscover our humanity and relationship trust in our diversity. I welcome every NGO initiative which sees that this curious open-but-human mix of nets, webs and maps could be the way forward through what system experts like Buckminster Fuller twenty years ago started to see as technology's final examination of mankind. If we pass through the connectivity warp of globalisation, I am optimistic that my five year old daughter's generation will have an inspirational world to create in and develop with; if we dont my failing and that of my generation will be immense.
Chris Macrae , 31-Dec-2002 Paul Resnick's KeyNote Speech Mr Chris MacraeResnick Speech...at the Eu's Knowlewdge Society conference One of Resnick's slides which intrigued me most was:SKILLS FOR THE NETWORK AGE• Use social networks• Contribute to social networks• Assemble social networks• Think strategically Is any K'boarder reminded of any seminal papers, work that bulds on this people-cenrtic view of networking? Are there any organsiational tools that help develop these practices?
Chris Macrae , 27-Nov-2002 how to rigorously examine what finance got wrongMr Chris MacraeI dont believe in policy having any useful direction on social or human capital until the hiterto unexaminable is openly examined - what finance did wrong globally and systematically this last decade. I wish I had my father's economic nouse which took The Economist from 4th weekly national to one in time global viewspaper. Not having this all I can do is point you to a few bookmarks etc and ask you to reciprocate I was part of a bookreader's club of the Force of Finance by Reuven Brenner. Jack Yan's review made common sense to me:Brenner: The Force of Finance: Triumph of the Capital Markets. New York: Texere 2002.In a frank fashion, Brenner traces the roots of democracy and globalization, and while the latter has been covered better elsewhere (Mittelman's The Globalization Syndrome, for instance), his style is more accessible. Singaporean investments into Indonesia have benefited both countries, not because of capitalism, but because mobility and the transfer of talent allows citizens to be fulfilled in their endeavours, creating a global class. This can be done because both the traveller and the host country have a mutual duty. The best chapters are where Brenner analyses financial principles—and courageously and rightly debunks much of the outright lies governments and reserve banks tell about economies. When economies do not work, government's first instinct is to mask the trouble through rhetoric. There is institutionalization, including in education (and specifically, the education of economics), that prevents progress but solidifies power bases which may have become irrelevant; innovation can be helped instead by capital that comes from diverse sources. In saying this, Brenner puts a historical context on even more recent happenings such as the dot-com boom. And provides a basis for the return of the word agelaste, originating from the Greek and meaning someone with no sense of humour. There are many out there preventing modern progress. Brenner exposes the truth, making The Force of Finance a must-read for anyone who wishes to cut through them. As a service to the reader, Brenner goes beyond this central topic, providing useful pointers on policy and potential avenues for countries to follow in the future. Those comments make for good reading in any discipline, which can undoubtedly draw parallels to many of the things that Brenner discusses.
Chris Macrae , 17-Nov-2002 Insights from Open Source CommunitiesMr Chris MacraeLauri's advocation of Tuomi's work in our storytelling thread led me to search through some of his writings such as this:http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_1/tuomi/index.html A few extracts that caught my eye:Individuals became persons with individual identities through their membership in the various communities they are members of. Identity, in other words, is not something that is grounded on any possible list of "attributes" of an individual person. Instead, it is grounded on communities, with their specific systems of activity and collective meaning processing [4]. In such a context, open source development model is not only producing software. It also produces the interacting system of knowing, learning, and doing that organizes the community and its relations with other communities. Indeed, as the empirical analysis below shows, the open source development model is a heterogeneous network of communities and technologies. A characteristic of this model is that, under suitable conditions, technology development can become extremely rapid." .....Donald Schön (1983) described learning processes that underlie acquisition of professional skills. According to Schön, competent professional practice can be understood as reflective practice, and such practices are learned and reproduced in communities of practitioners. Learning a professional skill is often based on social interaction, and competent use of appropriate technologies.
Chris Macrae , 7-Nov-2002 The Drucker timeline on Knowledge Workers - why has policy been so tardy in exploring these leads?Mr Chris MacraePeter Drucker once told me that he coined the term Knowledge Worker, so I better google for us. A few extracts from my googling; whos else's view of the knowledge worker should we seek to understand? http://www.deming.com.tw/deming/e/e1999067.htm - 12k Drucker's six major factors determine knowledge-worker productivity are: . Knowledge-worker productivity demands that we ask the question:" what is the task?" .Knowledge-workers have to manage themselves. They have to have autonomy .Continuing innovation has to be par of the work, the task and the responsibility of K-W. .Knowledge Worker requires continuous learning and teaching. .Productivity of the Knowledge Worker is not--at least not primarily-- a matter of quantity of output. Quality is at least as important. .Finally, Knowledge Worker productivity requires that the Knowledge Worker is both seen and treated as an "asset" rather than a "cost". It requires that Knowledge Worker want to work for the organization in preference to all other opportunity. GURTEEN - Quotation: On Knowledge Worker Productivity by Peter F ... http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ 0/8B5B9823792FCB0B80256A490025FC2D/ - 53k - "The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER." Drucker and respect for the knowledge workerFrom Beyond the Information Revolutionhttp://www.ewh.ieee.org/r4/west_michigan/Drucker.html - 3k "The key is not electronics; it is cognitive science. This means that the key to maintaining leadership in the economy and the technology that are about to emerge is likely to be the social position of knowledge professionals and social acceptance of their values. For them to remain traditional "employees" and be treated as such would be tantamount to England's treating its technologists as tradesmen -- and likely to have similar consequences." "Increasingly, performance in these new knowledge-based institutions will come to depend on running the institution so as to attract, hold, and motivate knowledge workers. When this can no longer be done by satisfying workers' greed, as we are now trying to do, it will have to be done by satisfying their values, and by giving them social recognition and social power. http://home.att.net/~nickols/chronicle.htm - 12k 1981:"To make knowledge work fully productive requires many things [Frederick Winslow] Taylor did not concern himself with. It requires systematic abandonment of the tasks that no longer produce and of the services that are no longer needed.... It requires systematic provision of the information needed and of the tool needed.
Chris Macrae , 5-Nov-2002 The Innovation SuperHighway: Harnessing Intellectual Capital for Collaborative Advantage by Debra M. AmidonMr Chris MacraeWhilst I'm praying tha Amazon delivers my copy soon, I hear on the grapevine that this book sets new standards for national and regional knowledge policy makers , as well as making the strongest pleas that organisations systematically wake up to the innovation and collaboration advantages that nets are for Many may already know that Debra has done more than anyone to put knowledge and networks on the map - literally at http://www.entovation.com/kleadmap/index.htm Knowledgeboarders have already been privileged to have one virtual chat with her as recorded at http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=88209. Here, Debra shared with us: 5 lessons learned about architecting our future on the Innovation Super HighwayØ We've learned that in the new domain of Knowledge Economics, what we count matters. As imprecise as it may seem, we need to calibrate is the intangible, hidden, intellectual wealth of an enterprise ? how it is created and leveraged. Ø We've learned that the Knowledge Structures operate as holo-nomies? Nesting of networks - with both local and global scope. We need to understand how they operate as communities and spheres of influence. Ø We've learned that Knowledge Workers although originally described as high technology or white collar includes everyone; we all have a role to play. We need to determine what now motivates constructive behaviours, and new modes of interdependence and collaboration. Ø We've learned that all Knowledge Processes can fit under a rubric of innovation - but innovation redefined according to the flow of knowledge. We need to make the process explicit and discover ways to measure performance. How knowledge is created, shared, and applied. We are like Pogo...confronted now with insurmountable opportunity! Ø We've learned the power of Knowledge Processing Technology ? advancing in features and receptivity beyond our wildest dreams. We've learned that technology isn't an end but a means for prosperous innovation. We need to find ways to take advantage of the advancements and uses it as an instrument in the new economy
Chris Macrae , 3-Nov-2002 Networking's new productivity comes from connecting the disconnectedMr Chris MacraeI want to make this statement clear. Since my father first wrote about networking in The Economist in the early 1980s, this is our first litmus test of whether any view of networking -socially or economically - is worth spending time to read We are about 20 years into charting this view http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html Yet everyday we find how the simpest things often get overlooked, probably because they are deeply human rather than monetary For example I recommend you telling yourself that there is a very imporatnt networking subject area called the Community of Person. Any networker builds one and it is the overlap of all those communities of person on which any higher order community concept (eg CoP) falls or stands. That's one example of why the "connect the disconnected" is the net's one huge gift to us who are privileged to have access to it; and why we must make sure everyone has that privilege because the best uses of the net will come form those who havn't previously had the connections. Whilst exploring simple-minded themes- how about the personal productivity of time. This area is another that often seems to fall through the gaps of more fashionable areas of productivity. I found this delightful reference in my inbox today -the paper referred to is vaut le voyage: "I find it most productive and healthful to define productivity for ANY type of work in terms of involvement, which can be defined in several different ways, allowing different levels of precision and optimization. When you're not getting things done as well as you want, don't you try to concentrate better, to 'get into it' more, to improve your level ofinvolvement? This approach emphasizes one's experience, allowing true continuous improvement no matter what the activity, and abstract measures based on experience are secondary, while relevant and useful." For a paper on this, see "What Guarantees Optimal Productivity and Well-Being?" athttp://www.manage-time.com/involve.html Steve Randall, Ph.D. Results in No Time - email: [email protected] Management Supersite: http://www.manage-time.com
Chris Macrae , 1-Nov-2002 Which disciplinary perspectives most closely border social capital?Mr Chris MacraeMy map would call off at the following (where else would you field-trip to?): Open Networking and open knowledge access Community of anything - presuming it had a map of stakeholder flows before technology went any where near intervening them Corporate Responsibility, including transparent conflict resoltion system mapping and relationship capitals in which all stakeholders participate Leadership in risk prevention as a collaborative calling Charters which people could participate in, converse, question, negotiate their own knowledge of in public until they got it in action as well as communication Open space movements as ways of renewing communal consensus and open activism towards preferred futures Spiritual experiences where culturally harmonious Mutidisciplinary perspectives revolving around deep human understanding and respect for diversity Design, usability, innovation Incidentally, this was the conference-suggested definition of what social capital encompasses (open for discussion!) Social capital = networks together with shared norms, values and understanding that facilitate co-operation within or among groups. and here are some neighbouring definitions proposed:Knowledge Society = a societal as well as economic development based on three interrelated processes of increasing informationalization, changing communications and interdependence structures, , and changing processes of knowledge creation and utilization. Human capital = knowledge , skills, competencies and attributes embodied in individuals that facilitate the creation of personal, social and economic well-being.
Chris Macrae , 1-Nov-2002 is this more than rhetoric?Mr Chris MacraeLilly, its a question I ask myself from any conference I go to... In this instance various people at the conference committed to thread everything they could; that was qute an open commitment but also one that becomes a challenge to us here and now. For example can we (2000 of us) at this knowledgeboard space think of every way the 200 at the conference might bring their special interests and debate them as SIGs? Please visualise 200 people at this conference all of whom wanted to do -and politically committing on behalf of all sorts of different stakeholders and all our United States of Europe - to achieve and sustain people oriented progress, not one consultant or other rhetoric-advising suspect among them as far as I could see. And in many ways they all were asking for help to understand how the best endeavours of knowledge and networking could spread the word. If the 2000 K'Boarders in this community don't feel able to start multiplying these seeds and inspirations given this invitation, then we may never again get a second chance to live up to the ideals of the internet that people like Vint Cerf, quoted bottom left on the homepage of this sig expected of us. I will try and find some other people who were at the conference. I agree -ideally we need to hear many voices way beyond mine - in pursuit of why human capital and social capital of the knowledge society MUST NOT be just rhetoric.
Lilly Evans , 31-Oct-2002 thank you and questionLilly EvansChris, I thank you for a vivid and passionate exposition of the developing ideas at the very recent EU meeting. This comes from Washington, Georgetown but not too far from Bethesda! It is interesting to compare and contrast what you have experienced with my impressions from the Society for Organisational Learning 3rd Greenhouse event entitled "Rigor and Relevance". It brought together about 100 people on George Washington University campus in Virginia. Main similarity appears to be with the type of welcoming address - we had Dr Egbe Osifo, a fascinating woman from the World bank Institute who spoke about the work they are doing in trying to combat Aids and HIV, how is that changing and the difference in the way Bank works under leadership of James Wolfensohn. The emerging theme for me from the subsequent two days is a desire to make a difference on a broader world scale through developing better leadership! How different from focus on social capital. I do not see whether any follow ups have been agreed from your two day event Chris. Ours has left it to individuals to follow up on the connections they made, so social capital creation was serendipitous but not harnessed. My question is why do you believe that what you were present to was much more than a rethoric? Thanks again Lilly
George Por , 30-Oct-2002 "gift exchange"George PorDear Crhis, thank you for the gift of your report on that EU meeting and your thoughts inspired by it. If that conference will indeed stimulate an integrated policy for social capital that would bring together "the directorates of employment and socialaffairs, IT and knowledge management, and intangibles economics," as you hope for, it's yet to be seen. If we at K.Board will contribute to the development of a constituency (social capital) and intellectual resources for a systemic approach to policy, that connects those domains, then we'll have done something that can make a positive difference. As a token sign of my appreciation of your relentless weaving the threads of evolutionary meaning that emerges from many sources, here are two mini-gifts from my hard disk: Annotated Bibliography on the Business Value of Social Capitalhttp://www.cim.sfu.ca/folders/research/2%20-%20Annotated%20bibliography.pdf “The new currency won’t be intellectual capital. It will be social capital–the collective value of whom we know and what we’ll do for each other.” James Krouse, Chairman Emeritus, The Tom Peters
· First Published August 04 , Revisiting March 05 with UK government's Green Paper on Future of BBC When you look at expert debates (1,,2), on the world's desperate need for some institution to moderate the excess vicious impacts of nation states, religions and commercial media, it is ironical that the BBC should have been kneecapped by Hutton. Still all we need is for one huge idea for the world service to break free and serve people of Britain and humanity of the world not local politicians who have absolutely no right of wonership or interference. What's your big idea? Back in 1984, we proposed that in 2005 man's greatest risk would be gaps in incomes and expectations between rich and poor nations. We also proposed the BBC start a reality tv game on 30000 ways to eliminate povery systemically. One we believed could soon be freely syndicated to 60 nations, 600 million viewers in a way that integrated tv and internet conversation. Let's discuss variations on that idea, or any other breakthrough one you suggest. As well as respond to any queries you may have as to why the BBC may be the only organsiation with relationship permissions to help the world out of the battles beteen West & Eastern religion, irresponsbile global business and the need to love people at every locality, a commercial media that hoists most superficial celebrity superstars on us so that we no longer know the stories of real heroes and the lifetimes of work it often takes to seed small acorns of change for humanity. Unless the public's largest media stands up for valuing what makes the human race greatest rather than all the powers that make humans very small minded. FootnoteIndeed whenever a Britain meeds an MP or prosepective one, they should make it quite unambiguous that political influence over the BBC is tantamount to theft. It is the people that own the BBC, and human rihhts have neever needed a greater world service champion independent of politicians and the increasingly big business interests they seem so often to align with as a second betrayal of the public's rights.
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Benoit Couture , 09 July 2005 @ 15:38 PM All inthe FamilyStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear fellow-citizens of the earth, please, see if you can allow this document to be at centre of our microscopic gravitational generating power. It is writen in respose to the activities from the entity of terror-anti-terror. The motion is to apply transparency in going from the domestic oppession powers to domestic health of the Faculty of Living. We presently have in Canada, a conjuncture of two separate conflicts that establishes the perfect live mass educational link for all of the French-Anglo-Abotiginal-Spanish-Commonwealth-Francophonie-Europe-Americas-Australia-Middle-East-Asia connection to unravel. The individual case is of a former national grand Chief who yesterday was convicted of a hate crime against the Jewish people. This case deals directly with the dark effects of the Judeo-Christian history of backroom deals, while mostly smoke and mirrors of politics kept the "public opinion" informed enough for satisfaction. As an individual judical case, it then stetches into a collective-national juducal case under the form of the national unity sponsorship scandal. The judge of this inquiry is presently simmering its report, to be readied for December. This local legal-politico-socio-cultural-econo conjuncture offers a perferct opportunity for www open source to come alive and relevant for all, viewed from one angle or any other. It hereby opens to us a flowcalizable(focal-local-flowing) window to connect transparently from the deepest levels of accumulated historical divisive mistrust's consequenses, which sits us in Europe and North America, on the verge of tipping into an all out surrender to the reactive powers of frustration. Our native population has accepted a treaty of non-violence with the Crown. They have kept their end of the bargain under genocide circumstances; so far that is! The Crown is dissolving in front of their eyes and what's coming behind is even worst from their point of view. Who and what else can they now turn to, as they are forced into the same mentality as those who just dished out some of it upon London's people?!? Please UK and your majesty, my Queen, I realize that I am nothing more than a visionary with my ear on the ground, but here is an opportunity for all of the inspirational content that I read in our common history, to unearth from this opportunity, the solid ground to move from local conflict resolution to renewl. This conjuncture provides us with "the" case study on how to free knowledge from military reflexing, with the pausing capacities of intellectual honesty and all the way to the drive of clarity in the balance of IQ-EQ, as to where and how we host knowledge in the completing application of love's intelligence. Can this entry move to harness the energies from such an organism and to brew from near-cahos into an initial micro-community of universal sustainability? What do we think?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 09 July 2005 @ 15:32 PM All in the Family (Part !)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear fellow-citizens of the earth, please, here is an immediate antidote in respose to the activities from the entity of terror-anti-terror. The motion is to apply transparency in going from the domestic oppession powers to domestic health and happiness of the Faculty of Living. We presently have in Canada, a perfect conjuncture of two separate conflicts that establishes a perfect, live educational link for all of the French-Anglo-Abotiginal-Spanish-Commonwealth-Francophonie-Europe-Americas-Australia-Middle-East-Asia connection to unravel. The individual case is of a former national grand Chief who yesterday was convicted of a hate crime against the Jewish people. This case deals directly with the dark effects of the Judeo-Christian history unknown from backroom deals, while maintaining mostly smoke and mirrors of politics kept the "public opinion" informed enough for satisfaction. As an individual judical case, it then stetches into a collective-national juducal case under the form of the national unity sponsorship scandal. The judge of this inquiry is presently simmering its report, to be readied for December. This local legal-politico-socio-cultural-econo conjuncture offers a perferct opportunity for www open source to come alive and relevant for all, viewed from one angle or any other. It hereby opens to us a window to connect transparently from the deepest levels of accumulated divisive mistrust's consequenses, which sits us in Europe and North America, on the verge of tipping into an all out surrender to the reactive powers of frustration. Our native population has accepted a treaty of non-violence with the Crown. They have kept their end of the bargain under genocide circumstances; so far that is! The Crown is dissolving in front of their eyes and what's coming behind is even worst from their point of view. Who and what else can they now turn to, as they are forced into the same mentality as those who just dished out some of it upon London's people?!? Please UK and your majesty, my Queen, I realize that I am nothing more than a visionary with my ear on the ground, but here is an opportunity for all of the inspirational content that I read in our common history, to unearth from this opportunity, the solid ground to move from local conflict resolution to a perfectly adaptable globalizing embryo for the BBC and CBC to join in with ...cleasing our vision of the Crown... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U1590685 This conjuncture provides us with "the" case study on how to free knowledge from military reflexing, with the pausing capacities of intellectual honesty and all the way to the drive of clarity in the balance of IQ-EQ, as to where and how we host knowledge in the completing application of love's intelligence. Can this entry move to harness the energies from such an organism and to brew from near-cahos into an initial micro-community of universal sustainability? What do we think?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 09 July 2005 @ 15:23 PM All in the Family (Part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit CouturePart 2SUBSENSE PUBLISHING and PROMOTION (SPP) The name SUBSENSE is composed with the words: Substance-essence. Substance from the essence=SUBSENSE. SPP comes into existence to spread the experience of spiritual unity as articulated and/or demonstrated by the existance of Subsense Publishing and Promotion. The question we addressed is: How do we host the discipline of life’s sanctity, from the individual personal care to the maturity of mutuality in the family and in the community, adapting to any socio-cultural context? The spectrum of our work is focused on verbalizing the answers to the twofold question on the discovery of applicable meaning (essence) and how to cultivate its embodiment to completion (substance), when and where the need arises individually, domestically, culturally or socially. The service we offer is to develop methods of approach to reach out and/or to train individuals, families and communities to develop healthy lives and conditions, always addressing both simultaneously, until sustainability. To begin our publishing and promotion service to Canadians, we studied four questions. They are: 1-“What is the essence of a relationship and how do we substantiate its dynamics to go from strangers to family, into the ongoing renewal of a healthy mutuality?” 2-“What is the essence of health, education and environment, and, how do we substantiate personal and communal awareness in the state of maturity and wisdom, free from the confinements of uniformity and of conformity?” 3-“How do we absorb the energies of individuals who are withdrawn in self-destruction and/or violence, in exchange to commune to and with them, in the essence of the inner life that ignites human existence to the substance of complete caring?” 4-“How can the answers to these questions be harnessed, refined and processed as the essence to foster our multi-cultural identity, and to thereby, substantiate unity amongst Canadians, secure in the bond and the growth of our citizenship’s heritage of personal, cultural and social health and wellness…amen?!” The stages begin with one’s personal Acquisition of the taste for Health. Then, once stabilized into The Faculty of Living, he/she joins amongst the Correctional Family Circuiting until the firm establishment into the Ministry of Reconciliation. Thus is being built the Canadian Health Trail, emerging upon the Land of Emanuel, in the perpetual celebration of Easter.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 09 July 2005 @ 15:22 PM All in the Family (Part3)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureTENTATIVE PROPOSAL “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of the PATIENT WISDOM” “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of the PATIENT WISDOM” is the name for the arrow of justice to reach the target of Canada’s constitutional completion. This arrow is made of the hunger and of the thirst for the justice and for the peace needed to be blessed upon the Aboriginal people first, and for all who can relate with the need for the renewal of the mature socio-cultural development of our citizenship. This is the name of the healing movement entering the multi-generational currents of living nourishing inner waters. We shall start to take Canadian citizenship safely out of the snare of our accumulated past mistakes of timeless proportions. The target of this exercise is to raise the community life until it reaches the fulfilment of the preamble, at the top of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. At the moment, that preamble says in English: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principals which recognize the Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law”. In French, instead of “Rule of Law” it says: “The Pre-Eminency of the Right”.When Subsense Publishing and Promotion is done with their purpose, the preamble will read in all concerned languages as opposed to each its own: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principals which recognize the Supremacy of God, the Rule of Law balanced with the pre-eminency of the Right, meeting to be fostered in “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of PATIENT WISDOM”. This will happen as a result of Justice deploying its restoration in the broken hearts and spirits and cause balanced living to grow. The patient wisdom shall guide each open heart from the Road House to the inner home, where the quietning silence is received and causes balance to grow in the joyful fulfilling of serenity.Then comes the discipline of questing together for home in the Correctional Family Circuiting, by the union of the powerful Spirit of peace, joy, love and wisdom. This is the entry into the Land of Emmanuel, where the Cleansing River is, which shall bring us to the renewal and the transformation from the old to the new living, for all who so desire to enter into the better future now, the perpetual Easter.The stability in developing this culture depends on how faithfully the three hosting cultural elements of Canada accept the mutual subjection to one another, upon the integrity of the ground to acquire and to spread the desire to live well and the discipline to foster the taste for health and happiness. Debbie, Benoit Couture and children
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 02 July 2005 @ 17:05 PM From observation to participationStay at home dad Benoit CoutureThe growing hype caused by the competition for attention in the media, is the perpetuating wheel of subtrations from the whole, subdividing civilization's field of relativity. Substracting and dividing the attention adds up to the multiplication of scatered thoughts, stimulating the dynamics of social reclusion-exclusion that fill in the void caused in the absence of meaningful time, carving seeking identities from a closed in interpretation of all surrounding influences. That was a description of an experience with the desintegration process of the individual's core identity generator, into the illusive nature of television. Psychatry deals with individuals who's identity becomes organically hooked by telivision, causing hallucinations and all kinds of personality disorders. The questions: "How do we recollect our thoughts from the scattered disconnection that such "freedom" caused and how do we bring on a focus upon reality so as to eliminate the artificial nature of relating that generated by decades of mindless market expensions?" The live nature of the image works directly in the spontanious thought process. Spontanious and live work together to unite or to substract and subdivide, there is no neutral ground. Here is a proposal to face up to the situation by aiming to bring democracy up to date. The idea is on stand by, to seek out a window of opportunity to rally public broadcasting, to captivate the live interests upon humanity's trans-generational quest for our global home, with the BBC and the CBC. Here is a suggesting proposal to serve this cause. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A4305917 The complete package begins at:http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/U1590685?s_fromedit=1 It is very personal and intimate, in the way knowledge needs to open in order to manage from the Source to the Suorce...let it be...
Gillian Bush , 01 July 2005 @ 18:23 PM knowledge of media - part 2Ms Gillian BushOverholser urged discussants not to spend their energies trying to remake news the way it used to be, but to think creatively about what journalism can and should look like, given the new environment created by changes in business-model and technology. She pointed to the upsides, including a more diverse news landscape with a proliferation of outlets (with the advent of blogs and cable news) that cover more stories from more angles. But there are challenges, particularly for international news coverage. International journalism requires more investigation to begin with and doesn?t always fit neatly into partisan reportage. Overseas bureaus ? the most expensive piece of the news suite ? are the first to go when financial pressure is applied. As Doyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times put it, there are more outlets but fewer inputs; more broadcast and online channels offering news, but but fewer reporters on the ground to produce it -- especially overseas. Thus the stories with the most flash, conflict or partisan bite get disproportionate c overage. The international news that does make it through to the public tends to be episodic, unconnected and even chaotic, and the public quickly loses interest. This produces lower ratings and declining readership, deepening the conviction of corporate boards, publishers, and editors that the public appetite for international news is small and not worth the investment required to improve coverage. But these trends are self-fulfilling: with less investment in the field, journalists deliver international news without continuity or context, further eroding the public's potential interest. Studies by the Pew Research Center in June 2002 noted that the post-9/11 increase in readership for international news seemed to have leveled out. Why? The public found international coverage "boring, bloody and hard to understand." The world i s becoming more interconnected, and the Pew results -- together with more anecdotal evidence from journalists and editors involved in programs like the International Reporting Project at SAIS -- suggest that the public responds to strong storytelling that goes beyond the ?daily bus plunge? -- a rundown of natural disasters, catastrophic accidents, or coups from around the globe. GB
Gillian Bush , 01 July 2005 @ 18:22 PM knowledge of media -P1Ms Gillian BushWhere in KnowledgeBoard to find discussion of media? Not just the media KM experts know such as community and blog but how all media interconnects, because communications are flows. I see no value in being deeply expert in one type of media to the exclusion of its interface with another type. The days when management could be expert in one way communications are surely gone if you are in a sector that interacts any of the following:learning with customers, the cluetrain future lifelong learning with employees, the vision 2010 scenario global and local diversity, nature's scenario (and since I have faith in humankind what I believe a majority of 6 billion beings would vote as worth sustaining if ever we purpose to be a Human KM of all peoples rather than a KM of apartheids or of valuing machines as a higher order capital than people -that would make science fact starger than fiction if scientists ever knowledge managed such a disaster) Media from this side of the translantic pond has become very isolated, not good at connecting as you can see from this Gii extract. We wish any Brits -or Europeans- who are trying to get the BBC to take the lead in understanding world service broadcast media all the courage in the world.
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 08:20 AM backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech 2005, 23 July HammersmithMr Chris Macraehttp://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/programme/ backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech 2005from UKUUG & NTK. Supported by backstage.bbc.co.uk we're very much "Open" to suggestions. If you're reverse-engineering proprietary protocols, making useful informationavailable in a way people couldn't get at before, pioneering unexpected methods of knowledge sharing - or (equally likely) doingsomething so cool we haven't even thought of it yet, then please get in touch Full programme details will appear in early July, along with details of registration. If you would like to offer a talk, you can do so through our form. Already ConfirmedTed Nelson, inventor of hypertext, on where the web went wrong The official launch of the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer network, opening up BBC content for you to play with Plus: able to record an entire week of all Freeview TV and radio channels, probably the UK's largest (fridge-sized) PVR
Chris Macrae , 29 May 2005 @ 16:13 PM Thank you for making this thread #3 in Google of Future of BBCMr Chris Macraehttp://backstage.bbc.co.uk/ To tell you the truth, I don’t understand this site. I think it says any film producer can make a proposal to reuse any BBC film content for non-commercial purpose. For example since 1984 we have believed that the BBC should be helped into a reality tv game that connected to the internet and explored 30000 win-win projects for ending extreme poverty; how do we backstage that stimuli until the BBC wants it If it does, could that change the world. We are aiming to do a collaboration café with one of youth’s leading concerned film producers the coming Friday 12.30 at British Library café – a few hundreds yards from London’s Euston Syation. Confirmation of the café will be made on Tuesday but if you are interested please start nominating yourself, and if you have any views on whether I have understood backstage correctly or wrongly, I always need to learn! Mail me at [email protected] to join us or for more details CheersChris Macrae PS closing calls in the government’s public feedback on the future of the BBC at Tuesday midnight-Easiest way is mail [email protected] you can do the survey at http://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/have_your_say/green_paper/greenpaper_home.html#2
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Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this story. Legal NoticeNumber of comments: 41 Troy Rice , 08 August 2005 @ 14:31 PM Promoting Hemisphere Debates anywhere people want to connect culturesHemisphere Debates Citizens from different hemispheres are iterating this mail and invitation to reach more inclusive understandings of diversity than 20th C constitutions got to know. 1.0 Opening idea: postulate some systemic different diversity environments typifying the 4 environments. Show how these compound opposite economic, constitutional and societal logics which it’s our generation’s duty to reconcile. 1.1 Join in framing the opposites of West, North, East, South but for example nomadic rights may offer an overlooked clue.The West & North mainly enjoy land that it is valuable to own and the more people who pack into land like cities the more the original owners get. In the West, there seems to be much more of bigger is better and merits its power over the future. In the North, there is some aspect of depth is better connected to historical arts and being the origin of many of the main world languages used today. In the East & South, there is much more arid land where being nomadic rather than seeking to own is at least as logical and economic! (NB any connection with IP debates, Open Source movements etc?) On top of this there are very concentrated pockets of land (where oil, gold, diamonds, or water) resides. Owning these is of immense value but for sustainability needed to be communally shared across a nation not owned by a global partner who otherwise has no interest in the nation than possibly corrupting a few of its top rulers. I have exaggerated but surely this sustainability profile needs to be transparently and systemically understood the world over because it compounds different consequences which will cost future generations dear unless we - as netizens & real people - can trust in connecting openly, loving communion. East has an additional difference in that relatively speaking peoples long histories are still constitutionally preserved as are their deep religions, spiritual and community grassroots ways of developing. Whereas south has often had these displaced, and many more globally standard development programs imposed on it. 2.1 My agency role this fall is to co-promote the collaboration knowledge city debate of hemispheres out of DC? What can dialogue do? I don’t know, do you?. If what Clinton’s declared purpose of his 1000 people meeting in New York in September is true, I would love to find out which Washingtonians connect with that. I want to bridge disciplines and practice and peaceful experiments so that these can translate what academic theories may already know into common use. Our transparency valuation communities are joining together to start a list of some DC groups we are trying to connect in informal meetings here, -and of course with open content syndication at any web or blog that wishes to link diversity transparently.
Troy Rice , 08 August 2005 @ 14:19 PM a fall of extraordinary global & local social capital meetingsRecalling how the EU's knowledge society used the social capital lens to invite cabinet offices from all 25 countries to frame development and harmonisation ideas around this common lens, it seemed timely to note how different hemispheres are hosting extraoridnary gatherings in the coming months and to ask for your observations of anywhere that Europeans are participating Two of the most extraordinary events are:Sarajevo next week, hosted by a worldwide network founded in Melbourne by Paul Komesaroff Mid September, New York, 1000 leaders for action hosted by Bill Clinton My next mail illustrates ways that any cluster of people can start animating events and dialogues patterned around the same big and action-focused issues and the Fall's major happenings for harmonising social capital of poor rural and rich cities. And as our friends in the UK social capital thread have been opining: London has become the etst case for the sustainability of any open multicultural city; Londoners invite anyone of deep culture or deep national identity to share in the dialogues all cities need to integrate if we are not to discriminate longer against those in poverty and pay the compound price for this which starts with the desecration of every freedom and safety ordinary citizens of all cultures need to get on with learning, work, cooperation across belief systems- especially those called economics and community/knowledge society lifelong wellbeing - systemising trust, transparency and open flows, knowledge or even management.
Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 16:28 PM Personal invitation to the Presidency and to Mr,Bush (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Mr. Bush, I had hoped not to have to start bringing this message in public again, but circumstances are compelling me to do so. As you and/or your staff know, Mr. Clinton is hosting a special conference in next September. Part of that conference will be concerning "reconciliation". Here is my personal message to compel you to attend and to help humanity to get from secrecy to transparency of the open source of networking with mature knowledge management: First sentMarch 22, 2005Dear Mr. President Bush,Now, in 2005, the dream of United States has grown so big and reached so far, that they have monopolized in the psyche of the world’s population, the exclusive use of the term American for the citizens who are born and who live within the borders of United States. America goes from Artica to Antarctica. As a Canadian citizen, I see the opportunity available from Alberta to Quebec and from coast to coast to coast to coast, to get together to say “here we are Mr. Bush, to help you and the United States, to define the Americas from within the true scope of whom we really are meant to be, once together… Alberta’s 4th KlondikeIt is human nature to have and to maintain distance between us. When mishandled, that distance causes discomfort. It then rapidly becomes defences that hit against defences, activating fear and anger that feed misunderstandings. Once violence erupts, it causes a chain-reaction that can eventually bring us, as we are now, in the ready state of human terror and horror. The horizon of humanity is in the healing journey and the present world crisis gives Alberta an opportunity for our 4th Klondike! This is the invisible gold rush, the one to make sense of the first 3 Alberta Klondikes of golden, green and black gold, in light of the global clashing climate! Because of the energy resources in our economy, we, Albertans are given a special position to lead Canadians to strengthen our place in the western world. We are needed to provide the starting point for the healing trail that the entire world populations are in need to witness and to participate in! By launching the updating and the healing of Canadian democracy from within the context of a sovereign Albertan-Quebecois challenge, energies can be channelled to raise the bridge of our unity, from the Covenant designed to heal us from the stress that feeds and leads on the crisis of human terror. Albertans are aware of the need and are now requested to move where from we host the faculty of living! In doing so, along with Canadians from coast to coast to coast, we can, provide a safety valve to the human race, in the US transfer of energy supply from Saudi to Wood-Buffalo.
Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 16:27 PM Personal invitation to the Presidency and to Mr. Bush (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...George W. Bush has had to win some personal battles in the inner man’s war, in order to be made ready for President. Let us please, dear Canadians, bring on our unity to rise up to rescue Mr. George Bush, his followers and the US Presidency. Let’s be the alternative to set them free from the blind agitation of military intelligence! Let us reach the victory of maturity, to take our place as the offering from a people of God, so that we overcome the historical temptation of worldly Christian might. ”Mr. Bush, you now stand on the threshold of the crossroad, where in the one direction, you will go on helping America and the market economy to fuel the fire of mortal appetites in the bush of the great prostitute, or, in the other direction, you can stand before God until He ignites you into His Presence by His Word and brings you to experience the New Covenant’s burning bush. There, His Spirit enables His children to know Him, His will and His instructions for any questions we might have. By such stand of His people, Yahweigh (or any name by which you relate to Life-Force) gets to demonstrate His victory lane! Americans and the entire world population need to follow the lead driven by the powerful Spirit of love and of wisdom, to show us how to overcome evil from the inner justice He gives, with the peace He grows from within each one and by His joy to strengthen us in our journey. The alpha and omega of decision making reside there. No human can love his enemy, bless those who curse them, to do good to those who hate them nor to pray for those who mistreat and persecute them, except for the individuals who live by the life you claim to live by, and for that, the Lord of Life of Justice and of Peace does not need our weapons, but rather, our obedience. The image you try to project to the world from the start of your Presidency, Mr. Bush, is one opportunity granted like never before by the Creator to you and to the entire Christianity on Earth, to bow to the Spirit of all prophecies…the testimony of Jesus-Christ amongst His creation!!! May God give the man you are, to grow into the janitor He and we need, to clean up the vision of America’s Presidency, in view of the global freedom of individual liberty…amen!
Benoit Couture , 07 June 2005 @ 15:16 PM Invitation to considerStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, the EU knowledgeboard is a unique venue to keep on fostering ideas and dreams of ongoing embellishment and celabrations of innovations to better serve mankind with. Because I participated to this thread, I thought you might like to be informed of the following campaign I posted at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 It connects directly with the 5 century old European project called Canada, to negotiate peacefully in the never ending of French-English ambiguity who are yet to know how to deal properly with the Aboriginal hosts. Canada is the ongoing ground invitation to unite humanity at righting the wrong in peace and joy in the way that the United Nations aspire to do. We are deployed to become the training ground for the local scene, busy to innovate the maturity of a people of all people and I invite you to help me see it through for us all. Benoit
Benoit Couture , 02 June 2005 @ 16:01 PM Simple questions for Mr. ClintonStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and all, one question for us to ask mr. Clinton is: Why did that not happen while you were in office, mr. Clinton? The next question is: How does the present administration of Mr. Bush come on board for September with the intellectual honesty and personal integrity to accept being humbled and educated from its own mistakes, as a result of such a 3 days meeting, mr. Clinton? Let the point of this meeting be, to release humanity from the rule of historic ignorance and into the encounter of siding along into the Faculty of Living, where the agenda of wisdom and of love awaits to unfold from beyond languages, in the symphony of our secured response, united in the simplicity of being at peace, in the joy of here and now...lets see to it Bill, that before September, the sacred fire you speak of in the reconciliation departement, lights the American Bush to the clarity of the open sourced management of knowledge, and that he may recognize on time for September the glorious opportunity to ease humanity's nervous central system, as opposed to go on with the miltary reflexing that such form of "intelligence" has become! The agenda of justice begins with the freedom from the rule of ignorance! May the God of all knowledge be with you and us all, Bill; go for it...amen...
Chris Macrae , 02 June 2005 @ 10:13 AM KM's Fall in Space - wanted 200 explorersMr Chris MacraeLast year the KM network out of America that I have most time for quite seriously debated coming together for a 3 day open space on the conflicts of KM Squared. Why is KM dying and will KM only live if it helps (eg Bill Clinton) save humanity. Perhaps we should convene a simultaneous open space to Bill Clinton's September gathering if we know any human KM. The year before KB had ruminated on a 200 person open gathering - guess its over to Paul Hearn to guide us why that wasn't quite ready then , or if it could be now. Disruptive World's Week Ending here.
Chris Macrae , 02 June 2005 @ 08:08 AM Bravo Bill ClintonMr Chris Macrae"In my life now, I am obsessed with only two things: I don't want anybody to die before their time. And I don't want to see good people spend their energies without making a difference...You can change the reality of human history by systemic action." "Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits." - William J. Clinton Dear Friends, These quotes are from http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ Bill Clinton has created his own version of Davos...in NYC Sept 15-17 ...with a strong commitment to identifying "an agenda we can actually implement." Here's his invitational message. What do you all think? "It is my pleasure to announce the inaugural meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative to be held September 15-17, 2005, in New York City. This event, which will bring together King Abdullah II, President Leonel Fernandez Reyna, President Olusegun Obasanjo, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Secretary General Kofi Annan, Vice Premier Shimon Peres, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dr. Hernando de Soto, Sonia Gandhi, Rupert Murdoch, Richard Parsons, and an array of other distinguished and dedicated leaders, will coincide with and complement this fall's Millennium Summit of the U.N. General Assembly. This nonpartisan conference will concentrate a diverse and select group of current and former heads of state, business leaders, noteworthy academicians, and key NGO representatives to identify immediate and pragmatic solutions to some of the world¹s most pressing problems. The workshops will focus on how to reduce poverty; use religion as a force for reconciliation and conflict resolution; implement new business strategies and technologies to combat climate change; and strengthen governance. Our meeting will emphasize dynamic group interaction to identify an agenda we can actually implement. By identifying specific ways to address the challenges of our time and asking each participant to make a specific commitment to take action in one of the areas discussed, I believe this Initiative will prove to be a unique and effective forum for leaders and their communities around the world. What we begin during three days this September will continue throughout the year to come with coordinated implementation of our agenda. We have an opportunity we can not afford to pass up--in just three days, we can begin to make a world of difference."
Chris Macrae , 21 May 2005 @ 11:20 AM Peak Oil - part 2Mr Chris MacraeIn my long career of concern over oil pollution -- from my days of serving the oil industry, to fighting it, to predicting the imminent end of abundant supply -- I have never been as exhilarated as now to think that a change is in the wind. Now, we are witnessing an awakening of the role of oil as a dwindling substance responsible for technological miracles, energy gluttony and strategic/military pursuits. Everyone's differences will have to be put aside as we are starting to enter a new age. On May 19th I told the Congressman about myself, in a long conversation inwhich he explained he is a "very conservative Repbulican." I told him Iwas about to release a column titled "Goodbye American Dreamland," knowinghe could appreciate the concept. I asked Congressman Bartlett, "Is thereany chance you can tell President Bush about peak oil?" He replied "Ihave a half hour scheduled to do so, but I'm bringing two colleagues withme so he doesn't think I'm just one nut." I told the Congressman that Iwanted to work with him on peak oil, and he asked me... (to read remainderof this report and see links, go to<http://www.culturechange.org/e-letter-CongressOil.html#cont>) ***** "Our Synthetic Sea" is an award winning documentary on plastic pollutionof the oceans. It will be presented by Jan Lundberg at the BerkeleyEcology Center on May 26, 7 PM, and can also be obtained for showingsanywhere (along with the presenter and his guitar) by contacting him viaemail at [email protected] CULTURE CHANGEP.O. Box 4347, Arcata, California 95518 USATelephone and fax: 1-215-243-3144E-mail: [email protected]: <http://www.culturechange.org>
Chris Macrae , 21 May 2005 @ 11:19 AM Peak Oil -part 1Mr Chris MacraeIt would seem to me that exploring blue-green oil's possible abundance and reversal of over-carbonised environment would be a remarkably good each way bet. I guess I must be missing something. But if the EU does have any energy resource mappers, sure would like to know what.Chris , Exploring Superior Economics Sent: 20 May 2005 23:41Culture Change e-Letter #96 Congress hears quote by Jan Lundberg on peak oilGOODBYE AMERICAN DREAMLAND The meaning of peak oil is beginning to be explored in The People's House,a.k.a. the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. OneCongressman, Roscoe Bartlett, a Republican of Maryland, has followed theissues of oil supply for many years and has begun to wake people up in thenation's capital and for the national C-SPAN cable television audience. The phrase "peak oil" is short for the global peaking of oil extraction,whereby supply only tightens. This column has repeatedly anticipated theeconomic effects and the role of the market in suddenly exacerbating thegeological shortage at hand. On May 12, the Congressman spoke for one hour before the House in a"Special Order speech," routinely featured at end of business for eitherparty's representative to speak his or her mind following the "leadershiphour." He recited a passage from one of my syndicated Culture ChangeLetter reports, "Peak Oil in a Nutshell - Here Comes the Nutcracker." Heprefaced it by saying "You all have heard of the Lundberg Survey, wellthis is what Jan Lundberg wrote:" "The trucks will no longer pull into Wal-Mart. Or Safeway or other foodstores. The freighters bringing packaged techno-toys and whatnot fromChina will have no fuel. There will be fuel in many places, but hoardingand uncertainty will trigger outages, violence and chaos. For only ashort time will the police and military be able to maintain order, if atall." He then added his own warning: "You can imagine what might happen when thelights go out. The veneer of civilization is very thin." CongressmanBartlett obtained my quote from Matt Savinar's website which got it fromEnergy Bulletin which got it from BlueGreenEarth.com. A definite trend is afoot. What we can call The Convergence of America isjust ahead. It will not be as in the past, but more in spirit as wegrapple with the loss of petroleum and the end of economic growth. Ratherthan as a nationalistic single entity, we will come together in theknowledge that our separate and equal, diverse bioregions are our realhomelands.
Chris Macrae , 09 November 2004 @ 09:02 AM The Faith of a Country Ruled by FearMr Chris MacraeArriving in Bethesda, MD , the Thursday before the American election a small bit of local news became the clue of everything that America is currently driven by. A 20 year old was shot dead by a US`marshal whilst in his car at a shopping Mall. Incidentally, almost every tv news broadcast leads on a local killing. Slightly more scary this time for me was that the killing was 600 yards up the road. Come the election- a vast majority of Americans the world meets abroad voted Democrat but Bush was re-elected by Republicans of 2 types - the very rich, the small town and middle America states where fear and gun-downed news leads every evening's broadcast. Most of these folk are very local with quite narrow faiths and conservative agendas with a very small c. Of course America's wars abroad with Iraq and terrorism resonate with their everyday fears of gun-law and superficial media relieved by superbowls or other glorious-celebrity froth. And that's why their lifestyles can also validate the election of Bush saying they chose the candidate driven by greater faith and values. And it is why the rest of the world needs to recognise America for what it is: a powerful country but one that is so pre-occupied with its own fears that it hasn't got any understanding of different types of fears in the rest of the world. To reverse the classic slogan: the last thing the rest of the world needs now is Coca-Cola's - or Bush's - orchestration of I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. Instead, this would be a good time -perhaps the last opportunity - for Europe to stand up to America. To go a different way than America's World Trade Organisation and Gatts. To sugest that it is time to relocate the United Nations; I would prefer a non-permanent 5 year touring home - perhaps Moscow or South Africa would be places to try to brfing in from the cold. Actiually, I dont care so much what dramatic demand Europe makes of America, as long as it does make some fearless ones. Oh, by the way. Buried in smallprint on the day after the election, it turned out that my local US marshal had been off duty, and the reason for the killing appears to have been road rage on the part of the marshal. If you want a more intellectual version of why I feel we should break with being driven by the fear values of America, google the BBC's superb 3-part series The Power of Nightmares To see history's becoming both the world's richest and most afraid nation, read my father's 30 year classic survey in The Economist "The Neurotic Trillionaire". What's scary is that the EU hasnt found a way of constructively confronting the Neurosis faith for all that time- what chance now we will find our own united leadership? The West seems to me much more scary in its seats of power than the vast majority of eastern places. And they call this knowledge age...
Chris Macrae , 04 November 2004 @ 15:22 PM reds versus blues- and is anyone going to blogger.conMr Chris MacraeBelow the line- extracts of the gathering note of blogger.con that starts in Stanford on Friday. Perhaps you would like to help me insert entries on thye world's most powerful nation divided: reds : who'd rule the world with Bush blues: who's open up a networking world
places I've never been to in America's centre and south, apparently holding one or more extreme beliefs and somehow equating these with national pride most of the west or east coast cities I have ever been to including DC, New York, Boston, San Francisco
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People who have never travelled outside America, nor have any access to media providing diverse viewpoints around the world People who travel abroad
extract from http://www.bloggercon.org/2004/11/04#a1876We had an election on Tuesday, the result was known on Wednesday, today's Thursday and the day after tomorrow is BloggerCon. The buzz is incredible, people are flying in from all over the world, Stanford is going to be a great place to have our blogging conference, and we've got people from all walks of life, red states and blue, podcasters and people who think it's a fad, students and teachers, doctors, lawyers, people from Wisconsin, you name it, we got it!You may of course bring your laptop (it's a blogging conference) and there will be free Wifi, provided by Sputnik. All statements like this of course are subject to Murphy's Law, which says the Wifi probably won't work at all, but if it does, it will take two hours to get everyone online. Thanks to Doug Kaye and Mike Lehman, we should have MP3s of all the sessions shortly after the conference. There's a chance it will be webcast. Everyone is welcome to record the conference. If you have questions, or need help, please post a comment here. We will have some kind of IRC, I'm trying to delegate that, as I will be busy everywhere but IRC the day of the conference. If you know someone who can help with this, who will be at the conference, please let me know. Thanks. BloggerCon is an unconference. That means there is no audience, no speakers, no panels. Each session has a discussion leader. They're not all famous (a few are). They are all good at leading discussions. Everyone in the room is an equal participant. The DL is like a reporter, choosing people to speak, in an order that makes sense to her or him. There's no Q&A at the end. The whole session involves everyone. No need to go out in the hallway to have your conversation, have it in the room. # Posted by Dave Winer on 11/4/04;
Chris Macrae , 03 November 2004 @ 18:09 PM thoughts of today - part 2Mr Chris MacraeSo roughly the 100 village and city timeless blog family shares these put human beings first values, though I am quite happy to keep out of the way of editing a local blog once its found its main local participants, and the whole thing is an emerging experiment anyhow in how networks, cities and social networks all connect. There is of course the possibility to open-share any content or links across blogs once people spot what they like where. Sincerely Chris Macraehttp://whynotvillage.blogspot.com/http://whynotcity.blogspot.com/ The badwiil and goodwill stories of global networking seen from 1984 My favourite social networks 1984-2004
Chris Macrae , 03 November 2004 @ 18:06 PM thoughts of today -part 1Mr Chris MacraeToday, sitting in Washington DC, I feel more than ever its going to take the common sense of all 6 bilion people of good faith to change what The Global System is not spinning well for human beings across our world; I dont see those at the top of our most powerful organisations taking any such lead in the next 4 years. Of course, I will be the most delighted one of all if I prove to be wrong Meanwhile, we are making progress with how people can link up places, blogs, and social networks. Here is a mail I have just posteed to a co-networker in Lahore; I have taken out the names of people. If you share the faith that 6 billion people have transparent common sense of what we want to see compound worldwide than those few hundreds atop powerful organisations, and want to blog out of your locality, why not tell me at [email protected] so we can co-create your blog wand welcome to our family that is multiplying the power of 30000 people-action projects, places, blogs,and social networks Dear AAAhttp://whynotlahore.blogspot.com/ Thanks you for joining me in editing what Lahore could do for the world and what the world can do for Lahore May I introduce you to 2 people whom I know to be deeply interested in improving life for poor people in rural areas of Pakistan in case that connects with your interests or networks around you. So far the best village NGO model I have come across in mapping is actually in India http://whynotvisakhapatnam.blogspot.com/ I have also copied BBB who co-edits visakhapatnam and CCC who co-edits http://whynotalmeria.blogspot.com/ Of course Lahore has many development issues of its own to knowledge exchange with the world, as well as back to villages. I hope you will add one or two speciality ideas of your own to the blog – once we see them we can decide whether to give them a whole month of their own to continue developing links and networks around I am fairly simple minded and believe that most of us 6 billion people are not the cause of East and West confrontations but accidentally some of our largest organisations are; sitting as I am today in Washington DC, I am struck more than ever how all people of good faith are going to have to find ways of connecting and changing the world, because I don’t see many powerful politicians near me taking such a lead; as a person, I am actually very apolitical except I support the agendas for humanity that http://www.simpol.org.uk is working to open up; equally I am struck by commonalities between all the world’s main religions on relationship principles like do unto another what you would wish to be done unto you
andrew campbell , 16 August 2004 @ 14:42 PM Patternsandrew campbellhttp://www.cs.unca.edu/~manns/PDFVersionOnWeb.pdf Thanks Chris.i met the idea of ''Patterns'' through the work of Chris Alexander. ii have put in a url above that applies Patterns to some organizational issues.i am reminded of Bohm too, in his book 'On Creativity'... "confronted with confusion" we might try to adopt a new perspective, what he called a "- finer faster form of attention" to our experience of confusion. He intimates, we don't so much change the world, which is by nature complexifying (''adding value''), but we can change the way we are, in relationship to nature or the larger systems. Quite often new forms of art and expression are greeted as being "disordered", for example when Braque saw Picasso's D'amoiselles image, "broken glass and smashed violins!"...just after he'd seen it for the first time.It is likely he went home and made his own sketches of it, incorporating his memories and his own 'confusion' through his own (authentic) artistry, after a while the high (potential for) order in the D'amoiselles ...would manifest itself (in)to him, through the 'doing of the knowing' ;-) (Varela and Maturana) ...hey ho everyone in Paris is trying Cubism ;-)Can't we learn to look in some of the ways that an artist looks, and confront the occasional blank canvas?cheers,Andrew
Chris Macrae , 16 August 2004 @ 06:54 AM a catalogue of pattern rulesMr Chris MacraeThanks Andrew I believe that a catalogue of pattern rules is a very good way forward. First nominating a pattern rule can be quite a an innovate conversational process. A pattern rule being something that someone has seen repeated practical experience of , and therefore suggests everyone keeps in mind as likely to be true unless they can prove in a specific context it isnt. Since complexity often involves aspects of system chnage that have alteady happened but conventional wisdom hasnt caught up with, this can make pattern rules for complexity doubly fascinating I would like to nominate a pattern rule series that comes from 25 years and 50000 open spaces, and the deep love of people and community that Harrison Owen brings to Organisational Transformation. 1.1 Many of the most valuable innovations we can help people with today involve communities where people are in deep conflict with each other. If we can help everyone involved pass through that conflict barrier, we are innovating, putting a system back towards sustainable value creation for all the people rather than value destruction. 1.2 A characteristic of a conflict barrier is that to pass through it something that was previously applied unquestiongly needs to be turned inside out. Early pilots confronting the speed of sound barrier crashed losing all until one dared try out his hypothesis that as he flew through the barrier certain controls in the cockpit literally needed to be operated the other way round. 1.3 Know of Harrison's 3 C's if you are trying to help a community - Conflict often Compounds with Chaos and Confusion. Sequentiually what happens is:- Something changes and starts turning a community into a conflicted one. Buy failing to resolve the conflict as it emerges, over time a storm of more and more change forces swirl around the community - Chaos. In such a situation, Confusion raises its head because at least one thing that leaders of the community are historically certain of controling/commanding the community with is now counter-productive to ordering the community with. This is why one of the designs of Open Space is to take hierachy out of the proceedings so everyone can question each other's innovation and conflict-resolution ideas (respecting each others) as equals. More on Open Space here.
andrew campbell , 15 August 2004 @ 09:40 AM Muddling Throughandrew campbellHi Chris, you ask the question..."Has our twenty-first century world – a world of unprecedented scientific advances, theInternet, and a permanent information revolution yet beset by corporate ethics scandals, terrorism, and global conflict – become so complex that that only portions of it can be “managed”? Or are we soon to be forced to admit that all we can do is “muddlethrough”? I may have a problem to locate the specific paper or talk he gave,... but Richard Feynman noticed that 'the British' had a highly developed cultural tool, one he admired in dealing with his chosen term "complexity", he termed it 'muddling through' ... I wonder then if anyone we know can apply a "pattern language" to this thing called 'muddling through complexity;-)' ????atbandrew
Chris Macrae , 13 August 2004 @ 19:31 PM anyone joining in this Dc event?Mr Chris MacraeInteresting conference in DC - anyone going?http://echo-conferences.com/call.pdfSeptember 18-19, 2004The George Washington University, Washington, DC extract: Has our twenty-first century world – a world of unprecedented scientific advances, theInternet, and a permanent information revolution yet beset by corporate ethics scandals, terrorism, and global conflict – become so complex that that only portions of it can be “managed”? Or are we soon to be forced to admit that all we can do is “muddlethrough”?Are the linear lessons of business schools and of “management gurus” still applicable?Does the vocabulary of war or of games, which we use to talk about managing, still apply in this complex world? Or have we moved to a new era, marked by the vocabulary ofartists not warriors or sportsmen – an era where the many shades of “grey” is not anexpression but a stark reality? It seems as if proven patterns of interaction seldom work.What is it like to attempt to “manage” in a world of uncertainty, where every situationproclaims its need to be treated “differently” with a respect for the local context and the cacophony of hundreds of competing claims?
Chris Macrae , 13 March 2004 @ 13:16 PM KM's Braintrust InternationalMr Chris MacraeSorry not to have known of this KM gathering ahead of time. Anyone able to report a retrospective or to help us socially network the map of this practice core segment of KM?The 6th Annual Knowledge Management World Summit, Arizona Feb 2004A Practitioner's ForumHigh-Impact Knowledge Management for the Entire Enterprisehttp://www.iirusa.com/braintrust/index.cfm?Link=32 What's New for 2004?-New High-Impact Keynotes Dr. Nancy Dixon, Consultant and Author of Common Knowledge, COMMON KNOWLEDGE ASSOCIATES Rob Cross, Professor, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA and Author of The Hidden Power of Social Networks Victor Newman, Chief Learning Officer, PFIZER Stephen Denning, Author of The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations Gregory Balestrero, CEO, Project Management Institute (PMI)-More Networking Breaks Between Each Session Braintrust 2004 Advisory Board Members: Melissie Rumizen, Knowledge Strategist, Buckman Laboratories Jeff Stemke, Senior Knowledge Leader, ChevronTexaco Donna M. Stemmer, Adjunct Professor, Waikato University School of Management and Research Associate, George Washington University Institute for Knowledge Management Charles Seeley, Knowledge Strategist & Manager, Knowledge Enablement, Intel Corporation Michael Burtha, Founder and President, Applied Collaborative Strategies, LLC Gary DeGregorio, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Motorola Labs Seth Kahan, Organizational Community Specialist and former Senior Information Officer, World Bank Dr. Erick Thompson, AVP, Knowledge Networking, The St. Paul CompaniesBraintrust owes its superior content and top-notch speaking faculty in large part to the very special corporate practitioners who make up our advisory board. This advisory board keeps the finger on the pulse of Knowledge Management throughout the year and makes certain that the best topics and speakers are recommended to serve the needs of our audience. They make it the "KM conference designed by KM practitioners for KM practitioners."
Chris Macrae , 12 March 2004 @ 13:55 PM thanks for all your inquiriesMr Chris MacraeSince my last post, I've been inundated with inquiries and it seems worth setting up a social KM circulation list the sorts of interests include social software like that wonderfully blogged at http://www.headshift.com in the UK tohow do we do social network mapping not just within formal organisations but for example of the people who are core to progressing each of the top 50 humanitarian issues in the world then how do we kkep open agency of the net for the people and teach 12 year olds up best use of the net for such topics as:-the lifelong learning mentors each person needs -see 12th grade of email near bottom of this page http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?maxhits=5&s=3190&dateformat=%25d-%25m-%25Y&d=1&sec=7 the trust to quickly assemble a mission team once you've decided you have some free time and have a change the world issue you want to devote your time to with others of similarly deep and urgent readiness so these are huge social issues but before one gets to the question of what community infrastructures can be architected to support them , we need to have at least rough ideas on what works best when individuals try to use email, webs, and other virtual modes, and then interface these with real ways of mobilising email me at [email protected] if you want to be circulated in to this social KM conversation space
Chris Macrae , 11 March 2004 @ 15:44 PM where social software types meetMr Chris MacraeI'm not one but love what they do, and was puzzling away as to where in the whole of Kboard this special interest group of people meet If you feel that this sort of conference is one you would have wanted to be at http://wiki.oreillynet.com/etech/csp?HomePageperhaps you'd like to contact me at [email protected] so I can introduce you to anyone else who mails in as connecting to this plus a few of my friends who always seem to catch me when my curiosity in this area is prompted or if there's a resident space already in kboard for you, how about posting its bookmark
Chris Macrae , 12 February 2004 @ 20:47 PM Possibility of wonderful links between knowledge cities, charettes, Open Spaces & Social CapitalMr Chris Macraeemail [email protected] subject "charrette" if you need more connections with this ongoing dialogue a kaleidoscopic experience of all my favourite explorative tools connecting people's visual sensing with the physical:Open Space The Charrette's special competence to keep visual notes of proceedings in each of the expert's deliverable formats and in an open way for all participants Pattern Rules - a human wisdom banking idea from architecture I love wow if we could get the public talking to architects talking to engineers talking to policy makers through such an open train of methods, the environments we live in could be wholly different Has anyone tried linking with experts in knowledge-cities and their social capitals? chris macrae PREVIOUSLYMost charrette facilitators are architects who have learned their "facilitation" skills in the trenches and have no separate training in conflict resolution, mediation, facilitation, etc. I have been trying to bridge the two fields, as I think they have a lot to learn from each other. A short essay I wrote about this ( Hurley, Jennifer. 2003. "The Public Process and New Urbanism", Research Report for the Knight Program in Community Building, University of Miami School of Architecture.) is available at http://www.hfadesign.com/newsroom/publications.html. Here's the quick summary: What Can Charrette Practitioners Learn from Consensus-Building? . Key aspects that charrette organizers could learn from consensus-building: € A robust theoretical basis for practice can inform the understanding of the process and suggest possibilities when problems arise. € Situating the charrette event in a larger decision-making framework that includes pre-charrette outreach and post-charrette consensus-building increases the chances of implementation. € Using the charrette to aid group learning and build civic capital would leverage the event to develop local leaders who can champion the plan long after the event. € Charrette organizers could adopt specific skills from mediators and facilitators, including stakeholder analysis, the use of ground rules, neutral mediation/facilitation, agenda-setting, and consensus-building techniques. ...Words are a cumbersome medium when the problem is visual. € The compressed time frame of a charrette creates incredible excitement and momentum. In contrast, discussion-based processes can take months, if not years, and are often tedious and sometimes downright painful. Jennifer at http://www.hfadesign.com
Chris Macrae , 29 January 2004 @ 01:24 AM clarificationsMr Chris MacraeVitaly I'm not sure if I understood the ideas of your last mail On elearning platforms, there seem so many- I wonder if there's an expert among Kboard members who could grade them (not me!). I know the university of Pheonix is one of the leaders in the US. When I was at the EU Knowledge Society conference 18 months ago, one of the delegates from one of the candidate countries asked ; why doesnt the EU invest in an elearning university format that all countries could use? Seems like a good question, without an aswer as far as I know. I was unclear if you were also asking what the business model of valuetrue.com is. Happy to try to answer if you were asking cheers, chris
Vitaly Titov , 28 January 2004 @ 18:20 PM High impact blended learningVitaly Titov Hello Chris! Upon a closer view of background quoted from your authorised page I find yet one example of KM application in professional blended training. May be it is a way of the open-world exchange between USA & Russia? How you tax's a valuetrue of this knowledge portal from the viewpoint of your experience?
Chris Macrae , 22 January 2004 @ 18:41 PM How about the open-world exchange between USA & Russia?Mr Chris MacraeDoes anyone have views or reviews on http://www.open-world2002.gov/ I'm unclear whether this background is uptodate but it sounds quite human:the Center for Russian Leadership through the Library of Congress. The program brings emerging Russian leaders to communities across the United States to expose them to American democracy and free enterprise in action. Half of the production team is in Washington, DC and half in Moscow and we host the project coordination space for them Background quoted from http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0012283/0165226/GJ14/main/viewitem.cml?47+10+120+8+0+0+1+x#here
Chris Macrae , 18 January 2004 @ 18:04 PM Does America have any competitive disadvantages?Mr Chris MacraeI believe it has one enormous one to do with the short-term nature of its investors- their systems, cultural monopoly over media and measurements (isnt it a trifle risky that every annual report scores and separates out every number as if it was additive, when multiplicative models of how things compound tell far more about what will happen next?). This appears at at a time when the main value dynamics are compounding in longer-term ways due to two properties of networking. First transparency has made intangible relationship connections the core gravitaional wealth of big corporations' valuations- when we MAP the dynamics of how intangibles compound we see a precipice where short-term measures lag, with the consequence that Andersen's short-term results would have been showung world record levels even as its reputation had gone over the precipice of lost trust that zeroises any firm. Second, many social changes compound in a pent up way involving passionate human value issues before they translate everywhere as issues of $, $,$. Organisations have to prepare for such changes over longish periods especially where the change interacts with the depth of a company's unique vision in an emotional intelligence sense that will require all employees to do something in the opposite way from what was previously scored as precisely perfect. At http://www.valuetrue.com, our transparency networks gossip about lack of knowledge of the compound valuation precipice as The Dinosaur's Last Belch - see the thread on what makes owners trustworthy and capable of multiplying value for everyone in a networking world. At the least, I suggest all the above means that knowledge leadership needs a new plurality in discussing measures and management and policy capitals, a diversity that has been largely absent when the prestige American accounting schools like Harvard had such a monotone voice on worldwide business publishing, as well as captive and endebted audiences of fledgeling MBAs. In Europe thinktank retreats are sprouting eg Sweden's Medinge and England's Maheo where leaders of big corporations and big responsibilities can open space for alternative views of how to value the future and the barriers we will need management as well as employees to jump over wherever the biggest networking changes compound. I'd love to hear of any spaces in America or other countries where we could share knowledge at the benchmarking level of how knowledge buzzing through the new leadership management debates is shaping up and breaking through the barriers and apartheids that short-term greed accounts for in human history as it is writ large.
Chris Macrae , 15 January 2004 @ 22:04 PM Association of Knoweldgework & KM ClustersMr Chris Macrae:http://www.kwork.org/Stars/starlinks.htmlI love this page of the AoK , and the general feel of what I see of it; dont quite know how to get involved with the association at the next level of depth- any core AOK members able to tell us more I find the US KM Clusters model pushy but right on the money in its calendars and prioritisation of subjects. Here are extracts from its trailer for first half of 2004 just in: The growing interest and legitimization of KM is driven by the transformation to a knowledge-based society and business environment. Fortunately, the empty KM vendor and technology hype of the mid-‘90s has died out. KM is steadily and inexorably climbing out of the technology-based ‘trough of disillusionment’ on the hype curve. http://www.kmcluster.com/Gatner_Hype_Curve_KM At long last, organizations have confirmed that KM is about people, relationships and leadership, with technology only playing an important, but supporting role. Firms are emerging from the often expensive and frustrating operational dimension of codification and access. They then quickly recognize the requirement for new methods and techniques to create entirely new intellectual assets. Firms discover flow and conductivity are far more important than information stocks and repositories to knowledge and value creation. Knowledge-based organizations are accepting entirely new leadership models to optimize the creation and applied use of knowledge and intangibles. Of course there are exciting technology developments to help extend and expand the knowledge capabilities infrastructure. Among these are pervasive Web collaboration and social network software offerings. Los Angeles Cluster Feb 27 - Sharing Knowledge: Balancing Organisational Benefits and Risks: http://www.kmcluster.com/lax/LAX_Spring_2004.htm New York Cluster March 26 Socila NetworksToronto Cluster April 20 Intellectual Capital Management For the fifth year in a row, the KM Cluster© is pleased to co-sponsor Braintrust International 2004, February 8-11, 2004 at the Doubletree La Posada Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. http://www.iirusa.com/braintrust Recommended Keynote presentations include: Dr. Nancy Dixon, Consultant and Author of Common Knowledge; Victor Newman, Chief Learning Officer, Pfizer; and Gregory Balestrero, CEO, Project Management Institute. Featured Companies include: ChevronTexaco, Intel Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, APQC, Motorola Labs and Raytheon Company.
Chris Macrae , 13 January 2004 @ 20:01 PM E100 netMr Chris MacraeI note Debra Amidon's E100 world network coordinated North of Boston Mass has started the year with some exciting content trailers such as:http://www.entovation.com/coming-soon.htm The E100 Readings on Knowledge Economics: Principles, Practices and PoliciesTartu University PressDebra M. Amidon, Piero Formica, and Eunika Mercier-Laurent (Editors) Knowledge economics is the new focus for the 21st century.-Peter F. Drucker Aim: to educate the new generation of researchers, professors, teachers, industrial and government leadership professionals. The principles of knowledge economics ought to be endorsed as a revolutionary change - an opportunity to provide a solid foundation, rationale and vision to substitute something more sustainable than the old regime of traditional economics. Intelligent and innovative explorations of computer capabilities help optimise individual and collective work of employees and the entrepreneur. Part I: Principles/Standards We are witnessing an acceleration of experimentation and adoption of progressive management approaches at every level of the economic - micro, meso, and macro-economic. This section will illuminate some of the broader scheme context and sense-making approaches to initiatives of the new Knowledge Economy. Part II: Practices This section identifies management approaches that are enabling institutions to take advantage of the new models of organization structures, real-time learning mechanisms, foundations for cultural evolution, performance incentives, environmental considerations, ecological practices, country and company restructuring, and the use of technology. Part III: Policy and Measurement The policy section outlines how the emphasis on policy guiding procedures for action can effect significant managerial innovations: changing - or better - abandoning the old rules, thereby producing new and viable principles of economic policy. This is a counterpart to the principles of self-organizing systems in that there may be ways to architect, via policy-change initiatives - the potential output of an innovation system. Knowledge-Relevant Economic Policy: Analysing Knowledge Policymaking in Managed - and Free - Market EconomiesPiero Formica International University of Entrepreneurship, University of Tartu and Abu Dhabi Men's Higher College of Technology Transparency: A Foundation for Modern Leadership/GovernanceDoug Macnamara, Banff Executive Leadership Inc. Regional Technology Policy and the Emergence of an R&D System in the Basque CountryMonica Moso, Knowledge Cluster, and Mikel Olazaran, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences, University of the Basque Country Human Resources Management in the Web EconomyJean-Marc Le Duc, French Ministry of Education and Technology Collaboredge: The Key to DevelopmentGülgün Kayakutlu...
Chris Macrae , 12 January 2004 @ 13:53 PM KMCI in 2004Mr Chris MacraeTell us which KM professional associations you have most time for in 2004. I have a lot of time for KMCI because its definition of next generation KM is systemic, transparent, links innovation cycles fo detecting errors or changes in environment of the system that need open resolving, values truth above all, and is therefore compatible with businesses that seek to multiply the value of networking's greatest cases for human beings KMCI's inagural K-STREAM™ training program will be held March 1 - 5, 2004 in Washington, DC. For more information and registration details, go to: http://www.kmci.org/Institute/certification/k_stream.htm
Chris Macrae , 12 January 2004 @ 13:21 PM internet evolution locallyMr Chris MacraeVitaly, thanks for bookmark to local fathers of the net, their visions for this communally connecting technology would achieve, and practical experiments http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/ My hometown memories of the net? Brought up in Wimbledon, London, but I didnt work (a mathematician who develops space to analyse human systems and value demands) from there much, project itineraries have taken me to 30 countries. First brush with networking technology: early 1970s at University of Leeds- in a project called computer assisted learning where 100 students at any time across Yorskire could practice statistics in dialogue quizzes interacted by terminals to a mainframe. Early 1980s: every year a different model of personal computer incompatible with previous year. My father (Norman Macrae whose deputy editing of leadership conversations on what big systems needed to change next for humanity took The Economist from 4th local weekly social-economic magazine to only global one) and I wrote a book http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html on the first 40 years of worldwide networking in 1984. We felt the big idea wasnt technology's computer box, nor the software languages but the humanity of virtual connectivity worldwide and replicability of any programmable code anywhere. We storylined this as a bigger system-changing invention than the steam engine . By the middle of this decade (2000s) we foresaw mankind's final chance to work out whether the global/local networeking revolution would be openly systemised for good or powered over making Orwell's 1984 look like a teddy bear's picnic. Links: great humanitarian challenge our generation faces now, in god's speed at http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?forum=1&topic=66&comment=1985 and at http:/www.valuetrue.com, 2004 Year of Transparency In our hometowns, we predicted from 1984: vital to get everyone online as freely as possible. Early use of the internet in developed countries correlated largely to local telecom prices with unlimited use (America, and Nordica) or pay per minute (eg Britain and most of West Europe). British at least 5 years late as a nation online due to selfish pricing of British Telecom, same company that tried to claim patent of the hyperlink! Let's co-host the world's biggest conversation http://www.valuetrue.com/home/gallery.cfm on internetworking - light up everyone's imagination; map how greatest values we can innovate are openness and connecting those who have previously been disconnected first from the baiscs like water and safety, then access to learning multiplied almost freely if we internetwork using our colective human wits, not our apartheid agressions and power complexes.
Vitaly Titov , 10 January 2004 @ 08:38 AM High Productivity & Quality of ServiceVitaly Titov From technical viewpoint we have many net solutions. The top of High Productivity & Quality of Service is the first optical internet CA*net3 that was builded in Canada in 1998. It is the third generation Internet and the predecessor of CA*net 4. Just time I'm user of first generation Internet (1969-1996) but this enough for my think speed in English. I would like know, Chris, about the availability to Internet in your town. From user viewpoint, by my understanding, we have one global net in that we work together just time. For thinkworking into text &/ grafical form the Knowledge Management Emotional Intellegence have enough availability of Knowledgeboard Open Space where is a huge volume of information for thinking about ValueTrue and Evolution Transparency.
Chris Macrae , 09 January 2004 @ 15:40 PM HAN & PeacemakingMr Chris MacraeThanks Vitaly I am ignorant technologically - can you give a layman's example of where a HAN (High Availability Network) has been constructed and what people are doing with it? Regarding peacemaking, there are really fascinatiing opportunities for any human being to find a conflict and innovate human value and reconcilation around it - if only we all put our humanity caps on first before our business or nationality caps. I'm talking to a lot of youth movements on this around the world, and welcome links or other demographics (eg women's nets) where humanitarian values are a core part of the network's definition of excellenceThis is also an extraordinary way in to seeing how open space can make the greatest of 200 people's minds, passions, time wherever people congreagte rather than the least. Our main discussion thread in this area is http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=1985&topic= I see Open Space as a gateway method to a family of facilitation methods involved with "real time, real place deep reflection, conversation and idea development between congregations of people - instilling respect, community networking soul". In some ways this makes a miracle compliment to email which can be the open door to connecting - my beliefs on the 12th grade of email - finding the 10 best best mentors for making the most of your life - are written up http://www.knowledgeboard.com/community/zones/sig/kmei.html
Vitaly Titov , 09 January 2004 @ 07:52 AM beyond borders, language bariers and personal animusVitaly Titov The networks is the key strategic assets that can help to make the productive life for the planet, nations, organizations, and each one of usThe Practice of Pice is a high-level culture, excellence and policy of deeper intangible undestanding beyond borders, language bariers and personal animus.
Chris Macrae , 08 January 2004 @ 02:42 AM Open AmericaMr Chris MacraeGlad to report great resources from America beaming out of http://www.openspaceworld.com and http://www.practiceofpeace.com Some great looking regional spaces:The Carolinas: http://www.springbranch.net -more refs Potomac: HO- Home of all Open Space alumni Up near to number 1, do tell us your nomination for open web-multiplying activism seems to me to be http://www.truemajority.com which mails members this sort of participative invitation:From the Desk Of...Michael Douglas Banned Assault Weapons May Be Coming Back. The NRA is Trying to End the Ban and Gut the Brady Bill.Dear chris, Ten years ago a progressive coalition of citizens and legislators passed two major gun safety laws: a ban on assault weapons and the Brady bill-named for President Reagan's press secretary who survived being shot in the head. These two laws played a key role in the remarkable reduction in violent crime and make America a safer place. But today, the National Rifle Association is leading an aggressive campaign to gut the protections of the Brady Bill and to end the assault weapons ban. First, NRA lobbyists inserted text into an unrelated spending bill that would require that records of gun purchases be destroyed within 24 hours. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies say this would make it harder to catch violent criminals. And the NRA is also pushing hard to prevent Congress from renewing the landmark Assault Weapons Ban of 1994. Letting the ban expire would put military-style, rapid-fire assault weapons that have been banned for the last ten years back on the street. Police departments, victims' rights advocates, and community groups across the country fear the consequences of getting these killers back into the hands of criminals. Lastly, the NRA wants to prevent victims of gun crimes from seeking redress from negligent gun dealers like Bull's Eye Shooter Supply, which armed the D.C. snipers and sold 67 other guns used in crimes. The NRA thinks the victims and their families shouldn't get their day in court. If you are a member of TrueMajority, to send an email (text below) to your Representative urging him or her to defend the Brady Bill, maintain the assault weapons ban, and preserve the rights of gun crime victims, just reply to this email by clicking "Reply" and then "Send" in your email program. If you are not currently registered with TrueMajority, or would like to customize your message, click here: http://action.truemajority.com/index.asp?action=10119&ms=gun1&ref=322367
Chris Macrae , 09 August 2003 @ 12:42 PM What if Nike had been Indian or Nigerian- part 5 of...Mr Chris Macraean article by New Zealander Jack Yan,serialised in knowledgeboard countries Part 1 in India http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=113747&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y As consumers become more cynical, there’s no point in saying that you’re good. After all, Enron had policies on climate control and anti-corruption.As an eco-ethical nation, we have a huge appeal to overseas markets through our association with environmental causes, for a start (even if the reality is nothing to brag about: Foreign Policy rates us poorly, behind France and Germany).For those who think eco-marketing is passé, then New Zealand’s reputation as a nation that seeks economic justice is as marketable. Our high score on anti-corruption indices is another huge appeal (though we can still do better and be number one), particularly as ‘Made in USA’ loses its standing and there’s room in the market-place for the country to invent itself as the ethical rival, particularly when it comes to services. I’d say that these are more marketable.These are some of the reasons that I worked with the UN to get the UNEP partnership. Without a cooler brand—as I told UN Radio’s Russian service (I was dubbed, so I won’t be chatting in Russian to Condi Rice)—the United Nations lacks cachet. In August, we began a small effort to raise some money for breast cancer research. They are baby steps, but a start to a private international effort of creating the world we want. While the world looks at New Zealand fashion and beauty, especially in the upcoming few months, here’s a perfect chance for us to make worthy causes cool. Jack Yan is founding publisher of Lucire (http://www.lucire.com), the official internet partner of L’Oréal New Zealand Fashion Week. Beyond Branding: How Transparency and Integrity Are Changing the World of Brands, edited by Nicholas Ind, will be published by Kogan Page of London in October, priced at £25. See http://www.beyond-branding.com.
Chris Macrae , 29 July 2003 @ 14:26 PM a lot to learn from this US model of KM practice trainingMr Chris Macraelink to discussion of other training models:http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=106218&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y Website: www.kmcluster.com/nyc/Agenda: www.kmcluster.com/nyc/NYC_Fall_2003.htm It is generally accepted that the practice of knowledge management (KM) debuted sometime in the 20th Century. Of course, the leadership and management focus of the last hundred years was mostly concerned with expanding and controlling the physical and mechanical properties of economic production. Management practices involving people, process and technology to fundamentally advance the intellectual capacity of people and effectiveness of knowledge-intensive organizations became prevalent only in the second half of the century. The 20th Century framework of business thinking was derived from reductionism, mechanics, hierarchy and linear physical models. These models produced the most spectacular economic growth in the history of civilization. However, in rapidly expanding knowledge-based economies, these rigid, deductive models are not meeting the needs of business leaders or stakeholders. Rather, it has been discovered that entirely new, holistic, social and biological structures offer far better models of how the knowledge-based world actually works. These improved, inductive models elaborate how economic growth is sustained and improved in knowledge-intensive societies. Unfortunately, as is always the case, un-learning the past is extraordinarily difficult. This is particularly true for established organizations striving to transform into knowledge-based organizations. Open-loop archetypes, technology preponderance, tangible focus, and pedantic training systems, for example, are just some of the 21st Century knowledge-based enterprise artifacts that trace their pathologic origins from 20th Century models.http://www.mollyguard.com/event/7004952
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 00:24 AM emotional literacy -part 5Mr Chris Macraecontinuing extract fromhttp://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/index.shtml We know that the solution to prejudice and racism includes education and laws. To that end education is the only hope for America to fulfill its promise of equal opportunity for all. Crime is a moral failure of the society as well as the individual. Criminals are not born they are made. Addiction comes from a hunger for happiness, and it is not a crime but rather a health issue. Poverty is caused by a mis-allocation of resources by people who feel deserving of the wealth of the nation, and disregard the health and well-being of others. It is my strong belief that Emotional Literacy Education can resolve these issues. But what is Emotional Literacy Education? It is a refinement of a knowledge base that has been around for thousands of years. It has been the focus of religion, philosophy, science and psychology. It is self-knowledge which has been formulated into a language of emotions which can be taught. The fundamental principle of Emotional Literacy Education is the need for the individual to understand him or herself and others. The current educational system is based on the recognition of the need for individuals to learn how to read, write and do arithmetic. These skills are taught for the economic benefit of the child. Happiness is an emotional state as well as an economic state. What is not taught to children is how to achieve happiness. Emotional Literacy Education is based upon an Emotional Literacy Vocabulary. It is a means by which language is used to introduce a student to his or her own emotional values. Emotional Literacy Vocabulary permeates nearly all literature. In what we write is how we feel, think, desire and behave. From this vocabulary a structured language is being created which relates to the content of our human selves. It is the lack of emotional choice which maintains the cycle of hatred, violence and fear. When we study ourselves, new choices in our feelings, thoughts and behaviors are made available to us.
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 00:23 AM emotional literacy -part 4Mr Chris Macraecontinuing extract fromhttp://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/index.shtml Today we confront many of the same economic, political and moral issues that inspired President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to say during his famous First Inaugural Speech, "This is pre-eminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. "So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear. . .is fear itself. . .nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. "In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days. "The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit. "Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money, it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. "The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow-men." Today, it is imperative that we address these same issues. Power must be given to individuals for the purpose of governing and coordinating groups for beneficial purposes. The problems begin when government officials and business leaders unconsciously contribute to the problem rather than address solutions. Change in government or institutionalizing new laws will not make a better America. There is a limit to what laws can do for a people. For the laws cannot protect us against those in power who must interpret and enforce them.
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 00:21 AM emotional literacy part 3Mr Chris Macraecontinuing extract from http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/index.shtml Poor whites, blacks, Hispanics and other minorities are trapped in inner-city schools. Society has left these schools to rot, while brand new schools in predominantly white affluent suburbs give students more resources. Government does provide an equal amount of funding per child, but the schools themselves are equipped in an unequal way. New schools have more computers and better classrooms and resources. The best teachers make their way through the hiring system to the better schools. Classroom adoption by corporations and parents provide additional funding that poor schools receive by lesser degree. Fund-raising by the PTO is more successful in the predominantly white suburbs, because those parents have more money to give. If government adequately funded schools, fund-raising and classroom adoption would not be an issue. Schools rely heavily on fund-raising to meet their most basic needs. Schools that lack community resources are left with their basic needs not being met.
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 00:18 AM emotional literacy part 2Mr Chris Macraecontinuing extract fromhttp://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/index.shtml The truth we all know is that all men and women should be treated equally under the law, and given the same opportunities whether we are rich, middle-class or poor. This, after all, is the dream for which all people hope for, and from which the strength of the nation is derived. It is the development of the individual and our human differences, that are so vital to the health, well-being and security of the nation. Unfortunately, the laws do not protect us from prejudice and the institutionalization of the capitalistic system - which discriminates by way of class value. Institutionalized segregation based upon economics, not laws, has become the subversion of the pursuit of happiness. The United States has a system of education which is not equal. Funds are allocated in insidious ways, so that those in power channel money and resources to people who are more like them. These kinds of behaviors are moral issues and cannot be legislated. The laws exist to protect individual rights, but when people don't feel like helping, and channel resources for their own pleasures, and disregard the needs of others, an unequal system of government and capital distribution is created.
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 00:17 AM emotional intelligence and literacy -part 1Mr Chris MacraeAs well as America's Goleman as epicentre of Emotional Intelligence (KM & EI), we have this sort of frank analysis of how emotions go out of control in systems. Extract fromhttp://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/index.shtml Mankind's greatest problems come from its own uncontrolled emotions of selfishness, passiveness, jealousy, fear, apathy and hate. Nations like the Roman Empire decayed gradually from within. Internal strife, a conflicting moral compass, and a lack of choice in emotional responses to everyday relationships is the greatest problem. Mankind is caught in the cycle of fear, apathy and hatred. These human instincts drive hierarchical political systems and bureaucracies that most often limit the basic human right of the pursuit of happiness. A society whose foundation is fear, apathy and hatred sets up a system which fundamentally affects the happiness of the individual. It represses individual development and maintains a cyclical behavioral pattern of superiority and inferiority and a class society founded on untrue ideals. Outlined in the second paragraph of The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America, President Thomas Jefferson wrote, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...."
KM in Middle-east
Commercially the Middle East is a very big geographical market which has been historically characterized as very much oriented towards trading. Within Europe are large regional differences in the rate of adoption of more contemporary Information and Knowledge Management and the same happens with the Middle East.When doing an analysis of the business profiles of small, medium and large businesses in the Middle East and do a rough match of these profiles with the profiles of businesses that are adopting KM in Europe and North America. We can conclude that Knowledge Management is as important for companies in the Middle East. If HP find KM useful in projects carried out in a Californian Telco then the same will hold true for a similar project for a Telco in, for example, Bahrain. Senior Execs in Telco’s, Banks (including Islamic Banks), Industry (such as Energy, Aluminum etc.), Retail and Government are tracking KM closely and will, when the need arises, be ready to take advantage of them. So yes, I believe that certain businesses in the middle-east start now be interested in KM and that these businesses although not early adopters will use KM if they see an accruable benefit in doing so.That is why I have started a Community of Practice to discuss and share knowledge on Knowledge Management in the Middle East.So please feel free to comment on this and provide any experience you have in this area of the world. Frederik
KnowledgeBoard, 20-Jun-2005Categories: KB - Groups Incubator SIGPublished by: Frederik HaentjensStory read: 912
29-Jun-2005
KM in Middle East
Dear Mr. Haentjens
I agree with your viewpoint. We are a knowledge management research company located in Jordan.
Our work involves research on organizational learning and knowledge communication patterns in companies across the Middle East.
Although KM has been adopted much earlier in Europe than in our part of the world, it has not yet reached a mature stage due to its multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary nature.
Economists and social science researchers have already started looking at KM from an interdisciplinary viewpoint (latest publication pertaining to this approach has just been published by Oxford: Architectures of Knowledge; Firms, Capabilities and Communities* (Amin & Cohendet, Oxford University Press, 2005).
"The process of knowledge transformation is a key social process, but there is a lack of conceptual theory about how people receive and use knowledge. Associated with this theoretical gap is the need for more robust quantitative and qualitative methodologies that incorporate different disciplines working at levels ranging from individual brain processes to social forms and structures." *
Our work at WriteLabs draws from the above belief. We have recently embarked on a genuine interdisciplinary research on KM applications and models based on adaptive behavior.
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, 30-Jun-2005
excellent setting
It seems that in various ways, countries which got interested in KM later are asking more interesting (to me) questions about the field than companies that adopted KM early om
This reasoning makes good people sense and gives KM an opportunity to much more deeply connect with culture and real communities. Of course running against this is the undoubted advantage of being early into developing tghe technology standards.
However given the need to choose between great KM technology and great human KM, I know which future I'd back. Perhaps the 1960s application of getting to the moon is seminal. Technology bit for bit I doubt whether Human KM has ever been so energised and positively productive as in the 1960s moon race accomplishment.
It's quite paradoxical when the human practice of a subject appears to have peaked so many decades ago.
5-Jul-2005
Support
Hi,
I just wanted to say that I strongly support Frederiks idea.
Benoit Couture , 5-Jul-2005
Consensus is being accomplished in this thread
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Greetings, may I speak to you of the Permanent People Summit(PPS), specifically because you are from the Middle-East, I am Candain and we meet in European Union's sponsored thechnology in the most open way, carrying the hope to bring its use to serve the common good of humanity. The thread that the 3 of you started is wisely inviting to do so and I would love to oblige. I started to know of and to join in the EU KM knowledgeboard in early May. I promote a new approach to Canadian national unity and Her majesty, Queen ElisabethII was coming to my city in the week of the 25th of May 2005. I was looking for the best way to draw her attention to a possibility available to her during that visit or afterward if protocols would have kept her from being spontaneous. In short, with the help of the transparency the I found in the open source of KM, I am being helped to map out the citizenship from a mature people of all people. You can read the opportunity available to her majesty in the letter posted at: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2910. If you are interested in the background and in the evolution to this open source pursuit, you can go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/U1590685?s_fromedit=1 If my boldness is too much, please tell me and I am not going to repeat such attempt of closeness again and I will learn from any cultural approach that you provide me with. Thank you, Benoit
18-Jul-2005
KM and Society
Hello all, I agree that Knowledge is valuable and KM is crucial. What about incentives to produce knowledge?
"The studies have shown that what actions people take when they search for information and knowledge depends on the problem itself, and on the situation in which the problem occurs. The results from the studies indicate that supporting people in knowing about others’ activities and availability would be more important when supporting knowledge sharing, than a specific knowledge system with the purpose of storing information to be reused as knowledge. This awareness can be supported in a number of different ways, some based on social activities, and some based on technical solutions. Social activities involve supporting the development of social networks, communities of practice, and other kinds of social activities that facilitate for people to get to know each other and get an opportunity to talk to each other. There exists many technologies that can support people’s knowledge about others’ activities and availability. Awareness systems focus on collecting and presenting information about, for example, where a person is located and how busy a person is. Some awareness systems collect such information automatically using, for example, sensor technology or electronic calendars, while others require the user to enter the information by him/herself. It is more difficult to get the second kind of systems to work in practice because it requires that the time a user spends on supporting the system is also returning a benefit in the end. Ordinary information systems may also contribute to supporting people’s knowledge about others’ activities and availability, but they need to be structured and searchable in a way that fulfils this purpose. Also, there usually exist more than one documentation repository in an organization among which some may be structured and some not." by Kristina Groth "Knowing who knows", 2004.
Knowledge therefore depends on people at the workplace and society.
Thanks
18-Jul-2005
a KM blog from Kuwait
I am proud to announce that Dr. Hasan Al-Matrouk has his own webblog. It's all for the sake of learning, participate with each other in discussing issues related to knowledge.
Please, feel free to browse his blog, DiscussKM (i.e., discuss knowledge management):
http://discusskm.blogspot.com/
Fred
9-Aug-2005
KM expertise in Kuwait9-Aug-2005
KM expertise in Kuwait
Apparently there is a paper called "Communication Channels and Employee Characteristics: An Investigation" by Prof. Sajjad Rehman.
This study investigates perceptions of 509 employees of nine Kuwaiti companies about the effectiveness of communication channels they have used while sharing information or knowledge with their coworkers. It also investigates the association between attributes of these employees related to nature of work, length of experience, age, educational qualifications, and gender with their perceptions about the effectiveness of ten communication channels. Data were collected using an instrument that listed ten communication channels which have been validated through a number of empirical studies related to information richness and social influences. Employees indicated their perceptions about the degree of effectiveness of each of the ten channels, based on their use or exposure. Then correlations between these effectiveness perceptions and employee characteristics were ascertained. It has been found that Kuwaiti employees perceived formal documents and formal one-to-one and group meetings to be most effective. Telephone communications were perceived to be less effective than face-to-face, text, and email communications. These results are inconsistent with the findings of communication studies conducted in the developed nations during the last two decades. It was further found that very few employee attributes of nature of work and educational qualifications were significantly associated with their perceptions about the effectiveness of these media. These results have been discussed in the socio-cultural context of Kuwaiti companies.
Benoit Couture , 9-Aug-2005
Beautiful example of true value
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Frederick, you have provided a very important study to demonstrate the need to focus away from vanity and irrelavancy. I live where the cell phone is in most people's hands by the time they are 12 or 13 years old and so far, it seem to have mostly contributed to strengthen and to expand the gravitational power of the black hole of ignorance and carelessness, instead of love and intellegence. Thanks to Kuwaitis for the time they took for the study and I hope that your thread begins to stimulate us all to contribute the best we all have to offer. A case in point, why not start using this thread to remind the intelligent Europeans citizens of the EU KM Board, of all the great inventions from the Islam of the past and of the present. I heard that algebra was invented in Islam. Why not learn to celebrate the universal beauty, strating very fittingly right from here on...I look forward to getting close enough to eventualy feel at home in such a way, that we can bring on the civility that will be a guide on how we can address even the most sensitive issues of the day, and find custom made solutions, as the spirit of God blows His wisdom upon us all. May this serve as a prayer to You, oh great All Mighty of love, justice and peace, bring us on to You, in the completion of Your meaning, away from carelessness and irrelevancy...Yes...amen...
10-Aug-2005
Knowledge village in Dubai
Frederik,
great insights! As I am travelling more and more between Germany and Dubai and involved more and more in knowledge transfer I discover that f.e. Dubai is moving rapidly into the knowledge society. Congresses, projects and seminars under the patronage of HH Sheik Mohamed bin Rashid al Maktoum cover much of these aspects. Alvin Tofler, Tom Peters and many others were already there.
And we remember the many contributions of the Arabs for modern Western culture.
Are you in contact with knowledge village in Dubai? I would like to communicate aspects which are dealt with here with professionals in Dubai.
Thanks for your article,
Albert Klamt
Berlin/Germany
11-Aug-2005
Knowledge in Islam
Benoit, your comments and suggestions are of great significance and value. As a Muslim, you are responsible for seeking knowledge and sharing it, knowledge that is not of value and could not be shared and transferred is insignificant.
Muslim scholars have contributed tremendously to almost every knowledge branch, from Ibn-Khaldun (father of sociology), to Ibn Al-Haitham (optics), to Ibn Al-Naphis (Pulmonary Circulation) to Al-Kindi (Philosophy), among many others.
Knowledge sharing has been reinforced in Islam since the 7th Century, based on the concept of lifetime-learning and development. I highly recommend visiting www.muslimheritage.com to get a glimpse of Islamic knowledge and its contributions to the collective mindset of the West.
Benoit Couture , 12-Aug-2005 Beautiful Vision opening up...Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Rasheed, being answered directly to my name in public as you have done is a great personal honour and a tremendous responsability. In doung so, we find ourselves at the basis of civility. I must now proceed to live up to such an intelligent response that you've given to my invitation. You have accepted to answer as a Muslim to my Christian invitation and I praise God for your enthusiasm to shine forth the beauty of Islam's intelligence and contribution to who we all are today, in our Judeo-Christian parts of the world and as a whole speicies. Our inter-action is a window which is opening to let in the simplicity of the Morning Star to rise up in our hearts and awareness, at a time when darkness is at its thickest. If you wish, we can inter-act here, growing back and forth into brotherhood. We can possibly go on until we ignite the EU KM Board's ownwership and administration with the inspiration that will have them involved with you and I, in raising the standard of civility that can host the site's development and sight's deployment of Justice, peace and joy. Humanity's terror-anti-terror frenzy needs to be silenced by the qietning view of such a spiritual sight, in order to see its bloom growing and spreading for all sites of the earth in need of loving attention from God. I look forward to lighting up the match of humanity's Sacred Flame with you dear Islam brother and to insure that the torch carrying such Flame be made available to burn brightly in each one's heart who so wishes to serve the organic experience of spiritual unity. Sarajevo's conference this month is in need of such a loving ground swell. Do you agree that what I write here is a possible calling to accept destiny's simple unfolding, to free intelligence from the grip of world wide military dictature taking up most resources at the expense of our lives? Can we start here and enter the gravitational diplomacy to go from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government and show Kings, Queens, politicians and bankers the simple way to good health and hapiness? Personaly, I know that we have the tools and the opportunity to subject ourselves to one another with love and truth in such a way as to see the peaceful leveling and redistribution of wealth to where the needs are, from such an opportunity as we have here...thank you for bearing with my Flame...with love...peace to you, Rasheed!
16-Aug-2005 a new KM blogDear all, i want to invite you to the blog of our Kuwaiti colleague: http://discusskm.blogspot.com/ Frederik
The Value of Trust
WHITE PAPER – Join a readers group on TRUST A crisis of trust It’s hard to measure the value of trust in a relationship but most of us will know the cost of losing it. This can be seen in our personal lives – for instance, in the destructive consequences of an affair – or in the world of business where the value of a firm such as Andersen was virtually destroyed when trust was lost. Trust in relationships is probably of greater economic value now, ironically at a time when cynicism and scepticism about marketers’ claims is at all-time high. This is partly due to the major paradigm shift that has taken place in western economies. As automation takes over more and more routine manual tasks human beings increasingly specialise in what only humans can do – use their creative gifts to build knowledge and innovate. This ability is therefore at a greater premium than ever before. Trust multiplies creativity Trust is absolutely central to the creative process. If a human brain contains the potential for a bazillion permutations of connections between synapses, two human brains, fully connected, have a bazillion squared permutations. That’s a lot more than double the creative potential. But for that squaring to work, a really full connection between them is needed. What makes a full connection possible is trust. I won’t share my half-formed thoughts, interests and concerns with just anybody. I need to feel confident they won’t run off with them without sharing the benefits with me, and – perhaps even more significant – I need to know that they won’t set out to ridicule or destroy them. Trust saves energy I’ve occasionally whiled away a bit of time with intellectual property lawyers. Charming and intelligent chaps they turned out to be. But the contracts they proposed we use to protect our ideas when discussing them with other people were a bit depressing. All those clauses, undertakings and injunctions. And of course, to get the agreement watertight, all that time and expense. All of which can be spared if we share with people we can trust. Trust is generative If trust is established at the core of an organisation, it is likely to spread, as trust begets trust. Two people who have established trust can create more value in their relationship as each has more access to the other’s resources. One can compensate for the other’s weaknesses and each is more free to focus on the things they are personally best at. Two people who work together well will be more able to connect with a third person, and so on. Contagious trust can build fantastic creative communities. (Similarly, once distrust is established between two people, their energy gets channelled into defensiveness. Which reduces openness, and further diminishes trust, in what can be a vicious circle.) So trust is clearly a jolly useful thing. More so now than ever. Little to argue about there. But what do I do about it? The question is: how do we create trust? I’d like to contrast two alternative ways humans attempt this feat. Route One: Pleasing the other In this model, I identify someone with whom I wish to establish trust. I aim to create trust with the other person by focusing on them. I observe them and attempt to figure out what they look for and what they will like. Then I try to become the sort of person I imagine they will like and by a variety of overt and covert means present myself as that kind of guy. Hopefully, they will like this and they will trust me. Job done. Hey, if I’m really good at it, they might even fall in love with me. If we take this and apply in the world of business, what we find is a classic marketing approach. Many marketers dream of people falling in love with their brands. Find your customer. Research their needs. Adapt yourself to them. Invest energy in presentation and make artfully phrased promises. Collect money, advance to Go, acquire hotel on Mayfair and embark on relaxing career writing books on how to succeed in business. Unfortunately in our personal and business lives we may find it doesn’t actually work like this. The sycophantic romancer can be a major turn-off – and if we don’t spot them early on, and do fall in love with them, we end up disappointed. And as for marketing, I think it’s well established that we have all become deeply sceptical about advertising claims. We don’t trust marketers that try to tell us what we want to hear, and if we do but find they don’t live up to it, all hell breaks loose (just take a look at any internet hate site). Route two: Pleasing myself Now let’s look at a more humanistic way of creating trust between people. Here, my attention if focused primarily on myself. At a personal level, as I grow older, I come to understand myself better. I learn more and more what works for me and what doesn’t. I get smarter at figuring out what I’m good and what I’m bad at. The better I know myself, the more I trust myself. The more I trust myself, the easier I find it to reveal myself to other people, and the easier it is to figure out what promises I can make that I can actually keep. The more attention I pay to my own needs, the less I need to depend on others to make me happy, and the less dependent on others I become. As others find me increasingly open and reliable, they feel more inclined to reveal themselves to me. The better I know them, the more I trust them. Especially at the point in the relationship where we can acknowledge our own weaknesses and vulnerabilities. People who choose route two are what psychologists call internally-referenced. They behave more on the basis of their own thoughts and feelings and less on the basis of what they assume, rightly or wrongly, will please others. They are more likely to tell you what they think, what they believe in and what they don’t, and what they are and aren’t willing or able to do for you. Now much of this is counter-intuitive to marketing folk. Yet there are examples of confident organisations that have chosen the second route to creating trust. Imagine for a moment that you are running a very new business as a late entrant to a well-established market. A TV documentary maker says he wants to make a film about your company in action. Although you like this thought, he warns you that he does need to make good ratings. So, at least half of each episode will show the variety of ways in which your customers become frustrated with you. There will be extensive footage of them complaining volubly to your staff, other customers and anyone else who will listen and swearing never to patronise your company again. How likely would you be, as an intelligent business person, to contemplate such an obviously disastrous exposure of your fledgeling business for what it really is? Hmm thought so. But let me complete the story. Your name is Stelios and your company is Easyjet. Here is a business whose warts are the consistent subject of a weekly ITV documentary – and is one of the most successful brand launches in recent years. Distrust as a business model Businesses like to talk about winning the trust of customers, but carry on a series of behaviours that show they can’t even generate trust internally. For example. I met a salesman who used to work for an electrical retail chain in London. Each week, he and his colleagues would be advised of special bonus commissions to be earned by promoting specific products to customers. The customers, needless to say, would remain ignorant of these bonuses. Now today’s customer probably knows a salesman will not be objective about brands and products not stocked in the shop. We might even expect the salesperson to be biased in favour of selling us the more expensive item. But we probably would never know that there would be this totally concealed incentive to give us even less objective guidance in our choice. Such a policy must have some short-term gain for the retailer, presumably as a device for shifting otherwise hard-to-sell stock. And there’s a short-term gain for the employee, who picks up a little more commission. But there is a loss for the customer, who is deceived. And I think there’s a subtler but more profound loss for the organisation. Which is this: by creating this secret contract with employees, the employer gives a strong signal about their overall trustworthiness. They demonstrate that they operate a culture that supports collusion: and while today the collusion may at some level benefit the employee, who’s to say that another day they won't collude against the employee? The effect on the salesman I met was that his respect and trust for his employer was reduced. And that, inevitably, is a loss for both. Trust is an action, not just a feeling Trust doesn’t just happen. It arises from the way people choose to interact. Trust in complex organisations should not be left to chance. It helps to follow certain practices to maintain and grow trust. One of the stronger principles of humanistic psychotherapy is the observation that love is a verb, not a noun. It is an action, or rather a series of actions, that we do – it is not some magic feeling that we have. This also applies to trust. Trust is created – or destroyed – by our actions. The simplest and most important of these is our ability to keep the promises we make. Another vital process in building trust is how we manage the inevitable conflicts that arise in any relationship. What’s needed is a willingness to acknowledge conflict and engage constructively, rather than pretending it’s not there. The Bay of Pigs The definitive study of conflict avoidance, and its consequences, was Irving Janis’ famous analysis of the Bay of Pigs disaster. John F Kennedy presided over a cabinet made up of people with formidable and robust intelligence. Yet these great minds managed to persuade themselves of the efficacy of invading Cuba – a decision that with hindsight was absurdly dangerous. Janis studied how the group managed, subtly, to suppress doubts and concerns – creating the illusion of unanimous enthusiasm for a project where really there was no consensus. They had the illusion of trust, but not the reality. Marketing departments are traditionally full of miniature Bays of Pigs, happening now or waiting to happen. There is imperfect understanding between executives and among the various consultants they work with. Small wonder, then, that there are failures of understanding and trust with the poor consumer. Groupthink rules. It is often a subtle process as Janis comments: “The leader does not deliberately try to get the group to tell him what he wants to hear but is quite sincere in asking for honest opinions. The group members are not transformed into sycophants. They are not afraid to speak their minds. Nevertheless, subtle constraints, which the leader may reinforce inadvertently, prevent a member from fully exercising his critical powers and from openly expressing doubts when most others in the group appear to have reached consensus” (Irving Janis, quoted by Daniel Goleman in “Vital Lies, Simple Truths”) This subtle sycophancy then extends outwards to colour agency relationships with the client. I have sat fascinated at meetings where a client sits with an agency, has an amiable conversation and agrees an outcome. The agency then leaves the room, and then – only then – the client people roll their eyes and express their frustrations, and their low expectations of what will result. I have also sat in agencies where their people return from similar meetings, bewailing the failings of the client. Amazingly, none of this supposedly “negative” stuff gets dealt with; it just festers quietly. Just my anecdote. But bear in mind that professional services guru David Maister (http://www.fastcompany.com/online/58/shortcourse.html ) reckons that only about 20% of consultants actually like their clients or like their work – and these are the guys you hope will build your business? What they need are much more honest conversations with each other, and with all stakeholders. There should be fewer promises made and a greater willingness to challenge and be challenged. Needless to say the output of such relationships are the off-target, over-promising, insincere ads which clutter our daily lives. Gold – or Fool’s Gold Iron Sulphide – Fool’s Gold – is easily mistaken for the real thing. But the difference in value is huge. How can marketers avoid Fool’s trust, and generate the real thing? Here are some pointers: 1 Trust starts at home. A company where people trust each other is more likely to generate trust with its stakeholders. Far more attention needs to paid to creating respectful human relationships as a foundation for marketing success. 2 Conflict should be celebrated, not shunned. No, I’m not suggesting you take your staff on a boxing course. But arguments and disagreements can be the hallmark of an honest relationship – the key is to have them in a civilised way and make sure they are processed, not suppressed. Start today by listing the five most significant people in your working life. Make an honest list of what you like about them and what you dislike about them. Then ask yourself – have you constructively communicated both to them recently? 3 Take a day off from being customer-focussed. Better still, take a month or a year off. The idea of customer-as-king is a ludicrous untrueism of modern marketing. Many claim, and few deliver. In fact, many commentators are starting to say you need to make the employees king. Find out what they want, what turns them on, and harness their energy before engaging with customers. Gallup’s research (based on 1.5 million interviews) suggests that only 20 per cent of employees feel they regularly get a chance to use their greatest strengths (http://www.gallup.com/publications/strengths.asp ). That is a shocking indictment of a culture that claims to put customers first. I am deeply distrustful of people who don’t take care of themselves. It’s about time companies recognised the value of putting their people first. 4 Take a leaf (well a whole chapter actually) out of Adam Morgan’s book, Eating the Big Fish. The chapter is called “Build a Lighthouse Identity”. Morgan observes that some of the most successful brands have “self-referential identities: “The predominant purpose of Challenger brands’ every marketing action is to tell us where they stand. They don’t attempt to tell us something about ourselves – and they certainly don’t attempt to navigate themselves with reference to us.” This goes directly back to the humanistic model of trust building which emphasises being true to yourself, not smarming up to would be lovers or customers. As Morgan continues, “… Fox, Diesel, Swatch, Orange, Oakley and Goldfish… are all brands that in their own way evince an enormous self-confidence, a sense of who they are, without any permission from or reference to the world around them.” 5 Engage in real conversation. Do that by responding to this article: email me what you think at [email protected] John MooreJuly 2002Ourhouse 0.1 Ltd – Brand Knowledge with integrity for businesses and their people47 St Peter’s StreetLondon N1 8JP+44 (0)20 7359 5061
Benoit Couture , 02 July 2005 @ 15:29 PM Boldly going where humanity needs to beStay at home dad Benoit CoutureHi everybody, here are some terms of reference as a basis to build with an itinirary that stretches from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government and can therefore encompasse to serve everything in between from personal to local to global. Core: Faculty of living. We can all learn to live; we can not teach each other to live; such is the mistery of the Faculty of living. Hunger to learn is from being alive. We can experience, feed and spread life but we cannot explain life into being. The organic opening to the spiritual sourcee restores and maintains our being alive: that is the essence of KM at the purest level. So for the core to develop, we need the Curriculum of humanity's Recovery Road! Dynamics: Healing the meaning, acquisition of the taste for health, the ministry of reconciliation Product: Coreectional family curcuiting, Real community of moderate people, Permanent People Summit MISSION To restore personal integrity with the application of the curriculum "to be-to have-to do" instead of the poverty production curriculum of having to do until we have so that we can then be someone within the fittings of a civilization that does not know how to belong any more. Restorative justice and community mental health need to have us all learn how to care with dignity, living and growing in the personal discipline of sanctity. Benoit Couture To view a campaign aiming this way, fit to hook up with Live8, please see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A4235195
Gillian Bush , 01 July 2005 @ 20:37 PM From the web around Clinton and globalizationMs Gillian BushJuly Calendar of Trust Extract below seems timely if you watch Live8 or anticipate G8 this weekend President Clinton: I expect that we’ll deal mostly with the need for both openness, honesty and transparency in the developing world, But if you look at the great business scandals in America in the last few years, it’s obvious that you’ve got to have good strict accounting practices and if someone can play with the numbers, you can have problems everywhere. But in other countries the need for openness and transparency are very important and beyond that I would say it is not just a question for integrity, it’s also a question of capacity. A lot of countries are incapable of growing rapidly or solving problems, not so much because of corruption but because of incapacity both in government and in the private sector. So I hope that we can deal with this question of integrity with the question of capacity and I think by in large the two will go hand in hand.Stephen Evans: A huge range of different political philosophies about the heaviness of the hand of government on the economy. Capitalism is a marvelous system that grows very fast but it is driven by greed. And where you get greed you get lapses, how do you marry those two, what do you say to somebody in India or Africa who is wondering how you marry that greedy system, which also delivers the goods?President Clinton: Well Lord Canes has understood a long time ago that unless there is some governmental intervention the system would destroy itself by its own excesses, both its cycles and its greed. The great genius in the United States of the New Deal and everything that my party, I think has stood for since, and very often Republican Presidents as well, is that we realize that in order to save the market economy there had to be some leavening of it, some intermediate institution, some attempt to equalize opportunity, some attempt to help those that through no fault of their own couldn’t help themselves. Now that is still the case today, and I think the real issue is that if you live in a global economy, if your economy is more services, relatively speaking more information technology oriented. What is the role of government and how do you fulfill its historic mission in a capital society, which is to promote both economic growth and social justice.GB
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 15:55 PM inquiry into fear & trustMr Chris MacraeIt's happening over here and your inputs would be welcome It is beginning to look as if a thriving living system's resonating hi-trust relationships turns vicious when fear is injected in from the top. Or how would you see the way tehse 2 flows multiply
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2004 @ 11:30 AM ibm paperMr Chris MacraeI see IBM has a peper on trust & gameshttp://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/423/keser.pdf anyone else reading it?Chris Macrae
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Three free books have been made available to KnowledgeBoard's library courtesy of Dr. Randy J. Frid and the Canadian Institute of Knowledge Management. Infrastructure for Knowlege Management (2000)This book targets the meaning of knowledge and earlier approaches to understanding what we can do to help manage knowledge creation, codification, and innovation. The technological section may be out-dated but the majority of the book is still sound theory. You can access this book through http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/library.cgi?detail=edit&id=6002. The Frid Factor: A Pragmatic Guide to Building a Knowledge Management Program (2002)This book deals with human decision making in order to better understand what aspects of the decision making process we, as management, can actually help manage.You can access this book through http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/library.cgi?action=detail&id=6003. Frid Framework for Enterprise Knowledge Management: A Common KM Framework for the Government of Canada (2004)This book is the 20 year evolution of practical Knowledge Management practices that have proven effective at producing tangible business value across multiple organization types. The book is an amalgamation of lessons learned, best practices, sound advice and proven methodologies.You can access this book through http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/library.cgi?action=detail&id=6004.
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Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this story. Legal NoticeNumber of comments: 6 [Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 10 August 2005 @ 15:20 PM KM and sovereignty of renewal (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture"Soveriegnty is the ability to make decisions in serene maturity and the capacity to implement these decisions with complete wisdom and responsability." Like it or not, French, English and Aboriginal people of Canada must find their comon identity, from stanger to family of the human race. To these free books of KM from the Canadian Knowledge Management institute, I add on the lyrics from two of the theme songs of the project ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... You can view the coming together of the this vision in the following threads: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=110941&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Yandhttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=114129&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Yandhttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=114995&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%YHere are the lyrics of songs which are writen to serve the cause of the sovereign reconciliation of Canadians and to serve as a contributor to Europe's transition into unity, as well as to ease in the local-global harmonisation. INVISIBLE GOLD RUSH OF BEING ALBERTAN 2005 is the year when I turn one hundred years old! One century spent todefine the life within brand new borders, where borders had never existedbefore, but where nations had flourished for thousands of years, and in 1905the time had arrived for the Empire to stretch to the west in hope forimprovement.When I was named as a Canadian province, John Campbell wrote to his wife: "In token of the love which thou has shown for this wide land of freedom, I have named a province vast and for its beauty famed by thy dear name. " Thus was I introduced to the nations, with a name of the 4th daughter of Queen Victoria……Alberta is my name, t'was inspired with honor from a man's love for his wife, known to be strong, artistic with exquisite taste! That couple was forward-looking people, concerned for the less fortunate. The name they gave me placed me well to avoid the Eastern mistakes of the Empire.I've now been led past the threshold, 2 at the top of the material world. Notlong before my centennial, the Empire was dragged into terror. And so if I am to celebrate It must be from a wise vision of humility and of service formankind. There's just no time to pretend that all is well the way it is……Let the ones who are and who will be me into Life's sacred fire, the invisible gold rush, thus entering the celebration that never ends, the celebration in the Spirit of Life, Oh nobly bright and illustrious. Radiant of the Spirit of justice, peace and joy...(continue next post)...
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 10 August 2005 @ 15:19 PM KM and sovereignty of renewal (part2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...(from previous post)... And so from Emily Murphy to Betty Hewes to Jan Arden to Lois Hole from Grant MacEwan to Ian Tyson to the Mannix and Manning families. We can see through my past century enough potency of meaning for anyone to catch on fire in the Faith and Hope that settles our humanity Into the simplicity.Of the majesty we are all created to be living in, the majesty of the Eternal,who's love secures my destiny in the meaning of my name: "Nobly bright and illustrious". is what Alberta means. Such Albertan I grow to be by the Spirit of wisdom and love, as I care for the less fortunate. Benoit Couture ©Subsense Publishing and Promotion...then to Canada from Quebec... CALL to CANADA Could we reach the agreement that it's the whole world who is in need to see a place like Canada to show that free will can be a good thing.In 1945 we were invited to join a deal. Most of the nations had great hope to bring peace among humans.After fifty some years, great challenges are facing us. The deal has not provided what we forgot to look after.We just cannot go on, building wealth for me, myself and I, while our loving for each other remains hidden behind divisions.We've got to grow from that bottom line that has been in use and bring about that sense of belonging, bonded beyond the business fences.Maybe we haven't understood that prosperity only comes to us from who we are together and not from what we do to each other.We have all it takes to become heaven on earth; we have been blessed with wealth, now let's lead wealth to prosperity.Believe it or not, it is the whole world who is in need to see a place like Canada to show that the renewing Covenant is unity for humanity. Benoit Couture © Subsense Publishing and Promotion
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 06 August 2005 @ 13:31 PM The fine tunings of networking (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture"Knowledge management is dead, long live networking", "has been the theme of many conference organizers..." Such was the quote that was posted this week, by a leader of KM. I see in the initial statement of "KM is dead, long live networking", the entire scene of subliminal exploitation of youthful innocence of the mind, putting in place the dispositions to intice with deceit, into the ongoing suicidal desease caused by the animal-human competition drive that goes on resisting the simplity of completion. Command and control structures going on remasking itself anew to proceed with divide and conquer, the very nature of the beast. Those who ezploit the speed of thechnologies' advancements in such a way are defeating the entire purpose of thecnology's existance to serve humanity and instead, they keep ignoring the shore of settlement to go from and to, in the Faculty of Living from stranger to family, in the experience of the organic-experience of spiritual unity. Anyone who insists that "KM is dead long live networking", has not realized yet the continuity and complete inclusion of one with the other. One of the fundamental theme I insist upon is the healing of the meaning. With this kind of divide and conquer statements and attitudes, we are given a perfect example of how absolute, is the must to do heal the meaning indeed! Meaning is needed where meaning lives. In the case of "net" and "working", we have a word that invites us to deep reflectios of absolute ground. I see in the synergy of these 2 words a complicity such, that it clear the path for transparency to unite all KM experts into the elimination of "out of bound competition". Out of bound competition is defined by the attitudes of conflict generating, coupled by solution resistant. To those awaits the humus process of desintegration, for the sake of regeneration. Net means clean, refinement exhaustivly completed. People who are working in the net way, are individuals who are contributing to the completion of humanity. If networking tries to run away from KM, it will phase out the entire movement of open source transparency. ...(continue on next post)
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 06 August 2005 @ 13:30 PM The fine tunings of networkings (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...(continued from above)...As far as I can understand, when it comes to technology, open source transparency is the only point of meeting, where networking has the opportunity to spread intelligence from out of the order of divide and conquer for the sake of perpetuating the oppressive structures of command and control. My latest attempt at navigating toward such shore of completion as I seek, was this week, when I sent the following email to the Canadian Institute of Knowledge Management, which I pasted from the posting below the one you read now......following the pasting... One quote that I made up is: "Going from brown to green is the spiritual networking that provides the one opportunity for humanity to clean its way from brown-nosing of old to the green living of the heart and of the spirit..." The wisest KM manager I know went on to address the dilema with the following: Knowledge Managent is dead...long live networking has been the theme that many conference organisers have been discussing with me recently That's as may be- but can DM be the first to develop a blog format for multiplying your network of goodwill. Here's an attempt - let's see which Mice collaborate to multiply even more goodwill given the extraordinary standards linkedin (et al Footnote) people aroud me have been setting fired up by the London bombings and need to connect spiritual links our culture has lost forever. I'll be having a summer clean of my DM postings now this blog makes memory tracking simpler for those who do have a big project to multiply who's truly who. Footnote: 7 million bookmarks on Collaboration Knowledge City connecting 100 cause goals and 200 Networks for Humanity and 30000 Projects & economics that sustains. May God bless the passage from the beast's holdings to the communal safety of good health and hapiness of the present...amen... Benoit Couture
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 22:14 PM Can we go from free books to free minds?Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureFree Books from the Canadian Institute of Knowledge Management Interestingly, the open space KM is on the threshold of networking and must decide on the lighting intensity that humanity can manage without destroying itself. By learning to apply reconciliation as needed, clarity is what we need from KM and networking. Being myself from Canada and finding myself on the EU Knowledge Board looking to find support for transparency, it would seem natural to find our alliance together. In case my email to you did not get through to reach you when I tried to reach you shortly after you posted your books here on the Eu Board, here is a copy of it. August 3, 2005 5:27 AMFrom a member of Canadian of EU KM Board Greetings Canadian Institute of KM, I thank you very much for the gift of your books posted at the EU KM Board. What information do you require to determine if your institute could take on the task to follow through with me in bringing the Privy Council of Canada and all related activities concerning the nature of our national citizenship from secrecy to the transparency, so that we can begin to manage from simplicity of the open source KM at the center of decision making.I know enough about KM of the past, to realise that I know nearly nothing, other than to go on with transparency, as you will understand quickly why I must do so, when you see in the cyber affirmation and self-determination that I pursue.My page at the EU Board is: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-site/whoswho.cgi?action=detail&authorid=749637&id=134089The campaign I wish to ignite is layed out from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U1590685The point of gravity that I brought on and which sparked the interest of the EU Board, Chris Macrae and many more in the last 3 months, is the letter that I wrote to her majesty, Queen ElisabethII, when she came to Alberta in MAY 05: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4304909Between the interest of Chris Macrae to see the BBC's entry as the largest server of publicly owned transparency tool and my aim to position CBC into supplying the BBC with the simplicity in the focus from local to global, you might decide to take on the facilitating position in the transitions involved. Thank you for you time and consideration, Benoit Couture,
03 August 2005 @ 09:29 AM Thanks Thank you Dr Randy Frid for the free downloads. One of the challenges of the knowledge society however is not obtaining information but getting the time to read and use it. I hope I can find enough time to value your generosity.
Economic Development uses?
We are looking to implement KM to support our economic development activities. Much of what I have found is in using KM as a strategy for economic development, not as a tool to support it. Mainly we are too busy - between supply chain development projects and the number of companies requesting information on our community (for relocation purposes) we have little time to consult and internally coordinate our responses and the informational reports provided. We are looking to better manage our information, and analyze the outcome of processes + information + industry + client specifications. The hope is that we will save time and determine which of the above results in the most 'wins' so we may prioritize and/or standardize some responses. Christina Parisi
KM Tools for Development: Virtual Interactive Think Tanks
With regard to your expressed interest, I have done similar things before and I would like to develop my proposal for a web-based Virtual Interactive Think Tank (VITT) for development of particular countries or continents, see some elements below.
We live in a global digital and knowledge village. Who needs brick and mortar in think tanks these days! Or who needs to spend large sums of money on travel or spend long years in places far away from home! Mine would be a proposal for a very cost-effective think tank (imagine savings on tickets alone!) and one allowing you to immediately draw upon the expertise and synchronous (real-time) as well as asynchronous collaboration (online conferencing, online policy paper discussions, online archives/libraries, etc) of not only local scholars/advisors/policymakers but actually any expert with no regard for where (s)he lives in this global village of ours (with flying-in for traditional face to face work as needed, of course)! On top of that, it would be a very user-friendly think tank, requiring access to the Internet (simple browsing using Netscape or IE) but NOT requiring any geek-type high tech inclination or computer knowledge on part of researchers, government officials, consultants, etc.
Moreover and very importantly, VITT would serve as an excellent long-term training vehicle in the new, digital ways of conducting business or government affairs for the long time to come. The VITT would be scalable so we can reduce/expand the scope of it very easily; this would allow the inclusion/exclusion of topics, etc. We can kill many birds with VITT, imagine that!
If you give me your email, I will attach a ppt presentation with one real-life case study of such a VITT that I helped shape and took a very active participation in.
With best wishes,
Val
11 August 2005 @ 17:32 PM
KM Tools for Development: Virtual Interactive Think Tanks
KM Tools for Development: Virtual Interactive Think Tanks
With regard to your expressed interest, I have done similar things before and I would like to develop my proposal for a web-based Virtual Interactive Think Tank (VITT) for development of particular countries or continents, see some elements below.
We live in a global digital and knowledge village. Who needs brick and mortar in think tanks these days! Or who needs to spend large sums of money on travel or spend long years in places far away from home! Mine would be a proposal for a very cost-effective think tank (imagine savings on tickets alone!) and one allowing you to immediately draw upon the expertise and synchronous (real-time) as well as asynchronous collaboration (online conferencing, online policy paper discussions, online archives/libraries, etc) of not only local scholars/advisors/policymakers but actually any expert with no regard for where (s)he lives in this global village of ours (with flying-in for traditional face to face work as needed, of course)! On top of that, it would be a very user-friendly think tank, requiring access to the Internet (simple browsing using Netscape or IE) but NOT requiring any geek-type high tech inclination or computer knowledge on part of researchers, government officials, consultants, etc.
Moreover and very importantly, VITT would serve as an excellent long-term training vehicle in the new, digital ways of conducting business or government affairs for the long time to come. The VITT would be scalable so we can reduce/expand the scope of it very easily; this would allow the inclusion/exclusion of topics, etc. We can kill many birds with VITT, imagine that!
If you give me your email, I will attach a ppt presentation with one real-life case study of such a VITT that I helped shape and took a very active participation in.
With best wishes,
Val
Benoit Couture , 12 August 2005 @ 18:42 PM
Can VITT take root by accomodating the start of virtual diplomacy?
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Dear Val, can Virtual Iteractive Think Thank grow from the practical application of diplomacy. In oder words, can the following cross-posting from the thread titled "KM in the Middle East" be accepted as an idea to pursue in the conjuncture of VITT? Here is the cross posting:
Beautiful Vision opening up...
Benoit Couture Stay at home dad
Dear Rasheed, being answered directly to my name in public as you have done is a great personal honour and a tremendous responsability. In doung so, we find ourselves at the basis of civility. I must now proceed to live up to such an intelligent response that you've given to my invitation. You have accepted to answer as a Muslim to my Christian invitation and I praise God for your enthusiasm to shine forth the beauty of Islam's intelligence and contribution to who we all are today, in our Judeo-Christian parts of the world and as a whole speicies. Our inter-action is a window which is opening to let in the simplicity of the Morning Star to rise up in our hearts and awareness, at a time when darkness is at its thickest. If you wish, we can inter-act here, growing back and forth into brotherhood. We can possibly go on until we ignite the EU KM Board's ownwership and administration with the inspiration that will have them involved with you and I, in raising the standard of civility that can host the site's development and sight's deployment of Justice, peace and joy. Humanity's terror-anti-terror frenzy needs to be silenced by the qietning view of such a spiritual sight, in order to see its bloom growing and spreading for all sites of the earth in need of loving attention from God. I look forward to lighting up the match of humanity's Sacred Flame with you dear Islam brother and to insure that the torch carrying such Flame be made available to burn brightly in each one's heart who so wishes to serve the organic experience of spiritual unity. Sarajevo's conference this month is in need of such a loving ground swell. Do you agree that what I write here is a possible calling to accept destiny's simple unfolding, to free intelligence from the grip of world wide military dictature taking up most resources at the expense of our lives? Can we start here and enter the gravitational diplomacy to go from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government and show Kings, Queens, politicians and bankers the simple way to good health and hapiness? Personaly, I know that we have the tools and the opportunity to subject ourselves to one another with love and truth in such a way as to see the peaceful leveling and redistribution of wealth to where the needs are, from such an opportunity as we have here...thank you for bearing with my Flame...with love...peace to you, Rasheed!
Can you tell us about any of the most painful projects to co-manage?
Can you tell us about any of the most painful projects to co-manage? Chris Macrae
Chris Macrae , 1-Aug-2005 focusing passionMr Chris MacraeBenoit: I admire your passion for how communities sustain or destroy family relationships - particularly those geared to bringing up children to have open productive opportunities in life. I have tried to start a thread here asking for stories/solutions people who share your passion could connect for each other. If the new thread is worded appropriately enough, please could you come back and edit down your last post connecting it to the new thread. I ask this because by all means if there is someone reading this whose most difficult project connects with your context let's hear it; but there are also 1000 other contexts anyone's most painful project to co-manage might be about. Knowledge of painful projects is not something that the hierarchy of business theorists give much space to. Wherever business theory fails to give transparent space to people's real experiences it compounds blindspots making theory unable to help people practice.eg Do MBA's even get one training module on "do no corruption? - you'll never get out of the dis-trust system and fear you spin around you". The catalogue of what topics business theorists do not give space to is one that open space coordinator & transformation mentor Harrison Owen first started studying 20 years ago. Seeing how elites destroy diversity of knowledge from communities up is something that a lot of Harrison's work tries to make safe for people to get on with mobilising. More at Club of DC So, even if this thread only gets one testimony every few months, I would like to try and help those who are plucking up courage to answer the question, as well as those who want to debate whether KM does or does not see transparency (open integrity of project work) as integral to ist disciplinary concerns.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31-Jul-2005 How deep, how wide?Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureOn the 13th of Dec 03, there was a meeting of 35 organisations of all kinds, from the provincial labour union and teachers association to housing societies and inner-city groups that were represented. It is a movement of community empowerment. It was said that 27% of the youth of the States who are between 18 and 24 are disconnected from main stream society, as they neither go to school nor hold a job. So I casually stood up to point out that some of that youth is on the contrary so well connected to money and power that they manage, as an example, to exchange weed for cocaine pound for pound. 10,000 dollars cocaine being exchange for 2000 dollars worth of pot across the border. "It takes very highly connected people to operate such operation" was my conclusion. On December 30th 03's, the Royal Canadian Mountain Police raided the BC Legislature on those very charges of cross-border trading as I described. They informed the press that they had been investigating for two years on that very matter. A week after, all RCMP information to the public on the matter was changed for a complete different story. That experience added to my stay at home dad's resolve to make use of what my background: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4549575 . More than ever, since 9/11, spiritual unity is one of humanity's priority to foster and to nourish. Too serious of a task to be left to politicians alone. Our Parlement is looking at decriminalizing marijuana. I propose to transfer the resources that are going into the war on drugs into the victory over stress and compulsive behaviours. Where and how? It is estimated that the production of marijuana in British Columbia is worth anywhere between 3 to 6 billion dollars a year. Corruption is not the substance but all the dark activity involve around it to reach the consumer is. Ultimately, it is the centuries old market of control and instant gratification in the trading between illegal weapons and illegal drugs. There is no such a thing as the new world order until there is the renewal of life on the recovery road from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government. Open source KM is to serve transparency of all faculties, brought on to the daylight of governing democracy, with corruption-free decision-making. Legal and trading transparency is where leads open source KM. Here's an invitation on how we might work together on EU KM Board, to harness corruption in the transformation process of its energies, much like how nature processes nutrients and fertilizers from humus and/or manure but here, we are contemplating human regeneration: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=3024
Denham Grey , 30-Jul-2005 Corruption & KMDenham GreyChris, I would agree KM has a largely positive orientation but corruption seems a little off-course. IMO this topic fits better into psychology, governance, law and other domains. KM is concerned with validation, social consensus, anti-patterns and utility, with a focus on behaviors that support knowledge flows, relationship building, inquiry and sharing. This makes corruption a fringe rather than a focus area for KM - this should not detract from the detection, correction and harm from corruption - those items just belong better in other domains.
Chris Macrae , 30-Jul-2005 projects unearthing corruptionMr Chris MacraeAs a mathematician, and survey researcher, it is my good or bad fortune to be able to ask sufficient questions of different people to see whether a whole organisational system connects together. There are many fairly innocent reasons why flows of information and wasted budgets do not connect, and one much more troublesome one - corruption at the top. Of the several times a project has moved that way, I twice made the mistake of not realising as far in advance as I could have that unearthing corruption was going to be the endgame. In one medical case, it remains a burden to this day of the whole team of qualitative interviewers whose work I was coordinating. In the other case, the local team had to call in protection to complete the project. In reviewing KM literature, I have not found much that goes into the issue of corruption. I would be interested to read more if anyone has stuff. Denham: the idea that there are disciplines or areas that KM does connect to and others that it doesnt (so much) is new to me. This raises 2 questions first in my mind:· Are there some bookmarks where this scoping of KM's neighbours are clarified which this community would want to agree with?· I worked for 5 years at the management consultancy of a Big 5 accounting firm between 1989-1994 (the period they permeated the world). As part of my PKM, I tried to make sure I did not get assigned to projects where knowingly or not I would be co-opted in as an agent for corruption. 2 reasons:· One of the senior partners I reported into used to have a framed letter hanging on his wall signed by Robert Maxwell: I recommend firm X because they always do exactly what I tell them to do· Looking at how the biggest projects were sold, many were not geared towards the quality of the client's organisation but a personal empire a sponsoring client wanted to build
Chris Macrae , 1-Aug-2005 focusing passionMr Chris MacraeBenoit: I admire your passion for how communities sustain or destroy family relationships - particularly those geared to bringing up children to have open productive opportunities in life. I have tried to start a thread here asking for stories/solutions people who share your passion could connect for each other. If the new thread is worded appropriately enough, please could you come back and edit down your last post connecting it to the new thread. I ask this because by all means if there is someone reading this whose most difficult project connects with your context let's hear it; but there are also 1000 other contexts anyone's most painful project to co-manage might be about. Knowledge of painful projects is not something that the hierarchy of business theorists give much space to. Wherever business theory fails to give transparent space to people's real experiences it compounds blindspots making theory unable to help people practice.eg Do MBA's even get one training module on "do no corruption? - you'll never get out of the dis-trust system and fear you spin around you". The catalogue of what topics business theorists do not give space to is one that open space coordinator & transformation mentor Harrison Owen first started studying 20 years ago. Seeing how elites destroy diversity of knowledge from communities up is something that a lot of Harrison's work tries to make safe for people to get on with mobilising. More at Club of DC So, even if this thread only gets one testimony every few months, I would like to try and help those who are plucking up courage to answer the question, as well as those who want to debate whether KM does or does not see transparency (open integrity of project work) as integral to ist disciplinary concerns.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31-Jul-2005 How deep, how wide?Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureOn the 13th of Dec 03, there was a meeting of 35 organisations of all kinds, from the provincial labour union and teachers association to housing societies and inner-city groups that were represented. It is a movement of community empowerment. It was said that 27% of the youth of the States who are between 18 and 24 are disconnected from main stream society, as they neither go to school nor hold a job. So I casually stood up to point out that some of that youth is on the contrary so well connected to money and power that they manage, as an example, to exchange weed for cocaine pound for pound. 10,000 dollars cocaine being exchange for 2000 dollars worth of pot across the border. "It takes very highly connected people to operate such operation" was my conclusion. On December 30th 03's, the Royal Canadian Mountain Police raided the BC Legislature on those very charges of cross-border trading as I described. They informed the press that they had been investigating for two years on that very matter. A week after, all RCMP information to the public on the matter was changed for a complete different story. That experience added to my stay at home dad's resolve to make use of what my background: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4549575 . More than ever, since 9/11, spiritual unity is one of humanity's priority to foster and to nourish. Too serious of a task to be left to politicians alone. Our Parlement is looking at decriminalizing marijuana. I propose to transfer the resources that are going into the war on drugs into the victory over stress and compulsive behaviours. Where and how? It is estimated that the production of marijuana in British Columbia is worth anywhere between 3 to 6 billion dollars a year. Corruption is not the substance but all the dark activity involve around it to reach the consumer is. Ultimately, it is the centuries old market of control and instant gratification in the trading between illegal weapons and illegal drugs. There is no such a thing as the new world order until there is the renewal of life on the recovery road from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government. Open source KM is to serve transparency of all faculties, brought on to the daylight of governing democracy, with corruption-free decision-making. Legal and trading transparency is where leads open source KM. Here's an invitation on how we might work together on EU KM Board, to harness corruption in the transformation process of its energies, much like how nature processes nutrients and fertilizers from humus and/or manure but here, we are contemplating human regeneration: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=3024
Denham Grey , 30-Jul-2005 Corruption & KMDenham GreyChris, I would agree KM has a largely positive orientation but corruption seems a little off-course. IMO this topic fits better into psychology, governance, law and other domains. KM is concerned with validation, social consensus, anti-patterns and utility, with a focus on behaviors that support knowledge flows, relationship building, inquiry and sharing. This makes corruption a fringe rather than a focus area for KM - this should not detract from the detection, correction and harm from corruption - those items just belong better in other domains.
Chris Macrae , 30-Jul-2005 projects unearthing corruptionMr Chris MacraeAs a mathematician, and survey researcher, it is my good or bad fortune to be able to ask sufficient questions of different people to see whether a whole organisational system connects together. There are many fairly innocent reasons why flows of information and wasted budgets do not connect, and one much more troublesome one - corruption at the top. Of the several times a project has moved that way, I twice made the mistake of not realising as far in advance as I could have that unearthing corruption was going to be the endgame. In one medical case, it remains a burden to this day of the whole team of qualitative interviewers whose work I was coordinating. In the other case, the local team had to call in protection to complete the project. In reviewing KM literature, I have not found much that goes into the issue of corruption. I would be interested to read more if anyone has stuff. Denham: the idea that there are disciplines or areas that KM does connect to and others that it doesnt (so much) is new to me. This raises 2 questions first in my mind:· Are there some bookmarks where this scoping of KM's neighbours are clarified which this community would want to agree with?· I worked for 5 years at the management consultancy of a Big 5 accounting firm between 1989-1994 (the period they permeated the world). As part of my PKM, I tried to make sure I did not get assigned to projects where knowingly or not I would be co-opted in as an agent for corruption. 2 reasons:· One of the senior partners I reported into used to have a framed letter hanging on his wall signed by Robert Maxwell: I recommend firm X because they always do exactly what I tell them to do· Looking at how the biggest projects were sold, many were not geared towards the quality of the client's organisation but a personal empire a sponsoring client wanted to build
Ron Dvir: Welcome, dear Friends. Today KnowledgeBoard is hosting Debra Amidon, the founder of Entovation International, a great expert in Innovation and Knowledge Zones, and author of several strong books, like "The Innovation Superhighway". Today Debra will converse with us about her latest book - "In Search of Innovation - A book for children and leadership executives". To begin with, may I ask each of you to introduce yourselves. Ron Dvir: I am ron Dvir from Innovation Ecology, obsessed about innovation and the future, and lucky to be the co-illustrator of the child book of Debra. I will facilitate to conversation today. Debra Amidon: Ron, I would no more consider you obsessed than I necessarily an expert. But we are clearly 'kindred spirits' as it relates to the power of thinking and the role for children and managerial leaders. Ron Dvir: We had a plan for this one-hour conversation. There might be surprises and the conversation might flow to other interesting directions, but anyway here is the plan. We will divide it into three parts. FIRSTLY, Favourite Innovators - Who are innovators we admire? SECONDLY, your own innovation stories? And THIRDLY - Innovation for Children AND Leadership Executives - Is there really a difference?Ron Dvir: So, lets START the journey - who are your favourite Innovators - Who are the innovators you admire? What characteristics make them successful? Are you aware of their 'ups and downs'? Debra Amidon: I should share some words about how I found the illustrations - as they are certainly the compelling draw of the book. As mentioned in the text, I searched myself for 6 years...worked with several other talented illustrators; but it was only when I discovered Ron - who we will now call our ‘knowledge visualizer’ - that the story took life. Lesson, knowledge visualization is a critical aspect of our knowledge economy. Ron Dvir: Well, so boring and so true - one picture worth a thousand words…even (or especially) today. Maya Levin-Sagi: are we still looking for favourites - Gandhi is one of mine Debra Amidon: Hi Ed and Anne - good friends. And some new 'faces': Maya, Hayriye and Corneliu. Tell us where you are from and your own favourite innovators...and why? Ron Dvir: Maya, what is special and unique about Gandhi?Maya Levin-Sagi: Hi all, am joining from Israel, from straight from Edna Pasher's office Debra Amidon: Maya...what a PERFECT example. In retrospect, look at the real contribution Ghandi made and in so many parts of the world and so many dimensions. Maya Levin-Sagi: Ghandi led an innovative way for people to fight for what they believe Ron Dvir: And, Ghandi was ready to pay the price for coming with new ideas and stading behind them. Ron Dvir: My favourite innovator is Leonardo de Vinci. For me he is the essence of the renaissance period. And, his multi-skills - as an artist, implementer, inventor, observer etc. I always ask people in the education system, "How can we make more Leonardo's?" Debra Amidon: As I have asked this question in various audiences in different parts of the world, it is fun to learn what is in the minds of others. Usually there will be some spiritual leaders; there are also the sports heroes...and the local entrepreneurs who have made such a name for themselves internationally. So what constitute the 'secret sauce' of an innovator? Maya Levin-Sagi: The ability to have others believe in your idea, be carried away by it. Anne Jubert: Hi Debra- what about helping us with more research projects in innovation - we need not to be Leonardos or other, just try to do new things that make sense. Ron Dvir: Here is one ingredient of this sauce, I think - COURAGE. To come with a new idea, to speak it out, to insist, to show it to a sceptical world. Ron Dvir: Sami, hi, Who is your hero innovator?????? Anne Jubert: You also need to feel supported Ron Debra Amidon: de Vinci is another super example...speaking of having a myriad of talents...and fortitude. Maya Levin-Sagi: Practicing what you preach Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: Hello Ron, just returned from a conference full of the word innovation. What really inspired was the success stories of Nokia, and the simple fact that by building wooden infrastructures, we can save so, so much on carbon dioxide emissions Ron Dvir: And another ingredient - perhaps simply - IMAGINATION. The ability to see something new in a common situation/object Debra Amidon: Ann: I would like to do something significant with children...and KB. Our future is in their hands... Maya Levin-Sagi: Must say, thought the book was very inspiring not only for children! Anne Jubert: True, we need to care about the future for them also Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: The book is inspiring for all, it untangles our mind from the complexities of today and allow us to be creative again Ron Dvir: Sami, what made Nokia so great. The story I heard that when they decided to join the hi-tech club, they hired 100 PhD students and asked them to sit in their offices and do what ever they like. So, mass-innovation? Anne Jubert: Do you think of something in particular you would like to see started Debra? Anne Jubert: Microsoft is doing the same this summer I have heard. Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: Well, Nokia started off with manufacturing rubber boots and car tires. I personally would not be surprised if they make another shift in business soon. Debra Amidon: Practicing what you preach...indeed, walking the talk and BEING the innovation! This is not easy as one of the most critical aspects is how best to COLLABORATE. This is difficult as we have been reared in a competitive society. But the Knowledge Economy provides us the language thinking and behavior to interrelate differently! Ron Dvir: Debra, you talk about collaboration. Is there no place in the world today for the "lonely inventor" - does it all need to be done in teams? Anne Jubert: We are looking for the next generation of collaborative platforms now in a new proposal, Debra. Debra Amidon: Sami: WELCOME to the conversation! I hope that others have read your review of the book! And you may be surprised at how fast the construction industry is picking up on innovating in the knowledge economy...and through knowledge innovation zones! Maybe your shadow influence... Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: Yes, the construction industry is waking up for a change and heading for a paradigm shift Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: We are in the midst of learning to collaborate with all our stakeholders.Debra Amidon: Indeed, this is the matter of stakeholder innovation, the prime example being Novo Nordisk – DAWN of a new era - http://www.inthekzone.com/WISH_-_KMMagDAWN.pdf! Anne Jubert: Sami’s influence also in the public sector in Finland!!- did you see the document from there? Ron Dvir: Back to the child book - what did you take with you from the story of the girl, who had a good ideas and then had so many frustrations when trying to show it to the world? Ron Dvir: One of my private learning from this child story - that sometimes we need to add colours to an idea in order to make it alive for others. I am trying to practice it... Maya Levin-Sagi: In the real world, having a great idea isn't enough. Debra Amidon: Anne: Then we should link YOUTH with the collaborative platforms. There is a chapter in The Innovation SuperHighway on the Knowledge Millennium Generation. Look at the trends we have analyzed and the world THEY would like to innovate - http://www.entovation.com/whatsnew/millennium.htm - with the notion of the future that children might want to innovate. Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: For me, the book brought back one basic fact. Everyone understands ideas differently. Through proper packaging and assembly of the idea, we can make it our idea. Anne Jubert: I'll have a look there- great Ron Dvir: Anne, Debra - this is a good idea - linking many research projects to youth as both potential end users AND contributors - maybe having children participating in some brainstorming workshops. Kendra Amidon: A lot of what the book reminded me was how much better people respond to and idea if they feel as though they have contributed…which links into the ideas of having children participate in brainstorming. If it is something that they contributed to, they will feel far more passionate about it than if it were merely presented to them. Debra Amidon: And because ‘everyone understands ideas differently’, this is why we have needed a NEW (shared) vision - and a common language (knowledge economy) and a combined sense of purpose - innovation...in order for us all to make the contributions - as individuals, enterprises and nations. Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: I remember many years back, when in Turkey, they would celebrate children’s day and have children handle certain matters of government, even the assembly! Ron Dvir: Let's move on to some personal stories. I invite each of you to tell us about one of you innovation stories - when you tried to bring a new idea to the world. What worked? What didn't? What did you discover? Edna Pasher: Hi, I just read your contributions. It is very interesting and I am happy I can join you. Have you Seen the book by John Seely Brown about Edges? Anne Jubert: I just read an article about boundary objects and co-creation of these. This to facilitate a shared vision Debra Amidon: Have you all taken a look at the E100 Gallery we have created - http://www.entovation.com/photo_gallery/photo_gallery.htm. Perhaps we can have submissions from different parts of the world...maybe even a contest. Edna Pasher: The idea is that innovation happens at the edge. One edge is between old and young. This is why I like your book. There is a great potential for innovation in conversations with young people. We don’t talk enough to them. We don`t invite them to our conferences enough and to strategic processes. Anne Jubert: Often we do not speak their language, so this makes real communication more difficult Edna Pasher: Yes. And we underestimate their potential. If we learn to listen to them better we can have a peep into the future ! Debra Amidon: In New Zealand they involved youth as KnowledgeWave initiative. In Alice Springs, they involved youth in the Youth Muster of Desert Knowledge Australia. In Austria, the annual ALPBACH event brings together the Junior ALPBACH to meet for the week with Nobel Laureates. In Abu Dhabi, they recently had the Festival of Thinkers - www.festivalofthinkers.com - where they involved 200 students from around the country.Edna Pasher: I am happy Kendra is here. We know a lot about you! Kendra Amidon: An example of how children can be included in almost any process...This quarter This quarter my classmates and I were working on a downtown revitalization plan for a small town. We knew that not all of the ‘public’ we were trying to serve would attend the community workshops and City Council meetings, so we put our heads together to find some innovative ideas on how to include everyone and get everyone’s ideas. We ended up doing a lot of different things, but one of my favourites was including the elementary and high school students. We spent and afternoon at each school asking the children what they wanted their downtown to feel like, and asking them to draw pictures of what they wanted it to look it. These workshops turned out to be the most useful workshops we held. Edna Pasher: Unfortunately in Israel it is not common at all to invite youth to participate in conversations about the future. They just published here a big report about a huge reform in education. Students were reacting only after it was published! Debra Amidon: I'll let Kendra answer why we do not speak their language...but maybe we just have to create the arena - to use Leif Edvinsson's term - for the conversations to occur. And then we listen - a la Charles Savage - and act upon what we learn in ways that leverage (not compete with) one another. Ron Dvir: Kendra - as in many good innovations - what you told here is about simple, straight forward innovation - which is the best - just go and TALK with children about their ideas and dreams - so simple, so clever. Kendra Amidon: Anne: I don't think it is about 'speaking the language' as much as it is taking the time to go to them, and get down on their level and listening to them. They (and I should probably say 'we') just need to feel connected in some way rather than simply reading a report or listening. Even if nothing is taken from what people say, as long as they feel they had a chance to contribute -- they're connected. Edna Pasher: Ron and Leif and I just participated in the first Future Center Summit. Next time we definitely have to invite youth to be part of it! Anne Jubert: You really mean get "down" to their level? Debra Amidon: It seems we have reached a critical mass of expertise and intent on the prospects of youth. No longer is it lip service...we really need their imaginative thinking now...and we have done our best to create an arena for their thinking to thrive. Isn't that a lot of what our work as knowledge professionals has been about? Debra Amidon: Maybe it's getting 'to' their level...not up or down. Anne Jubert: I agree! Debra Amidon: I've met some youth that have 'older' and more 'traditional' mindsets than some of my own elder colleagues. Edna Pasher: They know more about the future than ourselves. They are the future! Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: Since they are the future, we owe it to them to decide what they want the future to be. We can then help them achieve it Anne Jubert: I think the some of us "old people" still have crazy ideas and dreams- fortunately. Ron Dvir: Well, talking about creativity of youth, I have very critical view of the education system that force young people spend their time on learning things they don’t want to, prepare for examinations which add zero value, and basically waste their best years. What if children of 14, 16, or 17 will rather spend their time on doing what is interesting for them, using their incredible creativity? Anne Jubert: We have the advantage that we have the self confidence and a chance to try them out. Edna Pasher: I agree with Debra that some of the youth are conservative. They have been too much influenced by the older people. I have some conservative students at the university. We need to make them confident that they can change the world…that we are open to assist them in making our planet more sustainable with them and for them. Anne Jubert: Many young people do not dare… Debra Amidon: The intent of writing this book - ‘In Search of Innovation’ - was to make the message simple, without being simplistic. Much of the complexity of managing knowledge-based business has overwhelmed people. And the misconceptions about what innovation is (and is not) have confused people. And all the techno/Digital hype has clouded the opportunity even further. And so, we get back to the basics. It is about KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION and COLLABORATION: The 3 New Laws of Knowledge Dynamics. Kendra Amidon: My generation was raised in a media-saturated society where we often feel as though we are simply viewers to everything that is going on in the world, which has resulted in a rather disconnected and indifferent group of people if they are approached in the wrong way. If things are presented in the same way that the nightly news is, chances are we won’t even listen - never mind care. The real innovation is finding ways to present the idea in a different way...just like in the book. I don't think it is as much that they don't dare as much as they are not aware of the options to contribute. Ron Dvir: Kendra, so, it is up to us to create for them the arena to innovate. And, not to put obstacles on their way... Maya Levin-Sagi: I found the book to try to encourage you (young or old) to believe in your own idea, pursue it Edna Pasher: I absolutely agree with Kendra. We need to show them the options. And a children’s book is a great way to help get our ideas in a short and simple way. What I like in the message of the book is the tenacity of the innovator ! Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: The greatness is that book is for all, young & old! Debra Amidon: Ron: I agree with how you (and most others) have become disheartened at the educational system. This is what I hear country-to-country all over the world, including the US and even Massachusetts! The GOOD news is that the conversations we are now having about the Knowledge Economy is developing the critical mass of leadership reflect on how we might better put ALL our resources to better use - human, technical and financial. Lots of people think throwing money at the issue is the answer; it is not. Ron Dvir: **** We are going to close the conversation officially in 5 minutes (but the chat room will remain open for those of us who want to continue). Can I invite each to tell us what you take from this conversation - new concept, idea or event action item? Edna Pasher: The answer is to look at the edge, to create conversations between teachers and parents and children and community out of which better education will emerge. Kendra Amidon: The younger generation is very sceptical that anything they say or think will actually be used or take form. It is an issue of trust. If they are involved and contribute and see someone else succeed and their ideas take form, they will be more willing to help in the future. It is a matter of gaining back a trust that society has taken from them...an awful big task if you ask me :o) Edna Pasher: I take the insights of Kendra and Maya - they are the youngest in the group :) Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: For me it was a nice wake-up call and return to the times when I enjoyed taking my mind on journey of open exploration. Debra Amidon: What I have discovered is that ALL roads seem to lead now to the Knowledge Economy. And discussions of the Knowledge Economy lead to EDUCATION. And dialogue about education inevitably focuses on youth...even “in the womb” - to quote an insight from one recent workshop in Al-Medinah, sponsored by Integrated Visions Group, the company funding the knowledge innovation zone initiative - www.inthekzone.com. And so, in the end...all roads lead to YOUTH (where we start THIS conversation). We MUST be on the right track now...Ron Dvir: The thing I take with me - the absolute critical need to help the youth fully use their creative powers. And action item - to communicate with Kendra and see how exactly she handled the dialogues with children she described earlier in the conversation. This will all help us in our work around "educational future images". Anne Jubert: I think that being open for innovation is a question of mindset more than of age. Edna Pasher: Kendra: this is very powerful! I agree. Some of us treat you as children in the bad sense of it when you are more capable than ourselves! Ron Dvir: ***Jacob, welcome but we are about to finish. Use the "transcript" bottom on top of window to see this conversation full transcript! Debra Amidon: Ron and Edna: This all ties beautifully with what the two of you have been managing with Futures Centres. How was your recent Netherlands trip> Anything to be posted somewhere... Jacob Jaskov: *** Ron, thanks. Anne just invited me in. Edna Pasher: It was a great exploration tour of 5 future centers. Ron has great pictures ! Kendra Amidon: It is like Ron said about the school systems teaching to the tests. Children are raised not to be creative and explore from a very young age. There are very few people that take assignments in school and get creative with them. They simply do EXACTLY what is assigned, but as time goes on and my peers have seen other people 'step out of the box' they are more willing to follow and do the same. The power of peer influence - pressure if you will - used for good can do amazing things. Debra Amidon: To quote my dear mentor and friend Thomas F. Malone – “We are at a historical choice point - a defining moment - in determining the kind of world our children's children will inherit. If we make these choices based only on the models of our industrial-age past, we will almost certainly miss the true opportunities before us.”Ron Dvir: **** Friends, as always, the power of conversation is incredible. We have created in one hour great body of ideas - just read the transcript. Thank you Debra for being our inspiring guest, and all for contributing so many good ideas. See you in the future (and the chat room remain open if you whish to continue). Edna Pasher: I need to say good bye. It was a great topic and a great conversation. I will think about it when I spend time with my grandchildren tomorrow! Thanks and CU soon! Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: This was great, I hope the dialogue continues now online. :) Anne Jubert: Thanks to Debra and Ron in particular for organising interesting conversations like this! Debra Amidon: And so, let this launch be the beginning of a dialogue - and an international one on that. We have several examples of practitioners - in the public and private sectors, and most significantly across sectors - are doing wonderful things in different parts of the world, many of which focus on children or youth in some significant way. I happen to believe that it is the same for our leaders. Maya Levin-Sagi: I will think about in the future when I have children (not the near future). Thanks, bye. Maya Levin-Sagi: Sorry- not in the future but FOR the FUTURE! Debra Amidon: Thank everyone for joining us and offering your insights and counsel. What fun to be sitting here with Kendra...maybe now we can stimulate that dialogue - WITH youth - we have been planning to do with the Junior E100. Now may be the time...and this might be the right purpose. Happy entovating...
Ron Dvir
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Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this story. Legal NoticeNumber of comments: 19 [Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 5-Aug-2005 MUTUAL PENETRATION WITH HISTORY (PART 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Eu Board members, Debra and all concerned with the health of this thread, please, do be free to delete this posting if you see it to be irrelevant to the aims of innovation you seek. This essay was part of a submission I gave to the SUFA reviews of 2002 and of 2005. SUFA is the link between all Canadian governments involved with the revamping and admistrations of the Canadian social safety net. http://www.socialunion.ca/news/020499_e.html MUTUAL PENETRATION WITH HISTORY History is generally understood by young people, as this boring academic chore required of them by the education system.The intent and purpose of the curriculum in teaching history, is to cultivate the relevancy of the past to the present, thereby preparing students in what provides them with the awareness of continuity.Because of such a low level of interest for history among students, a new approach could be tried. Instead of academically bringing the past to the present, why not equip each student with what is needed to explore the past, starting from their own personal present.By bringing the students to explore what brought about their own life, it will generate an ability for the in-depth look to understand their present, it will gradually connect their lives with the past and thereby will eliminate the irrelevancy. This method would motivate by inspiring as opposed to force-feeding the memory for the sake of the curriculum.Because of the state of the age which we live in locally and globally, anyone with noble concerns for education is aware of the massive need to heal the individual identity’s growth process, by tuning in the dynamics of inter-personal activity with reconciliation and co-operation. History of the whole human race is screaming to remind us of that.It doesn’t make much sense to teenagers to learn that their parents, teachers and governments are going on repeating history without any alternative being offered other than: “You live in the best country on earth, so don’t complain”, type of response.If the history curriculum were to bring together the sciences relevant to the healing of history such as sociology, psychology and all the way to psycho-neuro immunology, they could pave a path to develop the method from play school on, with the parents and child, and set the relevancy so as to bridge school solidly with home life.History classes would then become a time in school when one is given a chance to assemble the components of his or her existence, where one learns to assimilate each life experience in a maturing perspective of his or her life. It would develop the rationality from understanding the path of their own life and identity. (continue on next post)
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 5-Aug-2005 MUTUAL PENETRATION WITH HISTORY (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...By entering history in such a personal manner, school would evolve to provide a forum for the apprenticeship of communicating in the comfort of intimacy and in the confidence of trust. It would gradually lead the “I am” of each student into the relevancy between their life and the flow of history in the riverbed of time.Such a method could even become key to open the doors of the community, reaching out through the cultural and social walls of divisions, by entering the dimension where academic and practice find trust and harmony with each other. In practical terms, it would be the neutral ground to bridge and to complete the distance and the incompatibilities between home and community life.This approach also provides the opportunity to embark on a massive research and development movement into the human faculty of living. The faculty of living is the holy grail aimed at by all people of good will through out humanity’s history. It is the initial and final frontier of knowledge for the solemn beauty of being human to emerge. The faculty of living is what brings each individual to be penetrated and to penetrate the meaning of existence while providing guidance and nourishment to live in the state of justice, peace and joy.Historically, this faculty has been painfully growing through millenniums of dark, fearful and evil resistance on the part of those who hold on to knowledge, intellectually acquired, as opposed to spiritually acquired knowledge. Such resistance is present in all human beings and is responsible for the perpetuation of the never-ending power struggle and misery among humanity.The faculty of living is the healthy state of spiritual human living in all that it means and separated apart from all the lies that it never meant and yet, that are still upheld today in various forms.Destiny has designed Canada for our citizenship to express the solemn beauty of being human. This is, after all, what the ancient voice of humanity’s youth has been longing for throughout the ages, feeding and reverberating the growth of common sense.Yes, the history curriculum can indeed become a safe and yet potent tool for the authorities to cultivate our individual and collective growth into the stability of well-being.Given the good will and blessings enjoyed in Alberta and Canada, we could attain to the point where we begin the process to harness the lessons of the past and learn to live, with great contagion, in the solemn beauty of being human, answering the ancient voice of humanity’s youth enjoyed in the fluid health of common sense.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 5-Jul-2005 Here's a way to introduce my favoritesStay at home dad Benoit CoutureFACULTY of Living Healing the meaning!- Individual personal experience JOURNEY from BROWN to GREEN This title is the metaphor by which to extend an avenue for grasping and being grasped with the life that unfolds the times and activities of the cells from the moment they get to be captured by roots in the dirt of the human field of existance and transformed all the way to when the mature spiritual green experience brings one up to reproduce the seed and to spread the regenerative process in the eternal organic experience of unity. 2- Individuall social experience From staRdom to GLORY to STArSHINE: From the brightness and the black holes inner states of isolated stardom in the night of human physical nature to the united light of inner universal day by the regenerared shine on in the glow of the inner morning star. From competing to completing by growing in the consensus. Chris says: Any comments on how this open source blog evaluation of Clinton's World Congress is developing? What should be in or out? Chris, at the end of the level 3 systemisation it says: ..."whatever it is that went wrong with management theory/strategy in the West over the last few decades and was compounded by 80 quarters of knowledge’s spread sheeting." In economic terms, the compounding referred to has appeared in the time frame described as a "few decades" but in terms of human cost caused by the distortion of the truth and disservice to justice, we must now adapt in the scale of civilisations and planetary calibration that spans beyond our limited scales of time and geography of a few decades... (Read on to the next entry)...
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 5-Jul-2005 Part 2 of the aboveStay at home dad Benoit Couture...Also necessary, is the immediate development of a core community integrated consensus management to shape natural co-operative initiative teams. Here, I must give an explanation of how I see consensus to operate. The mistake with how I've seen this word used is to think that it means everyone agrees to the same thing. So no one in their right mind would go for that. Con means with. Sensus means direction. Heading in the same direction is what consensus means. Decision making by consensus means that the poles are identifies among the people's positions and the lining up of the axis between the poles' extremes sets the smooth equilibrium for the movement's orbit to be calibrated from. Consensus in not something to be reached. It is what we start from and it is the way we are sustained with. Serenity and unity get deployed, not achieved. The deceitful heart that lives on in each one of us, the wall of enmity that lives in the subliminal regions of our relationships and the tyranny of urgency live on to permanently challenge our resolve to sustain unity. Such is the initial battle to be taken on by anyone who so wishes to engage in the service of justice, love and freedom of humanity. From here on, simplicity is how victory rules from the quietning silence of patient wisdom and signs in the ancient voice of humanity's youth. STATE DEVELOPMENT A- HEALTH-EDUCATION-ENVIRONMENT The health trail from the individual acquisition of the taste for health to the family correctional circuiting rising with The Personal Sector by the Reconciliation Ministry growing into the Permanent People Summit B-INTERNAL DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT Monastic Family Habitat--Domestic Health Cultural and Sport Society C- EXTERNAL DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT Night time Padre made of the personel trained in Community Mental Health's Victory in the continuity of Restorative Justice Mature Canadiian=focal-local-global sojourner of the cleansing river
Debra Amidon , 4-Jul-2005 Depth, not dismissal...Debra AmidonBenoit (and others afraid to comment)... It seems more a matter of the scope and depth of your contributions on KnowledgeBoard that leave others a bit breathless. I have personal experience as a public school teacher - even convened the 1st classroom in the United States for perceptually handicapped children. My own daughter, Kendra (included in the transcript) attended the Rudolph Steiner (Waldorf) and Montessori schools as a child. It was wonderful traveling when she was young as she would attend the class in whatever country I was working. But in truth, the private education provided here a sphere of exploration not offered in most public schools. Now that I have drawn attention to the youth opportunity and we are exploring Knowledge Innovation Zones worldwide - www.inthekzone.com - I am finding that leaders are in agreement. All roads for the Knowledge Economy lead to education; and for most, our initiatives need to include a focus for K-12. I believe that we require an entire new mindset - philosophy, principles, policies and practices to drive a form of academic progress and performance not yet well articulated, never mind operationalized. Perhaps those who are listening to the post might offer their observations and insights as to what might be needed...and how to realize such an educational vision - much of which you outline below. What are the exemplar programs that might benefit from the thinking the child’s book is intended to stimulate?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 4-Jul-2005 Part 2 of: So you did not reject me?Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...In not doing so, we gradully remove most child from his or her very own personal rythm of knowledge acquisition for the sake of the curriculum's "nessecities". Development gets to be secured by the personal relating to knowledge. Therefore the decision we face ongoinly is to go on force feeding the memory with the curriculum or to open the shutters of natural learning between home and school, so as to take the lead by guiding each child into a relationship of finding how to adapt his or her personal rythm with the curriculum. The present retaline syndrome is the screeming symptom of humanity's childhood that says: Show me how to be, and stop making me beleive that I have to know first how to do so that I may have and then, I that'll make me become someone one day in the far, far off future. Our educating must release the beautification process of natural development of being. Give us the context to discover who my being has to offer so that who I am can bloom into what I am doing, in the pure joy of relating in the faculy of living!. Chris, you sound like one of the few who has been preserveved from the destruction of the curriculum by your natural and pure childish love of the mathematics. For me, mathematics have always been this dead gymnastics of memorizing, unrelated to anything alive and that forced me to sit and do what I hated. That was my experience of school. To relate or not to relate, that is the question, and everything of you that I have seen so far is for the sake of improving the experience of relating. And so, keep on loving the universal language of math sir, and may your dreams be released into the personal(local) and communal(global) reality of being humans of the eternal kind!
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 4-Jul-2005 So you did not reject me?Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Debra and all children lovers, it is Sunday evening at 20:48 and I only just noticed, 9 days later, that I had not been ignored and politely kicked out of this thread as I have been conditioned to, for so many years in my attempts to be heard. I feel quite awkward to be so late in finding out that you had mentioned me by name in the same breath as somethig positive. Please forgive me this delay. I am going to leave you with a posting I wrote a short while ago, to answer to Chris Macrae that has to do with childhood and tomorow, I'll come back with my spine back up, ready to answer you more acurately on you question: "What are my favorite example?" Thank you for being child like with me... Chris Macrae says: there's a missing curriculum at every age group; connects to systems and global and local, seeing the whole and future consequences not the past and bits; flows round what's good and pursposeul in human relationships not bad or imaged-over-reality Benoit: My whole thesis can be wrapped by saying: "The development of personal and communal relating must be secured first, and as relating grows, learning of the curriculum is a breeze." There is the nature of learning and there is the task of learning. Let's eliminate the task by rendering secure the joy of it. By the time one goes to school, he or she is usally equipped with the power of inter-action. As it is well known, most learning that will ever happen in one's life, is in the fisrt 3 to 5 years and I am sure that this is not the way we really are, but I must accept the evidence that our ignorance conditions us to lose the faculty of growing on throughout life. To be, to have, to do is the disposition of natural of development that secures perpetual learning capacities. Our adult driven system has insisted on the controls over learning and so for centuries of academia's uniformed approach, we find ourselves in a spinning wheel that sits me at 5 or 6 years old and conditions me into the thought that if I do this and that then I'll be able to have this and that and then, I'll become someone. Being someone is what the system of academic learning of ABCs and 1,2,3s does take away when we are very young by uniforming the teaching. That is why I insist to say that the essence of learning is to secure the impossibility of getting away from the personal and communal order of: "to be, to have, to do". (the end on next posting)
Debra Amidon , 25-Jun-2005 Knowledge-based benchmarking for BELIZE Knowledge, Science and Technology (BEST) Park Debra AmidonLet's start to generate as many GOOD examples that we can find where children are the focus of initiatives.One of my favorites can be downloaded: http://www.ic2.org/publications/best.print.11.18.pdf. The PICTURE alone is worth the price of (free) admission! Now, take a look at the international gallery of children we have begun - http://www.entovation.com/photo_gallery/photo_gallery.htm KB members are invited to offer their own BEST photographs of children from different cornerts of the world! I've already started to generate a list in the original workshop announcement - http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=140072. I believe that the insight gleaned from the postings of Benoit Couture are a wonderful, relevant beginning... What are YOUR favorite examples?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 24-Jun-2005 Youth and simplicity of the momentStay at home dad Benoit CoutureHi Debra and all, I just finished reading the script again to make sure I stayed in context and it made me noticed that in approaching you all, I did not put any emphasis that all I write from, is from the youth for which I had to fight all my life. The term I use for the last 10 years is the ancient voice of humanity's youth and the idea of trans-generational is to bridge 3 present generations in the brightness of solemn beauty of being human answering the ancient voice of humanity's youth in the fluid adaptation of common sense. The packaging of this idea comes in the image of a torch, ignited by the combustion of these 3 elements. To make sure that we do not create a cult out of anything, the torch is introduced with the humourous embodyment of wisdom by a character named: NAF TA which stands in this case for: North American Frog Terribly Apprehensive. I stronly feel that the trans-generational-trans-atlantic feedback loop I pro-mote serves like a glove to all the good ideas in the discussion above on youth, knowledge, innovation and collaboration for the multi-leveleconomies. of the knowledge economy. The words I use are to capture the imagination of the youth of all ages, accross 3 generation and where applicable, 4 and 5. Learnig to care for each other is the universal language. How do we deliver it in an infectous way to spread health and hapiness? That has been my question since 4 years old. My answer is the experience of unity. Nothing is more precious to any child of any age: To be relevant and inspired to go on being relevant. Another connection at that depth of presentation, is the fact that our daughter is part of the first generation of humans who are going to be outlived their parent with a degree of disability such as she lives with. The ignorance we face in all the good intention of professionalism that refuses to hear us out as parents is what keeps us tuned to the ancient voice of humanity's youth and seeking for common sense to defeat the old guard. Thank for bearing with my insistance.
Ron Dvir , 23-Jun-2005 Knowledge Innovation - possible formulaRon DvirAll,I am happy the transcript of "In search of innovation triggered this interesting conversation.My modest contribution to the issue of Knowledge Innovation:I NIMCube research & development project, we tried to explore links between innovation and reuse. We arrived at a simple formula, and since then I use it in various opportunities, and usually people find it useful:INNOVATION = [(reuse of existing knowledge) + (INVENTION of new knowledge) X (EXPLOITATION). And usually I found that the third component is the more tricky and hard to handle one...
Debra Amidon , 23-Jun-2005 Invention and Innovation - Back to Youth...Debra AmidonKnowledge Innovation for our community - and as ever increasingly evidenced in other networks worldwide - is the term that advances the concepts beyond knowledge management. In fact, the evolution of the term (from the mid 1980’s) comes from technology transfer, to technology exchange onto knowledge management and then knowledge exchange to knowledge innovation which includes (as a systems dynamic of human interactions) of (a) knowledge creation (i.e., invention) through (b) conversion (e.g., into products and services) and (c) commercialized (i.e., value is created from the flow of the knowledge). In short, knowledge-creation and invention are the 1st phase in the process of innovation; but now we know that innovation is not R&D, nor is it just creativity. Yes, Drucker was the one who said innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. So, the focus ought to be on the FULL innovation process - not just creation or even knowledge-sharing. Even Ikujiro Nonaka has agreed with me on this one...and his concepts of ‘Ba’ are closely aligned to knowledge innovation as it has been defined. Most important and relevant now for our purposes is that the concept applies to all economic levels - micro- (enterprise or organization), meso- (national economy) and macro-economic (societal). I am not sure, but perhaps the description on the site might help: http://www.entovation.com/innovation/knowinno.htm. Now, we are beginning to see the real evidence of the concept being innovated through a multiplicity of cross-boundary efforts - within organizations, nations and across regions of the world. Our most recent E100 Alert provides an update: http://www.entovation.com/mailing/june2205.htm. But shall we get back to the essence of the transcript and the discussion of youth - and how to involve them in the innovation process, which was the intent of the book. I’d really like to hear the insights and suggestions of others rather than assessing the relative merits of one type of verbiage or another. The notion is about innovation process and how we might best get ideas more effectively realized...and leveraged.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 23-Jun-2005 here's another strike of the match, to ignite the vision...Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureTRANS-ATLANTIC-TRANS-GENERATIONAL(t-a-t-g) INVITATION TO FLOWCALIZE FROM BROWN TO GREEN. I know, I know, it's a long title. "But the sea is wide, and I cant swim over..." Well Kerry, Andrius, Therese, Frank, friends of Europe and Americas and eventually to all continents, the winds are sown and the music is released for the feedback loop to catch on to play out in the socio-cultural experience of spiritual unity, by capturing the attention, by harnessing the energies of misunderstangings and frustration and by deploying the alliance of restorative justice and community mental health. To help, here is what you need to know. The Green party represents the ideal needed to be aimed for and they are in over 70 countries. Rational understanding of governance makes it obvious that the Green party of Canada can be a possitive voice of conscience, but not a governing alternative. The old way of doing things is too deeply entrenched and the policies are still being debated with no end of debates in sight. What the Greens do have is an appeal with those who are young at heart and those who dont like politics but who understand that we can not live without it. That spells out a large majority in most democracies of the world and therefore the connection from person to person. The solution for big changes now, is therefore to bring forward a plan for the Greens ideals to be put in focus to gain the complete support of community health in the freedom of justice and serenity, without having to win the office of government. The office of citizen is at stake in Europe and every where else. That is where the need and the stregth of leadership is being awaited for by masses of people. By clarifying the definition of citizenship, we will reach the shores of citizenhood, meaning shall fall in tune with living and our existance shall flow in the local energy of green blossoms in the youth of a thousand summers. So please, feel free to help democracy outgrow authorities of immaturity, by generating feedback in the t-a-t-g citizen unity. Send an invitation or many, in the name of Eupope citizens to this address: [email protected] and tell them to go to this address: http://lp.greenparty.ca/tiki-index.php?page=my+social+philosophy&bl One other easy way to help in Europe is to tell people: "Have you read from Benoit Couture on Google?" I'll handle the heat from there, in my office of citizen, of tax payer and of voter, so that the alliance gets forged in the dignity of sanctity between restorative justice and community mental health, from the bottom to the top. Thanks, and let the enjoyment of deployment begin... Benoit Couture
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 23-Jun-2005 Knowledge discoveryStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDenham, in music there is a say: "Nothing new gets created in music, omly re-arranged". Another say is that "every good invention is 1%inspiration and 99% perspiration". The greatest innovation of open source km will be to facilitate the decision making enjoyment of the whole 1% and 99% together, in the sharing and investing in one another's well being and wellfare. So again, we are back at the basics of relationships, communication and civility. One main theme I hammer on is to see open source km to focus at helping humanity to build the recovery road from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government. Does that answer a little?
Denham Grey , 23-Jun-2005 Knowledge innovation?Denham GreyDebra, How is this related to knowledge creation and invention and what then is the critical distinction that makes knowledge innovation such a useful concept?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 22-Jun-2005 I am in the middle of innovating with knStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, For the last 2 months, I have come to know open sourde km. In that language, it can be said that I am surfing on the mission to deploy the connection from virtual to reality. This seems to be the consensus as to what we are looking for quite specifically in this thread. How do we spark it up? is the question we all want to innovate. These 2 months with km have allowed me to take my microscopic work and to difuse it globaly while becoming aware and partipant of the trigger that's bringing a beautiful live, spontanious neuron connection at the most intimate depth of each one's being. I wrote yestreday: "The time is here and now upon us to accept or to reject the opening disciplines of knowledge management in the organic source of spiritual unity. We are granted the opportunity of being knowledgeable by relating justly from beyond teaching, so that the understanding we do receive is hosted in the serene surroundings of completion in truth from love, not from striving efforts nor coersions of competition. Truth and love embody the Faculty of eternal living (or absolute present)...and the just shall live by faith in the communion of the spirit. "Each indeed is holy in the light of love" fron Jon and Vangelis album Private collection. For me, so far, this collective spontanious connection to global innovation has become: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A4235195 Are we ready to facilitate journey from essence of microscopic globalizing. I propose to infuse democracy with a treatment of "flowcalizing". (focal-local-flowing)
Gillian Bush , 22-Jun-2005 another 3c's and 5 c's of transformative innovationMs Gillian BushThat's interesting Debra because the large scale system innovation community/alumni assembled around Harrison Owen (Open space) uses a facilitator’s 3C's - Conflict, Chaos, Confusion. Admittedly this is a cultural model where it is assumed that much of the value is not about inventing a thing but sustaining a simpler order of human relationship integrity fit for networking and transparently webbing. Whence 5C's Complexity, Culture, Conflict, Chaos, Confusion. Higher order conflict resolution as the main sustainable innovation of leadership and collaborative respect for diversity is also advanced by Trompenaars and Hampden-Tailor. references to PoP...ThT
Debra Amidon , 22-Jun-2005 The 3C's of Innovation: Creation, Conversion and CommercializationDebra AmidonThere are many views (and indeed, facets) of innovation. In our own research - even as of a few years ago - we had tracked dozens of definitions. Ten of them can be found: http://www.entovation.com/innovation/10definitions.htm. If you need the others, let me know. Basically, they fall into 2 categories: (1) those who consider invention separate from the process of innovation; and (2) those - as do we - who consider invention and integral part of the process of innovation. It matters not your philosophy as long as you begin to consider innovation (i.e., Knowledge-Creation, Knowledge-Conversion and Knowledge-Commercialization) as an integrated series of (human) interactions within an innovation process. Your own perception - and certainly similar to many others - is of the techno-based innovation. Our view is of knowledge innovation - an advancement beyond even the progressive views of knowledge management and certainly technology transfer. This is the view now rapidly taking hold because of the leadership of so many knowledge practitioners - across sectors, industries and even regions of the world. The common language and shared vision is emerging...and rapidly.
Denham Grey , 22-Jun-2005 Innovation or knowledge creationDenham GreyI find the concepts innovation and knowledge creation to be closely linked - often wonder how to articulate the distinction. InnovationDiscovering something new, something with utility and oftentimes closely connected to gadets, processes, efficiency, speed, effectiveness. Knowledge creationApproaching closer to understanding, meaning and thoughtful actions. Seems you can create new knowledge with little invention, e.g. by sharing and experiencing, but innovating and inventing always involves knowledge creation. What do you think?
Denham Grey , 19-Jun-2005 Discovering innovationDenham GreyIn my experience, innovation is indeed a very social activity - mostly depends on your network, social capital, connections and less and less on individual qualities, characteristics or traits. Partly this is because we live in a very connected world, but like knowledge itself, innovation requires verification and adoption to be recognized, to pass the tripping point and to deliver utility. One paragraph removed after request by thread owner and with the approval of commenter). For more information, please contact the thread ownerDiscovery and development of new knowledge is clearly where the KM movement needs to focus going forward. Here is where we deliver the greatest value and make our unique contribution to business practices.
Call for ideas - KM Europe 2005 – The Fringe Track
Call for ideas - KM Europe 2005 – The Fringe TrackThe preparations for the KM Fringe track in Knowledge, Content and Collaboration (KCC) Europe 2005 (November 7-8, Amsterdam) have started. We are looking for ideas for sessions and activities – that will make this 2 days track really a great Fringe event. The event is done in collaboration with ARK group, the organiser of KCC Europe. (update: 03 August 2005): Entry to our two day Fringe event will cost only 75 EUR. Fringe attendees will be able to enter the expo and the social areas of the main KCC event without paying the full conference fee. There is no budget to pay workshop hosts - sorry, but there is no budget for that. This will not offer Fringe attendees a chance to enter the formal conference tracks nor will Fringe attendees get the free lunch - those will cost the full conference price of 865 EUR. (end of update 03 August 2005) For more information on the event, read the KCC website.Wanted: · Ideas on the KM Fringe track structure.· Ideas for short and long sessions (anything between 15 minutes to 3 hours)· Ideas for activities during the coffee breaks, lunch time, after and before the conference, in the actual place and virtual· Ideas for how to design the physical space (well, I am not sure what is feasible, but we can try)· Ideas on any other aspect you find relevant to the KM Fringe track What do we mean by "fringe"?Well, each of you will understand it differently. 1. Perhaps is it about focusing on controversial issues? 2. Perhaps about issues which are at the edge of KM? 3. perhaps it is about the media – maybe dancing and playing the message rather then showing a PowerPoint presentations?4. circumstances that allow us to be individuals and humans while interacting, not make us be passive consumers of information thrown at us?5. Or perhaps fringe means....So come with your strange ideas. Tell us your idea(s) – * what is the idea? * How would the session look like? * Why is it a “Fringe” session? * Are you interested in conducting it yourself? * Recommending somebody else for the job? Enter your idea here by adding a comment until 5 August 2005 or Email it to: mailto:[email protected] The KM fringe track team will review and select the ideas and build the two days track program. The KM fringe track teamTon, Sami, Patricia, Chris, Michal, Edna, Mounib, Martin, Ron
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Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this story. Legal NoticeNumber of comments: 25 Troy Rice , 07 August 2005 @ 10:47 AM sounds great-John Cristina all Have always liked an idea of extreme innovations bank; something the net could be great at if only all ideas filtered up into one central clearing house; also the thread on stories of exceptional inventions still to see the public light, seems an easy one to set up with a 10 minute flip, and then sit back and listen to people's greatest innovation contexts and passions
John Curran , 06 August 2005 @ 11:48 AM Ideas Market FormatMr John CurranFollowing up on Cristina's comment I attended an excellent conference for a number of years (when I ran a Technical Authoring company) which was based on the concept of an 'Ideas Market'. In one single, largish space facilitators would stand by a flipchart and introduce their topic. Participants could then circulate and drop-in on the sessions that most interested them. If they got boed or were interested in checking something else out they just moved on. For particularly busy sessions the facilitator and participants could agree to form a 'Breakout Session' where they would go to a separate (normally quieter) space to follow-up with more detail or agree to create some sort of action. Sounds a little chaotic I know - but it worked really well - and very fluidly (to echo Cristina's comment).
Cristina Cerulli , 05 August 2005 @ 12:27 PM Fringe format - PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTDr Cristina Cerulli FRINGE FORMATI think all the sessions within the fringe should have at least an element that is very loosely structured, to allow informal interactions to occur. A good format could be the ‘hub’ where a short [10 min] introduction to frame the topic is given by the session organizers/owners and it is followed by discussion. Discussion could be structured [e.g. trying to answer a set of carefully thought of questions] or not.The introductions to various seminars could be timed not to overlap so people can move around and decide which hub to engage with. PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTIt should be at least aesthetically pleasing [a very subjective notion, I know!].It should also support the sessions’ format and enhance it. In the case of the ‘hub’ format suggested above, for instance, the physical space would be totally flexible and re-configurable to allow fluid movement from one hub to the other and to support the emergence of unforeseen interactions amongst ‘hubs’My partners at Marameo [www.marameo.co.uk] and I would be happy to [help with the] design the space. I can foresee a limited budget, but we can be very resourceful and creative.
Cristina Cerulli , 05 August 2005 @ 12:08 PM KM in Project Based EnvironmentsDr Cristina Cerulli I'd be interested in a session on KM in Project Based Environment. My experience mainly relates to the UK construction industry and it would be vey useful/helpful to discuss/share/compare it with other experiences of KM in other project based domains [or in construction industry in other countries].The session should have a format that allows discussion and informal exchanges. I'd be happy to [co]run and/or organize the session.
John Curran , 04 August 2005 @ 18:33 PM ARK PlansMr John CurranThose in the know tell me that.. Ark haven't quite gone live with the 75 Euro Fringe option (no mention yet on the KCC web site) - but a programme is in preparation. Entrance to the expo (exhibition) and the 'social side' is free but only conference participants get a free lunch (and my Dad always told me that there was no such thing as a 'free lunch' - clearly he was wrong)!
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 04 August 2005 @ 12:38 PM Lining up song maybe?Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Ron, Andy and Jonh, is it conceivable to open up an invitation to attract critical mass by asking people for entries to put a list of "songs to dance in context". Perhaps a combination of the most relevant tunes of Live8 along with songs of the past, from artists who were made very famous for the market's convinience but who were ignored for trying to warn their fans on certain perceptions of realy that they were forced to experience by the same market forces. My 2 suggestions for such a list are: Song title: Surrender. Artist: Jon Anderson Album title: Animation from 1982. In fact, I suggest to the administration of the EU Board to consider inviting "Cirque du Soleil" to take on the "spontanious act of the Fringe" with such a meaningful artistic possibility of exposure. To them and to the Fringe it is a win-win opportunity, with very little risk involved. My second suggestion is the song title: Amused to death. Artist: Roger Waters, Album title: Amused to death 1991-92. Why do I think that the Cirque du Soleil might be interested? Because of the history of its birth. The owner, Guy Laliberte was on the streets of Montreal, with street performers when the most famous politician of the day walked by during an election campaign. Guy challenged the politician that if elected in power, to consider funding a first event so that he could demonstrate the true talent "out there on the fringe of street talents". The political man agrred and he went on to be elcted to power from his own fringes, representing an idea, old of a few centuries, of a Sovereign French jurisdiction within the English Commenwealth. The fringes politician kept his word and the fringes of the Montreal streets became the universal home for some of the world's street talents to permanetly spread inspiration around the planet and to remind the powers that be where true value lies!.
John Curran , 04 August 2005 @ 11:48 AM Getting People to Sign-UpMr John CurranI'm currently considering attending just for the Fringe event, and also the expo. But to make it worthwhile we do need enough participants. How can we book for the Fringe and when will we know when numbers reach critical mass? My guess is that full conference participants will also be interested in attending some of the Fringe events. Will they have to pay an extra charge to do this or will their conference fee cover Fringe attendance? Providing the Fringe achieves this critical mass then I am happy to help present/facilitate a session. I'd probably favour a 'simulation' and also the 'knowledge workers handbook' (with Piers). See earlier posts below.
Ron Dvir , 03 August 2005 @ 20:21 PM re. Andy and Arup ideas - open space, dancing, flowers....Ron Dvir Andy, thanks for the idea for the open space session on the Knowledge challenges related to aging population. I think that open space technology is a must-have in a fringe track – as by definition it enables the conversations and shared exploration to emerge naturally with the interests of the participants. So, I hope we will perhaps have several open space sessions.Arup –great idea on dancing during one (or more) of the breaks. Are you interested to organize it and make it happen? Regarding your ideas on having a space that is not only full of interesting conversations but also looks nice – you are absolutely right. We need to think of the most simple things e.g. flowers and – what else?
Andy Boyd , 28 July 2005 @ 11:17 AM A Knowledge Capture open space sessionAndy BoydLooking at the Issue of the 'Big Crew Change' - an aging work population and a sharp increase of the retirements due to the baby boomers over the next 10 years. I would like to host a session where we explore strategies, processes, ideas and experiences of capturing knowledge and experience from experts, and passing it over to new people, before the experts retire. Shell and the Telematica Instituut are interested in this topic and are in principle keen to facilitate such a session, probably utilising the open space process. Andy BoydKnowledge Manager Shell Global Solutions International BVCarel van Bylandtlaan 23, The Hague P.O. Box 541, 2501 CM The Hague, The Netherlands
Chris Macrae , 23 July 2005 @ 10:41 AM labouring with more difficulties than need beMr Chris MacraeLondoners would of course love it if the Fringe could help with any way of developing our view of knowledge collaboration cities - see the first 3 references in this million bookmark search Because of wilful obstruction of freedom of speech in some quarters new content and file uploads are diffciult and laborious on my time for me to make at this time, so my 2 main threads that flow across fringes and collaboration knowledge cities within KB would appear to be here & here Chris Gravity 200 & Clubs of Bristol & London & of Collaboration Cities
arup dasgupta , 21 July 2005 @ 17:50 PM fun filled forecasts for fringe SESSIONSarup dasguptaDURING THE BREAK T FEEL WE SHOULD HAVE A SURPRISE DANCE SHOW WHEREIN SOME PEOPLE WILL BE ASKED TO DANCE WHILE GIVING REPLIES TO DIFFERENT QUERIES ON FUNNY MATTERS IN RELATION TO KM.I THINK THE PLACE SHOULD BE COLOURFUL AND SHOULD HAVE BEAUTIFUL POTRAITS OF SECNIC BEAUTY.I WOULD LOVE TO BE AMEMBER OF THE ORGANISING TEAM. PLS LET ME KNOW AS TO HOW I CAN BE OF FURTHER HELP.SINCE I ENJOY DOING EVENT MANAGEMENT I WOULD LOVE TO BE A PART OF IT.
Gillian Bush , 21 July 2005 @ 17:38 PM sounds goodMs Gillian Bushthanks for clarifying which Fringe Track we want to be on; I am still a bit puzzled about the name change away from KM Europe (web's and its contents gone?) and the apparent split of communities that the name change may add to but echo John's call that we try and inform the whole community...the snailmail postcard of this conference that I have seen is quite difficult to construe but maybe they haven't mailed it out to their whole mailing list
John Curran , 21 July 2005 @ 15:26 PM Fringe PricingMr John CurranI for one will be happy to attend the fringe event if it is priced realistically - 75 euros seems fine to me. Let's get the message out though or we won't have many people!
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 21 July 2005 @ 15:06 PM Personal and communal Summit Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureIs this fringe enough? Embry of a Bill for the Ministry of Reconciliation INTRODUCTIONSince the United Nations adopted a list of illegal drugs in 1948, there has been a systematic deployment of a confrontation, which has developed into the war on drugs. It goes on, being perpetuated in the fields of addictions, at the expense of the public purse, spreading its confrontational damages over two generations now, through out the earth. As a result, there is ongoing multiplication of the confrontations amongst families, neighbours, communities and nations. The costs to individual and communal peace are perpetuating the state of cultural and social divisions such, that the human and the economic costs have gone on spiralling in the wrong direction. This vicious circle has decayed democratic societies from the inside out and keeps the doors wide open to the entity of terror-anti-terror to feasting off all sides at the same time, for the benefit of the very, very few. Governments and the people must join forces to transfer all resources that are going into the war on drugs and to invest them into the individual and communal victory over stress and compulsive behaviours. Motion of the Bill for the Ministry of Reconciliation “WE the citizens of Canada and of all Nations who care to join, declare our resolution to endorse and to move with our resources from out of the war on drugs and to deploy ourselves with our resources, into the victory over stress and compulsive behaviours. We do so to provide to individuals, families and the communities of the member Nations, with the common ground and with the framework to set in motion The Ministry of Reconciliation. The Ministry of reconciliation is the instrument by which we, the people of the participating Countries, take on the right we have, to fulfil our needs to host, to develop and to deploy the Faculty of Living with our tax money that now go in the war on drugs. The itinerary of the motion is to secure the passage from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government. I -----------, hereby pledge my personal interest into the Ministry of Reconciliation, to establish and to deploy the victory over personal and community stress and compulsive behaviours, in the simplicity of good health and happiness.” Signed: -------------- Date: ---------------- Address: -------------- Ph # -----------------
Ron Dvir , 21 July 2005 @ 11:31 AM ideas, open nature of the track and feesRon Dvir Hi All,Jeffery – thanks for your idea on Idea Management. John – thanks for your idea on business simulation. Piers – thanks for your idea on Creating "The Effective Knowledge Worker Handbook" (and to John Curran who suggested to join this initiative).Nazar – thanks for your idea on Business Process Management as a Knowledge Acquisition Tool. All sound fascinating and different from the usual staff. We got several ideas also through emails. The event team will draft the program based on the many contributions and contact each proposer. Regarding Gillian and Martin comment on the open nature of true fringe events and the conflict of this concept with the call of ideas and pre-planned program and selection process: very true dilemma, and we will need to find a solution. For example: Perhaps one day open (e.g. open space and similar methods) and one day pre-planned. Regarding confusion on fees – yes, the plan was that participation of KM fringe will be priced on a minimal cost basis, and the assumption was that many of the KM fringe participants will be interested in this event – and not interested to participate in the more expansive main stream. The range of 75 Euros (more or less) was discussed with Ark. I will contact them to see if there is any change and to ask that it will be published.
Martin Röll , 21 July 2005 @ 10:23 AM KM Europe vs KCC. Martin Röll Gillian, when we (the "fringe track" people) started thinking about the fringe event, we (or at least I) assumed that KM Europe would be continued in 2005 as it was in the last years, where it was free to attend the event and only some keynotes required a fee. It was a large gathering of KM people and therefore a natural place to run KnowledgeBoard events. I can only speak for me personally and not for the rest of the fringe team, but I do not want to support a Knowledgeboard Fringe Event at a business conference like "KCC" now seems to become. Working together with KM Europe was based on the event's openness: Like to KnowledgeBoard, anyone could come to KM Europe when he was interested in Knowledge Management. I think the cooperation was worthwile for both sides: KM Europe helped us to have a space and time to bring people together. In return, we helped KM Europe provide more value to the visitors. But now? What is the additional value for KnowledgeBoard to do a Fringe event at an €800 business conference? KM Europe had hundreds of participants - how many will come to KCC? And what about the students, the researchers, the businesspeople and the others, that are neither interested in Content Management (which seems to be the new focus of the event) nor willing or able to pay 800 Euros to attend an event like this? If we want to provide a "fringe event", we should look for an event, which many people from our community attend to. KM Europe used to be this event. But I doubt KCC will be it. We should look for a better alternative.
Gillian Bush , 21 July 2005 @ 08:19 AM knowledgewalk EuropeMs Gillian BushFor three years now, quite a few of us have been talking about the need for an annual knowledge walk. The catch 22 is that you can a hire hall for several hundred knowledge fans to open space and walk with their own 2 feet if you know that at leat 100 will turn up at the same place for the same 2 days at a ticket process of 50 Euros per person. But to do that you need the medium of a deeply connecting community space that announces that throughout the year ane reherses the topics people want to include in the market of conversations. True networking of the most active and learning kinds comes back to trust in the identity of a virtual forum as being KM for all people who want to explore progress as opposed to a handful of institutes trying to control the spaces where people converse. It may be ironical that the diversity of KM across 25 countries or the world comes back to transparency of what a few people are actually intent on controlling or commercialising. I think it is also worth knowing the case of what is probably the most famous Fringe of all - the Edinburgh culture festival. Edinburgh's festival started as Scotland's high art festival for top people. Then youth and people who wanted art to be a way the people could connect in all diversity came along and staged more and more events around the official calendar. These days about 10 times more people go to Edinburgh for the free and experimental knowledge's living theatre of the Fringe than the costly and formal performances, excellent as these may be for the upper classes of the art world. The buzz of all lively festivals seems to be with the fringe's determination of annual renewal and self-organising, its open curiosity, adpativity rather than the planners choice of what is best. I wonder which side of my view the KM fringe track team members are on, and how much they know of Ark's intent.
John Curran , 20 July 2005 @ 14:56 PM KME morphs into KCCMr John CurranUnlike KME, KCC is a fully 'paid for' event. Cost is £595. This seems steep for a conference which has struggled to maintain sufficient interest. KME was always critised for its polarisation between systems centric KM and people centric KM. KCC seems to be even more systems centric - a not unexpected outcome now that it covers CM and 'collaboration' as well as KM. I was intending on being there but I'm not sure that I can justify the cost. Maybe I should just attend the 'fringe' event? Is that possible? How does KnowledgeBoard feel about the new structure? The most depressing aspect of the whole thing is Ark's attempt to blatantly capture market intelligence via a survey on the KCC website. In their own words: "Ark Group has decided to leverage its unique position at the heart of Europe’s information-management community to compile the most thorough and far-reaching survey of information, knowledge and content managers ever undertaken. Not only do the results of this survey highlight the future direction of collaborative working but this industry intelligence is the backbone of this years KCC Europe programme. Canvassing the opinions of more than 200,000 information-management professionals has enabled us to bring you an event that matches exactly the IM community's needs and requirements These results will represent pan-European industry-intelligence of a scale and depth never before seen and they will be revealed at KCC Europe forming the centrepiece of the conference programme." A quick look at the survey, which runs to only 13 questions, makes this last statement seem completely implausible. Note also that the venue has changed.
Gillian Bush , 20 July 2005 @ 00:42 AM kmeurope 2005Ms Gillian BushIs this year's general attendance free or pay for this year?
John Curran , 15 July 2005 @ 10:56 AM Knowledge Worker HandbookMr John CurranThis is something I'm also interested in doing - currently writing a book at the moment on Smartworking - effectively a handbook for knowledge workers. Would be good to explore what knowledge work means to people at KME. Piers - we met briefly at KME last year - I'm happy to do something with you.
Ton Zijlstra , 15 July 2005 @ 09:47 AM Thanks for the input sofarTon ZijlstraHi guys, thanks for the input sofar. Also feel free to have a look at the wikipage the fringe-team have been using to collect thoughts and ideas in the past weeks: Link to the wiki
Nazar Rasheed , 14 July 2005 @ 20:37 PM Business Process Management as a Knowledge Acquistion ToolMr. Nazar RasheedThe term Business Process Management (or BPM) refers to a set of activities which organizations can perform to either optimize their business processes or adapt them to new organizational needs. Although it can be said that organizations have been performing BPM for some time, a new impetus has been given to the theme with the advent of software tools (business process management systems or BPMS) which allow for the direct execution of the business processes without a costly and time intensive development of the required software. In addition, these tools can also monitor the execution of the business processes, providing the management of an organization the means to analyze their performance and make changes to the original processes with the aim of improving them. Using the BPMS the modified processes can then be quickly placed into operation. Another important aspect of BPM is its use as a Knowledge acquisition tool; Most organisation today lack a consolidated view of the knowledge that is scattered within the various systems, and in their employees head. The idea is to present this topic and than to demonstrate, using the latest software technology on how this knowledge acquistion can be achieved, through live hands-on practical examples.
Piers Young , 14 July 2005 @ 19:18 PM Creating "The Effective Knowledge Worker Handbook"Mr Piers Young* What is the idea? Organisations are beginning to have to adopt increasingly devolved management structures in many areas of their business in order to cope with rapid change. For that to work, there needs to be a core trust in the "basic training" of individual knowledge workers on the frontline. The aim of the workshop is to explore what sort of basic training organisations need knowledge workers to have, and begin to develop a Knowledge Worker Handbook. * How would the session look like?A short introduction (5-10 minutes) to why organisations should have a Knowledge Worker Handbook, followed by an hour or so long open-space session, as we did last year for the PKM strand. The main teaser questions I had in mind were: Who's the most effective knowledge worker you know? Why? How could you train someone else to be like that? What are your worst knowledge work habits? What effect do they have? How could you avoid them? How did you learn how to do knowledgework? Do you think you're any good at it? There'll be wiki support, where people can add ideas before, during and after. [I started a very sketchy one over at wiki.knowledgenetworker.net, which others have added a little to - I'd envisaged building on that.] * Why is it a “Fringe” session? Currently, there seems to be very little work on what key processes everyone doing knowledge work should be good at. It's easy(ish) to say whether you are a knowledgeworker or not, but much harder to know whether the way you go about your knowledge work makes any sense. Knowledge work has a halo of sorts, being bound up as it is with creativity, epistemology and emotions etc. As a result, being a better knowledgeworker is often seen as purely personal (PKM) or purely group oriented (CKM), and relating mainly either to the tools to support either approach or to more slippery, human concepts such as trust. The fringe aspect here is the contention that organisations *can* and *should* give people basic training in Knowledge Work that is oriented to both the individual and the group and both tools and your brain. The challenge is to work out what that training manual should contain. * Are you interested in conducting it yourself? Yes * Recommending somebody else for the job?Would welcome a couple of partners in crime.
John Curran , 14 July 2005 @ 13:15 PM Knowledge Business SimulationsMr John CurranWhat about an interactive business simulation which focuses on the role of knowledge within organisations? With my colleagues from the European Knowledge Group we could run an open event that people could drop in and out of during the course of the day - swapping roles as appropriate. We would use one of the Celemi simulations - possibly Apples & Oranges or TangoNet. This is definitely NOT a presentation but a truly interactive experience - user involvement required to build the most successful knowledge business!
Jeffrey Baumgartner , 14 July 2005 @ 12:52 PM Workshop proposal: campaign based idea managementMr. Jeffrey Baumgartner I propose doing a workshop on idea management - specifically the campaign based model. The workshop would be a look at the various models of idea management (e-mail, suggestion box, idea pool, campaign), their advantages and disadvantages. It would then look at how to model and manage an ideas campaign. As a follow up, I could set up an on-line ideas campaign on a specific issue of interest to the participants. This could continue for a period after the event. Idea management is on the fringe of KM. But rather than capturing and managing knowledge, it is about capturing and managing ideas. Idea management uses some of the structures of knowledge management, but also uses some of its own structures. I believe this workshop could be interesting to mainstream KM pros who may be able to apply a variation of the campaign approach to mainstream KM. I am indeed interested in conducting it myself. For more information on idea management, please visit http://www.jpb.com/ideamanagement/. Jeffrey Baumgartner
What would attract you to join a cross-industry community of European business innovation practicioners?
Organizations don't innovate - people do. We keep meeting some great individuals that have a passion to transform their organizations. After organizing a couple of events in Poland where a lot of positive energy was created through the knowledge exchange, I am wondering what could be done to connect those efforts on an international level, and create a community of Business Innovators - innovationg products, processes and business models.Would you like to join?What would be your expectations and aspirations?Do you know any similar organizations or some local associations that could connect across Europe and beyond? We will be soon organizing a seminar in Poland with people from Norway, Italy, Ukraine, UK, USA - you might want to join us then (www.innovatika.com/innovationdays). If you can't but are still interested - please let us know. Tomasz Rudolf
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Benoit Couture , 14 August 2005 @ 17:03 PM
The mandate of an entire Province was voted to do just that
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Because Alberta, Canada is now debt free, the Premier and his team of MLAs were re-elected in Nov. 2004 to seek out the expertise from all the world and to now prepare for the future, when there will no longer be any oil revenues. 20 years left they figure. Health, education and the environement have gathered the support democratically, to be the priorities to be preserved and improved upon. The promise is also made to make of the Province, the most online jurisdiction of the world. Is there a possibility to link Alberta and Poland? There certainly is a very vibrant Polish community in Edmonton at: http://www.abheritage.ca/albertans/index.html
Let the heart of John Paul II live on in the simplicity that took him to spread the beauty of Poland to the earth.
Hi Thomasz,
This sounds really interesting and I strongly support the idea of connencting experts on an international level. I'm wondering if the announced event has already taken place. If so, it would be great if you could provide the community with further information.
Thanks
Martin,
Selling knowledge is difficult - why?
* Any deep knowledge exchange requires trust, social capital and relationship for effective transfer & flows
* Knowledge is very context dependent, a small change in the external environment can change the utility of the knowledge greatly
* Most knowledge is intangible, tacit and personal - hard to explicate, wrap, package, describe and promote
* Knowledge is very closely tied to identity, reputation and needs dialog to emerge and be formed. This makes it problematic to deliver without contact and interaction.
* Knowledge is mostly a social agreement on what is important useful, works, or worthwhile. Knowledge then quickly degrades without a community to keep it 'alive', relevant and verified.
'Hard' knowledge in the form of patents, contracts and copyright are subject to ever shortening 1/2 lives and the maket value (e.g. established by bidding) is only a snapshot in time and unlikely to remain stable for long as needs and players change.
So 'selling' knowledge is a difficult and intractible problem IMO.
Thoughts??
Knowledge is mostly a social agreement on what is important useful, works, or worthwhile.
The core lies in
Who has power to decide what is important useful, works, or worthwhile.
What are values (a part of their knowledge) of powerful decision makers when they decide to invest money in/buy something
Benoit Couture , 15-Aug-2005
Selling of knoledge=protection of command and control
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Here's a line from a song about aboriginal people, from a French Canadian singer: "..if they are now sick and ignorant, it wasn't for free, they had to pay for that. Paul Piche"
When we speak of the history of Eupopean colonization around the world, we speak of the days when the dark age ended and then began to fleurish the import amd export of people, goods and knowledge. I go back this far to show that what we call market is in fact the very handling of knowledge. Because of the competitive and warring nature of humans, knowledge protection became more important than the sharing of it. The danting task is now to gain the trust of those entire civilizations who have been oppressed by these knowledge institutions of command and control so that the information age can find a way to massively attract intelligence to buy its way out of the dark age that such market is causing. Awareness and recovery of what defaces the beauty of so many's time and health, is the focus needed to be invested in by all discipline of expertise. A refining process to depolute the minds is nesseacery because of the fact that good health and time are the most precious commondities. Buying and selling knowledge is determined by how to haddle and to invest ourselves, in the good care of continuity. A market that goes on using its knowledge to build war machines and poisonous self-destruction in the name of fun and leisure, is not a good thing to buy in.
What are the sources of fear?
What are the sources of fear? Fear's HomePageChris MacraeAll culturally healthy converssations involve iteration and recursion- a community that does not know that isn't worth living in let alone lurking in DISTINCTIVE PERSPECTIVES· Beyond the rosy spectacle view of innovation, the transformation school stresses that innovation involves a social process of leading people through conflict barriers. It's possible that thing-inventions may not involve conflict-guiding but all knowledge-living innovations will.· Know the innovation barometer around you: is this a hi-innovation time for people and societies around you? Does your most unique objective in life involve hi-innovation? If so, who and what spaces will you trust to rehearse your innovation barriers with? · The biggest picture of knowledgeboard: the most open professional space on the net for succeeding in network age transformation involves as hi-innovation as localities worldwide will get. If you want to help with this two ways forward could be:· State your own biggets innovation goal openly · Develop a social network of like minded people and then state your group goal How can we help you in these endeavours?
Tales of the Intolerables:· Command 1: Community chief emails you saying: Do A, do B, Do C & this mail is strictly private , never show it to anyone· Response 1: If you ever mail me again like that your post will be all over the web before Ucan say abracadra
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[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 08 June 2005 @ 03:38 AM Invitation to considerStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, the EU knowledgeboard is a unique venue to keep on fostering ideas and dreams of ongoing embellishment and celabrations of innovations to better serve mankind with. Because I participated to this thread, I thought you might like to be informed of the following campaign I posted at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 It connects directly with the 5 century old European project called Canada, to negotiate peacefully in the never ending of French-English ambiguity who are yet to know how to deal properly with the Aboriginal hosts. Canada is the ongoing ground invitation to unite humanity at righting the wrong in peace and joy in the way that the United Nations aspire to do. We are deployed to become the training ground for the local scene, busy to innovate the maturity of a people of all people and I invite you to help me see it through for us all. Benoit
Jack Yan , 03 June 2005 @ 10:21 AM The cycle of fearJack YanYou're right, Chris. Fear can certainly be marketed, and everything from Y2K to raised terror alerts can cause runs on computer gear to gas masks. Seems rather out of place in the supposedly "advanced" 21st century. But like so much in life (and in marketing), we're re-enacting an old playbook here. The 2000s aren't particularly more caring than the 1980s. Every decade we say how much better we are, and in fact our advances are so incremental, so tiny, that these past-millennium techniques still sucker us in. Remember how in 1980 the supposed experts were telling us how we would get rid of the excesses of the previous decade and be more caring? After the Thatcherites, we learned that the '80s were worse. Then in 1990, we said the same thing. And we were wrong. In 2000, we said the same thing. And what has, really, changed? The world continues to be divided between those who know and those who daydream through life, and it is perhaps the job of the few "outside the Matrix", so to speak, to alert the others. The good news is, perhaps as your father predicted, we have a better chance using these technologies in doing so than ever before. Then, those with a sufficient profile can paint a better path for us to travel on. It would be worthwhile, because the number of supporters will have reached a tipping point far sooner.
Chris Macrae , 03 June 2005 @ 08:52 AM reformed marketing and sales peopleMr Chris MacraePhillippe - I know a bit about what you say, in fact most of my career has involved understanding how marketing works. But there are many of us who now believe that the paradox- I would go further and say the ethical crisis of valuation - is that human beings cannot sustain relationships if all the largest powers they meet use medium to propagate fear. Its a mad mad world and unless those leveraging the biggest systems- the largest .govs and .coms - come in from this cold war against the people, there is no future to it 1,2,3 generations out. It would transparently do the EU's core identity/gravity a lot of good -and sustainable energy - right now if it mapped back the last week's 2 no votes for undercurrents of fear, of which systemically there are many amongst ordinary peoples, if not amongst powerful bureaucrats. To be European was surely not to be the most fearful species on the planet- is that the actual vision 2010 that Europe's spin-men will materialise? and by the means of budgeting the people's money on systemising such an end?? I am not a fan of the way the world's largest public media - the BBC - has been coopted into fear. Nor are most of the British people if you read their thousands of testimonies here. Ironically for a Prime Minsister who though himself more media savvy than any predecessor, his abuse of the media has lost more respact among British people than just about any act from Numnber 10 in living memory. Is it really the case that leaders have to go through the crisis of disrespect before they rise again- perhaps Bill and he should start their fall leadership transformation inquiry by exorcising that knowledge of fear http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ eg http://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/first_phase_responses/M/M.htmlhttp://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/first_phase_responses/W/Webb_Peter.rtfHaving said that one part of the BBC has hosted dozens of people cafes in the last month all to do with how people live community, of which I have been to four. In everyone of these cafes, people ended up seeing that fear had been stopping them make better community, even go out and network, talk, play, find time to breathe beyond being too busy to live. So thank you BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A4140947 Through fringes and knowledge collaboration cafes, iCAN, UCAN, weCAN
Philippe Leliaert , 03 June 2005 @ 00:11 AM the politics of fearPhilippe Leliaert ... and I forgot to add the politicians: masters of the F-U-D game (examples abound on the world stage over the last couple of years). Is this perhaps a required course in political & social studies ?
Philippe Leliaert , 03 June 2005 @ 00:07 AM FUD=Fear, Uncertainty & DoubtPhilippe Leliaert It's on the first page of a salesperson's - and consultant's - handbook: scare the living daylights out of them and they will buy what you have to sell !(It certainly worked with Y2K).Fear gets people's attention: adrenaline starts pumping, pupils dilate, hair follicles contract. Everything from that moment on is geared to self-preservation. It often comes from uncertainty: the not-knowing what is on the other side, what will happen (and hence people's imagination has free rein to come up with the worst doubts, i.e. a lack of trust or belief (in oneself or someone else). So indeed, trust/faith/belief is one extreme, where fear is the other. Acceptance vs Resistance.Dare I even say: love/giving/sharing vs hate/taking/possession. But it all depends on the situation: I know I am sometimes innovator or early adopter when it comes to change; in other situations I will be a pretty tough resister. And when I resist I will have a good reason to do so. On this KnowledgeBoard platform one is likely to find a community of 'sharers', 'believers'; innovators. But ask yourself this: have you ever 'held back' from sharing what you know with others in this community - and why ? Have you ever felt "once bitten, twice shy" about sharing - and why ? What can you/we do to eliminate such "negative" feelings ? Does there not lie the key to unlock the negative spiral some communities fall in to ?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31 May 2005 @ 15:01 PM Great opportunity to address local-global fearsStay at home dad Benoit CoutureChris and all,I see a direct link from personal inner conflict resolution on to the stability of the Faculty of Living that lives where the clarity of meaning and the meaning of clarity connects from beyond languages, where personal-communal inner-outer resolution is at peace in the joy of being here and now. The sight and sound of humanity in the experience of unity is unfolding...please sister Elisabeth the 2nd, brother BenedictXVI, brother George Bush of the US and all of Europe's people of heart and spirit, do consider the following invitation to voice into existance the Permanent People Summit, so that democracy may come of age in the maturity of a people of all people, away from conflict and agitations... Benoit Couture Dear All Delhi government in association with Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies is hosting the international e-Government Summit titled Conflux 2005 in the month of October 2005. During this three day conference Key government officers from India and Asia Pacific will exchange their experience on planning, implementing and maintaining e-government projects. Besides senior officers from International agencies such as World Bank, UNDP, IDRC etc. are invited to participate in the conference. One of the key tracks during the conference will be on the sectoral e-government case presentations from India, Asia and Europe. CALL FOR PAPERS The papers from the e-government stakeholders and experts are invited for presentation during the conference. Details are available at http://www.conflux.csdms.in. I am pleased to extend the invitation to the members of the group to present papers, participate as delegates or associate in other ways with the conference fore the exchange of learning practices and accelerating e-government movement. Should any of the members require any further information, please feel free to get in touch with the undersigned. Warm RegardsVikas KanungoMobile : 9312722591Fax: +91-120-2500060email: [email protected]
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31 May 2005 @ 14:13 PM Faculty of LivingStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and all,I wish to respond in kind to part of the introduction message, located in bold letters at the top of this thread. It is by conveying on a most personal note of mine that I began my contact with you at Disruptive Mouse first and then here on the EU Knowledgeboard a short while ago. So far this back and forth contact has been done in breathing the waves of meaning and love, upon the rising tide of humans seeking to come together in the unison of the faith and hope that lives beyond languages and which is victorious over the human challenges of inner and inter personal conflicts. Your feedbacks to my postings have allowed me to experience the activation of my own personal inner conflict resolution with a rippling effect. Yesterday morning, after reading your postings in this thread, both, my wife and our first son of 24 years old said : "It almost seem like he's addressing to connect with you intimately!" I say this because the word spin is used often in economic context. Inner conflict resolution of the magnitude that is presently fosterd here in my personal life on this thread is the spin generating that touches the trans generational bridging by using the virtual to stimulate organically growing spiritual health! From inner conflict resolution to family healing from reconciling that which ignorance and indiscipline had burried in past, become humus. Because of the purest of generosity, the EU Kowledgeboard, the Disruptive Mouse and Minciu Soda Lab are presently mapping humanity's recovery road from virtual to the reality of healthy open sourcing to process humus and human life's manure into the experience of knowing into the Faculty of Living. My following post will conclude this one. Benoit Couture
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 07:14 AM What collaboration spaces or places can help you innovate and guide people through conflicts?Mr Chris Macrae1) Micronetworks?2) Cafes?3) co-blogs (1 of 20 ways to love) shared across cities· Blog -eg1- syndicating to any university town· TwinCity Blogs -eg1· OpenCity Blogs -eg14) Fringes of large conferences5) BHAG of KB to be number 1 transformation & sustainability community - ie one where participants are either all on openly stated innovation missions or helping others who are?
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 00:11 AM Testimonies 1Mr Chris Macrae"I am located in the margin. I make a definite distinction between the marginality which is imposed by oppressive structures and that marginality one chooses as a site of resistance - as location of radical openness and possibility. This site of resistance is continually formed in that segregated culture of opposition that is our critical response to domination."-bell hooks, 1990 "It is not to "awaken consciousness" that we struggle...but to sap power, to take power; it is an activity conducted alongside those who struggle for power, and not their illumination from a safe distance."-Michel Foucault, 1996 "[A]ll those on whom power is exercised to their detriment, all who find it intolerable, can begin the struggle on their own terrain and on the basis of their proper activity (or passivity). In engaging in a struggle that concerns their own interests, whose objectives they clearly understand and whose methods only they can determine, they enter into a revolutionary process."-ibid from cf presence: When we eventually grasp the wholeness of nature, it can be shocking. As Bortoft puts it, the part is a place for presencing the whole. Nowhere is it more important to understand the relation between parts and wholes than in the evolution of global institutions and the larger systems they collectively create... It may seem odd to think of about titanic forces such as globalisation and the information revolution as arising from the actions of a new species. But it is also empowering. Rather than attributing the changes sweeping the world to a handful of all powerful individuals or faceless “systems” we can view them as the consequences of a life-from that like any life-form has the potential to grow, learn, and evolve. But until that potential is activated, industrial age institutions will continue to expand “blindly”, unaware of their part in a larger whole or of the consequences of their growth, like cells that have lost their social identity and reverted to growth for its own sake
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 30 May 2005 @ 17:39 PM The 2 sides of my fear fabrics: lonelyness/ irrelevancyStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and all, "...if you can want to ask these questions, then you can move forward, to be...sign up...we can form a micro-community of practice." I've been on these questions under one form or another since I was 4 years old. I have tried for years to find a way to move on and to ignore the observations that force these uninterrupted interrogations, but in vain of course.Am I lonely because I am irrelevant? Or, am I irrelevant because I am lonely? It is in relating that loneliness disolves into relevancy. My journey has taken me to where I have to complete the crossing of the trans-generational barriers to high-trust and care, from stranger to family, from within the proximities of personal-communal development from grade one to 40, in the Canadian context. "Perfect love casts out all fears." The practice of the micro-community is to develop the Permanent People Summit, built from intimate relevancy within the boundaries of the ministry of reconcilliation. Once the microcosm grown, the first stage of local application will be to bring the PMO in Canada to go from Prime Minister Office to Prime Ministry Office, as in "the Ministry of Reconciliation". Because of the current shape of the political and social scene of corrupted national disunity in Canada, there is a golden opportunity to plan for the transition to Prime Ministry Office to be launched with the shaping up of Live -Aid II. The movement of unity is on and the microcosm is standing by to be materialized and deployed according to the correctional measures that are called for. Am I thinking of the right kind of micro-community to overcome universal loneliness and irrelevancy? Benoit Couture
Gary Lawrence Murphy , 30 May 2005 @ 16:54 PM "Fear" may be a societal glueGary Lawrence MurphyIn an old 60's era Alan Watts' lecture, I think it was "Zen Practice, Zen Art", he reflects on how the socialization of the human has as a byproduct the neutralization of the essential free-spirit of the child, and he muses that perhaps we have evolved psychotherapy as the peculiar western antidote to the peculiar western education system, and further muses how, in other cultures, this may be the ecological role of religious practice such as found in Buddhism. Having had the spark of the creative burned out of us by diligent school marms bent on making us "good citizens", it's the job of the inspirator to re-discover and re-ignite it. In these discussions, there is a danger of confusing many things under the umbrella term of 'fear' -- there is a complacency that is entrenched by our school systems, the "Play by the rules and you will succeed" that I cannot disqualify as good advice because I myself did not and certainly did not as a result. So in that way, there's a fear of stepping outside the lines. Is this the same as the fear of bodily harm that arises from, say, arachniphobia? A phobic response to a stimulus generally arises from a prior real or imagined experience, with good evidence that the response is classically conditioned (partially because it can be removed by classical conditioning) but is the solution to re-igniting free-thinking so simple as an NLP reframing? Both may involve our "mirror neurons" and thus we can see them as different aspects of the same phenomenon, one being the ecological purpose for a social creature, the other a malignant mis-application of that same governor-circuit.
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 10:01 AM repetitionMr Chris MacraeI intentionally repeat the end of the last post because it connects with 15 years of my own work on chartering and personal mappingWhat opportunities will I have missed because I did not plan, prioritize, and pursue my own vision today? How will this effect the people close to me? my unborn children? the world? What is my ideal life in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What do I need to change to reach that vision today? now? here? In our own work on identity whether personal, corporate or communal- the simplest question to start the forward journey is what would the world uniquely miss if you ceased to exist?: make a list of who in the world would uniquely miss what that your greatest vision, and activation intents are about Now that you see this list - your own personal value exchange hub if you wish - confront what blocks you from progressing this There are at least 2 common blocks assuming that you are uniquely competent to serve your vision 1) is disconnections- not having the relationship permissions to action all that you want to serve -do you have some hi-trust peers you can discuss these disconnections with?; will they link you through their social networks?; will they stage a cafe around these people and the connections you next wish to activate?; is there an open community - god willing there's KB of the future - where you can ask for such connections? 2) conflicts between the different promises and deliveries you are making to different groups of people; so why is that- time conflicts or because one group won't let you serve another group; and how do you jump over those barriers that some social controlling agent is unnecessarily putting in your way If you can want to ask these questions, then you can move forward, to be. If you feel that's worth doing -sign into this thread saying so, and we can form a micro community of practice.
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 09:50 AM thanks Dr EddyMr Chris MacraeFollowing Deepest Fear search is indeed a path full of learning eg I found this Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson, excerpt from "A Return to Love" There are those moments when just by thinking a thought it becomes a reality. You may have thought the same thought many times before, but with no effect. But this time something else is different and 'if' turns into 'when'. Religious people call it a conversion. Secular people call it a moment of clarity. It could happen when someone sees injustice, the same type that others see, but for some reason it touches them at such a strong level that they devote their life to alleviating it. It might be years of drunk driving, and then one serious accident where the individual knows they will never drink a drop of alcohol again. In physically violent relationships that are held together by fear, it could be the strength to leave. In a dead-end job one has had for years, it could be the decision to relocate and pursue one's passion.I don't know what causes these moments exactly. Some people never have them, some people have them on a somewhat regular basis. I know for me, these moments have shaped my life. Living between these specks of time becomes the easy part when I remember the power of the commitment I made. I believe that we all have the moments boiling up inside of us and that we probably are already aware of them on some level. Something that brings it out for me are when I fully visualize and experience the following questions: If I pursued the path I'm on right now, what would my life look like in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What opportunities will I have missed because I did not plan, prioritize, and pursue my own vision today? How will this effect the people close to me? my unborn children? the world? What is my ideal life in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What do I need to change to reach that vision today? now? here?
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 08:28 AM Transdisciplinarity : great ideaMr Chris MacraeWould love to see a worldwide transdisciplinary curriculum from grade 1 to 40 As this schema tries to illustrate: I tend to feel ever 3 years, a higher level of transdiciplinary understanding would involve clarifying what was over-simplified or too separated at the previous level that now needs more integration, not just in knowing the facts but experiencing their application I also tend to assume that where stuff has changed - like in the last 15 year the interent - then it will be necessary to work back on somne topics that grade 40 does not know that eg grade 15 does; in other words the curricula could be wiki'd not just by elders but alos by youngers imagine therefore 13-14 parallel wiki's looking into the world's transdisciplinary curriculum and the possibility to include subjects never valued before like going beyond national culture to integrating the ebst of 2 or more nation's ways of interpreting the world and appreciating each other; intercity open review boards like LondonRiga would be one way to keep making the wisdom more inclusive as well as living with curiosity; every university town could join in with a global concerns/meanings of life blog- this one out of the same place as KB takes 10 minutes for any university town to take over their version that began with some common leads but was edited locally until it divesrified from the common roots as far as its youth wished Out of such iterating openness, let's hope the world's peoples would understrahd how applaud those who participated by bringing new big questions to the table and nobody who wanted to prioroitise one view as factually superior to the other would get away with such closure Further ref Transdisciplinarity was also advanced across KB by pathleading communities of Quaerere and Knowledge Angels, among others Building bridges across experts takes a lot of courage- the more so since many vicious or greedy professions have siloised their own business cases in recent years. Ironically, a primary study among risk experts has emerged as that of recognising what professional apartheids have been spun to global levels of dehumanisation
Arturs Puga , 30 May 2005 @ 07:48 AM wayDr Arturs Puga Perhaps to understand: We, our children, next generations should learn KNOWLEDGE, like MATH, LANGUAGE, PHYSICS, HISTORY - a new discipline/area/the WEB-enabled field of transdisciplinarity in schools, universities, virtual networks, etc
Arturs Puga , 29 May 2005 @ 17:37 PM nextDr Arturs Puga How to help to free an individual from the fear TO BECOME KNOWLEDGEABLE AND ACTIVE IN KNOWLEDGE SHARING?
Lars Bredmose , 29 May 2005 @ 03:52 AM Sources of fear: intermediate summaryMr. Lars Bredmose This has turned out to become an interesting thread. Thank you, Chris, for starting it. May I propose the following summary? The sources of fear so far defined are: • Separation of economics and religion/faith/love creates systemic fear in societies (Chris).• A fear that we do not have endless resources (zero-sum economics view, Chris).• A perceived lack of knowledge in itself creates fear (Nikolai).• A perceived lack of freedom and belief in self and others (trust?) creates fear (Arturs).• Criticism of our actions by others creates the fear of being different (Chris).• The potential to loose what one has (status, expertise, goods, career) creates the fear of sharing and creating knowledge in untraditional ways (Lars, Arturs).• The perceived omni potency of humans makes us afraid of ourselves (Eddy). Have I missed anyone's point with this summary? Feel free to edit and add. This list could become a useful starting point for identifying reasons for lack of sharing of knowledge. Regards,Lars http://bredmose.net
Dr Eddy Kloprogge , 29 May 2005 @ 00:02 AM Fear comes from within"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson is the author of A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3 The famous passage from her book was used in his inauguration speech by Nelson Mandela and the "deepest fear" quote is often erroneously attributed to Mandela.
Arturs Puga , 28 May 2005 @ 17:32 PM thanksDr Arturs Puga I agree with Lars, the fear is in us. ----- What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid, but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness. He may have his own. A man's genius, the quality that differences him from every other, the susceptibility to one class of influences, the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for him the character of the universe. Ralph W. Emerson ----- PKM and KM, foresight based on universal values help to do with fear
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 15:49 PM search fear and trustMr Chris MacraeIf we google fear and trust, we come across some pretty big clues In this example, a psychologist tells a story of obserrving an american and mexican 5 year old on a beach - the one being strictly sueprvised, the other ropaming free if somewhat riskily. I believe there are some lessons here in any place that is over-governed -or do you take out something else? But are we really talking about some counter-culture philosophical movement? This is just a little boy skipping across boulders to a deliciously awaiting ocean expressing a freedom that many of us knew in childhood and lost. It is simply childhood: unbridled, uncensored, uninhibited living. It is old, ancient, and everyone knows what it is -- except those who have forgotten or pretend they cannot remember. It is spirit, beauty, exuberance, human nature at its finest, the golden glowing grace of humanity and childhood exquisitely expressed in movement, dance, and unpretentious joy. And the greatest enemy to the full, evocative expression of this central element of living is fear, mistrust, and foreboding. Psychiatrist Alexander Lowen's Bioenergetics, comes close to the target. He describes how a naturally joyful child comes into adulthood by passing through myriad checkpoints of criticism, admonishments, rules, frustrations, deprecations, evaluations, cautions, and asundry punishments. The result is that, with time, the child loses that unique effervescence all children at one time or another had. Lowen considers this the beginning point of adult neurosis. His therapy specializes in the rediscovery of the body, which is not that far distant from the rediscovery of childhood. Children sitting in front of television, inside, alone, become blunted and sedentary, overweight, and even show elevated cholesterol levels...all bequeathed from a restricted, inhibited, and increasingly virtual childhood.
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 15:30 PM recollectionMr Chris MacraeArturs comment reminds me in particular of this extract from a talk that the American philospoher Alphonso Lingis gave in Delhi. If I could dream, I would have this saying hammered onto the wall of every EU budgetholder of KM, and indeed every policymaker who funds learning/research into productivity and demands "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 neutral states? 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, but rather 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. One should believe one’s joy more than one’s prudence, or any cautious or fearful state of mind".
Arturs Puga , 28 May 2005 @ 15:00 PM Values Dr Arturs Puga I think, Freedom, and belief in yourself and Man are keys for us. And knowledge, I see, is the assimilation of the message of freedom placed by Creation in a man.
Nikolai Krjachkov , 28 May 2005 @ 09:54 AM Re: What are the sources of fear?TextVirusExpert Nikolai KrjachkovA lack of proper knowledge or education is a source of fear, I think? Religion as a hierarchical model for society (and economy) neither prevents nor solves the problem of fear. Religion is too personal (therefore can’t be obligatory) to be a proper institution for networking and nature based society. For example, some people afraid of ‘text virus’. They prefer not to consider risks and not to understand the variants of hidden (in texts) possible actions, but rely on illusions and therefore let someone to use them as resources.
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 08:14 AM a novice in the knowledge of fearMr Chris MacraeI have come late to this inquiry. For example leading schools in getting over fear have century's of practice in the East: Goleman's interactions with the Dalai Lama on destructive emotions help me. Would love to hear other seminal lights from Asian and Eastern perspective. I look forward to Delhi's world congress in 2007 for any people who want to learn from Gandhi, as I expect his truth testing practices of communal knowledge exorcise fear. Religious people I know in the West now believe that the separation of economics from societal/religious goods such as faith, hope , love is : the (root cause of) systemic fear (terror) that is dividing the world, as well as stopped attempts however well or badly intended to end extreme poverty everywhere. Since the 1970s system mappers have suggested that networking connectivity demands we get over this before any advantages of ebusiness, or global trade can be sustained on all sides. Lynne Twist in the soul of money explains how fear of money makes all our lifetimes smaller than we could have been. Life revolves round: What we appreciate appreciates. The big fear is to be driven by there's never enough; I feel passionately that we need leaders who explore economics of abundance not of externalities. I am sad how little the media and our schools lets people and youth debate this openly. Is it really that complex, beyond human beings to grasp? Or is it that machines will never get this, and a fundamental flaw in 20th C management measurement dictates that owners invest only in machines, never in people. Why can't we get post-industrial and start enjoying service and learning economies? Fear is the way we are socially controlled in the west through debt or the prospect that we will not be able to afford healthcare for our family or we will have no pension etc. So unless a society's government cares minimally socially for its people on such common goods as well as making laws so simple that there is no corruption, I doubt if that country or region will make further progress in developed parts of the world. Many people fear to debate the likelihood that extreme capitalism becomes as dehabilitating as extreme communism, or that left and right are irrelevant for most learning age policies. It seems odd that if we could get rid of fear people all round the world could quickly everyone's potential to live rewarding lives. Yet personally I would bet all my knowledge on that belief, and therefore wish to discover ways to clarify in which countries politicians and peoples understand that.
Lars Bredmose , 28 May 2005 @ 04:59 AM Fear of lossMr. Lars Bredmose In short, the major source of fear is the potential for a loss. Effects on people: - Not trying, for fear of loss of investement.- Not sharing, for fear that investment is not recognised (again, loss of investment).- Not combining or creating new concepts and knowledge, for fear of ridicule by subject matter experts (loss of status). Other suggestions, anyone? Regards,Lars http://bredmose.net
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[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 08 June 2005 @ 03:38 AM Invitation to considerStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, the EU knowledgeboard is a unique venue to keep on fostering ideas and dreams of ongoing embellishment and celabrations of innovations to better serve mankind with. Because I participated to this thread, I thought you might like to be informed of the following campaign I posted at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 It connects directly with the 5 century old European project called Canada, to negotiate peacefully in the never ending of French-English ambiguity who are yet to know how to deal properly with the Aboriginal hosts. Canada is the ongoing ground invitation to unite humanity at righting the wrong in peace and joy in the way that the United Nations aspire to do. We are deployed to become the training ground for the local scene, busy to innovate the maturity of a people of all people and I invite you to help me see it through for us all. Benoit
Jack Yan , 03 June 2005 @ 10:21 AM The cycle of fearJack YanYou're right, Chris. Fear can certainly be marketed, and everything from Y2K to raised terror alerts can cause runs on computer gear to gas masks. Seems rather out of place in the supposedly "advanced" 21st century. But like so much in life (and in marketing), we're re-enacting an old playbook here. The 2000s aren't particularly more caring than the 1980s. Every decade we say how much better we are, and in fact our advances are so incremental, so tiny, that these past-millennium techniques still sucker us in. Remember how in 1980 the supposed experts were telling us how we would get rid of the excesses of the previous decade and be more caring? After the Thatcherites, we learned that the '80s were worse. Then in 1990, we said the same thing. And we were wrong. In 2000, we said the same thing. And what has, really, changed? The world continues to be divided between those who know and those who daydream through life, and it is perhaps the job of the few "outside the Matrix", so to speak, to alert the others. The good news is, perhaps as your father predicted, we have a better chance using these technologies in doing so than ever before. Then, those with a sufficient profile can paint a better path for us to travel on. It would be worthwhile, because the number of supporters will have reached a tipping point far sooner.
Chris Macrae , 03 June 2005 @ 08:52 AM reformed marketing and sales peopleMr Chris MacraePhillippe - I know a bit about what you say, in fact most of my career has involved understanding how marketing works. But there are many of us who now believe that the paradox- I would go further and say the ethical crisis of valuation - is that human beings cannot sustain relationships if all the largest powers they meet use medium to propagate fear. Its a mad mad world and unless those leveraging the biggest systems- the largest .govs and .coms - come in from this cold war against the people, there is no future to it 1,2,3 generations out. It would transparently do the EU's core identity/gravity a lot of good -and sustainable energy - right now if it mapped back the last week's 2 no votes for undercurrents of fear, of which systemically there are many amongst ordinary peoples, if not amongst powerful bureaucrats. To be European was surely not to be the most fearful species on the planet- is that the actual vision 2010 that Europe's spin-men will materialise? and by the means of budgeting the people's money on systemising such an end?? I am not a fan of the way the world's largest public media - the BBC - has been coopted into fear. Nor are most of the British people if you read their thousands of testimonies here. Ironically for a Prime Minsister who though himself more media savvy than any predecessor, his abuse of the media has lost more respact among British people than just about any act from Numnber 10 in living memory. Is it really the case that leaders have to go through the crisis of disrespect before they rise again- perhaps Bill and he should start their fall leadership transformation inquiry by exorcising that knowledge of fear http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ eg http://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/first_phase_responses/M/M.htmlhttp://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/first_phase_responses/W/Webb_Peter.rtfHaving said that one part of the BBC has hosted dozens of people cafes in the last month all to do with how people live community, of which I have been to four. In everyone of these cafes, people ended up seeing that fear had been stopping them make better community, even go out and network, talk, play, find time to breathe beyond being too busy to live. So thank you BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A4140947 Through fringes and knowledge collaboration cafes, iCAN, UCAN, weCAN
Philippe Leliaert , 03 June 2005 @ 00:11 AM the politics of fearPhilippe Leliaert ... and I forgot to add the politicians: masters of the F-U-D game (examples abound on the world stage over the last couple of years). Is this perhaps a required course in political & social studies ?
Philippe Leliaert , 03 June 2005 @ 00:07 AM FUD=Fear, Uncertainty & DoubtPhilippe Leliaert It's on the first page of a salesperson's - and consultant's - handbook: scare the living daylights out of them and they will buy what you have to sell !(It certainly worked with Y2K).Fear gets people's attention: adrenaline starts pumping, pupils dilate, hair follicles contract. Everything from that moment on is geared to self-preservation. It often comes from uncertainty: the not-knowing what is on the other side, what will happen (and hence people's imagination has free rein to come up with the worst doubts, i.e. a lack of trust or belief (in oneself or someone else). So indeed, trust/faith/belief is one extreme, where fear is the other. Acceptance vs Resistance.Dare I even say: love/giving/sharing vs hate/taking/possession. But it all depends on the situation: I know I am sometimes innovator or early adopter when it comes to change; in other situations I will be a pretty tough resister. And when I resist I will have a good reason to do so. On this KnowledgeBoard platform one is likely to find a community of 'sharers', 'believers'; innovators. But ask yourself this: have you ever 'held back' from sharing what you know with others in this community - and why ? Have you ever felt "once bitten, twice shy" about sharing - and why ? What can you/we do to eliminate such "negative" feelings ? Does there not lie the key to unlock the negative spiral some communities fall in to ?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31 May 2005 @ 15:01 PM Great opportunity to address local-global fearsStay at home dad Benoit CoutureChris and all,I see a direct link from personal inner conflict resolution on to the stability of the Faculty of Living that lives where the clarity of meaning and the meaning of clarity connects from beyond languages, where personal-communal inner-outer resolution is at peace in the joy of being here and now. The sight and sound of humanity in the experience of unity is unfolding...please sister Elisabeth the 2nd, brother BenedictXVI, brother George Bush of the US and all of Europe's people of heart and spirit, do consider the following invitation to voice into existance the Permanent People Summit, so that democracy may come of age in the maturity of a people of all people, away from conflict and agitations... Benoit Couture Dear All Delhi government in association with Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies is hosting the international e-Government Summit titled Conflux 2005 in the month of October 2005. During this three day conference Key government officers from India and Asia Pacific will exchange their experience on planning, implementing and maintaining e-government projects. Besides senior officers from International agencies such as World Bank, UNDP, IDRC etc. are invited to participate in the conference. One of the key tracks during the conference will be on the sectoral e-government case presentations from India, Asia and Europe. CALL FOR PAPERS The papers from the e-government stakeholders and experts are invited for presentation during the conference. Details are available at http://www.conflux.csdms.in. I am pleased to extend the invitation to the members of the group to present papers, participate as delegates or associate in other ways with the conference fore the exchange of learning practices and accelerating e-government movement. Should any of the members require any further information, please feel free to get in touch with the undersigned. Warm RegardsVikas KanungoMobile : 9312722591Fax: +91-120-2500060email: [email protected]
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31 May 2005 @ 14:13 PM Faculty of LivingStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and all,I wish to respond in kind to part of the introduction message, located in bold letters at the top of this thread. It is by conveying on a most personal note of mine that I began my contact with you at Disruptive Mouse first and then here on the EU Knowledgeboard a short while ago. So far this back and forth contact has been done in breathing the waves of meaning and love, upon the rising tide of humans seeking to come together in the unison of the faith and hope that lives beyond languages and which is victorious over the human challenges of inner and inter personal conflicts. Your feedbacks to my postings have allowed me to experience the activation of my own personal inner conflict resolution with a rippling effect. Yesterday morning, after reading your postings in this thread, both, my wife and our first son of 24 years old said : "It almost seem like he's addressing to connect with you intimately!" I say this because the word spin is used often in economic context. Inner conflict resolution of the magnitude that is presently fosterd here in my personal life on this thread is the spin generating that touches the trans generational bridging by using the virtual to stimulate organically growing spiritual health! From inner conflict resolution to family healing from reconciling that which ignorance and indiscipline had burried in past, become humus. Because of the purest of generosity, the EU Kowledgeboard, the Disruptive Mouse and Minciu Soda Lab are presently mapping humanity's recovery road from virtual to the reality of healthy open sourcing to process humus and human life's manure into the experience of knowing into the Faculty of Living. My following post will conclude this one. Benoit Couture
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 07:14 AM What collaboration spaces or places can help you innovate and guide people through conflicts?Mr Chris Macrae1) Micronetworks?2) Cafes?3) co-blogs (1 of 20 ways to love) shared across cities· Blog -eg1- syndicating to any university town· TwinCity Blogs -eg1· OpenCity Blogs -eg14) Fringes of large conferences5) BHAG of KB to be number 1 transformation & sustainability community - ie one where participants are either all on openly stated innovation missions or helping others who are?
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 00:11 AM Testimonies 1Mr Chris Macrae"I am located in the margin. I make a definite distinction between the marginality which is imposed by oppressive structures and that marginality one chooses as a site of resistance - as location of radical openness and possibility. This site of resistance is continually formed in that segregated culture of opposition that is our critical response to domination."-bell hooks, 1990 "It is not to "awaken consciousness" that we struggle...but to sap power, to take power; it is an activity conducted alongside those who struggle for power, and not their illumination from a safe distance."-Michel Foucault, 1996 "[A]ll those on whom power is exercised to their detriment, all who find it intolerable, can begin the struggle on their own terrain and on the basis of their proper activity (or passivity). In engaging in a struggle that concerns their own interests, whose objectives they clearly understand and whose methods only they can determine, they enter into a revolutionary process."-ibid from cf presence: When we eventually grasp the wholeness of nature, it can be shocking. As Bortoft puts it, the part is a place for presencing the whole. Nowhere is it more important to understand the relation between parts and wholes than in the evolution of global institutions and the larger systems they collectively create... It may seem odd to think of about titanic forces such as globalisation and the information revolution as arising from the actions of a new species. But it is also empowering. Rather than attributing the changes sweeping the world to a handful of all powerful individuals or faceless “systems” we can view them as the consequences of a life-from that like any life-form has the potential to grow, learn, and evolve. But until that potential is activated, industrial age institutions will continue to expand “blindly”, unaware of their part in a larger whole or of the consequences of their growth, like cells that have lost their social identity and reverted to growth for its own sake
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 30 May 2005 @ 17:39 PM The 2 sides of my fear fabrics: lonelyness/ irrelevancyStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and all, "...if you can want to ask these questions, then you can move forward, to be...sign up...we can form a micro-community of practice." I've been on these questions under one form or another since I was 4 years old. I have tried for years to find a way to move on and to ignore the observations that force these uninterrupted interrogations, but in vain of course.Am I lonely because I am irrelevant? Or, am I irrelevant because I am lonely? It is in relating that loneliness disolves into relevancy. My journey has taken me to where I have to complete the crossing of the trans-generational barriers to high-trust and care, from stranger to family, from within the proximities of personal-communal development from grade one to 40, in the Canadian context. "Perfect love casts out all fears." The practice of the micro-community is to develop the Permanent People Summit, built from intimate relevancy within the boundaries of the ministry of reconcilliation. Once the microcosm grown, the first stage of local application will be to bring the PMO in Canada to go from Prime Minister Office to Prime Ministry Office, as in "the Ministry of Reconciliation". Because of the current shape of the political and social scene of corrupted national disunity in Canada, there is a golden opportunity to plan for the transition to Prime Ministry Office to be launched with the shaping up of Live -Aid II. The movement of unity is on and the microcosm is standing by to be materialized and deployed according to the correctional measures that are called for. Am I thinking of the right kind of micro-community to overcome universal loneliness and irrelevancy? Benoit Couture
Gary Lawrence Murphy , 30 May 2005 @ 16:54 PM "Fear" may be a societal glueGary Lawrence MurphyIn an old 60's era Alan Watts' lecture, I think it was "Zen Practice, Zen Art", he reflects on how the socialization of the human has as a byproduct the neutralization of the essential free-spirit of the child, and he muses that perhaps we have evolved psychotherapy as the peculiar western antidote to the peculiar western education system, and further muses how, in other cultures, this may be the ecological role of religious practice such as found in Buddhism. Having had the spark of the creative burned out of us by diligent school marms bent on making us "good citizens", it's the job of the inspirator to re-discover and re-ignite it. In these discussions, there is a danger of confusing many things under the umbrella term of 'fear' -- there is a complacency that is entrenched by our school systems, the "Play by the rules and you will succeed" that I cannot disqualify as good advice because I myself did not and certainly did not as a result. So in that way, there's a fear of stepping outside the lines. Is this the same as the fear of bodily harm that arises from, say, arachniphobia? A phobic response to a stimulus generally arises from a prior real or imagined experience, with good evidence that the response is classically conditioned (partially because it can be removed by classical conditioning) but is the solution to re-igniting free-thinking so simple as an NLP reframing? Both may involve our "mirror neurons" and thus we can see them as different aspects of the same phenomenon, one being the ecological purpose for a social creature, the other a malignant mis-application of that same governor-circuit.
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 10:01 AM repetitionMr Chris MacraeI intentionally repeat the end of the last post because it connects with 15 years of my own work on chartering and personal mappingWhat opportunities will I have missed because I did not plan, prioritize, and pursue my own vision today? How will this effect the people close to me? my unborn children? the world? What is my ideal life in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What do I need to change to reach that vision today? now? here? In our own work on identity whether personal, corporate or communal- the simplest question to start the forward journey is what would the world uniquely miss if you ceased to exist?: make a list of who in the world would uniquely miss what that your greatest vision, and activation intents are about Now that you see this list - your own personal value exchange hub if you wish - confront what blocks you from progressing this There are at least 2 common blocks assuming that you are uniquely competent to serve your vision 1) is disconnections- not having the relationship permissions to action all that you want to serve -do you have some hi-trust peers you can discuss these disconnections with?; will they link you through their social networks?; will they stage a cafe around these people and the connections you next wish to activate?; is there an open community - god willing there's KB of the future - where you can ask for such connections? 2) conflicts between the different promises and deliveries you are making to different groups of people; so why is that- time conflicts or because one group won't let you serve another group; and how do you jump over those barriers that some social controlling agent is unnecessarily putting in your way If you can want to ask these questions, then you can move forward, to be. If you feel that's worth doing -sign into this thread saying so, and we can form a micro community of practice.
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 09:50 AM thanks Dr EddyMr Chris MacraeFollowing Deepest Fear search is indeed a path full of learning eg I found this Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson, excerpt from "A Return to Love" There are those moments when just by thinking a thought it becomes a reality. You may have thought the same thought many times before, but with no effect. But this time something else is different and 'if' turns into 'when'. Religious people call it a conversion. Secular people call it a moment of clarity. It could happen when someone sees injustice, the same type that others see, but for some reason it touches them at such a strong level that they devote their life to alleviating it. It might be years of drunk driving, and then one serious accident where the individual knows they will never drink a drop of alcohol again. In physically violent relationships that are held together by fear, it could be the strength to leave. In a dead-end job one has had for years, it could be the decision to relocate and pursue one's passion.I don't know what causes these moments exactly. Some people never have them, some people have them on a somewhat regular basis. I know for me, these moments have shaped my life. Living between these specks of time becomes the easy part when I remember the power of the commitment I made. I believe that we all have the moments boiling up inside of us and that we probably are already aware of them on some level. Something that brings it out for me are when I fully visualize and experience the following questions: If I pursued the path I'm on right now, what would my life look like in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What opportunities will I have missed because I did not plan, prioritize, and pursue my own vision today? How will this effect the people close to me? my unborn children? the world? What is my ideal life in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What do I need to change to reach that vision today? now? here?
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 08:28 AM Transdisciplinarity : great ideaMr Chris MacraeWould love to see a worldwide transdisciplinary curriculum from grade 1 to 40 As this schema tries to illustrate: I tend to feel ever 3 years, a higher level of transdiciplinary understanding would involve clarifying what was over-simplified or too separated at the previous level that now needs more integration, not just in knowing the facts but experiencing their application I also tend to assume that where stuff has changed - like in the last 15 year the interent - then it will be necessary to work back on somne topics that grade 40 does not know that eg grade 15 does; in other words the curricula could be wiki'd not just by elders but alos by youngers imagine therefore 13-14 parallel wiki's looking into the world's transdisciplinary curriculum and the possibility to include subjects never valued before like going beyond national culture to integrating the ebst of 2 or more nation's ways of interpreting the world and appreciating each other; intercity open review boards like LondonRiga would be one way to keep making the wisdom more inclusive as well as living with curiosity; every university town could join in with a global concerns/meanings of life blog- this one out of the same place as KB takes 10 minutes for any university town to take over their version that began with some common leads but was edited locally until it divesrified from the common roots as far as its youth wished Out of such iterating openness, let's hope the world's peoples would understrahd how applaud those who participated by bringing new big questions to the table and nobody who wanted to prioroitise one view as factually superior to the other would get away with such closure Further ref Transdisciplinarity was also advanced across KB by pathleading communities of Quaerere and Knowledge Angels, among others Building bridges across experts takes a lot of courage- the more so since many vicious or greedy professions have siloised their own business cases in recent years. Ironically, a primary study among risk experts has emerged as that of recognising what professional apartheids have been spun to global levels of dehumanisation
Arturs Puga , 30 May 2005 @ 07:48 AM wayDr Arturs Puga Perhaps to understand: We, our children, next generations should learn KNOWLEDGE, like MATH, LANGUAGE, PHYSICS, HISTORY - a new discipline/area/the WEB-enabled field of transdisciplinarity in schools, universities, virtual networks, etc
Arturs Puga , 29 May 2005 @ 17:37 PM nextDr Arturs Puga How to help to free an individual from the fear TO BECOME KNOWLEDGEABLE AND ACTIVE IN KNOWLEDGE SHARING?
Lars Bredmose , 29 May 2005 @ 03:52 AM Sources of fear: intermediate summaryMr. Lars Bredmose This has turned out to become an interesting thread. Thank you, Chris, for starting it. May I propose the following summary? The sources of fear so far defined are: • Separation of economics and religion/faith/love creates systemic fear in societies (Chris).• A fear that we do not have endless resources (zero-sum economics view, Chris).• A perceived lack of knowledge in itself creates fear (Nikolai).• A perceived lack of freedom and belief in self and others (trust?) creates fear (Arturs).• Criticism of our actions by others creates the fear of being different (Chris).• The potential to loose what one has (status, expertise, goods, career) creates the fear of sharing and creating knowledge in untraditional ways (Lars, Arturs).• The perceived omni potency of humans makes us afraid of ourselves (Eddy). Have I missed anyone's point with this summary? Feel free to edit and add. This list could become a useful starting point for identifying reasons for lack of sharing of knowledge. Regards,Lars http://bredmose.net
Dr Eddy Kloprogge , 29 May 2005 @ 00:02 AM Fear comes from within"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson is the author of A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3 The famous passage from her book was used in his inauguration speech by Nelson Mandela and the "deepest fear" quote is often erroneously attributed to Mandela.
Arturs Puga , 28 May 2005 @ 17:32 PM thanksDr Arturs Puga I agree with Lars, the fear is in us. ----- What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid, but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness. He may have his own. A man's genius, the quality that differences him from every other, the susceptibility to one class of influences, the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for him the character of the universe. Ralph W. Emerson ----- PKM and KM, foresight based on universal values help to do with fear
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 15:49 PM search fear and trustMr Chris MacraeIf we google fear and trust, we come across some pretty big clues In this example, a psychologist tells a story of obserrving an american and mexican 5 year old on a beach - the one being strictly sueprvised, the other ropaming free if somewhat riskily. I believe there are some lessons here in any place that is over-governed -or do you take out something else? But are we really talking about some counter-culture philosophical movement? This is just a little boy skipping across boulders to a deliciously awaiting ocean expressing a freedom that many of us knew in childhood and lost. It is simply childhood: unbridled, uncensored, uninhibited living. It is old, ancient, and everyone knows what it is -- except those who have forgotten or pretend they cannot remember. It is spirit, beauty, exuberance, human nature at its finest, the golden glowing grace of humanity and childhood exquisitely expressed in movement, dance, and unpretentious joy. And the greatest enemy to the full, evocative expression of this central element of living is fear, mistrust, and foreboding. Psychiatrist Alexander Lowen's Bioenergetics, comes close to the target. He describes how a naturally joyful child comes into adulthood by passing through myriad checkpoints of criticism, admonishments, rules, frustrations, deprecations, evaluations, cautions, and asundry punishments. The result is that, with time, the child loses that unique effervescence all children at one time or another had. Lowen considers this the beginning point of adult neurosis. His therapy specializes in the rediscovery of the body, which is not that far distant from the rediscovery of childhood. Children sitting in front of television, inside, alone, become blunted and sedentary, overweight, and even show elevated cholesterol levels...all bequeathed from a restricted, inhibited, and increasingly virtual childhood.
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 15:30 PM recollectionMr Chris MacraeArturs comment reminds me in particular of this extract from a talk that the American philospoher Alphonso Lingis gave in Delhi. If I could dream, I would have this saying hammered onto the wall of every EU budgetholder of KM, and indeed every policymaker who funds learning/research into productivity and demands "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 neutral states? 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, but rather 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. One should believe one’s joy more than one’s prudence, or any cautious or fearful state of mind".
Arturs Puga , 28 May 2005 @ 15:00 PM Values Dr Arturs Puga I think, Freedom, and belief in yourself and Man are keys for us. And knowledge, I see, is the assimilation of the message of freedom placed by Creation in a man.
Nikolai Krjachkov , 28 May 2005 @ 09:54 AM Re: What are the sources of fear?TextVirusExpert Nikolai KrjachkovA lack of proper knowledge or education is a source of fear, I think? Religion as a hierarchical model for society (and economy) neither prevents nor solves the problem of fear. Religion is too personal (therefore can’t be obligatory) to be a proper institution for networking and nature based society. For example, some people afraid of ‘text virus’. They prefer not to consider risks and not to understand the variants of hidden (in texts) possible actions, but rely on illusions and therefore let someone to use them as resources.
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 08:14 AM a novice in the knowledge of fearMr Chris MacraeI have come late to this inquiry. For example leading schools in getting over fear have century's of practice in the East: Goleman's interactions with the Dalai Lama on destructive emotions help me. Would love to hear other seminal lights from Asian and Eastern perspective. I look forward to Delhi's world congress in 2007 for any people who want to learn from Gandhi, as I expect his truth testing practices of communal knowledge exorcise fear. Religious people I know in the West now believe that the separation of economics from societal/religious goods such as faith, hope , love is : the (root cause of) systemic fear (terror) that is dividing the world, as well as stopped attempts however well or badly intended to end extreme poverty everywhere. Since the 1970s system mappers have suggested that networking connectivity demands we get over this before any advantages of ebusiness, or global trade can be sustained on all sides. Lynne Twist in the soul of money explains how fear of money makes all our lifetimes smaller than we could have been. Life revolves round: What we appreciate appreciates. The big fear is to be driven by there's never enough; I feel passionately that we need leaders who explore economics of abundance not of externalities. I am sad how little the media and our schools lets people and youth debate this openly. Is it really that complex, beyond human beings to grasp? Or is it that machines will never get this, and a fundamental flaw in 20th C management measurement dictates that owners invest only in machines, never in people. Why can't we get post-industrial and start enjoying service and learning economies? Fear is the way we are socially controlled in the west through debt or the prospect that we will not be able to afford healthcare for our family or we will have no pension etc. So unless a society's government cares minimally socially for its people on such common goods as well as making laws so simple that there is no corruption, I doubt if that country or region will make further progress in developed parts of the world. Many people fear to debate the likelihood that extreme capitalism becomes as dehabilitating as extreme communism, or that left and right are irrelevant for most learning age policies. It seems odd that if we could get rid of fear people all round the world could quickly everyone's potential to live rewarding lives. Yet personally I would bet all my knowledge on that belief, and therefore wish to discover ways to clarify in which countries politicians and peoples understand that.
Lars Bredmose , 28 May 2005 @ 04:59 AM Fear of lossMr. Lars Bredmose In short, the major source of fear is the potential for a loss. Effects on people: - Not trying, for fear of loss of investement.- Not sharing, for fear that investment is not recognised (again, loss of investment).- Not combining or creating new concepts and knowledge, for fear of ridicule by subject matter experts (loss of status). Other suggestions, anyone? Regards,Lars http://bredmose.net
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[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 08 June 2005 @ 03:38 AM Invitation to considerStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, the EU knowledgeboard is a unique venue to keep on fostering ideas and dreams of ongoing embellishment and celabrations of innovations to better serve mankind with. Because I participated to this thread, I thought you might like to be informed of the following campaign I posted at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 It connects directly with the 5 century old European project called Canada, to negotiate peacefully in the never ending of French-English ambiguity who are yet to know how to deal properly with the Aboriginal hosts. Canada is the ongoing ground invitation to unite humanity at righting the wrong in peace and joy in the way that the United Nations aspire to do. We are deployed to become the training ground for the local scene, busy to innovate the maturity of a people of all people and I invite you to help me see it through for us all. Benoit
Jack Yan , 03 June 2005 @ 10:21 AM The cycle of fearJack YanYou're right, Chris. Fear can certainly be marketed, and everything from Y2K to raised terror alerts can cause runs on computer gear to gas masks. Seems rather out of place in the supposedly "advanced" 21st century. But like so much in life (and in marketing), we're re-enacting an old playbook here. The 2000s aren't particularly more caring than the 1980s. Every decade we say how much better we are, and in fact our advances are so incremental, so tiny, that these past-millennium techniques still sucker us in. Remember how in 1980 the supposed experts were telling us how we would get rid of the excesses of the previous decade and be more caring? After the Thatcherites, we learned that the '80s were worse. Then in 1990, we said the same thing. And we were wrong. In 2000, we said the same thing. And what has, really, changed? The world continues to be divided between those who know and those who daydream through life, and it is perhaps the job of the few "outside the Matrix", so to speak, to alert the others. The good news is, perhaps as your father predicted, we have a better chance using these technologies in doing so than ever before. Then, those with a sufficient profile can paint a better path for us to travel on. It would be worthwhile, because the number of supporters will have reached a tipping point far sooner.
Chris Macrae , 03 June 2005 @ 08:52 AM reformed marketing and sales peopleMr Chris MacraePhillippe - I know a bit about what you say, in fact most of my career has involved understanding how marketing works. But there are many of us who now believe that the paradox- I would go further and say the ethical crisis of valuation - is that human beings cannot sustain relationships if all the largest powers they meet use medium to propagate fear. Its a mad mad world and unless those leveraging the biggest systems- the largest .govs and .coms - come in from this cold war against the people, there is no future to it 1,2,3 generations out. It would transparently do the EU's core identity/gravity a lot of good -and sustainable energy - right now if it mapped back the last week's 2 no votes for undercurrents of fear, of which systemically there are many amongst ordinary peoples, if not amongst powerful bureaucrats. To be European was surely not to be the most fearful species on the planet- is that the actual vision 2010 that Europe's spin-men will materialise? and by the means of budgeting the people's money on systemising such an end?? I am not a fan of the way the world's largest public media - the BBC - has been coopted into fear. Nor are most of the British people if you read their thousands of testimonies here. Ironically for a Prime Minsister who though himself more media savvy than any predecessor, his abuse of the media has lost more respact among British people than just about any act from Numnber 10 in living memory. Is it really the case that leaders have to go through the crisis of disrespect before they rise again- perhaps Bill and he should start their fall leadership transformation inquiry by exorcising that knowledge of fear http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ eg http://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/first_phase_responses/M/M.htmlhttp://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/first_phase_responses/W/Webb_Peter.rtfHaving said that one part of the BBC has hosted dozens of people cafes in the last month all to do with how people live community, of which I have been to four. In everyone of these cafes, people ended up seeing that fear had been stopping them make better community, even go out and network, talk, play, find time to breathe beyond being too busy to live. So thank you BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A4140947 Through fringes and knowledge collaboration cafes, iCAN, UCAN, weCAN
Philippe Leliaert , 03 June 2005 @ 00:11 AM the politics of fearPhilippe Leliaert ... and I forgot to add the politicians: masters of the F-U-D game (examples abound on the world stage over the last couple of years). Is this perhaps a required course in political & social studies ?
Philippe Leliaert , 03 June 2005 @ 00:07 AM FUD=Fear, Uncertainty & DoubtPhilippe Leliaert It's on the first page of a salesperson's - and consultant's - handbook: scare the living daylights out of them and they will buy what you have to sell !(It certainly worked with Y2K).Fear gets people's attention: adrenaline starts pumping, pupils dilate, hair follicles contract. Everything from that moment on is geared to self-preservation. It often comes from uncertainty: the not-knowing what is on the other side, what will happen (and hence people's imagination has free rein to come up with the worst doubts, i.e. a lack of trust or belief (in oneself or someone else). So indeed, trust/faith/belief is one extreme, where fear is the other. Acceptance vs Resistance.Dare I even say: love/giving/sharing vs hate/taking/possession. But it all depends on the situation: I know I am sometimes innovator or early adopter when it comes to change; in other situations I will be a pretty tough resister. And when I resist I will have a good reason to do so. On this KnowledgeBoard platform one is likely to find a community of 'sharers', 'believers'; innovators. But ask yourself this: have you ever 'held back' from sharing what you know with others in this community - and why ? Have you ever felt "once bitten, twice shy" about sharing - and why ? What can you/we do to eliminate such "negative" feelings ? Does there not lie the key to unlock the negative spiral some communities fall in to ?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31 May 2005 @ 15:01 PM Great opportunity to address local-global fearsStay at home dad Benoit CoutureChris and all,I see a direct link from personal inner conflict resolution on to the stability of the Faculty of Living that lives where the clarity of meaning and the meaning of clarity connects from beyond languages, where personal-communal inner-outer resolution is at peace in the joy of being here and now. The sight and sound of humanity in the experience of unity is unfolding...please sister Elisabeth the 2nd, brother BenedictXVI, brother George Bush of the US and all of Europe's people of heart and spirit, do consider the following invitation to voice into existance the Permanent People Summit, so that democracy may come of age in the maturity of a people of all people, away from conflict and agitations... Benoit Couture Dear All Delhi government in association with Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies is hosting the international e-Government Summit titled Conflux 2005 in the month of October 2005. During this three day conference Key government officers from India and Asia Pacific will exchange their experience on planning, implementing and maintaining e-government projects. Besides senior officers from International agencies such as World Bank, UNDP, IDRC etc. are invited to participate in the conference. One of the key tracks during the conference will be on the sectoral e-government case presentations from India, Asia and Europe. CALL FOR PAPERS The papers from the e-government stakeholders and experts are invited for presentation during the conference. Details are available at http://www.conflux.csdms.in. I am pleased to extend the invitation to the members of the group to present papers, participate as delegates or associate in other ways with the conference fore the exchange of learning practices and accelerating e-government movement. Should any of the members require any further information, please feel free to get in touch with the undersigned. Warm RegardsVikas KanungoMobile : 9312722591Fax: +91-120-2500060email: [email protected]
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31 May 2005 @ 14:13 PM Faculty of LivingStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and all,I wish to respond in kind to part of the introduction message, located in bold letters at the top of this thread. It is by conveying on a most personal note of mine that I began my contact with you at Disruptive Mouse first and then here on the EU Knowledgeboard a short while ago. So far this back and forth contact has been done in breathing the waves of meaning and love, upon the rising tide of humans seeking to come together in the unison of the faith and hope that lives beyond languages and which is victorious over the human challenges of inner and inter personal conflicts. Your feedbacks to my postings have allowed me to experience the activation of my own personal inner conflict resolution with a rippling effect. Yesterday morning, after reading your postings in this thread, both, my wife and our first son of 24 years old said : "It almost seem like he's addressing to connect with you intimately!" I say this because the word spin is used often in economic context. Inner conflict resolution of the magnitude that is presently fosterd here in my personal life on this thread is the spin generating that touches the trans generational bridging by using the virtual to stimulate organically growing spiritual health! From inner conflict resolution to family healing from reconciling that which ignorance and indiscipline had burried in past, become humus. Because of the purest of generosity, the EU Kowledgeboard, the Disruptive Mouse and Minciu Soda Lab are presently mapping humanity's recovery road from virtual to the reality of healthy open sourcing to process humus and human life's manure into the experience of knowing into the Faculty of Living. My following post will conclude this one. Benoit Couture
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 07:14 AM What collaboration spaces or places can help you innovate and guide people through conflicts?Mr Chris Macrae1) Micronetworks?2) Cafes?3) co-blogs (1 of 20 ways to love) shared across cities· Blog -eg1- syndicating to any university town· TwinCity Blogs -eg1· OpenCity Blogs -eg14) Fringes of large conferences5) BHAG of KB to be number 1 transformation & sustainability community - ie one where participants are either all on openly stated innovation missions or helping others who are?
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 00:11 AM Testimonies 1Mr Chris Macrae"I am located in the margin. I make a definite distinction between the marginality which is imposed by oppressive structures and that marginality one chooses as a site of resistance - as location of radical openness and possibility. This site of resistance is continually formed in that segregated culture of opposition that is our critical response to domination."-bell hooks, 1990 "It is not to "awaken consciousness" that we struggle...but to sap power, to take power; it is an activity conducted alongside those who struggle for power, and not their illumination from a safe distance."-Michel Foucault, 1996 "[A]ll those on whom power is exercised to their detriment, all who find it intolerable, can begin the struggle on their own terrain and on the basis of their proper activity (or passivity). In engaging in a struggle that concerns their own interests, whose objectives they clearly understand and whose methods only they can determine, they enter into a revolutionary process."-ibid from cf presence: When we eventually grasp the wholeness of nature, it can be shocking. As Bortoft puts it, the part is a place for presencing the whole. Nowhere is it more important to understand the relation between parts and wholes than in the evolution of global institutions and the larger systems they collectively create... It may seem odd to think of about titanic forces such as globalisation and the information revolution as arising from the actions of a new species. But it is also empowering. Rather than attributing the changes sweeping the world to a handful of all powerful individuals or faceless “systems” we can view them as the consequences of a life-from that like any life-form has the potential to grow, learn, and evolve. But until that potential is activated, industrial age institutions will continue to expand “blindly”, unaware of their part in a larger whole or of the consequences of their growth, like cells that have lost their social identity and reverted to growth for its own sake
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 30 May 2005 @ 17:39 PM The 2 sides of my fear fabrics: lonelyness/ irrelevancyStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and all, "...if you can want to ask these questions, then you can move forward, to be...sign up...we can form a micro-community of practice." I've been on these questions under one form or another since I was 4 years old. I have tried for years to find a way to move on and to ignore the observations that force these uninterrupted interrogations, but in vain of course.Am I lonely because I am irrelevant? Or, am I irrelevant because I am lonely? It is in relating that loneliness disolves into relevancy. My journey has taken me to where I have to complete the crossing of the trans-generational barriers to high-trust and care, from stranger to family, from within the proximities of personal-communal development from grade one to 40, in the Canadian context. "Perfect love casts out all fears." The practice of the micro-community is to develop the Permanent People Summit, built from intimate relevancy within the boundaries of the ministry of reconcilliation. Once the microcosm grown, the first stage of local application will be to bring the PMO in Canada to go from Prime Minister Office to Prime Ministry Office, as in "the Ministry of Reconciliation". Because of the current shape of the political and social scene of corrupted national disunity in Canada, there is a golden opportunity to plan for the transition to Prime Ministry Office to be launched with the shaping up of Live -Aid II. The movement of unity is on and the microcosm is standing by to be materialized and deployed according to the correctional measures that are called for. Am I thinking of the right kind of micro-community to overcome universal loneliness and irrelevancy? Benoit Couture
Gary Lawrence Murphy , 30 May 2005 @ 16:54 PM "Fear" may be a societal glueGary Lawrence MurphyIn an old 60's era Alan Watts' lecture, I think it was "Zen Practice, Zen Art", he reflects on how the socialization of the human has as a byproduct the neutralization of the essential free-spirit of the child, and he muses that perhaps we have evolved psychotherapy as the peculiar western antidote to the peculiar western education system, and further muses how, in other cultures, this may be the ecological role of religious practice such as found in Buddhism. Having had the spark of the creative burned out of us by diligent school marms bent on making us "good citizens", it's the job of the inspirator to re-discover and re-ignite it. In these discussions, there is a danger of confusing many things under the umbrella term of 'fear' -- there is a complacency that is entrenched by our school systems, the "Play by the rules and you will succeed" that I cannot disqualify as good advice because I myself did not and certainly did not as a result. So in that way, there's a fear of stepping outside the lines. Is this the same as the fear of bodily harm that arises from, say, arachniphobia? A phobic response to a stimulus generally arises from a prior real or imagined experience, with good evidence that the response is classically conditioned (partially because it can be removed by classical conditioning) but is the solution to re-igniting free-thinking so simple as an NLP reframing? Both may involve our "mirror neurons" and thus we can see them as different aspects of the same phenomenon, one being the ecological purpose for a social creature, the other a malignant mis-application of that same governor-circuit.
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 10:01 AM repetitionMr Chris MacraeI intentionally repeat the end of the last post because it connects with 15 years of my own work on chartering and personal mappingWhat opportunities will I have missed because I did not plan, prioritize, and pursue my own vision today? How will this effect the people close to me? my unborn children? the world? What is my ideal life in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What do I need to change to reach that vision today? now? here? In our own work on identity whether personal, corporate or communal- the simplest question to start the forward journey is what would the world uniquely miss if you ceased to exist?: make a list of who in the world would uniquely miss what that your greatest vision, and activation intents are about Now that you see this list - your own personal value exchange hub if you wish - confront what blocks you from progressing this There are at least 2 common blocks assuming that you are uniquely competent to serve your vision 1) is disconnections- not having the relationship permissions to action all that you want to serve -do you have some hi-trust peers you can discuss these disconnections with?; will they link you through their social networks?; will they stage a cafe around these people and the connections you next wish to activate?; is there an open community - god willing there's KB of the future - where you can ask for such connections? 2) conflicts between the different promises and deliveries you are making to different groups of people; so why is that- time conflicts or because one group won't let you serve another group; and how do you jump over those barriers that some social controlling agent is unnecessarily putting in your way If you can want to ask these questions, then you can move forward, to be. If you feel that's worth doing -sign into this thread saying so, and we can form a micro community of practice.
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 09:50 AM thanks Dr EddyMr Chris MacraeFollowing Deepest Fear search is indeed a path full of learning eg I found this Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson, excerpt from "A Return to Love" There are those moments when just by thinking a thought it becomes a reality. You may have thought the same thought many times before, but with no effect. But this time something else is different and 'if' turns into 'when'. Religious people call it a conversion. Secular people call it a moment of clarity. It could happen when someone sees injustice, the same type that others see, but for some reason it touches them at such a strong level that they devote their life to alleviating it. It might be years of drunk driving, and then one serious accident where the individual knows they will never drink a drop of alcohol again. In physically violent relationships that are held together by fear, it could be the strength to leave. In a dead-end job one has had for years, it could be the decision to relocate and pursue one's passion.I don't know what causes these moments exactly. Some people never have them, some people have them on a somewhat regular basis. I know for me, these moments have shaped my life. Living between these specks of time becomes the easy part when I remember the power of the commitment I made. I believe that we all have the moments boiling up inside of us and that we probably are already aware of them on some level. Something that brings it out for me are when I fully visualize and experience the following questions: If I pursued the path I'm on right now, what would my life look like in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What opportunities will I have missed because I did not plan, prioritize, and pursue my own vision today? How will this effect the people close to me? my unborn children? the world? What is my ideal life in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What do I need to change to reach that vision today? now? here?
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 08:28 AM Transdisciplinarity : great ideaMr Chris MacraeWould love to see a worldwide transdisciplinary curriculum from grade 1 to 40 As this schema tries to illustrate: I tend to feel ever 3 years, a higher level of transdiciplinary understanding would involve clarifying what was over-simplified or too separated at the previous level that now needs more integration, not just in knowing the facts but experiencing their application I also tend to assume that where stuff has changed - like in the last 15 year the interent - then it will be necessary to work back on somne topics that grade 40 does not know that eg grade 15 does; in other words the curricula could be wiki'd not just by elders but alos by youngers imagine therefore 13-14 parallel wiki's looking into the world's transdisciplinary curriculum and the possibility to include subjects never valued before like going beyond national culture to integrating the ebst of 2 or more nation's ways of interpreting the world and appreciating each other; intercity open review boards like LondonRiga would be one way to keep making the wisdom more inclusive as well as living with curiosity; every university town could join in with a global concerns/meanings of life blog- this one out of the same place as KB takes 10 minutes for any university town to take over their version that began with some common leads but was edited locally until it divesrified from the common roots as far as its youth wished Out of such iterating openness, let's hope the world's peoples would understrahd how applaud those who participated by bringing new big questions to the table and nobody who wanted to prioroitise one view as factually superior to the other would get away with such closure Further ref Transdisciplinarity was also advanced across KB by pathleading communities of Quaerere and Knowledge Angels, among others Building bridges across experts takes a lot of courage- the more so since many vicious or greedy professions have siloised their own business cases in recent years. Ironically, a primary study among risk experts has emerged as that of recognising what professional apartheids have been spun to global levels of dehumanisation
Arturs Puga , 30 May 2005 @ 07:48 AM wayDr Arturs Puga Perhaps to understand: We, our children, next generations should learn KNOWLEDGE, like MATH, LANGUAGE, PHYSICS, HISTORY - a new discipline/area/the WEB-enabled field of transdisciplinarity in schools, universities, virtual networks, etc
Arturs Puga , 29 May 2005 @ 17:37 PM nextDr Arturs Puga How to help to free an individual from the fear TO BECOME KNOWLEDGEABLE AND ACTIVE IN KNOWLEDGE SHARING?
Lars Bredmose , 29 May 2005 @ 03:52 AM Sources of fear: intermediate summaryMr. Lars Bredmose This has turned out to become an interesting thread. Thank you, Chris, for starting it. May I propose the following summary? The sources of fear so far defined are: • Separation of economics and religion/faith/love creates systemic fear in societies (Chris).• A fear that we do not have endless resources (zero-sum economics view, Chris).• A perceived lack of knowledge in itself creates fear (Nikolai).• A perceived lack of freedom and belief in self and others (trust?) creates fear (Arturs).• Criticism of our actions by others creates the fear of being different (Chris).• The potential to loose what one has (status, expertise, goods, career) creates the fear of sharing and creating knowledge in untraditional ways (Lars, Arturs).• The perceived omni potency of humans makes us afraid of ourselves (Eddy). Have I missed anyone's point with this summary? Feel free to edit and add. This list could become a useful starting point for identifying reasons for lack of sharing of knowledge. Regards,Lars http://bredmose.net
Dr Eddy Kloprogge , 29 May 2005 @ 00:02 AM Fear comes from within"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson is the author of A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3 The famous passage from her book was used in his inauguration speech by Nelson Mandela and the "deepest fear" quote is often erroneously attributed to Mandela.
Arturs Puga , 28 May 2005 @ 17:32 PM thanksDr Arturs Puga I agree with Lars, the fear is in us. ----- What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid, but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness. He may have his own. A man's genius, the quality that differences him from every other, the susceptibility to one class of influences, the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for him the character of the universe. Ralph W. Emerson ----- PKM and KM, foresight based on universal values help to do with fear
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 15:49 PM search fear and trustMr Chris MacraeIf we google fear and trust, we come across some pretty big clues In this example, a psychologist tells a story of obserrving an american and mexican 5 year old on a beach - the one being strictly sueprvised, the other ropaming free if somewhat riskily. I believe there are some lessons here in any place that is over-governed -or do you take out something else? But are we really talking about some counter-culture philosophical movement? This is just a little boy skipping across boulders to a deliciously awaiting ocean expressing a freedom that many of us knew in childhood and lost. It is simply childhood: unbridled, uncensored, uninhibited living. It is old, ancient, and everyone knows what it is -- except those who have forgotten or pretend they cannot remember. It is spirit, beauty, exuberance, human nature at its finest, the golden glowing grace of humanity and childhood exquisitely expressed in movement, dance, and unpretentious joy. And the greatest enemy to the full, evocative expression of this central element of living is fear, mistrust, and foreboding. Psychiatrist Alexander Lowen's Bioenergetics, comes close to the target. He describes how a naturally joyful child comes into adulthood by passing through myriad checkpoints of criticism, admonishments, rules, frustrations, deprecations, evaluations, cautions, and asundry punishments. The result is that, with time, the child loses that unique effervescence all children at one time or another had. Lowen considers this the beginning point of adult neurosis. His therapy specializes in the rediscovery of the body, which is not that far distant from the rediscovery of childhood. Children sitting in front of television, inside, alone, become blunted and sedentary, overweight, and even show elevated cholesterol levels...all bequeathed from a restricted, inhibited, and increasingly virtual childhood.
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 15:30 PM recollectionMr Chris MacraeArturs comment reminds me in particular of this extract from a talk that the American philospoher Alphonso Lingis gave in Delhi. If I could dream, I would have this saying hammered onto the wall of every EU budgetholder of KM, and indeed every policymaker who funds learning/research into productivity and demands "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 neutral states? 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, but rather 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. One should believe one’s joy more than one’s prudence, or any cautious or fearful state of mind".
Arturs Puga , 28 May 2005 @ 15:00 PM Values Dr Arturs Puga I think, Freedom, and belief in yourself and Man are keys for us. And knowledge, I see, is the assimilation of the message of freedom placed by Creation in a man.
Nikolai Krjachkov , 28 May 2005 @ 09:54 AM Re: What are the sources of fear?TextVirusExpert Nikolai KrjachkovA lack of proper knowledge or education is a source of fear, I think? Religion as a hierarchical model for society (and economy) neither prevents nor solves the problem of fear. Religion is too personal (therefore can’t be obligatory) to be a proper institution for networking and nature based society. For example, some people afraid of ‘text virus’. They prefer not to consider risks and not to understand the variants of hidden (in texts) possible actions, but rely on illusions and therefore let someone to use them as resources.
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 08:14 AM a novice in the knowledge of fearMr Chris MacraeI have come late to this inquiry. For example leading schools in getting over fear have century's of practice in the East: Goleman's interactions with the Dalai Lama on destructive emotions help me. Would love to hear other seminal lights from Asian and Eastern perspective. I look forward to Delhi's world congress in 2007 for any people who want to learn from Gandhi, as I expect his truth testing practices of communal knowledge exorcise fear. Religious people I know in the West now believe that the separation of economics from societal/religious goods such as faith, hope , love is : the (root cause of) systemic fear (terror) that is dividing the world, as well as stopped attempts however well or badly intended to end extreme poverty everywhere. Since the 1970s system mappers have suggested that networking connectivity demands we get over this before any advantages of ebusiness, or global trade can be sustained on all sides. Lynne Twist in the soul of money explains how fear of money makes all our lifetimes smaller than we could have been. Life revolves round: What we appreciate appreciates. The big fear is to be driven by there's never enough; I feel passionately that we need leaders who explore economics of abundance not of externalities. I am sad how little the media and our schools lets people and youth debate this openly. Is it really that complex, beyond human beings to grasp? Or is it that machines will never get this, and a fundamental flaw in 20th C management measurement dictates that owners invest only in machines, never in people. Why can't we get post-industrial and start enjoying service and learning economies? Fear is the way we are socially controlled in the west through debt or the prospect that we will not be able to afford healthcare for our family or we will have no pension etc. So unless a society's government cares minimally socially for its people on such common goods as well as making laws so simple that there is no corruption, I doubt if that country or region will make further progress in developed parts of the world. Many people fear to debate the likelihood that extreme capitalism becomes as dehabilitating as extreme communism, or that left and right are irrelevant for most learning age policies. It seems odd that if we could get rid of fear people all round the world could quickly everyone's potential to live rewarding lives. Yet personally I would bet all my knowledge on that belief, and therefore wish to discover ways to clarify in which countries politicians and peoples understand that.
Lars Bredmose , 28 May 2005 @ 04:59 AM Fear of lossMr. Lars Bredmose In short, the major source of fear is the potential for a loss. Effects on people: - Not trying, for fear of loss of investement.- Not sharing, for fear that investment is not recognised (again, loss of investment).- Not combining or creating new concepts and knowledge, for fear of ridicule by subject matter experts (loss of status). Other suggestions, anyone? Regards,Lars http://bredmose.net
Who wants to remove ambiguity about knowledge?
Indeed, KM lays upon three pillars: knowledge, tools and applications.; it aims to manage those three pillars (and not only knowledge as its name could induce to beleive it). Business people are first of all interested in applications and afterwards in tools which allow them to work up the very knowledge involved by those applications. Where there is an ambiguity lies in the word knowledge. Let us look at some examples: When we say "The Web allows any human being to access knowledge", we do not precisely state which kind of knowledge we mean: of course, which is in question is knowledge useful to him in the context which he lives in and we are not always sure that this knowledge exists. Be careful when you speak of knowledge in a too general a way: nothing is more different from the Einstein theory than the average amount of a supermarket customer's bill. Don't you think that every theoretical assertion about KM is so dependant on the kind of involved knowledge that we should have to specify it, which implies a new typology of knowledge? Guy Benchimol
KnowledgeBoard, 29-May-2005
Benoit Couture , 7-Jun-2005 Invitation to considerStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, the EU knowledgeboard is a unique venue to keep on fostering ideas and dreams of ongoing embellishment and celabrations of innovations to better serve mankind with. Because I participated to this thread, I thought you might like to be informed of the following posting I made at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 It connects directly with the 5 century old European project called Canada, to negotiate peacefully in the never ending of French-English ambiguity who are yet to know how to deal properly with the Aboriginal hosts. Canada is the ongoing ground invitation to unite humanity at righting the wrong in peace and joy in the way that the United Nations aspire to do. We are deployed to become the training ground for the local scene, busy to innovate the maturity of a people of all people and I invite you to help me see it through for us all. Benoit
Patrick Murphy , 6-Jun-2005 Ambiguity in Knowledge ManagementPatrick MurphyAmbiguity has value for knowledge management. In Claude Shannon's celebrated model for a communication channel, noise is a form of ambiguity. At Bell Labs, Shannon's aim was to filter noise out of the channel, but he recognized that some measure of noise in a channel is useful because it causes the receiver to pay closer attention to the message and, in fact, to draw on his/her own tacit knowledge (he didn't call it that) to decipher the message, thereby adding value to it (he didn't use those words either, but I'm drafting him into the KM camp). This immersive effect is especially interesting because of what it promises for knowledge communities. Detective fiction works this way. All those red herrings (noise) cause the reader to become intensely involved in the fiction. That's why writers of detective fiction develop such dedicated fan clubs—think of the following that Conan Doyle still enjoys. Shannon's model is a useful overlay for all kinds of epistemic systems. I once borrowed it to explain Coleridge's notion of imagination. It maps very well with STC's discussion of imagination, the driver of creativity, in his "Biographia." I believe it would be a fruitful line of research to test the value of ambiguity in promoting innovation within organizations. Types could be classified after Empson ("Seven Types of Ambiguity") and their different trajectories charted. I suspect that the research would find that ambiguity drives innovation in very real ways.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31-May-2005 I do, I need to, I must go from ambiguity to clarity...Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureGuy, what you are conveying in English is the French distnction that lives between the knowledge that comes from information management which is "connaitre" and the experience of knowledge which is "savoir". The motto of French Canadian's people in the province of Quebec is: "I remember", "Je me souviens", which is, in its application, the meeting of the experience and of the information of knowledge. Considering the voice of French resistance to be manipulated by any form of ambiguity, could this French American reality be shun forth from Europe so as to activate the Spirit of human remembrance who has learned the wisdom of enjoying the moment in love and genuine authenticity from home to home, where ever one might be upon the face of the earth?! Benoit Couture
Ambika Natarajan , 31-May-2005 Knowledge -The way you use itThere are scores of results that pop up for any search query. But the catch lies in how we interpret and customise what we read to the situation on hand. This is where true knowledge lies. If I can explain how I handled a scenario based on what I read-an asset is created.We have to primarily differentiate /disseminate on the perceptible difference between KM and IM.
Will Merck survive or is it another Arthur Andersen?
Will Merck survive or is it another Arthur Andersen? (ruined by the absurd belief that 90 days number-chasing is the only thing that makes a share worth owning; how on earth do you expect any person to believe your company is the world class leader of a sector if is incapable of truly investing more than 90 days ahead of its leader's nose) As leaders (who care about organisation and not personal incentivisation) with slightly more knowledge know, today's main management task is getting the whole organisation to contextually understand the conflict between the maths of how much you have taken out the last 90 days and how much quality of context you are compounding into the future. The two are driven by opposite types of mathematical measures:backward versus forward separating versus connecting human relationship systems conflict compounding versus transparently conflict resolving ending innovation versus investing in it hyper-competing versus knowing how to collaborate with humans as well as competing investing only in machines versus investing in people too investing only in image versus investing in trustworthy reality too externalise anything you can get away with less internal cost however many people it kills versus 'do no evil, and cause NO organisation link in your extended network including outsource to do evil' It turns out that if you are in service or networked economies, far the greater value compounds with the 2nd measurement set. This future track is measurable - are you spinning sustainable grwoth or destruction a few quaretrs out Andersen didnt know this in time to save itself; its looking as if Merck didnt what industry sector will be next to ruin itself as well as cause untold human harm in the process? Why isnt it as simple as Europe putting a 100% tax on any trade with the Bechtels of this world (who only go in to privatise water when laws are passed so that the poor cant colect rainwater - as in Bolivia) or Dow who inherited the Bhopal mess because it thought it could get lawyers to get it to walk away from the responsibility? We are contaminated by doing anything less, and if the EU cannot stand up for people it is time it too went the way Andersen did Chris Macrae
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21 May 2005 @ 07:36 AM
Inferior Economics or Superior Economics - that is the first question of KM
Personally, as a brand expert who also grew up with "I love to teach the world to sing" I find it depressing that the world's favourite 20th C brand cannot transform its sustainability. Badwill really started brewing when Coke's bottling partner in Colombia adopted mafioso tactics with its employees. By spring of last year Coca-Cola's security guards were knocking a shareholder to the ground at its AGM. Youth is leading the expression of customer distaste as published here. Likely only strategy that will save Coke from ever greater 21st C obscurity is to get rid of economics of externalities; take the lead the water angels have been demanding from you. Rutgers University of New Jersey, with more than 60,000 students, faculty, staff and administrators, has not renewed Coke’s exclusive beverage contract. The Rutgers University community was among the largest consumers of Coke products and the largest collegiate consumer of Coke’s Minute Maid products. Thus, hundreds of Coke machines and fountains from the three Rutgers New Jersey campuses are being removed along with Coca-Cola scoreboards, clocks and other Coke ads that polluted the university. The decision that effectively bans the sale and marketing of all Coke products from campus was made on May 10 after a long-fought, two-year Campaign led by student organizations and the faculty union. At public hearings, one speaker after another called on the University to end its relationship with Coca-Cola and to ban the sale of all Coke products. No one at the hearings spoke up on behalf of Coke. Rutgers’ 10-year exclusive contract with The Coca-Cola Co. expired at the end of July 2004. The Campaign on campus had become a hot political issue that the administration had to deal with, according to administration insiders. Some university officials complained that there were so many Coke machines and such a large infrastructure created by Coke on campus that it would be very difficult and costly to replace, thus key players in the decision felt that it would be a lot easier to simply stick with Coke. However, pressure on campus was such that the university said that it would have to extend the Coke contract for 10 months to give them sufficient time to make a change, if Coke did not clean up its act. The issue on campus would not go away, but intensified. Campus newspapers covered the issue extensively. As early as the fall of 2004, we were told by “informed sources” at Rutgers that Coke would be removed from campus and that Pepsi would likely be the replacement. The tenacity of the students and faculty ensured that Rutgers took the right course of action to hold Coca-Cola accountable. This should serve as an example for both large and small campuses to emulate.
Benoit Couture , 22 May 2005 @ 13:16 PM
Alberta, Canada advantage
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
One of the great changes to come in health, will be when we are thaught to actualy learn how to know and to touch our own personal body so as to release the built-in self-healing and self maintenance of health. Phamaceuticals would have no choice but to follow suit and this way there would be a true coming together of the world's different approaches to healing. A whole lot of the pramceutical that era consumed today came into existance directly as a result of centuries spent as if the body was a mysterious, immoral and disallowed territory. Asia and the aboriginal understanding of the body are where governments must turn toward and develop the working relationship that wiil see diagnostic,surgery and infedtions treated from the west. Healing and maintenance of health from Asia. As long as we compete one against the other and not side by side against illness and desease, we'll be waisting precious time. The experimental ground to develop this partnership is growing in Alberta, Canada but it is held back by all the conditionings from the past and resistance to change. Benoit
24-May-2005 Knowledge personTextVirusExpert Nikolai KrjachkovBenoit, do we need to think how to spread the term “knowledge person” instead of “knowledge worker”? I wrote 7th March 2004 at http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=123794&d=pnd : “… the term - ‘knowledge worker’ - is out of date (as far as I remember ‘knowledge worker’ is P. Drucker’s concept).Absurdly for the person to be a knowledge worker (in working hours) and to be a gullible customer (in free time) whose behavior/life is being managed from outside (by producers of intangibles who spread - brands, advertisements, news, etc.) and based on belief, not on understanding.I would suggest a term ‘knowledge person’ instead of ‘knowledge worker’”.
24-May-2005 Dear Nikolai -part 1Mr Chris MacraeSince you value text expertise, I will have to say that technically I do not wholly agree with your suggestion of altering vocabulary knowledge worker to knowledge person. Main reasons: The disaster uniting most of the 6 billion beings on this earth is a lack of freedom to exercise and connect our greatest personal productivities and learnings. So it is about the conflicts with letting us network our greatest contributions as knowledge workers in systems that promote hi-trust and sustain gravities of purpose that enrichen all who participate truly and practice communally. Let's pause here for a few bookmarks· There's 20 pages of correspondence going on in the current transparency goverance fortnight debate at http://www.kwork.org involving many famous KM folk as well as an odd fool role-player like me; if you get there to late to see the 20 pages, I suppose I can send them to you for personal use only- chris at [email protected]· Missing maths timeless blog http://valuetrue.blogspot.com - always searching for transparency champions who want to timeshare this editing space for connecting every measning of transparency, sustainability , transfroamtion and human inspiration· Peter Drucker on and on Paradigm ShiftValuing Future History, Q&A with UK's senior economist: debating superior economics, and survey of world class learning networks
24-May-2005 Dear Nikolai -part 1Mr Chris MacraeSince you value text expertise, I will have to say that technically I do not wholly agree with your suggestion of altering vocabulary knowledge worker to knowledge person. Main reasons: The disaster uniting most of the 6 billion beings on this earth is a lack of freedom to exercise and connect our greatest personal productivities and learnings. So it is about the conflicts with letting us network our greatest contributions as knowledge workers in systems that promote hi-trust and sustain gravities of purpose that enrichen all who participate truly and practice communally. Let's pause here for a few bookmarks· There's 20 pages of correspondence going on in the current transparency goverance fortnight debate at http://www.kwork.org involving many famous KM folk as well as an odd fool role-player like me; if you get there to late to see the 20 pages, I suppose I can send them to you for personal use only- chris at [email protected]· Missing maths timeless blog http://valuetrue.blogspot.com - always searching for transparency champions who want to timeshare this editing space for connecting every measning of transparency, sustainability , transfroamtion and human inspiration· Peter Drucker on and on Paradigm ShiftValuing Future History, Q&A with UK's senior economist: debating superior economics, and survey of world class learning networks
24-May-2005
Dear Nikokai part 2
Mr Chris Macrae
The disaster introduced in previous post is caused by the fact that the governance of all our bigeest organsiations is subject to a mathematical error as detailed in this one-pager http://www.knowledgeboard.com/download/5794/Unseen-Wealth-Analysis-Kit.doc
The error (send me any mathematician who disagrees!) is caused by a paradigm shift from industrial to service economy and beyond to learning network economies. In the industrial economy, the perfect if cruel maths treated people as something that came last to invest in because machines were the greater differential advantage. Perpetuating this in a service economy where competent people multiply far more value differentiation than generic machines is an extraordinary economic and political mistake. It leads to "confusion" at the top. This is a technical system terminology. When a revolutionary change happens in the environment of a system, at least one thing that was perfectly right for the top people to control is no longer adequate. Failing to note this compounds more errors every measurement cycle. For 20 years people at the top of organisations have been missing out on the trust-flow control that rewards knowledge workers : their capital of life time, joy of learning a competence that they can do best, joy of sharing knopwledge , courage to tell the top that another change is coming. And boy do networks bring a lot of local chnages globally.
Also if you search "knowledge worker" you will come across a term with a precise origin "Peter Drucker". Unlike the confused term Knowledge Management, Peter used the term Knowledge Worker to mean that top people could no longer multiply value just by commanding and control; they would need to learn from people who were nearer to customers or local societies than their global top could ever be; and they would have to selectively collaborate across networks with every bit as much energy as they believe they need to compete. Gravity of purpose is an interesting human relationship energiser to organise around. Because when you model great gravities they are so unique that 2 organisations are in anywhere near as much competition as they used to be when stuck in single land or product catgories. Almost all of Porter's 80's strategic tomes make the wrong assumptions for context-rich gravities, a construct his book does not include. So knowledge workers will also have to openly re-edit startegy and include every diverse cultural perspective in such re-writing if we are to make the most of connecting 6 billion being's productivities rather than the least. The choice for a few more eyars is knowledge workers to make. If we make the wrong choice all networking systems will be spiralling out of sustainability even faster than Anderson's or Merck's, and that will not be good for anyone, though paradoxically it may be worst for people at the top.
28-May-2005 ScopesTextVirusExpert Nikolai KrjachkovChris, I think we use different scopes. People use (should use) knowledge not only when do WORK, but also when learn, buy, consume, teach kids, elect, etc. Therefore ‘knowledge person’ is more relevant to knowledge society (economy is its part) than ‘knowledge worker’. Let’s don’t separate work from life. Knowledge person as customer can influence a particular industry which use trained knowledge workers. For example, imagine – knowledge persons as customers start demanding bee honey instead of medicine. What will be with so called knowledge pharmaceutical industry and its stock market? This example demonstrates that a term ‘knowledge’ isn’t neutral (any crime includes knowledge) and if we are talking about global sustainability for everyone a definition of knowledge must include natural limitations. ‘Knowledge person’ could be a brand for healthy commodity. Who wants to co-develop this brand or KnowledgeBoard is only talking community?
28-May-2005
they shoot horses dont they?
Mr Chris Macrae
I am in no disagreement that the whole 21st C environment has changed - we need open learning for all citizens everywhere. However that is no reason why we should change the 25 years of meanings involved with the term knowledge worker.
By all means let's debate whether we need to change the term KM which I happen to believe would be more valuable if practised as Learning (Beyond Management). Breaking in horses - the literal derivation of management- is not how I prefer to treat co-workers, or reciprocally.
Benoit Couture , 8-Jun-2005 Invitation to considerStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, the EU knowledgeboard is a unique venue to keep on fostering ideas and dreams of ongoing embellishment and celabrations of innovations to better serve mankind with. Because I participated to this thread, I thought you might like to be informed of the following campaign I posted at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 It connects directly with the 5 century old European project called Canada, to negotiate peacefully in the never ending of French-English ambiguity who are yet to know how to deal properly with the Aboriginal hosts. Canada is the ongoing ground invitation to unite humanity at righting the wrong in peace and joy in the way that the United Nations aspire to do. We are deployed to become the training ground for the local scene, busy to innovate the maturity of a people of all people and I invite you to help me see it through for us all. Benoit
Superior Economics -Seeing the Emotional Intelligence of it All
valuetrue transparency communities & licensed associates assert property rights to this material. On completion of the 100 posts, an html blog version strictly for personal learning & co-editing is offered to KB members at the sepcial offer rate of 0.0 Euros. There's lot of good news coming up in the next 100 days, unless you are a hopeless lose-loser. Superior economics isn't just for the expert - it works transparently, sustainably, when everyone in an organisation can see how to produce it, feel it, know it. That's what trust-flow systemises. Networks locally, and globally! To prove how much good news there is for human beings and people-centric organisations, this thread will post 100 excerpts from a book that has taken a leading business journalist 5 years to write. Not because he's a slow writer but because all the points individually are simple as knowing your context gravity. But they will only make inferior economists redundant by connecting, and connecting... If this thread is of interest, the way to save the bother of coming back to this thread for each of the 100 new posts is to add a post yourself. If all you want to do is to register rather than express an opinion from the start, just hit the button and write hello (or if you prefer holo as friends of the holon system & holon network clubs) In contrast, look at the global accounting maths ruling and ruining potentially intangibles wealthy and people- rich companies (those that produce service economy and could have been highly motivated as purpose-sharing knowledge co-workers). It's monopoly rule is the operand of addition - separating, and separating, and separating. It's done such a powerful job - it has made various of the world's biggest organisations many conflicts deep. Leadership, when you are in such a vicious spin, becomes so system dizzy that as Ackoff explains the more you defend with the old strategic controls, the faster you will lose the last goodwill relationships you have. Even most of the so-called Built to Last companies have started turning viciously against their peoples and purpose during the last few years acccording to recent reports by world class strategy adviser Gary Hamel. But now the good news is coming out, there are only 2 choices for the future of organisations. Join all those who want to transform for sustainability. Or become ostracised, as valueless as the way you have been treating the trust of all the peoples you have been extracting from. Companies with no human purpose, compound nothing of value-true interest to people or markets. Let's see and rejoice in that.
KnowledgeBoard, 20-May-2005
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 08:07 AM Q&A 1 from JG AustraliaMr Chris MacraeQ1 I looked at your map and wondered why you had left out what I consider to be a critical component. For intangibles to be fully valued, either the asset itself a has a market sale value or the asset must lead to new initiatives that generate future cash flow. These initiatives or projects don't seem to feature in your map, yet in the majority of organisations we have looked at, they make up most of the market determined intangible value. A1 There are 2 views of intangibles – those who want to sell off parts, and those who perhaps as implied by the old word goodwill see the value multipliers as connecting the whole system. Mathematically, intangibles originally meant: all that is so humanly interconnecting that it cannot be measured the way that tangible separable things can. In other words, the unseen wealth of intangibles (the vast majority of all future compounding value) is seen in the integrity (minimal conflicts) of the human relations “trust-flow” system gravitating around the wholly unique purpose of the organisation. Sure our method clarifies more clearly than any other method how much that value is spinning up and down but not in a bits and piece way. Whenever accountants count only in bits they destroy intangibles, as Andersen did by not understanding that goodwill multiplies through every relationship- if you let your identity have zero value to society, all your business value becomes zero. In a networking world of value multiplication, bottom line arithmetic, that only uses the separation operand of addition, is the most risky thing you can monopolise governance of life by. Chrishttp://holonetwork.blogspot.comhttp://intangibles-valuation.blogspot.com
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 16:26 PM sep5Mr Chris MacraeAn alternative governance frameworkWhat we need, then, is not a better way of shoe-horning new and emerging challenges into old frameworks, but a new and different framework which follows its own logic. At its core lies the idea of whealth creation – that is wealth creation with the added ‘h’ for human, holistic and healthy. If wealth creation is about getting richer in financial and material terms, whealth creation is about different dimensions of enrichment. A whealth creating organisation recognises a simple, undeniable and unavoidable fact. We are already in the business of making more than money and products and services. In one sense, for example, organisations are already ‘making’ their social and natural environments, and they are either making them worse or better. So we have a choice. Do we want to make our environments worse by using up non-renewable resources and polluting air, water and so on? Or do we want to make them better? To be sustainable (i.e healthy) we need to look at the broader (i.e holistic) picture. Likewise, organisations are also already ‘making’ human lives and resources. The difference between physical resources such as pieces of metal and human resources such as knowledge, creativity or motivation is that when use a piece of metal, you consume it; you use it up. But using human resources such as knowledge, creativity and motivation are not only acts of consumption, they are also acts of production at one and the same time. Every minute of every day, organisations have a chance to deepen and extend the talent, scope and potential of the people who work with them. To broaden their experience. To boost each individual’s own personal bottom line – his or her sense of satisfaction, fulfilment and reward – at the same time as making things and money.
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Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 16:07 PM Amazon's previewMr Chris MacraeEditorial Reviews Book DescriptionTo survive and flourish, organizations must create win-win relationships with the people they deal with. This, in fact, is every businesses underlying purpose: to organize and connect different groups of people (customers, employees, investors, distributors, partners etc.) in a collaborative quest for a particular form of mutual value creation. Most thoughtful business leaders are well aware of this, yet rarely make profitable use of their knowledge for one simple reason: no one has yet managed to translate this rather abstract and generalistic insight into concerted, practical action. Until now. Value Multiplication Mapping does just that, providing professionals with the tools they need to discover the value of the people, knowledge, networks, culture, behaviours, brands, communities, and learning that form the basis of today's corporate value measurement.
Chris Macrae , 27 May 2005 @ 15:52 PM the new (network) world's 30 most valued corporationsMr Chris MacraeVarious networks of informed Unseen Wealth observers around the world are cooperating in the following transparency search. Look out for 30 of the world's largest 1000 organisations that can be valued because their leader has a transparent presentation which any other leader can openly use to make the superior economic business case. Here is example 1 of occasional series, -more important is your nomination for transparently hi-value sustaining organisational leadership frames if you have one: Ray Anderson Interface- Goodwill Business casing as he told it to 300 Londoners at Royal Society: Most of the time Ray tells founders and mission stories, and he uses the mount sustainability picture or a chinese whispers game style that I will describe below. He only brings out the engineer's system map occasionally to remphasise where a story he has just told fits on the map.The Chinese whisper game of sustainability is also called how to do business case to maximise sustainable profit. Put down two words on top of each other profit and sustainability. Now these are the 2 objectives- what word somes next if we are to profit from sustainability. As Ray's web shows saving money on waste not just by reducing it but discovering which of your waste is another sompanies input. So network transparency- becoming the cheer leaders for a whole newtork's value multiplication- enters in as the next line in the business case. Now what happens - all sorts of good people get atracted by this so let's add in people. In Ray's case: Interface is in top 50 favourite places in America to work - unheard of in a sector like Industrial carpets. See lots of godwill multiplying in society; people selling you on so you need to spend less on marketing. People coming to you with innovations. What you find is whatever story to tell next in multiplying value connects with a positive word. Emerging is a list of all the links in the business case all positive human realtionship connections spinning profitability. This is just another interpretation of goodwill attracts goodwills patterns as conversely does badwill. Any Harvard or other MBA who does not know how to construct a hi-profit business case through goodwill should be shown the carpte as fast as possible. Sadly if you look at this thread you will find the fashion over the alst 15 years started by global accountants (who I lived with for much of the 1990s) is to separate good relationships into parts. Because they never even see the system spin then are genetically incapable of measuring anything else but badwill business cases wherever their emasures are used to reward performance or to make the utterly nonsensical valuations of parts of intangibles like their brand algorithmsMore details on this case here.
Chris Macrae , 27 May 2005 @ 15:10 PM sep4 Mr Chris MacraeIt doesn't matter if you treat and measure a piece of metal simply as if it was a means to your own ends. What are you supposed to do? Strike up a conversation with it? But it does matter if you treat people in the same way. People bring a whole set of new and different considerations to the party: considerations that simply cannot be contained by the closed loop narcisstic purposes, methods and measures. For example, people bring social and moral judgements to the things organisations do, which cannot be calibrated by financial measures. And they have motivations, purposes and potential contributions (such as, say, creativity) which often react badly to instrumental attitudes and methods. So people-issues don't lend themselves to the hammer and nail treatment. They pose a different type of challenge that follows a different type of logic.
Chris Macrae , 27 May 2005 @ 13:07 PM Dont cry for me economicsMr Chris MacraeQuite an extraordinary event happened yesterday with 200 Londoners witnessing. Ironically it happened in a room that had been hired from the British Medical Association First someone in the panel reminded us of Unseen Wealth's research that economics and all accounting management measures now explain less than 20% of what future value or productivity compounds Then a guy who had introduced himself as being responsible for purchase selections of 1.5% of the British stockmarket said that as a pension funds representative he was under a legal duty to follow those numbers Next door to him, someone interjected perhaps that's why over the last 10 years pensioners to be would have better off in a building society with its interest rates If anyone feels like discussing the crisis world where most of us have no sustainable pensions then I am doing a starbucks/BBCIcan?RSA cafe on that on LondonPensions for peopleStarbucks 51 Great Russell Street London WC1Tuesday 7th June5.30 p.m.Contact:Chris [email protected] Cost- Free coffee etasting to cheer us all up before we do the courageous conversation bit This was only the first round of knowledge of economics implosion that happened to the 200 of us. I suggest the presence thread may help with some background understanding of how this isnt a peculiarly British blindness (though heaven knows those delegates to look after investemnts for the common people seem to be ruled by law that has gone far beyond being just an ass)
Chris Macrae , 22 May 2005 @ 16:11 PM SEP3 nothing as communally practical as a good mapMr Chris MacraeWith respect to Lewin, I believe he was wrong in saying that there's nothing as practical as a good theory, I far prefer a holistic map. For example, tell us if you would like to test out one of those big words - transformation, sustainability, management, etc -. At least this map enables us to ask that we question the word from the perspective of each constituency represented. I have noticed people spend hours talking across purposes about a word with different meanings to different disciplines without realising that that any actions they later enact will be different just because of this. Worse is the modern fashion deliberately to mislead. You will hear people making very mean decisions on the altar of shareholder value, but press these social controllers for a definition that makes transparent the timespan their analysis reflects and something stange happens. Usually they were not talking about a typical shareholder at all but the most rampant speculative type - who's as interested in pumping up an organisation to short it on the way down as anything else.Do we really spend our lives in organisations to serve people who are deliberately content in seeing the organisation destruct its purpose and future value once they have wound up trust to breaking point and bet against the company's future? The silence of the lambs has nothing on letting SVA rip as a measure to govern industries in your neighbourhood with. Meanwhile here are a few of the other reasons, our journalist loves the knowledge sharing honesty of maps: What Maps doMaps help people focus on what matters, at that particular time and occasion. They help people to:• see connections and relationships and to focus on the critical ones• place things in perspective• identify destinations, barriers and obstacles and ways round them• plan journeys• calibrate progress• communicate with others about all the above to generate shared understandingsDifferent types of map focus on different aspects of the same reality. We happily shift from one map to another, depending on what we are trying to achieve. Some maps show political boundaries. Others depict transport routes, weather systems, physical terrain or destinations of interest. Also, depending on the task at hand, different types of map depict different aspects of reality Technical note: more on the scale of the intangibles valuation crisis here, together with notes on scholars of law, and others trying to rectify this mass destruction of organisation.
Chris Macrae , 21 May 2005 @ 14:58 PM Superior Economics 2 SEP2Mr Chris MacraeConsider the productivity potential gained when a complete network of relationships aligns – so that what A does to keep his promises to B also helps him to keep his promises to C. In this case, we have a virtuous spiral where each party’s best interest is served by helping other parties achieve theirs. This is a positive game where each party has good reason to contribute to, and invest in, his relationships with the others, because that contribution will in turn feed the benefits he receives. In such a case the network has integrity, in both senses of the word. It works well as a whole, and it is trustworthy: it deserves the trust people who invest their precious assets and resources in it, because it gives a good return on their investment. Zing! Let’s invent a technical term for this: ‘zing’. When the potential of the people involved with the organisation is fully unleashed, everybody within its network ‘zings’ with energy. But generating ‘zing’ is not something that happens automatically. And it’s not something that happens simply as by-product of other management activities and priorities such as formulating and implementing strategies, improving productivity, driving sales and margins and so on. Generating ‘zing’ is a task in its own right – one which should encompass and influence everything else the organisation does. Zing is about creating virtuous wealth creating spirals. It is about organisations making the most of the people they come into contact with, in order to make the most for them. To build sustainable, value-creating environments (where ‘value’ is both economic and human) that are invigorating and enriching to work for, be a customer of, and do business with. To be a Type A organisation in other words. The narcissistic corporation Right now in the world of work however – especially profit-oriented business – there is miserable, hope-sapping, soul-destroying, cynicism-inducing but widespread and deeply embedded assumption that Zing is not possible... Holo!
suleman lodhi , 21 May 2005 @ 09:13 AM Humanist Systemssuleman lodhiDear ChrisIt is our responsibility as humans to work for the development of humanist systems. “That is if we want humans to survive” SmilesSuleman
Chris Macrae , 20 May 2005 @ 20:38 PM Superior Economics 1 - SEP1Mr Chris MacraeHolo! Consider two organisations. Which would you rather work for?A. An organisation which seeks to realise the full potential of the people who work for it.B. An organisation which uses its staff (and other people) simply as a means to its own ends. Which would you rather be a customer of?A. An organisation which seeks to prosper by helping its customers prosper.B. An organisation that seeks to make money out of its customers. Finally, as a citizen, which organisation would you prefer?A. An organisation which enriches its surroundings – its society, local communities, environment, etc?B. An organisation which profits by plundering the resources around it? If your answer is ‘B’ then clearly you’re a sad loser with no interest in reading or questioning the next 99 posts of superior economics.
Have you heard an exceptional story and how can we collectively verify it?
Have you heard an exceptional story and how can we collectively verify it? Chris Macrae
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Benoit Couture , 07 August 2005 @ 12:12 PM Perfect examplesStay at home dad Benoit CoutureThose are great examples to demonstrate how important it is to apply the concept that will take democracy from competing to completing before we go on with globalization that is infected with mindless competing. Habitat for Humaniy http://www.hfh.org/sponsor03.html is a special concept to help low income families to own their houses. They started using the geo-thermo energy to keep up with the heating of the houses. It is produced freely by the earth. That organisation has many volunteers from the legal professions such as judges and lawyers, who join in an effort to encourage the hand up concept of Friedman, as opposed to the hand out concept as from Keynnes. The reason that they go about doing their business quietly concerning their enrgy use, might have to do with their legal knowledge that mega interests might decide to clamp down on them, as mentioned in the previous posting. Their project and efforts should be universally branded and protected now and made used of, as one of the main part of the strategy to go from self-destruction to self-control to community self-governing. All the while, with a socio-cultural model fit to guide humanity from competing to completing.It seems like an ideal pet project for the EU and for all who wish to promote the local live structures of the global renewal. Lets put together the strategy in the open such as here on the EU KM Board and lets bring it to a point where decision-makers are then invited with complete debriefing, to openly ratify the processes into action. It would release us from the grip of speculation. In the process of a first decision being reached this way, there will be born the alliance between academia-technica-practica. As mentioned, we would bring to reality what is needed to:"ensure that professionals word became their bon again; all contract promises being recorded so any reaonable jury could see what each side expected and in terror situations, the clues delivered would be so rich that probably terrorists as well as corrupting professionals would go out of business"
Troy Rice , 07 August 2005 @ 10:44 AM personal mobile cctvA few years ago a lab in one of the world's top mobile infrstructure firms prototyped the feasibility of a personal cctv. Concept values were: Permit emergency switching on as discretely as patting your chest From then on everything happening around you would be started to a databank accessible by yourself and choice of eg lawyer, next of kin etc. Like with cctv, you would wipe 99.99% of content but the other .01% would: ensure that professionals word became their bon again; all contract promises being recorded so any reaonable jury could see what each side expected and in terror situations, the clues delivered would be so rich that probably terrorists as well as corrupting professionals would go out of business why did this lab not pusue this concep? certainly not NPD cost, all the work appears to have been done; its rumored that that the lab team were told the product did not fit the strategic plan of what businesses the cimpany was deciding to be in, and a patent blocks others from bringing this out.
Chris Macrae , 31 March 2005 @ 21:44 PM more from our expert part 2Mr Chris MacraeThat is where the discussion usually stops. However the real opportunity for a practical low cost and safe liquid fuel is rarely mentioned - but that future Bio Fuel http://solaroof.org/pmwiki6/pmwiki.php/SolaRoof/BioFuel is Bio Diesel http://solaroof.org/pmwiki6/pmwiki.php/SolaRoof/BioDiesel . This is the path to an alternative Hydrocarbon Economy rather than a Hydrogen Economy http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html - a realistic plan based on a truly massive production of low cost carbohydrate liquid fuel derived from Vegetable Oil, which is possible without any burden of investing in expensive new distribution - and the Bio Fuel will run hundreds of millions of existing diesel engines http://solaroof.org/pmwiki6/pmwiki.php/SolaRoof/FutureEnergy . The palm tree is the most productive vegetable oil producer of any land based plant - producing over a ton of oil per acre - while various seed and nut crops produce a thousand pounds per acre per year or less. In their projections, almost never do the doomsayer (LifeAfterTheOilCrash) energy experts consider the high productivity of our Biomass Production that could be harvested from urban roof areas - one of the Blue Green energy solutions. Michael Briggs, University of New Hampshire, Physics Department states: "Enough biodiesel to replace all petroleum transportation fuels could be grown in 15,000 square miles, or roughly 12.5 percent of the area of the Sonora desert (note for clarification - I am not advocating putting 15,000 square miles of algae ponds in the Sonora desert. This hypothetical example is used strictly for the purpose of showing the scale of land required). That 15,000 square miles works out to roughly 9.5 million acres - far less than the 450 million acres currently used for crop farming in the US, and the over 500 million acres used as grazing land for farm animals [only 3% of the 2.3 billion acres within the US, or 66 million acres, is categorized as urban land]." You can see the entire message at my Log. This will help to guide those who are interested in this breakthrough to understand how this photosynthesis based energy future is an integral feature of the SolaRoof approach to BUILDING a sustainable future. Comments are also welcome at my Log http://solaroof.org/pmwiki6/pmwiki.php/SolaroofguyLog/20050325 . Best regards to all, Rick
Chris Macrae , 31 March 2005 @ 21:43 PM more from our expert -part 1Mr Chris MacraeThanks for networking this question. I hope we get lots of feedback. I do have a new series of patents that will be filed soon on this subject. This patent activity will be undertaken for the purpose of locking as much as possible of the production knowhow into the Ethical Public Domain. Those who wish to support, invest or collaborate with my initiative are welcome to join a leadership team, which will be a workgroup of our LIFE Synthesis enterprise. Many discussion groups are concerned about the "end of oil" - we need to transform this fear and focus on solutions. I wrote to a group that discuss Contraction & Convergence with a message suggesting a reason for new hope and offering a practical path to the future of our dreams: Those that want to ultimately discredit Biomass energy will focus attention on Conventional Biomass Crops http://solaroof.org/pmwiki6/pmwiki.php/SolaRoof/BiomassCrops , which could never supply the world's existing and growing demand for energy. Forestry crops for wood energy have the very lowest energy supply potential and only non sustainable clear cutting and mono crop tree plantations can increase the rate of supply - but only to a limited extent since both forestry and agricultural crops (for methanol or ethanol) are very detrimental to the planetary ecology and biodiversity and are also dependent on non renewable petrochemical resources http://solaroof.org/pmwiki6/pmwiki.php/SolaRoof/ChemicalDependentAgriculture . The only other alternative for solar energy that is seriously considered today is PV. PV has a high financial cost, which is primarily the cost of embodied energy. The proposal for PV energy systems is not in my view an appropriate energy technology for communities that are poor. I would not even suggest that rich communities should invest in PV at this stage. PV, like nuclear, removes no CO 2 from the atmosphere and produces electrical energy, which adds the complexity and cost of electrical energy storage systems and delivery systems (like hydrogen or grid distribution) and the attendant utility cost and distribution losses. If the PV industry (now owned by big oil) wants market share they should do something to bring down the supply cost.
Chris Macrae , 31 March 2005 @ 06:53 AM provisional replyMr Chris MacraeOne of the things I revel in is declaring I am a total amateur in something. I love the innovation and people that are working in this area but the technicalities are outside my scope so I will refer your question on. So I dont feel there's any egg on my face in talking about this story until we can all see what the truth is. My understanding is that some of the breakthrough research was done at places like the University of New Hampshire. But the innovation was too big for traditional oil industry to bear. It brings an order of magnitude of economies and social benefits. Knowing of other such innovations being shelved by industries and governments, I can entirely believe this one has been surpressed too. The good news to emerge from this is that almost all the innovations have been turned into an open source community with many hundred now working on it in small applications that will be launched in many places at the same time. I did ask my friend how long it would take to get the algae producing all the oil America needs if everyone was willing to go ahead with it. Doable before 2010 was his answer. You can see why I wouold feel it is a big story that I ask we find a way to verify one way or another but openly...If anyone else has a big story they would just like verifying openly, I suggest this thread holds the space for that.
Guy Benchimol , 30 March 2005 @ 17:03 PM Market lawsMr Guy BenchimolYour story is very exciting and, insofar it is consistent with reality, I ask a few ingenuous questions: - Are there patents pertaining to this field?- Were feasibility studies already done?- Is it possible to form an idea of the ROI? - Are investors interested in growing algae and transforming them into oil? In the country of free enterprise, does the legislation prevent from producing new energy sources -namely sustainable ones- according to the MARKET LAWS? Methinks answers to the above questions would allow us to appreciate whether the process your story allude to is utopian or realistic.
Chris Macrae , 28 March 2005 @ 20:55 PM the most extraordinary story I've evere heardMr Chris MacraeI was told this story last Tuesday. Twenty people were listening to its telling, and none has yet been able to disprove it. I have also spent another 8 hours discussing it You may know that about 50% of the USA is unbuilt on. If we took about 5% of that area (deserts will do) it is possible to develop algae that produce through bio-diesel oil all the oil America needs and clean up the climate in the processes they use to make oil. If you have questions about this story and want them past on to its origin, I will happily do that. Chris MacraeIn ordinary weeks, this breaking news in my inbox would also seem exceptional. Since its theme is partly related, I thought I'd include it: The NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/opinion/27friedman.html March 27, 2005OP-ED COLUMNIST Geo-Greening by ExampleBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMANHow will future historians explain it? How will they possibly explain why President George W. Bush decided to ignore the energy crisis staring us in the face and chose instead to spend all his electoral capital on a futile effort to undo the New Deal, by partially privatizing Social Security? We are, quite simply, witnessing one of the greatest examples of misplaced priorities in the history of the U.S. presidency. "Ah, Friedman, but you overstate the case." No, I understate it. Look at the opportunities our country is missing - and the risks we are assuming - by having a president and vice president who refuse to lift a finger to put together a "geo-green" strategy that would marry geopolitics, energy policy and environmentalism. By doing nothing to lower U.S. oil consumption, we are financing both sides in the war on terrorism and strengthening the worst governments in the world. That is, we are financing the U.S. military with our tax dollars and we are financing the jihadists - and the Saudi, Sudanese and Iranian mosques and charities that support them - through our gasoline purchases. Finally, by doing nothing to reduce U.S. oil consumption we are only hastening the climate change crisis, and the Bush officials who scoff at the science around this should hang their heads in shame. And it is only going to get worse the longer we do nothing. "Right now, there are about 800 million cars in active use. By 2050, as cars become ubiquitous in China and India, it'll be 3.25 billion. That increase represents ... an almost unimaginable threat to our environment. Quadruple the cars means quadruple the carbon dioxide emissions - unless cleaner, less gas-hungry vehicles become the norm." All the elements of what I like to call a geo-green strategy are known...
Helen Martin , 28-Jul-2005 IP rightsHelen MartinHi Jacques, Rajesh and Benoit, Thank you for your comments which in turn raise interesting questions - it will be truly fascinating to see how IP rights develop. We have just had a new development here in Denmark. A copy of all material with the .dk domain, which is published on eletronic communication networks MUST be deposited with the state electronic archives. Furthermore, so must all material from outside of Denmark which is aimed at a Danish readership. The data will be harvested electronically. Do the other EU Nations have a similar legislation? Helen
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 27-Jul-2005 From ownership battles to owning up to lifeStay at home dad Benoit CoutureRajesh, your views are pointing in the same direction I was writing about this week on ownership. The personal ability to own up to whom and what each one is made of, in the context of co-operation, turns mathematics into the order of one plus one makes one. The organisation becomes an organism. We go from unlimited competing to completing so that as you point out, intellectual ownership no longer is a matter of who owns what but of what is the need, where and when? Intelligence owns up to intelligence and patent becomes a safe, ongoing stimulation and breathing of creativity and relevancy that pulsates healthy leadership to move with.
Rajesh Sulabha , 26-Jul-2005 Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) - Advanced Application of KM?Mr. Rajesh Sulabha Hi Helen,Thanks for the good and concise read. The progressing initiatives on the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) may help find solutions to many of the present day issues related to Patents; but presently it may be a complex, time consuming and expensive procedure. By year-end 2004 of PCT,"One million technical advances publicly disclosed, fueling technology transfer and stimulating still more innovation".http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/million/index.html PCT Statistical Indicators Report, May 2005http://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/statistics/patents/pdf/pct_monthly_report.pdf In my views, if such IP initiatives can find more cooperation among the national unions and industry-associations and forums, its a positive sign. So Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and similar ones may be considered as 'Advanced Applications of KM'. KM finds more life than its present image of making software KM-tools on Database Management packages and publishing. >>>> What will happen in the future? Will only>> the big organizations have the clout to>> protect their rights? Can patents still do >> what they were designed to do? I do not>> think so. It will become as difficult to>> enforce IP rights, etc.>>This will make us ask more questions on is it the 'Organizations(economy)' lead the 'nations' and 'national unions of interest' or the other way in the future? Is it growth of human civilization ('quality of life') independent of continents high priority (of organizations and nations) or is it 'showing the short living superiority (of organizations and nations)) over the weaker ones?' In the long run, if there is days of the human civilization in the future when the whole world become the "Organization and nation together" taking care each -one and -other as "employee and citizen" and everyone loves to contribute more for the collective overall growth, then, in my personal views, the concerns of protecting the rights and ownership will change to how fast one (or group) can make the innovation reach to the masses around. Once again thanks for the good article.best wishes,Rajesh.
Jacques SOUILLOT , 23-Jul-2005 KM sources and IP understandingJacques SOUILLOT Funnily enough when you carry out an Internet search on “Intellectual Property and KM” the results you obtain most often lead to warnings which tell you, more or less, that intellectual property must be protected and that information about innovations must be kept as secret as possible. Is the KM world totally paranoid? Could it be that one of the fundamental aspects of the system of patents, copyrights and so on, is being put aside? If intellectual property is protected it is because it is made known! If it were not officialized through the IP regulations it would become public just because of what is published or produced. Don’t forget that without the rules protecting innovations through patents and so on, it would be quite easy to just copy what has been put on the market (ever heard of back-engineering?). Could it be that the management of innovation is lacking some perspective at the level of patenting in the KM populations? A dire misconception revealing a serious lack of information in that domain… But of course a simple Internet search might not be absolutely trustworthy. In anycase, thanks again Helen for bringing the subject under the spotlights of KB2.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 4-Jul-2005 Rights of one versus what is right or with it?Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureHi Jaques, The enforcing of one's rights that you begin with, connects with the moral aspect you raise. The word moral, as you employ it in relation to the rights of an individual to his own work, is a matter of absolute. In the relationship between a Micheal Angelo or Leonardo D'a Vinci and those who got them to say ok, I'll do it, there had to be a way of interacting that respected, supported and stimulated the inspiration and the genius of the artist. O)therwise, there would not be their work to be seen. But at some point, the artist needed to deliver, as of a delivery of himself into thes ervice of his genius into talents and skills. Therefore, the way to safeguard the rights of the author, is to insure as a society that the author gets granted with all that is needed to carry out the aims and purposes of the particular authorship needed to bring on completion of its reasons and purpose of authoring. This way, in time, individual ownership will fleurish in communal, self-governing initiatine and ventures, away from the pressure of competition and with the benefit of humanity being recovered and enhenced at the office as well as home. As individuals, our rights are limited to the service we do. The true reward is to be and do what keeps the joy of living healthy. It is by going on serving in full integrity that what is right goes on spreading. The benefit of spreading welbeing and welfare is the reward. of our right to contribute to humanity.
Helen Martin , 4-Jul-2005 Illegal substancesHelen MartinHi BenoitYou raise an interesting point - but it goes to support my statement that it is very difficult to enforce one's rights. Patents are published to inform about what has been invented and the process involved. In the case you mention, the rights of whoever worked out how to produce the mind-altering/destroying substance (if it was ever patented) are being abused. But what can be done to enforce the inventor's rights? It really is a moral dilemma.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 2-Jul-2005 SuggestionStay at home dad Benoit CoutureHelen, you ask: "What will happen in the future? Will only the big organisations have the clout to protect their rights?" Intellectual property rightsmakes sense to protect the knowledge that can go in the wrong direction. As a current example: Where we live, there is this receipe on the internet, made of house hold products which, once put together under the guidance of that knowledge, becomes crystal meth, they call it. Along with crack cocaine, it is the most destructive street power ever seen. From this example of a plague, to the isolated maniac who will spend a life time gathering the components for causing disasters of any kind? So the handling of securuty is where intellectual property rights is imperative. This is a matter of health in the socio-cultural environment. Security and the collective advancement of personal justice, peace and joy is where the ownership of knowledge needs to be framed. The context to fully participate, to enjoy and to celebrate making life better for everyone is the reward of the inventor. Of course, when profit is involved, then the inventor out to be granted all the freedom to proceed at will, with the support, into more inventions that will help him or her to fullfil the life time thread of contributions. The safety of sanctity must secure knowledge distribution, so that the open soure does not get poluted nor infected.
Jacques SOUILLOT , 1-Jul-2005 Bravo Wipo!Jacques SOUILLOT The WIPO (World International Property Organization) web site offers a very interesting, exciting presentation of everyday life seen through the eyes of a specialist of IP. It is called "Intellectual property in everyday life - a virtual tour" http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/athome.htm That is when you realise we do not live in a simple three dimension world!
Helen Martin , 28-Jun-2005 CopyrightHelen MartinI received the following additional information from Brian Hoolahan and think it may be of interest to others -it certainly is to me! Hello Helen, I read your piece on KnowledgeBoard which was a good description of how things are in the IP protection world. However, the power of 'Copyright' protection is a lot stronger then many imagine - although the problem has always been 'Prove Copyright existed at a certain point in time'. The areas you mentioned that cannot be patented: discovery; scientific theory or mathematical method; aesthetic creation such as a literary, dramatic or artistic work; scheme or method for performing a mental act, playing a game or doing business; presentation of information, or a computer program. Four of the five above can be protected by Copyright - or 'Authors Rights'. You do have Copyright but officially no real protection. This is however always down to a legal court to decide whether or not you have 'protection'. But the whole process of any copyright protection begins with the fact that you should be able to prove the origin of the copyright. Brian C Hoolahan, CEO, File-Reg International
Can KnowledgeBoard transform the KM world?
The transformational role of KnowledgeBoard:An online discussion and a face to face workshop at the ECLO conference in Birmingham on May 24th 2005. KnowledgeBoard is the largest Knowledge Management community in Europe and possibly in the world with 12,000 members, 25,000 visitors per month and a rich live library of some thousand documents. It offers its members a wide range of channels for knowledge sharing – for example physical and virtual events, special interest groups, newsletters, summer schools and summer camps.But, what is the next big frontier? In this workshop we invite people from academia and industry to help us envision together a much more challenging role for KnowledgeBoard. We will try to discover together if and how KB can:· take an active role in the transformation of the knowledge management discipline (why? how? into which directions?)· take an active role in the transformation of the knowledge management community and increase significantly its intellectual capital?· Contribute to the main stream KM thinking, or perhaps be more on active on the fringes of this discipline· Or maybe disrupt good old Knowledge Management, and invent a new paradigm and line of thinking?The face to face workshop will take the shape of a knowledge café at the European consortium for Learning Organisation conference, on 24 May 2005. ECLO event details page The face to face workshop will be facilitated by Ed Mitchell and Thomas Schael from KnowledgeBoard. And,it will actually start 2 weeks before the ECLO conference, right here and now, in an open pre-conference virtual discussion in the KnowledgeBoard forums facilitated by Ron Dvir, KnowledgeBoard events co-ordinator. Event discussion space in the KnowledgeBoard forums We hope that this mix of online/physical event may yield some really interesting, perhaps even breakthrough ideas. The results will be fed back to the whole community, and used in the process of establishing KB strategic direction beyond 2006. So, dear KnowledgeBoard members – what do you think: Can KB transform the KM world – and if so, how?
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Report from the KB workshop at the ECLO conference, 24 May 2005. (08-Jun-05)
KnowledgeBoard, 11-May-2005
Hi all,
the workshop at ECLO's conference was very small but interesting. We did a brief summary of the pre-conference preparation and comments and asked the attendees what they wished to discuss.
The focus of interest was the more immediate application of KB for professionals rather than the larger picture as opened up in some of the previous comments - attendees at the workshop were much more interested in the application of tools and techniques, and hearing stories from other 'do-ers' on KnowledgeBoard than discussing the larger issues.
The main points of discussion were:
1. The introduction of commercial interests
2. Working the public and voluntary sectors
3. Case studies as vital
4. One member's feedback
5. KnowledgeBoard and 'KM' communities
I have written this up in a document, which I have attached to this story, or you can email me and I will happily send it on.
Benoit Couture , 2-Jul-2005
If truth be told in love, key to KM
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Salut everybody of KM, may I suggest a round table between academia, technica and pracrica. The aim of this table is to become the kitchen table of the KM's quest for the universal home of humanity. The round table begins by identifying one topic where all 3 are practically involved and where KM becomes the conduit that connects the 3 from complexity to simplicity, from separation to completion and from stranger to family. Each of the 3 represents a voice for individuals to identify with, be it as observer or participant. The permanent theme is: "Lets live to know, so that we may know to live." The aim of the industrial age and of technology has always been driven by the promise of making life more simple and easier for everybody. The greatest push ever seen by humanity in that regard was brought on by the collective dream of never going to war again after the 2ww!? Why is simplicity getting more complex and why are the tools of knowledge stimulating so much isolation, compulsive behaviours and socio-cultural disintegration of the human fabric in the West? The journey from the formality of the round table to the simplicity of the kitchen table will serve to deploy the Faculty of living. Given the right context, we can all learn to live; we cannot teach each other to live; such is the mystery of the Faculty of living. Hunger to learn is from being alive. We can experience, feed and spread life but we cannot explain life into being. The organic opening to the spiritual source restores and maintains our being alive: that is the essence of KM at the purest level. So for the core to develop, we need the Curriculum of humanity's Recovery Road! As a lead, I propose the motion that EU Knowledgeboard establishes the round table of academia, technica and practica. The purpose of their existance is to build the conduit from the divided state of knowledge to the intimate, personalized serenity of the kitchen table where each resolution is welcome to be debated, to help ease the 3 pillars of knowledge to become integrated as one, conceiving the embryo of all needed decision making for the Home's blossom of Humanity’s Faculty of Living.
Do you know how to vision & do we know how to vision?
Do you know how to vision & do we know how to vision? There is at least a suggestion that this community has less than 20% common understanding of how to vision = let's see if we can raise the bar! You might have to share google with me, and of course if any of you would share your google with me too we could be a COV - Community of Vision Chris Macrae
KnowledgeBoard, 18-May-2005
In doing post 1, did you discover this : Core Purpose3M To solve unsolved problems innovativelyBoeing To push the leading edge of aviation, taking on huge challenges and doing what otherscannot doMerck To preserve and improve human lifeNike To experience the emotion of competition, winning, and crushing competitorsTelecare To help people with mental impairments realize their full potentialTeaching Co To ignite in all people the passion for learningEU To atone for world wars by nations collaborating in peace and transparent economicsSony To experience the sheer joy of advancing and applying technology for thebenefit of the publicBecton-Dickinson To help all people lead healthy livesWalt Disney To make people happyFannie Mae To strengthen the social fabric by democratizing home ownershipTimes Mirror To contribute to the performance of the communities we serveMarriott To make people away from home feel they are among friends and really wantedMary Kay To give unlimited opportunity to womenMcKinsey To help leading corporations and governments be more successfulTaylor Corp To provide entrepreneurial opportunity and security for our peopleWL Gore To have fun doing innovative things that make moneyIsrael To provide a secure place on Earth for the Jewish peoplePatagonia To be a role model and tool for social changeUniv. of Texas To transform lives through inspired learningWal-Mart To give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people Part 2:which entry was not in original list Part 3:Do you know simply what the founder promised this institution would live or die by
Benoit Couture , 08 June 2005 @ 03:37 AM Invitation to considerStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, the EU knowledgeboard is a unique venue to keep on fostering ideas and dreams of ongoing embellishment and celabrations of innovations to better serve mankind with. Because I participated to this thread, I thought you might like to be informed of the following campaign I posted at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 It connects directly with the 5 century old European project called Canada, to negotiate peacefully in the never ending of French-English ambiguity who are yet to know how to deal properly with the Aboriginal hosts. Canada is the ongoing ground invitation to unite humanity at righting the wrong in peace and joy in the way that the United Nations aspire to do. We are deployed to become the training ground for the local scene, busy to innovate the maturity of a people of all people and I invite you to help me see it through for us all. Benoit
knowledge management
please can you tell me what are the concepts of knowledge managements? divya krishnaraj
KnowledgeBoard, 20-Jul-2005
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 24 May 2005 @ 13:54 PM The sound of visionStay at home dad Benoit CoutureVision comes to those who exercise themselves to see what they hear, as they listen, who learn to see what is said and who enter in the experience of simple perceptual connection with the wide open personal completion to the moment's happening. As one develops the maturity of full participation with the moment, so does the perceptual envisioning dexterity. From the normalization of envisioning into one's perceptual connection getting firmly established in the daily living, then comes the invisioning. The invisioning is the imagination's inner screen lighting up in context of where the envisioning grows. To envision is to become aware from soaking in the atmosphere. To invision is the focus coming in contact with the natural deployment grown from the whole envisioning atmosphere I soke in daily. The essence of vision is from the personal relatedness development in its whole simplicity of perceptual connection of the moment. The sign of a vision is confirmed when it gets communicated in the context that it addresses and that the focusing message lights up a healthy stimulation of the imagination screen and creativity from each listener's own personal perceptual relatedness. It is also recognised from the pure joy of effortlessly knowing beyond any possible argument, Benoit Couture
]Benoit Couture , 20 July 2005 @ 18:01 PM KM begining is yet to be defined Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Divya, Corinna and Guillian, Since Feb. 2002, I have been moving on the internet via email with complete transparency, in order to reach the powers that be, to try and to bring a governance initiative to their attention. I have no education, only a strong sense of direction, as a stay at home dad of a young woman who is part of the first generation who will outlive their parents, when born with a degre of disability such as she has. Three months ago, I was guided to certain links which took me to the heart of technical terminology and operations of open source KM. Now, as a non-educated voting stay-at-home-dad citizen, I have received enough mentoring to now reach for the opportunity to help mapping a beginning for open source KM, with no more decosion-making behind closed doors. In other words, KM has yet to break through the damm before it reaches its own true beginning. Creation and innovetion are that beginning. When a damm breaks open, the start takes a long time, but once the first feew trickles come through, then gravith quickly fininshes the opening. Why not make room to bring on all possible elements and angles to help to build the pressure and to break free as of Mr. Clinton's conference. This would link directly into the inspiration and guidance that would reassure Dinya's quest into KM. It would provide a footing for Guillian and I to be framed in context and it would allow for Corinna to remain objective and cautious, as we certainly must make sure of, at all time.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 20 July 2005 @ 15:47 PM Open Sourced KM and Mr. Clinton (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Guilian, the 3 days conference of Mr. Clinton should be his personal invitation to a fresh start of his own personal healing and recovery from Western society's stress and compulsive behaviors. Humanity needs to witness the personal(local and communaal(global) apprenticeship on how to go from spiritual stranger to family, free from the temporal bias of blood and flesh. The general tragectory is to go from self-destruction to self-contrlo to community self-government. We need from Mr. Clinton how to toilet train the market economies and to cure the markets that are alergic to self-sufficiency. The conference ought to be the turning on of the light of open source KM, with that weekend a the start of a transparency implementation. This will only happen if BBC and CBC are allowed to take on immediatly the permanent promotion of the conference and the on-air central feed for the deployment to all other networks.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 20 July 2005 @ 15:46 PM Open Source KM and Mr. Clinton (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Mice and EU KM Board members, I am microscopically growing at Minciu Sodas lab and I seek and find my macro alignment with the Mice and I promote on KM on EU KM Board. There has been great development of focus recently at the lab. John Lennon stood up and spoke up as a witness of the personal summit which is available to us all. The name "summit" has been applied at Minciu to describe the following: Christ on earth among His people means that the world is given the spiritual nature to deploy restorative justice and community mental health, from the Spirit who feeds inner justice, peace and joy. Every idealogy I have known runs out of steam, sooner or later. The spiritual nature does not run out. I have met so many idealists who are spiritual but who do not relate to any religious language at all. They know and that is enough for them and they do go on with all the steam needed, while religious minded people fall short of stamina. My personal reason to specialise in the New-Testament is because of the official nature of the calling I follow. I still aim to bring forward the initiative of ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... in order to facilitate the participation of her majesty Queen ElisabethhII as the Defender of the Faith, as well as the Vatican and Mr. George Bush on their official restoration of their respective Offices, into the experience of organic spiritual unity. In the name of Christ, there is the ground and the authority to guide us all to the holy renewal of organic spiritual unity. Every idealist benefits from seeing humility at work to teach the higher levels of decision-making on how to unite from the open Source into the genuine service to God and humanity. In that sense, we are very well equipped at Minciu Sodas to go on serving and to facilitate the culture of all good will on earth, the Faculty of Living. Let us not preach but rather, let us be free to be and to become, on and on, far away from any possible dogma mentalities; such is the joint-reality of our biology, when we are spiritually healthy... Anders, Ed, do not hesitate to delete this posting if it trespasses the Mice's guidelines. I thought important to link Minciu Sodas lab and the Mice on the basis of the summit, from beyond the negative reach of our differences, where justice, peace and joy rule in our spirits and hearts and where reconciliation is the ongoing live pulsation of the moment, whenever that might be.
Gillian Bush , 20 July 2005 @ 08:59 AM How many &'s does a sustainable organistion's purpose systemise in managing managementMs Gillian BushHow Open is the Source of KM? There will always be hierarchy but if you value people in an organisation how do you make the most of hierarchy &people's greatest passions to make a difference. Clinton is calling for a 1000 leaders to come up with new interactive answers to this http://clintonglobalinitiative.com -the potentially the greatest global KM so far staged or society's rights in an organisation (given that societies invest in learning, health, natural & cultural resources, safety of beings, infrastructures like knowledge cities and zero digital divides...) and does a vibrant industry sector have organsiations that are great border players with other organisations (in effect synergetically mangaing each other). This is a knowledge flowing idea whose time has come if you want to make the most of the internet and globalsiation. The webbed like nature of the internet's most valuable innovations should be obvious. Globalisation's requirement that organisation's systems are great at their boundary interfaces is less well known. It turns out that quality of sustainability depends on realising that one organsiation's (waste) output is another's input. The business case for sustainability depends on whether you value life itself. Nobody is clearer about the economic and cultural necessity of designing this into the view you hold of knowledge managemnt of the world's largest organisations than Ray Anderson chairman of Interface here. Will we have the living system knowledge to share Ray's changes to economic strictures in time?http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/iadmin.cgiAt the end of the world, the way we chose to value people's productivity and transparency of diversity will be down to failing to enable every person's most productive connections in playing a trustworth role in KM. Will the largest policies be changed in time? When the likes of even George Bush says for the sustainability of Africa he will change America's agricultural policy if Europe will change its, many humanitarian networks, media, societal leaders, religions & superstars wait with bated breath to see what quaility of KM Brussels is truly capable of. GB
Guy Benchimol , 20 July 2005 @ 08:02 AM Mapping conceptsMr Guy BenchimolDivya, Here are some maps to begin with (they were elaborated in another thread thanks to IHMC's courtesy): http://skat.ihmc.us:80/servlet/SBReadResourceServlet?rid=1110739012921_1791199579_2695&partName=htmltexthttp://skat.ihmc.us:80/servlet/SBReadResourceServlet?rid=1110635429781_130278608_2166&partName=htmltexthttp://skat.ihmc.us:80/servlet/SBReadResourceServlet?rid=1112303497476_1056069109_4404&partName=htmltext (Some icons allow you accessing by clicking specific documents for more details) This may be a basis for a future discussion. All the best Guy
Benoit Couture , 15 July 2005 @ 15:37 PM What lead is to be followed?Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureQUIETNING SILENCE of PATIENT WISDOM Dear Guillian, may I feed back into your dream in this thread here, until we see it come true and through? With my approach to a healthier humanity, I find myself where no one can deny, avoid nor contradict what I suggest, but it can only happen from the inspiration that metamorphoses the old order of divide-conquer and command-control into the experience of spiritual unity. A dream comes true when we are two to believe in it. Here is a thought on how to head with some lead. Open source knowledge management is the reason the EU sponsors the EU Knowledge Board. We don’t want to tick them off. Yet, the fact is that open source can potentially mean disaster if the wind begins blowing in the wrong direction, so caution is the key word to start. That being said though, the open source's mission at EU KM Board is to guide public and private intelligence to find a way out of the hands of security and secrecy and into the hands of transparency and wisdom. In order to do so, why don’t we start giving shape to focus with the likes of a daily round table, one for each 7 days of the week, where each topic would go on once a week until completion of the exhaustive process? One key topic to the EU board's vision and purpose a day, to set the tone and the atmosphere of civility's limits in effecting the transitions on all fronts of the Faculty of Living from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government. The format sees a moderator and two opposite views that must be addressed but need some coming together for eventual mass media announcements of consensus reached in the cool setting developed by the EU KM Board. Just imagine our first Monday roundtable moderated by Daly Lama and Bill Clinton, inviting the Middle-East leaders for decision-making sessions. Each sitting allows the 13000 members of the EU to upgrade to intimate circuit video KM Board and to volunteer to research and to activate either the solutions discussed at each sitting, thereby furthering the next week's sitting with either solutions implementation's reports or more focused questions to help reach the target. Seven days a week of decision-making round tables. We have the tools, do we have the sacred fire to ignite justice and peace on earth from out own EU KM Board!!! Our leaders are begging for a lead and it is time to rescue intelligence from permanent insults. Let's open the Source...Shall we?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 15 July 2005 @ 14:24 PM Symphony of threadsStay at home dad Benoit CoutureThe EU KnowledgeBoard is equipped to civileze civilization with the tools to engage all sections of the world's societies in the renewal of democracy from home to education to governinig to business. Here are a few threads I see helping such symphony of human perceptions and community. Democracy must learn to accomodate consensus; here's some threads to help do so. http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=129672&d=pndhttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=142410&d=pndhttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=114995&d=pndhttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=110941&d=pndhttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2911http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2990http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=142321&d=pndhttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=141351&d=pnd
Gillian Bush , 15 July 2005 @ 00:06 AM loving 30000 action projects to make poverty historyMs Gillian BushI would nominate this 30000 project thread as one I would most recommend to people. I find it quite amazing that a network of storytellers can have been exploring for 21 years the scenario that 2005 would be year of living globalisation most dangerously - needing to find 30000 win-win-win projects which started to make poverty history (if terror and other unsustainable impacts of rich and poor divides in an intimately conncting world are to be sustainable. ) The knowledgeboard's membership's response to this thread seems meagre. That said,recently we have the good news that 30000 at a stroke seems much more reachable now that leaders like Clinton are committing to 1000 action projects each. see the Clinton global initiative in September where 1000 world opinion leaders are invited to attend but only if each commits to leave with an action project. You would have thought spreading the news of such a growing catalogue of action projects was the nearest to 0 degrees of separation that the net and blogs were made for. Or do I miss something about what excites you all by knowledge management including its fringes, communal open spaces and PKM responsibilities?
Chris Macrae , 8-Jun-2005
Games Communities
Have you tapped into the knowledge of games designers and educators? A first look at your partners seemed not to go through to games developers themselves though included some of the channels that distribute games. Or have I misunderstood the level at which you seek to analyse visual content dynamics and interactions
Benoit Couture , 8-Jun-2005 My mistakeStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and people of aceMEDIA, my apologies for the confusion. In my hurry to connect the dots toward my next step, I misread the info on the type of productions being discussed in the thread. I'll see to it that the mistake ends up contributing to the apprenticeship along the way. Thanks for your patience with innocence, Benoit
Benoit Couture , 7-Jun-2005 How about a story of success in the making at EU knowledgeboard.comStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings,As a Canadian citizen born of the European colonizating effervency from within the political paradox made of the federal forces of monarchy's generosity toward people's self-governing and of provincial confederalism powers seeking the pre-eminency of the right to be fully themselves in order to be the best possible part that can be made of "I" for the whole of us all in the experience of spiritual unity, it would seem that the only ingridient missing to work as the catalyst, is the intellectualk honesty in regards to the fact that for a long time, there has been no knowledge left to aquire in orser to activate the dynamics of equality, liberty and fraternity! Would you consider joining in my personal dream to make a success of tools like the EU knoledgeboard such, that our collective awakening into its potential shall be from here on the reason for Europe, the Americas, the Commonwealth, the francophonie and all of Europe's real contribution to humanity to get ourselves together enough to deal with who we actually are in this world in relation to Asia, Africa and the Middle East? For more info see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 Benoit
Thank you for your contributions to this article. Actually, I am looking for success stories that took place in the past and *not* how KnowledgeBoard could contribute to your personal success in the future.
Please focus on success stories that clearly show how KnowledgeBoard contributed to your personal success in the past.
Thank you.
Benoit Couture , 16-Jun-2005
recent personal success of the EU Knoledgeboard
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Dear Rene, I became acquainted with the EU open source KB only a few weeks ago, when I was seeking to invite her majesty, Queen ElisabethII's attention to an opportunity that exists for the Crown to help the world with in Canada. I started my campaign in 2002 with no formal education as I dropped out of high school in grade 10 in 1976. "I went to seek knowledge that they would not teach me in colledge" as the singer of The Police, Sting sings out. The more I got acquainted to the real world on my own terms, the more I realized how much of a difference there is between knowledge and awareness. So much knowledge and yet so little awareness of our essential needs as a speicies and how to make room to such "awareness knowledge". And so at 47 years old, my success story is to have been allowed to express my awareness at the fore front of where humanity is doing its very best to release the future in the hands of justice and open source as opposed to go on with the past oppressions of the "command and control" structure. So if EU KB accept and embark with me and my family in making this story relevant as an ongoing succes story working in paralel together, me from Alberta, Canada, to the open source from Europe, who knows, we might just tap into the experience of spiritual-organic unity in such a way as to ignite the healing of meaning, of being and of living from stanger to family instead of going striving from stranger to business. Here is my last entry of this morning, in order to keep in step with the unfolding and stimulation of our past success...
http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=142212&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y Benoit17
Marketing KM or KM Communications?
The Asian Development Bank adopted in 2004 a KM framework. An also approved Information Systems and Technology Strategy is dealing with the IT components of KM. Knowledge capture, sharing and transfer, i.e. by disseminating lessons learned, are important components of this KM framework. Throughout the organization KM Coordinators are nominated. They have requested training materials which they can use to articulate the concept of knowledge management in their departments. We are not looking for theoretical concepts of KM but practical instructions and things KM Coordinators can do within their respective departments to raise awareness and supports the importance of having KM coordinators in this initial adoption phase. Does anyone of the KM community has a clear communication plan, useful training materials? Daan Boom
KnowledgeBoard, 15-Jun-2005
Chris Macrae , 16-Jun-2005 cultureMr Chris MacraeYes - to share or not to share is part of culture- and there's quite a lot of research that shows that people's first few months in an organisation shapes most of what they feel the culture is about
Toby Howard , 16-Jun-2005 Engage with users and deliver something they needToby HowardHi,I work for a multinational organisation. In the past we've tried something similar to what you appear to be doing. We've appointed Net Managers who's job has been to promote intranet use and knowledge sharing. It never really took off because there was no compelling reason for people to share knowledge. As KM practitioners we understand the value of sharing knowledge but most other people don't even think about it.An approach that is now working for us is to focus on specific job functions (ie marketing) and to work with them to identify their knowledge needs. That way, you can identify quick wins that will make their lives easier (either by saving them time or helping do their jobs better) thus demonstrating the value of a knowledge-sharing approach. Once you have demonstrated value you will find that k-sharing activity will become entrenched in those that benefit and you have compelling success stories to persuade those who are less willing to operate in the way you wish. So, in essence, deliver something first and then use the success to persuade the laggards.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 16-Jun-2005 Serenity of simplicityStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings people, KM is about people learning the simplicity of being and of becoming with the help of the complicated machine which duplicates complex functions of the human brain. The reason why artificail intelligence has grown so much in the first place, was to simplify the "command and control" capacities. Now KM is confusing all that because KM is about people who are trying to break free from such a state of order. "Relate, trust and innovate toward self-geverning to live and to let live" is in conflict with the boundaries of "command and control". In French, knowledge has 2 avenues of meaning. One is to be informed and to other is to be acquainted. Home life and the education curriculum have developped for 14 centuries under the command and control order of military intelligence under one form or another, prying knowledge and acquaintance apart. US tax payers are going to spend 440 billions on that intelligence this year alone. KM is allowing people to see another direction possible but are faced at the same time with the inner conditionings of the ruling order who does not know how to transit from the present formality of the public and private sectors business protocols to the transparency of complete access and high-trust flow. It is up to the people to either move on and out of the command and control order or else as some suggest, go on watching ourselves getting surrounded in a global elctronic command and control police state. My hope for KM, is that we will cause the command and control structures to get to see democracies and other regimes like China, coming to terms with the fraud we have been and go on being to ourselves, when it comes to treating each other with the devotion of truth and love. If Havard reading on KM reaches Mr. Clinton's effort in September by bringing to the fore front such a position, then we might set sail to mature our way into complete simplifying of life style by the renewal mode of relating to each other humbly. By fostering KM like that, we will provide the service to guide self-governing out of the consequences of that old oppressing grip, so as to expand life in the comfort from home to school, instead of the other way around. Let's keep talking, it is happening for more and more people... Benoit17
Denham Grey , 16-Jun-2005 SuggestionsDenham GreyRead these books: Collison & Parcell "Learning to fly" - how they got KM started at BP Von Krogh, Ichijo & Nonaka "Enabling knowledge creation" - starting conversations and empowering staff to adopt KM.
Chris Macrae , 15-Jun-2005 chartering communications/identity architectureMr Chris MacraeThe method I would try first is developing quizzes at an interdisciplinary level. These can become joint workshops which connect people's ideas and commitments to:what technology can dowhat we need real meetings to share experiences aroundwhat we are pursposefully developing for the future as well as what we are serving now Between 1990 to 1995 I developed these quiz formats for brand communications (instead of KM) though the same sorts of principles apply because the aims whether you use technology as media - or all other conversational spaces as media - is to open up everyone's emotional commitments to an organsiation's biggest goals as well as the neccessities it must achieve to be sustainable. What ICT you embed is what conversation and learning architecture you will have to live with. Our experiences since 1990 suggest that: Architecture should never be installed in bits, rather than wholes or modular holons; and never be driven by the business cases of the architectural supplier rather than the people whose lives -and networking connectivity - will be structured (liberated or confined) by ;, and never be closed out through jargon, legalese and other complex and non-adaptable ways of governing relationships instead of making maps as simple and transparent for all knowledge workers to use, and future-emerge with More on the quiz format whiich we call chartering here http://www.valuetrue.com/home/glossary.cfm?letter=c If a group of people specifically wanted to develop chartering only around KM's media as opposed to integrate all media, we could edit the language and open source the chartering notepads to use so that everyone has access to the same core information documents as well as the open right to linking their next questions
Guy Benchimol , 15-Jun-2005 Tools for workMr Guy BenchimolNow you got the tools you have to use them;inside each department, the coordinator has to discuss with the head in order to explore what he is waiting from his collaborators. This is the first stage of the study which aims to model the activities and tasks in a hierarchical way (more and more detailed zooms). Once this has been done, you have to search for the necessary knowledge to implement the tasks and use the KM tools to bring it to the people who do the work. Methink it is clear enough but if you wish, we may study a peculiar example.
Information Technology & KM
Hi Folks (Newbie Here) I'm currently reading a book called Havard Business review on KM. I can't really grasp what KM is - can anyone help? Is there a relationship between IT & KM? Are there any KM tools? What do Leonard & Straus mean "Putting your company's whole brain to work" - Is that by using left brain & right brain workers (creative abrasion) How does KM contribute to product innovation - Would that be, by using everyones input into the product. Wouldn't that be to much to handle if you had a large company? Any help would be much appreciated. Stephen Hurley
KnowledgeBoard, 15-Jun-2005
'Segun Odujebe , 29-Jun-2005 Its About People and Making Knoewledge ExplicitDr 'Segun OdujebeDear All, I think a few core issues have been higlighted by the various comments. Focus is on people. You can't have organisations or systems without people. The keyword is knowledge. As contrasted with information, knowledge implicitly recides inside people. The primary goal of KM above all is encourage the expression of "context specific" knowledge in an explicit form that can be accessed at the point of need. The basic process is that upon access by another individual context can be added to it based on what the individual does with that knowledge. Where IT systems come in really is in providing platforms that act as interfaces in this human to human interaction. Due to the immense computing and integration power now available, KM is now being pursued as almost purely related to IT. Stephen, putting your company's whole brain to work is about making most of the knowledge inside people and your systems as explicit as possible so that the repository of it can be accessed to impact on decisions and the mission. Thats the little I 'll like to contribute.
Shashi Kadapa , 20-Jun-2005 KM covers all facets of our life, read the analogy to know howContent Manager, KMI Shashi KadapaHi Stephen, Pl allow me to contribute in my own small way: Let's use an anlogy. Everyday suppose you go out for a morning jog. You have been doing this for quite sometime and know all the little paths and know which lanes are safe, have the right incline, etc. and may be know which paths those cute girls use.. So when a friend asks you for advice, you have everything mapped in your brian and all you need to do is spell it out or put it down on paper, or an email and send it to your friend. Well Stephen, welcome to the KM club. You have just developed expertise on a process, mapped it, documented it, shared it with others and spread knowledge. Your friend, if he is enterprising, will experiment with the info, find some more paths and pass on that info. So between the two you have set up a knowledge network! Translate this into real life, the world of biz and you can apply it anywhere. IT, hospitals, defense, Manufacturing and so on. Infact, anywhere where experience and previous learnings help others. When many poeple share their knowledge, the results are tremendous. That is what probably Leonard & Straus meant when they said "Putting your company's whole brain to work". Yes, it can used for product innovation. If you are using CAD packages like IDEAS, Ansys, etc. then if some one tells you, do not put too much load on the shaft 'cause it breaks when the car goes uphill, then that is KM speak. Too much to handle: Well you know, you have to heat a liter of milk to get a few milligrams of cream. So redundancy is always a fact. But you can use filters, etc. to get over with it. KM Tools: Well plenty of them. Some good some bad. This is not the right place to discuss specific tools. Hope this helps, Cheers, have a great day, Shashi KadapaKMI Patni Computer Systems Ltd.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 16-Jun-2005 Sereinity of simplicityStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings people, KM is about people learning the simplicity of being and of becoming with the help of the complicated machine which duplicates complex functions of the human brain. The reason why artificail intelligence has grown so much in the first place, was to simplify the "command and control" capacities. Now KM is confusing all that because KM is about people who are trying to break free from such a state of order. "Relate, trust and innovate toward self-geverning to live and to let live" is in conflict with the boundaries of "command and control". In French, knowledge has 2 avenues of meaning. One is to be informed and to other is to be acquainted. Home life and the education curriculum have developped for 14 centuries under the command and control order of military intelligence under one form or another, prying knowledge and acquaintance apart. US tax payers are going to spend 440 billions on that intelligence this year alone. KM is allowing people to see another direction possible but are faced at the same time with the inner conditionings of the ruling order who does not know how to transit from the present formality of the public and private sectors business protocols to the transparency of complete access and high-trust flow. It is up to the people to either move on and out of the command and control order or else as some suggest, go on watching ourselves getting surrounded in a global elctronic command and control police state. My hope for KM, is that we will cause the command and control structures to get to see democracies and other regimes like China, coming to terms with the fraud we have been and go on being to ourselves, when it comes to treating each other with the devotion of truth and love. If Havard reading on KM reaches Mr. Clinton's effort in September by bringing to the fore front such a position, then we might set sail to mature our way into complete simplifying of life style by the renewal mode of relating to each other humbly. By fostering KM like that, we will provide the service to guide self-governing out of the consequences of that old oppressing grip, so as to expand life in the comfort from home to school, instead of the other way around. Let's keep talking, it is happening for more and more people... Benoit17
Denham Grey , 16-Jun-2005 Sharing thoughtsDenham GreyIs there a relationship between IT & KM?Yes but do not put IT not at the center, KM is about people. Are there any KM tools?There are (perhaps way too many) - again it is not the tools but the connections, conversations and content that they enable, that is key "Putting your company's whole brain to work"Enabling collaboration, creating 'forums', empowering learning, increasing awareness... at every level How does KM contribute to product innovationHelps spark creativity, gathers a diversity of ideas, empowers critical thinking, facilitates deep dialog, improves decision making, assists with learning......
Guy Benchimol , 15-Jun-2005 KM and brain(s)Mr Guy BenchimolWhen you try to define brain, I suppose you begin to ask "For what is it used?"; starting from this question, you will discover its main functions and for each function how it possibly works. As for KM, it is the same; you will ask: "Why do I need knowledge and which kind of knowledge for MY activity, in MY firm, in MY environment or context"; if you are not able to answer this question, don't think any more of KM but if you have the answer, you solved a great part of the problem (The "K" of KM) and you have the "M" of KM to consider: this is more easy because solutions already exist and you have only to choose among them according to the kind of knowledge you need to access. To simplify, you order your study as below: - Finality or goal- Method- Resources involved namely knowledge- Tools necessary to get the ressources When you say that every brain could be concerned, it is true for every person who thinks, needs information and knowledge* and consequently is concerned by KM (even if she accesses it through an enterprise portal! * there is no rigid frontier between IT and KM because "knowledge" often comes from "information" after treatment or transformation (such as conclusions obtained after submission of data to a decision support system or BI)
Benoit Couture , 29 June 2005 @ 16:33 PM
The glow of meaning
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Salut Jaques and Cindy, I thank you for this thread of reflexion. I see the nature and the definition of innovation with the image of what breathing is about, in all of its application to life, health and hapiness. Teach your child the awareness of breathing well under all circumstances, and he or she shall always be know the freedom of mindand with the physical balance to adapt to the moment with the creativity as needed by the instance. What else can we expect from the word innovation, but a better and better way to relate and to be relevant here and now, in the authenticity of transparency?!... When viewed with this image of breathing, innovation is the art of flowing with the lead, neither ahead nor behind but with it, so that an innovator is a following-leader-leader-follower. But put the word in the restrictive framework of business and indeed, as with everything else that busuness does, it will take evrything, turn it into nothing and the perpetuate the innovation until another one comes to swallow everything into nothing. No meaning can resist the swallowing powers that the beast is made of. The thought of watching globalization being innovated by leaving its sterring wheels in the hands of the market place is frightenning. The one comforting thought I get from this thread is that I cabn respectfully ask Mr. Sergio Zyman to get away from promoting and supplying self-destruction. The view of true innovation receives a tremendous boost of clarity when we get away from giving the eqivalent of 60 tea spoons worth os sugar in 10 ounces of product at the time. I can hear you say: " those are the market forces. Demand and supply." And I say to this royal decree over the world of business to accept the French counter acting force to demand and supply. In French we say: "The offer and the provision". We dont demnad and cu=ause a supply, we artistacally produce what our gifts allow us to produce, we offer them and we provide them if you need them and accept the price. No command and control attitude and ongoing escape that the laws of the market place decide. Before the market place can ever talk of innovation in its true sense, it will have to invest massively at healing the meaning of life, health and hapiness. Let's start by turning the look of coca-cola into a clear substance poiting to clarity of mind instead of the hype of ignorance...
Subject: Intellectual honesty and emotional intelligence(Replies: 0, Read: 81)
From: Benoit Couture
Dear EU members, can we aim to enter in complete clarity of the invitation that we are given with the tools of KM and of transparent open source. The clarity to reach in this thread is the question/answer's theory for which, the next thread will report, on the step-by-step account on the development of the initiative aggred upon here. The main directive is to establish the "Faculty of Living". So the question/answer I suggest that we agree upon first and to commence the reporting on the next thread is: "Where is the authority to engage emotional intelligence, mental health, family and community living to grow from stranger to family?" In order to make this project credible and gravitational, I offer to continue taking the hot seat as the "stay at home dad-citizen-voter-tax payer", who is publicly looking for the universal treatment of the human condition, starting from my own off-balance condition, as I have made obvious to all who read me. I am the client who is troubled in the same way that any human being gets to be troubled when put under too much stress and who's recovery is found on the same ground as anyone else's need for well-being and welfare. By coming out in the open by joining restorative justice and community mental health from Canada, I seek to beat down the trail across the discomfort and unawareness which prevents humanity from reaching the universal, standard passage from self-destruction to self-control to communal self-governing. What is my personal location? So far, at 47 years old, I have alienated my love ones from me and estranged myself from most relationships, through each stages of life so far. I did so as a son, as a brother, as a star of our local sport and now, in exile at 2500 miles away for 27 years, in a different language, I sit as a husband and father of four who fails to lead. I've recently become grandfather and communal maturity is the only hope to make sense of my existance. What have I found so far? In my long, tedious and near insane search for intelligence that could balance my emotions, I decided in Nov 2004 to run in the provincial elections, for the Green Party in Alberta. On the one hand, I was going public to find allies for my vision of addressing national unity from a socio-cultural communal healing movement. On the other hand, I wanted to send a clear signal to the underground people who know me, that to reach my aim, I am moving from the Establishment of The Code of silence to the Quietning Silence of Patient Wisdom. Official secrecy in democracy=The Code of silence. I wanted to show-off my non-threatening approach to those of the underground world who know me that I am going out of secrecy by means of transparency. My strategy is to charter my journey in line with the Alberta agenda, which is to seek out the best that the world has to offer in the advancement of Health, Education and for the Environment. Interestingly, during the campaign, I was sent a report by a grassroots association for mental disease and mental health. It was an organisation made of 35 of the professional mental health disciplines and self-help groups. The most amazing fact that came up in my discussions with the spokesperson of this association was that: MENTAL HEALTH IS YET TO BE OFFICIALLY DEFINED. He informed me that the Senate of Canada had sent a Commission to establish the definition of mental health in a cohesive manner for all disciplines to work from. After 10 years, the Commission returned empty. Professions of the mental health sector are too confused to define their science??? So the Senate sent the Commission back on the road for another 2 years, to try to define mental health to work from and toward. If they cannot, then their mandate is to define "suicidal personalities". I wont begin to speculate what this means as I would sound quite negative. What is true to mental health as far as being in need to be yet defined is also frighteningly true concerning most other faculties of the humanities. And yet, the one major expense of our democratic societies is to maintain the status quos of the ruling ignorance of all these expertises who do not know where they are going. Mental health and intellectual honesty depend on one another for balance. Lets put the Faculty of Living in position to invite all other faculties to intellectual honesty, in a non-threatening way in the completion of each one's journey to the balance of thought in the harmony of action! What do I invite you to? In practice, the I propose to become the point of entry into the audio-visual living room of ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... which was introduced to the EU KM Board with: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2910 It expanded to become: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U1590685 The first chapter is called: "...quest for Home..." http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4491876 The first episode is called: "From domestic oppression to domestic health". If I can produce an amateur home made video to graphically show what I am describing here, will it be enough to allow for swift gravity to deploy the initiative or am I causing too much confusion to bring thoughts into actions?
Date: 09-Jul-05 (GMT)
Subject: All in the Family(Replies: 0, Read: 56)
From: Benoit Couture
Dear fellow-citizens of the earth, please, see if you can allow this document to be at centre of our microscopic gravitational generating power. It is writen and put here as an immediate alternative and antidote to be applied in respose to the activities from the entity of terror-anti-terror. The motion is to apply transparency in going from the domestic oppession powers of money to domestic health of the Faculty of Living. We presently have in Canada, a perfect conjuncture of two separate conflicts that establishes the perfect live mass educational link for all of the French-Anglo-Abotiginal-Spanish-Commonwealth-Francophonie-Europe-Americas-Australia-Middle-East-Asia connection to unravel. The individual case is of a former national grand Chief who yesterday was convicted of a hate crime against the Jewish people. This individual case deals directly with the dark effects of the Judeo-Christian history of backroom deals, while mostly smoke and mirrors of politics kept the "public opinion" informed enough for satisfaction. As an individual judical case, it then stetches into a collective-national juducal case under the form of the national unity sponsorship scandal. The judge of this inquiry is presently simmering its report, to be readied for December. This local legal-politico-socio-cultural-econo conjuncture offers a perferct opportunity for www open source to come alive and relevant for all, viewed from one angle or any other. It hereby opens to us a flowcalizable(focal-local-flowing) window to connect transparently from the deepest levels of accumulated historical divisive mistrust's consequenses, which sits us in Europe and North America, on the verge of tipping into an all out surrender to the reactive powers of frustration. You have no ideas how quickly all of the Americas can be turned into pitch dark violence and cahos. We have been given a demonstration a few times in recent times past. Our native population has accepted a treaty of non-violence with the Crown. They have kept their end of the bargain under genocide circumstances; so far that is! The Crown is dissolving in front of their eyes and what's coming behind is even worst from their point of view. Who and what else can they now turn to, as they are forced into the same mentality as those who just dished out some of it upon London's people?!? Please UK and your majesty, my Queen, I realize that I am nothing more than a visionary with my ear on the ground, but here is an opportunity for all of the inspirational content that I read in our common history, to unearth from this opportunity, the solid ground to move from local conflict resolution to a perfectly adaptable globalizing embryo for the BBC and CBC to join in with ...cleasing our vision of the Crown... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U1590685 This conjuncture provides us with the needed terms and conditions of everything that could possibly be relevant as "the" case study on how to free knowledge from military reflexing, with the pausing capacities of intellectual honesty and all the way to the drive of clarity in the balance of IQ-EQ, as to where and how we host knowledge in the completing application of love's intelligence. Can this entry move to harness the energies from such an organism and to brew from near-cahos into an initial micro-community of universal sustainability? What do we think? SUBSENSE PUBLISHING and PROMOTION (SPP) The name SUBSENSE is composed with the words: Substance-essence. Substance from the essence=SUBSENSE. SPP comes into existence to spread the experience of spiritual unity as articulated and/or demonstrated by the existance of Subsense Publishing and Promotion. The question we addressed is: How do we host the discipline of life’s sanctity, from the individual personal care to the maturity of mutuality in the family and in the community, adapting to any socio-cultural context? The spectrum of our work is focused on verbalizing the answers to the twofold question on the discovery of applicable meaning (essence) and how to cultivate its embodiment to completion (substance), when and where the need arises individually, domestically, culturally or socially. The service we offer is to develop methods of approach to reach out and/or to train individuals, families and communities to develop healthy lives and conditions, always addressing both simultaneously, until sustainability. To begin our publishing and promotion service to Canadians, we studied four questions. They are: 1-“What is the essence of a relationship and how do we substantiate its dynamics to go from strangers to family, into the ongoing renewal of a healthy mutuality?” 2-“What is the essence of health, education and environment, and, how do we substantiate personal and communal awareness in the state of maturity and wisdom, free from the confinements of uniformity and of conformity?” 3-“How do we absorb the energies of individuals who are withdrawn in self-destruction and/or violence, in exchange to commune to and with them, in the essence of the inner life that ignites human existence to the substance of complete caring?” 4-“How can the answers to these questions be harnessed, refined and processed as the essence to foster our multi-cultural identity, and to thereby, substantiate unity amongst Canadians, secure in the bond and the growth of our citizenship’s heritage of personal, cultural and social health and wellness…amen?!” The stages begin with one’s personal Acquisition of the taste for Health. Then, once stabilized into The Faculty of Living, he/she joins amongst the Correctional Family Circuiting until the firm establishment into the Ministry of Reconciliation. Thus is being built the Canadian Health Trail, emerging upon the Land of Emanuel, in the perpetual celebration of Easter. TENTATIVE PROPOSAL “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of the PATIENT WISDOM” “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of the PATIENT WISDOM” is the name for the arrow of justice to reach the target of Canada’s constitutional completion. This arrow is made of the hunger and of the thirst for the justice and for the peace needed to be blessed upon the Aboriginal people first, and for all who can relate with the need for the renewal of the mature socio-cultural development of our citizenship. This is the name of the healing movement entering the multi-generational currents of living nourishing inner waters. We shall start to take Canadian citizenship safely out of the snare of our accumulated past mistakes of timeless proportions. The target of this exercise is to raise the community life until it reaches the fulfilment of the preamble, at the top of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. At the moment, that preamble says in English: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principals which recognize the Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law”. In French, instead of “Rule of Law” it says: “The Pre-Eminency of the Right”. When Subsense Publishing and Promotion is done with their purpose, the preamble will read in all concerned languages as opposed to each its own: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principals which recognize the Supremacy of God, the Rule of Law balanced with the pre-eminency of the Right, meeting to be fostered in “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of PATIENT WISDOM”. This will happen as a result of Justice deploying its restoration in the broken hearts and spirits and cause balanced living to grow. The patient wisdom shall guide each open heart from the Road House to the inner home, where the quietning silence is received and causes balance to grow in the joyful fulfilling of serenity. Then comes the discipline of questing together for home in the Correctional Family Circuiting, by the union of the powerful Spirit of peace, joy, love and wisdom. This is the entry into the Land of Emmanuel, where the Cleansing River is, which shall bring us to the renewal and the transformation from the old to the new living, for all who so desire to enter into the better future now, the perpetual Easter. The stability in developing this culture depends on how faithfully the three hosting cultural elements of Canada accept the mutual subjection to one another, upon the integrity of the ground to acquire and to spread the desire to live well and the discipline to foster the taste for health and happiness. Debbie, Benoit Couture and children
Date: 09-Jul-05 (GMT)
Subject: All in the Family(Replies: 0, Read: 56)
From: Benoit Couture
Dear fellow-citizens of the earth, please, see if you can allow this document to be at centre of our microscopic gravitational generating power. It is writen and put here as an immediate alternative and antidote to be applied in respose to the activities from the entity of terror-anti-terror. The motion is to apply transparency in going from the domestic oppession powers of money to domestic health of the Faculty of Living. We presently have in Canada, a perfect conjuncture of two separate conflicts that establishes the perfect live mass educational link for all of the French-Anglo-Abotiginal-Spanish-Commonwealth-Francophonie-Europe-Americas-Australia-Middle-East-Asia connection to unravel. The individual case is of a former national grand Chief who yesterday was convicted of a hate crime against the Jewish people. This individual case deals directly with the dark effects of the Judeo-Christian history of backroom deals, while mostly smoke and mirrors of politics kept the "public opinion" informed enough for satisfaction. As an individual judical case, it then stetches into a collective-national juducal case under the form of the national unity sponsorship scandal. The judge of this inquiry is presently simmering its report, to be readied for December. This local legal-politico-socio-cultural-econo conjuncture offers a perferct opportunity for www open source to come alive and relevant for all, viewed from one angle or any other. It hereby opens to us a flowcalizable(focal-local-flowing) window to connect transparently from the deepest levels of accumulated historical divisive mistrust's consequenses, which sits us in Europe and North America, on the verge of tipping into an all out surrender to the reactive powers of frustration. You have no ideas how quickly all of the Americas can be turned into pitch dark violence and cahos. We have been given a demonstration a few times in recent times past. Our native population has accepted a treaty of non-violence with the Crown. They have kept their end of the bargain under genocide circumstances; so far that is! The Crown is dissolving in front of their eyes and what's coming behind is even worst from their point of view. Who and what else can they now turn to, as they are forced into the same mentality as those who just dished out some of it upon London's people?!? Please UK and your majesty, my Queen, I realize that I am nothing more than a visionary with my ear on the ground, but here is an opportunity for all of the inspirational content that I read in our common history, to unearth from this opportunity, the solid ground to move from local conflict resolution to a perfectly adaptable globalizing embryo for the BBC and CBC to join in with ...cleasing our vision of the Crown... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U1590685 This conjuncture provides us with the needed terms and conditions of everything that could possibly be relevant as "the" case study on how to free knowledge from military reflexing, with the pausing capacities of intellectual honesty and all the way to the drive of clarity in the balance of IQ-EQ, as to where and how we host knowledge in the completing application of love's intelligence. Can this entry move to harness the energies from such an organism and to brew from near-cahos into an initial micro-community of universal sustainability? What do we think? SUBSENSE PUBLISHING and PROMOTION (SPP) The name SUBSENSE is composed with the words: Substance-essence. Substance from the essence=SUBSENSE. SPP comes into existence to spread the experience of spiritual unity as articulated and/or demonstrated by the existance of Subsense Publishing and Promotion. The question we addressed is: How do we host the discipline of life’s sanctity, from the individual personal care to the maturity of mutuality in the family and in the community, adapting to any socio-cultural context? The spectrum of our work is focused on verbalizing the answers to the twofold question on the discovery of applicable meaning (essence) and how to cultivate its embodiment to completion (substance), when and where the need arises individually, domestically, culturally or socially. The service we offer is to develop methods of approach to reach out and/or to train individuals, families and communities to develop healthy lives and conditions, always addressing both simultaneously, until sustainability. To begin our publishing and promotion service to Canadians, we studied four questions. They are: 1-“What is the essence of a relationship and how do we substantiate its dynamics to go from strangers to family, into the ongoing renewal of a healthy mutuality?” 2-“What is the essence of health, education and environment, and, how do we substantiate personal and communal awareness in the state of maturity and wisdom, free from the confinements of uniformity and of conformity?” 3-“How do we absorb the energies of individuals who are withdrawn in self-destruction and/or violence, in exchange to commune to and with them, in the essence of the inner life that ignites human existence to the substance of complete caring?” 4-“How can the answers to these questions be harnessed, refined and processed as the essence to foster our multi-cultural identity, and to thereby, substantiate unity amongst Canadians, secure in the bond and the growth of our citizenship’s heritage of personal, cultural and social health and wellness…amen?!” The stages begin with one’s personal Acquisition of the taste for Health. Then, once stabilized into The Faculty of Living, he/she joins amongst the Correctional Family Circuiting until the firm establishment into the Ministry of Reconciliation. Thus is being built the Canadian Health Trail, emerging upon the Land of Emanuel, in the perpetual celebration of Easter. TENTATIVE PROPOSAL “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of the PATIENT WISDOM” “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of the PATIENT WISDOM” is the name for the arrow of justice to reach the target of Canada’s constitutional completion. This arrow is made of the hunger and of the thirst for the justice and for the peace needed to be blessed upon the Aboriginal people first, and for all who can relate with the need for the renewal of the mature socio-cultural development of our citizenship. This is the name of the healing movement entering the multi-generational currents of living nourishing inner waters. We shall start to take Canadian citizenship safely out of the snare of our accumulated past mistakes of timeless proportions. The target of this exercise is to raise the community life until it reaches the fulfilment of the preamble, at the top of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. At the moment, that preamble says in English: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principals which recognize the Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law”. In French, instead of “Rule of Law” it says: “The Pre-Eminency of the Right”. When Subsense Publishing and Promotion is done with their purpose, the preamble will read in all concerned languages as opposed to each its own: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principals which recognize the Supremacy of God, the Rule of Law balanced with the pre-eminency of the Right, meeting to be fostered in “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of PATIENT WISDOM”. This will happen as a result of Justice deploying its restoration in the broken hearts and spirits and cause balanced living to grow. The patient wisdom shall guide each open heart from the Road House to the inner home, where the quietning silence is received and causes balance to grow in the joyful fulfilling of serenity. Then comes the discipline of questing together for home in the Correctional Family Circuiting, by the union of the powerful Spirit of peace, joy, love and wisdom. This is the entry into the Land of Emmanuel, where the Cleansing River is, which shall bring us to the renewal and the transformation from the old to the new living, for all who so desire to enter into the better future now, the perpetual Easter. The stability in developing this culture depends on how faithfully the three hosting cultural elements of Canada accept the mutual subjection to one another, upon the integrity of the ground to acquire and to spread the desire to live well and the discipline to foster the taste for health and happiness. Debbie, Benoit Couture and children
Benoit Couture
More and more, we read articles about how much the sciences serving mental health are realising the benefits of personal faith in maintaining good mental health. In the last 31 years, I have been worked on and working as a free lance evangelist, available to be reached and reaching out to the individuals of the "street". In Canada, I have spent the last 20 years trying to bring together the alliance between restorative justice and community mental health in generating the socio-cultural healing movement where needed. The following is a posting I made at the Miciu Soda open source lab yesterday. Benoit Couture
Blessings and peace Andrius, Chris and all,
I am here in the public domain, in the hope to contribute at refining and defining the spiritual personal touch until we reach the essence of human relationship. Here, at Minciu Soda, I am granted the opportunity to work at organizing my life, so that the
apprentiship that I have acquired in the wild side of the Canadian Law for some 35 years, may contribute to the betterment of humanity as a whole. Here, I will try to demonstrate how simplification can be applied to experience spiritual human unity in our daily life and how from such basis, to deploy the unifying movement of organic open source for individuals to develop into communities, while turning thecnology's misuses into the coming together of humantiy from
stranger to family.
Open source should become understood as the organic reality of the united community of people who live their lives in the service of deploying unity with the renewing treatments to health, to education
and to the environment. And KM should be known as the systems we use to serve the open source. The tools to operate km openly on the internet need to follow up the dispositions of people to open up to the source of our being human and to live so amongst ourselves. It all boils down to the human drama. I write here to volonteer my service to openn up in complete the intimacy that will remain within the spirit of dignity and sanctity, but I will work to embody the
journey to reach the univeral open source of being human, from the essence to the substance. In doing so, I want to supply the inspiration needed to cause the wave of completion from personal knowledge management to the open source of living well here and now.
I come to you all, travelling for the last 27 years upon the road known in certain circles as the recovery road. Prior to that 27 years, I was spending myself, addicted to some acceptable behaviors and to non acceptable behaviors. To those who know someone else who lives on that road, they usually accept the nessecity for "that" person to live "like that" but most can't relate to abusers and self-destrutors. Addiction is a term usally used for substance abusers
and/or individuals with "compulsive behavior" of any kind. To those who are on that road, it is the experience of battling one's own evil and deceitful heart with the daily discipline of investing my
whole person into the genuine measure of authentic grace and truth I dispose of, here and now. The recovery road is a personal map that draws itself at the speed of each one's own impulse until it
stabilises with others with the give and take of relating with one another's daily needs.
The factual understanding and our experience to relate in the blooming of being human is microscopic, while km is equipping to operate thecnologically at the macroscopic level of human interaction. At the present time, the statistical use of the internet shows the evidence that sex and gambling are the most
profitable and fastest growing markets of www. The province where I live in Canada is one of the few debt free jurisdiction in the western world, as we are the largest supplier of domestic fossil fuel to the US. When I ran as a Green candidate last Nov. 2004, I came across the info that mental health is yet to be defined amongst mental health practitioners, of whom, many are in the field of
addiction treatments. The number one reason our population goes to see their family physician is for mental illness related conditions. When mental health sciences go on treating the symptoms without having a destination to guide patients to, then where does
anybody and everybody find themselves guided to when mental illness strikes? This is, but one example of a generalised professional reality that governs our entire dispositions and direction as a civilisation. We have a chronic collective intellectual dishonnety
syndrome to deal with. That collective syndrome is the sum of personal compulsive behaviors that are socially acceptable. Law, education, politics, banking...all busy and in a hurry to compete
while ignoring or unaware of the passing moment in the rush to successfully be independant from one another? So much time, energy and resources of the professional class are spent on safe guarding
personal and material aspirations and on mutually propping personal image and status, that the needs which are intented to get served by their tax money in the endeavours of our systems gets to become a
cultivated commodity of addictions by which the systems manage the appearance of serving while in fact, deceit rules both sides of the equation. All that activity is the current ruling process of km
that is in place institutionally that Mincius Soda and the likes works at turning around. The whole dilema of such leading dishonesty and the choice of direction that faces humanity personaly, localy and globally can be reduced to a choice between:
ADDICTION or THE RECOVERY ROAD.
In order to make that choice with complete nderstanding, we need to establish contact in the spiritual rapport, experiencing to be and to live the essential connection of relating as a person, with the
whole. My needs to make it through each day are the same as you. How can we help one another is in the contact which I and you invest ourseleves to do here and now at all time, redemming each moment in
the love making of the Spirit, with Whom I breath in the rapport with the essence of being and breath out to make room for more currency to carry me in the bond of the all in all inclusiveness of eternal life. The recovery road and the battle to journey through
time with growth are the redeming exercise. In our day and age, our civilization has come to define addiction to be: Compulsive behavior. The source that deploys the personal energies that become social trends of compulsive behavior is in the innate nature of self-rightousness. Each human's make up is uniquely carved to his or her own sense of right and wrong, inherited and conditioned in the immediate daily contacts and experiences. Our decisions and the
nervous impulses form the dictation throughout our physical bodies and acting-reacting paterns until the day comes, when personal awareness strikes of the true state of non-being I am made of.
However intensly it does strike, strike it is that brings me to discover the irrelevancy of my existance. When it happens, spiritual reality has begun and the recovery road has reached me...
DRAWN TO ENCOUNTER
Well, here you are baby girl
here you are baby boy
newly born with us
into humanity's messed up journey.
Now oh young one
be it known to you that
this life you've received for free,
you'll have to earn it
for most of your duration on earth.
The gift of life wears off quite swiftly for most people,
Soon giving way to the struggle for survival.
You'll find yourself wondering
Why is civilization a human jungle?
A discovery was made which shows
that in the first five years of living
we develop up to 60% of whom we'll ever become.
At that tender age we are like a sponge;
partly beneficiary, partly victim
of all who come in contact with us.
As we get older
we become executor of what we've sponged in!
Alerted by the implications of such a discovery,
take the time to find in you the child, this child,
the one whom only God knows better than you.
Tune in your whole attention and notice
how complex is the process of your own becoming.
See how far away you have grown from who you really are because of all the ignorance we are born into.
The snare of doubts, fears and confusion drives you on
to naturally be rebellious to the Creator and to your own good.
What you will, ends up being your very own worst enemy.
This is because you see,
this life we are given from mom and dad, well,
it is short-circuited by a living death.
This power is in you and it's in me and that is why
each of us must get on the quest that leads on
to the path of deliverance.
To be released from this living death is the only experience
that provides each human with the opportunity
to penetrate the state of freedom.
The dimension of our being where the living death dwells and radiates from is the spiritual dimension, inside each of us, throughout our whole being.
To find the path of deliverance one must be honestly sincere and sincerely honest,
always accepting the facts for what they are.
For instance, no matter how much we understand the need for love, we just can't seem able to apply it where it is needed most of the time?
So as you go on asking such questions for which there seems to be no answers, your thirst and hunger grow.
You begin to have an idea of what you don't want
but you don't know what you need.
Your search goes on inthrough yourself
and is driven by a deep sense that life ought to be much more than what you've been limited to know thus far.
This deep sense is a definite sign that you are on the path of deliverance.
There comes a time when, to be penetrated by and to penetrate the state of freedom, will alone satisfy the thirst and hunger.
You eventually become aware that a mysterious attraction is drawing you,
bringing you an aroma of what to be free could taste like.
Someone who knows you better than you know yourself is calling.
One, you realize, who can outkill the living death.
The point of Encounter is when you are made aware in a very personal, mysterious and unexpected way, that without Him, you are prisoner of the living death.
As you quest, He finds you and accepts your invitation
to the very core of your being, bringing you a new nature; one free, eternal and divine nature.
To meet Him generates the impulse that settles and quenches all human need, be it for love, truth, justice, peace or for any higher state of living than what the living death offers us under the disguise of deceived perceptions of free will.
That deep sense that life ought to be way more,
happens because of His absence from our inner core.
That living death is in each human from conception on; so come on the path of deliverance
and the Christ-Jesus will reveal Himself and penetrate inthrough your spirit by His Spirit and provide you with all that you need to be made whole.
Welcome to the Church of Jesus-Christ, built well beyond all the blinding and deafening Walls erected in His name.
Welcome!!!
I have come across many people over the 27 years of struggling ministry, with who the name of Jesus-Christ was not involved at all but with whom I definetively had a delightful bond of eternal life
with. So is the opposite very true, where the name of Jesus was everywhere and I could not relate one bit. That is because of conditioned self-rightousness, personal and collective. Very often, the mental understandings of Jesus does nothing to change one's
compulsive behaving nature and on the contrary, it only serves at switching behavior by joining a religious group but the source of energy production to get through the day does not change. So years
and in the case of most religion structures, centuries end up waisting away in the name of irrelevant religiosity rooted in the same source as what it claims to be free of. Either we buy up the
opportunity to get closer and to relate to one another or we go on to accomodate one another's distance and indifference. The choice lies all the time for each one of us between the spiritual source or the animal reflexing of existance.
The point of this whole essay is to invite you to ponder ways to help me and my family in developing the universal recovery road that will go from self-destruction to self-control to self-government by
offring the ground and the training that will convert the resources that go on the war on drugs to the victory over addiction.
IMMEDIATE
DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY
The production of a simple home video as soon as possible, set out to be started at Sacred Heart School. A website ready and going with its easy viewing as quickly as possible. The title of the first
episode is "From domestic oppression to domestic health". It will serve to accommodate a live Canadian family situation whose quest for home generates the core activity from the essence to the substance of universal community living. This exercise will
cultivate the personal appreciation of each other until the functional home maturity is reached. From the acquisition of the taste for health, we grow into the discipline of assembling within the correctional family circuiting. As the core lights up and the news spread, the movement grows to become the Canadian Health Trail.
The mission is to proceed with the communal regeneration where from the brown humus of our socio-cultural history, personal and otherwise, get to proceed into becoming the green life of simple trust and enjoyment of one another. The experience to enjoy life and to genuinely appreciate one another, form the one basic common denominator and framework of all functions and directives. There are 4 stages of development to unfold for anyone to complete this socio-economic entrepreneurship, from its microscopic cultural basis.
-acquisition of the taste for health
The basic element of self-government begins with self-control which comes from my personal ability to care, to maintain and to strengthen health awareness and well being. Authority of justice and of peace is maintained by residing within the proximity of
relationships, made of dynamics open enough to bond in the mutual care for our complete health. This is the experience of intimacy that produces unity and which is needed to cultivate the blossom of
individuals, families and communities.
- correctional family circuiting
From this small video production, we will raise the interest among neighbours to establish a pattern of weekend retreat to accommodate between 12 to 20 couples. The purpose of that weekend is to establish our contact to each other in the bond of the
acquisition for the taste for health. The circuiting experience is the mutual subjection under the authority of the bond to "live and learn" to grow healthy with one another. The discipline involved in
apprenticing to live in the community of this mutual subjection to strengthen our health with the appropriate changes, is the correctional part.
-Canadian health trail
From such a socio-cultural healing process grows the microcosm of community self-government. With enough episodes on tape, I hope to convert the simple production into a docu-dramatisation TV series.
As the Establishment and the underground population learn to meet, the series grows by joining in the creative dynamics and activities that come together upon the meeting ground of the reconciliation. At that point in time, we go from small website home production to full fledge televised series. We do so by adapting the live situation into the docu-dramatization, with the help of writers, actors, producers and with the volunteer legions that will grow from the initiative.
The TV series will be to bring on a faithful deployment of the microcosm to adapt into the national transition of scale, so as to extend into municipalities, province and nation. At the moment the
populations of Canada are facing a conjuncture of opportune synchronicity by simply accepting the sequence of events that we are in right now. The Canadian Health Trail can be developed from the
campaign I run, to the March SUFA review, to these discussions we are having, to the centennial of Western Canada to the visit of the Queen in May, to the Round Tables with the Aboriginal nations to
the up coming Federal election. The citizenship is called to please rise up to our full measure of blessing and responsibility to humanity...
-Ministry of reconciliation
is the Spirit binding the Canadian citizenship within the state of human living that keeps Canada out of reach of the powers of the terror-anti-terror entity. The Spirit of the Ministry of Reconciliation is the ground upon which the line was drawn by Mr. Chretien and, through his decision, by all Canadians, when we stood against the war in Iraq. Canada is not deceived by the equation of terror versus anti-terror, treating it in the reality that both sides are of the same entity. It is the nature of divide and conquer at its peak.
The line drawn by the refusal of Canadians and of the other nations of the G8 sheds the light on terror and anti-terror to show it from the same animal side of humanity, and can get defeated by cultivating the local alternative.
MONEY WILL GO TO…
The goal of the first stage is to define the personal focus of home interest. We do so by developing the settings needed to host families who are in situations of complete emergency, one family at
the time. My wife and I volunteer to be set up at Sacred Heart School, to be established as the initiator of the Correctional Family Circuiting who will be supported to complete the Canadian Health Trail within the framework of the initiative of …Cleansing our vision of the Crown…
Our family will beat the trail down to get from domestic oppression to domestic health, with a parallel positioning between local and global. This serves as the starting point to build the prototype of
a hours a day community centre to stand by as the presence who hosts the immediate need for individual and neighbour stablelization as the call arises. The process to develop the centre is mentioned under the name "correctional family circuiting".
The home made video production will define the civic ground, reasons and remedy, to empower the communities to help themselves from the bottom line of acquiring the taste for health and to join in the
correctional family circuiting, all the way to the suspension of the Canadian citizenship until community satisfaction is established.
With the contribution of family and neighbours, the civic authorities of Canada will facilitate the maturity of communal interaction within their each one's own midst. By so doing, we'll define the acceptable boundaries to apply the reach of community
mental health along with the practices of restorative justice.
This initiative is already growing on record to develop the lay out, the fund raising and the work force structure of the whole project within the existing relation that are established between the
clients and the various agencies sponsored by United Way and the Edmonton Community Foundation. We all win now by supporting the contribution of our experience, to what has been missing in the past that would have helped prevent most of the pain along the way to maturity.
-Establishment of beat cop shops across the city to become the illicit drug corner store of the community. This is being established temporarily to phase out the criminal aspect of the illegal market by setting the parameters of neighbourhood renewal
with the customers. It gets done by providing the resources for the dispatching force needed.
--CS becomes the umbrella of the large scale communication from the artistic agents to the public as a whole. The deployment of movement of CS participation takes on a visual manifestation of the
Animation album. It all comes to celebrate the recognition of the Aboriginal population as hosts of Canada and complete participants in hosting and shaping the Canadian identity.
-Pedway construction to tie Sacred Heart School-Vic-Royal Alex with an elaborate underground triangled plaza to provide a venue to individuals and to each culture to describe the journey they have to go through to get from their position of strangers and to reach their own belonging and celebration into the wealth of Canadian Heritage.
This work will serve as a model where Canadians equip themselves to reverse the under-overwhelming trend that says to mmigration; "Make yourself at home" before we have guided them to:
"Welcome to the life of our house. We will help you settle in the good spirit we live and build our house in until you can make yourself at home and help the people of your far off land do the same home questing".
THE CALLING
Now that you have been seized by the Lord
you know, you quiver, you experience His radiant Presence;
you are connected to the justifying peace and joy
flowing inthrough you by His Holy Spirit.
You want everybody else to know as well as you know
but beware of your enthusiasm; it will deceive you into thinking that you can do God's work.
Instead, sit back for a while and find in you the point of stillness where His sweet Presence radiates from.
Into this stillness you shall enter the rhythm and melody of your character,
in tune with the Father of all spirits.
Get yourself well acquainted with His Word, mainly the New Testament at first.
Look earnestly for brothers and sisters who delight in His Presence.
You can recognize them by the love they have for one another and by the mutual subjection they have one to the other in response to the supremacy of God.
His calling is the same to you and to me and the process for growth is the same.
Who you become and who I become is unique, but for you to be fully you and for me to be fully me comes from the same inner calling and from the same worshipping response to the Lord from each one of us.
For now you are newly born. Let yourself be fed, bathed and dressed.
To grow means to know Him more and more.
Our mind, soul, heart and strength are vastly unknown territories.
The simplicity of your devotion to Him is what protects you from the confusion and heartbreaking that comes from opinions and beliefs.
No one, other than the Lord Himself, can lead you.
You must learn to recognize His voice when He speaks inside you as well as in the fellowship of His people or in the surrounding circumstances.
What you want is to seize His voice.
He'll show you how to live your life in the fusion of your will into His.
He is not calling us to do our best for Him, but rather, He is calling us to let Him do His best for us, in us and through us.
Our connection with the Lord begins by His showing us
the doom of our life so that our response is to invite Him to take away our old life and to bring in the new.
This new life is the flow of pure divine grace and the fusion of our will to His is the river bed that carries all the leading that our life needs.
Our growth is made of the same calling and of the same adoring response all the way.
As you feed on His best, you learn how not to depend on your own understanding and to recognize Him in all of your decision making.
He gradually provides you with the nutrients to become
whom you've been created to be.
Soon you become aware that you either respond to the living death or to the law of the Spirit of Life and that free will is nothing but a choice.
As your bond reinforces with our Father so does your knowledge of yourself.
You eventually realize that your very person is the battleground in the invisible war between light and darkness, between the Spirit and the flesh,
the Kingdom and the world, God and the enemy.
Maturity in the faith of Jesus-Christ is reached when intimacy with Him inspires me to deny all in me that is independent of His lead.
The fruit Adam and Eve ate was from the tree of the knowledge of good as well as of evil.
Be it good or bad, if it is independent of His lead,
it is born of the living death;
The victory of His resurrection is what conquers the living death; as we go on saying no to the old self in favour of following Him, the regeneration takes place and brings forth the sprouting of our
partaking in the exalted nature of our Lord and brother.
Don't be misled into trying to earn any of it.
The price for all of this has been paid.
That's what His death on the cross was all about.
The victory over the living death is accomplished by His resurrection!
From His exalted position, the Lord is calling all of humanity to receive Eternal life and to that end, He is calling us to let all that we are, all that we do and all that we say to be immersed in His Presence.
To worship Him in truth, we must know Him in our spirit.
As our union with Him grows, we become better acquainted with those vastly unknown territories of our mind, heart, soul and strength.
At that point, faculties we never knew to possess begin to light up.
Soon, our whole being is consumed in loving Him from all the access we have to our heart, mind, soul and strength and we each blossom by channelling His love to all humans as our very own self.
YAWEIGH's calling is to satisfy His desire to bond and to fellowship with His own.
WELCOME TO GLORY!!!…
Benoit
Blessings to you all,
I sent the following reply to this knowledgeboard
question: "Do you know how to vision? Do we know how to vision?"
Vision comes to those who exercise themselves to see what they hear, as they listen, who learn to see what is said and who enter in the experience of simple perceptual connection with the wide open personal completion to the moment's happening. As one develops the maturity of full participation with the moment, so does the perceptual envisioning dexterity. From the normalization of envisioning into one's perceptual connection getting firmly established in the daily living, then comes the invisioning. The
invisioning is the imagination's inner screen lighting up in context of where the envisioning grows. To envision is to become aware from soaking in the atmosphere. To invision is the focus coming in
contact with the natural deployment grown from the whole envisioning atmosphere I soke in daily. The essence of vision is from the personal relatedness development in its whole simplicity of perceptual connection of the moment. The sign of a vision is
confirmed when it gets communicated in the context that it addresses and that the focusing message lights up a healthy stimulation of the imagination screen and creativity from each listener's own personal perceptual relatedness. It is also recognised from the pure joy of effortlessly knowing beyond any possible argument, Benoit Couture
In closing for today, I am also sharing what I recently sent to Chris Macrae...
Chris,
Conflict resolution, media leadership model, BBC, CBC, Canadian unity, ground activities to train and to equip the manpower to serve conflict resolution, as well as to research the ongoing improvement of that service!!!
To accomplish that, how about igniting and establishing the artistic inspiration that will open the pathway to experience the slipstream hat reaches from self-destruction to self-control to self-
government. The time of education to establish the connection is called "healing of meaning". The meaning spoken of here is the experience of the inner ground that reaches and connects one's self
to the enjoyment to be, and to relate as such from each me to each you, well beyond distance and beyond the reach of time killig energies. The initial confirmation of the experience of the slipstream is in the live conversion of the expression: "To make
love".
This expression has been kidnapped, enslaved, tortured, brain washed and exploited by the confinements of sexuality in most languages.
To experience the complete meaning of making love between 2 individuals or more, is to connect in the substance of our human essence. A love making person is one who has experienced the slipstream, where
is sourced each's own personal essence of being, where we each have talent and inclinations to live in love and to love to live. In growing with one another's intimacy in the experience of such a
slipstream, there comes a steady release of flowcalization that takes humanity from self-destruction to self-control to self-government.
To understand flowcalization properly, it is made by compounding the meaning of the words focal-local-flow--ing in their application to socio-cultural wellbeing of the person. It is the slipstream from animal humanity to the spiritual humanity. The operation of this word is confined to the following image: A large pot with dirt in it. Two plants in the pot. One plant with a poisonous berry and the other with a wolfberry that supplies nothing but goodness to health. If I pluck out the poisonous one, I will damage to death
the other one at the root level. If I leave it, it chokes the production out of the wolfberry one. My only option is to skillfully feed the roots of the wolfberry plant so well so as to get them so strong that they will consumate all the nutrients away
from the other one. The other one becomes humus to feed and to become the wolfberry plant. Such is the unfolding of overcoming evil with good in humanity, with the sliptream of flowcalization.
So far, from the bit I have gotten to know of you Chris and the love making I keep experiencing from your drive, we seem to be poised to arouse the family bond between Britain and Canada. Future of London
becoming the Present of London by hosting the Permanent People Summit's meeting of the minds. While occuring in London, the conclusions of the Summit's sessions coincides with the arrival of age, in the present response of Canada's Permanent People Sunnit to serve at implementating the slipstream's caculations that will produce the Present of London. Thank for bearing with me. Benoit
Date: 24-Jul-05 (GMT)
Subject: Spiritual Wealth? Yes, we need to catch up fast!(Replies: 0, Read: 27)
From: Sadiq Baig
Really laudable efforts deserved to be replicated across the globe. Yes, the most complex of machines is the 'human machine' and if not properly upkept goes wild - No wonder, : Americans say WW-III is likely
Kindest regards
Sadiq
Date: 29-Jul-05 (GMT)
Subject: Intelligence's first 2 opposite rules(Replies: 0, Read: 52)
From: Gillian Bush
I am not sure what these couples are but invite creative ideas
I am interested in mixing a view of intelligence of a person to others and of communal inteligence to one person
1 Regarding improving an individual's intelligence. Why not suppose my intelligence is very time constrained. If you assumed that, would you make a simpler introduction to this thread's main conversation opener than above?
2 Regarding communal intelligence. I feel strongly American academics (and their rewards systems -let's be the monpoly way to measure...) biassed the whole field of intelligence towards individuals (separation of intelligents) instead of communal collective, cooperative, connecting intelligence. Goleman's way of presenting Emotional Intelligence may be the first time academics in America have challenged this huge and discriminatory blindspot; though equally if someone more academically read than I have another more accesible first source, let's hear from you here
Date: 25-May-05 (GMT)
Subject: Delayed answes(Replies: 0, Read: 58)
From: Benoit Couture
Chris,
The first question you ask is: Who are the other characters? The role of NAF TA is to synbolise the transition from the old to the new. To do so, he will be hosting the superstars who will join in the ongoing TV series that docu-dramatises the reality of that transition with the unity deployment at the ground level of what is universally needed for humanity.
The female protagonist will the wise and humourous role of her majesty in response to NAF TA and his endeavor.
If you need to know of a more direct female connection to me, I am married to a Lloyd, of the 1688 clan of the LLoyd's castle in Whales. There is no meaning to it other than one of those coincidences that happened 25 years ago, you know? As a rebel Quebecois, I had to learn English through the genes exchange of marriage. That experience in itself should get all the laughs we need out of NAF to get the unity ball rolling amongst the initiated and powerful, so as to release the trump card of entertaining wisdom for us all. Benoit
Date: 25-May-05 (GMT)
Subject: Experience of unity from Canada to London(Replies: 0, Read: 173)
From: Benoit Couture
Greetings, can the journey of oneself tread to one other's self and to another and forever more uncovering the bond of unity in humanity? Can a live symbol embody humanity's quest for home? The symbol I propose is design to come on the scene of public awareness for the sake of vanishing with the powers of the old order. Deceit, divide and conquer, and all that selective justice to order in spite of inept or simply corrupt authorities, as we are now going through in Canada. From a divided situation, I introduce to you Norty American Frog Terribly Apprehensive or NAF TA for short. By Benoit of Canada:
Who is he and what is he after?
In a nutshell, NAF TA is a fictional voice, rooted in reality, that aims to settle the confusion that threatens the common destiny of our identity. He is a promotional emblem of what is trapped between the local and the global. He is designed to address Canada's identity crisis as a whole from the individual to the completion of mutuality. He is an altered ego from my journey. His personality and pilgrimage are a tragically humorous reflection of Canada's identity crisis. He is coming with a wise approach to tap into our unified potential, which has been growing and cultivating the French, English and Aboriginals for 5 centuries as host of the life to contribute to humanity's need of inspiration and direction. From "pure laine" Quebecois, he breaks away in '78 after having been blown up into a future star of hockey, owned, operated and destroyed by the mishandling of Molson's big hockey family and moves to Alberta at 20 in a "welfare shape". Learning and settling in English started his healing from the peer pressuring paradox of independance-sovereignty that he experienced as a birthright and as a drop-out. Getting acquainted with Canada from Alberta, brings him on to a mystic Quebec-Alberta connection that sparks him up into the healing vision of Canada's universal identity. Within him now, is the burden to pray and to follow through to the realization of the matured Canadian citizenship.
How does he proceed? By first gathering the initial community support and participation to the operation of "Cleansing our vision of the Crown". There are 4 stages to the promotion of this operational journey. They are: Quest for home. NAF TA and the Prince. The pilot of the Universe-City. Celebration of the Canadian Majesty. Quest for home is the call to rally the Canadian Mother And Father International Association or, the Canadian M.A.F.I.A. for short. The research, development and implementation of the Faculty of Living is the point of focus that defines the essence and the substance of all endeavours. The connection between the fiction of NAF TA and the needs of my life in reality are intertwined. This is where health, education and the environment are given a vehicle with the project, to consolidate life of the individual among the family, the neighbourhood, the school and back home to complete the circuit of living well. Once off the ground with NAF TA's quest for home, Canadians emerge with the social class antidote, by sending NAF to invite Prince Charles to the next stage. The pilot of the Universe-City allows for the disappearance of NAF back into myself, where I can attend the grade one class of the Faculty of Living, not as an expert but as the con man that I have been toward my loved ones, because of this vision that I am pregnant with until the delivery of the baby. That baby seems to be the same as all who care for life and who long for the real life to appear; and so, celebration of the Canadian Majesty is the life of freedom that is no longer governed by the rule of our collective ignorance.
Here is an example how I make use of my citizenship, to ignite the political will needed to adapt to the drastic changes that are called for by nature and civility.
From micro...
I live with my family for the last 7 years in a "socio-cultural lab" in Edmonton, Canada. The police call it the ghetto of the province of Alberta. I promote from here, unity in Canada, with the starting point of the "personal acquisition of the taste for health". From here, we grow the "correctional family circuit" that heals, maintains and strengthens the governance of: "to live and learn", by overcoming the rule of ignorance personally and into our midst, one day at the time. The circuit grows the organic bond between the families, shaping the discipline of implementing decision from consensus.
Living unity appears from individual to another and grows from home to school and to work, to re-enforce home life in the neighborhood, providing the community league's development, with this renewal process. By this involvement, the population practices the application of both, unity and sovereignty, within the political context called Alberta, Canada. Once the microcosm of Abbottsfield is ready, we invite a small area of Quebec to accept our challenge to establish a parallel Quebec version. Eventually, as soon as possible, the whole scene gets to be taken on by writers, actors and producers who bring this on to the national attention via a docu-dramatisation series. Along with the televised series comes an invitation to Canadians and a process to join in. The "official" long story made short is contained in the following motion that I made to the Supreme Court of Canada. I was turned down, but in order to be turned down, they had to consider it; I take heart in that.
...to macro...
To the Supreme Court of Canada I wrote: -------The following writings are steps and thoughts that I utilize, to promote Canadian unity, by tapping into the course of history's feeding to maturity, the health of the universal human identity, in the Canadian context. . The actual project is the idea of launching the research, development and implementation of an elementary, grade one class, made of experts from all the governing fragments of our western civilization. The goal of their endeavour is to lay the foundation for the Faculty of Living, where governing of decision making no longer has to live under the pressure of the wild climate of division and conflict that rules the play ground of kinder garden, outside that class. The class is to become the point of focus so the authorities can open and enter the door of consensus, where objectivity and subjectivity do not separate, for political reasons that go on, terms after terms, only to reach the excuses that explains failure. Do I need a judgment from the Supreme Court to carry on the following appeal to the Queen? Thank you. Benoit Couture
In the conjuncture of all legitimate aspirations of the Empire's
self-determination, along with the whole meaning of the "Stone of Destiny", I call upon the person who is the Defender of the Faith in Canada and in the Commonwealth, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the 2nd, to bless, to support and to activate the motion titled: "...cleansing our vision of the Crown..."! Truly and sincerely Benoit Couture And so Chris, my journey since Oct. 2001, has been a relentless stimulation of the Supreme Court, the Privy Council and all offices of Premeirs and of the Prime Minister. Many, many other offices have received communications promoting the national unity from a socio-cultural healing movement as opposed to propaganda. Today, we are in the midst of a the polical chemistry that can implode into political fragmentation. Canadians must be shown their position in relation to justice and peace on the planet. To finish this entry, I am sending you a copy of the clear cut message I ran with as a Green candidate in last Nov. provincial elections. The part to consider is that I ran where French Quebecois with a strong accent as I have, are usually welcome to work and to learn English, but to run 2500 miles away in provincial politics with a message of national unity and sovereignty was quite far from normal for anyone, but I did not get shot. I am telling all of that so that you can see that I have laid a lot of logs for the fire of political will to eventually ignite locally here so as to fit the global calling. Your energy is obviously burning bright and I hope to find some efficient wheels to get on from fiction to reality. So here is this simple campaign. Benoit
Old New
Beverly Clarewiew
Renewing Energy
Correctional Family Circuiting
-Voter, taxes, force of Law and legal tender
together, to serve the Tender Living…!!!
-Beam of hope against terror and anti-terror…!!!
As a voter, I understand that 4 levels of government take my tax money by force of Law, to keep us all well served, protected and guided. They are: School Trustees, Municipal Council, Provincial MLA's and Federal MPs.
As voters, we need to develop the model of Community
Self-Governing, to draw neighbours and tax spenders at the same table, to decide on where and how our tax money is needed to be spent, day by day, until community trust and efficiency is restored and/or established, as the need may be.
Beverly-Clareview is learning to know each other with the English language, from a rich contact of Metis-Native-Ukrainian-Dutch, gracefully hosting Canadian multicultu-ralism for several generations now.
Confident of our heritage, Beverly-Clareview serves Albertans, Canada and the world, with a refreshing addition to inspire our provincial vote, with the nation’s unity at heart and in mind!
As voters of a blessed province, let’s accept the mandate to strengthen and to promote our community governing model. It is growing from the old and the new cultural fabrics of Beverly-Clareview. Let’s move on from here to the Alberta Legislature, to release the mature resource of human energy into our midst and as far as the nation will receive it! Let’s have deeper meaning to drive our vote in this coming provincial election. Vote for Canadian unity to rise up from Beverly-Clareview, Alberta, in the discipline to love from a pure heart, with a good conscience, living of a genuine faith!
Also: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2910
The point of this exercise is to draw a movement to absorb and to ease the state of generalized stress by spreading the vision of the quietning silence of patient wisdom. Benoit Couture
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Project: To bring democracy to maturity by easing the Permanent People Summit from self-destruction to self-control to sel-government from London to Canada to the world. Introduction of the vision is verbalised in the following letter, with the personal invitation to the established head of state. Here is a letter intended to be brought to the attention of her majesty, Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. I post it here so that, if you feel compelled to share it and/or to spread it, please do so. This is a personal invitation to her into a dream of mine as a Canadian citizen, written so that its reality may reach anyone on earth as well. I invite her to a strategy, for Britannia to begin the ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... by the release of The Permanent People Summit into the Canadian reality, while she visits Edmonton on today and returns tomorrow on the 25th of May 2005, from celebrating the centennial of the province of Alberta, Canada, or by returning to do so. Your highness, History is moving and destiny is calling; we must answer! There is no legal nor even maybe a moral protocol to allow me to address you, your highness, other than my calling upon the mercy of Lord and to your grace, so that you may know of the vision I have been granted to carry so far. Like a pregnancy, there comes a time for the delivery. I have been in "THE" state of transition your highness, since 9, 11, 01, most likely the same state as anyone who is aware of the times. So in Oct 2001, I phoned the Privy Council Office of Canada from my stay at home, imbalanced life. I asked if I could have the following question answered: " Can someone with a not so good reputation, have a motion that actually gets implemented all the way to the Clerk of the Council, in the PMO and across the nation?" After a little probing, the receptionist became distinctly vibrant, as the lady insisted that I call right back if I had not gotten through to where she was hooking me up. After a few tries, I reached an analyst in the social think-tanking, two doors down from the Clerk's office. Once past my initial question, he asked what was my idea. My prep to this question was the following statement: "I, Benoit Couture, call upon the Canadian Mother and Father International Association to support my motion to activate the Role and Structure of the Privy Council of Canada into cleansing our vision of the Crown, by growing into the Faculty of Living, so as to consolidate the Canadian Heritage." And so after an hour or so of beautiful. casual, relieving and soothing brain storming, he said, and I love to quote: "...Mr Couture, I wish you...no, let me rephrase, I wish us all as Canadians that your motion gets implemented..." With this kind of wind hitting my sail, I lifted to glide on to the SUFA review. It is: Social Union Framework Agreement. It was signed in Feb of 1999 by all provinces except Quebec. The federal and the territories also signed. It was up for review in Feb 2002 and I sent my submission. They scanned it in, in an unreadable fashion. So with fire up my belly, I sent it to the PMO and to all relevant offices across the nation. I've been relentless since. Reminding Mr Klein, Premier of Alberta whom you will spend time with on the 23rd and to his staff and to the PMO and to the Privy Council that I am still at it, promoting Canadian unity from personal health and mutual completion in maturity, instead of propaganda. This campaign is a natural development of a totally unusual journey. It is by spontaneous feed and feedback that I operate. It is the reason I write to you this way, on such a short notice. Democracy needs to capture the moment in time and to mature rapidly from the leftovers of colonisation's motherhood as well as to be released from the grip of paternalistic federalism. As you well know from your sovereign position, Canada is where Britannia gave the French, Europe and the Aboriginal populations with an opportunity to demonstrate how the people and the Crown can get along just fine in the completion of mutualaty. Your highness, we are now in the era of the entity of terror-anti-terror. One does not go without the other. Because of this global crisis, time is ripe for the essence of Britannia to regain its voice from the time spent in the "Quietning Silence of patient wisdom", since constitutional monarchy came about. In the province of Alberta, your former Lineament Governor, Lois Hole, has conceived a legal embryo with the Premier Klein, to offer you and Britannia the possibility do so with all the beauty of sanctity and the simplicity of being. She extended the power of that experience to bring sovereign leadership in the daily decisions, where service was going astray from the well-being of the people. Democracy is ready for the completion of unity under the Crown with the crown, with all of God's children on the earth. The democracy of a mature people of all people needs to be deployed in full bloom by your invitation to Mr. Bush and to Benedict the 16th to join in Canada and to let the vision emerge together, from upon the Land of Emmanuel, in the celebration of the permanent Easter that's being granted to the inner person of each human by the Covenant of the Lord with humans. Please help seize the moment to make of Canada, the place where from the gates and walls of this entity of terror-anti-terror shall not prevail and shall be pushed backward from upon humanity's horizon! In closing this first personal and intimate letter to you your highness and to all of Britannia as a start, I enclose the lyrics of 2 songs to put the vision in context of your visit to western Canada, next week. Sincerely, Benoit Couture Ps: Your highness, from now on in my next letters to you, I will write under the name: NAF. TA. To most people it means North American Free Trade Agreement but in my case, I use it as the name of my stage persona and in this case it stands for: "North American Frog Terribly Apprehensive". He is designed to embody the crisis with humour for your pleasure and to vanish into serenity with wisdom for our mutual long term security, by hopefully leaving behind by God's grace, a tide of healing for humanity. INVISIBLE GOLD RUSH OF BEING ALBERTAN 2005 is the year when I turn one hundred years old! One century spent to define the life within brand new borders, where borders had never existed before, but where nations had flourished for thousands of years, and in 1905 the time had arrived for the Empire to stretch to the west in hope for improvement. When I was named as a Canadian province, John Campbell wrote to his wife: "In token of the love which thou has shown for this wide land of freedom, I have named a province vast and for its beauty famed by thy dear name. " Thus was I introduced to the nations, with a name of the 4th daughter of Queen Victoria Alberta is my name, t'was inspired with honour from a man's love for his wife, known to be strong, artistic with exquisite taste! That couple was forward-looking people, concerned for the less fortunate. The name they gave me placed me well to avoid the Eastern mistakes of the Empire. I've now been led past the threshold, 2 at the top of the material world. Not long before my centennial, the Empire was dragged into terror. And so if I am to celebrate It must be from a wise vision of humility and of service for mankind. There's just no time to pretend that all is well the way it is. Let the ones who are and who will be me into Life's sacred fire, the invisible gold rush.. thus, entering the celebration that never ends, the celebration in the Spirit of Life, Oh nobly bright and illustrious. Radiant of the Spirit of justice, peace and joy. And so from Emily Murphy to Betty Hewes to Jan Arden to Lois Hole from Grant MacEwan to Ian Tyson to the Mannix and Manning families. We can see through my past century enough potency of meaning for anyone to catch on fire in the Faith and Hope that settles our humanity Into the simplicity. Of the majesty we are all created to be living in, the majesty of the Eternal, who's love secures my destiny in the meaning of my name: "Nobly bright and illustrious" is what Alberta means. Such Albertan I grow to be by the Spirit of wisdom and love, as I care for the less fortunate. Benoit Couture © Subsense Publishing and Promotion ...then to English Canada from French Canada... CALL to CANADA Could we reach the agreement that it's the whole world who is in need to see a place like Canada to show that free will can be a good thing. In 1945 we were invited to join a deal. Most of the nations had great hope to bring peace among humans. After fifty some years, great challenges are facing us. The deal has not provided what we forgot to look after. We just cannot go on, building wealth for me, myself and I, while our loving for each other remains hidden behind divisions. We've got to grow from that bottom line that has been in use and bring about that sense of belonging, bonded beyond the business fences. Maybe we haven't understood that prosperity only comes to us from who we are together and not from what we do to each other. We have all it takes to become heaven on earth; we have been blessed with wealth, now let's lead wealth to prosperity. Believe it or not, it is the whole world who is in need to see a place like Canada to show that the renewing Covenant is unity for humanity. Benoit Couture © Subsense Publishing and Promotion
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Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this story. Legal NoticeNumber of comments: 34 Benoit Couture , 12 August 2005 @ 15:00 PM Is Canada made for the human race or is it just a race being ran deceitfuly?(part 1a)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureAlthough, it was from the government's invitation to which I responded, I never heard of anything to help. SUFA http://www.socialunion.ca/news/020499_e.html is who I deal with. I still do not know if it is a smoke screen to protect a hidden agenda or a reality to work from together. LETTER for SUFA review Dear SUFA,When you were born in 1999, the human race was not aware yet of the global mess that was to re-enforce all economic and political dynamics on earth in the hands of the war lords. Western world war lord or others, dear SUFA, you are now in a league of your own!!!You now stand alone in the world, as the one Canadian initiative with the potential to rise above all the forces at work to drag the human race down to it’s worst animal instincts. The frame working its way to circle humanity in a military climate of “ armed terror versus armed security” requires a separate agent that will remind the human race that such climate is only needed if we make it so. The picture is now bright and clear for all to confirm that the very nature of the human race itself is animal first and called to become spiritual. The progress of human civilization itself is the ongoing response of humans to the call out of the animal and into the spiritual. That is the one embellishing process that binds any and all nations that carries on through the centuries.I dropped out of high school to pursue that embellishing process. What I bring to you dear SUFA is a journey through the bowels, in the history of your very existence. The writings I am sending you are the freeing enterprise I’ve learned along all that is good about you and in spite of the ignorance left to conquer. Without going in any details, I and my family are a prototype of a “case” that lives right on the front line of where the question marks are for the policy makers. Our experience forces us to see that there is a fundamental approach that must be massively addressed by all concerned institutions and individuals. We cannot go on with contradictory operational definitions in all matters of social functions the way it is now. The main definition of human living to be fixed and that will provide the ground to rally and to reconcile the operational definition syndrome is the word INDEPENDENT. ...(continue next post)...
Benoit Couture , 12 August 2005 @ 15:00 PM Is Canada made for the human race or is it just a race being ran deceitfuly?(part 1b)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...(continue from previous post)...The human experience begins from the joining of two and lives on to become autonomous through inter-dependency; the independent drive opposes such autonomy. For you to address the word independent and to replace it at the basic level of Canadian function, dear SUFA, will provide Canadian banking and politics, the landmark Canada needs in order to join in as the facilitator of globally going from animal to spiritual humans. In the global context, Canada is a young baby blessed with a population that has been cultivated to protect such embellishing process. To aim for anything less than to secure and promote this process would demonstrate dear SUFA that you are shying away from the lead role you are created to facilitate.Social Union Framework Agreement must expand to become the “Human Union Framework Agreement” and boldly move toward the consolidation of that Union with the rise of the “faculty of living”. ...(continue next post)...
Benoit Couture , 12 August 2005 @ 14:37 PM Is Canada made for the human race or is it just a race being ran deceitfuly?(part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...(continued from previous post)...SUFA must accept to become a flaming torch of inspiration to feed the core of Canada identity, which lives on to bring about a citizenship who learned tediously the science of caring for each other and where individuals desire to practice the art of making peace a living reality. Such a torch will serve to light up the path ahead to reach the universal life style of the united state of humans, without which America is rapidly becoming a global travesty.All the elements needed to successfully go from SUFA to HUFA are in place in the current events of our national history and are ready to be assembled. They can all be found in the simple name “The Jean Chretien Family Project”. Transparency is the first thing that democracy is dying for and the retirement of Mr. Chretien will serve as the practical starting point to constitutionally regenerate peacefully from the confusion and the ignorant rule that lives on in the gap between private and public.At the individual level, we need to develop the standard to assume the responsibility of growing in the acquisition of the taste and knowledge of health for the well-being.Inspiration and the direction to promote the inspiration with are needed more than anything at this point in history and the rest of these writings aim to ignite the political will to achieve the move from SUFA to HUFA. It is an audio-visual project rising as a docu-dramatisation televised series that emerges on the air directly from a living context of cultural and social healing. The theme song is named and goes as follow: CALL to CANADA Could we reach the agreement that it’s the whole world who is in need to see a place like Canada to show that free will can be a good thing. In 1945 we were invited to join a deal. Most of the nations had great hope to bring peace among humans.After fifty some years, great challenges are facing us. The deal has not provided what we forgot to look after. ...(continue on next post)...
Benoit Couture , 12 August 2005 @ 14:36 PM Is Canada made for the human race or is it just a race being ran deceitfuly?(part 3)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...(continue from previous post)... We just cannot go on, building wealth for me, myself and I, while our loving for each other remains hidden behind divisions.We’ve got to grow from that bottom line that has been in use and bring about that sense of belonging, bonded beyond the business fences.Maybe we haven’t understood that prosperity only comes to us from who we are together and not from what we do to each other.We have all it takes to become heaven on earth; We have been blessed with wealth, now let’s lead wealth to prosperity.Believe it or not, it is the whole world who is in need to see a place Like Canada to show that the Renewing Covenant is unity for humanity… This song is part of a promotion package to be used in the context of the “Solving heir of the Seargent Pepper lonely heart club Band.” It already has access to the US Presidency and the PMO in Canada through Bono of the U2 rock band. This is so because U2 already has access, through inspiration, to about 2 billion hearts…!!!So, dear SUFA, your review is a whole lot more than just another round of academic exercises. If you don’t accept the expertise of the ones you serve, like my family and that all you end up with is a re-enforcement of red tape to give the illusion of transparency, then you’ll have missed out on your reason to exist and Canada should dissolve in a hurry because all that will be left of us will be the climate of the “rat race” leading on to the “dog eat dog” and forced to please the war lords of the “new world order”! One citizen one vote it is said of democracy. Can my vote count for more than ongoing hot air production from the governments of Canada or can democracy begin to lead openly and inclusively of all citizens' participation? I look forward to see a Canadian federal Minister to join me here on the EU open source KM to seek out the solutions openly and to implement the "immediate local and global response" of the citizenship.
Benoit Couture , 10 August 2005 @ 12:58 PM Time to get down to the higher businessStay at home dad Benoit CoutureFROM ALBERTA, WITH PRAYER AND HOPE Alberta is a Canadian province that has a large area of dinosaur fossils. So much so that they supply museums world wide. When we speak of dinosaurs, we speak of some of the greatest evidence of the Earth's age. As early as 2001, Canada's conservative political side of politics was being led by a man who came from Alberta's provincial politics and he went on to become the leader of the party representing the conservative values. In spite of the evidence from his own province, the man went on national telivision, defending the christian fundamentalist view that the Earth and creation are 6000 years old. That anecdote gives a glimpse into the depth of ignorance that Aboriginal poeple are being treated with, still up to this day. It was 1960 before they were allowed to vote, although they constantly helped various Europeans who would not have survived through their first winter, if it had'nt been for the help that Aboriginal people gave them. When we speak of the Aboriginal people of the Earth, we speak of the remanant that made it through the ice age. The scope of our ignorance toward them is only starting, in the last few decades, to be observed politely from the cold and distant scientific evidence. Before God, her majesty, Queen Elisabeth cannot avoid to recognise the tragedy of the near genocide inflicted upon them, in trying to "civilize" them the European way. To me, one of the greatest way to know them has been when I heard a chief describe how his language was visual language. They convey meaning with images of tribal struggle for survival, of hunter's and of warriors to one another. The specificity of meaning are contain in the experience of each one's life. Another way to know them is when an elder who was testing the truth of my quest said to me: "Where there is a will there is the way to go." This struck me with meaning and scenes that went all the way to the ice age and to a people who had to wait for the movement of the Spirit of the Lord to guide them in no uncertain terms. So when the Aboriginal people speak of the Creator, the dont do it the kind of specifications of our young and specialized way of doing things. They do it with the wisdom learned from millions of years of conditions so harsh that only the Innuit people of the high Artic or of the Antartic can offer us a glimpse of it. When Aboriginal people speak up to say ouch, we should pay complete attention. They have been saying so and her majesty hears them. Shall we do so on time to avoid tipping into the social terror that this situation causes in the world? Their needs must be addressed and in doing so, Europeans must learn to learn and to apply our entire devotion with all dilligence into the recovery road that is called for by justice, peace and common sense. Guide us all, oh Great Spirit of Holiness...
Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 13:59 PM Intellectual honesty and Canada's governing (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Euriopeans, In Canada, we are struggling with national unity anf you are struggling with continental unity. Your basic equation is made of a much more complex texture than our's. Yet, the solution is the same, which is unity. As people of the 21st century's democracy, are we not faced with the need to establish a permanent "core" dynamic to constant need to feed into the union from and with ongoing reconciliation? If we say yes to that question, then the next question is: How does reconciliation come in focus as the status force of all governance? Intellectual honesty is the start andI suggest that the answer can only begin to be taped in by allowing the scope of assessment to cover a minimum of 3 generations. The spark that I suggested in Canada during the SUFA review http://www.socialunion.ca/news/020499_e.html of 2002, reads as follow: THE JEAN CHRETIEN FAMILY PROJECT “Jean” means beloved of God and “Chretien” means one who is given the life of the adopting Spirit, in the family of the resurrected Christ.The simplicity in the meaning of “The Jean Chretien Family Project” offers us as Canadians a user friendly image to get a grip on the live currency of our history, and to demonstrate our privileged cultural and social obligation to activate Canada’s economy and politics into the maturing of the just society. Humanity’s need of inspiration calls us all, but in particular Canadians, for a time of deep adjustment to the new reality of living in the after “9-11” era. Mr. Chretien’s personal and public life are directly inter-woven with the very fabric that Canada is made of. In general terms, this means that whatever is good about Canada is also fine and well in the personal life of the Prime Minister and whatever needs some looking after in Canada, also needs to be addressed in the personal life of the P.M. and family. (continue on next post)
Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 13:59 PM Intellectual honesty and Canada's governing (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...By accepting to retire into the role of “The First Ministered Family”, “The Jean Chretien Family Project” opens up the trail of a deep National retreat, that has the potential to launch the healing journey, for Canadians to address inter-personal as well as the ethnic distance and animosity that politely lives on. In so doing, we will let the masks of pretension, social ranks and intimidation fall off, so as to reset democracy up to date in the discipline of the mature decision-making that will re-emerge from the family on.Timing is everything in politics they say! The conjuncture that our citizenship is brought to by the fast and unexpected global turn of events, is where the personal need to be nurtured together into a just, peaceful and joyful living is calling the Canadian governments to set the healing in motion.Perfectly timed by destiny is the upcoming review of “The Social Union Framework Agreement” (SUFA) that was signed by all governments in 1999 except Quebec. Between that review, the PM’s retirement, the outlined intents of the Throne Speech, Her Majesty visiting the country and the necessity of humanity since 9-11 for a global, focal flame of hope, it is now time! History has set the pace and Canadians are called to be lit up in the radiancy of the Just One, to inspire the solemn beauty of being human by harnessing the drive of the ancient voice of humanity’s youth, to journey from the rule of ignorance to the organic-spiritual growth of the human-divine education! May God bless us all in the presence of His Fatherhood! That letter was given to the SUFA review of 2002 and ever since 2004, we have been watching "the sponsorship scandal on Canadian unity" unfold in the mud. Perfect circumstances for reconciliation to emerge right where a focus can be turned on for all of humanity to benefit from... So if need be, I accept to switch the name of Jean Chretien for mine, Benoit Couture. It means a seam blessed of God. In the language of my vision, it means minstry of reconciliation.
Benoit Couture , 02 August 2005 @ 15:33 PM Open window in Canada (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear EU members, can we aim to enter in complete clarity of the invitation that we are given with the tools of KM and of transparent open source. The clarity to reach in this thread is the question/answer's theory for which, the next thread will report, on the step-by-step account on the development of the initiative aggred upon here. The main directive is to establish the "Faculty of Living". So the question/answer I suggest that we agree upon first and to commence the reporting on the next thread is: "Where is the authority to engage emotional intelligence, mental health, family and community living to grow from stranger to family?" In order to make this project credible and gravitational, I offer to continue taking the hot seat as the "stay at home dad-citizen-voter-tax payer", who is publicly looking for the universal treatment of the human condition, starting from my own off-balance condition, as I have made obvious to all who read me. I am the client who is troubled in the same way that any human being gets to be troubled when put under too much stress and who's recovery is found on the same ground as anyone else's need for well-being and welfare. By coming out in the open by joining restorative justice and community mental health from Canada, I seek to beat down the trail across the discomfort and unawareness which prevents humanity from reaching the universal, standard passage from self-destruction to self-control to communal self-governing. What is my personal location? So far, at 47 years old, I have alienated my love ones from me and estranged myself from most relationships, through each stages of life so far. I did so as a son, as a brother, as a star of our local sport and now, in exile at 2500 miles away for 27 years, in a different language, I sit as a husband and father of four who fails to lead. I've recently become grandfather and communal maturity is the only hope to make sense of my existance. What have I found so far? In my long, tedious and near insane search for intelligence that could balance my emotions, I decided in Nov 2004 to run in the provincial elections, for the Green Party in Alberta. On the one hand, I was going public to find allies for my vision of addressing national unity from a socio-cultural communal healing movement. On the other hand, I wanted to send a clear signal to the underground people who know me, that to reach my aim, I am moving from the Establishment of The Code of silence to the Quietning Silence of Patient Wisdom. Official secrecy in democracy=The Code of silence...(see next post)
Benoit Couture , 02 August 2005 @ 12:02 PM Open window in Canada (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...I wanted to show-off my non-threatening approach to those of the underground world who know me that I am going out of secrecy by means of transparency. My strategy is to charter my journey in line with the Alberta agenda, which is to seek out the best that the world has to offer in the advancement of Health, Education and for the Environment. Interestingly, during the campaign, I was sent a report by a grassroots association for mental disease and mental health. It was an organisation made of 35 of the professional mental health disciplines and self-help groups. The most amazing fact that came up in my discussions with the spokesperson of this association was that: MENTAL HEALTH IS YET TO BE OFFICIALLY DEFINED. He informed me that the Senate of Canada had sent a Commission to establish the definition of mental health in a cohesive manner for all disciplines to work from. After 10 years, the Commission returned empty. Professions of the mental health sector are too confused to define their science??? So the Senate sent the Commission back on the road for another 2 years, to try to define mental health to work from and toward. If they cannot, then their mandate is to define "suicidal personalities". I wont begin to speculate what this means as I would sound quite negative. What is true to mental health as far as being in need to be yet defined is also frighteningly true concerning most other faculties of the humanities. And yet, the one major expense of our democratic societies is to maintain the status quos of the ruling ignorance of all these expertises who do not know where they are going. Mental health and intellectual honesty depend on one another for balance. Lets put the Faculty of Living in position to invite all other faculties to intellectual honesty, in a non-threatening way in the completion of each one's journey to the balance of thought in the harmony of action! What do I invite you to? In practice, I propose to make of my personal and family's journey, the point of entry into the audio-visual living room of ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... which was introduced to the EU KM Board with: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2910 It expanded to become: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U1590685 The first chapter is called: "...quest for Home..." http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4491876 The first episode is called: "From domestic oppression to domestic health". If I can produce an amateur home made video to graphically show what I am describing here, will it be enough to allow for swift gravity to deploy the initiative or am I causing too much confusion to bring thoughts into actions?
Benoit Couture , 26 July 2005 @ 15:24 PM Canadian authorities and marijuana community (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureHow to bring to life the Ministry of Reconciliation from Canada to the UN To address national unity and our democratic deficit, we need to cultivate sovereignty at the family and community level in the training of consensus. We begin by bringing the parents, the teachers and the judges to meet in schools, to cause a point of quietning stillness to calmly emerge in wisdom within the community. The quietning stillness is the communal exercise to set the tone of the assembling. The relatedness that assembles these people becomes the tuning fork to proceed into the atmosphere of trust and comfort to shape decision making in our midst. This familyhood becomes the catalyst to the Canadian Mother and Father International Association. Together, we usher in the Canadian fabric the rise of the personal sector. On the short term, this personal sector acts as the antidote to the causes of apathy, exclusion and reclusion, by fostering the common denominator that converts the divided and conquered state of our subdued multiculturalism, allowing for the transition from strangers to communal family partaking. On the medium term, the personal sector is the focal life of inter-personal trust and of community comfort, that becomes the base of renewing communications to Canadian democracy, rising to absorb and to fill the voiding dynamics that make up the basic decision-making of our present system of secretive complicity between private and public national institutions. This void of never ending secrecy, manipulation and deceit is where much of the tax power gets shredded into ongoing excuses and power struggles of unresolvable opinions, amongst the 4 levels of political decision-makers, the Law and the banks...(next post)
Benoit Couture , 26 July 2005 @ 15:19 PM Canadian authorities and marijuanna community (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...By dimming the light on with the personal sector, we will arrive to the starting point of the non-threatening site and sight of communion that will gather parents, teachers and judges. Families and neighbours get then to be drawn by the inviting nature of meeting to regenerate and/or to restore the human spirit in love and wisdom, where justice is hosting decision-making of serenity in growing joy. On the long term, the personal sector becomes the socio-cultural ground to make room to accommodate the non-prosecutional zone. This zone gradually grows with the maturing of communities who become exercised in the translation from the old and distant decision making to the renewing family and community bond. Canadians need to see arising from the personal sector, the shaping of authority and discipline of a round table that will bring and sit together the Mother and Father International Association (MAFIA) the Real Community of Moderate People (RCMP) and the Canadian Blessed Communion(CBC). The aim of this exercise is to ignite with the help of the media, the path of inspiration that will raise our national self-awareness. We will consolidate the restoring power of justice on the ground, from the underground to the preamble of the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedom. This preamble says: "Where as Canada is founded upon principles which recognise the Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law." In French it says the same except for the Rule of Law. Instead it says: "The pre-eminence of the Right". We will bring this difference to completion of one another's language and add on to this delicate balance: " and the quietning silence of patient wisdom", in order to open the door for justice to grow the inner disposition by which we can heal our history with the First Nations and amongst us all. From here we invite humanity to join us, Aboriginal, English, French and the rest to secure the Assembling of the One Nation...amen...
Benoit Couture , 26 July 2005 @ 15:03 PM How Canada can face a national problem of global proportion Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureCanadian politicians are debating a Bill to decriminalise marijuanna. The world needs Canada to be bold enough in the process, to adapt the Bill to reach the following impact: Embryo of a Bill for the Ministry of Reconciliation INTRODUCTION Since the United Nations adopted a list of illegal drugs in 1948, there has been a systematic deployment of a confrontation, which has developed into the war on drugs. It goes on, being perpetuated in the fields of addictions, at the expense of the public purse, spreading its confrontational damages over two generations now, through out the earth. As a result, there is ongoing multiplication of the confrontations amongst families, neighbours, communities and nations. The costs to individual and communal peace are perpetuating the state of cultural and social divisions such, that the human and the economic costs have gone on spiralling in the wrong direction. This vicious circle has decayed democratic societies from the inside out and keeps the doors wide open to the entity of terror-anti-terror to feasting off all sides at the same time, for the benefit of the very, very few. Governments and the people must join forces to transfer all resources that are going into the war on drugs and to invest them into the individual and communal victory over stress and compulsive behaviours. Motion of the Bill for the Ministry of Reconciliation “WE the citizens of Canada and of all Nations who care to join, declare our resolution to endorse and to move with our resources from out of the war on drugs and to deploy ourselves with our resources, into the victory over stress and compulsive behaviours. We do so to provide to individuals, families and the communities of the member Nations, with the common ground and with the framework to set in motion The Ministry of Reconciliation. The Ministry of reconciliation is the instrument by which we, the people of the participating Countries, take on the right we have, to fulfil our needs to host, to develop and to deploy the Faculty of Living with our tax money that now go in the war on drugs. The itinerary of the motion is to secure the passage from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government. I -----------, hereby pledge my personal interest into the Ministry of Reconciliation, to establish and to deploy the victory over personal and community stress and compulsive behaviours, in the simplicity of good health and happiness.” Signed: -------------- Date: ---------------- Address: -------------- Ph # -----------------
Benoit Couture , 11 July 2005 @ 15:24 PM Unique opportunity for Canada and Bono to join KM and live intelligenceStay at home dad Benoit CoutureIn the news last night, it was said that the National Hockey League is on the verge to announce that the lock out, which costed the world of hockey a whole complete season off, might be reaching the end. At one point, in the beginnings of the lock out, 3 rich boys offered to the owners to buy out the whole league all at once for 3 billions dollars. It was refused instantly without further discussion, as if a can of worms had just been opened. It demonstrated that there was a lot more to the picture than meet the eyes. It showed that the lock out had as much to do with money as with the power of ownership over natural human resources, not to mention the death of the meaning of the word sport, burried deep by the business world, at the heart of competition's meaning. As one who has been personaly owned, operated and systematically destroyed shortly before my 18 years old by one of the oldest owner in the game of hockey, it again confirms so much the visionary stance of civility of Valuetrue and of DM. Every time I read: "Which one of these 2 organisations would you prefer to work for...", it sure hits home. The moment of truth is here for Canadian hockey players as well as the population, to decide if their national sport is worth saving from such treatment or will they let ownership of the old order prevail? By joining this cause of hockey players along with the university of stars concept, bring them on in the context described in the link I give you here and build on with the momentum of Live8 and suddenly, we;ve got ourselves the movement taking on a new dimension. The perspective of multi-disciplines joining to follow the lead of spiritual intelligence. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F2130629?thread=682993 Does it add to you?
Chris Macrae , 12 March 2005 @ 16:48 PM space & place don't just a community or knowledge society makeMr Chris Macrae---they sustain people at least that has been the idneifying EI belief of developing a thread for each country's situation as a knowledge society I am therefore over the moon to report this sighting in Canada, Tornto http://www.the215.ca/ This splits 2 ways:for those lucky enough to be in Toronto- does it merit the trust its web demands? for the rest of us, has our city got even one of these? if not, is there any part of the EU still helping such places and spaces to breathe life? I didnt find this space by myself so I should credit the seqeunce of links that led up to it: I was rereading the postbag of www.egroups.com/group/onlinefacilitation - I realise I keep on erring in not mentioning this resource enough as its better for me on CoP than other lifelines I then went to check that moderator Nancy White http://www.fullcirc.com/ is still in Seattle -a hard place for me to travel via then I say she was reviewing this blog's contribution to good spaces for community activismhttp://www.furl.net/forward.jsp?id=2253836 and I guess all of this is connected to my role in demonstrating that London is up tere in the top 5 of knowledge cplaborating cities even if we dont have a 215http://cluboflondon.blogspot.com/http://futureoflondon.blogspot.com/
Chris Macrae , 12 October 2004 @ 08:23 AM social lawyer networkMr Chris MacraeWhen I first started face to face interviews of world leading luminaries in the systemic change that intangibles valuation evolves, I was a bit surprised. I had been told to go and interview the coordinator in DC of Brooking's 2 volumes on Unseen Wealth, and found that she was a social lawyer (primarily employed by Georgetown Law School). Ironically in 2001, she hoped the EU would lead the world with intangibles reserach which it was until the abortion fo funding FP5 end of Prism excellence network. Of course this introduction made it less surprising when another social lawyer - Canadian Joel Bakan - emerged as leading hub for societal reformation of Global Corporations with all the networks that a film and book can muster http://www.thecorporation.com. Londoners are particularly fortunate that October 2004 brings us a season of The Corporation including Q&A opportunities with Joel. Through these people we connect into truly reforming transparency and global corporate responsibilities where more US reformation lawyers and sustainability analysts come into the picture. You will find the likes of Robert Hinkley & Robert Monks closely networked into Bakan's deepest research notes. You can then connect these to campaigning author/journalist Marjorie Kelly (both author of Divine Right of Capital and for 16 years editor of the leading corporate responsibility journal http://www.business-ethics.com ) Alongside this we have the longest running researcher of net generation demands come transparency system developer Don Tapscott and we have the world's leading investigative journalist of globalisation gone locally disastrous (and mass media vicious) in Naomi Klein. Canada is also rich in leading sustainability conference centres and open space alumni. It also has annual McMaster World Conferences which are a chance for Policy Capitalist to change to open governance and hi-trust measurements. I wish I knew where the European equivalents hub into these networks because all sustainable visions 2010 of European Knowledge Society need such parallel researchers to come to the fore in changing authenticity in the way big business and big governments measure performance contexts and behave transparently as powers over people's time, knowledge, emotional intelligences, and abilities to make a lifelong difference that serves other people. When you set up google alerts for the key terms I mention, its interesting how often more and more Canadian resources linkin. We'd love to sign up more co-blogging correspondents for whynotTORONTO
Chris Macrae , 08 February 2004 @ 02:31 AM network of 5 for performing artsMr Chris MacraeCanada has led the way in providing the first person to take us up on our offer to try to form micro networks of excellence around people's deep rooted concerns http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=122789&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y Here's the 5 person network call we are aiming to assemble for a lady from Toronto who has devoted most of her career to the performing arts. If you are or know someone who might make a perfect member of her 5-person micro-network of excellence , please emai, me at [email protected] with some details that you would like me to relay on thankschris call for a micro network of excellence from Linda R writes:Here's the cluster of issues that I am interested in discussing that relate to my life and work:How do we fund the arts in order to ensure that they are sustainable? What is the correct balance of state support and marketplace support for maximum health of each discipline? Once that is established, how do we get buy in from governments and voters to support arts funding? How do we counter the pressure to let the marketplace decide, which demonstrably leads to only the lowest common denominator surviving as saleable art?
Chris Macrae , 31 January 2004 @ 04:23 AM Peace Networks of excellenceMr Chris MacraeMy friend Lilly Evans introduced me to this Canadian Jewel whose calendar of events for 2004 is a great exemplar:http://www.peace.ca/upcoming.htm This also liked me to a virtual univesrity of peace and Network of Excellence Transcend http://www.transcend.org/t_database/members.php This is a formidable looking network & searchable by country I note also the link to the canadian magazine http://www.peacemagazine.org/
Vitaly Titov , 28 January 2004 @ 10:48 AM fast forward into uncertain futureVitaly Titov Dear knowledgeboarders! There you can download PDF file: "The Anatomy of a Transformation in 1985-1995", that put the explicit vision from Canada into uncertain future.
Chris Macrae , 27 January 2004 @ 20:34 PM conversation on corporationMr Chris MacraeI have loaded an off-board conversation on corporation that lit up tehse last few days. http://www.knowledgeboard.com/download/3274/corporationacademics.docIts quite academic and I do not wholly understand - actually a question I would like to raise is why is it so easy to start a conversation like this by emailing a few friends, but relatively speaking like pushing water up hill to get a conversation going on kboard-it seems that a typical batting ration is 100 people reading to 1 person posting- is this normal for -boards?chris
Chris Macrae , 24 January 2004 @ 01:34 AM The Corporation - part 2Mr Chris Macrae"This fine book was virtually begging to be written. With lucidity and verve, expert knowledge and incisive analysis, Joel Bakan unveils the history and the character of a devilish instrument that has been created and is nurtured by powerful modern states. They have endowed their creature with the rights of persons -- and by now, rights far exceeding persons of flesh and blood -- but a person that is pathological by nature and by law, and systematically crushes democracy, freedom, rights, and the natural human instincts on which a decent life and even human survival depends: the modern corporation. This incisive study should be read carefully, and pondered. And it should be a stimulus to constructive action -- not at all beyond our means, as the author outlines." -Noam Chomsky "Bakan's "The Corporation" is one of those rare books that opens up a new world. It's message is compelling-- and more important now than ever. With exquisite historical evocations and incisive contemporary examples, the author challenges us to recognize the flaws inherent in the very nature of the corporation and the practical possibilities for reform. You will want to have the book at hand for frequent reference for many years to come." -Robert Monks "Since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring began to expose the abuses of the modern industrial system, there has been a growing awareness that profit at the expense of Earth--of individuals, society, and the environment--is unsustainable. Joel Bakan has performed a valuable service to corporations everywhere by holding up a mirror for them to see their destructive selves as others see them. The clarion call for change is here for all who would listen." -Ray Anderson
Chris Macrae , 24 January 2004 @ 01:33 AM The Corporation: Could this film and book have an impact?- part 1Mr Chris Macraehttp://www.thecorporation.tv/filingcabinet.html#book Book: " The Corporation - The Pathological Pursuit of Power" Eminent Canadian law professor and legal theorist Joel Bakan contends the modern business corporation is created by law to function like a psychopathic personality. Beginning with its origins in the sixteenth century, Bakan traces the corporation's rise to dominance. Simon and Schuster: “the most revolutionary assessment of the corporation since Peter Drucker's early works,” THE CORPORATION makes the following claims: • Corporations are required by law to elevate their own interests above those of others, making them prone to prey upon and exploit others without regard for legal rules or moral limits. • Corporate social responsibility, though sometimes yielding positive results, most often serves to mask the corporation's true character, not to change it. • The corporation's unbridled self interest victimizes individuals, the environment, and even shareholders, and can cause corporations to self-destruct, as recent Wall Street scandals reveal. • Despite its flawed character, governments have freed the corporation from legal constraints through deregulation, and granted it ever greater power over society through privatization. Bakan urges restoration of the corporation's original purpose, to serve the public interest, and calls for re-establishment of democratic control over the institution. Concrete, pragmatic, and realistic reforms are proposed.
Chris Macrae , 12 January 2004 @ 02:11 AM The Commonwealth of LearningMr Chris MacraeSounds like an interesting idea- would love to hear reports from any stakeholders http://www.col.org/about/Building Capacity in Open and Distance LearningThe Commonwealth of Learning is an intergovernmental organisation created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education knowledge, resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, COL is the only official Commonwealth agency located outside Britain and is the world's only intergovernmental organisation solely concerned with the promotion and development of distance education and open learning. COL is helping to increase the capacities of developing nations to meet the demands for improved access to quality education and training.In part due to the efforts of COL and its Commonwealth-wide network over the past ten years, distance education is now a part of the mainstream of education and training. It enables students to learn at the location, time and pace of their choice, for less money and with improved results. COL's goals include maximising the transfer of information, ideas, innovations and resources to support this rapid evolution of distance education.Commonwealth Governments financially support COL on a voluntary basis. Major contributors have included Australia, Britain, British Columbia, Brunei, Canada, India, New Zealand and Nigeria. http://www.col.org/Consultancies/02virtualu.htmWhile not envisioned in COL’s Three-year Plan, 2000 – 2003, COL has responded to a request by Commonwealth Ministers of Education that it explore the creation of a virtual university to support higher education in small states. After technical collaboration and wide consultation, COL presented a report on the purpose, design and economics of establishing such a virtual university to Commonwealth Ministers of Education when they met in Edinburgh in October 2003 (available for download above). The university, as conceived, would function on the basis of collaboration amongst a consortium of existing educational providers. Ministers strongly endorsed the proposal. Subsequently, in Abuja, Nigeria, Commonwealth Heads of Government "received with appreciation the Report of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and accepted its recommendations, in particular, the proposal of the Commonwealth Conference of Education Ministers for a Commonwealth Virtual University for Small States." (CHOGM Communiqué, 8 December 2003)
Chris Macrae , 11 January 2004 @ 18:27 PM Open CanadaMr Chris MacraeOpen Spaces in canada Ontario -references
Chris Macrae , 12 December 2003 @ 18:08 PM McMaster CongressMr Chris MacraeI'm giving a paper on cporpoarte governance not as usual at the 2004 McMaster conference Jan 14-16 Anyone else going? would love to meet up cheerschris macrae update Jan -04A list of some of our featured speakers include: Don Tapscott, Author, The Naked CorporationLeif Edvinsson, UNICHubert Saint-Onge, Saint-Onge AllianceMary Lee Kennedy, MicrosoftJoe Chidley, Canadian Business MagazineDavid Brett, Knexa SolutionsCindy Gordon, Helix Commerce InternationalDave Pollard, Ernst & YoungMichael Raynor, Deloitte ResearchJohn Evans, TorStarFinn Poschmann, CD Howe InstituteRick Camilleri, CanWest GlobalHoward Deane, KPMGRafik Loutfy, Xerox Research CentreRichard Livesley, Bank of MontrealBryan Davis, Kaieteur Institute for KMJay Chatzkel, Progressive Practices Check out the full agenda of speakers for this event here: http://worldcongress.mcmaster.ca/pdf/25agenda.pdf
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 19:08 PM IC Anthology - part 3Mr Chris MacraeMihnea Moldoveanu Rotman School of ManagementUniversity of Toronto Original Chapter: Epistemology in Action: A Framework for Understanding Organizational Due Diligence Processes Janine NahapietSumantra Ghoshal Templeton College, OxfordLondon Business School 1998 AMR Article: Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage Ikujiro Nonaka School of Knowledge ScienceJapan Advanced Institute for Science and Technology 1994 Organization Science Article:A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation Steve PikeAnna RylanderGoran Roos Intellectual Capital Services Original Chapter: Intellectual Capital Management and Disclosure Ron Sanchez IMD, Lausanne Original Chapter:Modular Product and Process Architectures: Frameworks for Strategic Organizational Learning Deborah SoleAmy Edmondson Harvard Business School Original Chapter: Bridging Knowledge Gaps: Learning in Geographically Dispersed Cross-functional Development Teams J.-C. Spender School of Business & TechnologyFashion Institute of Technology Original Chapter: Knowledge, Strategic Problems, and The Theory of The Firm William Starbuck Stern School of BusinessNew York University 1993 JMS Article with New Commentary: Keeping a Butterfly and an Elephant in a House of Cards Katsuhiro Umemoto Graduate School of Knowledge ScienceJapan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Original Chapter: Managing Existing Knowledge is Not Enough: Knowledge Management Theory and Practice in Japan Georg von KroghSimon Grand Institute for ManagementUniversity of St Gallen, Switzerland Original Chapter:From Economic Theory Towards A Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm: Conceptual Building Blocks Sidney WinterGabriel Szulanski The Wharton SchoolUniversity of Pennsylvania Original Chapter: Leveraging Knowledge by Replicating Routines Youngjin Yoo Ben Torrey Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve UniversityAccenture Original Chapter:National Culture and Knowledge Sharing in a Global Learning Organization: A Case Study Michael Zack College of Business AdminstrationNortheastern University, Boston 1999 CMR Article with New Commentary:Developing a Knowledge Strategy
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 19:08 PM IC Anthology Part 2Mr Chris MacraeRaghu Garud Arun Kumaraswamy Stern School of BusinessNew York University 1995 SMJ Article with New Commentary:Technological and Organizational Designs to Achieve Economies of SubstitutionRobert Grant McDonough School of BusinessGeorgetown University Original Chapter: The Knowledge-Based View of the Firm Brian Hackett The Conference Board Chapter adapted from the Conference Board Report:Beyond Knowledge Management - New Ways to Work (2000) Constance Helfat Ruth Raubitschek Amos Tuck School of Business AdministrationDartmouth CollegeUS Department of Justice 2000 SMJ Article with New Commentary:Product Sequencing: Co-evolution of Knowledge, Capabilities and Products Ard HuizingWim Bouman University of Amsterdam Original Chapter: Knowledge and Learning, Markets and Organizations: Managing the Information Transaction Space Kazuo Ichijo Graduate School of International Corporate StrategyHitotsubashi University Original Chapter: Knowledge Exploitation and Knowledge Exploration: Two Strategies for Knowledge Creating Companies Anne Marie Knott The Wharton SchoolUniversity of Pennsylvania Original Chapter: Exploration and Exploitation as Complements Seija Kulkki Center for Knowledge and Innovation ResearchHelsinki School of Economics and Business Administration Original Chapter: Knowledge Creation in Global Companies Dorothy LeonardSylvia Sensiper Harvard Business School 1998 CMR Article with New Commentary:Tacit Knowledge in Group Innovation Sharon Matusik Jesse Jones Graduate School of ManagementRice University Original Chapter: Managing Public and Private Firm Knowledge Within the Context of Flexible Firm Boundaries Will MitchellJoel BaumJane Banaszak-HollWhitney B. BertaDilys BowmanUniversity of Michigan Business SchoolUniversity of Toronto Rotman School of ManagementUniversity of Michigan School of Public HealthUniversity of Toronto Dept of Health Administration Original Chapter: Opportunity and Constraint: Chain-to-Component Transfer Learning in Multiunit Chains of US Nursing Homes 1991-1997
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 19:06 PM IC Anthology -part 1Mr Chris MacraeThis Anthology edited from Canada by Nick Bontis and Chun Choo looks impressivehttp://choo.fis.utoronto.ca/OUP/default.htmlthough I wonder if the editors haven't made their favorite selections over the last decade whether or not everyone would recognise them as directly on the book's title The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational KnowledgeContributors (in alphabetical order): Paul Adler Marshall School of BusinessUniversity of Southern California Forthcoming Organization Science Article with New Commentary:Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism Melissa Appleyard Darden SchoolUniversity of Virginia 1996 SMJ/1999 JKM Article with New Commentary: Knowledge Diffusion and Flow in Semiconductor Industry Vincent BarabbaJohn PourdehnadRussell Ackoff General Motors CorpUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe Wharton SchoolOriginal Chapter: Above and Beyond Knowledge Management Paul Bierly IIIPaula Daly College of BusinessJames Madison University Original Chapter: Aligning HRM Practices and Knowledge Strategies: A Theoretical Framework Frank Blackler Lancaster UniversityManagement School 1995 Organization Studies Article with New Commentary: Knowledge, Knowledge Work, and Organizations Max Boisot ESADE School of Business Adminstration, Barcelona Original Chapter: The Creation and Sharing of Knowledge Chong Ju ChoiAnastasios Karamanos NGSM, Australian National UniversityCBR, University of Cambridge Original Chapter: Knowledge and the Internet: Lessons from Cultural Industries Claudio CiborraRafael Andreu London School of EconomicsIESE, University of Navarra Original Chapter:Knowledge Across Boundaries: Managing Knowledge in Distributed Organizations Kathleen Conner C K Prahalad University of MichiganSchool of Business 1996 Organization Science Article: A Resource-Based Theory of the Firm: Knowledge Versus Opportunism Mary CrossanJohn Hulland Ivey School of BusinessUniversity of Western OntarioKatz Graduate School of BusinessUniversity of Pittsburgh Original Chapter: Leveraging Knowledge Through Leadership of Organizational Learning Donna De Carolis LeBow College of BusinessDrexel University Original Chapter:The Role of Social Capital and Organizational Knowledge in Enhancing Entrepreneurial Opportunities in High Technology Environments Charles DespresDaniele Chauvel Graduate School of Business, Marseille-ProvenceThe Theseus Institute Original Chapter: Knowledge, Context, and the Management of Variation Harald FischerJoseph PoracJames B. WadeJoyce BrownMichael DeVaughnAlaina Kanfer School of BusinessUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonGoizueta Business SchoolEmory UniversityBORN Original Chapter: Mobilizing Knowledge In Interorganizational Alliances
Chris Macrae , 16 July 2003 @ 07:40 AM great first impressionMr Chris MacraeNew to me but making a great first impression is the Human Rights Internet - linking the Digital Divide at http://www.hri.ca/about/intro.shtmlhttp://www.hri.ca/welcome.asp Does anyone have contacts/info on how productive a group this is?
Chris Macrae , 07 July 2003 @ 18:25 PM responsibility bookmarkMr Chris Macraea canadian bookmark from my archives: 2) Responsibility in Canada http://www.cbsr.bc.ca/ ****Canada is to the Americas as Nordica is to Europe - a beacon where knowledge openness and governance responsibility for human and social capital multiplying the intellectual capital of firms is emerging with a lot of promise. Extract:(CSRwire) LONDON - Companies are not normally shy when it comes to telling the world how well they are doing. So why are Britain's biggest companies so coy when it comes to talking about their record on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?
Chris Macrae , 05 July 2003 @ 18:09 PM value evolutionMr Chris MacraeIt should surprise nobody that as we hurtle in a network age - with virtual network learning contacts as well as real ones - and most value already created by service or knowledge differences rather than dead product-based comparisions- smart value isn't strategised the way it was when victorian britons put people in production line factories. Yet our leader's view of strategising clings oddly to old command and control notions rather than ones that value people's diversity of skills within a living system pattern On pages 256 to 258 of her latest book 'The Future of Knowlledge', Verna Allee classifies a hierarchy of strategy which I broadly interpret at 3 levels: the lowest value strategies cling to tangible measurements; at best these organisations seem to be perpetuating commodity patterns of work through which their employees have no pathways to grow; ultimately this means that such organisations are going nowhere valauable either second level value strategies broadly improve processes through action learning and other modes that were discovered in the Total Quality Benchmarking Movements of the 1980s; whilst these systemise companies, their 'dis-equilibriums for growth' are far away from the relationship dynamics of living systems; balanced scorecards are the furthest this level of value can reach in its metrics; and that's not far at all copmapred with where worldiwde networking can take us in out local diversity of value exchanges and multiplying learning, where this is most humanly neeeded where we need to go, if you want to enjoy the leadership value add of both organisation vision and network or organsiaion vision integrates all the capitals human, social, intellectual of organisation and of nation, and does so transparently so all who want to participate loyally and by bringing unique differences relevant to an organisation's focus are truly rewarded in the trust-flow that compounds, and this openness propagates truly through all systems of systems
Chris Macrae , 05 July 2003 @ 17:56 PM Value of the FutureMr Chris MacraeTwo Canadians have changed my whole perspective of how organsiations work dynamically to produce value for all involved They are Don Tapscott http://www.digital4sight.com/lne.php and Verna Allee whose work closely interconnects Both show that huge organisational changes in strategy are`required to be of value in the future:defensiveness must go, openness come in static long-term plans must be replaced by dynamic short-hops within a systemically valued vision no value sustaining organisation is an island, system of system transparency of value exchanes is the way forward and this must interweave social democratic values as well as more purely economic ones As Verna is participating at a K'board event and I am reading her newest book, some of my posts may focus on her first. But lest I forget to state it being a transparency adviser , Tapscott is worldwide the first person I look to in refreshing valuations of which organistions have a future. Verna is participating at a Kboard event later in the year
Chris Macrae , 05 July 2003 @ 03:25 AM thanksMr Chris MacraeVal, thanks for your bookmarks- I see why you feel that Canada's parliament will give eg Finland's and Nordica's a race in to openly multiply knowledge to and for the people. Bonne Chance. I look forward to more countries' parliaments making this transformation. Is there any particular moment or person who you feel started Canada's approach? What sort of magic breakthrough do other countries need? I noticed elsewhere that you made the suggestion: "Why not try to turn KB into a global virtual think tank on KM". Could you elaborate on ideas on how we could experiment with that? K'board , as far as I understand it, is in one of those transitionary stages where we should try out any member idea within the reach that 5000 the reach of people passionate about all of knowledge's potentials in a networked world.
Open Community 1 of ENGLAND @ knowledgeboard.comFin Rus Bra USA Swe Den Ind NZ Aus Can Jap Ger Fra Net Eng Ukr Wal Gre Spa Por Fra Slo Mal Leb Chi Mex Lat Cze My favourite foreign country Some UK Inputs : UK Cabinet Office pdf on Social Capital 20 year's ago one of the country's leading economists believed that the value mulitplying epicentre of knowledge begins with intrapreneurial teams and went on to explain how the networking age's great social economies would only multiply if big organisations stopped trying to command and control every digit. We don't take back a word of it; there is no knowledge economy and KM is bunk unless you liberate human productivity and people's networks within a trustworthy and transparent system of leadership and governance.Nordica went on to implement inspiring views multiplying human, social and intellectual capital, whereas Britain and America became addicted to accountants numbers and cutting people down. Could we please now unlearn these depressing mistakes of living by numbers alone? Please post:any details of EU research into KM that is primarily taking place in the England any notable aspects of KM which the rest of Europe should benchmark with depth/breadth of learning gained in the England; for example if you were to list 3 webs out of the England that every KM person should know of, what might they be? ideas for integration events that the England would most like to be a hub for in knowledgeboard or knowledge angels open advancement of knowledge practices; linking this where relevant to particular intellectual, social or human capital found in the England or particular regions any big questions of knowledge that the England (its leading companies or its most entrepreneurial people) might have about identifying exchange links across Europe? If you feel another question should have been listed here, please phrase it in your post
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Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this story. Legal NoticeNumber of comments: 68 Stella Kemp , 10 August 2005 @ 17:28 PM with deepest respect, coming back to threadIf I understand correctly, this thread invited Londoners and those who love what London tries to stand for in influencing societies At our core we are trying to say we take responsibility for London being a test case for the future of all open multicultural cities; and invite anyone of deeply caring culture or cities to collaborate in this future reconciliation between world's richer cities and poorest places noting that many of the compound crises around the world also compounded by errors like slavery which the British Empire was one of the first to globalise. We also accept that 20th C Economics has compounded extraordinarily dangerous apartheids, separating people in ways that nobody who loves diversity or transparency can tolerate. It may have been all that could be done before the net; its externalities policies now terrify us. We thank whomever helped the BBC to understand that Colin's lifestory merited the resomnating around the web's airwaves as you can see here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4741333.stmextract:Tributes have been pouring in from all over the globe for a man who really did try to change the world. Colin Morley, a 52-year-old father from north London, was described as a genius in the world of advertising and marketing. He used his brilliant communication skills to try to help charities and businesses understand their brand and, on a wider scale, he tried to change the world of media and marketing into a force for social good. His latest project, called Be The Change, encourages people and organisations to find ways to improve ethically, socially, environmentally and personally. Bringing joy to other people was his aim, he once said. Our lives are forever changed, but we carry his positive spirit in us and will continue to spread his desire for peace and love in the world, and his wish to make the world a better place. Ros Morley And a glimpse at the Be The Change website (see internet links right), where 25,000 words of tributes have been posted, shows how Mr Morley's work and philosophy touched the lives of so many. He was killed on the Tube train near Edgware Road, but some of the messages posted on the website suggest his ideas will live on
Benoit Couture , 10 August 2005 @ 12:19 PM ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... and Open Geospacial Consortium( part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureIN THE HOPE TO BRING ON A LASTING SMILE OF DEEP RELIEF FOR ALL CONCERNED WITH THE POWERTO BEThe project of ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... (cvC) comes at the tale end, in the history of one of the longest monarchy to ever exist, the Commonwealth. I come from the North American jewel of the British Crown, Canada. The times in which cvC is being introduced, is at a moment in history when humanity is faced locally and globally with the very continuum of human existance. Only nature has ever been able to send upon the collective awerness, signals of danger with such magnitude as what the war in Iraq and against terrorism is forcing the human reace to face. With the nature signals, we are only forced to address the return to narmal. This time, there is no return to normal for anyone. The norms and standards must be re-addressed to adapt with the recovery of good health and happiness. The concept of cvC is for the sake of being a user friendly tool of focus and of rally to promote and to train for the sharp reforms that Western populations are faced with, locally. Voters, taxes, force of Law and Legal Tender working together for the tender living. The image of promotion, is that of carachter who comes into existance for the sole puporse to embody the depth and the spectrum of the transformatoion we are faced with as citizens, consumers and voters with "free conscience". cvC must find the unisson resonance in the Spirit of God, from the Winsor family and demonstrate to humanity how we proceed from stranger to family. Canada is five centuries of history making between two of the worst enemies to ever inhabit the Earth: English and French. The odds were made more complicated with fifty-four nations who's existance dates back from before the ice age. This is a fact that is only beginnig to emmerge in the twenty-first century, and it is only starting to take on its significance in our understanding of the big picture of the human speceies. We are still far from having adjusted any of the wrongs that we go on doing by ignoring the wisdom of simplicity offered by Aboriginals from all over the Earth...(continue next post)
Benoit Couture , 10 August 2005 @ 12:17 PM ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... and the Open Geospacial consortium (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureFor the promotion of cvC to work at rallying the focus and to infuse inspiration, we need to laugh and to cry together. Our national condition must be embodied with such an intimate and personal reach, that the message will go on and the messenger will vanish with the emerging reforms and the renewed distribution of common wealth. So here is a tale, to introduce the messenger of cvC. He is born out the light that came from two key rivals from the big chess board. In French, next to the monarchs are the "fools". the same position in English is held by "bishops". Recently, the two found themselves stuck for quite a while, next to each other, waiting for the struggling players to finaly make up their move. And so, for the first time in history, the seriousness of the Anglais bishop was directly exposed and forced to endure the raw jokes of naked truth from the fool instead of hypocritical reverence. Likewise, for the first time in history, the fool has to endure blunt wisdom trown at him instead of continuous mindless laughter, until he is told to get out of sight. The players took so long to get back to the fools and to the bishops, that by the time they returned, there was no more chess board. The message had come to life and says that power and decision-making over human affairs is not made to be a chess game in the hands of hypocrisy and ignorance. And so, in order to embody with humour and wisdom the healing of the meaning, sraight out of a peculliar situation on the big chess board, I introduce to you the messenger of cvC. NAF. TA. North American Frog Terribly Apprehensive. Who is he and what is he after? Please see: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2911
Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 17:01 PM Appeal to the true majesty of Britania (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureHere is a letter that was intended to be brought to the attention of her majesty, Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. This is a personal invitation to her into a dream of mine as a Canadian citizen, written so that its reality may reach anyone on earth as well. I invite her to a strategy, for Britannia and Canada to begin the ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... by the release of The Permanent People Summit into the Canadian reality, while she visits Edmonton on today and returns tomorrow on the 25th of May 2005, from celebrating the centennial of the province of Alberta, Canada . Your highness,History is moving and destiny is calling; we must answer! There is no legal nor even maybe a moral protocol to allow me to address you, your highness, other than my calling upon the mercy of Lord and to your grace, so that you may know of the vision I have been granted to carry so far. Like a pregnancy, there comes a time for the delivery. I have been in "THE" state of transition your highness, since 9, 11, 01, most likely the same state as anyone who is aware of the times. So in Oct 2001, I phoned the Privy Council Office of Canada from my stay at home, imbalanced life. I asked if I could have the following question answered: " Can someone with a not so good reputation, have a motion that actually gets implemented all the way to the Clerk of the Council, in the PMO and across the nation?" After a little probing, the receptionist became distinctly vibrant, as the lady insisted that I call right back if I had not gotten through to where she was hooking me up. After a few tries, I reached an analyst in the social think-tanking, two doors down from the Clerk's office. Once past my initial question, he asked what was my idea. My prep to this question was the following statement: "I, Benoit Couture, call upon the Canadian Mother and Father International Association to support my motion to activate the Role and Structure of the Privy Council of Canada into cleansing our vision of the Crown, by growing into the Faculty of Living, so as to consolidate the Canadian Heritage." And so after an hour or so of beautiful. casual, relieving and soothing brain storming, he said, and I love to quote: "...Mr Couture, I wish you...no, let me rephrase, I wish us all as Canadians that your motion gets implemented..." With this kind of wind hitting my sail, I lifted to glide on to the SUFA review. It is: Social Union Framework Agreement. It was signed in Feb of 1999 by all provinces except Quebec. The federal and the territories also signed. (continue on next post)
Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 17:01 PM Appeal to the true majesty of Britania ( part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureIt was up for review in Feb 2002 and I sent my submission. They scanned it in, in an unreadable fashion. So with fire up my belly, I sent it to the PMO and to all relevant offices across the nation. I've been relentless since. Reminding Mr Klein, Premier of Alberta whom you will spend time with on the 23rd and to his staff and to the PMO and to the Privy Council that I am still at it, promoting Canadian unity from personal health and mutual completion in maturity, instead of propaganda. This campaign is a natural development of a totally unusual journey. It is by spontaneous feed and feedback that I operate. It is the reason I write to you this way, on such a short notice. Democracy needs to capture the moment in time and to mature rapidly from the leftovers of colonisation's motherhood as well as to be released from the grip of paternalistic federalism. As you well know from your sovereign position, Canada is where Britannia gave the French, Europe and the Aboriginal populations with an opportunity to demonstrate how the people and the Crown can get along just fine in the completion of mutualaty. Your highness, we are now in the era of the entity of terror-anti-terror. One does not go without the other. Because of this global crisis, time is ripe for the essence of Britannia to regain its voice from the time spent in the "Quietning Silence of patient wisdom", since constitutional monarchy came about. In the province of Alberta, your former Lineament Governor, Lois Hole, has conceived a legal embryo with the Premier Klein, to offer you and Britannia the possibility do so with all the beauty of sanctity and the simplicity of being. She extended the power of that experience to bring sovereign leadership in the daily decisions, where service was going astray from the well-being of the people. Democracy is ready for the completion of unity under the Crown with the crown, with all of God's children on the earth. The democracy of a mature people of all people needs to be deployed in full bloom by your invitation to Mr. Bush and to Benedict the 16th to join in Canada and to let the vision emerge together, from upon the Land of Emmanuel, in the celebration of the permanent Easter that's being granted to the inner person of each human by the Covenant of the Lord with humans. Please help seize the moment to make of Canada, the place where from the gates and walls of this entity of terror-anti-terror shall not prevail and shall be pushed backward from upon humanity's horizon! In closing this first personal and intimate letter to you your highness and to all of Britannia as a start, I enclose the lyrics of 2 songs to put the vision in context of your visit to western Canada, next week. (continue on next post)
Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 17:01 PM Appeal to the true majesty of Britania ( part 3)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureFamily blessingOh young lives, granted from heaven to us parents and who painfully suffer with us and because of us, the discovery of spiritual maturity! The difficult upbringing that we’re being through, has been and will forever be inexcusable in our own eyes and in the eyes of the world. It is so, that we may all be trained in God’s power to forgive and to free us from what He forgives, as we learn to pray, to praise, to be thankful and to rejoice no matter what, in the blossom against and because of all odds. May we each live on by ongrowingly knowing God’s Fatherhood to us, where we each seek Him from, to where He seeks to be hosted within and amongst all of His own, in the quietning stillness of His Holiness to adore Him from! Dear spouse and children, the present of our lives comes to us from a specific dictation, grooved in the people of our past, and scripted in a future of the Life, as we radiate the spiritual-organic journey of the……Spheric Knighthood of Humanity’s Round Table In British terms, the knights represent the noblest of chivalry. They are the ones who are sovereignly appointed to serve and to protect with all the passion of their personal devotion to God and king or queen as the case may be. Since Camelot, the British monarchy and the knights of the round table have been adapting to the deeper calling of justice and of peace, while chivalry went on a quest of its own, looking for new ground to grow roots with. It reached beyond the realm of the Empire, and has now covered the whole sphere of the Earth. Having been forced to survive the underground rule, chivalry is sprouting back from upon the Land of Emmanuel, with knights who are equipped to serve and to protect the universal completion of personal and mutual community care. The round table we work from, is to inspire and to ease in the consensus of living freely with and for all who choose to host chivalry’s sprouting Royalty. The torch of Faith we carry is ignited to radiate the peace caused from the Solemn beauty of Being human who answers the ancient voice of humanity’s youth in the fluid adaptation of common sense, united by the Glory of our Father in heaven...amen!
Gillian Bush , 29 July 2005 @ 12:21 PM seeds of cross cultural harmony Ms Gillian BushOne of the inspiring stories told by Paul Komesaroff, founder of Global Reconciliation Network, is how youth of Melbourne are sponsored by the state to go meet, greet refugees and asylum sinkers , organsaing cultural festivals that intgrate the world's different dances, musics, foods, and other human celebrations. Have you heard of any other places in the world who greet their new nationals? All cultural experts know that first interactions compound. Clearly Britons need to learn that this is a people to people development issue from communities up not something that governments from the top can control, though they could perhaps mentor openness and spiritual kindredship in more open spaces than they have for a generation or two. And let people's media like the BBC have freedom of speech from every positivist perspective of life and our globe.
Gillian Bush , 28 July 2005 @ 08:09 AM a seminal postcard on diversity issues from LondonMs Gillian BushJon Snow, Channel 4 news:A day in the life of London, maybe even a commonplace day in the life of a Muslim. I am cycling back from Channel 4 at ten thirty seven this morning past the back of Horse guards parade in line of sight of the back of number 10 Downing Street - suddenly on the edge of the park I notice armed police, four of them, their guns raised surrounding a tall Muslim man with a dark beard. He is smartly dressed and has a brand new silver coloured camera bag on the ground at his feet. The voices are raised with the guns, in the time that I take to pass the guns lower, the bag is searched, the incident passes, no one seems to notice. Up on the mall a small knot of tourists are looking from a distance. One now normal unreported, maybe unreportable incident and a searing experience for one innocent Muslim man. Which isn't to say that the level of anxiety and tension which prompts such a scene isn't all too understandable. I am white, crazy-looking on a bike, with a shoulder bag across my back, yet I am not stopped in line of sight of number 10: here lies tonight's central dilemma - do only bag carrying bearded Muslims need to worry about passing public buildings? Soon they will begin to keep away from them and what is shared, what is all of ours, will become places they no longer come to. Not just the pubs where they never might have drank anyway, but now the places that are central to our democracy and our identity... Something we are addressing at seven with John Denham chair of the commons Home affairs select committee. He's arguing Mr Blair has got some of it wrong and must make amends. What questions do Transparency Mediators use this case to raise. I would love to hear from others in our practice community but I would start with:How is it that the coverage of our diversity crises by a small commercial channel can so shame (the muzzled reporting of ) the people's BBC channel? Do all Europeans realise that London is just a test case for the future of all our capital cities? Or do they bravely sneer at Londoners? If we could exorcise nationalism between our own 25 nations, just maybe E & U could help harmonise divesity relations in other hemispheres. Why doesn't Brussels come out of the globalisation closet. E & U could peacemake at a stroke. Rip up the common agricultural policy wherever it impacts countries in extreme poverty and call Bush's G8 poker cards on this issue. Blair is just one lonely person viewed from the sea of 6 billion beings. Why does 21st C safety of the world's citizens depend so much on stressed decision making of such a one & the tempraneity of media of mass agitation?
Chris Macrae , 26 July 2005 @ 12:39 PM after a final word, next big questionsMr Chris MacraeIt would never be the spirit to exclude a big question if anything comes to mind or learning from what we tried to interpret absent of Colin Morley. Otherwise, in searching for a final word through Colin & Open Space , I quickly came across this prescient blog entry of Colin's which will be pertinent if not forever, for as long as Londoners have lost our peace Opening space versus activismThe Open Space email group has been discussing Iraq and anti-Americanism as have many other people. This is a dilemna that I have wondered about, particularly being part of the Be The Change organising team, where we found ourselves both wanting to stand away from blaming people or holding the space at the same time as wanting to persuade Americans to vote against Bush. Harrison Owen, the originator of Open Space has summed it up in a way that helps to clarify my thoughts a lot. "Holding space and being an activist are two ends of a spectrum, and attempting to do both at the same time usually gets you in trouble, if not in schizophrenia. But the ends of the spectrum are always connected, and at any given time we (certainly I) find ourselves somewhere along the way. If my intent is to Open Space, I must let go as much as possible all thoughts of action, and a 14,000,000,000 year perspective can be very helpful. And when I choose to act, I must do so with every ounce of passion and talent at my disposal, even though I take up a lot of space.
Benoit Couture , 26 July 2005 @ 11:09 AM Fire of refinementStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and Guillian, I feel that this thread is entering in a zone where experience, knowledge and intelligence are being unveiled deeper and deeper into the simplicity of reality. One way that comes to mind to describe what I'm saying here, is that the learning curve of humanity's life experience as a whole goes from grossworking to networking. Thanks to both of you and to Collin's inspiration for having applied such graceful refinement to my experience from grossworking into networking. By the time you both took here, I am brought on to work through the experience in a more net way, in this wide open thread of England's Open Community. Thank you for such practical application of what you mean all along. I sure hope and pray that the 2 of you can spread the wings of such energy into the communal reality of all the big ideas and dreams being expressed here with such purity and clarity...
Chris Macrae , 26 July 2005 @ 08:32 AM Learning orbits from Colin - partial sampleMr Chris Macrae1) Colin had become deeply interested in experiencing Western approaches to collective consciousness training and consequential actions; in this we could understand how Open Space facilitation patterns conflict resolution and communal understanding. But I have never been able to get past my suspicion of other Western approaches to meditating or circular reconciliation flows of real-time communion etc whereas Colin was way ahead. In contrast, whilst not a practitioner I love the emotional intelligence "authenticity, deep context-led, open and fear-abolishing" consequences of what alumni of such Eastern sources as the Dalai Lama and Gandhi schools compound. Every time I met Colin we debated what were the missing links between us in this area, and agreed to defer to another round. 2 Colin as you can see from the links we have given in our recent posts was one of the most stunning successful social networkers of this age, at least around London and the contexts he was in. Anyone exploring the dynamics of social networks or community would find from his practice many clues; mind you Colin & I inspired by Meg Wheatley would talk about messy deep practice not theorised tidiness. 3 Having together studied mass media each with over a quarter a century of working practice, I believe we are both concerned to train children as well as adults on how to innoculate yourself from its spin. There are 2 joys: one sustaining, one destructing. Sustaining is about the joy of learning through an experience which makes your being able to make a difference. Destructive joy is about self-gratification. Knowing this: you can analyse any media's execution on you once you can feel the difference of those 2 communications intents. Call these value liberating or value chaining if you need. When researched, over 90% of mass mediated marketing, as currently practised, aims to waste people's development inviting self-gratification spirals not fufilment ones of joy. Colin more than I had knitted together at least 100 marketing experts who if they trusted you would help you change media use, whilst many of us are also caught up in professional conflicts that to make a living its easier to sell image-making rather than reality-making. One of Colin's great achievements , imo, was to have freed himself from needing any such dependency. Making him one of the most open communal advisers to enjoy being with. 4 I do not know of anyone who asked Colin for help on a humanly valuable issue to which Colin failed to reply in a truly modest way: however long it may take to be the change, I can help if we keep in touch and you deeply care
Chris Macrae , 26 July 2005 @ 08:00 AM time to be - part 2Mr Chris MacraeI hope you can see from part 1:that the choice of questions (more here) does become personal for you to make (what you value) and looking ahed to 3 - it is possible to imagine the same questions applying wholly to organsiations or people or any intermediary dynamic such as networks Mathematically, one other advice is: choose your value questions to be independent of each other rather than correlated (ie answering the same characteristic of relationship health). By doing this you can forecast future imacts with a model that is multiplicative in direction. Supose for example you surveyed 2 organisations and one was 10% ahead of your standard on compounding each of trust, courage-openness and person's time invested and the other 10% below. Then so far with those valuation factors, one systems' exponential is on a compound growth path of 33% (1.1*1.*1.1) the other on a decay path of 27% over the next few years. 3 So you then can test : does your survey apply to people relationships you make as well as valuing organisations. The variables in my survey appear to. But you can also refine your survey if it turns out that you come across a person whose relationships impacts are extraordinary as well as many views of that person. I will try and give some appropriate learnings in Colin's case in the next post, though do please accept my reason at this time and space is to select out positive dynamics of his impact that are most valuable because they as yet appear to be under-used by most networkers or communal interactors. Before moving on 3 observations:a) at this time on the loop of action learning, I would ask you for god's sake to learn (test the diversity of your experinece) before you actb) Colin and I had spent most of our life exploring the dark side of global media; when its used to lie, dumb down or socially control; so we explored a common big picture; but we had different personal ways of doing so; though many people helped us see harmonies in linking in c) I believe we also shared the view that today's greatest innovations and system transformations are wholly about conflict barriers and moving all peoples simultaneously and safely over them to higher integration of diversity- aka harmony. This is the Practice of Peace community renewal model that Harrison Owen has mentored thousands of Open Space Alumni in. Search Colin & Open Space
Chris Macrae , 26 July 2005 @ 07:59 AM time to be -part 1Mr Chris MacraeI spent some time thinking do I want to try to answer the peculiarity of Benoit's question and if so is there a simple whole way to do so without boring others in this thread who may feel its context peculiar. On balance as someone who does not value lurking - ie emotionally you are either in a learning community (its Q & A) or out of it but not sitting on its fence - I'd better try, fumbling attempt as it may be. The best way I can make this attempt is to recap on a recent breakthrough many of us have openly making: CONTENTS1 Knowledge of system spin as being dynamically equivalent to what sustainability exponential is being compounded around here2 How do you construct your own valuation survey of system spin3 Testing whether your survey applies to organisations and to people and any system in-between 1 If you have done any learning on people systems you will likely have heard the pattern rule : to know a holistic view of impacts, every system is already spinning- discover if its spinning virtuous or vicious spirals. Sustainability analysts find it valuable to translate this into the equivalent frame: any system is compounding a future exponential around it of growth or decay 2 If we get that far in construct logic: a breakthrough seems to be why not construct your own survey of system spin? It can help you and your communities see what is spinning sustainability or decay; and then decide whether your choice is to avoid getting connected into decaying systems or whether you are up for intervening with the goal of turning one such system round. It is up to you to sift through how you survey this because context matters. Having spent many years reporting emotional intelligence of intangibles my survey bias includes some profiles like:-does this system reward or destroy those who spend a lot of their time connecting in it: does this system proagate hi-trust or loow trust relationships? does this system nurture openness and courage needed to learn, chnage and innovate as oposed to just performing in an unlearning way?
Benoit Couture , 26 July 2005 @ 00:12 AM My mistakeStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGuillian, I apologise if it sounded too directed but in the same desire to see positive change happen, I seek to ask the questions as if I were Collin, who died and who could say: "Dont waste time on me, take up the torch yourself and run with it".So keep up the good work Guillian of seeking to apply Collins life work to your own and to ours. I was trying to drive his memory into actions now, while we are converging in the middle of strong emotions. But it is certainly not to reach negative grounds. Again, my apology, as I speak to us all, through the names involved here and that includes me.
Gillian Bush , 25 July 2005 @ 23:32 PM peace be with usMs Gillian BushBenoit from where I am your first paragraph is not right; your second paragraph asks whether there are actions I should be taking or helping people take that I am not. Leave that with me.
Benoit Couture , 25 July 2005 @ 20:30 PM Obvious questionStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Guillian, Collin meant so much to so many people that the moment of sadness is a moment to understand and to join in closer to one another who are in the same life pursuit as he was. Why dont we take his essence and move on to accomplish it ourselves, those of us who clainm to care for what he stood for? From what I am reading from the admiration of all who write of him, there's got to be enough inspiration and direction to get on with overcoming evil with good! What is missing? Or are we just here to demonstrate how helpless humanity can go on being? IS IT NOT TIME TO GO FROM SEEKING TO HAPENNING, dear new world of Europe and Americas?
Gillian Bush , 25 July 2005 @ 11:13 AM Guardian Obituary of KB member Colin Morley - part 2Ms Gillian BushHe was still sharing his enthusiasms and his joys with huge numbers of people, stimulating all who met him, right to the moment of his death. There are some fine tributes at the Be The Change website, which give some idea of how many lives he touched, and in such a positive way. If you ever see the Martin Luther King "Who do you want to have a one to one with?" advertisement again, on some show called The 100 Greatest Adverts, that was Colin - showing us a hero, inviting us to raise our goals as human beings, to acknowledge that all men are brothers. More recently he was involved in Rights and Humanity. It would be fitting to remember him by contributing to this attempt to build a better world. • Keith Clarke, Putney BeTheChange @ KB @ London @ Delhi @Empowerment
Gillian Bush , 25 July 2005 @ 11:13 AM Guardian Obituary of KB member Colin Morley -part 1Ms Gillian Bushhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1535497,00.html Marketing genius who tried to change the world Monday July 25, 2005The Guardian Colin MorleyAge 52 To attain an understanding of Colin Morley, to fathom how many lives he touched and the sense of loss that prevails since his death in the Edgware Road blast, log on to Bethechange.org.uk There, on a website he helped create, hundreds of people have posted almost 18,000 words of tribute. They come from Sweden, the US, New Zealand, Switzerland, Australia, Great Britain and a Tibetan monastery in Nova Scotia, Canada. They come from his wife, Ros, his son, Gavin, his friends and work colleagues - and people he barely knew. They come in regular form and haiku poems. They come from best-selling authors (Deepak Chopra) and quote Buddhist teachings. They talk peacefully ("Enjoy your well earned place in heaven") and in fury at his murder ("I feel empty, speechless, angry, upset and full of disbelief"). "He was a rare shining star in all ways, and he touched the hearts and souls of so many," said Ros Morley. "Our lives are forever changed, but we carry his positive spirit in us and will continue to spread his desire for peace and love in the world, and his wish to make the world a better place." His son, Gavin, added: "Dear Col, your fathering was superb. Later, we were close friends, and it is for this that I am most grateful. A lot of love passed between us and the flow continues." Mr Morley, 52 from Finchley, north London, was a father of three, a genius in the field of advertising and marketing and an idealist. Much of his time recently had been spent with the Be The Change movement, where he used his communication skills to unite people to try to improve the world. He had previously worked on ad campaigns for Quaker Oats, Vodafone UK and One 2 One. Described by one friend as a "hippy in the corporate machine", Mr Morley once entertained notions of becoming a musician, playing piano in a band called Nexus. But his talent for marketing led him into the business world, a platform he used to travel the world and attempt to instigate change. "His story will be shared and he will be remembered, and others will find inspiration, because this work we do, this work that Colin was a leader of, will not halt with death, your death, my death," a friend wrote. Tribute In 1969, I was on a bus in Liverpool with a group of schoolfriends, on our way to a rock concert. Another boy asked us if were going to the concert,and could we show him the way. It was Colin Morley. He burst into our lives with such a joy, such an enthusiasm, that he changed us all. He introduced us to new (to us) music, new books, new philosophy. He told us to read Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies, to try to understand the right way to live our lives, to stay childlike in our appreciation of new and wonderful experiences.
Gillian Bush , 24 July 2005 @ 09:43 AM learnings from beings in London these last few daysMs Gillian Bushownership is not difficult to do real if you are close to its gravity of purpose and love the care for it if you are many hierarchies up, its not difficult to do imagery but very difficult to do the real most loving thing; worse to protect your high up position you co-opt every circle below in guilt or displacement from having down the most loving thing; both through direct pressure within the organosation and through broadcast media or other professional expenditures co-opted to self-justify your retention of power the irony is that as the world gets bigger, there are some decisions that are needed involving big systems; however these should be done as transparently as possible from the top not with as closed need to know loops we can assume that big organisations of every kind are spiralling and compounding his system the most vicipous ways round unless they are openly preperaed to subejct themselves to an audit of potential conflicts unless we reverse this soon, we are all heading for sustainability disasters of societal and economic meltdowns; truth-testing audits are not hard; anyone with common sense and love of context can help facilitate them; the final insult is when people from the top say it is unproductive or not positive to question what resulted from their own distance or lack of attentive and context deep questioning
Gillian Bush , 24 July 2005 @ 08:26 AM critical stuffMs Gillian BushCritical stuff Chris made the more urgent to learn about given Friday's police-chaotic- state execution of an innocent Brazilian I think the clue may be that citizens and now in 3 systems:--local which is communally practiced--global, where worldwide learning in a profession or because of an interest or love of culture is also networked communally up wherever it is multiplying value for all who invest their time, tgrust and passion to make differences truly--national, where all the systems from time immemorial propagate hierarchy first; any system that is over-heavy with hierarchy cannot see how closed and controlling it is getting; it becomes the cancer to open society whilst using the people's media and taxes to shout the opposite imagery Londoners as one of the most locally and globally connected peoples in the world are not being openly supported by their national system in ways that pattern love or joy or courage. (Bookmark us evidence if you disagree) It's strange that in the 1990s , when time was plenty, the greatest thinkers about networking of knowhow flagged up the citizen issue as clearly as words can express- eg Manuel Castells: The global city is not London, New York, Tokyo or Jo'berg -- it is the part of each which is connected to an analogous part in each of the others. The global city is a distributed phenomenon. There is only one global city, and it floats on top of the others like lace. BUT where is KM supporting citizens pracices now? Would that be a wonderful special interest group to be a part of? If anyone can send me links to where it is emerging or being openly explored for all people's sakes. GB
Chris Macrae , 23 July 2005 @ 15:32 PM thanks GillMr Chris Macraereminscing: 21 years ago, on my first vist to India, an elderly citizen from Bombay hobbled across the street. I will never forget his greeting: are you from London? You poor thing- I hear you are ruled by an Iron Lady. In India, we have so much luckier. As far as my being can, I have loved all of Asia's diverse people ever since. Cut: A few months after Enron, I was sitting with one Brussel's main open minded budget holders. Chris he said it will take 4 disasters of the financial equivalent to Enron in the same year before the politicians wake up to loving the value of working people and innovation differently in a networked age. Well Collaborative Londoners cannot wait any more whilst media manipulators and financial speculators profit from putting people at risk and other vicious volatility games.. More on what to do with blind British politicians over here.
Gillian Bush , 16 July 2005 @ 12:17 PM Colin Morley - with all our loveMs Gillian BushOne of the communally deepest Brits to died in the 7/7 bombings at Edgware Road tube, London He was a knowledgeboardera Be The Changera fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and go-between for the great speakers on Sustainability, and a deep linkin supporter of Tomorrows Global Companya bloggera waiki-editora simpoleana critic of globally careless marketing and abusive media who helped changed the superficilaity and image-making addictions of the communications profession and so much more than any one person can ever begin to describe in a poor thread one of the great reformers of shareholder value and incorporation; one of the most deeply caring communal people that Londoners have ever been blessed with as a facilitator an open space alumni a resonating hi-trust centre of anyone's open network and dear person and family mam we will never forget the value of good spirits and true learning and open relationships. we will never forget your generosity of time and how many of our brains vibrate with action learning you gifted us Love from all your communities
Benoit Couture , 10 July 2005 @ 15:18 PM Thanks for the courageStay at home dad Benoit CoutureI have engaged shortly after 9/11, into a personal campaign, to denounce the fact that terror-anti-terror is one and only one entity in need of its confrontational division in order to extst. As it says beside my name: "stay at home dad". As such, I reacted to the threat that this event represent to the very meaning of "home" on the whole scale of humanity. I began proceeding, based upon my life experience, to deploy the microscopic socio-cultural potency that this position can contribute, once fully activated in maturity. The value of this societal position is yet to be recognized, supported and completed in the communal fabric. So I proceeded since Feb 2002, insisting to remain in the position of stay-at-home-dad-citizen-voter, trying to develop a niche as a social enterpreneur. The preceeding postings of this thread are touching the simplicity needed to quietly emerge in unisson and to draw away from feeding the entity. The post by you Gillian, compelles me to tune in with your music by quoting: "The just shall live by faith." The name of my campaign is: ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... and invites the populations of Britain, Canada and Europe as a starting point, to join in the experience of spiritual unity and to deploy this experience with a socio-cultural healing movement rooted and growing from personal inner justice and serenity. Are we hearing the call with enough clarity to renew our response from this thread and on to spreading the seamless reconciliation of humanity with eternity in the face of our here and now?... For further relevant readings about this week's strike from the entity of terror-anti-terror visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A4415546?s_fromedit=1 Let the search of wisdom to rise in completing maturity from here on...wisdom from England...
Gillian Bush , 10 July 2005 @ 11:58 AM wisdom from London -part 2Ms Gillian BushFurther, I have just dug out these two pertinent references to our engagement with justice. Peter ------------------------------------ From COMPENDIUM OF THE SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH Liberia Editrice Vaticana – 2004 isbn 88-209-7716-8 [552 pages £19.99] CHAPTER SEVEN ECONOMIC LIFE [ pp 185 – 212] I. BIBLICAL ASPECTS a. Man, poverty and riches 323. In the Old Testament a twofold attitude towards economic goods and riches is found. On one hand, an attitude of appreciation sees the availability of material goods as necessary for life. Abundance - not wealth or luxury - is sometimes seen as a blessing from God. In Wisdom Literature poverty is described as a negative consequence of idleness and of a lack of industriousness (cf. Prov 10:4), but also as a natural fact (cf. Prov 22.2). On the other hand, economic goods and riches are not in themselves condemned so much as their misuse. The prophetic tradition condemns fraud, usury, exploitation and gross injustice, especially when directed at the poor (cf. Is 58:3-11; Jer 7:4-7; Hos 4:1-2; Am 2:6-7; Mic 2:1-2). This tradition, however, although looking upon the poverty of the oppressed, the weak and the indigent as an evil, also sees in the condition of' poverty a symbol of the human situation before God, from whom comes every good as a gift to be administered and shared. and 341. Although the quest for equitable profit is acceptable in economic and financial activity, recourse to usury is to be morally condemned: "Those whose usurious and avaricious dealings lead to the hunger and death of their brethren in the human family indirectly commit homicide, which is imputable to them". 714 This condemnation extends also to international economic relations, especially with regard to the situation in less advanced countries, which must never be made to suffer "abusive if not usurious financial systems". 715 More recently, the Magisterium _used strong and clear words against this practice, which is still tragically wide-spread, describing usury as "a scourge that is also a reality in our time and that has a stranglehold on many peoples' lives".716 714 Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2269 715 Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2438. 716 JOHN PAUL II, Catechesis at General Audience (4 February: L'Osservatore Romano, English Edition, 11 Feb 2004, p.11
Gillian Bush , 10 July 2005 @ 11:57 AM wisdom from London -part 1Ms Gillian BushSome friends and I had a vote on the wisest mail we'd received from London in recent tragic days. We came up with this. Doubtless it will be unpopular at (or budgetary beholden to economics of) the EU with those whose knowledge is driven by a different overall system. Greetings,Now the 6/7 Olympic jubilation that swept London turns to a shuddering horror, 7/7 should remind us of the true nature of Jubilee, restoring structures of justice that work for everyone and protect the earth.We should all be eager to hear of, and to propagate, positive initiatives in this regard.This neat letter ( I've put the quote in front!) in the G today is neat is apposite too :“Terrorism is the war of the poor;and war is the terrorism of the rich” There can be no solution while we continue to proclaim that "our" violence against “them" is always a just war; while "their" violence against us" is terrorism. It is all evil and wrong and our common humanity must come to acknowledge this if we are to begin to live together in peace on this planet. Rev. Brian Matthews Wrexham continued in part 2
Chris Macrae , 07 June 2005 @ 07:08 AM Café Debate Tonight - Can Londoners’ Pensions Crisis Change Organisations for the Better?Mr Chris MacraeLast year in London Al Gore founded a Sustainable Investment firm http://www.generationim.com which has this to say about investment:We believe:• Investment results for long only equity strategies are maximized by taking a long-term investment horizon. • Sustainability research must be fully integrated with rigorous fundamental equity analysis to achieve optimal long-term investment results. • A concentrated approach allows maximum leverage of an intense research effort as investments will be entered into only when very high levels of conviction exist. Add in two facts:More and more Londoners are finding themselves in a future pensions crisis Most people distrust the world’s largest organisations as no longer wholly designed to compound better futures for peopleWe will discuss ways and means that a movement Pensions for People can demand changes today’s short-termism, lowering trust and lack of true organisational purpose. Something as valuable to humanity as sustainability is highly profitable over time. Intangibles (Unseen Wealth) research shows that analysts and leaders who deny this are mathematically wrong. Is it not time to understand that the economics of service and learning to network transparently is wholly different from last century’s age of investing in machines and cutting people down as costs? Free café debate tonight Tuesday 7 June Starbucks 51 Great Russell Street London WC1 sponsored by Royal Society of Arts, bbcICAN and Starbucks – more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/G1161 chris [email protected] 0793 144 2446
Chris Macrae , 20 May 2005 @ 12:48 PM knowledge of leadershipMr Chris MacraeThere are some pretty interesting conversations and materials building up to this London conference next Thursday http://www.getfeedback.net/plseminar/ Let's be quite frank, the evidence from trust surveys is overwhelming - the integrity of leadership has been devalued, and if people at the top are not going to rediscover priciples of transparency fast, democratic countries will take them down What's more interesting is why have leaders got so lost. Have they drowned themselves in numbers Are they unable to see that if you make incompatible promises to different stakeholder groups, you will be devalued are they misadvised? have their budgets got stuck on costly processes that dont work; any company that budgets a billion dollars a year on advertising is basically being conned by image-makers. This sort of spin is just not what any customers in 21st C networked markets want. My professional friends and I at World Class Branding Network over the last 10 years have researched almost every customer group assailed by such globally branded garbage - not found one group that wants this high cost waste. HOLO! I note some much stronger conversations (mentioning the fraud word) than this going at the current goverance inquiry among 1700 KM experts at http://www.kwork.org Why lurk on a discussion about knowledge of leadership? Does KM exist if we dont understand KL? Let alone KM for Transformation or KM for Sustainability. Comes a time, comes a community, is it this space, now?
Chris Macrae , 12 May 2005 @ 09:57 AM lawyers for corporate justiceMr Chris MacraeAt a management meeting of SIMPOL/ISPO yesterday, it was agreed that our Fall meeting will invite city lawyers to speak on the conflict they find between why they joined the profession and aspect of work devaluing humanity that various big corporations are trying to get them to do. If you know of anyone who may wish to speak at this eminent platform, please get them to contact me Chris Macrae, [email protected] , 24 Effra Road, London sw19 8pp. You can judge the nature and influnce of the meetings simpol stages from our most recent one. Worldwide the efforts of scholar of law networks for Human KM should be recognised by all of us. Among the 5 events that put KM so high on the map of disciplines systemising organisational value was scholar of law Margaret Blair's extraordinary praise for KM experts in the intangibles valuation crisis book Unseen Wealth published by Brookings 2000. Whether KM people have advanced this line of work the way she hoped is a question I can leave you to cross-examine.
Chris Macrae , 18 April 2005 @ 11:00 AM Who does your city/country vote as number 1 informant on 20th C organisations?Mr Chris MacraeDo mail us with other nominations. Meanwhile, here's why I nominate Drucker as a benchmark. I often get into deep water by asserting that people who have never read any Drucker fail to know much about what organisation is capable of - which incidentally can be humanly great or wretched. The same goes for leaders, another subject that I see Drucker as pre-eminent (along with Meg Wheatley, and who please email us to insert here... ) in informing us on One of the reasons why this water boils is that Drucker typically pioneers a higher path than academics or practitioners What he doesnt do that academics often do is:Develop silos- he's interdisciplinaryJargonise - he preaches that organisation is about common language- at least ethical, purposeful and transparent organisations Academics may also be jealous of Drucker. Because he writes in books and magazines; I am unsure if he has ever had to write for a journal; he certainly doesn't rate his productivity by numbers of papers written for journals On the other hand, in terms of practice, I am unclear whether Drucker has ever been the main developed of a methodology. That's certainly not what I remember his works for. What he has done is develop whole new emerging economies- eg what knowledge workers can systemise that virtually all workers in the prior era of machine-driven industry could not example 1 One of the stories Drucker tells (and I read this in a book written when he was about 80) is how every 3 years through life he has been concerned to learn a whole new subject or topic area. We could ask why a text on organisation suddenly presents this case in several deep pages of emotionally warming detail. Only recently one clue has come back to me. How many leaders of big organisations truly approach learning -in this somewhat humbling and certainly curious way - compared with how many who seek to extract knowledge and always appear to be perfect. Why is there a mindset that professional now involves always appearing to know? Even as it’s impossible to know how to apply anything worldwide in all the diversity that statement actually merits! I would rather we taught in our schools that lifelong learning of new subjects is not just a human right, but something we require leaders of large organisations to demonstrated they do, or retire from the top. How about you?
Chris Macrae , 12 April 2005 @ 18:07 PM A continent wide networking of Make Poverty History?Mr Chris MacraeTrade Justice Week some stories from Mali, Ghana, Senegal, India, Banmgladesh, Senegal, Mozambique, Haiti, Jamiaca, ZambiaMuch remains to be done if the Millennium Development Goals are to be achieved by the 2015 target date. The world is not making enough progress … We cannot afford to miss this chance. Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for International Development, UK MDG Report 2005 Globally aid spending is between US$50 and $60 billion. Globally spending on defence is $900 billion. If we spent $900 billion on aid, we would not need to spend more than $50 billion on defence.James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, Financial Times, 26 April 2004 If there's anyone in other EU countries/cities outside Britain interested in this jigsaw puzzle, then pro bono side of the Club of London could sure do with linking in- chris macrae, [email protected] Tomorrow's learning experience in London: As part of the build-up to the UK Presidency of the EU, this event is an opportunity for BOND members and MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY (MPH) partners to strategise and explore the EU's role in delivering on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2005 and beyond. Debate aims and objectives for the UK Presidency of EU and the degree to which new Member States prioritise or support the MilleniumDevelopmentGolas. Does the European Commission's (EC) development aid have a poverty focus and is it coherent in relation to other EC external relations policies and practices, especially trade. This focus on aid and trade issues therefore ties in with the EU work of the MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY coalition and the Global Week of Action for Trade Justice. Speakers:Baroness Northover, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on International Development at the House of LordsTom Sharman, ActionAidCostanza de Toma, Save the ChildrenDr Peter Stephens, Department for Trade and IndustryAdam Novak, TRIALOG Could also do with knowing whether there any fellow readers of the millennium assessment report. There's so much of it; one wonders how anyone could possibly see where the world is spinning without extraordinarily open collaboration efforts- where in Europe do people get a chance to practice collaboration on the scale needed if goodwill is ever going to takeover from badwill?
Chris Macrae , 03 April 2005 @ 11:45 AM Drucker Spotting -part 3Mr Chris MacraePublished back in 2001 in The Economist: This is a really great article (it has a few flaws recognisable to any connoisseur of Drucker) but its so bravely what KM needs to converse round if its to be a subject that engage leaders of top companies in exceptional KM (or forever after hold its peace) Which quote that I haven't extracted below do you like best? The recent failure rate of chief executives in big American companies points in the same direction. A large proportion of CEOs of such companies appointed in the past ten years were fired as failures within a year or two. But each of these people had been picked for his proven competence, and each had been highly successful in his previous jobs. This suggests that the jobs they took on had become undoable. The American record suggests not human failure but systems failure. Top management in big organisations needs a new concept. According to an old saying, you cannot hire a hand: the whole man always comes with it. But you cannot hire a man either; the spouse almost always comes with it. And the spouse has already spent the money when falling profits eliminate the bonus or falling stock prices make the option worthless. Then both the employee and the spouse feel bitter and betrayed. Of course knowledge workers need to be satisfied with their pay, because dissatisfaction with income and benefits is a powerful disincentive. The incentives, however, are different. The management of knowledge workers should be based on the assumption that the corporation needs them more than they need the corporation. They know they can leave. They have both mobility and self-confidence. This means they have to be treated and managed as volunteers, in the same way as volunteers who work for not-for-profit organisations. The first thing such people want to know is what the company is trying to do and where it is going. Next, they are interested in personal achievement and personal responsibility — which means they have to be put in the right job. Knowledge workers expect continuous learning and continuous training. Above all, they want respect, not so much for themselves but for their area of knowledge. In that regard, they have moved several steps beyond traditional workers, who used to expect to be told what to do, although later they were increasingly expected to "participate". Knowledge workers, by contrast, expect to make the decisions in their own area.
Chris Macrae , 03 April 2005 @ 11:39 AM Drucker SpottingMr Chris MacraeOn the prior post's assumptions were founded the industrial research labs, beginning with Siemens's, started in Germany in 1869, and ending with IBM's, the last of the great traditional labs, founded in America in 1952. Each of them concentrated on the technology needed for a single industry, and each assumed that its discoveries would be applied only in that industry. Every one of these assumptions remained valid for a whole century, but from 1970 onwards every one of them has been turned upside down. The list now reads as follows: • The means of production is knowledge, which is owned by knowledge workers and is highly portable. This applies equally to high-knowledge workers such as research scientists and to knowledge technologists such as physiotherapists, computer technicians and paralegals. Knowledge workers provide "capital" just as much as does the provider of money. The two are dependent on each other. This makes the knowledge worker an equal — an associate or a partner. • Many employees, perhaps a majority, will still have full-time jobs with a salary that provides their only or main income. But a growing number of people who work for an organisation will not be full-time employees but part-timers, temporaries, consultants or contractors. Even of those who do have a full-time job, a large and growing number may not be employees of the organisation for which they work, but employees of, eg, an outsourcing contractor. • There always were limits to the importance of transactional costs. Henry Ford's all-inclusive Ford Motor Company proved unmanageable and became a disaster. But now the traditional axiom that an enterprise should aim for maximum integration has become almost entirely invalidated. One reason is that the knowledge needed for any activity has become highly specialised. It is therefore increasingly expensive, and also increasingly difficult, to maintain enough critical mass for every major task within an enterprise. And because knowledge rapidly deteriorates unless it is used constantly, maintaining within an organisation an activity that is used only intermittently guarantees incompetence. The second reason why maximum integration is no longer needed is that communications costs have come down so fast as to become insignificant.
Chris Macrae , 03 April 2005 @ 11:37 AM Drucker-Spotting -not so odd that a 90+ year knows more about management purpose than you or meMr Chris MacraeThis is a really great article (it has a few flaws recognisable to any connoisseur of Drucker) but its so bravely what KM needs to converse round if its to be a subject that engage leaders of top companies in exceptional KM (or forever after hold its peace) Which quote that I haven't extracted below do you like best? there is the upsurge in interest in Joseph Schumpeter's postulates of "dynamic disequilibrium" as the economy's only stable state; of the innovator's "creative destruction" as the economy's driving force; and of new technology as the main, if not the only, economic change agent — the very antithesis of earlier economic theories based on the idea of equilibrium as a healthy economy's norm, monetary and fiscal policies as the drivers of a modern economy and technology as an "externality". For most of the time since the corporation was invented around 1870, the following five basic points have been assumed to apply: • The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not make a living, the employee needs the corporation more than vice versa. • The great majority of employees work full-time for the corporation. The pay they get for the job is their only income and provides their livelihood. • The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product. The theory underlying this was not developed until after the second world war, by Ronald Coase, But the concept itself was discovered and put into practice 70 or 80 years earlier by John D. Rockefeller. He saw that to put exploration, production, transport, refining and selling into one corporate structure resulted in the most efficient and lowest-cost petroleum operation. On this insight he built the Standard Oil Trust, probably the most profitable large enterprise in business history. • Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. • To any one particular technology pertains one and only one industry, and conversely, to any one particular industry pertains one and only one technology.
Chris Macrae , 01 April 2005 @ 12:24 PM could it be simpolMr Chris MacraeWhere does the Globalisation of Nations irony snake stop? I doubt if KB or funding for KM would exist if politicians hadnt got the millennium dream bug at the edn of the 1990s? Do they think the public forgot why all the vision 2010 and ebusiness scenarios that jusified all the spends to get into the networking age? I note that I am not the only one: Andrew Neil in Sunday Times of 3 April says: What divides them no longer necessarily divides us. They are still stuck in notions of right and left, capital and labour, middle and working class that have their origins in the 19th century and still reflect the divisions and concerns of the industrial age. But the British people now live in an information society, which has a different political discourse. If the political parties find it hard to engage the public, it is because they haven’t. http://www.simpol.org.uk recently became a first network to link between Human KM opinion leaders in the UK and Japan, here's top this social capital coming together 5 April, 10:00 amSt. Stephen¹s Entrance, Parliament MPs and candidates with global vision set to gain as the first Simultaneous Policy general election begins MPs and candidates who have seen the potential of the international Simultaneous Policy (SP) campaign to address global problems such as climate change, unfair trade and unsustainability are set to gain votes from campaign supporters in the forthcoming general election. A photo shoot of MPs, who have signed a pledge to implement SP alongside other governments, will take place outside St. Stephen¹s entrance to Parliament at 10:00 am on 5 April. Simultaneous implementation removes the fear governments have of becoming uncompetitive and losing investment and jobs if they take unilateral action. At the time of writing 9 MPs, 2 MEPs and 6 candidates have signed the pledge in the UK and many more are expected to do so once the election proper begins. A full list is kept updated at www.simpol.org.uk In Australia where the SP campaign began only recently, 59 candidates signed the pledge during the election last year, bringing support for SP into the senate. East Timor¹s Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner, José Ramos Horta, has also given his support. The campaign is coordinated by the International Simultaneous Policy Organisations (ISPO) and has Adopters in many countries who are in the process of forming national and local groups. Anne Campbell, Labour MP for Cambridge, said on signing the pledge of support in principle: ³There are a number of pressing social and environmental issues on which we can only make progress if there is international co-operation.² The campaign arises from the 2001 book The Simultaneous Policy, by John Bunzl, founder and director of ISPO.
Chris Macrae , 07 December 2004 @ 09:53 AM Britain's main intercity blogs in the 100 member whynot familyMr Chris MacraeUpdates - Blog focus of the Month· April -who do you value most in the world to learn from· March- Launch of Club of City format - uniting all citizens who believe long-term investment builds community be they investors in pension funds, analysts, opinion leaders, or built to last leadership teams· February - Gravity Pursuit & other games developing around the first ever network of 5000 organisations· January - how the world's largest corporation got lost in spinning purposeless unfiltered truthAll our blogs share html code if you want it whynotcity blogs exist so that people located in particular cities can describe networks whose context is particularly vital and vibrant in that city and which want to make intercity connections. Also to co-syndicate ideas on what meeting formats work to maximise communal intelligence, to action projects, to move from virtual chit-chat to doing stuff. If you want to represent your region be it in Britain or elsewhere please say, so we can help you join the family [email protected] The format we use is timeless so you only need contribute when live stuff is about to happen or you are sharing urgent info anyway across other spaces/networks you connect with British Collaboration of 100 intercity co-blogs includes -eg London, Bournville,West England,Cambridge,Glasgow Particular thanks to SIMPOL for trailing the first 5 live collaboration cafes with whynotLondon, Debra Amidon's Knowledge City Observatory Net for clarifying why anyone can openly knowledge manage a city that is most important to them, Piero Formica for introducing me to how to publish the KM which big academic powers dont want opened up for the people, Prem for the greatest regional context example I have seen one person assemble, 1000 open space facilitation friends whose 25 year practice of this skill is the greatest real meeting KM advance and others too numerous to mention
Chris Macrae , 07 June 2004 @ 06:05 AM 9 June 17.30 Cafe Meet with George Por - Islington, LondonMr Chris MacraeThis is a free opportunity to spend some time with George Por for anyone who loves George's leading edge foci - one of the pioneers of how the internet impacts communal intelligence (all the modes that people with a communal purpose share and practice knowhow), radical innovation, and George's latest focus: mentoring leaders in 10 fold improvements of impacts on all who work around them. George together with 3 other extraordinary mentors in the fields of change, theatre and united nations policy making are launching mentoring circles across Europe starting in Amsterdam, early Julyhttp://ecademy.com/node.php?id=24307 Come to listen and question George on this new chapter in his life's work. email me at [email protected] to confirm location in Islington ----------------------more on George George Pór is an elder of cultivating communities at work, a business philosopher,and executive coach who combines European values with Americandynamism and ancient wisdom traditions. He is the founder of Community-Intelligence, a transformation agency that helps people and organisationsincrease their evolutionary fitness by gearing up to radical innovation andboosting their collective IQ.Community Intelligence supports the emergence of a world in which people’scapacity to reach their full potential is strengthened by all humanorganisations. He has worked as Visiting Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD,and currently he is a Visiting Researcher in the Complexity Programme of theLondon School of Economics. He is the author of “The Quest for CollectiveIntelligence,” a chapter in Community Building: Renewing Sprit and Learningin Business, and the chapter on “Liberating the Innovation Value ofCommunities of Practice” in the forthcoming textbook, KnowledgeEconomics: Emerging Principles, Practices and Policies. He has alsocontributed to the forthcoming book, Evolutionary Leadership by Peter Merry.George is a member of the Collective Wisdom Initiative.
Chris Macrae , 03 April 2004 @ 11:11 AM cases of how lobby communities were bornMr Chris Macraewell done the BBC some quite extraordinary testimonies to how people developed social campaigns http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/casestudies love to hear more bookmarks on how lobbies were born; also would love to hear of innovative ways public sector tv may be using the internet to bring community constructs to life one of the most extraordinary BBC icans seeks to change political parties at every nation state so that they also take on the most pressing humanitarian agendas worldwide - simpol must be worth you connecting to if you feel the world needs more than national politics to be worth inhabitinghttp://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/Club28 of course if anyone's got a more practical idea of getting politicians to take on sustainability issues as well as projects that return kudos in under the lifecycle of a parliament, I'd love to know
Chris Macrae , 10 February 2004 @ 16:08 PM Inspiring news: Can we right the british empire's conflict compounding pastMr Chris MacraeIn the Fall of 2003, Australia brought a peace-making offering to London in the form of a 2-day gathering of reconciliation experts: The first 2 speakers:Mary Robinson, ex-president of Irelandhttp://www.eginitiative.org/told the story of how in the deepest potato famine Ireland had ever known, a previously unheardof community in America sent assistance whereas london centre of World Empire did nothing A leader representing aboriginees told us how she had thought long and hard as to whether she really wanted to travel to the plavce which had started her race's conflicts Well now there is some good news, this human network of people have linked me with deep in the heart of the financial city which begot all global financial flows- the church that was blown up by the IRA is reborn and is creating space for all those who wish to knowledge-share on how to reconcile religious and other humanitarian divideshttp://www.stethelburgas.org/Programme.htmhttp://www.stethelburgas.org/Articles.htm PS Should you think that one good turn deserves another, then our friendly down-unders are currently sponsored by the state of victoria to develop rich city youth movementshttp://www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org/prj/wyr.htmland as you may know poorworld youth movements are co-explaining what they would ask of leaders here http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=122836&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y Those who wish to have some very raw data for social network mapping the who's who of renconciliation networking can look herehttp://www.valuetrue.com/home/community.cfm?intClassID=3The only way this data will become clearer is if people who have an issue tell us how to edit its networking links. Ta!
Chris Macrae , 31 January 2004 @ 15:38 PM What role in international harmony could mass media play now?The world's biggest media need reinventing- and that starts with asking huge questions as the media are the biggest social platforms that could unite both nations in terms of internal passions and externally in terms of collaborative knowedge of the sort that 25 countries will need to multiply more benefits than just "bowling alone" as separate nations . Being a Brit, it is fitting that one of the most urgent media crises afflicts the BBC. It got caught up in the Hutton Inquiry- ostensibly as bearing part of the guilt over a government scientist committing suicide over his role in the whole Iraq destruction-weapons mess. This is the first co-creation idea I have for the BBC - have you a better one? There is a huge opportunity to learn from Hutton inquiry and the governemnt-scientisr suicide debacle acredited to investigative journalism into did Iraq have weapons of mass destruction?. The big question for our country's transparent future being: what would make public media so valuable to Britain's people that it would be trusted as having a leadership job separate from politicians. An idea that commercial tv would never dream of: Help groom superstars to be responsible heroes as well as specifically talented and broadly celebrated. When competitions like Fame create stars why not make part of the prize meetings with leaders of great humanitarian charities with the hope that the star will adopt one big world issue? Only the greatest social media will change Britain's impact in making a better world, and the BBC needs to invent a 21st C equivalent to why the world service was loved. It is not just the BBC but all big mass media that needs to transparently ask why should human beings trust its role in developing the inter-network learning agencies of 21st C community linking and deeply human issue progress. America's largest network stands accused of abusing freedom of speech as you can see herehttp://www.beyond-branding.com/blog/blogger.htmlhttp://www.fastcompany.com/poll/?x=1127 For those who wish to prepare more academically before addressing this question - review how Castells and Fukuyama made these the number 1 trust question before ordinary human beings -like my kids and yours - will ever enjoy the collaborative value of any form of networking technology.
Chris Macrae , 31 January 2004 @ 15:36 PM What role in international harmony could mass media play in 21st C?The world's biggest media need reinventing- and that starts with asking huge questions as the media are the biggest social platforms that could unite both nations in terms of internal passions and externally in terms of collaborative knowedge of the sort that 25 countries will need to multiply more benefits than just "bowling alone" as separate nations . Being a Brit, it is fitting that one of the most urgent media crises afflicts the BBC. It got caught up in the Hutton Inquiry- ostensibly as bearing part of the guilt over a government scientist committing suicide over his role in the whole Iraq destruction-weapons mess. This is the first co-creation idea I have for the BBC - have you a better one? There is a huge opportunity to learn from Hutton inquiry and the governemnt-scientisr suicide debacle acredited to investigative journalism into did Iraq have weapons of mass destruction?. The big question for our country's transparent future being: what would make public media so valuable to Britain's people that it would be trusted as having a leadership job separate from politicians. An idea that commercial tv would never dream of: Help groom superstars to be responsible heroes as well as specifically talented and broadly celebrated. When competitions like Fame create stars why not make part of the prize meetings with leaders of great humanitarian charities with the hope that the star will adopt one big world issue? Only the greatest social media will change Britain's impact in making a better world, and the BBC needs to invent a 21st C equivalent to why the world service was loved. It is not just the BBC but all big mass media that needs to transparently ask why should human beings trust its role in developing the inter-network learning agencies of 21st C community linking and deeply human issue progress. America's largest network stands accused of abusing freedom of speech as you can see herehttp://www.beyond-branding.com/blog/blogger.htmlhttp://www.fastcompany.com/poll/?x=1127 For those who wish to prepare more academically before addressing this question - review how Castells and Fukuyama made these the number 1 trust question before ordinary human beings -like my kids and yours - will ever enjoy the collaborative value of any form of networking technology.
Chris Macrae , 31 January 2004 @ 15:32 PM Reinventing mass broadcasting's responsibilities for international cooperationThe world's biggest media need reinventing- and that starts with asking huge questions as the media are the biggest social platforms that could unite both nations in terms of internal passions and externally in terms of collaborative knowedge of the sort that 25 countries will need to multiply more benefits than just "bowling alone" as separate nations . Being a Brit, it is fitting that one of the most urgent media crises afflicts the BBC. It got caught up in the Hutton Inquiry- ostensibly as bearing part of the guilt over a government scientist committing suicide over his role in the whole Iraq destruction-weapons mess. This is the first co-creation idea I have for the BBC - have you a better one? There is a huge opportunity to learn from Hutton inquiry and the governemnt-scientisr suicide debacle acredited to investigative journalism into did Iraq have weapons of mass destruction?. The big question for our country's transparent future being: what would make public media so valuable to Britain's people that it would be trusted as having a leadership job separate from politicians. An idea that commercial tv would never dream of: Help groom superstars to be responsible heroes as well as specifically talented and broadly celebrated. When competitions like Fame create stars why not make part of the prize meetings with leaders of great humanitarian charities with the hope that the star will adopt one big world issue? Only the greatest social media will change Britain's impact in making a better world, and the BBC needs to invent a 21st C equivalent to why the world service was loved. It is not just the BBC but all big mass media that needs to transparently ask why should human beings trust its role in developing the inter-network learning agencies of 21st C community linking and deeply human issue progress. America's largest network stands accused of abusing freedom of speech as you can see herehttp://www.beyond-branding.com/blog/blogger.htmlhttp://www.fastcompany.com/poll/?x=1127 For those who wish to prepare more academically before addressing this question - review how Castells and Fukuyama made these the number 1 trust question before ordinary human beings -like my kids and yours - will ever enjoy the collaborative value of any form of networking technology.
Chris Macrae , 20 January 2004 @ 18:38 PM London Lecture questions truth values of KMMr Chris MacraeSounds very interesting - do tell us if you are attending 17 March 2004 (PST) - The Darker Side of Knowledge Management speaker: Professor Frank Land - LSE This lecture traces the evolution of the concepts behind knowledge management, contrasts this with the actual practice and highlights the ethical problems that the development of ever more efficient tools for the dissemination of ‘knowledge’ poses for the systems designer Knowledge Management is widely regarded as the way an enterprise can leverage the know how of its employees, trading partners, and outside experts for the benefit of the enterprise (Chun Wei Choo, 1998, Bellaver & Lusa, 2001, Ackerman et al, 2003). Indeed some its advocates regard knowledge management as the essential tool for success in the highly competitive world of the global economy. Further, it is argued, the management, and with it the sharing of knowledge, not only enhances the enterprises ability to compete by increasing the competence of its employees also enriches the welfare of all those who are able to engage in the process. Hence, for those involved it is a win win game. The advocates fall into two groups - those who focus on technology as the mechanism for managing and sharing knowledge, and those who place a greater an emphasis on human relations, on conversation and on the elicitation of tacit knowledge. But both groups appear to share the assumption that knowledge management is beneficial, and that in some senses the knowledge which is managed and shared is equivalent to the ‘truth’. Hogg / CG79 Lecture TheatreWestminster Business School, Marylebone Road (opp. Baker Street tube)Time: 6pm - 7.30pmCost: Free. All welcome!
Chris Macrae , 12 January 2004 @ 02:30 AM China Britain CouncilsMr Chris MacraeI'm optimistic about Chian's impact in the nexy quarter century, both for China and the rest of the world. So I'm very interested as a Brit to understand what learning exchange spaces we have - is thye China Britain busienss Council a benchmark? http://www.cbbc.org For example in an area I know about, this exchange program kicking off during the first quarter of 2004 looks sensible The principle objective of the seminars is to provide a Chinese marketing audience with the UK's latest thinking on brand development strategies and methodologies, experience by example and an understanding of the importance of valuing their own brand property, whilst concurrently promoting the UK as the primary source of innovative, cutting-edge brand development expertise. Proposed topics include: 1) An Umbrella Introduction 2) Innovation - Vital as part of brand building and China's futuresuccess. Providing models for innovation strategies for product development and service development 3) Research and Consumer Insight - focusing on qualitativeresearch, what it is and why it is useful, discussing the benefits of focus groups, one-to-one groups and providing anecdotal experience 4) Brand positioning strategies & Differentiation - a UK strength,delivering differentiation strategies and examples 5) Taking A Holistic Approach to Communications - from promotions,to below the line and internal communications 6) Corporate Social Responsibility - how this is integral to brandbuilding 7) Brand Valuation - what is the brand worth, how is it valued. 8) Sponsorship and the Olympics - how Chinese firms can generatebrand value by sponsoring events and working in partnerships chris's brand references 1 2 3
Chris Macrae , 22 December 2003 @ 11:37 AM enterpriseforall & community bankingMr Chris MacraeWonderful initiative sponsored by 2 UK banks (Natwest and Royal Scotland) and openspacing inner city regeration ideas from the grassroots with the Treasury listening athttp://www.enterpriseforall.org Also great links on community banking at http://www.cdfa.org.uk/
Chris Macrae , 31 August 2003 @ 14:41 PM why the net chatters but doesnt doMr Chris MacraeHere's an extract of conversation currently going on among Gaian Democracy networkers who I have previously referred to Despite best communal intent, this discussionseems to lead back to the more abstract world of consciousness and spirituality with little in the way of the trials and tribulations of those of us who are actually trying to DO something on the 'material plane'. ...............These are universal problems of the internet. 1) They promote discussion not DOING. and 2) The discussions wander all over the world, particularly as new members join in. 'A Coalition for Self-Learning' solved this problem by 1)drafting a clear mission statement say that our goal was Doing Something. 2) It was " to create learning communities", 3) that any one could join, 4) that everything would be decided by consensus (any one member could "block" any proposed action, but 5) a "Core Group," (the 12 founding members) would act as a supreme court and could override and "block" by a 100% vote. This works well.
Chris Macrae , 09 August 2003 @ 18:32 PM collapsing world conference London, Sept 19-21Mr Chris Macraeseee www.collapsing-world.org or ask me at [email protected] if I can help find you more details Friday 19th September 2003 , London 6.30 pm opening addressMary Robinson, Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland, Chair, Ethical Globalization Initiative. Saturday 20th September 2003 9:00 –11:00 am Concepts of reconciliationJakob Finci, Chair, National Coordinating Committee for the Establishment of the Truth Bosnia Herzegovina; Charles Villa-Vincencio, Executive Director Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, South Africa, Former ; Lowitja O’Donaghue, Chair, Reconciliation Australia 11.30am – 1.00pmConcepts of civil societyChantal Mouffe, Professor of Politics and Social Theory, University of Westminster, UK ; Kersten England, Head of Policy Development, Bradford Council, UK 1.30– 2.30pmPolitical action and reconciliationRoberto Unger, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, USA2.30– 4.00pmLocal and global politics and issuesHans D’Orville, Director of Strategic Planning, UNESCOAzam Kamguian, Writer & Women’s Rights Activist, Chairperson, Committee to Defend Women's Rights in the Middle East 4.30– 5.30pmReflections on the experiences of the modern worldAlfonso Lingis, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, USASunday 21st September 2003 8.30– 9:00amThe problem of terrorismMarcus Einfield, Former Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, National Vice President, International Commission of Jurists (Australian Section)9:00– 11:00amResponses to terrorism in cultural, political and religious lifeMojtaba Sadria, Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Japan; Xu Youyu, Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing ; Pervez Hoodbhoy, Professor of Nuclear Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad 11.30am -1:00pmOn the ground: reconciliation and cultureHaggith Gor Ziv, Kibbutzim College of Education Center of Critical Pedagogy, Tel Aviv; Tanya Hosch, Director, Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre, Executive Policy Officer, Strategic Development Unit, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Commission ; Joan Anderson, Professor of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Canada 2:00– 3:30pmDemocracy, citizenship and ethicsMary Crewe and Christoff Heyn, Centre for Study of AIDS and Human Rights, Pretoria University, South Africa; Ian Campbell, International Health Consultant, Salvation Army and UNAIDS 4:00– 5.30pmDevelopment of draft communiquéAll participants5:30 – 6:30pmConference conclusion: closing remarks Paul Komesaroff, Director, Monash Centre for the Study of Ethics in Medicine and Society, Monash University, Australia
Chris Macrae , 28 July 2003 @ 20:20 PM Business Modelling for SustainabilityMr Chris MacraeMet Jon Grayson at Imperial College (its delightfully at the back of the Albert Hall) today. He's researching how to change ordinary business model speak into something where sustainability enters into the company's conversation and turns out to act like win-win glue all across the model. A jolly good idea as he can also help companies benchmark as they co-learn how sustainability can be a great innovation driver too. Update: Enjoyed a wonderful session among 12 of the deepest thinkers and practitioners of sustainability constructs- good to see Imperial College as epicentre of such vital work
Chris Macrae , 07 July 2003 @ 14:53 PM What exactly are the systems of governance and democracy that now dominate the world?Mr Chris MacraeBack June 14 I mentioned some great system's change research that Roy Madron and others are doing in areas l;ike sustainability, changing governance to be pro-people etc I am delighted to say there is now a very active topica egroup at http://www.topica.com/lists/wdn-co-learners/ WDN is a network of people and organisations asking questions: * What exactly are the systems of governance and democracy that now dominate the world?* What is wrong with these systems?* How can we change them?* What are, and what should be, the roles of ordinary citizens and of political leaders?* What can we learn from natural systems?* Can the large-scale change processes developed in other fields be applied in the political arena?* Can we develop democratic systems robust and agile enough to deal with the ever-increasing complexity of our globalised world?* Where will the energy necessary to bring about political change come from?
Helge Kreutz , 18 June 2003 @ 09:26 AM BBC Antiques Roadshow: an outstanding knowledge practice that every KM can benefit fromHelge KreutzHere is my nomination for a leading knowledge practice originated in the UK: BBC's Antiques Roadshow (TV program and website at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/antiques/antiquesroadshow/ ) The program contains so many best practices for knowledge sharing that it is impossible to name them all, here is just a short selection: 1) Title sequence (an old car, in it a massive clock, is driving towards the show): It invites everyone to join 2) Blend of virtual & face-to-face contact (the show is transmitted every week from another place around the country, everyone has a chance to join a few events in person, others virtually as a TV viewer) 3) Blend of valuables and trivials (no knowledge contribution is small enough to be unimportant): the show always takes place in the setting of a high-status historical building, trivial collectors items are thus connected to true historical treasures.4) Blend of active participation (by bringing along collectables) and passive participation (by viewing the collectables others brought along and listening to the discussions). The camera spends equal amount of time on the objects, the owners, and the passive spectators. 5) Equal knowledge contribution from everyone, the collector ( who describes the personal aspect of the object) as well as the expert (who explains the historical meaning). In all knowledge sharing it is difficult to manage the experts, usually the authority of the expert shuts up the discussion of the less experienced members and blocks out-of-the-box ideas. 6) Young and old, experienced and inexperienced, collectors & historical experts come together: Knowledge sharing is always a blend of personal (social) & professional interest, any categorisation will exclude valuable groups and diminuish the personal interest, everyone can benefit from the others. 6) Nearly all object descriptions end with an unexpected high value estimate, the collectors delight about the estimate is filmed as the close-out to the sequence: (a) together we discover treasures that we can't find on our own. (b) celebrating success is important.
Don Mezei , 18 June 2003 @ 01:02 AM KM and Einstein's equationKM involves 4 basic parameters. On the tacit side we have the conscious/subconscious mind, and on the explicit side we have information and data. Knowledge is comprised of these 4 elements or dynamics. How they work together can be viewed as a gif at http://www.islandnet.com/~dmezei/kmdynamic.gif So knowledge then involves managing these 4 related elements, conscious/subconscious/information/data. I was reading about Einstein's equation, that matter/energy tells space/time what shape to have, and space/time in turn tells matter/energy how it will exist within it. The KM dynamic is a similar approach - two interdependent dynamics co-exist and influence one another. That's why KM isn't simple to understand, anymore than how the universe operates is simple to understand. What stands at the heart of managing this complex relationship called knowledge are processes which affect the outcome. But a lot of study will have to be done towards exactly how this can be understood. For example, the more we know about a particular area of information, the less we can know about the data associated with it. And vice versa. So I believe the km dynamic outlines the basic relationship of knowledge as power. But it's certainly no cakewalk... Donhttp://www.kmprofessor.com
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Does Europe Lead the World on Knowledge Policies for Human & Social Capital?
All presentations from EU conference on Social Capital of Knowledge Society are now online. Has Europe taken the lead in open debating connections between the knowledge economy, social capital and culturally preferred futures in the networking age?SC- definitive research links Annotated Bibliography on the Business Value of Social Capital- Putnam defines social capital- Social Capital and engaging civic community- Wonderful library on social capital at World Bank
INTRODUCTIONI am writing this from Brussels where I have been privileged to attend an extraordinary conference on social capital hosted by the European Union. SPEECH/02/523 by Anna Diamantopoulou:European Commissioner responsible for Employment and Social Affairs Information Society, yes. Information élite, no Brussels, 28 octobre, 2002Ladies and Gentlemen, The themes you are dealing with today and tomorrow the knowledge society, cohesion, skills and learning are as you know, at the top of the Union's economic and social agenda. With the dot.com boom and bust of the 90s behind us, we can now take a closer, more realistic, and more measured look at what the knowledge society holds for the Europe of today and tomorrow. For me this conference has three main aims: First, to look at the knowledge economy in its broadest context. To examine the impact it is having on employment. On work. On social relations. And to look at how we can exploit the knowledge economy for greater productivity, wealth and well-being. Secondly, we need to look at the knowledge society in an enlarged Europe. Of 25 Member States and more. To look at the specific challenges that candidate countries face. The imbalances that need to be addressed. The opportunities that need to be seized. And thirdly, we need to look at how best to tackle social and human capital issues in holistic, even interdisciplinary way. How we can learn from and build on the different experiences, different viewpoints of social partners; researchers; policy makers. The knowledge society is at the heart of the strategy agreed at the Lisbon Summit - to make Europe a global economic front-runner by the year 2010. To make businesses more competitive, innovative and dynamic. To make our workforce more skilled and adaptable. To achieve full employment or at least as close as we could get. And to significantly reduce poverty, exclusion and marginalisation. Human capital the knowledge, skills and attributes that a person holds - is vital to achieving these goals. It is perhaps the most important input into the knowledge-based economy. Vital for productivity. Competitiveness. For quality jobs. If we are to maximise the potential of the new economy, our workforce must be skilled and trained. To meet new labour market needs. To meet the demands of new and rapidly changing technologies. Over the past 5 years, over 60% of all new jobs created have been in the high-skilled sectors. Yet, we see that: 150 million EU citizens lack even a basic level of secondary education; School drop-out rates have reached up to 25% in some countries; Less than 10% of adults take part in further education and training. Fewer and fewer jobs can be filled with only a basic education. Skills to operate computers are vital. But so are conceptual and interpersonal skills. The ability to work in teams, to solve problems, to innovate. Self-management and communication skills. All these are increasingly sought after by employers. The message is clear: Skills, training and education are vital for Europe's future economic growth, productivity, well-being and sustainability. As far as social capital, and social networks and relationships are concerned, our fundamental challenge is to ensure that the knowledge society is open and accessible to all people. We must not create a new class division of 'digital haves' and 'digital have nots'. Whether between countries, regions, groups or individuals. ICT and the knowledge society are not panaceas. But they can offer new opportunities. Especially to help integrate and empower disadvantaged and vulnerable people. Human and social capital are closely interlinked. They are mutually reinforcing. They enable communities, firms and societies to cope with the demands of rapid economic change. Together, they represent a key resource for sustainable development. When we look more widely at social capital, we must also ask ourselves how the knowledge society is affecting the other aspects of life not least how we work. On the positive side, ICTs allow us to do jobs in more flexible ways. Opening doors to new, innovative, ways of working and organising our working time differently. Allowing greater flexibility in the workplace. Improving the quality of work and job satisfaction. At the same time though, new technologies can mean more stress and information overload. Impacting negatively on relations at work and at home. We must also examine the links between flexibility and security. And avoid that a more flexible economy means more vulnerability for workers. The EU is firmly focused on making the knowledge economy and society work for Europe. Investing in both human and social capital. Turning the spotlight on improving and modernising education and training systems. Creating a culture of education and life-long learning for people of all ages. Increasing access to new technologies. Encouraging governments and public services to get on-line. To achieve these goals we are using a broad range of policies, programmes and initiatives. The Employment process. The European Social Fund. The Social Inclusion strategy. European-level social dialogue. The 'E-Europe 2005 action plan'. To achieve our aims we must work on building broad partnerships. With regional and local authorities. With employers and trade unions. With NGOs. With job centres. With research bodies. With training institutes. This conference is I believe an important and practical step in this direction. I wish you well in your discussions and I look forward to hearing the results. I am passionate about exploring all the interdisciplinary learnings and development issues connected in the title question. I have a dream that we can simplify the contexts and pattern dynamics of these systemic issues so that government and corporate policies can make the social-economic leap forward from the relatively closed leadership habits of industrial age to the more open humanly inspiring ones that the architects of the net and web intended. Can we design and evolve a knowledge economy which brings inclusivity to all humanity? Can we collaboratively access more meaning in our lives at work, and beyond that to the time we spend with family and in the communities and personal networks which each of us socially constructs? Half of my last seven years has been spent in Bethesda Maryland (just North of Washington DC) and half in London. So herein I propose to share my experience and ask you to pick up the conversation. Please join in and thread your views; mine are here to be edited, to a total perspective I can hope to reach on my own. 7 YEARS IN THE SOCIO-ECONOMY OF KNOWLEDGE AND NETWORKSUntil very recently, I used to think that the USA was the clear leader of the knowledge economy, with other countries destined to be followers in its wake. It fathered the software tools we use together with much of the information architecture of nets and webs. It originated great virtual communities and manifestos from The Well to cluetrain.com. Profiles of West Coast teenagers created our understanding of the net generation due to detailed research by the likes of Don Tapscott. Similar surveys have been taken to the American workplace to produce manifestos like that of Work2.0 by Bill Jensen. Directly, and indirectly, the US government sponsored great knowledge taxonomy websites like Brint and some of the landmark models for open information usability (the US Inland Revenue Service web remains a model for ease of use and more informed citizen participation). Equally, networks of Knowledge Management gurus like Debra Amidon’s KM 100m whilst worldwide, appeared to have their centre of gravity in the USA, as did genres like Communities of Practice, Learning Organisation Systems, Social Network Maps and clusters of leading innovation strategists such as Hamel, Prahalad, Collins and Tapscott. But then in the last 2 years, I have come across three emerging and interconnecting pathways to the knowledge economy, nurtured and animated by The European Union: - The Intangibles Age Report funded by the European Commission’s DG Enterprise The open community of www.knowledgeboard.com seeded out of the European Commission’s Directorate-General Information Society and the 1ST KM Research Programme. The high level forum for Social Capital Idea Leadership (The work leading to the organisation of the conference “Social and Human Capital in the Knowledge Society: Policy Implications” has been managed by The European Commission’s DG Employment and Social Affairs. The bookmark above will contain all major conference presentations by middle of November.) In exploring these references, you may quite quickly discover that the Nordica region leads the world in corporate governance reporting of the sort that all knowledge workers can transparently see the future their company seeks to create and collaborate around. In extraordinary contrast, in 2002 this has become corporate America’s system crisis of big business with people from President Bush down urging that US ushers in a responsibility era. Through the use of the latest content co-management features, knowledgeboard.com has become a model for open professional collaboration and change debates that is the envy of the world, or at least of Harvard Business School - http://hbswk.hbs.edu/websites.jhtml?t=knowledge And now at The Social Capital Conference (“Social & Human Capital in the Knowledge Society : Policy Implications”, Brussels, 28-29 October 2002) from which I am filing this report, the dynamic connectivity of the issues featured in the title question have been progressed in a way that I do not believe any American assembly has begun to assimilate. WHAT’S TRULY REVOLUTIONARY ABOUT SOCIAL CAPITAL In our knowledge age, networks are the primary systems that determine whether economic success is possible, as well as what social dividends will be achieved from every relevant human perspective. Social capital is seen as the core enabler of networks determining whether they spin virtuously or viciously both in an individual context and in interactions between systems. We can conclude that social capital architecture is the core policy issue if people are to be governed in a way that connects the individual’s own productivity rights to the social goods and open relationships that sustain human progress at community, national and international levels. The paradox is that whilst social capital involves a most simple and human idea, we should not underestimate how challenging it will be to plant in every powerful space. The EU high level report on intangibles has shown that our most powerful organisational systems govern in ways that do not integrate people, process, trust worthiness and open relationships. Mathematically, the transactional numbers which accountants provide to executive governance can actually be shown to be the main root cause of social capital destruction! It seems reasonable to conjecture that the policy issue of social capital will stand or fall on this question: does the will exist to map a new and transparent system of knowledge governance that all of Europe’s most powerful organisations commit to learn to systemise? So that you can quickly assimilate an opening picture of the great debate that has started, below I reproduce the transcript from the opening contextual welcome delivered by Anna Diamantopoulou, European Commissioner for Employment & Social Affairs. BIG QUESTIONS THAT COME TO MIND - what are yours - lease thread us? here are some starters on my mind... Where else in the world have you seen such commitment to progressing systematic understanding of the defining work and social issues of our age? How can we continue to build on this start in an open collaborative mode directed towards investing in preferred futures? What indeed are the inspirational futures which our whole world needs to focus on first? Can we see our way forward to healing our old cultural divides with a truly open commitment directed at enabling all of humanity enjoying the wonderful freedoms of access to social productivity, social capital networks and open knowledge economies.
Tranparency Mapping Communities: Pro: goverance by human beings. Against: governance by numbers Attachments: (No. of attachments - 1) 350 k Peacemaking Brand Architecture
Brand Architecture is the main method brand experts use to assure that partnering strategies are brand aligned for all the stakeholders of both partners. When it comes to peacemaking on the world's biggest conflict issues there are clearly many potential partners and the whole human race has many stakeholding rules. We have tried to map four open sources that are connecting all this and invite sincere relationships with all transparent parties. (22-Nov-03)
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Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this story. Legal NoticeNumber of comments: 23 Benoit Couture , 9-Aug-2005 The practice has begunStay at home dad Benoit CoutureThe big questions being asked in the last paragraph as well as the aspirations and challenges which are depicted in this condensed of Oct. 2002 presentation, are all about the European contribution to humanity's hope for a better future. Hope is moving with great stride toward efficient dialogue. Read the recent thread title: KM in the Middle-East: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=142410&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y Now in 2005, I suggest that our editors of the EU KM Board be given great lattitude to bring up a reconciling open space, made from all the progress that the EU KM Board has cultivated so far, such as the one mentioned above and the ones that connect the most directly to our immediate conditions as well as the short term and all the way to the long term justice which deploys the peace that will keep intact the joy of living in the children and families of our speicies. For this new collective venture, I propose the name: "The EU KM 's open diplomacy"!
Chris Macrae , 15-Dec-2004 community betrayed?Mr Chris MacraeDecember 04 update- sadly for many of us the ecademy has imploded its community model by effectively introducing a charge to converse, after 7 years of believing in freedom of speech. Conversely, this may make knowledgeboard the last chnace salon for all who want to question social futures of the knowledge age in the greatest blossoming diversity. A scary social responsibility for management to review and make most transparent use of how top billing links converse on the home page. What is the point of having a top page thet over focuses on 5 conversations at a time if there isnt ba content-related host waiting to socialise the conversation their work begun
Chris Macrae , 18-May-2004 social capital stars at the ecademyMr Chris MacraeSocial Capital is becoming a subject that is making Collaboration Cafe one of the hottest clubs of www.ecademy.com the 15000 professional network that figures uniquely in the world's 2000 most used webs http://www.ecademy.com/module.php?mod=club&op=forum&c=1550 Look forward to any cross-fertilisation of conversation; questions for either thread etc Meanwhile if the gap between knowledge sopciety and knowledge management is a topic that concerns someone, I would love them to enter into the debate raging on KM's greatest gaps at http://www.kwork.org
Chris Macrae , 6-Mar-2004 knowing our common assets -25 country mapping of responsibilitiesMr Chris MacraeThis section from the following bookmark looked important to me. It raises the question in my mind- to the extent that the EU visions united wealth exchnages across our 25 countries, how do we identify areas of common assets, democratically how do we find out who (can I have any bookmarks you have locating such who institutions?) is accountable for our common assets both at national and Euroepan levels?http://www.redefiningprogress.org/programs/commonassets/What Are Common Assets The American commons include tangible assets such as public forests and minerals, intangible wealth such as copyrights and patents, critical infrastructure like the Internet and government research, and cultural resources such as the broadcast airwaves and public spaces. —David Bollier, Public Assets, Private Profits, 2001. Collectively, common assets are the basis for our common wealth. Our common assets -- what we share and own together -- are critical to the well-being of current and future generations. "Old" economy common assets like forests, minerals, water and clean air played a major role in America's industrial dominance of the last century. Under the New Economy, a new set of common assets has emerged to fuel our growth, including the Internet, human genome, and bandwidth. Yet some of the oldest common assets like parks and schools are those that support community and quality of life. These things we hold in common and these spaces we share, help us to connect socially and politically. What we own in common helps us stay together.
Chris Macrae , 23-Jan-2004 reading list of world summit on information society part 2Mr Chris MacraeFrom http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/bibliography.html McPhail, Thomas, Global Communication, Allyn & Bacon, 2002 Miller, Daniel and Slater, Don, The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach, Berg, UK, 2001 Murelli, Elena, Breaking the Digital Divide, Commonwealth Secretariat & SFI Publishing, UK, 2002, Norris, Pippa, Digital Divide, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2001 O’Brien, Jeffrey M., The next Intel , WIRED Magazine, The Condé Nast Publications Inc., USA, 2002 OECD, Learning to Bridge the Digital Divide, without date, OECD publications OECD, Towards a Global Information Society: Global Information Society (GII-GIS): Policy Requirements, OECD Publications, 1998 O’Siochru, Sean, Global Media Governance: A Beginner’s Guide, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002 Ossama, François, Les nouvelles technologies de l’information, L’Harmattan, France, 2001 Page, David and Crawley, William, Satellites over South Asia: Broadcasting, culture and the public interest, Sage Publications, 2000 Price, Monroe E., Media & Sovereignty, The MIT Press, England, 2002 Quéau, Philippe, La Planète des Esprits. Pour une Politique du Cyberespace, Odile Jacob, 2000 Raboy, Marc, Global Media Policy in the new Millennium, University of Luton Press, 2001 Sabel, Robbie, Procedures at International Conferences: Study of the Rules of Procedure of International Inter-Governmental Conferences, Cambridge University Press, UK, 1997 Servaes, Jan, Walking on The Other Side of The Information Highway – Communication, Culture and Development in the 21st Century, Southbound, Penang, Malaysia, 2000 Shapiro, Andrew L., The Control Revolution: How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know, New York, Century Foundation, 1999 Slevin, James, The Internet and Society, Malden, Blackwell Publishers Inc., 2000 Stallman, Richard M., Free Software, Free Society, GNU Press, 2002 Stefik, Mark, The Internet Edge: Social, Technical and Legal Changes for a Networked World, MIT Press, 1999 Tawfik M., Bartagonon G., Courrier Y., World Communication and Information Report 1999-2000 (3 exemplaires), UNESCO Publishing Torvalds, Linus, Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary; Harper od. Texere, 2001 UN/ECE, Simplification.com: Electronic Business and the Simplification of Administration; United Nations UNESCO, La société du savoir, Revue internationale des sciences sociales, Éditions Eres, France, 2002 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Cooperation South – Getting Connected: Information and Communications Technology for Development, 2001 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 2001: Making New Technologies Work for Human Development, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001 Wilsdon, James, Digital Futures: Living in a Dot.Com World, London: Earthscan Publications, 2001
Chris Macrae , 23-Jan-2004 World Summit on Information Society -part 1Mr Chris MacraeAnyone a clue on what this 2-leg summit (Switzerland December 2003) and Tunis 2005 co-sponsored by the UN is about? Below summit's reading list- anyone know which of these books is seminal for what? http://www.itu.int/wsis/documents/bibliography.html Anheier, Helmut et al., eds., Global Civil Society 2001, OxfordBedi, Kiran, et al; Government@net, Sage Publications, India, 2001 Berners-Lee, Tim, Weaving the Web – The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor, Harper, 2000 Boyle, James, et al, Harvard University Press, USA, 1996 Castells, Manuel, The Rise of the Network Society – The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture – Volume I,2,3 1997-2000, Blackwell 2000 Castells, M, The Internet Galaxy: OUP, 2001 Chardonnens, PD, Dictionary of the digital medias, Swissmedia, Switzerland, 2002 Compaine, B M., The Digital Divide, MIT Press Sourcebooks, UK, 2001 Duff, A, Information Society Studies, Routledge 2000, UK, 2001 reprint Dyson, E, Release 2.1: A Design for Living in the Digital Age, Broadway Books – New York, 1998 Foray, D, L’économie de la connaissance, Éditions La Découverte & Syros, France, 2000. Fraser, M, Free-For-All: The Struggle for Dominance on the Digital Frontier, New York: Stoddart Publishing, 2000 Garson, D, Social Dimensions of Information Technology: Issues for the New Millennium, Hershey: Idea Group, 2000 Hafner and Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins Of the Internet, Simon & Schuster – USA, 1999 Hamelink, Cees J., Ethics of Cyberspace, London: Sage Publications, 2000 Hilbert, Martin et al, Building an Information Society, ECLAC, Chile, 2003 Himanen, P, The Hacker Ethic, Random house Trade Paperbacks, USA, 2001 Kalathil, et al, Open Networks, Closed Regimes, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA, 2003 Kaul, et al, Global Public Goods: International Cooperation in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press – UK, 1999 Kirkman Geoffrey S., Cornelius Peter K., Sachs Jeffrey D., Schwab Klaus, The Global Information Technology Report, Oxford University Press, UK, 2002 Kurzweil, Ray, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, Viking Penguin, 2001 Lessig, Lawrence, Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Basic Books, New-York, 1999 Lessig, Lawrence, The Future of Ideas (The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World), New York: Random House, 2001 León O., Burch S., Tamayo E., Social Movements on the Net, 2001, Quito, ALAI Loader, Brian D., ed., Cyberspace Divide: Equality, Agency and Policy in the Information Society, London: Routledge,1998 Mansell, Robin and When, Uta, eds., Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998 McLuhan, Marshall, War and Peace in the Global Village, Gingko Press 2001 (several editions)
Chris Macrae , 10-Dec-2003 Human Capital World Epicentre of ReportingMr Chris MacraeTo my knowledge , countries in the Nordica region of Europe are way in advance of anywhere else in requiring corporations to start reporting and tracking their investments in human capital in transparent ways. I therefore regard it as quite sick to receive this email today announcing that the American Professors whose accountiong discipline spawned Balanced Scorecards are now hosting Europe's first Human Capital conference: FIRST EVER HUMAN CAPITAL EUROPEAN SUMMIT 2004 Based on the outstanding success in the US, Balanced Scorecard Collaborative and Leading Minds proudly present the Human Capital European Summit 2004, “Aligning Human Capital with Business Strategy through the Application of the Balanced Scorecard” 25-26th March 2004 in Amsterdam. Understand the alignment of Human Capital to strategy Measure the contribution of Human Capital to business performance Create a framework for organizational alignment Create HR strategy maps and BSC’s Register before 31 January 2004 and receive a free copy of Kaplan and Norton’s new book, “Strategy Maps: Turning Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes.” Go to www.bsceventportfolio.com/hcnl0304 or contact [email protected] or call 377 97 97 39 46 to register. -------------------------Vested Interest Declaration - as someone who has been openly researching mathematical maps of intangible capitals for 5 years - see eg http://www.valuetrue.com -I also hate the idea of K&H's new book using map and intangible titles in ways that will systemically rule the opposite way round from the research which the EU has been inspiring by and through http://www.euintangibles.net
Chris Macrae , 21-Oct-2003 interesting social capital networksMr Chris MacraeScotland has started a most promising one at Any other sightings of clusters of people interested in social capital exchanges Aims of Scotland's Assist SC: • Promote the concept of social capital as an effective tool in community and personal development • Raise awareness of the fundamental value of social capital in addressing issues, especially in deprived and vulnerable communities • Raise awareness of the value of social capital to individual and personal development • Highlight the potential of social capital for economic and social development in both rural and urban areas of Scotland • Highlight the wider benefits of social capital in the community which have been documented elsewhere: improved health, crime reduction, greater community involvement, improved educational achievements, sustainability
Val Samonis , 21-Oct-2003 Transaction Cost Theories- Social Capital PredecessorsVal SamonisEurope may be leading (e.g. compared to the USA) the world through its EU institutions in the area relating to public goods (e.g. continent-wide standards) so important for minimizing transaction costs in modern societies. Social capital notion does involve that issue of transaction costs. But the current discussion on social capital should acknowledge its predecessors, like the whole school of transaction economics and the related school of new institutional economics (e.g. Douglas North) that was built by international scholars, mostly from North America.
Chris Macrae , 2-Sep-2003 conference swapMr Chris MacraeAnyone going to this conference - would you let me know? Perhaps we could swap conference notes- I'm already at same dates at http://www.collapsingworld.org The European Academy of Business in Society's 2nd Annual Colloquium on the theme of "Partnerships for Learning and Innovation on the Role of Business in Society" at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark on 19-20 September 2003. With 200 registrations our field of CSR welcomes companies, academics, policy-makers and other stakeholders all interested in building cross-community partnerships on research, teaching and training. Key note speeches from Michael Porter - Professor, Harvard Business School, John Elkington - Founder and Chair, Sustainability and others, discussion panels on leadership, the European Multistakeholder Forum, the business model and the future of business education, ... The event will also see the launch of the first European Survey on CSR Research and Teaching on CSR, covering all of the top business schools in Europe. Please visit the our website www.eabis.org or www.cbs.dk/centres/cvr/conference.shtml for further details. Speakers - Previously confirmed speakers include:Michael Porter - Professor, Harvard Business SchoolJohn Elkington - Founder and Chair, SustainabilityLaura Tyson - Dean, London Business SchoolGabriel Hawawini - Dean, INSEADPedro Ortún - Director, DG Enterprise, European CommissionMads Ovlisen - Chair, Novo NordiskViscount Etienne Davignon - Vice Chair, Société GénéraleAndre Van Heemstra - Personnel Director, UnileverHoracio Gutierrez - Associate General Council, Microsoft Gilbert Lenssen - Dean, EABIS Newly confirmed speakers:Tony Marchak - Vice President, Human Resources, IBM EMEAPaul Culleton - Vice President, Human Resources, Johnson & Johnson Mark Wade - Head of Leadership and Learning, Shell Lise Kingo - Executive Vice-President, Stakeholder Relations, Novo Nordisk Finn Junge Jensen - President, Copenhagen Business School Peter Pruzan - Professor, Copenhagen Business School Xavier Mendoza - Dean, ESADE Business School Alyson Warhurst - Director, Corporate Citizenship Unit, Warwick Business School Andrew Kakabadse - Vice-Dean, Cranfield School of Management Andrew Wilson - Director, Centre for Business and Society, Ashridge Jeremy Moon - Director, International Centre for CSR, University of Nottingham Judy Samuelson - Executive Director, Aspen Institute Jette Steen Knudsen - Director, The Copenhagen Centre Denise Auclair - European Policy Co-ordinator, CIDSE/Europa Caritas Workshops on Learning and Innovation on CSR* "Learning and Innovation Through Business Education: Mainstream Teaching Cases" - Chris Marsden, Chair, Amnesty International Business Group* "Stakeholder Orientation as a Catalyst for Learning and Innovation" - Susanne Stormer, Manager, Stakeholder Relations, Novo Nordisk.
Chris Macrae , 19-Jun-2003 invitation to discuss social and human capital by countryMr Chris MacraeIf your country doesn't appear in this table yet, and your are willing to contribute, tell me so that I can add in your country's thread. Germany New Zealand Finland England
Brazil Ukraine Wales Sweden The Netherlands
Japan Greece Spain Portugal
Chris Macrae , 1-Feb-2003 Information from the EU Knowledge Society webMr Chris Macraehttp://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/knowledge_society/themes_en.htm On this web site you can find more information on the opportunities and risks of the Knowledge Society as well as on the EU policies and activities (in particular of the Employment and Social Directorate General) in the following domains: Society (e.g. e-Inclusion) Economy and Work Education and Training (e.g. digital literacy) Quality of Life Regions / World (e.g. local development and the Knowledge Society) http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/totterdill.pdfDrawing on our analysis of research and case study evidence, as well ason dialogue with a wide range of actors, we have identified some coreprinciples for workplace innovation. Sustainable, ‘win-win’ approaches towork organisation are most likely to be achieved when:1. Employees are regarded as active partners, treated as responsiblepeople who will react constructively and who want to contribute to thefull extent of their individual capabilities.2. The workplace has developed a culture which values participation andinvolvement, with a work environment in which everyone contributesfor the benefit of the organisation as a whole.3. Participation and involvement at the workplace level are linked to thedevelopment of new competencies. Sometimes this means findingways of utilising existing skills more effectively, but very often newinvestment in training will be required. Learning should become anintegral part of job performance.4. When organisational innovation is initiated in the workplace,employees can see immediately that it is directly related to theachievement of transparent performance measures.5. New forms of work organisation are explicitly informed by a win/winperspective. This means that the worker must be able to recognise andinfluence the potential for improvements in job quality and workinglife.Employees have some control over their work environment, includingthe ability to strike a balance between routine tasks and moredemanding roles.
Chris Macrae , 1-Jan-2003 wonderful contributions OlafMr Chris MacraeOlaf, I love you contribution to increased understanding of EU Knowledge Society and your blog at http://ngomap.blogspot.com/ I look forward to discussing these matters in person when we meet in Amsterdam. Are you going to the EU Knowledge Angels meeting a week later? It seems to me (and I say this having no paid Eu affiliation whatsoever but being a passionate observer) that over the next 3 years we Europeans need to demand that the EU marries 2 great assets that are currently under different commissioner branches Knowledgeboard as the world's best co-content managing practice community - by which I mean a whitebox good enough to replicate to any policy sharing or open profession application together with the experiences of one community host and 21 sig editors and 4000 members in developing content that progresses openly and better and better plus an emerging understanding of how to network angelically beyond what actually gets seen on the knowledgeboard itself Within the Commissioner of Employment and Social Affairs vision -and network of 25 cabinet offices and all sorts of supporters from Europe's great and the good - the most wonderful idea of using the net ,web and knowledgeboard-style understanding and structure to openly develop policies of social and human capital to maximimum benefit of Europe 25 united countries It would be one of the biggest lost opportunities of Europe in this decade if we are not able to unite these 2 commissioner's branches onto a common map. It might also be a far greater waste since the world desperately needs co-content best paradigms to heal all sorts of conflicts between rich and desperate local worlds, and to rediscover our humanity and relationship trust in our diversity. I welcome every NGO initiative which sees that this curious open-but-human mix of nets, webs and maps could be the way forward through what system experts like Buckminster Fuller twenty years ago started to see as technology's final examination of mankind. If we pass through the connectivity warp of globalisation, I am optimistic that my five year old daughter's generation will have an inspirational world to create in and develop with; if we dont my failing and that of my generation will be immense.
Chris Macrae , 31-Dec-2002 Paul Resnick's KeyNote Speech Mr Chris MacraeResnick Speech...at the Eu's Knowlewdge Society conference One of Resnick's slides which intrigued me most was:SKILLS FOR THE NETWORK AGE• Use social networks• Contribute to social networks• Assemble social networks• Think strategically Is any K'boarder reminded of any seminal papers, work that bulds on this people-cenrtic view of networking? Are there any organsiational tools that help develop these practices?
Chris Macrae , 27-Nov-2002 how to rigorously examine what finance got wrongMr Chris MacraeI dont believe in policy having any useful direction on social or human capital until the hiterto unexaminable is openly examined - what finance did wrong globally and systematically this last decade. I wish I had my father's economic nouse which took The Economist from 4th weekly national to one in time global viewspaper. Not having this all I can do is point you to a few bookmarks etc and ask you to reciprocate I was part of a bookreader's club of the Force of Finance by Reuven Brenner. Jack Yan's review made common sense to me:Brenner: The Force of Finance: Triumph of the Capital Markets. New York: Texere 2002.In a frank fashion, Brenner traces the roots of democracy and globalization, and while the latter has been covered better elsewhere (Mittelman's The Globalization Syndrome, for instance), his style is more accessible. Singaporean investments into Indonesia have benefited both countries, not because of capitalism, but because mobility and the transfer of talent allows citizens to be fulfilled in their endeavours, creating a global class. This can be done because both the traveller and the host country have a mutual duty. The best chapters are where Brenner analyses financial principles—and courageously and rightly debunks much of the outright lies governments and reserve banks tell about economies. When economies do not work, government's first instinct is to mask the trouble through rhetoric. There is institutionalization, including in education (and specifically, the education of economics), that prevents progress but solidifies power bases which may have become irrelevant; innovation can be helped instead by capital that comes from diverse sources. In saying this, Brenner puts a historical context on even more recent happenings such as the dot-com boom. And provides a basis for the return of the word agelaste, originating from the Greek and meaning someone with no sense of humour. There are many out there preventing modern progress. Brenner exposes the truth, making The Force of Finance a must-read for anyone who wishes to cut through them. As a service to the reader, Brenner goes beyond this central topic, providing useful pointers on policy and potential avenues for countries to follow in the future. Those comments make for good reading in any discipline, which can undoubtedly draw parallels to many of the things that Brenner discusses.
Chris Macrae , 17-Nov-2002 Insights from Open Source CommunitiesMr Chris MacraeLauri's advocation of Tuomi's work in our storytelling thread led me to search through some of his writings such as this:http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_1/tuomi/index.html A few extracts that caught my eye:Individuals became persons with individual identities through their membership in the various communities they are members of. Identity, in other words, is not something that is grounded on any possible list of "attributes" of an individual person. Instead, it is grounded on communities, with their specific systems of activity and collective meaning processing [4]. In such a context, open source development model is not only producing software. It also produces the interacting system of knowing, learning, and doing that organizes the community and its relations with other communities. Indeed, as the empirical analysis below shows, the open source development model is a heterogeneous network of communities and technologies. A characteristic of this model is that, under suitable conditions, technology development can become extremely rapid." .....Donald Schön (1983) described learning processes that underlie acquisition of professional skills. According to Schön, competent professional practice can be understood as reflective practice, and such practices are learned and reproduced in communities of practitioners. Learning a professional skill is often based on social interaction, and competent use of appropriate technologies.
Chris Macrae , 7-Nov-2002 The Drucker timeline on Knowledge Workers - why has policy been so tardy in exploring these leads?Mr Chris MacraePeter Drucker once told me that he coined the term Knowledge Worker, so I better google for us. A few extracts from my googling; whos else's view of the knowledge worker should we seek to understand? http://www.deming.com.tw/deming/e/e1999067.htm - 12k Drucker's six major factors determine knowledge-worker productivity are: . Knowledge-worker productivity demands that we ask the question:" what is the task?" .Knowledge-workers have to manage themselves. They have to have autonomy .Continuing innovation has to be par of the work, the task and the responsibility of K-W. .Knowledge Worker requires continuous learning and teaching. .Productivity of the Knowledge Worker is not--at least not primarily-- a matter of quantity of output. Quality is at least as important. .Finally, Knowledge Worker productivity requires that the Knowledge Worker is both seen and treated as an "asset" rather than a "cost". It requires that Knowledge Worker want to work for the organization in preference to all other opportunity. GURTEEN - Quotation: On Knowledge Worker Productivity by Peter F ... http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/ 0/8B5B9823792FCB0B80256A490025FC2D/ - 53k - "The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and the KNOWLEDGE WORKER." Drucker and respect for the knowledge workerFrom Beyond the Information Revolutionhttp://www.ewh.ieee.org/r4/west_michigan/Drucker.html - 3k "The key is not electronics; it is cognitive science. This means that the key to maintaining leadership in the economy and the technology that are about to emerge is likely to be the social position of knowledge professionals and social acceptance of their values. For them to remain traditional "employees" and be treated as such would be tantamount to England's treating its technologists as tradesmen -- and likely to have similar consequences." "Increasingly, performance in these new knowledge-based institutions will come to depend on running the institution so as to attract, hold, and motivate knowledge workers. When this can no longer be done by satisfying workers' greed, as we are now trying to do, it will have to be done by satisfying their values, and by giving them social recognition and social power. http://home.att.net/~nickols/chronicle.htm - 12k 1981:"To make knowledge work fully productive requires many things [Frederick Winslow] Taylor did not concern himself with. It requires systematic abandonment of the tasks that no longer produce and of the services that are no longer needed.... It requires systematic provision of the information needed and of the tool needed.
Chris Macrae , 5-Nov-2002 The Innovation SuperHighway: Harnessing Intellectual Capital for Collaborative Advantage by Debra M. AmidonMr Chris MacraeWhilst I'm praying tha Amazon delivers my copy soon, I hear on the grapevine that this book sets new standards for national and regional knowledge policy makers , as well as making the strongest pleas that organisations systematically wake up to the innovation and collaboration advantages that nets are for Many may already know that Debra has done more than anyone to put knowledge and networks on the map - literally at http://www.entovation.com/kleadmap/index.htm Knowledgeboarders have already been privileged to have one virtual chat with her as recorded at http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=88209. Here, Debra shared with us: 5 lessons learned about architecting our future on the Innovation Super HighwayØ We've learned that in the new domain of Knowledge Economics, what we count matters. As imprecise as it may seem, we need to calibrate is the intangible, hidden, intellectual wealth of an enterprise ? how it is created and leveraged. Ø We've learned that the Knowledge Structures operate as holo-nomies? Nesting of networks - with both local and global scope. We need to understand how they operate as communities and spheres of influence. Ø We've learned that Knowledge Workers although originally described as high technology or white collar includes everyone; we all have a role to play. We need to determine what now motivates constructive behaviours, and new modes of interdependence and collaboration. Ø We've learned that all Knowledge Processes can fit under a rubric of innovation - but innovation redefined according to the flow of knowledge. We need to make the process explicit and discover ways to measure performance. How knowledge is created, shared, and applied. We are like Pogo...confronted now with insurmountable opportunity! Ø We've learned the power of Knowledge Processing Technology ? advancing in features and receptivity beyond our wildest dreams. We've learned that technology isn't an end but a means for prosperous innovation. We need to find ways to take advantage of the advancements and uses it as an instrument in the new economy
Chris Macrae , 3-Nov-2002 Networking's new productivity comes from connecting the disconnectedMr Chris MacraeI want to make this statement clear. Since my father first wrote about networking in The Economist in the early 1980s, this is our first litmus test of whether any view of networking -socially or economically - is worth spending time to read We are about 20 years into charting this view http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html Yet everyday we find how the simpest things often get overlooked, probably because they are deeply human rather than monetary For example I recommend you telling yourself that there is a very imporatnt networking subject area called the Community of Person. Any networker builds one and it is the overlap of all those communities of person on which any higher order community concept (eg CoP) falls or stands. That's one example of why the "connect the disconnected" is the net's one huge gift to us who are privileged to have access to it; and why we must make sure everyone has that privilege because the best uses of the net will come form those who havn't previously had the connections. Whilst exploring simple-minded themes- how about the personal productivity of time. This area is another that often seems to fall through the gaps of more fashionable areas of productivity. I found this delightful reference in my inbox today -the paper referred to is vaut le voyage: "I find it most productive and healthful to define productivity for ANY type of work in terms of involvement, which can be defined in several different ways, allowing different levels of precision and optimization. When you're not getting things done as well as you want, don't you try to concentrate better, to 'get into it' more, to improve your level ofinvolvement? This approach emphasizes one's experience, allowing true continuous improvement no matter what the activity, and abstract measures based on experience are secondary, while relevant and useful." For a paper on this, see "What Guarantees Optimal Productivity and Well-Being?" athttp://www.manage-time.com/involve.html Steve Randall, Ph.D. Results in No Time - email: [email protected] Management Supersite: http://www.manage-time.com
Chris Macrae , 1-Nov-2002 Which disciplinary perspectives most closely border social capital?Mr Chris MacraeMy map would call off at the following (where else would you field-trip to?): Open Networking and open knowledge access Community of anything - presuming it had a map of stakeholder flows before technology went any where near intervening them Corporate Responsibility, including transparent conflict resoltion system mapping and relationship capitals in which all stakeholders participate Leadership in risk prevention as a collaborative calling Charters which people could participate in, converse, question, negotiate their own knowledge of in public until they got it in action as well as communication Open space movements as ways of renewing communal consensus and open activism towards preferred futures Spiritual experiences where culturally harmonious Mutidisciplinary perspectives revolving around deep human understanding and respect for diversity Design, usability, innovation Incidentally, this was the conference-suggested definition of what social capital encompasses (open for discussion!) Social capital = networks together with shared norms, values and understanding that facilitate co-operation within or among groups. and here are some neighbouring definitions proposed:Knowledge Society = a societal as well as economic development based on three interrelated processes of increasing informationalization, changing communications and interdependence structures, , and changing processes of knowledge creation and utilization. Human capital = knowledge , skills, competencies and attributes embodied in individuals that facilitate the creation of personal, social and economic well-being.
Chris Macrae , 1-Nov-2002 is this more than rhetoric?Mr Chris MacraeLilly, its a question I ask myself from any conference I go to... In this instance various people at the conference committed to thread everything they could; that was qute an open commitment but also one that becomes a challenge to us here and now. For example can we (2000 of us) at this knowledgeboard space think of every way the 200 at the conference might bring their special interests and debate them as SIGs? Please visualise 200 people at this conference all of whom wanted to do -and politically committing on behalf of all sorts of different stakeholders and all our United States of Europe - to achieve and sustain people oriented progress, not one consultant or other rhetoric-advising suspect among them as far as I could see. And in many ways they all were asking for help to understand how the best endeavours of knowledge and networking could spread the word. If the 2000 K'Boarders in this community don't feel able to start multiplying these seeds and inspirations given this invitation, then we may never again get a second chance to live up to the ideals of the internet that people like Vint Cerf, quoted bottom left on the homepage of this sig expected of us. I will try and find some other people who were at the conference. I agree -ideally we need to hear many voices way beyond mine - in pursuit of why human capital and social capital of the knowledge society MUST NOT be just rhetoric.
Lilly Evans , 31-Oct-2002 thank you and questionLilly EvansChris, I thank you for a vivid and passionate exposition of the developing ideas at the very recent EU meeting. This comes from Washington, Georgetown but not too far from Bethesda! It is interesting to compare and contrast what you have experienced with my impressions from the Society for Organisational Learning 3rd Greenhouse event entitled "Rigor and Relevance". It brought together about 100 people on George Washington University campus in Virginia. Main similarity appears to be with the type of welcoming address - we had Dr Egbe Osifo, a fascinating woman from the World bank Institute who spoke about the work they are doing in trying to combat Aids and HIV, how is that changing and the difference in the way Bank works under leadership of James Wolfensohn. The emerging theme for me from the subsequent two days is a desire to make a difference on a broader world scale through developing better leadership! How different from focus on social capital. I do not see whether any follow ups have been agreed from your two day event Chris. Ours has left it to individuals to follow up on the connections they made, so social capital creation was serendipitous but not harnessed. My question is why do you believe that what you were present to was much more than a rethoric? Thanks again Lilly
George Por , 30-Oct-2002 "gift exchange"George PorDear Crhis, thank you for the gift of your report on that EU meeting and your thoughts inspired by it. If that conference will indeed stimulate an integrated policy for social capital that would bring together "the directorates of employment and socialaffairs, IT and knowledge management, and intangibles economics," as you hope for, it's yet to be seen. If we at K.Board will contribute to the development of a constituency (social capital) and intellectual resources for a systemic approach to policy, that connects those domains, then we'll have done something that can make a positive difference. As a token sign of my appreciation of your relentless weaving the threads of evolutionary meaning that emerges from many sources, here are two mini-gifts from my hard disk: Annotated Bibliography on the Business Value of Social Capitalhttp://www.cim.sfu.ca/folders/research/2%20-%20Annotated%20bibliography.pdf “The new currency won’t be intellectual capital. It will be social capital–the collective value of whom we know and what we’ll do for each other.” James Krouse, Chairman Emeritus, The Tom Peters
· First Published August 04 , Revisiting March 05 with UK government's Green Paper on Future of BBC When you look at expert debates (1,,2), on the world's desperate need for some institution to moderate the excess vicious impacts of nation states, religions and commercial media, it is ironical that the BBC should have been kneecapped by Hutton. Still all we need is for one huge idea for the world service to break free and serve people of Britain and humanity of the world not local politicians who have absolutely no right of wonership or interference. What's your big idea? Back in 1984, we proposed that in 2005 man's greatest risk would be gaps in incomes and expectations between rich and poor nations. We also proposed the BBC start a reality tv game on 30000 ways to eliminate povery systemically. One we believed could soon be freely syndicated to 60 nations, 600 million viewers in a way that integrated tv and internet conversation. Let's discuss variations on that idea, or any other breakthrough one you suggest. As well as respond to any queries you may have as to why the BBC may be the only organsiation with relationship permissions to help the world out of the battles beteen West & Eastern religion, irresponsbile global business and the need to love people at every locality, a commercial media that hoists most superficial celebrity superstars on us so that we no longer know the stories of real heroes and the lifetimes of work it often takes to seed small acorns of change for humanity. Unless the public's largest media stands up for valuing what makes the human race greatest rather than all the powers that make humans very small minded. FootnoteIndeed whenever a Britain meeds an MP or prosepective one, they should make it quite unambiguous that political influence over the BBC is tantamount to theft. It is the people that own the BBC, and human rihhts have neever needed a greater world service champion independent of politicians and the increasingly big business interests they seem so often to align with as a second betrayal of the public's rights.
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Benoit Couture , 09 July 2005 @ 15:38 PM All inthe FamilyStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear fellow-citizens of the earth, please, see if you can allow this document to be at centre of our microscopic gravitational generating power. It is writen in respose to the activities from the entity of terror-anti-terror. The motion is to apply transparency in going from the domestic oppession powers to domestic health of the Faculty of Living. We presently have in Canada, a conjuncture of two separate conflicts that establishes the perfect live mass educational link for all of the French-Anglo-Abotiginal-Spanish-Commonwealth-Francophonie-Europe-Americas-Australia-Middle-East-Asia connection to unravel. The individual case is of a former national grand Chief who yesterday was convicted of a hate crime against the Jewish people. This case deals directly with the dark effects of the Judeo-Christian history of backroom deals, while mostly smoke and mirrors of politics kept the "public opinion" informed enough for satisfaction. As an individual judical case, it then stetches into a collective-national juducal case under the form of the national unity sponsorship scandal. The judge of this inquiry is presently simmering its report, to be readied for December. This local legal-politico-socio-cultural-econo conjuncture offers a perferct opportunity for www open source to come alive and relevant for all, viewed from one angle or any other. It hereby opens to us a flowcalizable(focal-local-flowing) window to connect transparently from the deepest levels of accumulated historical divisive mistrust's consequenses, which sits us in Europe and North America, on the verge of tipping into an all out surrender to the reactive powers of frustration. Our native population has accepted a treaty of non-violence with the Crown. They have kept their end of the bargain under genocide circumstances; so far that is! The Crown is dissolving in front of their eyes and what's coming behind is even worst from their point of view. Who and what else can they now turn to, as they are forced into the same mentality as those who just dished out some of it upon London's people?!? Please UK and your majesty, my Queen, I realize that I am nothing more than a visionary with my ear on the ground, but here is an opportunity for all of the inspirational content that I read in our common history, to unearth from this opportunity, the solid ground to move from local conflict resolution to renewl. This conjuncture provides us with "the" case study on how to free knowledge from military reflexing, with the pausing capacities of intellectual honesty and all the way to the drive of clarity in the balance of IQ-EQ, as to where and how we host knowledge in the completing application of love's intelligence. Can this entry move to harness the energies from such an organism and to brew from near-cahos into an initial micro-community of universal sustainability? What do we think?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 09 July 2005 @ 15:32 PM All in the Family (Part !)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear fellow-citizens of the earth, please, here is an immediate antidote in respose to the activities from the entity of terror-anti-terror. The motion is to apply transparency in going from the domestic oppession powers to domestic health and happiness of the Faculty of Living. We presently have in Canada, a perfect conjuncture of two separate conflicts that establishes a perfect, live educational link for all of the French-Anglo-Abotiginal-Spanish-Commonwealth-Francophonie-Europe-Americas-Australia-Middle-East-Asia connection to unravel. The individual case is of a former national grand Chief who yesterday was convicted of a hate crime against the Jewish people. This case deals directly with the dark effects of the Judeo-Christian history unknown from backroom deals, while maintaining mostly smoke and mirrors of politics kept the "public opinion" informed enough for satisfaction. As an individual judical case, it then stetches into a collective-national juducal case under the form of the national unity sponsorship scandal. The judge of this inquiry is presently simmering its report, to be readied for December. This local legal-politico-socio-cultural-econo conjuncture offers a perferct opportunity for www open source to come alive and relevant for all, viewed from one angle or any other. It hereby opens to us a window to connect transparently from the deepest levels of accumulated divisive mistrust's consequenses, which sits us in Europe and North America, on the verge of tipping into an all out surrender to the reactive powers of frustration. Our native population has accepted a treaty of non-violence with the Crown. They have kept their end of the bargain under genocide circumstances; so far that is! The Crown is dissolving in front of their eyes and what's coming behind is even worst from their point of view. Who and what else can they now turn to, as they are forced into the same mentality as those who just dished out some of it upon London's people?!? Please UK and your majesty, my Queen, I realize that I am nothing more than a visionary with my ear on the ground, but here is an opportunity for all of the inspirational content that I read in our common history, to unearth from this opportunity, the solid ground to move from local conflict resolution to a perfectly adaptable globalizing embryo for the BBC and CBC to join in with ...cleasing our vision of the Crown... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U1590685 This conjuncture provides us with "the" case study on how to free knowledge from military reflexing, with the pausing capacities of intellectual honesty and all the way to the drive of clarity in the balance of IQ-EQ, as to where and how we host knowledge in the completing application of love's intelligence. Can this entry move to harness the energies from such an organism and to brew from near-cahos into an initial micro-community of universal sustainability? What do we think?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 09 July 2005 @ 15:23 PM All in the Family (Part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit CouturePart 2SUBSENSE PUBLISHING and PROMOTION (SPP) The name SUBSENSE is composed with the words: Substance-essence. Substance from the essence=SUBSENSE. SPP comes into existence to spread the experience of spiritual unity as articulated and/or demonstrated by the existance of Subsense Publishing and Promotion. The question we addressed is: How do we host the discipline of life’s sanctity, from the individual personal care to the maturity of mutuality in the family and in the community, adapting to any socio-cultural context? The spectrum of our work is focused on verbalizing the answers to the twofold question on the discovery of applicable meaning (essence) and how to cultivate its embodiment to completion (substance), when and where the need arises individually, domestically, culturally or socially. The service we offer is to develop methods of approach to reach out and/or to train individuals, families and communities to develop healthy lives and conditions, always addressing both simultaneously, until sustainability. To begin our publishing and promotion service to Canadians, we studied four questions. They are: 1-“What is the essence of a relationship and how do we substantiate its dynamics to go from strangers to family, into the ongoing renewal of a healthy mutuality?” 2-“What is the essence of health, education and environment, and, how do we substantiate personal and communal awareness in the state of maturity and wisdom, free from the confinements of uniformity and of conformity?” 3-“How do we absorb the energies of individuals who are withdrawn in self-destruction and/or violence, in exchange to commune to and with them, in the essence of the inner life that ignites human existence to the substance of complete caring?” 4-“How can the answers to these questions be harnessed, refined and processed as the essence to foster our multi-cultural identity, and to thereby, substantiate unity amongst Canadians, secure in the bond and the growth of our citizenship’s heritage of personal, cultural and social health and wellness…amen?!” The stages begin with one’s personal Acquisition of the taste for Health. Then, once stabilized into The Faculty of Living, he/she joins amongst the Correctional Family Circuiting until the firm establishment into the Ministry of Reconciliation. Thus is being built the Canadian Health Trail, emerging upon the Land of Emanuel, in the perpetual celebration of Easter.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 09 July 2005 @ 15:22 PM All in the Family (Part3)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureTENTATIVE PROPOSAL “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of the PATIENT WISDOM” “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of the PATIENT WISDOM” is the name for the arrow of justice to reach the target of Canada’s constitutional completion. This arrow is made of the hunger and of the thirst for the justice and for the peace needed to be blessed upon the Aboriginal people first, and for all who can relate with the need for the renewal of the mature socio-cultural development of our citizenship. This is the name of the healing movement entering the multi-generational currents of living nourishing inner waters. We shall start to take Canadian citizenship safely out of the snare of our accumulated past mistakes of timeless proportions. The target of this exercise is to raise the community life until it reaches the fulfilment of the preamble, at the top of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. At the moment, that preamble says in English: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principals which recognize the Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law”. In French, instead of “Rule of Law” it says: “The Pre-Eminency of the Right”.When Subsense Publishing and Promotion is done with their purpose, the preamble will read in all concerned languages as opposed to each its own: “Whereas Canada is founded upon principals which recognize the Supremacy of God, the Rule of Law balanced with the pre-eminency of the Right, meeting to be fostered in “THE QUIETNING SILENCE of PATIENT WISDOM”. This will happen as a result of Justice deploying its restoration in the broken hearts and spirits and cause balanced living to grow. The patient wisdom shall guide each open heart from the Road House to the inner home, where the quietning silence is received and causes balance to grow in the joyful fulfilling of serenity.Then comes the discipline of questing together for home in the Correctional Family Circuiting, by the union of the powerful Spirit of peace, joy, love and wisdom. This is the entry into the Land of Emmanuel, where the Cleansing River is, which shall bring us to the renewal and the transformation from the old to the new living, for all who so desire to enter into the better future now, the perpetual Easter.The stability in developing this culture depends on how faithfully the three hosting cultural elements of Canada accept the mutual subjection to one another, upon the integrity of the ground to acquire and to spread the desire to live well and the discipline to foster the taste for health and happiness. Debbie, Benoit Couture and children
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 02 July 2005 @ 17:05 PM From observation to participationStay at home dad Benoit CoutureThe growing hype caused by the competition for attention in the media, is the perpetuating wheel of subtrations from the whole, subdividing civilization's field of relativity. Substracting and dividing the attention adds up to the multiplication of scatered thoughts, stimulating the dynamics of social reclusion-exclusion that fill in the void caused in the absence of meaningful time, carving seeking identities from a closed in interpretation of all surrounding influences. That was a description of an experience with the desintegration process of the individual's core identity generator, into the illusive nature of television. Psychatry deals with individuals who's identity becomes organically hooked by telivision, causing hallucinations and all kinds of personality disorders. The questions: "How do we recollect our thoughts from the scattered disconnection that such "freedom" caused and how do we bring on a focus upon reality so as to eliminate the artificial nature of relating that generated by decades of mindless market expensions?" The live nature of the image works directly in the spontanious thought process. Spontanious and live work together to unite or to substract and subdivide, there is no neutral ground. Here is a proposal to face up to the situation by aiming to bring democracy up to date. The idea is on stand by, to seek out a window of opportunity to rally public broadcasting, to captivate the live interests upon humanity's trans-generational quest for our global home, with the BBC and the CBC. Here is a suggesting proposal to serve this cause. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A4305917 The complete package begins at:http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/U1590685?s_fromedit=1 It is very personal and intimate, in the way knowledge needs to open in order to manage from the Source to the Suorce...let it be...
Gillian Bush , 01 July 2005 @ 18:23 PM knowledge of media - part 2Ms Gillian BushOverholser urged discussants not to spend their energies trying to remake news the way it used to be, but to think creatively about what journalism can and should look like, given the new environment created by changes in business-model and technology. She pointed to the upsides, including a more diverse news landscape with a proliferation of outlets (with the advent of blogs and cable news) that cover more stories from more angles. But there are challenges, particularly for international news coverage. International journalism requires more investigation to begin with and doesn?t always fit neatly into partisan reportage. Overseas bureaus ? the most expensive piece of the news suite ? are the first to go when financial pressure is applied. As Doyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times put it, there are more outlets but fewer inputs; more broadcast and online channels offering news, but but fewer reporters on the ground to produce it -- especially overseas. Thus the stories with the most flash, conflict or partisan bite get disproportionate c overage. The international news that does make it through to the public tends to be episodic, unconnected and even chaotic, and the public quickly loses interest. This produces lower ratings and declining readership, deepening the conviction of corporate boards, publishers, and editors that the public appetite for international news is small and not worth the investment required to improve coverage. But these trends are self-fulfilling: with less investment in the field, journalists deliver international news without continuity or context, further eroding the public's potential interest. Studies by the Pew Research Center in June 2002 noted that the post-9/11 increase in readership for international news seemed to have leveled out. Why? The public found international coverage "boring, bloody and hard to understand." The world i s becoming more interconnected, and the Pew results -- together with more anecdotal evidence from journalists and editors involved in programs like the International Reporting Project at SAIS -- suggest that the public responds to strong storytelling that goes beyond the ?daily bus plunge? -- a rundown of natural disasters, catastrophic accidents, or coups from around the globe. GB
Gillian Bush , 01 July 2005 @ 18:22 PM knowledge of media -P1Ms Gillian BushWhere in KnowledgeBoard to find discussion of media? Not just the media KM experts know such as community and blog but how all media interconnects, because communications are flows. I see no value in being deeply expert in one type of media to the exclusion of its interface with another type. The days when management could be expert in one way communications are surely gone if you are in a sector that interacts any of the following:learning with customers, the cluetrain future lifelong learning with employees, the vision 2010 scenario global and local diversity, nature's scenario (and since I have faith in humankind what I believe a majority of 6 billion beings would vote as worth sustaining if ever we purpose to be a Human KM of all peoples rather than a KM of apartheids or of valuing machines as a higher order capital than people -that would make science fact starger than fiction if scientists ever knowledge managed such a disaster) Media from this side of the translantic pond has become very isolated, not good at connecting as you can see from this Gii extract. We wish any Brits -or Europeans- who are trying to get the BBC to take the lead in understanding world service broadcast media all the courage in the world.
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 08:20 AM backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech 2005, 23 July HammersmithMr Chris Macraehttp://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/programme/ backstage.bbc.co.uk Open Tech 2005from UKUUG & NTK. Supported by backstage.bbc.co.uk we're very much "Open" to suggestions. If you're reverse-engineering proprietary protocols, making useful informationavailable in a way people couldn't get at before, pioneering unexpected methods of knowledge sharing - or (equally likely) doingsomething so cool we haven't even thought of it yet, then please get in touch Full programme details will appear in early July, along with details of registration. If you would like to offer a talk, you can do so through our form. Already ConfirmedTed Nelson, inventor of hypertext, on where the web went wrong The official launch of the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer network, opening up BBC content for you to play with Plus: able to record an entire week of all Freeview TV and radio channels, probably the UK's largest (fridge-sized) PVR
Chris Macrae , 29 May 2005 @ 16:13 PM Thank you for making this thread #3 in Google of Future of BBCMr Chris Macraehttp://backstage.bbc.co.uk/ To tell you the truth, I don’t understand this site. I think it says any film producer can make a proposal to reuse any BBC film content for non-commercial purpose. For example since 1984 we have believed that the BBC should be helped into a reality tv game that connected to the internet and explored 30000 win-win projects for ending extreme poverty; how do we backstage that stimuli until the BBC wants it If it does, could that change the world. We are aiming to do a collaboration café with one of youth’s leading concerned film producers the coming Friday 12.30 at British Library café – a few hundreds yards from London’s Euston Syation. Confirmation of the café will be made on Tuesday but if you are interested please start nominating yourself, and if you have any views on whether I have understood backstage correctly or wrongly, I always need to learn! Mail me at [email protected] to join us or for more details CheersChris Macrae PS closing calls in the government’s public feedback on the future of the BBC at Tuesday midnight-Easiest way is mail [email protected] you can do the survey at http://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/have_your_say/green_paper/greenpaper_home.html#2
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Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this story. Legal NoticeNumber of comments: 41 Troy Rice , 08 August 2005 @ 14:31 PM Promoting Hemisphere Debates anywhere people want to connect culturesHemisphere Debates Citizens from different hemispheres are iterating this mail and invitation to reach more inclusive understandings of diversity than 20th C constitutions got to know. 1.0 Opening idea: postulate some systemic different diversity environments typifying the 4 environments. Show how these compound opposite economic, constitutional and societal logics which it’s our generation’s duty to reconcile. 1.1 Join in framing the opposites of West, North, East, South but for example nomadic rights may offer an overlooked clue.The West & North mainly enjoy land that it is valuable to own and the more people who pack into land like cities the more the original owners get. In the West, there seems to be much more of bigger is better and merits its power over the future. In the North, there is some aspect of depth is better connected to historical arts and being the origin of many of the main world languages used today. In the East & South, there is much more arid land where being nomadic rather than seeking to own is at least as logical and economic! (NB any connection with IP debates, Open Source movements etc?) On top of this there are very concentrated pockets of land (where oil, gold, diamonds, or water) resides. Owning these is of immense value but for sustainability needed to be communally shared across a nation not owned by a global partner who otherwise has no interest in the nation than possibly corrupting a few of its top rulers. I have exaggerated but surely this sustainability profile needs to be transparently and systemically understood the world over because it compounds different consequences which will cost future generations dear unless we - as netizens & real people - can trust in connecting openly, loving communion. East has an additional difference in that relatively speaking peoples long histories are still constitutionally preserved as are their deep religions, spiritual and community grassroots ways of developing. Whereas south has often had these displaced, and many more globally standard development programs imposed on it. 2.1 My agency role this fall is to co-promote the collaboration knowledge city debate of hemispheres out of DC? What can dialogue do? I don’t know, do you?. If what Clinton’s declared purpose of his 1000 people meeting in New York in September is true, I would love to find out which Washingtonians connect with that. I want to bridge disciplines and practice and peaceful experiments so that these can translate what academic theories may already know into common use. Our transparency valuation communities are joining together to start a list of some DC groups we are trying to connect in informal meetings here, -and of course with open content syndication at any web or blog that wishes to link diversity transparently.
Troy Rice , 08 August 2005 @ 14:19 PM a fall of extraordinary global & local social capital meetingsRecalling how the EU's knowledge society used the social capital lens to invite cabinet offices from all 25 countries to frame development and harmonisation ideas around this common lens, it seemed timely to note how different hemispheres are hosting extraoridnary gatherings in the coming months and to ask for your observations of anywhere that Europeans are participating Two of the most extraordinary events are:Sarajevo next week, hosted by a worldwide network founded in Melbourne by Paul Komesaroff Mid September, New York, 1000 leaders for action hosted by Bill Clinton My next mail illustrates ways that any cluster of people can start animating events and dialogues patterned around the same big and action-focused issues and the Fall's major happenings for harmonising social capital of poor rural and rich cities. And as our friends in the UK social capital thread have been opining: London has become the etst case for the sustainability of any open multicultural city; Londoners invite anyone of deep culture or deep national identity to share in the dialogues all cities need to integrate if we are not to discriminate longer against those in poverty and pay the compound price for this which starts with the desecration of every freedom and safety ordinary citizens of all cultures need to get on with learning, work, cooperation across belief systems- especially those called economics and community/knowledge society lifelong wellbeing - systemising trust, transparency and open flows, knowledge or even management.
Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 16:28 PM Personal invitation to the Presidency and to Mr,Bush (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Mr. Bush, I had hoped not to have to start bringing this message in public again, but circumstances are compelling me to do so. As you and/or your staff know, Mr. Clinton is hosting a special conference in next September. Part of that conference will be concerning "reconciliation". Here is my personal message to compel you to attend and to help humanity to get from secrecy to transparency of the open source of networking with mature knowledge management: First sentMarch 22, 2005Dear Mr. President Bush,Now, in 2005, the dream of United States has grown so big and reached so far, that they have monopolized in the psyche of the world’s population, the exclusive use of the term American for the citizens who are born and who live within the borders of United States. America goes from Artica to Antarctica. As a Canadian citizen, I see the opportunity available from Alberta to Quebec and from coast to coast to coast to coast, to get together to say “here we are Mr. Bush, to help you and the United States, to define the Americas from within the true scope of whom we really are meant to be, once together… Alberta’s 4th KlondikeIt is human nature to have and to maintain distance between us. When mishandled, that distance causes discomfort. It then rapidly becomes defences that hit against defences, activating fear and anger that feed misunderstandings. Once violence erupts, it causes a chain-reaction that can eventually bring us, as we are now, in the ready state of human terror and horror. The horizon of humanity is in the healing journey and the present world crisis gives Alberta an opportunity for our 4th Klondike! This is the invisible gold rush, the one to make sense of the first 3 Alberta Klondikes of golden, green and black gold, in light of the global clashing climate! Because of the energy resources in our economy, we, Albertans are given a special position to lead Canadians to strengthen our place in the western world. We are needed to provide the starting point for the healing trail that the entire world populations are in need to witness and to participate in! By launching the updating and the healing of Canadian democracy from within the context of a sovereign Albertan-Quebecois challenge, energies can be channelled to raise the bridge of our unity, from the Covenant designed to heal us from the stress that feeds and leads on the crisis of human terror. Albertans are aware of the need and are now requested to move where from we host the faculty of living! In doing so, along with Canadians from coast to coast to coast, we can, provide a safety valve to the human race, in the US transfer of energy supply from Saudi to Wood-Buffalo.
Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 16:27 PM Personal invitation to the Presidency and to Mr. Bush (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...George W. Bush has had to win some personal battles in the inner man’s war, in order to be made ready for President. Let us please, dear Canadians, bring on our unity to rise up to rescue Mr. George Bush, his followers and the US Presidency. Let’s be the alternative to set them free from the blind agitation of military intelligence! Let us reach the victory of maturity, to take our place as the offering from a people of God, so that we overcome the historical temptation of worldly Christian might. ”Mr. Bush, you now stand on the threshold of the crossroad, where in the one direction, you will go on helping America and the market economy to fuel the fire of mortal appetites in the bush of the great prostitute, or, in the other direction, you can stand before God until He ignites you into His Presence by His Word and brings you to experience the New Covenant’s burning bush. There, His Spirit enables His children to know Him, His will and His instructions for any questions we might have. By such stand of His people, Yahweigh (or any name by which you relate to Life-Force) gets to demonstrate His victory lane! Americans and the entire world population need to follow the lead driven by the powerful Spirit of love and of wisdom, to show us how to overcome evil from the inner justice He gives, with the peace He grows from within each one and by His joy to strengthen us in our journey. The alpha and omega of decision making reside there. No human can love his enemy, bless those who curse them, to do good to those who hate them nor to pray for those who mistreat and persecute them, except for the individuals who live by the life you claim to live by, and for that, the Lord of Life of Justice and of Peace does not need our weapons, but rather, our obedience. The image you try to project to the world from the start of your Presidency, Mr. Bush, is one opportunity granted like never before by the Creator to you and to the entire Christianity on Earth, to bow to the Spirit of all prophecies…the testimony of Jesus-Christ amongst His creation!!! May God give the man you are, to grow into the janitor He and we need, to clean up the vision of America’s Presidency, in view of the global freedom of individual liberty…amen!
Benoit Couture , 07 June 2005 @ 15:16 PM Invitation to considerStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, the EU knowledgeboard is a unique venue to keep on fostering ideas and dreams of ongoing embellishment and celabrations of innovations to better serve mankind with. Because I participated to this thread, I thought you might like to be informed of the following campaign I posted at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 It connects directly with the 5 century old European project called Canada, to negotiate peacefully in the never ending of French-English ambiguity who are yet to know how to deal properly with the Aboriginal hosts. Canada is the ongoing ground invitation to unite humanity at righting the wrong in peace and joy in the way that the United Nations aspire to do. We are deployed to become the training ground for the local scene, busy to innovate the maturity of a people of all people and I invite you to help me see it through for us all. Benoit
Benoit Couture , 02 June 2005 @ 16:01 PM Simple questions for Mr. ClintonStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and all, one question for us to ask mr. Clinton is: Why did that not happen while you were in office, mr. Clinton? The next question is: How does the present administration of Mr. Bush come on board for September with the intellectual honesty and personal integrity to accept being humbled and educated from its own mistakes, as a result of such a 3 days meeting, mr. Clinton? Let the point of this meeting be, to release humanity from the rule of historic ignorance and into the encounter of siding along into the Faculty of Living, where the agenda of wisdom and of love awaits to unfold from beyond languages, in the symphony of our secured response, united in the simplicity of being at peace, in the joy of here and now...lets see to it Bill, that before September, the sacred fire you speak of in the reconciliation departement, lights the American Bush to the clarity of the open sourced management of knowledge, and that he may recognize on time for September the glorious opportunity to ease humanity's nervous central system, as opposed to go on with the miltary reflexing that such form of "intelligence" has become! The agenda of justice begins with the freedom from the rule of ignorance! May the God of all knowledge be with you and us all, Bill; go for it...amen...
Chris Macrae , 02 June 2005 @ 10:13 AM KM's Fall in Space - wanted 200 explorersMr Chris MacraeLast year the KM network out of America that I have most time for quite seriously debated coming together for a 3 day open space on the conflicts of KM Squared. Why is KM dying and will KM only live if it helps (eg Bill Clinton) save humanity. Perhaps we should convene a simultaneous open space to Bill Clinton's September gathering if we know any human KM. The year before KB had ruminated on a 200 person open gathering - guess its over to Paul Hearn to guide us why that wasn't quite ready then , or if it could be now. Disruptive World's Week Ending here.
Chris Macrae , 02 June 2005 @ 08:08 AM Bravo Bill ClintonMr Chris Macrae"In my life now, I am obsessed with only two things: I don't want anybody to die before their time. And I don't want to see good people spend their energies without making a difference...You can change the reality of human history by systemic action." "Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits." - William J. Clinton Dear Friends, These quotes are from http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ Bill Clinton has created his own version of Davos...in NYC Sept 15-17 ...with a strong commitment to identifying "an agenda we can actually implement." Here's his invitational message. What do you all think? "It is my pleasure to announce the inaugural meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative to be held September 15-17, 2005, in New York City. This event, which will bring together King Abdullah II, President Leonel Fernandez Reyna, President Olusegun Obasanjo, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Secretary General Kofi Annan, Vice Premier Shimon Peres, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dr. Hernando de Soto, Sonia Gandhi, Rupert Murdoch, Richard Parsons, and an array of other distinguished and dedicated leaders, will coincide with and complement this fall's Millennium Summit of the U.N. General Assembly. This nonpartisan conference will concentrate a diverse and select group of current and former heads of state, business leaders, noteworthy academicians, and key NGO representatives to identify immediate and pragmatic solutions to some of the world¹s most pressing problems. The workshops will focus on how to reduce poverty; use religion as a force for reconciliation and conflict resolution; implement new business strategies and technologies to combat climate change; and strengthen governance. Our meeting will emphasize dynamic group interaction to identify an agenda we can actually implement. By identifying specific ways to address the challenges of our time and asking each participant to make a specific commitment to take action in one of the areas discussed, I believe this Initiative will prove to be a unique and effective forum for leaders and their communities around the world. What we begin during three days this September will continue throughout the year to come with coordinated implementation of our agenda. We have an opportunity we can not afford to pass up--in just three days, we can begin to make a world of difference."
Chris Macrae , 21 May 2005 @ 11:20 AM Peak Oil - part 2Mr Chris MacraeIn my long career of concern over oil pollution -- from my days of serving the oil industry, to fighting it, to predicting the imminent end of abundant supply -- I have never been as exhilarated as now to think that a change is in the wind. Now, we are witnessing an awakening of the role of oil as a dwindling substance responsible for technological miracles, energy gluttony and strategic/military pursuits. Everyone's differences will have to be put aside as we are starting to enter a new age. On May 19th I told the Congressman about myself, in a long conversation inwhich he explained he is a "very conservative Repbulican." I told him Iwas about to release a column titled "Goodbye American Dreamland," knowinghe could appreciate the concept. I asked Congressman Bartlett, "Is thereany chance you can tell President Bush about peak oil?" He replied "Ihave a half hour scheduled to do so, but I'm bringing two colleagues withme so he doesn't think I'm just one nut." I told the Congressman that Iwanted to work with him on peak oil, and he asked me... (to read remainderof this report and see links, go to<http://www.culturechange.org/e-letter-CongressOil.html#cont>) ***** "Our Synthetic Sea" is an award winning documentary on plastic pollutionof the oceans. It will be presented by Jan Lundberg at the BerkeleyEcology Center on May 26, 7 PM, and can also be obtained for showingsanywhere (along with the presenter and his guitar) by contacting him viaemail at [email protected] CULTURE CHANGEP.O. Box 4347, Arcata, California 95518 USATelephone and fax: 1-215-243-3144E-mail: [email protected]: <http://www.culturechange.org>
Chris Macrae , 21 May 2005 @ 11:19 AM Peak Oil -part 1Mr Chris MacraeIt would seem to me that exploring blue-green oil's possible abundance and reversal of over-carbonised environment would be a remarkably good each way bet. I guess I must be missing something. But if the EU does have any energy resource mappers, sure would like to know what.Chris , Exploring Superior Economics Sent: 20 May 2005 23:41Culture Change e-Letter #96 Congress hears quote by Jan Lundberg on peak oilGOODBYE AMERICAN DREAMLAND The meaning of peak oil is beginning to be explored in The People's House,a.k.a. the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. OneCongressman, Roscoe Bartlett, a Republican of Maryland, has followed theissues of oil supply for many years and has begun to wake people up in thenation's capital and for the national C-SPAN cable television audience. The phrase "peak oil" is short for the global peaking of oil extraction,whereby supply only tightens. This column has repeatedly anticipated theeconomic effects and the role of the market in suddenly exacerbating thegeological shortage at hand. On May 12, the Congressman spoke for one hour before the House in a"Special Order speech," routinely featured at end of business for eitherparty's representative to speak his or her mind following the "leadershiphour." He recited a passage from one of my syndicated Culture ChangeLetter reports, "Peak Oil in a Nutshell - Here Comes the Nutcracker." Heprefaced it by saying "You all have heard of the Lundberg Survey, wellthis is what Jan Lundberg wrote:" "The trucks will no longer pull into Wal-Mart. Or Safeway or other foodstores. The freighters bringing packaged techno-toys and whatnot fromChina will have no fuel. There will be fuel in many places, but hoardingand uncertainty will trigger outages, violence and chaos. For only ashort time will the police and military be able to maintain order, if atall." He then added his own warning: "You can imagine what might happen when thelights go out. The veneer of civilization is very thin." CongressmanBartlett obtained my quote from Matt Savinar's website which got it fromEnergy Bulletin which got it from BlueGreenEarth.com. A definite trend is afoot. What we can call The Convergence of America isjust ahead. It will not be as in the past, but more in spirit as wegrapple with the loss of petroleum and the end of economic growth. Ratherthan as a nationalistic single entity, we will come together in theknowledge that our separate and equal, diverse bioregions are our realhomelands.
Chris Macrae , 09 November 2004 @ 09:02 AM The Faith of a Country Ruled by FearMr Chris MacraeArriving in Bethesda, MD , the Thursday before the American election a small bit of local news became the clue of everything that America is currently driven by. A 20 year old was shot dead by a US`marshal whilst in his car at a shopping Mall. Incidentally, almost every tv news broadcast leads on a local killing. Slightly more scary this time for me was that the killing was 600 yards up the road. Come the election- a vast majority of Americans the world meets abroad voted Democrat but Bush was re-elected by Republicans of 2 types - the very rich, the small town and middle America states where fear and gun-downed news leads every evening's broadcast. Most of these folk are very local with quite narrow faiths and conservative agendas with a very small c. Of course America's wars abroad with Iraq and terrorism resonate with their everyday fears of gun-law and superficial media relieved by superbowls or other glorious-celebrity froth. And that's why their lifestyles can also validate the election of Bush saying they chose the candidate driven by greater faith and values. And it is why the rest of the world needs to recognise America for what it is: a powerful country but one that is so pre-occupied with its own fears that it hasn't got any understanding of different types of fears in the rest of the world. To reverse the classic slogan: the last thing the rest of the world needs now is Coca-Cola's - or Bush's - orchestration of I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. Instead, this would be a good time -perhaps the last opportunity - for Europe to stand up to America. To go a different way than America's World Trade Organisation and Gatts. To sugest that it is time to relocate the United Nations; I would prefer a non-permanent 5 year touring home - perhaps Moscow or South Africa would be places to try to brfing in from the cold. Actiually, I dont care so much what dramatic demand Europe makes of America, as long as it does make some fearless ones. Oh, by the way. Buried in smallprint on the day after the election, it turned out that my local US marshal had been off duty, and the reason for the killing appears to have been road rage on the part of the marshal. If you want a more intellectual version of why I feel we should break with being driven by the fear values of America, google the BBC's superb 3-part series The Power of Nightmares To see history's becoming both the world's richest and most afraid nation, read my father's 30 year classic survey in The Economist "The Neurotic Trillionaire". What's scary is that the EU hasnt found a way of constructively confronting the Neurosis faith for all that time- what chance now we will find our own united leadership? The West seems to me much more scary in its seats of power than the vast majority of eastern places. And they call this knowledge age...
Chris Macrae , 04 November 2004 @ 15:22 PM reds versus blues- and is anyone going to blogger.conMr Chris MacraeBelow the line- extracts of the gathering note of blogger.con that starts in Stanford on Friday. Perhaps you would like to help me insert entries on thye world's most powerful nation divided: reds : who'd rule the world with Bush blues: who's open up a networking world
places I've never been to in America's centre and south, apparently holding one or more extreme beliefs and somehow equating these with national pride most of the west or east coast cities I have ever been to including DC, New York, Boston, San Francisco
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People who have never travelled outside America, nor have any access to media providing diverse viewpoints around the world People who travel abroad
extract from http://www.bloggercon.org/2004/11/04#a1876We had an election on Tuesday, the result was known on Wednesday, today's Thursday and the day after tomorrow is BloggerCon. The buzz is incredible, people are flying in from all over the world, Stanford is going to be a great place to have our blogging conference, and we've got people from all walks of life, red states and blue, podcasters and people who think it's a fad, students and teachers, doctors, lawyers, people from Wisconsin, you name it, we got it!You may of course bring your laptop (it's a blogging conference) and there will be free Wifi, provided by Sputnik. All statements like this of course are subject to Murphy's Law, which says the Wifi probably won't work at all, but if it does, it will take two hours to get everyone online. Thanks to Doug Kaye and Mike Lehman, we should have MP3s of all the sessions shortly after the conference. There's a chance it will be webcast. Everyone is welcome to record the conference. If you have questions, or need help, please post a comment here. We will have some kind of IRC, I'm trying to delegate that, as I will be busy everywhere but IRC the day of the conference. If you know someone who can help with this, who will be at the conference, please let me know. Thanks. BloggerCon is an unconference. That means there is no audience, no speakers, no panels. Each session has a discussion leader. They're not all famous (a few are). They are all good at leading discussions. Everyone in the room is an equal participant. The DL is like a reporter, choosing people to speak, in an order that makes sense to her or him. There's no Q&A at the end. The whole session involves everyone. No need to go out in the hallway to have your conversation, have it in the room. # Posted by Dave Winer on 11/4/04;
Chris Macrae , 03 November 2004 @ 18:09 PM thoughts of today - part 2Mr Chris MacraeSo roughly the 100 village and city timeless blog family shares these put human beings first values, though I am quite happy to keep out of the way of editing a local blog once its found its main local participants, and the whole thing is an emerging experiment anyhow in how networks, cities and social networks all connect. There is of course the possibility to open-share any content or links across blogs once people spot what they like where. Sincerely Chris Macraehttp://whynotvillage.blogspot.com/http://whynotcity.blogspot.com/ The badwiil and goodwill stories of global networking seen from 1984 My favourite social networks 1984-2004
Chris Macrae , 03 November 2004 @ 18:06 PM thoughts of today -part 1Mr Chris MacraeToday, sitting in Washington DC, I feel more than ever its going to take the common sense of all 6 bilion people of good faith to change what The Global System is not spinning well for human beings across our world; I dont see those at the top of our most powerful organisations taking any such lead in the next 4 years. Of course, I will be the most delighted one of all if I prove to be wrong Meanwhile, we are making progress with how people can link up places, blogs, and social networks. Here is a mail I have just posteed to a co-networker in Lahore; I have taken out the names of people. If you share the faith that 6 billion people have transparent common sense of what we want to see compound worldwide than those few hundreds atop powerful organisations, and want to blog out of your locality, why not tell me at [email protected] so we can co-create your blog wand welcome to our family that is multiplying the power of 30000 people-action projects, places, blogs,and social networks Dear AAAhttp://whynotlahore.blogspot.com/ Thanks you for joining me in editing what Lahore could do for the world and what the world can do for Lahore May I introduce you to 2 people whom I know to be deeply interested in improving life for poor people in rural areas of Pakistan in case that connects with your interests or networks around you. So far the best village NGO model I have come across in mapping is actually in India http://whynotvisakhapatnam.blogspot.com/ I have also copied BBB who co-edits visakhapatnam and CCC who co-edits http://whynotalmeria.blogspot.com/ Of course Lahore has many development issues of its own to knowledge exchange with the world, as well as back to villages. I hope you will add one or two speciality ideas of your own to the blog – once we see them we can decide whether to give them a whole month of their own to continue developing links and networks around I am fairly simple minded and believe that most of us 6 billion people are not the cause of East and West confrontations but accidentally some of our largest organisations are; sitting as I am today in Washington DC, I am struck more than ever how all people of good faith are going to have to find ways of connecting and changing the world, because I don’t see many powerful politicians near me taking such a lead; as a person, I am actually very apolitical except I support the agendas for humanity that http://www.simpol.org.uk is working to open up; equally I am struck by commonalities between all the world’s main religions on relationship principles like do unto another what you would wish to be done unto you
andrew campbell , 16 August 2004 @ 14:42 PM Patternsandrew campbellhttp://www.cs.unca.edu/~manns/PDFVersionOnWeb.pdf Thanks Chris.i met the idea of ''Patterns'' through the work of Chris Alexander. ii have put in a url above that applies Patterns to some organizational issues.i am reminded of Bohm too, in his book 'On Creativity'... "confronted with confusion" we might try to adopt a new perspective, what he called a "- finer faster form of attention" to our experience of confusion. He intimates, we don't so much change the world, which is by nature complexifying (''adding value''), but we can change the way we are, in relationship to nature or the larger systems. Quite often new forms of art and expression are greeted as being "disordered", for example when Braque saw Picasso's D'amoiselles image, "broken glass and smashed violins!"...just after he'd seen it for the first time.It is likely he went home and made his own sketches of it, incorporating his memories and his own 'confusion' through his own (authentic) artistry, after a while the high (potential for) order in the D'amoiselles ...would manifest itself (in)to him, through the 'doing of the knowing' ;-) (Varela and Maturana) ...hey ho everyone in Paris is trying Cubism ;-)Can't we learn to look in some of the ways that an artist looks, and confront the occasional blank canvas?cheers,Andrew
Chris Macrae , 16 August 2004 @ 06:54 AM a catalogue of pattern rulesMr Chris MacraeThanks Andrew I believe that a catalogue of pattern rules is a very good way forward. First nominating a pattern rule can be quite a an innovate conversational process. A pattern rule being something that someone has seen repeated practical experience of , and therefore suggests everyone keeps in mind as likely to be true unless they can prove in a specific context it isnt. Since complexity often involves aspects of system chnage that have alteady happened but conventional wisdom hasnt caught up with, this can make pattern rules for complexity doubly fascinating I would like to nominate a pattern rule series that comes from 25 years and 50000 open spaces, and the deep love of people and community that Harrison Owen brings to Organisational Transformation. 1.1 Many of the most valuable innovations we can help people with today involve communities where people are in deep conflict with each other. If we can help everyone involved pass through that conflict barrier, we are innovating, putting a system back towards sustainable value creation for all the people rather than value destruction. 1.2 A characteristic of a conflict barrier is that to pass through it something that was previously applied unquestiongly needs to be turned inside out. Early pilots confronting the speed of sound barrier crashed losing all until one dared try out his hypothesis that as he flew through the barrier certain controls in the cockpit literally needed to be operated the other way round. 1.3 Know of Harrison's 3 C's if you are trying to help a community - Conflict often Compounds with Chaos and Confusion. Sequentiually what happens is:- Something changes and starts turning a community into a conflicted one. Buy failing to resolve the conflict as it emerges, over time a storm of more and more change forces swirl around the community - Chaos. In such a situation, Confusion raises its head because at least one thing that leaders of the community are historically certain of controling/commanding the community with is now counter-productive to ordering the community with. This is why one of the designs of Open Space is to take hierachy out of the proceedings so everyone can question each other's innovation and conflict-resolution ideas (respecting each others) as equals. More on Open Space here.
andrew campbell , 15 August 2004 @ 09:40 AM Muddling Throughandrew campbellHi Chris, you ask the question..."Has our twenty-first century world – a world of unprecedented scientific advances, theInternet, and a permanent information revolution yet beset by corporate ethics scandals, terrorism, and global conflict – become so complex that that only portions of it can be “managed”? Or are we soon to be forced to admit that all we can do is “muddlethrough”? I may have a problem to locate the specific paper or talk he gave,... but Richard Feynman noticed that 'the British' had a highly developed cultural tool, one he admired in dealing with his chosen term "complexity", he termed it 'muddling through' ... I wonder then if anyone we know can apply a "pattern language" to this thing called 'muddling through complexity;-)' ????atbandrew
Chris Macrae , 13 August 2004 @ 19:31 PM anyone joining in this Dc event?Mr Chris MacraeInteresting conference in DC - anyone going?http://echo-conferences.com/call.pdfSeptember 18-19, 2004The George Washington University, Washington, DC extract: Has our twenty-first century world – a world of unprecedented scientific advances, theInternet, and a permanent information revolution yet beset by corporate ethics scandals, terrorism, and global conflict – become so complex that that only portions of it can be “managed”? Or are we soon to be forced to admit that all we can do is “muddlethrough”?Are the linear lessons of business schools and of “management gurus” still applicable?Does the vocabulary of war or of games, which we use to talk about managing, still apply in this complex world? Or have we moved to a new era, marked by the vocabulary ofartists not warriors or sportsmen – an era where the many shades of “grey” is not anexpression but a stark reality? It seems as if proven patterns of interaction seldom work.What is it like to attempt to “manage” in a world of uncertainty, where every situationproclaims its need to be treated “differently” with a respect for the local context and the cacophony of hundreds of competing claims?
Chris Macrae , 13 March 2004 @ 13:16 PM KM's Braintrust InternationalMr Chris MacraeSorry not to have known of this KM gathering ahead of time. Anyone able to report a retrospective or to help us socially network the map of this practice core segment of KM?The 6th Annual Knowledge Management World Summit, Arizona Feb 2004A Practitioner's ForumHigh-Impact Knowledge Management for the Entire Enterprisehttp://www.iirusa.com/braintrust/index.cfm?Link=32 What's New for 2004?-New High-Impact Keynotes Dr. Nancy Dixon, Consultant and Author of Common Knowledge, COMMON KNOWLEDGE ASSOCIATES Rob Cross, Professor, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA and Author of The Hidden Power of Social Networks Victor Newman, Chief Learning Officer, PFIZER Stephen Denning, Author of The Springboard: How Storytelling Ignites Action in Knowledge-Era Organizations Gregory Balestrero, CEO, Project Management Institute (PMI)-More Networking Breaks Between Each Session Braintrust 2004 Advisory Board Members: Melissie Rumizen, Knowledge Strategist, Buckman Laboratories Jeff Stemke, Senior Knowledge Leader, ChevronTexaco Donna M. Stemmer, Adjunct Professor, Waikato University School of Management and Research Associate, George Washington University Institute for Knowledge Management Charles Seeley, Knowledge Strategist & Manager, Knowledge Enablement, Intel Corporation Michael Burtha, Founder and President, Applied Collaborative Strategies, LLC Gary DeGregorio, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Motorola Labs Seth Kahan, Organizational Community Specialist and former Senior Information Officer, World Bank Dr. Erick Thompson, AVP, Knowledge Networking, The St. Paul CompaniesBraintrust owes its superior content and top-notch speaking faculty in large part to the very special corporate practitioners who make up our advisory board. This advisory board keeps the finger on the pulse of Knowledge Management throughout the year and makes certain that the best topics and speakers are recommended to serve the needs of our audience. They make it the "KM conference designed by KM practitioners for KM practitioners."
Chris Macrae , 12 March 2004 @ 13:55 PM thanks for all your inquiriesMr Chris MacraeSince my last post, I've been inundated with inquiries and it seems worth setting up a social KM circulation list the sorts of interests include social software like that wonderfully blogged at http://www.headshift.com in the UK tohow do we do social network mapping not just within formal organisations but for example of the people who are core to progressing each of the top 50 humanitarian issues in the world then how do we kkep open agency of the net for the people and teach 12 year olds up best use of the net for such topics as:-the lifelong learning mentors each person needs -see 12th grade of email near bottom of this page http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?maxhits=5&s=3190&dateformat=%25d-%25m-%25Y&d=1&sec=7 the trust to quickly assemble a mission team once you've decided you have some free time and have a change the world issue you want to devote your time to with others of similarly deep and urgent readiness so these are huge social issues but before one gets to the question of what community infrastructures can be architected to support them , we need to have at least rough ideas on what works best when individuals try to use email, webs, and other virtual modes, and then interface these with real ways of mobilising email me at [email protected] if you want to be circulated in to this social KM conversation space
Chris Macrae , 11 March 2004 @ 15:44 PM where social software types meetMr Chris MacraeI'm not one but love what they do, and was puzzling away as to where in the whole of Kboard this special interest group of people meet If you feel that this sort of conference is one you would have wanted to be at http://wiki.oreillynet.com/etech/csp?HomePageperhaps you'd like to contact me at [email protected] so I can introduce you to anyone else who mails in as connecting to this plus a few of my friends who always seem to catch me when my curiosity in this area is prompted or if there's a resident space already in kboard for you, how about posting its bookmark
Chris Macrae , 12 February 2004 @ 20:47 PM Possibility of wonderful links between knowledge cities, charettes, Open Spaces & Social CapitalMr Chris Macraeemail [email protected] subject "charrette" if you need more connections with this ongoing dialogue a kaleidoscopic experience of all my favourite explorative tools connecting people's visual sensing with the physical:Open Space The Charrette's special competence to keep visual notes of proceedings in each of the expert's deliverable formats and in an open way for all participants Pattern Rules - a human wisdom banking idea from architecture I love wow if we could get the public talking to architects talking to engineers talking to policy makers through such an open train of methods, the environments we live in could be wholly different Has anyone tried linking with experts in knowledge-cities and their social capitals? chris macrae PREVIOUSLYMost charrette facilitators are architects who have learned their "facilitation" skills in the trenches and have no separate training in conflict resolution, mediation, facilitation, etc. I have been trying to bridge the two fields, as I think they have a lot to learn from each other. A short essay I wrote about this ( Hurley, Jennifer. 2003. "The Public Process and New Urbanism", Research Report for the Knight Program in Community Building, University of Miami School of Architecture.) is available at http://www.hfadesign.com/newsroom/publications.html. Here's the quick summary: What Can Charrette Practitioners Learn from Consensus-Building? . Key aspects that charrette organizers could learn from consensus-building: € A robust theoretical basis for practice can inform the understanding of the process and suggest possibilities when problems arise. € Situating the charrette event in a larger decision-making framework that includes pre-charrette outreach and post-charrette consensus-building increases the chances of implementation. € Using the charrette to aid group learning and build civic capital would leverage the event to develop local leaders who can champion the plan long after the event. € Charrette organizers could adopt specific skills from mediators and facilitators, including stakeholder analysis, the use of ground rules, neutral mediation/facilitation, agenda-setting, and consensus-building techniques. ...Words are a cumbersome medium when the problem is visual. € The compressed time frame of a charrette creates incredible excitement and momentum. In contrast, discussion-based processes can take months, if not years, and are often tedious and sometimes downright painful. Jennifer at http://www.hfadesign.com
Chris Macrae , 29 January 2004 @ 01:24 AM clarificationsMr Chris MacraeVitaly I'm not sure if I understood the ideas of your last mail On elearning platforms, there seem so many- I wonder if there's an expert among Kboard members who could grade them (not me!). I know the university of Pheonix is one of the leaders in the US. When I was at the EU Knowledge Society conference 18 months ago, one of the delegates from one of the candidate countries asked ; why doesnt the EU invest in an elearning university format that all countries could use? Seems like a good question, without an aswer as far as I know. I was unclear if you were also asking what the business model of valuetrue.com is. Happy to try to answer if you were asking cheers, chris
Vitaly Titov , 28 January 2004 @ 18:20 PM High impact blended learningVitaly Titov Hello Chris! Upon a closer view of background quoted from your authorised page I find yet one example of KM application in professional blended training. May be it is a way of the open-world exchange between USA & Russia? How you tax's a valuetrue of this knowledge portal from the viewpoint of your experience?
Chris Macrae , 22 January 2004 @ 18:41 PM How about the open-world exchange between USA & Russia?Mr Chris MacraeDoes anyone have views or reviews on http://www.open-world2002.gov/ I'm unclear whether this background is uptodate but it sounds quite human:the Center for Russian Leadership through the Library of Congress. The program brings emerging Russian leaders to communities across the United States to expose them to American democracy and free enterprise in action. Half of the production team is in Washington, DC and half in Moscow and we host the project coordination space for them Background quoted from http://groupjazz.gjhost.com/gj/swebsock/0012283/0165226/GJ14/main/viewitem.cml?47+10+120+8+0+0+1+x#here
Chris Macrae , 18 January 2004 @ 18:04 PM Does America have any competitive disadvantages?Mr Chris MacraeI believe it has one enormous one to do with the short-term nature of its investors- their systems, cultural monopoly over media and measurements (isnt it a trifle risky that every annual report scores and separates out every number as if it was additive, when multiplicative models of how things compound tell far more about what will happen next?). This appears at at a time when the main value dynamics are compounding in longer-term ways due to two properties of networking. First transparency has made intangible relationship connections the core gravitaional wealth of big corporations' valuations- when we MAP the dynamics of how intangibles compound we see a precipice where short-term measures lag, with the consequence that Andersen's short-term results would have been showung world record levels even as its reputation had gone over the precipice of lost trust that zeroises any firm. Second, many social changes compound in a pent up way involving passionate human value issues before they translate everywhere as issues of $, $,$. Organisations have to prepare for such changes over longish periods especially where the change interacts with the depth of a company's unique vision in an emotional intelligence sense that will require all employees to do something in the opposite way from what was previously scored as precisely perfect. At http://www.valuetrue.com, our transparency networks gossip about lack of knowledge of the compound valuation precipice as The Dinosaur's Last Belch - see the thread on what makes owners trustworthy and capable of multiplying value for everyone in a networking world. At the least, I suggest all the above means that knowledge leadership needs a new plurality in discussing measures and management and policy capitals, a diversity that has been largely absent when the prestige American accounting schools like Harvard had such a monotone voice on worldwide business publishing, as well as captive and endebted audiences of fledgeling MBAs. In Europe thinktank retreats are sprouting eg Sweden's Medinge and England's Maheo where leaders of big corporations and big responsibilities can open space for alternative views of how to value the future and the barriers we will need management as well as employees to jump over wherever the biggest networking changes compound. I'd love to hear of any spaces in America or other countries where we could share knowledge at the benchmarking level of how knowledge buzzing through the new leadership management debates is shaping up and breaking through the barriers and apartheids that short-term greed accounts for in human history as it is writ large.
Chris Macrae , 15 January 2004 @ 22:04 PM Association of Knoweldgework & KM ClustersMr Chris Macrae:http://www.kwork.org/Stars/starlinks.htmlI love this page of the AoK , and the general feel of what I see of it; dont quite know how to get involved with the association at the next level of depth- any core AOK members able to tell us more I find the US KM Clusters model pushy but right on the money in its calendars and prioritisation of subjects. Here are extracts from its trailer for first half of 2004 just in: The growing interest and legitimization of KM is driven by the transformation to a knowledge-based society and business environment. Fortunately, the empty KM vendor and technology hype of the mid-‘90s has died out. KM is steadily and inexorably climbing out of the technology-based ‘trough of disillusionment’ on the hype curve. http://www.kmcluster.com/Gatner_Hype_Curve_KM At long last, organizations have confirmed that KM is about people, relationships and leadership, with technology only playing an important, but supporting role. Firms are emerging from the often expensive and frustrating operational dimension of codification and access. They then quickly recognize the requirement for new methods and techniques to create entirely new intellectual assets. Firms discover flow and conductivity are far more important than information stocks and repositories to knowledge and value creation. Knowledge-based organizations are accepting entirely new leadership models to optimize the creation and applied use of knowledge and intangibles. Of course there are exciting technology developments to help extend and expand the knowledge capabilities infrastructure. Among these are pervasive Web collaboration and social network software offerings. Los Angeles Cluster Feb 27 - Sharing Knowledge: Balancing Organisational Benefits and Risks: http://www.kmcluster.com/lax/LAX_Spring_2004.htm New York Cluster March 26 Socila NetworksToronto Cluster April 20 Intellectual Capital Management For the fifth year in a row, the KM Cluster© is pleased to co-sponsor Braintrust International 2004, February 8-11, 2004 at the Doubletree La Posada Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. http://www.iirusa.com/braintrust Recommended Keynote presentations include: Dr. Nancy Dixon, Consultant and Author of Common Knowledge; Victor Newman, Chief Learning Officer, Pfizer; and Gregory Balestrero, CEO, Project Management Institute. Featured Companies include: ChevronTexaco, Intel Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, APQC, Motorola Labs and Raytheon Company.
Chris Macrae , 13 January 2004 @ 20:01 PM E100 netMr Chris MacraeI note Debra Amidon's E100 world network coordinated North of Boston Mass has started the year with some exciting content trailers such as:http://www.entovation.com/coming-soon.htm The E100 Readings on Knowledge Economics: Principles, Practices and PoliciesTartu University PressDebra M. Amidon, Piero Formica, and Eunika Mercier-Laurent (Editors) Knowledge economics is the new focus for the 21st century.-Peter F. Drucker Aim: to educate the new generation of researchers, professors, teachers, industrial and government leadership professionals. The principles of knowledge economics ought to be endorsed as a revolutionary change - an opportunity to provide a solid foundation, rationale and vision to substitute something more sustainable than the old regime of traditional economics. Intelligent and innovative explorations of computer capabilities help optimise individual and collective work of employees and the entrepreneur. Part I: Principles/Standards We are witnessing an acceleration of experimentation and adoption of progressive management approaches at every level of the economic - micro, meso, and macro-economic. This section will illuminate some of the broader scheme context and sense-making approaches to initiatives of the new Knowledge Economy. Part II: Practices This section identifies management approaches that are enabling institutions to take advantage of the new models of organization structures, real-time learning mechanisms, foundations for cultural evolution, performance incentives, environmental considerations, ecological practices, country and company restructuring, and the use of technology. Part III: Policy and Measurement The policy section outlines how the emphasis on policy guiding procedures for action can effect significant managerial innovations: changing - or better - abandoning the old rules, thereby producing new and viable principles of economic policy. This is a counterpart to the principles of self-organizing systems in that there may be ways to architect, via policy-change initiatives - the potential output of an innovation system. Knowledge-Relevant Economic Policy: Analysing Knowledge Policymaking in Managed - and Free - Market EconomiesPiero Formica International University of Entrepreneurship, University of Tartu and Abu Dhabi Men's Higher College of Technology Transparency: A Foundation for Modern Leadership/GovernanceDoug Macnamara, Banff Executive Leadership Inc. Regional Technology Policy and the Emergence of an R&D System in the Basque CountryMonica Moso, Knowledge Cluster, and Mikel Olazaran, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Communication Sciences, University of the Basque Country Human Resources Management in the Web EconomyJean-Marc Le Duc, French Ministry of Education and Technology Collaboredge: The Key to DevelopmentGülgün Kayakutlu...
Chris Macrae , 12 January 2004 @ 13:53 PM KMCI in 2004Mr Chris MacraeTell us which KM professional associations you have most time for in 2004. I have a lot of time for KMCI because its definition of next generation KM is systemic, transparent, links innovation cycles fo detecting errors or changes in environment of the system that need open resolving, values truth above all, and is therefore compatible with businesses that seek to multiply the value of networking's greatest cases for human beings KMCI's inagural K-STREAM™ training program will be held March 1 - 5, 2004 in Washington, DC. For more information and registration details, go to: http://www.kmci.org/Institute/certification/k_stream.htm
Chris Macrae , 12 January 2004 @ 13:21 PM internet evolution locallyMr Chris MacraeVitaly, thanks for bookmark to local fathers of the net, their visions for this communally connecting technology would achieve, and practical experiments http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/ My hometown memories of the net? Brought up in Wimbledon, London, but I didnt work (a mathematician who develops space to analyse human systems and value demands) from there much, project itineraries have taken me to 30 countries. First brush with networking technology: early 1970s at University of Leeds- in a project called computer assisted learning where 100 students at any time across Yorskire could practice statistics in dialogue quizzes interacted by terminals to a mainframe. Early 1980s: every year a different model of personal computer incompatible with previous year. My father (Norman Macrae whose deputy editing of leadership conversations on what big systems needed to change next for humanity took The Economist from 4th local weekly social-economic magazine to only global one) and I wrote a book http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html on the first 40 years of worldwide networking in 1984. We felt the big idea wasnt technology's computer box, nor the software languages but the humanity of virtual connectivity worldwide and replicability of any programmable code anywhere. We storylined this as a bigger system-changing invention than the steam engine . By the middle of this decade (2000s) we foresaw mankind's final chance to work out whether the global/local networeking revolution would be openly systemised for good or powered over making Orwell's 1984 look like a teddy bear's picnic. Links: great humanitarian challenge our generation faces now, in god's speed at http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?forum=1&topic=66&comment=1985 and at http:/www.valuetrue.com, 2004 Year of Transparency In our hometowns, we predicted from 1984: vital to get everyone online as freely as possible. Early use of the internet in developed countries correlated largely to local telecom prices with unlimited use (America, and Nordica) or pay per minute (eg Britain and most of West Europe). British at least 5 years late as a nation online due to selfish pricing of British Telecom, same company that tried to claim patent of the hyperlink! Let's co-host the world's biggest conversation http://www.valuetrue.com/home/gallery.cfm on internetworking - light up everyone's imagination; map how greatest values we can innovate are openness and connecting those who have previously been disconnected first from the baiscs like water and safety, then access to learning multiplied almost freely if we internetwork using our colective human wits, not our apartheid agressions and power complexes.
Vitaly Titov , 10 January 2004 @ 08:38 AM High Productivity & Quality of ServiceVitaly Titov From technical viewpoint we have many net solutions. The top of High Productivity & Quality of Service is the first optical internet CA*net3 that was builded in Canada in 1998. It is the third generation Internet and the predecessor of CA*net 4. Just time I'm user of first generation Internet (1969-1996) but this enough for my think speed in English. I would like know, Chris, about the availability to Internet in your town. From user viewpoint, by my understanding, we have one global net in that we work together just time. For thinkworking into text &/ grafical form the Knowledge Management Emotional Intellegence have enough availability of Knowledgeboard Open Space where is a huge volume of information for thinking about ValueTrue and Evolution Transparency.
Chris Macrae , 09 January 2004 @ 15:40 PM HAN & PeacemakingMr Chris MacraeThanks Vitaly I am ignorant technologically - can you give a layman's example of where a HAN (High Availability Network) has been constructed and what people are doing with it? Regarding peacemaking, there are really fascinatiing opportunities for any human being to find a conflict and innovate human value and reconcilation around it - if only we all put our humanity caps on first before our business or nationality caps. I'm talking to a lot of youth movements on this around the world, and welcome links or other demographics (eg women's nets) where humanitarian values are a core part of the network's definition of excellenceThis is also an extraordinary way in to seeing how open space can make the greatest of 200 people's minds, passions, time wherever people congreagte rather than the least. Our main discussion thread in this area is http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=1985&topic= I see Open Space as a gateway method to a family of facilitation methods involved with "real time, real place deep reflection, conversation and idea development between congregations of people - instilling respect, community networking soul". In some ways this makes a miracle compliment to email which can be the open door to connecting - my beliefs on the 12th grade of email - finding the 10 best best mentors for making the most of your life - are written up http://www.knowledgeboard.com/community/zones/sig/kmei.html
Vitaly Titov , 09 January 2004 @ 07:52 AM beyond borders, language bariers and personal animusVitaly Titov The networks is the key strategic assets that can help to make the productive life for the planet, nations, organizations, and each one of usThe Practice of Pice is a high-level culture, excellence and policy of deeper intangible undestanding beyond borders, language bariers and personal animus.
Chris Macrae , 08 January 2004 @ 02:42 AM Open AmericaMr Chris MacraeGlad to report great resources from America beaming out of http://www.openspaceworld.com and http://www.practiceofpeace.com Some great looking regional spaces:The Carolinas: http://www.springbranch.net -more refs Potomac: HO- Home of all Open Space alumni Up near to number 1, do tell us your nomination for open web-multiplying activism seems to me to be http://www.truemajority.com which mails members this sort of participative invitation:From the Desk Of...Michael Douglas Banned Assault Weapons May Be Coming Back. The NRA is Trying to End the Ban and Gut the Brady Bill.Dear chris, Ten years ago a progressive coalition of citizens and legislators passed two major gun safety laws: a ban on assault weapons and the Brady bill-named for President Reagan's press secretary who survived being shot in the head. These two laws played a key role in the remarkable reduction in violent crime and make America a safer place. But today, the National Rifle Association is leading an aggressive campaign to gut the protections of the Brady Bill and to end the assault weapons ban. First, NRA lobbyists inserted text into an unrelated spending bill that would require that records of gun purchases be destroyed within 24 hours. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies say this would make it harder to catch violent criminals. And the NRA is also pushing hard to prevent Congress from renewing the landmark Assault Weapons Ban of 1994. Letting the ban expire would put military-style, rapid-fire assault weapons that have been banned for the last ten years back on the street. Police departments, victims' rights advocates, and community groups across the country fear the consequences of getting these killers back into the hands of criminals. Lastly, the NRA wants to prevent victims of gun crimes from seeking redress from negligent gun dealers like Bull's Eye Shooter Supply, which armed the D.C. snipers and sold 67 other guns used in crimes. The NRA thinks the victims and their families shouldn't get their day in court. If you are a member of TrueMajority, to send an email (text below) to your Representative urging him or her to defend the Brady Bill, maintain the assault weapons ban, and preserve the rights of gun crime victims, just reply to this email by clicking "Reply" and then "Send" in your email program. If you are not currently registered with TrueMajority, or would like to customize your message, click here: http://action.truemajority.com/index.asp?action=10119&ms=gun1&ref=322367
Chris Macrae , 09 August 2003 @ 12:42 PM What if Nike had been Indian or Nigerian- part 5 of...Mr Chris Macraean article by New Zealander Jack Yan,serialised in knowledgeboard countries Part 1 in India http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=113747&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y As consumers become more cynical, there’s no point in saying that you’re good. After all, Enron had policies on climate control and anti-corruption.As an eco-ethical nation, we have a huge appeal to overseas markets through our association with environmental causes, for a start (even if the reality is nothing to brag about: Foreign Policy rates us poorly, behind France and Germany).For those who think eco-marketing is passé, then New Zealand’s reputation as a nation that seeks economic justice is as marketable. Our high score on anti-corruption indices is another huge appeal (though we can still do better and be number one), particularly as ‘Made in USA’ loses its standing and there’s room in the market-place for the country to invent itself as the ethical rival, particularly when it comes to services. I’d say that these are more marketable.These are some of the reasons that I worked with the UN to get the UNEP partnership. Without a cooler brand—as I told UN Radio’s Russian service (I was dubbed, so I won’t be chatting in Russian to Condi Rice)—the United Nations lacks cachet. In August, we began a small effort to raise some money for breast cancer research. They are baby steps, but a start to a private international effort of creating the world we want. While the world looks at New Zealand fashion and beauty, especially in the upcoming few months, here’s a perfect chance for us to make worthy causes cool. Jack Yan is founding publisher of Lucire (http://www.lucire.com), the official internet partner of L’Oréal New Zealand Fashion Week. Beyond Branding: How Transparency and Integrity Are Changing the World of Brands, edited by Nicholas Ind, will be published by Kogan Page of London in October, priced at £25. See http://www.beyond-branding.com.
Chris Macrae , 29 July 2003 @ 14:26 PM a lot to learn from this US model of KM practice trainingMr Chris Macraelink to discussion of other training models:http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=106218&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y Website: www.kmcluster.com/nyc/Agenda: www.kmcluster.com/nyc/NYC_Fall_2003.htm It is generally accepted that the practice of knowledge management (KM) debuted sometime in the 20th Century. Of course, the leadership and management focus of the last hundred years was mostly concerned with expanding and controlling the physical and mechanical properties of economic production. Management practices involving people, process and technology to fundamentally advance the intellectual capacity of people and effectiveness of knowledge-intensive organizations became prevalent only in the second half of the century. The 20th Century framework of business thinking was derived from reductionism, mechanics, hierarchy and linear physical models. These models produced the most spectacular economic growth in the history of civilization. However, in rapidly expanding knowledge-based economies, these rigid, deductive models are not meeting the needs of business leaders or stakeholders. Rather, it has been discovered that entirely new, holistic, social and biological structures offer far better models of how the knowledge-based world actually works. These improved, inductive models elaborate how economic growth is sustained and improved in knowledge-intensive societies. Unfortunately, as is always the case, un-learning the past is extraordinarily difficult. This is particularly true for established organizations striving to transform into knowledge-based organizations. Open-loop archetypes, technology preponderance, tangible focus, and pedantic training systems, for example, are just some of the 21st Century knowledge-based enterprise artifacts that trace their pathologic origins from 20th Century models.http://www.mollyguard.com/event/7004952
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 00:24 AM emotional literacy -part 5Mr Chris Macraecontinuing extract fromhttp://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/index.shtml We know that the solution to prejudice and racism includes education and laws. To that end education is the only hope for America to fulfill its promise of equal opportunity for all. Crime is a moral failure of the society as well as the individual. Criminals are not born they are made. Addiction comes from a hunger for happiness, and it is not a crime but rather a health issue. Poverty is caused by a mis-allocation of resources by people who feel deserving of the wealth of the nation, and disregard the health and well-being of others. It is my strong belief that Emotional Literacy Education can resolve these issues. But what is Emotional Literacy Education? It is a refinement of a knowledge base that has been around for thousands of years. It has been the focus of religion, philosophy, science and psychology. It is self-knowledge which has been formulated into a language of emotions which can be taught. The fundamental principle of Emotional Literacy Education is the need for the individual to understand him or herself and others. The current educational system is based on the recognition of the need for individuals to learn how to read, write and do arithmetic. These skills are taught for the economic benefit of the child. Happiness is an emotional state as well as an economic state. What is not taught to children is how to achieve happiness. Emotional Literacy Education is based upon an Emotional Literacy Vocabulary. It is a means by which language is used to introduce a student to his or her own emotional values. Emotional Literacy Vocabulary permeates nearly all literature. In what we write is how we feel, think, desire and behave. From this vocabulary a structured language is being created which relates to the content of our human selves. It is the lack of emotional choice which maintains the cycle of hatred, violence and fear. When we study ourselves, new choices in our feelings, thoughts and behaviors are made available to us.
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 00:23 AM emotional literacy -part 4Mr Chris Macraecontinuing extract fromhttp://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/index.shtml Today we confront many of the same economic, political and moral issues that inspired President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to say during his famous First Inaugural Speech, "This is pre-eminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. "So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear. . .is fear itself. . .nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. "In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days. "The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit. "Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money, it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. "The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow-men." Today, it is imperative that we address these same issues. Power must be given to individuals for the purpose of governing and coordinating groups for beneficial purposes. The problems begin when government officials and business leaders unconsciously contribute to the problem rather than address solutions. Change in government or institutionalizing new laws will not make a better America. There is a limit to what laws can do for a people. For the laws cannot protect us against those in power who must interpret and enforce them.
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 00:21 AM emotional literacy part 3Mr Chris Macraecontinuing extract from http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/index.shtml Poor whites, blacks, Hispanics and other minorities are trapped in inner-city schools. Society has left these schools to rot, while brand new schools in predominantly white affluent suburbs give students more resources. Government does provide an equal amount of funding per child, but the schools themselves are equipped in an unequal way. New schools have more computers and better classrooms and resources. The best teachers make their way through the hiring system to the better schools. Classroom adoption by corporations and parents provide additional funding that poor schools receive by lesser degree. Fund-raising by the PTO is more successful in the predominantly white suburbs, because those parents have more money to give. If government adequately funded schools, fund-raising and classroom adoption would not be an issue. Schools rely heavily on fund-raising to meet their most basic needs. Schools that lack community resources are left with their basic needs not being met.
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 00:18 AM emotional literacy part 2Mr Chris Macraecontinuing extract fromhttp://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/index.shtml The truth we all know is that all men and women should be treated equally under the law, and given the same opportunities whether we are rich, middle-class or poor. This, after all, is the dream for which all people hope for, and from which the strength of the nation is derived. It is the development of the individual and our human differences, that are so vital to the health, well-being and security of the nation. Unfortunately, the laws do not protect us from prejudice and the institutionalization of the capitalistic system - which discriminates by way of class value. Institutionalized segregation based upon economics, not laws, has become the subversion of the pursuit of happiness. The United States has a system of education which is not equal. Funds are allocated in insidious ways, so that those in power channel money and resources to people who are more like them. These kinds of behaviors are moral issues and cannot be legislated. The laws exist to protect individual rights, but when people don't feel like helping, and channel resources for their own pleasures, and disregard the needs of others, an unequal system of government and capital distribution is created.
Chris Macrae , 18 July 2003 @ 00:17 AM emotional intelligence and literacy -part 1Mr Chris MacraeAs well as America's Goleman as epicentre of Emotional Intelligence (KM & EI), we have this sort of frank analysis of how emotions go out of control in systems. Extract fromhttp://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/index.shtml Mankind's greatest problems come from its own uncontrolled emotions of selfishness, passiveness, jealousy, fear, apathy and hate. Nations like the Roman Empire decayed gradually from within. Internal strife, a conflicting moral compass, and a lack of choice in emotional responses to everyday relationships is the greatest problem. Mankind is caught in the cycle of fear, apathy and hatred. These human instincts drive hierarchical political systems and bureaucracies that most often limit the basic human right of the pursuit of happiness. A society whose foundation is fear, apathy and hatred sets up a system which fundamentally affects the happiness of the individual. It represses individual development and maintains a cyclical behavioral pattern of superiority and inferiority and a class society founded on untrue ideals. Outlined in the second paragraph of The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America, President Thomas Jefferson wrote, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...."
KM in Middle-east
Commercially the Middle East is a very big geographical market which has been historically characterized as very much oriented towards trading. Within Europe are large regional differences in the rate of adoption of more contemporary Information and Knowledge Management and the same happens with the Middle East.When doing an analysis of the business profiles of small, medium and large businesses in the Middle East and do a rough match of these profiles with the profiles of businesses that are adopting KM in Europe and North America. We can conclude that Knowledge Management is as important for companies in the Middle East. If HP find KM useful in projects carried out in a Californian Telco then the same will hold true for a similar project for a Telco in, for example, Bahrain. Senior Execs in Telco’s, Banks (including Islamic Banks), Industry (such as Energy, Aluminum etc.), Retail and Government are tracking KM closely and will, when the need arises, be ready to take advantage of them. So yes, I believe that certain businesses in the middle-east start now be interested in KM and that these businesses although not early adopters will use KM if they see an accruable benefit in doing so.That is why I have started a Community of Practice to discuss and share knowledge on Knowledge Management in the Middle East.So please feel free to comment on this and provide any experience you have in this area of the world. Frederik
KnowledgeBoard, 20-Jun-2005Categories: KB - Groups Incubator SIGPublished by: Frederik HaentjensStory read: 912
29-Jun-2005
KM in Middle East
Dear Mr. Haentjens
I agree with your viewpoint. We are a knowledge management research company located in Jordan.
Our work involves research on organizational learning and knowledge communication patterns in companies across the Middle East.
Although KM has been adopted much earlier in Europe than in our part of the world, it has not yet reached a mature stage due to its multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary nature.
Economists and social science researchers have already started looking at KM from an interdisciplinary viewpoint (latest publication pertaining to this approach has just been published by Oxford: Architectures of Knowledge; Firms, Capabilities and Communities* (Amin & Cohendet, Oxford University Press, 2005).
"The process of knowledge transformation is a key social process, but there is a lack of conceptual theory about how people receive and use knowledge. Associated with this theoretical gap is the need for more robust quantitative and qualitative methodologies that incorporate different disciplines working at levels ranging from individual brain processes to social forms and structures." *
Our work at WriteLabs draws from the above belief. We have recently embarked on a genuine interdisciplinary research on KM applications and models based on adaptive behavior.
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, 30-Jun-2005
excellent setting
It seems that in various ways, countries which got interested in KM later are asking more interesting (to me) questions about the field than companies that adopted KM early om
This reasoning makes good people sense and gives KM an opportunity to much more deeply connect with culture and real communities. Of course running against this is the undoubted advantage of being early into developing tghe technology standards.
However given the need to choose between great KM technology and great human KM, I know which future I'd back. Perhaps the 1960s application of getting to the moon is seminal. Technology bit for bit I doubt whether Human KM has ever been so energised and positively productive as in the 1960s moon race accomplishment.
It's quite paradoxical when the human practice of a subject appears to have peaked so many decades ago.
5-Jul-2005
Support
Hi,
I just wanted to say that I strongly support Frederiks idea.
Benoit Couture , 5-Jul-2005
Consensus is being accomplished in this thread
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Greetings, may I speak to you of the Permanent People Summit(PPS), specifically because you are from the Middle-East, I am Candain and we meet in European Union's sponsored thechnology in the most open way, carrying the hope to bring its use to serve the common good of humanity. The thread that the 3 of you started is wisely inviting to do so and I would love to oblige. I started to know of and to join in the EU KM knowledgeboard in early May. I promote a new approach to Canadian national unity and Her majesty, Queen ElisabethII was coming to my city in the week of the 25th of May 2005. I was looking for the best way to draw her attention to a possibility available to her during that visit or afterward if protocols would have kept her from being spontaneous. In short, with the help of the transparency the I found in the open source of KM, I am being helped to map out the citizenship from a mature people of all people. You can read the opportunity available to her majesty in the letter posted at: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2910. If you are interested in the background and in the evolution to this open source pursuit, you can go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/U1590685?s_fromedit=1 If my boldness is too much, please tell me and I am not going to repeat such attempt of closeness again and I will learn from any cultural approach that you provide me with. Thank you, Benoit
18-Jul-2005
KM and Society
Hello all, I agree that Knowledge is valuable and KM is crucial. What about incentives to produce knowledge?
"The studies have shown that what actions people take when they search for information and knowledge depends on the problem itself, and on the situation in which the problem occurs. The results from the studies indicate that supporting people in knowing about others’ activities and availability would be more important when supporting knowledge sharing, than a specific knowledge system with the purpose of storing information to be reused as knowledge. This awareness can be supported in a number of different ways, some based on social activities, and some based on technical solutions. Social activities involve supporting the development of social networks, communities of practice, and other kinds of social activities that facilitate for people to get to know each other and get an opportunity to talk to each other. There exists many technologies that can support people’s knowledge about others’ activities and availability. Awareness systems focus on collecting and presenting information about, for example, where a person is located and how busy a person is. Some awareness systems collect such information automatically using, for example, sensor technology or electronic calendars, while others require the user to enter the information by him/herself. It is more difficult to get the second kind of systems to work in practice because it requires that the time a user spends on supporting the system is also returning a benefit in the end. Ordinary information systems may also contribute to supporting people’s knowledge about others’ activities and availability, but they need to be structured and searchable in a way that fulfils this purpose. Also, there usually exist more than one documentation repository in an organization among which some may be structured and some not." by Kristina Groth "Knowing who knows", 2004.
Knowledge therefore depends on people at the workplace and society.
Thanks
18-Jul-2005
a KM blog from Kuwait
I am proud to announce that Dr. Hasan Al-Matrouk has his own webblog. It's all for the sake of learning, participate with each other in discussing issues related to knowledge.
Please, feel free to browse his blog, DiscussKM (i.e., discuss knowledge management):
http://discusskm.blogspot.com/
Fred
9-Aug-2005
KM expertise in Kuwait9-Aug-2005
KM expertise in Kuwait
Apparently there is a paper called "Communication Channels and Employee Characteristics: An Investigation" by Prof. Sajjad Rehman.
This study investigates perceptions of 509 employees of nine Kuwaiti companies about the effectiveness of communication channels they have used while sharing information or knowledge with their coworkers. It also investigates the association between attributes of these employees related to nature of work, length of experience, age, educational qualifications, and gender with their perceptions about the effectiveness of ten communication channels. Data were collected using an instrument that listed ten communication channels which have been validated through a number of empirical studies related to information richness and social influences. Employees indicated their perceptions about the degree of effectiveness of each of the ten channels, based on their use or exposure. Then correlations between these effectiveness perceptions and employee characteristics were ascertained. It has been found that Kuwaiti employees perceived formal documents and formal one-to-one and group meetings to be most effective. Telephone communications were perceived to be less effective than face-to-face, text, and email communications. These results are inconsistent with the findings of communication studies conducted in the developed nations during the last two decades. It was further found that very few employee attributes of nature of work and educational qualifications were significantly associated with their perceptions about the effectiveness of these media. These results have been discussed in the socio-cultural context of Kuwaiti companies.
Benoit Couture , 9-Aug-2005
Beautiful example of true value
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Frederick, you have provided a very important study to demonstrate the need to focus away from vanity and irrelavancy. I live where the cell phone is in most people's hands by the time they are 12 or 13 years old and so far, it seem to have mostly contributed to strengthen and to expand the gravitational power of the black hole of ignorance and carelessness, instead of love and intellegence. Thanks to Kuwaitis for the time they took for the study and I hope that your thread begins to stimulate us all to contribute the best we all have to offer. A case in point, why not start using this thread to remind the intelligent Europeans citizens of the EU KM Board, of all the great inventions from the Islam of the past and of the present. I heard that algebra was invented in Islam. Why not learn to celebrate the universal beauty, strating very fittingly right from here on...I look forward to getting close enough to eventualy feel at home in such a way, that we can bring on the civility that will be a guide on how we can address even the most sensitive issues of the day, and find custom made solutions, as the spirit of God blows His wisdom upon us all. May this serve as a prayer to You, oh great All Mighty of love, justice and peace, bring us on to You, in the completion of Your meaning, away from carelessness and irrelevancy...Yes...amen...
10-Aug-2005
Knowledge village in Dubai
Frederik,
great insights! As I am travelling more and more between Germany and Dubai and involved more and more in knowledge transfer I discover that f.e. Dubai is moving rapidly into the knowledge society. Congresses, projects and seminars under the patronage of HH Sheik Mohamed bin Rashid al Maktoum cover much of these aspects. Alvin Tofler, Tom Peters and many others were already there.
And we remember the many contributions of the Arabs for modern Western culture.
Are you in contact with knowledge village in Dubai? I would like to communicate aspects which are dealt with here with professionals in Dubai.
Thanks for your article,
Albert Klamt
Berlin/Germany
11-Aug-2005
Knowledge in Islam
Benoit, your comments and suggestions are of great significance and value. As a Muslim, you are responsible for seeking knowledge and sharing it, knowledge that is not of value and could not be shared and transferred is insignificant.
Muslim scholars have contributed tremendously to almost every knowledge branch, from Ibn-Khaldun (father of sociology), to Ibn Al-Haitham (optics), to Ibn Al-Naphis (Pulmonary Circulation) to Al-Kindi (Philosophy), among many others.
Knowledge sharing has been reinforced in Islam since the 7th Century, based on the concept of lifetime-learning and development. I highly recommend visiting www.muslimheritage.com to get a glimpse of Islamic knowledge and its contributions to the collective mindset of the West.
Benoit Couture , 12-Aug-2005 Beautiful Vision opening up...Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Rasheed, being answered directly to my name in public as you have done is a great personal honour and a tremendous responsability. In doung so, we find ourselves at the basis of civility. I must now proceed to live up to such an intelligent response that you've given to my invitation. You have accepted to answer as a Muslim to my Christian invitation and I praise God for your enthusiasm to shine forth the beauty of Islam's intelligence and contribution to who we all are today, in our Judeo-Christian parts of the world and as a whole speicies. Our inter-action is a window which is opening to let in the simplicity of the Morning Star to rise up in our hearts and awareness, at a time when darkness is at its thickest. If you wish, we can inter-act here, growing back and forth into brotherhood. We can possibly go on until we ignite the EU KM Board's ownwership and administration with the inspiration that will have them involved with you and I, in raising the standard of civility that can host the site's development and sight's deployment of Justice, peace and joy. Humanity's terror-anti-terror frenzy needs to be silenced by the qietning view of such a spiritual sight, in order to see its bloom growing and spreading for all sites of the earth in need of loving attention from God. I look forward to lighting up the match of humanity's Sacred Flame with you dear Islam brother and to insure that the torch carrying such Flame be made available to burn brightly in each one's heart who so wishes to serve the organic experience of spiritual unity. Sarajevo's conference this month is in need of such a loving ground swell. Do you agree that what I write here is a possible calling to accept destiny's simple unfolding, to free intelligence from the grip of world wide military dictature taking up most resources at the expense of our lives? Can we start here and enter the gravitational diplomacy to go from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government and show Kings, Queens, politicians and bankers the simple way to good health and hapiness? Personaly, I know that we have the tools and the opportunity to subject ourselves to one another with love and truth in such a way as to see the peaceful leveling and redistribution of wealth to where the needs are, from such an opportunity as we have here...thank you for bearing with my Flame...with love...peace to you, Rasheed!
16-Aug-2005 a new KM blogDear all, i want to invite you to the blog of our Kuwaiti colleague: http://discusskm.blogspot.com/ Frederik
The Value of Trust
WHITE PAPER – Join a readers group on TRUST A crisis of trust It’s hard to measure the value of trust in a relationship but most of us will know the cost of losing it. This can be seen in our personal lives – for instance, in the destructive consequences of an affair – or in the world of business where the value of a firm such as Andersen was virtually destroyed when trust was lost. Trust in relationships is probably of greater economic value now, ironically at a time when cynicism and scepticism about marketers’ claims is at all-time high. This is partly due to the major paradigm shift that has taken place in western economies. As automation takes over more and more routine manual tasks human beings increasingly specialise in what only humans can do – use their creative gifts to build knowledge and innovate. This ability is therefore at a greater premium than ever before. Trust multiplies creativity Trust is absolutely central to the creative process. If a human brain contains the potential for a bazillion permutations of connections between synapses, two human brains, fully connected, have a bazillion squared permutations. That’s a lot more than double the creative potential. But for that squaring to work, a really full connection between them is needed. What makes a full connection possible is trust. I won’t share my half-formed thoughts, interests and concerns with just anybody. I need to feel confident they won’t run off with them without sharing the benefits with me, and – perhaps even more significant – I need to know that they won’t set out to ridicule or destroy them. Trust saves energy I’ve occasionally whiled away a bit of time with intellectual property lawyers. Charming and intelligent chaps they turned out to be. But the contracts they proposed we use to protect our ideas when discussing them with other people were a bit depressing. All those clauses, undertakings and injunctions. And of course, to get the agreement watertight, all that time and expense. All of which can be spared if we share with people we can trust. Trust is generative If trust is established at the core of an organisation, it is likely to spread, as trust begets trust. Two people who have established trust can create more value in their relationship as each has more access to the other’s resources. One can compensate for the other’s weaknesses and each is more free to focus on the things they are personally best at. Two people who work together well will be more able to connect with a third person, and so on. Contagious trust can build fantastic creative communities. (Similarly, once distrust is established between two people, their energy gets channelled into defensiveness. Which reduces openness, and further diminishes trust, in what can be a vicious circle.) So trust is clearly a jolly useful thing. More so now than ever. Little to argue about there. But what do I do about it? The question is: how do we create trust? I’d like to contrast two alternative ways humans attempt this feat. Route One: Pleasing the other In this model, I identify someone with whom I wish to establish trust. I aim to create trust with the other person by focusing on them. I observe them and attempt to figure out what they look for and what they will like. Then I try to become the sort of person I imagine they will like and by a variety of overt and covert means present myself as that kind of guy. Hopefully, they will like this and they will trust me. Job done. Hey, if I’m really good at it, they might even fall in love with me. If we take this and apply in the world of business, what we find is a classic marketing approach. Many marketers dream of people falling in love with their brands. Find your customer. Research their needs. Adapt yourself to them. Invest energy in presentation and make artfully phrased promises. Collect money, advance to Go, acquire hotel on Mayfair and embark on relaxing career writing books on how to succeed in business. Unfortunately in our personal and business lives we may find it doesn’t actually work like this. The sycophantic romancer can be a major turn-off – and if we don’t spot them early on, and do fall in love with them, we end up disappointed. And as for marketing, I think it’s well established that we have all become deeply sceptical about advertising claims. We don’t trust marketers that try to tell us what we want to hear, and if we do but find they don’t live up to it, all hell breaks loose (just take a look at any internet hate site). Route two: Pleasing myself Now let’s look at a more humanistic way of creating trust between people. Here, my attention if focused primarily on myself. At a personal level, as I grow older, I come to understand myself better. I learn more and more what works for me and what doesn’t. I get smarter at figuring out what I’m good and what I’m bad at. The better I know myself, the more I trust myself. The more I trust myself, the easier I find it to reveal myself to other people, and the easier it is to figure out what promises I can make that I can actually keep. The more attention I pay to my own needs, the less I need to depend on others to make me happy, and the less dependent on others I become. As others find me increasingly open and reliable, they feel more inclined to reveal themselves to me. The better I know them, the more I trust them. Especially at the point in the relationship where we can acknowledge our own weaknesses and vulnerabilities. People who choose route two are what psychologists call internally-referenced. They behave more on the basis of their own thoughts and feelings and less on the basis of what they assume, rightly or wrongly, will please others. They are more likely to tell you what they think, what they believe in and what they don’t, and what they are and aren’t willing or able to do for you. Now much of this is counter-intuitive to marketing folk. Yet there are examples of confident organisations that have chosen the second route to creating trust. Imagine for a moment that you are running a very new business as a late entrant to a well-established market. A TV documentary maker says he wants to make a film about your company in action. Although you like this thought, he warns you that he does need to make good ratings. So, at least half of each episode will show the variety of ways in which your customers become frustrated with you. There will be extensive footage of them complaining volubly to your staff, other customers and anyone else who will listen and swearing never to patronise your company again. How likely would you be, as an intelligent business person, to contemplate such an obviously disastrous exposure of your fledgeling business for what it really is? Hmm thought so. But let me complete the story. Your name is Stelios and your company is Easyjet. Here is a business whose warts are the consistent subject of a weekly ITV documentary – and is one of the most successful brand launches in recent years. Distrust as a business model Businesses like to talk about winning the trust of customers, but carry on a series of behaviours that show they can’t even generate trust internally. For example. I met a salesman who used to work for an electrical retail chain in London. Each week, he and his colleagues would be advised of special bonus commissions to be earned by promoting specific products to customers. The customers, needless to say, would remain ignorant of these bonuses. Now today’s customer probably knows a salesman will not be objective about brands and products not stocked in the shop. We might even expect the salesperson to be biased in favour of selling us the more expensive item. But we probably would never know that there would be this totally concealed incentive to give us even less objective guidance in our choice. Such a policy must have some short-term gain for the retailer, presumably as a device for shifting otherwise hard-to-sell stock. And there’s a short-term gain for the employee, who picks up a little more commission. But there is a loss for the customer, who is deceived. And I think there’s a subtler but more profound loss for the organisation. Which is this: by creating this secret contract with employees, the employer gives a strong signal about their overall trustworthiness. They demonstrate that they operate a culture that supports collusion: and while today the collusion may at some level benefit the employee, who’s to say that another day they won't collude against the employee? The effect on the salesman I met was that his respect and trust for his employer was reduced. And that, inevitably, is a loss for both. Trust is an action, not just a feeling Trust doesn’t just happen. It arises from the way people choose to interact. Trust in complex organisations should not be left to chance. It helps to follow certain practices to maintain and grow trust. One of the stronger principles of humanistic psychotherapy is the observation that love is a verb, not a noun. It is an action, or rather a series of actions, that we do – it is not some magic feeling that we have. This also applies to trust. Trust is created – or destroyed – by our actions. The simplest and most important of these is our ability to keep the promises we make. Another vital process in building trust is how we manage the inevitable conflicts that arise in any relationship. What’s needed is a willingness to acknowledge conflict and engage constructively, rather than pretending it’s not there. The Bay of Pigs The definitive study of conflict avoidance, and its consequences, was Irving Janis’ famous analysis of the Bay of Pigs disaster. John F Kennedy presided over a cabinet made up of people with formidable and robust intelligence. Yet these great minds managed to persuade themselves of the efficacy of invading Cuba – a decision that with hindsight was absurdly dangerous. Janis studied how the group managed, subtly, to suppress doubts and concerns – creating the illusion of unanimous enthusiasm for a project where really there was no consensus. They had the illusion of trust, but not the reality. Marketing departments are traditionally full of miniature Bays of Pigs, happening now or waiting to happen. There is imperfect understanding between executives and among the various consultants they work with. Small wonder, then, that there are failures of understanding and trust with the poor consumer. Groupthink rules. It is often a subtle process as Janis comments: “The leader does not deliberately try to get the group to tell him what he wants to hear but is quite sincere in asking for honest opinions. The group members are not transformed into sycophants. They are not afraid to speak their minds. Nevertheless, subtle constraints, which the leader may reinforce inadvertently, prevent a member from fully exercising his critical powers and from openly expressing doubts when most others in the group appear to have reached consensus” (Irving Janis, quoted by Daniel Goleman in “Vital Lies, Simple Truths”) This subtle sycophancy then extends outwards to colour agency relationships with the client. I have sat fascinated at meetings where a client sits with an agency, has an amiable conversation and agrees an outcome. The agency then leaves the room, and then – only then – the client people roll their eyes and express their frustrations, and their low expectations of what will result. I have also sat in agencies where their people return from similar meetings, bewailing the failings of the client. Amazingly, none of this supposedly “negative” stuff gets dealt with; it just festers quietly. Just my anecdote. But bear in mind that professional services guru David Maister (http://www.fastcompany.com/online/58/shortcourse.html ) reckons that only about 20% of consultants actually like their clients or like their work – and these are the guys you hope will build your business? What they need are much more honest conversations with each other, and with all stakeholders. There should be fewer promises made and a greater willingness to challenge and be challenged. Needless to say the output of such relationships are the off-target, over-promising, insincere ads which clutter our daily lives. Gold – or Fool’s Gold Iron Sulphide – Fool’s Gold – is easily mistaken for the real thing. But the difference in value is huge. How can marketers avoid Fool’s trust, and generate the real thing? Here are some pointers: 1 Trust starts at home. A company where people trust each other is more likely to generate trust with its stakeholders. Far more attention needs to paid to creating respectful human relationships as a foundation for marketing success. 2 Conflict should be celebrated, not shunned. No, I’m not suggesting you take your staff on a boxing course. But arguments and disagreements can be the hallmark of an honest relationship – the key is to have them in a civilised way and make sure they are processed, not suppressed. Start today by listing the five most significant people in your working life. Make an honest list of what you like about them and what you dislike about them. Then ask yourself – have you constructively communicated both to them recently? 3 Take a day off from being customer-focussed. Better still, take a month or a year off. The idea of customer-as-king is a ludicrous untrueism of modern marketing. Many claim, and few deliver. In fact, many commentators are starting to say you need to make the employees king. Find out what they want, what turns them on, and harness their energy before engaging with customers. Gallup’s research (based on 1.5 million interviews) suggests that only 20 per cent of employees feel they regularly get a chance to use their greatest strengths (http://www.gallup.com/publications/strengths.asp ). That is a shocking indictment of a culture that claims to put customers first. I am deeply distrustful of people who don’t take care of themselves. It’s about time companies recognised the value of putting their people first. 4 Take a leaf (well a whole chapter actually) out of Adam Morgan’s book, Eating the Big Fish. The chapter is called “Build a Lighthouse Identity”. Morgan observes that some of the most successful brands have “self-referential identities: “The predominant purpose of Challenger brands’ every marketing action is to tell us where they stand. They don’t attempt to tell us something about ourselves – and they certainly don’t attempt to navigate themselves with reference to us.” This goes directly back to the humanistic model of trust building which emphasises being true to yourself, not smarming up to would be lovers or customers. As Morgan continues, “… Fox, Diesel, Swatch, Orange, Oakley and Goldfish… are all brands that in their own way evince an enormous self-confidence, a sense of who they are, without any permission from or reference to the world around them.” 5 Engage in real conversation. Do that by responding to this article: email me what you think at [email protected] John MooreJuly 2002Ourhouse 0.1 Ltd – Brand Knowledge with integrity for businesses and their people47 St Peter’s StreetLondon N1 8JP+44 (0)20 7359 5061
Benoit Couture , 02 July 2005 @ 15:29 PM Boldly going where humanity needs to beStay at home dad Benoit CoutureHi everybody, here are some terms of reference as a basis to build with an itinirary that stretches from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government and can therefore encompasse to serve everything in between from personal to local to global. Core: Faculty of living. We can all learn to live; we can not teach each other to live; such is the mistery of the Faculty of living. Hunger to learn is from being alive. We can experience, feed and spread life but we cannot explain life into being. The organic opening to the spiritual sourcee restores and maintains our being alive: that is the essence of KM at the purest level. So for the core to develop, we need the Curriculum of humanity's Recovery Road! Dynamics: Healing the meaning, acquisition of the taste for health, the ministry of reconciliation Product: Coreectional family curcuiting, Real community of moderate people, Permanent People Summit MISSION To restore personal integrity with the application of the curriculum "to be-to have-to do" instead of the poverty production curriculum of having to do until we have so that we can then be someone within the fittings of a civilization that does not know how to belong any more. Restorative justice and community mental health need to have us all learn how to care with dignity, living and growing in the personal discipline of sanctity. Benoit Couture To view a campaign aiming this way, fit to hook up with Live8, please see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A4235195
Gillian Bush , 01 July 2005 @ 20:37 PM From the web around Clinton and globalizationMs Gillian BushJuly Calendar of Trust Extract below seems timely if you watch Live8 or anticipate G8 this weekend President Clinton: I expect that we’ll deal mostly with the need for both openness, honesty and transparency in the developing world, But if you look at the great business scandals in America in the last few years, it’s obvious that you’ve got to have good strict accounting practices and if someone can play with the numbers, you can have problems everywhere. But in other countries the need for openness and transparency are very important and beyond that I would say it is not just a question for integrity, it’s also a question of capacity. A lot of countries are incapable of growing rapidly or solving problems, not so much because of corruption but because of incapacity both in government and in the private sector. So I hope that we can deal with this question of integrity with the question of capacity and I think by in large the two will go hand in hand.Stephen Evans: A huge range of different political philosophies about the heaviness of the hand of government on the economy. Capitalism is a marvelous system that grows very fast but it is driven by greed. And where you get greed you get lapses, how do you marry those two, what do you say to somebody in India or Africa who is wondering how you marry that greedy system, which also delivers the goods?President Clinton: Well Lord Canes has understood a long time ago that unless there is some governmental intervention the system would destroy itself by its own excesses, both its cycles and its greed. The great genius in the United States of the New Deal and everything that my party, I think has stood for since, and very often Republican Presidents as well, is that we realize that in order to save the market economy there had to be some leavening of it, some intermediate institution, some attempt to equalize opportunity, some attempt to help those that through no fault of their own couldn’t help themselves. Now that is still the case today, and I think the real issue is that if you live in a global economy, if your economy is more services, relatively speaking more information technology oriented. What is the role of government and how do you fulfill its historic mission in a capital society, which is to promote both economic growth and social justice.GB
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 15:55 PM inquiry into fear & trustMr Chris MacraeIt's happening over here and your inputs would be welcome It is beginning to look as if a thriving living system's resonating hi-trust relationships turns vicious when fear is injected in from the top. Or how would you see the way tehse 2 flows multiply
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2004 @ 11:30 AM ibm paperMr Chris MacraeI see IBM has a peper on trust & gameshttp://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/423/keser.pdf anyone else reading it?Chris Macrae
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Three free books have been made available to KnowledgeBoard's library courtesy of Dr. Randy J. Frid and the Canadian Institute of Knowledge Management. Infrastructure for Knowlege Management (2000)This book targets the meaning of knowledge and earlier approaches to understanding what we can do to help manage knowledge creation, codification, and innovation. The technological section may be out-dated but the majority of the book is still sound theory. You can access this book through http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/library.cgi?detail=edit&id=6002. The Frid Factor: A Pragmatic Guide to Building a Knowledge Management Program (2002)This book deals with human decision making in order to better understand what aspects of the decision making process we, as management, can actually help manage.You can access this book through http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/library.cgi?action=detail&id=6003. Frid Framework for Enterprise Knowledge Management: A Common KM Framework for the Government of Canada (2004)This book is the 20 year evolution of practical Knowledge Management practices that have proven effective at producing tangible business value across multiple organization types. The book is an amalgamation of lessons learned, best practices, sound advice and proven methodologies.You can access this book through http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/library.cgi?action=detail&id=6004.
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Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this story. Legal NoticeNumber of comments: 6 [Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 10 August 2005 @ 15:20 PM KM and sovereignty of renewal (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture"Soveriegnty is the ability to make decisions in serene maturity and the capacity to implement these decisions with complete wisdom and responsability." Like it or not, French, English and Aboriginal people of Canada must find their comon identity, from stanger to family of the human race. To these free books of KM from the Canadian Knowledge Management institute, I add on the lyrics from two of the theme songs of the project ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... You can view the coming together of the this vision in the following threads: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=110941&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Yandhttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=114129&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Yandhttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=114995&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%YHere are the lyrics of songs which are writen to serve the cause of the sovereign reconciliation of Canadians and to serve as a contributor to Europe's transition into unity, as well as to ease in the local-global harmonisation. INVISIBLE GOLD RUSH OF BEING ALBERTAN 2005 is the year when I turn one hundred years old! One century spent todefine the life within brand new borders, where borders had never existedbefore, but where nations had flourished for thousands of years, and in 1905the time had arrived for the Empire to stretch to the west in hope forimprovement.When I was named as a Canadian province, John Campbell wrote to his wife: "In token of the love which thou has shown for this wide land of freedom, I have named a province vast and for its beauty famed by thy dear name. " Thus was I introduced to the nations, with a name of the 4th daughter of Queen Victoria……Alberta is my name, t'was inspired with honor from a man's love for his wife, known to be strong, artistic with exquisite taste! That couple was forward-looking people, concerned for the less fortunate. The name they gave me placed me well to avoid the Eastern mistakes of the Empire.I've now been led past the threshold, 2 at the top of the material world. Notlong before my centennial, the Empire was dragged into terror. And so if I am to celebrate It must be from a wise vision of humility and of service formankind. There's just no time to pretend that all is well the way it is……Let the ones who are and who will be me into Life's sacred fire, the invisible gold rush, thus entering the celebration that never ends, the celebration in the Spirit of Life, Oh nobly bright and illustrious. Radiant of the Spirit of justice, peace and joy...(continue next post)...
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 10 August 2005 @ 15:19 PM KM and sovereignty of renewal (part2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...(from previous post)... And so from Emily Murphy to Betty Hewes to Jan Arden to Lois Hole from Grant MacEwan to Ian Tyson to the Mannix and Manning families. We can see through my past century enough potency of meaning for anyone to catch on fire in the Faith and Hope that settles our humanity Into the simplicity.Of the majesty we are all created to be living in, the majesty of the Eternal,who's love secures my destiny in the meaning of my name: "Nobly bright and illustrious". is what Alberta means. Such Albertan I grow to be by the Spirit of wisdom and love, as I care for the less fortunate. Benoit Couture ©Subsense Publishing and Promotion...then to Canada from Quebec... CALL to CANADA Could we reach the agreement that it's the whole world who is in need to see a place like Canada to show that free will can be a good thing.In 1945 we were invited to join a deal. Most of the nations had great hope to bring peace among humans.After fifty some years, great challenges are facing us. The deal has not provided what we forgot to look after.We just cannot go on, building wealth for me, myself and I, while our loving for each other remains hidden behind divisions.We've got to grow from that bottom line that has been in use and bring about that sense of belonging, bonded beyond the business fences.Maybe we haven't understood that prosperity only comes to us from who we are together and not from what we do to each other.We have all it takes to become heaven on earth; we have been blessed with wealth, now let's lead wealth to prosperity.Believe it or not, it is the whole world who is in need to see a place like Canada to show that the renewing Covenant is unity for humanity. Benoit Couture © Subsense Publishing and Promotion
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 06 August 2005 @ 13:31 PM The fine tunings of networking (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture"Knowledge management is dead, long live networking", "has been the theme of many conference organizers..." Such was the quote that was posted this week, by a leader of KM. I see in the initial statement of "KM is dead, long live networking", the entire scene of subliminal exploitation of youthful innocence of the mind, putting in place the dispositions to intice with deceit, into the ongoing suicidal desease caused by the animal-human competition drive that goes on resisting the simplity of completion. Command and control structures going on remasking itself anew to proceed with divide and conquer, the very nature of the beast. Those who ezploit the speed of thechnologies' advancements in such a way are defeating the entire purpose of thecnology's existance to serve humanity and instead, they keep ignoring the shore of settlement to go from and to, in the Faculty of Living from stranger to family, in the experience of the organic-experience of spiritual unity. Anyone who insists that "KM is dead long live networking", has not realized yet the continuity and complete inclusion of one with the other. One of the fundamental theme I insist upon is the healing of the meaning. With this kind of divide and conquer statements and attitudes, we are given a perfect example of how absolute, is the must to do heal the meaning indeed! Meaning is needed where meaning lives. In the case of "net" and "working", we have a word that invites us to deep reflectios of absolute ground. I see in the synergy of these 2 words a complicity such, that it clear the path for transparency to unite all KM experts into the elimination of "out of bound competition". Out of bound competition is defined by the attitudes of conflict generating, coupled by solution resistant. To those awaits the humus process of desintegration, for the sake of regeneration. Net means clean, refinement exhaustivly completed. People who are working in the net way, are individuals who are contributing to the completion of humanity. If networking tries to run away from KM, it will phase out the entire movement of open source transparency. ...(continue on next post)
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 06 August 2005 @ 13:30 PM The fine tunings of networkings (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...(continued from above)...As far as I can understand, when it comes to technology, open source transparency is the only point of meeting, where networking has the opportunity to spread intelligence from out of the order of divide and conquer for the sake of perpetuating the oppressive structures of command and control. My latest attempt at navigating toward such shore of completion as I seek, was this week, when I sent the following email to the Canadian Institute of Knowledge Management, which I pasted from the posting below the one you read now......following the pasting... One quote that I made up is: "Going from brown to green is the spiritual networking that provides the one opportunity for humanity to clean its way from brown-nosing of old to the green living of the heart and of the spirit..." The wisest KM manager I know went on to address the dilema with the following: Knowledge Managent is dead...long live networking has been the theme that many conference organisers have been discussing with me recently That's as may be- but can DM be the first to develop a blog format for multiplying your network of goodwill. Here's an attempt - let's see which Mice collaborate to multiply even more goodwill given the extraordinary standards linkedin (et al Footnote) people aroud me have been setting fired up by the London bombings and need to connect spiritual links our culture has lost forever. I'll be having a summer clean of my DM postings now this blog makes memory tracking simpler for those who do have a big project to multiply who's truly who. Footnote: 7 million bookmarks on Collaboration Knowledge City connecting 100 cause goals and 200 Networks for Humanity and 30000 Projects & economics that sustains. May God bless the passage from the beast's holdings to the communal safety of good health and hapiness of the present...amen... Benoit Couture
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 05 August 2005 @ 22:14 PM Can we go from free books to free minds?Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureFree Books from the Canadian Institute of Knowledge Management Interestingly, the open space KM is on the threshold of networking and must decide on the lighting intensity that humanity can manage without destroying itself. By learning to apply reconciliation as needed, clarity is what we need from KM and networking. Being myself from Canada and finding myself on the EU Knowledge Board looking to find support for transparency, it would seem natural to find our alliance together. In case my email to you did not get through to reach you when I tried to reach you shortly after you posted your books here on the Eu Board, here is a copy of it. August 3, 2005 5:27 AMFrom a member of Canadian of EU KM Board Greetings Canadian Institute of KM, I thank you very much for the gift of your books posted at the EU KM Board. What information do you require to determine if your institute could take on the task to follow through with me in bringing the Privy Council of Canada and all related activities concerning the nature of our national citizenship from secrecy to the transparency, so that we can begin to manage from simplicity of the open source KM at the center of decision making.I know enough about KM of the past, to realise that I know nearly nothing, other than to go on with transparency, as you will understand quickly why I must do so, when you see in the cyber affirmation and self-determination that I pursue.My page at the EU Board is: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-site/whoswho.cgi?action=detail&authorid=749637&id=134089The campaign I wish to ignite is layed out from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U1590685The point of gravity that I brought on and which sparked the interest of the EU Board, Chris Macrae and many more in the last 3 months, is the letter that I wrote to her majesty, Queen ElisabethII, when she came to Alberta in MAY 05: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4304909Between the interest of Chris Macrae to see the BBC's entry as the largest server of publicly owned transparency tool and my aim to position CBC into supplying the BBC with the simplicity in the focus from local to global, you might decide to take on the facilitating position in the transitions involved. Thank you for you time and consideration, Benoit Couture,
03 August 2005 @ 09:29 AM Thanks Thank you Dr Randy Frid for the free downloads. One of the challenges of the knowledge society however is not obtaining information but getting the time to read and use it. I hope I can find enough time to value your generosity.
Economic Development uses?
We are looking to implement KM to support our economic development activities. Much of what I have found is in using KM as a strategy for economic development, not as a tool to support it. Mainly we are too busy - between supply chain development projects and the number of companies requesting information on our community (for relocation purposes) we have little time to consult and internally coordinate our responses and the informational reports provided. We are looking to better manage our information, and analyze the outcome of processes + information + industry + client specifications. The hope is that we will save time and determine which of the above results in the most 'wins' so we may prioritize and/or standardize some responses. Christina Parisi
KM Tools for Development: Virtual Interactive Think Tanks
With regard to your expressed interest, I have done similar things before and I would like to develop my proposal for a web-based Virtual Interactive Think Tank (VITT) for development of particular countries or continents, see some elements below.
We live in a global digital and knowledge village. Who needs brick and mortar in think tanks these days! Or who needs to spend large sums of money on travel or spend long years in places far away from home! Mine would be a proposal for a very cost-effective think tank (imagine savings on tickets alone!) and one allowing you to immediately draw upon the expertise and synchronous (real-time) as well as asynchronous collaboration (online conferencing, online policy paper discussions, online archives/libraries, etc) of not only local scholars/advisors/policymakers but actually any expert with no regard for where (s)he lives in this global village of ours (with flying-in for traditional face to face work as needed, of course)! On top of that, it would be a very user-friendly think tank, requiring access to the Internet (simple browsing using Netscape or IE) but NOT requiring any geek-type high tech inclination or computer knowledge on part of researchers, government officials, consultants, etc.
Moreover and very importantly, VITT would serve as an excellent long-term training vehicle in the new, digital ways of conducting business or government affairs for the long time to come. The VITT would be scalable so we can reduce/expand the scope of it very easily; this would allow the inclusion/exclusion of topics, etc. We can kill many birds with VITT, imagine that!
If you give me your email, I will attach a ppt presentation with one real-life case study of such a VITT that I helped shape and took a very active participation in.
With best wishes,
Val
11 August 2005 @ 17:32 PM
KM Tools for Development: Virtual Interactive Think Tanks
KM Tools for Development: Virtual Interactive Think Tanks
With regard to your expressed interest, I have done similar things before and I would like to develop my proposal for a web-based Virtual Interactive Think Tank (VITT) for development of particular countries or continents, see some elements below.
We live in a global digital and knowledge village. Who needs brick and mortar in think tanks these days! Or who needs to spend large sums of money on travel or spend long years in places far away from home! Mine would be a proposal for a very cost-effective think tank (imagine savings on tickets alone!) and one allowing you to immediately draw upon the expertise and synchronous (real-time) as well as asynchronous collaboration (online conferencing, online policy paper discussions, online archives/libraries, etc) of not only local scholars/advisors/policymakers but actually any expert with no regard for where (s)he lives in this global village of ours (with flying-in for traditional face to face work as needed, of course)! On top of that, it would be a very user-friendly think tank, requiring access to the Internet (simple browsing using Netscape or IE) but NOT requiring any geek-type high tech inclination or computer knowledge on part of researchers, government officials, consultants, etc.
Moreover and very importantly, VITT would serve as an excellent long-term training vehicle in the new, digital ways of conducting business or government affairs for the long time to come. The VITT would be scalable so we can reduce/expand the scope of it very easily; this would allow the inclusion/exclusion of topics, etc. We can kill many birds with VITT, imagine that!
If you give me your email, I will attach a ppt presentation with one real-life case study of such a VITT that I helped shape and took a very active participation in.
With best wishes,
Val
Benoit Couture , 12 August 2005 @ 18:42 PM
Can VITT take root by accomodating the start of virtual diplomacy?
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Dear Val, can Virtual Iteractive Think Thank grow from the practical application of diplomacy. In oder words, can the following cross-posting from the thread titled "KM in the Middle East" be accepted as an idea to pursue in the conjuncture of VITT? Here is the cross posting:
Beautiful Vision opening up...
Benoit Couture Stay at home dad
Dear Rasheed, being answered directly to my name in public as you have done is a great personal honour and a tremendous responsability. In doung so, we find ourselves at the basis of civility. I must now proceed to live up to such an intelligent response that you've given to my invitation. You have accepted to answer as a Muslim to my Christian invitation and I praise God for your enthusiasm to shine forth the beauty of Islam's intelligence and contribution to who we all are today, in our Judeo-Christian parts of the world and as a whole speicies. Our inter-action is a window which is opening to let in the simplicity of the Morning Star to rise up in our hearts and awareness, at a time when darkness is at its thickest. If you wish, we can inter-act here, growing back and forth into brotherhood. We can possibly go on until we ignite the EU KM Board's ownwership and administration with the inspiration that will have them involved with you and I, in raising the standard of civility that can host the site's development and sight's deployment of Justice, peace and joy. Humanity's terror-anti-terror frenzy needs to be silenced by the qietning view of such a spiritual sight, in order to see its bloom growing and spreading for all sites of the earth in need of loving attention from God. I look forward to lighting up the match of humanity's Sacred Flame with you dear Islam brother and to insure that the torch carrying such Flame be made available to burn brightly in each one's heart who so wishes to serve the organic experience of spiritual unity. Sarajevo's conference this month is in need of such a loving ground swell. Do you agree that what I write here is a possible calling to accept destiny's simple unfolding, to free intelligence from the grip of world wide military dictature taking up most resources at the expense of our lives? Can we start here and enter the gravitational diplomacy to go from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government and show Kings, Queens, politicians and bankers the simple way to good health and hapiness? Personaly, I know that we have the tools and the opportunity to subject ourselves to one another with love and truth in such a way as to see the peaceful leveling and redistribution of wealth to where the needs are, from such an opportunity as we have here...thank you for bearing with my Flame...with love...peace to you, Rasheed!
Can you tell us about any of the most painful projects to co-manage?
Can you tell us about any of the most painful projects to co-manage? Chris Macrae
Chris Macrae , 1-Aug-2005 focusing passionMr Chris MacraeBenoit: I admire your passion for how communities sustain or destroy family relationships - particularly those geared to bringing up children to have open productive opportunities in life. I have tried to start a thread here asking for stories/solutions people who share your passion could connect for each other. If the new thread is worded appropriately enough, please could you come back and edit down your last post connecting it to the new thread. I ask this because by all means if there is someone reading this whose most difficult project connects with your context let's hear it; but there are also 1000 other contexts anyone's most painful project to co-manage might be about. Knowledge of painful projects is not something that the hierarchy of business theorists give much space to. Wherever business theory fails to give transparent space to people's real experiences it compounds blindspots making theory unable to help people practice.eg Do MBA's even get one training module on "do no corruption? - you'll never get out of the dis-trust system and fear you spin around you". The catalogue of what topics business theorists do not give space to is one that open space coordinator & transformation mentor Harrison Owen first started studying 20 years ago. Seeing how elites destroy diversity of knowledge from communities up is something that a lot of Harrison's work tries to make safe for people to get on with mobilising. More at Club of DC So, even if this thread only gets one testimony every few months, I would like to try and help those who are plucking up courage to answer the question, as well as those who want to debate whether KM does or does not see transparency (open integrity of project work) as integral to ist disciplinary concerns.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31-Jul-2005 How deep, how wide?Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureOn the 13th of Dec 03, there was a meeting of 35 organisations of all kinds, from the provincial labour union and teachers association to housing societies and inner-city groups that were represented. It is a movement of community empowerment. It was said that 27% of the youth of the States who are between 18 and 24 are disconnected from main stream society, as they neither go to school nor hold a job. So I casually stood up to point out that some of that youth is on the contrary so well connected to money and power that they manage, as an example, to exchange weed for cocaine pound for pound. 10,000 dollars cocaine being exchange for 2000 dollars worth of pot across the border. "It takes very highly connected people to operate such operation" was my conclusion. On December 30th 03's, the Royal Canadian Mountain Police raided the BC Legislature on those very charges of cross-border trading as I described. They informed the press that they had been investigating for two years on that very matter. A week after, all RCMP information to the public on the matter was changed for a complete different story. That experience added to my stay at home dad's resolve to make use of what my background: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4549575 . More than ever, since 9/11, spiritual unity is one of humanity's priority to foster and to nourish. Too serious of a task to be left to politicians alone. Our Parlement is looking at decriminalizing marijuana. I propose to transfer the resources that are going into the war on drugs into the victory over stress and compulsive behaviours. Where and how? It is estimated that the production of marijuana in British Columbia is worth anywhere between 3 to 6 billion dollars a year. Corruption is not the substance but all the dark activity involve around it to reach the consumer is. Ultimately, it is the centuries old market of control and instant gratification in the trading between illegal weapons and illegal drugs. There is no such a thing as the new world order until there is the renewal of life on the recovery road from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government. Open source KM is to serve transparency of all faculties, brought on to the daylight of governing democracy, with corruption-free decision-making. Legal and trading transparency is where leads open source KM. Here's an invitation on how we might work together on EU KM Board, to harness corruption in the transformation process of its energies, much like how nature processes nutrients and fertilizers from humus and/or manure but here, we are contemplating human regeneration: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=3024
Denham Grey , 30-Jul-2005 Corruption & KMDenham GreyChris, I would agree KM has a largely positive orientation but corruption seems a little off-course. IMO this topic fits better into psychology, governance, law and other domains. KM is concerned with validation, social consensus, anti-patterns and utility, with a focus on behaviors that support knowledge flows, relationship building, inquiry and sharing. This makes corruption a fringe rather than a focus area for KM - this should not detract from the detection, correction and harm from corruption - those items just belong better in other domains.
Chris Macrae , 30-Jul-2005 projects unearthing corruptionMr Chris MacraeAs a mathematician, and survey researcher, it is my good or bad fortune to be able to ask sufficient questions of different people to see whether a whole organisational system connects together. There are many fairly innocent reasons why flows of information and wasted budgets do not connect, and one much more troublesome one - corruption at the top. Of the several times a project has moved that way, I twice made the mistake of not realising as far in advance as I could have that unearthing corruption was going to be the endgame. In one medical case, it remains a burden to this day of the whole team of qualitative interviewers whose work I was coordinating. In the other case, the local team had to call in protection to complete the project. In reviewing KM literature, I have not found much that goes into the issue of corruption. I would be interested to read more if anyone has stuff. Denham: the idea that there are disciplines or areas that KM does connect to and others that it doesnt (so much) is new to me. This raises 2 questions first in my mind:· Are there some bookmarks where this scoping of KM's neighbours are clarified which this community would want to agree with?· I worked for 5 years at the management consultancy of a Big 5 accounting firm between 1989-1994 (the period they permeated the world). As part of my PKM, I tried to make sure I did not get assigned to projects where knowingly or not I would be co-opted in as an agent for corruption. 2 reasons:· One of the senior partners I reported into used to have a framed letter hanging on his wall signed by Robert Maxwell: I recommend firm X because they always do exactly what I tell them to do· Looking at how the biggest projects were sold, many were not geared towards the quality of the client's organisation but a personal empire a sponsoring client wanted to build
Chris Macrae , 1-Aug-2005 focusing passionMr Chris MacraeBenoit: I admire your passion for how communities sustain or destroy family relationships - particularly those geared to bringing up children to have open productive opportunities in life. I have tried to start a thread here asking for stories/solutions people who share your passion could connect for each other. If the new thread is worded appropriately enough, please could you come back and edit down your last post connecting it to the new thread. I ask this because by all means if there is someone reading this whose most difficult project connects with your context let's hear it; but there are also 1000 other contexts anyone's most painful project to co-manage might be about. Knowledge of painful projects is not something that the hierarchy of business theorists give much space to. Wherever business theory fails to give transparent space to people's real experiences it compounds blindspots making theory unable to help people practice.eg Do MBA's even get one training module on "do no corruption? - you'll never get out of the dis-trust system and fear you spin around you". The catalogue of what topics business theorists do not give space to is one that open space coordinator & transformation mentor Harrison Owen first started studying 20 years ago. Seeing how elites destroy diversity of knowledge from communities up is something that a lot of Harrison's work tries to make safe for people to get on with mobilising. More at Club of DC So, even if this thread only gets one testimony every few months, I would like to try and help those who are plucking up courage to answer the question, as well as those who want to debate whether KM does or does not see transparency (open integrity of project work) as integral to ist disciplinary concerns.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31-Jul-2005 How deep, how wide?Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureOn the 13th of Dec 03, there was a meeting of 35 organisations of all kinds, from the provincial labour union and teachers association to housing societies and inner-city groups that were represented. It is a movement of community empowerment. It was said that 27% of the youth of the States who are between 18 and 24 are disconnected from main stream society, as they neither go to school nor hold a job. So I casually stood up to point out that some of that youth is on the contrary so well connected to money and power that they manage, as an example, to exchange weed for cocaine pound for pound. 10,000 dollars cocaine being exchange for 2000 dollars worth of pot across the border. "It takes very highly connected people to operate such operation" was my conclusion. On December 30th 03's, the Royal Canadian Mountain Police raided the BC Legislature on those very charges of cross-border trading as I described. They informed the press that they had been investigating for two years on that very matter. A week after, all RCMP information to the public on the matter was changed for a complete different story. That experience added to my stay at home dad's resolve to make use of what my background: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4549575 . More than ever, since 9/11, spiritual unity is one of humanity's priority to foster and to nourish. Too serious of a task to be left to politicians alone. Our Parlement is looking at decriminalizing marijuana. I propose to transfer the resources that are going into the war on drugs into the victory over stress and compulsive behaviours. Where and how? It is estimated that the production of marijuana in British Columbia is worth anywhere between 3 to 6 billion dollars a year. Corruption is not the substance but all the dark activity involve around it to reach the consumer is. Ultimately, it is the centuries old market of control and instant gratification in the trading between illegal weapons and illegal drugs. There is no such a thing as the new world order until there is the renewal of life on the recovery road from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government. Open source KM is to serve transparency of all faculties, brought on to the daylight of governing democracy, with corruption-free decision-making. Legal and trading transparency is where leads open source KM. Here's an invitation on how we might work together on EU KM Board, to harness corruption in the transformation process of its energies, much like how nature processes nutrients and fertilizers from humus and/or manure but here, we are contemplating human regeneration: http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=3024
Denham Grey , 30-Jul-2005 Corruption & KMDenham GreyChris, I would agree KM has a largely positive orientation but corruption seems a little off-course. IMO this topic fits better into psychology, governance, law and other domains. KM is concerned with validation, social consensus, anti-patterns and utility, with a focus on behaviors that support knowledge flows, relationship building, inquiry and sharing. This makes corruption a fringe rather than a focus area for KM - this should not detract from the detection, correction and harm from corruption - those items just belong better in other domains.
Chris Macrae , 30-Jul-2005 projects unearthing corruptionMr Chris MacraeAs a mathematician, and survey researcher, it is my good or bad fortune to be able to ask sufficient questions of different people to see whether a whole organisational system connects together. There are many fairly innocent reasons why flows of information and wasted budgets do not connect, and one much more troublesome one - corruption at the top. Of the several times a project has moved that way, I twice made the mistake of not realising as far in advance as I could have that unearthing corruption was going to be the endgame. In one medical case, it remains a burden to this day of the whole team of qualitative interviewers whose work I was coordinating. In the other case, the local team had to call in protection to complete the project. In reviewing KM literature, I have not found much that goes into the issue of corruption. I would be interested to read more if anyone has stuff. Denham: the idea that there are disciplines or areas that KM does connect to and others that it doesnt (so much) is new to me. This raises 2 questions first in my mind:· Are there some bookmarks where this scoping of KM's neighbours are clarified which this community would want to agree with?· I worked for 5 years at the management consultancy of a Big 5 accounting firm between 1989-1994 (the period they permeated the world). As part of my PKM, I tried to make sure I did not get assigned to projects where knowingly or not I would be co-opted in as an agent for corruption. 2 reasons:· One of the senior partners I reported into used to have a framed letter hanging on his wall signed by Robert Maxwell: I recommend firm X because they always do exactly what I tell them to do· Looking at how the biggest projects were sold, many were not geared towards the quality of the client's organisation but a personal empire a sponsoring client wanted to build
Ron Dvir: Welcome, dear Friends. Today KnowledgeBoard is hosting Debra Amidon, the founder of Entovation International, a great expert in Innovation and Knowledge Zones, and author of several strong books, like "The Innovation Superhighway". Today Debra will converse with us about her latest book - "In Search of Innovation - A book for children and leadership executives". To begin with, may I ask each of you to introduce yourselves. Ron Dvir: I am ron Dvir from Innovation Ecology, obsessed about innovation and the future, and lucky to be the co-illustrator of the child book of Debra. I will facilitate to conversation today. Debra Amidon: Ron, I would no more consider you obsessed than I necessarily an expert. But we are clearly 'kindred spirits' as it relates to the power of thinking and the role for children and managerial leaders. Ron Dvir: We had a plan for this one-hour conversation. There might be surprises and the conversation might flow to other interesting directions, but anyway here is the plan. We will divide it into three parts. FIRSTLY, Favourite Innovators - Who are innovators we admire? SECONDLY, your own innovation stories? And THIRDLY - Innovation for Children AND Leadership Executives - Is there really a difference?Ron Dvir: So, lets START the journey - who are your favourite Innovators - Who are the innovators you admire? What characteristics make them successful? Are you aware of their 'ups and downs'? Debra Amidon: I should share some words about how I found the illustrations - as they are certainly the compelling draw of the book. As mentioned in the text, I searched myself for 6 years...worked with several other talented illustrators; but it was only when I discovered Ron - who we will now call our ‘knowledge visualizer’ - that the story took life. Lesson, knowledge visualization is a critical aspect of our knowledge economy. Ron Dvir: Well, so boring and so true - one picture worth a thousand words…even (or especially) today. Maya Levin-Sagi: are we still looking for favourites - Gandhi is one of mine Debra Amidon: Hi Ed and Anne - good friends. And some new 'faces': Maya, Hayriye and Corneliu. Tell us where you are from and your own favourite innovators...and why? Ron Dvir: Maya, what is special and unique about Gandhi?Maya Levin-Sagi: Hi all, am joining from Israel, from straight from Edna Pasher's office Debra Amidon: Maya...what a PERFECT example. In retrospect, look at the real contribution Ghandi made and in so many parts of the world and so many dimensions. Maya Levin-Sagi: Ghandi led an innovative way for people to fight for what they believe Ron Dvir: And, Ghandi was ready to pay the price for coming with new ideas and stading behind them. Ron Dvir: My favourite innovator is Leonardo de Vinci. For me he is the essence of the renaissance period. And, his multi-skills - as an artist, implementer, inventor, observer etc. I always ask people in the education system, "How can we make more Leonardo's?" Debra Amidon: As I have asked this question in various audiences in different parts of the world, it is fun to learn what is in the minds of others. Usually there will be some spiritual leaders; there are also the sports heroes...and the local entrepreneurs who have made such a name for themselves internationally. So what constitute the 'secret sauce' of an innovator? Maya Levin-Sagi: The ability to have others believe in your idea, be carried away by it. Anne Jubert: Hi Debra- what about helping us with more research projects in innovation - we need not to be Leonardos or other, just try to do new things that make sense. Ron Dvir: Here is one ingredient of this sauce, I think - COURAGE. To come with a new idea, to speak it out, to insist, to show it to a sceptical world. Ron Dvir: Sami, hi, Who is your hero innovator?????? Anne Jubert: You also need to feel supported Ron Debra Amidon: de Vinci is another super example...speaking of having a myriad of talents...and fortitude. Maya Levin-Sagi: Practicing what you preach Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: Hello Ron, just returned from a conference full of the word innovation. What really inspired was the success stories of Nokia, and the simple fact that by building wooden infrastructures, we can save so, so much on carbon dioxide emissions Ron Dvir: And another ingredient - perhaps simply - IMAGINATION. The ability to see something new in a common situation/object Debra Amidon: Ann: I would like to do something significant with children...and KB. Our future is in their hands... Maya Levin-Sagi: Must say, thought the book was very inspiring not only for children! Anne Jubert: True, we need to care about the future for them also Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: The book is inspiring for all, it untangles our mind from the complexities of today and allow us to be creative again Ron Dvir: Sami, what made Nokia so great. The story I heard that when they decided to join the hi-tech club, they hired 100 PhD students and asked them to sit in their offices and do what ever they like. So, mass-innovation? Anne Jubert: Do you think of something in particular you would like to see started Debra? Anne Jubert: Microsoft is doing the same this summer I have heard. Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: Well, Nokia started off with manufacturing rubber boots and car tires. I personally would not be surprised if they make another shift in business soon. Debra Amidon: Practicing what you preach...indeed, walking the talk and BEING the innovation! This is not easy as one of the most critical aspects is how best to COLLABORATE. This is difficult as we have been reared in a competitive society. But the Knowledge Economy provides us the language thinking and behavior to interrelate differently! Ron Dvir: Debra, you talk about collaboration. Is there no place in the world today for the "lonely inventor" - does it all need to be done in teams? Anne Jubert: We are looking for the next generation of collaborative platforms now in a new proposal, Debra. Debra Amidon: Sami: WELCOME to the conversation! I hope that others have read your review of the book! And you may be surprised at how fast the construction industry is picking up on innovating in the knowledge economy...and through knowledge innovation zones! Maybe your shadow influence... Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: Yes, the construction industry is waking up for a change and heading for a paradigm shift Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: We are in the midst of learning to collaborate with all our stakeholders.Debra Amidon: Indeed, this is the matter of stakeholder innovation, the prime example being Novo Nordisk – DAWN of a new era - http://www.inthekzone.com/WISH_-_KMMagDAWN.pdf! Anne Jubert: Sami’s influence also in the public sector in Finland!!- did you see the document from there? Ron Dvir: Back to the child book - what did you take with you from the story of the girl, who had a good ideas and then had so many frustrations when trying to show it to the world? Ron Dvir: One of my private learning from this child story - that sometimes we need to add colours to an idea in order to make it alive for others. I am trying to practice it... Maya Levin-Sagi: In the real world, having a great idea isn't enough. Debra Amidon: Anne: Then we should link YOUTH with the collaborative platforms. There is a chapter in The Innovation SuperHighway on the Knowledge Millennium Generation. Look at the trends we have analyzed and the world THEY would like to innovate - http://www.entovation.com/whatsnew/millennium.htm - with the notion of the future that children might want to innovate. Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: For me, the book brought back one basic fact. Everyone understands ideas differently. Through proper packaging and assembly of the idea, we can make it our idea. Anne Jubert: I'll have a look there- great Ron Dvir: Anne, Debra - this is a good idea - linking many research projects to youth as both potential end users AND contributors - maybe having children participating in some brainstorming workshops. Kendra Amidon: A lot of what the book reminded me was how much better people respond to and idea if they feel as though they have contributed…which links into the ideas of having children participate in brainstorming. If it is something that they contributed to, they will feel far more passionate about it than if it were merely presented to them. Debra Amidon: And because ‘everyone understands ideas differently’, this is why we have needed a NEW (shared) vision - and a common language (knowledge economy) and a combined sense of purpose - innovation...in order for us all to make the contributions - as individuals, enterprises and nations. Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: I remember many years back, when in Turkey, they would celebrate children’s day and have children handle certain matters of government, even the assembly! Ron Dvir: Let's move on to some personal stories. I invite each of you to tell us about one of you innovation stories - when you tried to bring a new idea to the world. What worked? What didn't? What did you discover? Edna Pasher: Hi, I just read your contributions. It is very interesting and I am happy I can join you. Have you Seen the book by John Seely Brown about Edges? Anne Jubert: I just read an article about boundary objects and co-creation of these. This to facilitate a shared vision Debra Amidon: Have you all taken a look at the E100 Gallery we have created - http://www.entovation.com/photo_gallery/photo_gallery.htm. Perhaps we can have submissions from different parts of the world...maybe even a contest. Edna Pasher: The idea is that innovation happens at the edge. One edge is between old and young. This is why I like your book. There is a great potential for innovation in conversations with young people. We don’t talk enough to them. We don`t invite them to our conferences enough and to strategic processes. Anne Jubert: Often we do not speak their language, so this makes real communication more difficult Edna Pasher: Yes. And we underestimate their potential. If we learn to listen to them better we can have a peep into the future ! Debra Amidon: In New Zealand they involved youth as KnowledgeWave initiative. In Alice Springs, they involved youth in the Youth Muster of Desert Knowledge Australia. In Austria, the annual ALPBACH event brings together the Junior ALPBACH to meet for the week with Nobel Laureates. In Abu Dhabi, they recently had the Festival of Thinkers - www.festivalofthinkers.com - where they involved 200 students from around the country.Edna Pasher: I am happy Kendra is here. We know a lot about you! Kendra Amidon: An example of how children can be included in almost any process...This quarter This quarter my classmates and I were working on a downtown revitalization plan for a small town. We knew that not all of the ‘public’ we were trying to serve would attend the community workshops and City Council meetings, so we put our heads together to find some innovative ideas on how to include everyone and get everyone’s ideas. We ended up doing a lot of different things, but one of my favourites was including the elementary and high school students. We spent and afternoon at each school asking the children what they wanted their downtown to feel like, and asking them to draw pictures of what they wanted it to look it. These workshops turned out to be the most useful workshops we held. Edna Pasher: Unfortunately in Israel it is not common at all to invite youth to participate in conversations about the future. They just published here a big report about a huge reform in education. Students were reacting only after it was published! Debra Amidon: I'll let Kendra answer why we do not speak their language...but maybe we just have to create the arena - to use Leif Edvinsson's term - for the conversations to occur. And then we listen - a la Charles Savage - and act upon what we learn in ways that leverage (not compete with) one another. Ron Dvir: Kendra - as in many good innovations - what you told here is about simple, straight forward innovation - which is the best - just go and TALK with children about their ideas and dreams - so simple, so clever. Kendra Amidon: Anne: I don't think it is about 'speaking the language' as much as it is taking the time to go to them, and get down on their level and listening to them. They (and I should probably say 'we') just need to feel connected in some way rather than simply reading a report or listening. Even if nothing is taken from what people say, as long as they feel they had a chance to contribute -- they're connected. Edna Pasher: Ron and Leif and I just participated in the first Future Center Summit. Next time we definitely have to invite youth to be part of it! Anne Jubert: You really mean get "down" to their level? Debra Amidon: It seems we have reached a critical mass of expertise and intent on the prospects of youth. No longer is it lip service...we really need their imaginative thinking now...and we have done our best to create an arena for their thinking to thrive. Isn't that a lot of what our work as knowledge professionals has been about? Debra Amidon: Maybe it's getting 'to' their level...not up or down. Anne Jubert: I agree! Debra Amidon: I've met some youth that have 'older' and more 'traditional' mindsets than some of my own elder colleagues. Edna Pasher: They know more about the future than ourselves. They are the future! Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: Since they are the future, we owe it to them to decide what they want the future to be. We can then help them achieve it Anne Jubert: I think the some of us "old people" still have crazy ideas and dreams- fortunately. Ron Dvir: Well, talking about creativity of youth, I have very critical view of the education system that force young people spend their time on learning things they don’t want to, prepare for examinations which add zero value, and basically waste their best years. What if children of 14, 16, or 17 will rather spend their time on doing what is interesting for them, using their incredible creativity? Anne Jubert: We have the advantage that we have the self confidence and a chance to try them out. Edna Pasher: I agree with Debra that some of the youth are conservative. They have been too much influenced by the older people. I have some conservative students at the university. We need to make them confident that they can change the world…that we are open to assist them in making our planet more sustainable with them and for them. Anne Jubert: Many young people do not dare… Debra Amidon: The intent of writing this book - ‘In Search of Innovation’ - was to make the message simple, without being simplistic. Much of the complexity of managing knowledge-based business has overwhelmed people. And the misconceptions about what innovation is (and is not) have confused people. And all the techno/Digital hype has clouded the opportunity even further. And so, we get back to the basics. It is about KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION and COLLABORATION: The 3 New Laws of Knowledge Dynamics. Kendra Amidon: My generation was raised in a media-saturated society where we often feel as though we are simply viewers to everything that is going on in the world, which has resulted in a rather disconnected and indifferent group of people if they are approached in the wrong way. If things are presented in the same way that the nightly news is, chances are we won’t even listen - never mind care. The real innovation is finding ways to present the idea in a different way...just like in the book. I don't think it is as much that they don't dare as much as they are not aware of the options to contribute. Ron Dvir: Kendra, so, it is up to us to create for them the arena to innovate. And, not to put obstacles on their way... Maya Levin-Sagi: I found the book to try to encourage you (young or old) to believe in your own idea, pursue it Edna Pasher: I absolutely agree with Kendra. We need to show them the options. And a children’s book is a great way to help get our ideas in a short and simple way. What I like in the message of the book is the tenacity of the innovator ! Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: The greatness is that book is for all, young & old! Debra Amidon: Ron: I agree with how you (and most others) have become disheartened at the educational system. This is what I hear country-to-country all over the world, including the US and even Massachusetts! The GOOD news is that the conversations we are now having about the Knowledge Economy is developing the critical mass of leadership reflect on how we might better put ALL our resources to better use - human, technical and financial. Lots of people think throwing money at the issue is the answer; it is not. Ron Dvir: **** We are going to close the conversation officially in 5 minutes (but the chat room will remain open for those of us who want to continue). Can I invite each to tell us what you take from this conversation - new concept, idea or event action item? Edna Pasher: The answer is to look at the edge, to create conversations between teachers and parents and children and community out of which better education will emerge. Kendra Amidon: The younger generation is very sceptical that anything they say or think will actually be used or take form. It is an issue of trust. If they are involved and contribute and see someone else succeed and their ideas take form, they will be more willing to help in the future. It is a matter of gaining back a trust that society has taken from them...an awful big task if you ask me :o) Edna Pasher: I take the insights of Kendra and Maya - they are the youngest in the group :) Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: For me it was a nice wake-up call and return to the times when I enjoyed taking my mind on journey of open exploration. Debra Amidon: What I have discovered is that ALL roads seem to lead now to the Knowledge Economy. And discussions of the Knowledge Economy lead to EDUCATION. And dialogue about education inevitably focuses on youth...even “in the womb” - to quote an insight from one recent workshop in Al-Medinah, sponsored by Integrated Visions Group, the company funding the knowledge innovation zone initiative - www.inthekzone.com. And so, in the end...all roads lead to YOUTH (where we start THIS conversation). We MUST be on the right track now...Ron Dvir: The thing I take with me - the absolute critical need to help the youth fully use their creative powers. And action item - to communicate with Kendra and see how exactly she handled the dialogues with children she described earlier in the conversation. This will all help us in our work around "educational future images". Anne Jubert: I think that being open for innovation is a question of mindset more than of age. Edna Pasher: Kendra: this is very powerful! I agree. Some of us treat you as children in the bad sense of it when you are more capable than ourselves! Ron Dvir: ***Jacob, welcome but we are about to finish. Use the "transcript" bottom on top of window to see this conversation full transcript! Debra Amidon: Ron and Edna: This all ties beautifully with what the two of you have been managing with Futures Centres. How was your recent Netherlands trip> Anything to be posted somewhere... Jacob Jaskov: *** Ron, thanks. Anne just invited me in. Edna Pasher: It was a great exploration tour of 5 future centers. Ron has great pictures ! Kendra Amidon: It is like Ron said about the school systems teaching to the tests. Children are raised not to be creative and explore from a very young age. There are very few people that take assignments in school and get creative with them. They simply do EXACTLY what is assigned, but as time goes on and my peers have seen other people 'step out of the box' they are more willing to follow and do the same. The power of peer influence - pressure if you will - used for good can do amazing things. Debra Amidon: To quote my dear mentor and friend Thomas F. Malone – “We are at a historical choice point - a defining moment - in determining the kind of world our children's children will inherit. If we make these choices based only on the models of our industrial-age past, we will almost certainly miss the true opportunities before us.”Ron Dvir: **** Friends, as always, the power of conversation is incredible. We have created in one hour great body of ideas - just read the transcript. Thank you Debra for being our inspiring guest, and all for contributing so many good ideas. See you in the future (and the chat room remain open if you whish to continue). Edna Pasher: I need to say good bye. It was a great topic and a great conversation. I will think about it when I spend time with my grandchildren tomorrow! Thanks and CU soon! Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi: This was great, I hope the dialogue continues now online. :) Anne Jubert: Thanks to Debra and Ron in particular for organising interesting conversations like this! Debra Amidon: And so, let this launch be the beginning of a dialogue - and an international one on that. We have several examples of practitioners - in the public and private sectors, and most significantly across sectors - are doing wonderful things in different parts of the world, many of which focus on children or youth in some significant way. I happen to believe that it is the same for our leaders. Maya Levin-Sagi: I will think about in the future when I have children (not the near future). Thanks, bye. Maya Levin-Sagi: Sorry- not in the future but FOR the FUTURE! Debra Amidon: Thank everyone for joining us and offering your insights and counsel. What fun to be sitting here with Kendra...maybe now we can stimulate that dialogue - WITH youth - we have been planning to do with the Junior E100. Now may be the time...and this might be the right purpose. Happy entovating...
Ron Dvir
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Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this story. Legal NoticeNumber of comments: 19 [Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 5-Aug-2005 MUTUAL PENETRATION WITH HISTORY (PART 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Eu Board members, Debra and all concerned with the health of this thread, please, do be free to delete this posting if you see it to be irrelevant to the aims of innovation you seek. This essay was part of a submission I gave to the SUFA reviews of 2002 and of 2005. SUFA is the link between all Canadian governments involved with the revamping and admistrations of the Canadian social safety net. http://www.socialunion.ca/news/020499_e.html MUTUAL PENETRATION WITH HISTORY History is generally understood by young people, as this boring academic chore required of them by the education system.The intent and purpose of the curriculum in teaching history, is to cultivate the relevancy of the past to the present, thereby preparing students in what provides them with the awareness of continuity.Because of such a low level of interest for history among students, a new approach could be tried. Instead of academically bringing the past to the present, why not equip each student with what is needed to explore the past, starting from their own personal present.By bringing the students to explore what brought about their own life, it will generate an ability for the in-depth look to understand their present, it will gradually connect their lives with the past and thereby will eliminate the irrelevancy. This method would motivate by inspiring as opposed to force-feeding the memory for the sake of the curriculum.Because of the state of the age which we live in locally and globally, anyone with noble concerns for education is aware of the massive need to heal the individual identity’s growth process, by tuning in the dynamics of inter-personal activity with reconciliation and co-operation. History of the whole human race is screaming to remind us of that.It doesn’t make much sense to teenagers to learn that their parents, teachers and governments are going on repeating history without any alternative being offered other than: “You live in the best country on earth, so don’t complain”, type of response.If the history curriculum were to bring together the sciences relevant to the healing of history such as sociology, psychology and all the way to psycho-neuro immunology, they could pave a path to develop the method from play school on, with the parents and child, and set the relevancy so as to bridge school solidly with home life.History classes would then become a time in school when one is given a chance to assemble the components of his or her existence, where one learns to assimilate each life experience in a maturing perspective of his or her life. It would develop the rationality from understanding the path of their own life and identity. (continue on next post)
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 5-Aug-2005 MUTUAL PENETRATION WITH HISTORY (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...By entering history in such a personal manner, school would evolve to provide a forum for the apprenticeship of communicating in the comfort of intimacy and in the confidence of trust. It would gradually lead the “I am” of each student into the relevancy between their life and the flow of history in the riverbed of time.Such a method could even become key to open the doors of the community, reaching out through the cultural and social walls of divisions, by entering the dimension where academic and practice find trust and harmony with each other. In practical terms, it would be the neutral ground to bridge and to complete the distance and the incompatibilities between home and community life.This approach also provides the opportunity to embark on a massive research and development movement into the human faculty of living. The faculty of living is the holy grail aimed at by all people of good will through out humanity’s history. It is the initial and final frontier of knowledge for the solemn beauty of being human to emerge. The faculty of living is what brings each individual to be penetrated and to penetrate the meaning of existence while providing guidance and nourishment to live in the state of justice, peace and joy.Historically, this faculty has been painfully growing through millenniums of dark, fearful and evil resistance on the part of those who hold on to knowledge, intellectually acquired, as opposed to spiritually acquired knowledge. Such resistance is present in all human beings and is responsible for the perpetuation of the never-ending power struggle and misery among humanity.The faculty of living is the healthy state of spiritual human living in all that it means and separated apart from all the lies that it never meant and yet, that are still upheld today in various forms.Destiny has designed Canada for our citizenship to express the solemn beauty of being human. This is, after all, what the ancient voice of humanity’s youth has been longing for throughout the ages, feeding and reverberating the growth of common sense.Yes, the history curriculum can indeed become a safe and yet potent tool for the authorities to cultivate our individual and collective growth into the stability of well-being.Given the good will and blessings enjoyed in Alberta and Canada, we could attain to the point where we begin the process to harness the lessons of the past and learn to live, with great contagion, in the solemn beauty of being human, answering the ancient voice of humanity’s youth enjoyed in the fluid health of common sense.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 5-Jul-2005 Here's a way to introduce my favoritesStay at home dad Benoit CoutureFACULTY of Living Healing the meaning!- Individual personal experience JOURNEY from BROWN to GREEN This title is the metaphor by which to extend an avenue for grasping and being grasped with the life that unfolds the times and activities of the cells from the moment they get to be captured by roots in the dirt of the human field of existance and transformed all the way to when the mature spiritual green experience brings one up to reproduce the seed and to spread the regenerative process in the eternal organic experience of unity. 2- Individuall social experience From staRdom to GLORY to STArSHINE: From the brightness and the black holes inner states of isolated stardom in the night of human physical nature to the united light of inner universal day by the regenerared shine on in the glow of the inner morning star. From competing to completing by growing in the consensus. Chris says: Any comments on how this open source blog evaluation of Clinton's World Congress is developing? What should be in or out? Chris, at the end of the level 3 systemisation it says: ..."whatever it is that went wrong with management theory/strategy in the West over the last few decades and was compounded by 80 quarters of knowledge’s spread sheeting." In economic terms, the compounding referred to has appeared in the time frame described as a "few decades" but in terms of human cost caused by the distortion of the truth and disservice to justice, we must now adapt in the scale of civilisations and planetary calibration that spans beyond our limited scales of time and geography of a few decades... (Read on to the next entry)...
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 5-Jul-2005 Part 2 of the aboveStay at home dad Benoit Couture...Also necessary, is the immediate development of a core community integrated consensus management to shape natural co-operative initiative teams. Here, I must give an explanation of how I see consensus to operate. The mistake with how I've seen this word used is to think that it means everyone agrees to the same thing. So no one in their right mind would go for that. Con means with. Sensus means direction. Heading in the same direction is what consensus means. Decision making by consensus means that the poles are identifies among the people's positions and the lining up of the axis between the poles' extremes sets the smooth equilibrium for the movement's orbit to be calibrated from. Consensus in not something to be reached. It is what we start from and it is the way we are sustained with. Serenity and unity get deployed, not achieved. The deceitful heart that lives on in each one of us, the wall of enmity that lives in the subliminal regions of our relationships and the tyranny of urgency live on to permanently challenge our resolve to sustain unity. Such is the initial battle to be taken on by anyone who so wishes to engage in the service of justice, love and freedom of humanity. From here on, simplicity is how victory rules from the quietning silence of patient wisdom and signs in the ancient voice of humanity's youth. STATE DEVELOPMENT A- HEALTH-EDUCATION-ENVIRONMENT The health trail from the individual acquisition of the taste for health to the family correctional circuiting rising with The Personal Sector by the Reconciliation Ministry growing into the Permanent People Summit B-INTERNAL DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT Monastic Family Habitat--Domestic Health Cultural and Sport Society C- EXTERNAL DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT Night time Padre made of the personel trained in Community Mental Health's Victory in the continuity of Restorative Justice Mature Canadiian=focal-local-global sojourner of the cleansing river
Debra Amidon , 4-Jul-2005 Depth, not dismissal...Debra AmidonBenoit (and others afraid to comment)... It seems more a matter of the scope and depth of your contributions on KnowledgeBoard that leave others a bit breathless. I have personal experience as a public school teacher - even convened the 1st classroom in the United States for perceptually handicapped children. My own daughter, Kendra (included in the transcript) attended the Rudolph Steiner (Waldorf) and Montessori schools as a child. It was wonderful traveling when she was young as she would attend the class in whatever country I was working. But in truth, the private education provided here a sphere of exploration not offered in most public schools. Now that I have drawn attention to the youth opportunity and we are exploring Knowledge Innovation Zones worldwide - www.inthekzone.com - I am finding that leaders are in agreement. All roads for the Knowledge Economy lead to education; and for most, our initiatives need to include a focus for K-12. I believe that we require an entire new mindset - philosophy, principles, policies and practices to drive a form of academic progress and performance not yet well articulated, never mind operationalized. Perhaps those who are listening to the post might offer their observations and insights as to what might be needed...and how to realize such an educational vision - much of which you outline below. What are the exemplar programs that might benefit from the thinking the child’s book is intended to stimulate?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 4-Jul-2005 Part 2 of: So you did not reject me?Stay at home dad Benoit Couture...In not doing so, we gradully remove most child from his or her very own personal rythm of knowledge acquisition for the sake of the curriculum's "nessecities". Development gets to be secured by the personal relating to knowledge. Therefore the decision we face ongoinly is to go on force feeding the memory with the curriculum or to open the shutters of natural learning between home and school, so as to take the lead by guiding each child into a relationship of finding how to adapt his or her personal rythm with the curriculum. The present retaline syndrome is the screeming symptom of humanity's childhood that says: Show me how to be, and stop making me beleive that I have to know first how to do so that I may have and then, I that'll make me become someone one day in the far, far off future. Our educating must release the beautification process of natural development of being. Give us the context to discover who my being has to offer so that who I am can bloom into what I am doing, in the pure joy of relating in the faculy of living!. Chris, you sound like one of the few who has been preserveved from the destruction of the curriculum by your natural and pure childish love of the mathematics. For me, mathematics have always been this dead gymnastics of memorizing, unrelated to anything alive and that forced me to sit and do what I hated. That was my experience of school. To relate or not to relate, that is the question, and everything of you that I have seen so far is for the sake of improving the experience of relating. And so, keep on loving the universal language of math sir, and may your dreams be released into the personal(local) and communal(global) reality of being humans of the eternal kind!
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 4-Jul-2005 So you did not reject me?Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Debra and all children lovers, it is Sunday evening at 20:48 and I only just noticed, 9 days later, that I had not been ignored and politely kicked out of this thread as I have been conditioned to, for so many years in my attempts to be heard. I feel quite awkward to be so late in finding out that you had mentioned me by name in the same breath as somethig positive. Please forgive me this delay. I am going to leave you with a posting I wrote a short while ago, to answer to Chris Macrae that has to do with childhood and tomorow, I'll come back with my spine back up, ready to answer you more acurately on you question: "What are my favorite example?" Thank you for being child like with me... Chris Macrae says: there's a missing curriculum at every age group; connects to systems and global and local, seeing the whole and future consequences not the past and bits; flows round what's good and pursposeul in human relationships not bad or imaged-over-reality Benoit: My whole thesis can be wrapped by saying: "The development of personal and communal relating must be secured first, and as relating grows, learning of the curriculum is a breeze." There is the nature of learning and there is the task of learning. Let's eliminate the task by rendering secure the joy of it. By the time one goes to school, he or she is usally equipped with the power of inter-action. As it is well known, most learning that will ever happen in one's life, is in the fisrt 3 to 5 years and I am sure that this is not the way we really are, but I must accept the evidence that our ignorance conditions us to lose the faculty of growing on throughout life. To be, to have, to do is the disposition of natural of development that secures perpetual learning capacities. Our adult driven system has insisted on the controls over learning and so for centuries of academia's uniformed approach, we find ourselves in a spinning wheel that sits me at 5 or 6 years old and conditions me into the thought that if I do this and that then I'll be able to have this and that and then, I'll become someone. Being someone is what the system of academic learning of ABCs and 1,2,3s does take away when we are very young by uniforming the teaching. That is why I insist to say that the essence of learning is to secure the impossibility of getting away from the personal and communal order of: "to be, to have, to do". (the end on next posting)
Debra Amidon , 25-Jun-2005 Knowledge-based benchmarking for BELIZE Knowledge, Science and Technology (BEST) Park Debra AmidonLet's start to generate as many GOOD examples that we can find where children are the focus of initiatives.One of my favorites can be downloaded: http://www.ic2.org/publications/best.print.11.18.pdf. The PICTURE alone is worth the price of (free) admission! Now, take a look at the international gallery of children we have begun - http://www.entovation.com/photo_gallery/photo_gallery.htm KB members are invited to offer their own BEST photographs of children from different cornerts of the world! I've already started to generate a list in the original workshop announcement - http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=140072. I believe that the insight gleaned from the postings of Benoit Couture are a wonderful, relevant beginning... What are YOUR favorite examples?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 24-Jun-2005 Youth and simplicity of the momentStay at home dad Benoit CoutureHi Debra and all, I just finished reading the script again to make sure I stayed in context and it made me noticed that in approaching you all, I did not put any emphasis that all I write from, is from the youth for which I had to fight all my life. The term I use for the last 10 years is the ancient voice of humanity's youth and the idea of trans-generational is to bridge 3 present generations in the brightness of solemn beauty of being human answering the ancient voice of humanity's youth in the fluid adaptation of common sense. The packaging of this idea comes in the image of a torch, ignited by the combustion of these 3 elements. To make sure that we do not create a cult out of anything, the torch is introduced with the humourous embodyment of wisdom by a character named: NAF TA which stands in this case for: North American Frog Terribly Apprehensive. I stronly feel that the trans-generational-trans-atlantic feedback loop I pro-mote serves like a glove to all the good ideas in the discussion above on youth, knowledge, innovation and collaboration for the multi-leveleconomies. of the knowledge economy. The words I use are to capture the imagination of the youth of all ages, accross 3 generation and where applicable, 4 and 5. Learnig to care for each other is the universal language. How do we deliver it in an infectous way to spread health and hapiness? That has been my question since 4 years old. My answer is the experience of unity. Nothing is more precious to any child of any age: To be relevant and inspired to go on being relevant. Another connection at that depth of presentation, is the fact that our daughter is part of the first generation of humans who are going to be outlived their parent with a degree of disability such as she lives with. The ignorance we face in all the good intention of professionalism that refuses to hear us out as parents is what keeps us tuned to the ancient voice of humanity's youth and seeking for common sense to defeat the old guard. Thank for bearing with my insistance.
Ron Dvir , 23-Jun-2005 Knowledge Innovation - possible formulaRon DvirAll,I am happy the transcript of "In search of innovation triggered this interesting conversation.My modest contribution to the issue of Knowledge Innovation:I NIMCube research & development project, we tried to explore links between innovation and reuse. We arrived at a simple formula, and since then I use it in various opportunities, and usually people find it useful:INNOVATION = [(reuse of existing knowledge) + (INVENTION of new knowledge) X (EXPLOITATION). And usually I found that the third component is the more tricky and hard to handle one...
Debra Amidon , 23-Jun-2005 Invention and Innovation - Back to Youth...Debra AmidonKnowledge Innovation for our community - and as ever increasingly evidenced in other networks worldwide - is the term that advances the concepts beyond knowledge management. In fact, the evolution of the term (from the mid 1980’s) comes from technology transfer, to technology exchange onto knowledge management and then knowledge exchange to knowledge innovation which includes (as a systems dynamic of human interactions) of (a) knowledge creation (i.e., invention) through (b) conversion (e.g., into products and services) and (c) commercialized (i.e., value is created from the flow of the knowledge). In short, knowledge-creation and invention are the 1st phase in the process of innovation; but now we know that innovation is not R&D, nor is it just creativity. Yes, Drucker was the one who said innovation is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. So, the focus ought to be on the FULL innovation process - not just creation or even knowledge-sharing. Even Ikujiro Nonaka has agreed with me on this one...and his concepts of ‘Ba’ are closely aligned to knowledge innovation as it has been defined. Most important and relevant now for our purposes is that the concept applies to all economic levels - micro- (enterprise or organization), meso- (national economy) and macro-economic (societal). I am not sure, but perhaps the description on the site might help: http://www.entovation.com/innovation/knowinno.htm. Now, we are beginning to see the real evidence of the concept being innovated through a multiplicity of cross-boundary efforts - within organizations, nations and across regions of the world. Our most recent E100 Alert provides an update: http://www.entovation.com/mailing/june2205.htm. But shall we get back to the essence of the transcript and the discussion of youth - and how to involve them in the innovation process, which was the intent of the book. I’d really like to hear the insights and suggestions of others rather than assessing the relative merits of one type of verbiage or another. The notion is about innovation process and how we might best get ideas more effectively realized...and leveraged.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 23-Jun-2005 here's another strike of the match, to ignite the vision...Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureTRANS-ATLANTIC-TRANS-GENERATIONAL(t-a-t-g) INVITATION TO FLOWCALIZE FROM BROWN TO GREEN. I know, I know, it's a long title. "But the sea is wide, and I cant swim over..." Well Kerry, Andrius, Therese, Frank, friends of Europe and Americas and eventually to all continents, the winds are sown and the music is released for the feedback loop to catch on to play out in the socio-cultural experience of spiritual unity, by capturing the attention, by harnessing the energies of misunderstangings and frustration and by deploying the alliance of restorative justice and community mental health. To help, here is what you need to know. The Green party represents the ideal needed to be aimed for and they are in over 70 countries. Rational understanding of governance makes it obvious that the Green party of Canada can be a possitive voice of conscience, but not a governing alternative. The old way of doing things is too deeply entrenched and the policies are still being debated with no end of debates in sight. What the Greens do have is an appeal with those who are young at heart and those who dont like politics but who understand that we can not live without it. That spells out a large majority in most democracies of the world and therefore the connection from person to person. The solution for big changes now, is therefore to bring forward a plan for the Greens ideals to be put in focus to gain the complete support of community health in the freedom of justice and serenity, without having to win the office of government. The office of citizen is at stake in Europe and every where else. That is where the need and the stregth of leadership is being awaited for by masses of people. By clarifying the definition of citizenship, we will reach the shores of citizenhood, meaning shall fall in tune with living and our existance shall flow in the local energy of green blossoms in the youth of a thousand summers. So please, feel free to help democracy outgrow authorities of immaturity, by generating feedback in the t-a-t-g citizen unity. Send an invitation or many, in the name of Eupope citizens to this address: [email protected] and tell them to go to this address: http://lp.greenparty.ca/tiki-index.php?page=my+social+philosophy&bl One other easy way to help in Europe is to tell people: "Have you read from Benoit Couture on Google?" I'll handle the heat from there, in my office of citizen, of tax payer and of voter, so that the alliance gets forged in the dignity of sanctity between restorative justice and community mental health, from the bottom to the top. Thanks, and let the enjoyment of deployment begin... Benoit Couture
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 23-Jun-2005 Knowledge discoveryStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDenham, in music there is a say: "Nothing new gets created in music, omly re-arranged". Another say is that "every good invention is 1%inspiration and 99% perspiration". The greatest innovation of open source km will be to facilitate the decision making enjoyment of the whole 1% and 99% together, in the sharing and investing in one another's well being and wellfare. So again, we are back at the basics of relationships, communication and civility. One main theme I hammer on is to see open source km to focus at helping humanity to build the recovery road from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government. Does that answer a little?
Denham Grey , 23-Jun-2005 Knowledge innovation?Denham GreyDebra, How is this related to knowledge creation and invention and what then is the critical distinction that makes knowledge innovation such a useful concept?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 22-Jun-2005 I am in the middle of innovating with knStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, For the last 2 months, I have come to know open sourde km. In that language, it can be said that I am surfing on the mission to deploy the connection from virtual to reality. This seems to be the consensus as to what we are looking for quite specifically in this thread. How do we spark it up? is the question we all want to innovate. These 2 months with km have allowed me to take my microscopic work and to difuse it globaly while becoming aware and partipant of the trigger that's bringing a beautiful live, spontanious neuron connection at the most intimate depth of each one's being. I wrote yestreday: "The time is here and now upon us to accept or to reject the opening disciplines of knowledge management in the organic source of spiritual unity. We are granted the opportunity of being knowledgeable by relating justly from beyond teaching, so that the understanding we do receive is hosted in the serene surroundings of completion in truth from love, not from striving efforts nor coersions of competition. Truth and love embody the Faculty of eternal living (or absolute present)...and the just shall live by faith in the communion of the spirit. "Each indeed is holy in the light of love" fron Jon and Vangelis album Private collection. For me, so far, this collective spontanious connection to global innovation has become: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A4235195 Are we ready to facilitate journey from essence of microscopic globalizing. I propose to infuse democracy with a treatment of "flowcalizing". (focal-local-flowing)
Gillian Bush , 22-Jun-2005 another 3c's and 5 c's of transformative innovationMs Gillian BushThat's interesting Debra because the large scale system innovation community/alumni assembled around Harrison Owen (Open space) uses a facilitator’s 3C's - Conflict, Chaos, Confusion. Admittedly this is a cultural model where it is assumed that much of the value is not about inventing a thing but sustaining a simpler order of human relationship integrity fit for networking and transparently webbing. Whence 5C's Complexity, Culture, Conflict, Chaos, Confusion. Higher order conflict resolution as the main sustainable innovation of leadership and collaborative respect for diversity is also advanced by Trompenaars and Hampden-Tailor. references to PoP...ThT
Debra Amidon , 22-Jun-2005 The 3C's of Innovation: Creation, Conversion and CommercializationDebra AmidonThere are many views (and indeed, facets) of innovation. In our own research - even as of a few years ago - we had tracked dozens of definitions. Ten of them can be found: http://www.entovation.com/innovation/10definitions.htm. If you need the others, let me know. Basically, they fall into 2 categories: (1) those who consider invention separate from the process of innovation; and (2) those - as do we - who consider invention and integral part of the process of innovation. It matters not your philosophy as long as you begin to consider innovation (i.e., Knowledge-Creation, Knowledge-Conversion and Knowledge-Commercialization) as an integrated series of (human) interactions within an innovation process. Your own perception - and certainly similar to many others - is of the techno-based innovation. Our view is of knowledge innovation - an advancement beyond even the progressive views of knowledge management and certainly technology transfer. This is the view now rapidly taking hold because of the leadership of so many knowledge practitioners - across sectors, industries and even regions of the world. The common language and shared vision is emerging...and rapidly.
Denham Grey , 22-Jun-2005 Innovation or knowledge creationDenham GreyI find the concepts innovation and knowledge creation to be closely linked - often wonder how to articulate the distinction. InnovationDiscovering something new, something with utility and oftentimes closely connected to gadets, processes, efficiency, speed, effectiveness. Knowledge creationApproaching closer to understanding, meaning and thoughtful actions. Seems you can create new knowledge with little invention, e.g. by sharing and experiencing, but innovating and inventing always involves knowledge creation. What do you think?
Denham Grey , 19-Jun-2005 Discovering innovationDenham GreyIn my experience, innovation is indeed a very social activity - mostly depends on your network, social capital, connections and less and less on individual qualities, characteristics or traits. Partly this is because we live in a very connected world, but like knowledge itself, innovation requires verification and adoption to be recognized, to pass the tripping point and to deliver utility. One paragraph removed after request by thread owner and with the approval of commenter). For more information, please contact the thread ownerDiscovery and development of new knowledge is clearly where the KM movement needs to focus going forward. Here is where we deliver the greatest value and make our unique contribution to business practices.
Call for ideas - KM Europe 2005 – The Fringe Track
Call for ideas - KM Europe 2005 – The Fringe TrackThe preparations for the KM Fringe track in Knowledge, Content and Collaboration (KCC) Europe 2005 (November 7-8, Amsterdam) have started. We are looking for ideas for sessions and activities – that will make this 2 days track really a great Fringe event. The event is done in collaboration with ARK group, the organiser of KCC Europe. (update: 03 August 2005): Entry to our two day Fringe event will cost only 75 EUR. Fringe attendees will be able to enter the expo and the social areas of the main KCC event without paying the full conference fee. There is no budget to pay workshop hosts - sorry, but there is no budget for that. This will not offer Fringe attendees a chance to enter the formal conference tracks nor will Fringe attendees get the free lunch - those will cost the full conference price of 865 EUR. (end of update 03 August 2005) For more information on the event, read the KCC website.Wanted: · Ideas on the KM Fringe track structure.· Ideas for short and long sessions (anything between 15 minutes to 3 hours)· Ideas for activities during the coffee breaks, lunch time, after and before the conference, in the actual place and virtual· Ideas for how to design the physical space (well, I am not sure what is feasible, but we can try)· Ideas on any other aspect you find relevant to the KM Fringe track What do we mean by "fringe"?Well, each of you will understand it differently. 1. Perhaps is it about focusing on controversial issues? 2. Perhaps about issues which are at the edge of KM? 3. perhaps it is about the media – maybe dancing and playing the message rather then showing a PowerPoint presentations?4. circumstances that allow us to be individuals and humans while interacting, not make us be passive consumers of information thrown at us?5. Or perhaps fringe means....So come with your strange ideas. Tell us your idea(s) – * what is the idea? * How would the session look like? * Why is it a “Fringe” session? * Are you interested in conducting it yourself? * Recommending somebody else for the job? Enter your idea here by adding a comment until 5 August 2005 or Email it to: mailto:[email protected] The KM fringe track team will review and select the ideas and build the two days track program. The KM fringe track teamTon, Sami, Patricia, Chris, Michal, Edna, Mounib, Martin, Ron
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Share your views with other users: add your own comments to this story. Legal NoticeNumber of comments: 25 Troy Rice , 07 August 2005 @ 10:47 AM sounds great-John Cristina all Have always liked an idea of extreme innovations bank; something the net could be great at if only all ideas filtered up into one central clearing house; also the thread on stories of exceptional inventions still to see the public light, seems an easy one to set up with a 10 minute flip, and then sit back and listen to people's greatest innovation contexts and passions
John Curran , 06 August 2005 @ 11:48 AM Ideas Market FormatMr John CurranFollowing up on Cristina's comment I attended an excellent conference for a number of years (when I ran a Technical Authoring company) which was based on the concept of an 'Ideas Market'. In one single, largish space facilitators would stand by a flipchart and introduce their topic. Participants could then circulate and drop-in on the sessions that most interested them. If they got boed or were interested in checking something else out they just moved on. For particularly busy sessions the facilitator and participants could agree to form a 'Breakout Session' where they would go to a separate (normally quieter) space to follow-up with more detail or agree to create some sort of action. Sounds a little chaotic I know - but it worked really well - and very fluidly (to echo Cristina's comment).
Cristina Cerulli , 05 August 2005 @ 12:27 PM Fringe format - PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTDr Cristina Cerulli FRINGE FORMATI think all the sessions within the fringe should have at least an element that is very loosely structured, to allow informal interactions to occur. A good format could be the ‘hub’ where a short [10 min] introduction to frame the topic is given by the session organizers/owners and it is followed by discussion. Discussion could be structured [e.g. trying to answer a set of carefully thought of questions] or not.The introductions to various seminars could be timed not to overlap so people can move around and decide which hub to engage with. PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTIt should be at least aesthetically pleasing [a very subjective notion, I know!].It should also support the sessions’ format and enhance it. In the case of the ‘hub’ format suggested above, for instance, the physical space would be totally flexible and re-configurable to allow fluid movement from one hub to the other and to support the emergence of unforeseen interactions amongst ‘hubs’My partners at Marameo [www.marameo.co.uk] and I would be happy to [help with the] design the space. I can foresee a limited budget, but we can be very resourceful and creative.
Cristina Cerulli , 05 August 2005 @ 12:08 PM KM in Project Based EnvironmentsDr Cristina Cerulli I'd be interested in a session on KM in Project Based Environment. My experience mainly relates to the UK construction industry and it would be vey useful/helpful to discuss/share/compare it with other experiences of KM in other project based domains [or in construction industry in other countries].The session should have a format that allows discussion and informal exchanges. I'd be happy to [co]run and/or organize the session.
John Curran , 04 August 2005 @ 18:33 PM ARK PlansMr John CurranThose in the know tell me that.. Ark haven't quite gone live with the 75 Euro Fringe option (no mention yet on the KCC web site) - but a programme is in preparation. Entrance to the expo (exhibition) and the 'social side' is free but only conference participants get a free lunch (and my Dad always told me that there was no such thing as a 'free lunch' - clearly he was wrong)!
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 04 August 2005 @ 12:38 PM Lining up song maybe?Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Ron, Andy and Jonh, is it conceivable to open up an invitation to attract critical mass by asking people for entries to put a list of "songs to dance in context". Perhaps a combination of the most relevant tunes of Live8 along with songs of the past, from artists who were made very famous for the market's convinience but who were ignored for trying to warn their fans on certain perceptions of realy that they were forced to experience by the same market forces. My 2 suggestions for such a list are: Song title: Surrender. Artist: Jon Anderson Album title: Animation from 1982. In fact, I suggest to the administration of the EU Board to consider inviting "Cirque du Soleil" to take on the "spontanious act of the Fringe" with such a meaningful artistic possibility of exposure. To them and to the Fringe it is a win-win opportunity, with very little risk involved. My second suggestion is the song title: Amused to death. Artist: Roger Waters, Album title: Amused to death 1991-92. Why do I think that the Cirque du Soleil might be interested? Because of the history of its birth. The owner, Guy Laliberte was on the streets of Montreal, with street performers when the most famous politician of the day walked by during an election campaign. Guy challenged the politician that if elected in power, to consider funding a first event so that he could demonstrate the true talent "out there on the fringe of street talents". The political man agrred and he went on to be elcted to power from his own fringes, representing an idea, old of a few centuries, of a Sovereign French jurisdiction within the English Commenwealth. The fringes politician kept his word and the fringes of the Montreal streets became the universal home for some of the world's street talents to permanetly spread inspiration around the planet and to remind the powers that be where true value lies!.
John Curran , 04 August 2005 @ 11:48 AM Getting People to Sign-UpMr John CurranI'm currently considering attending just for the Fringe event, and also the expo. But to make it worthwhile we do need enough participants. How can we book for the Fringe and when will we know when numbers reach critical mass? My guess is that full conference participants will also be interested in attending some of the Fringe events. Will they have to pay an extra charge to do this or will their conference fee cover Fringe attendance? Providing the Fringe achieves this critical mass then I am happy to help present/facilitate a session. I'd probably favour a 'simulation' and also the 'knowledge workers handbook' (with Piers). See earlier posts below.
Ron Dvir , 03 August 2005 @ 20:21 PM re. Andy and Arup ideas - open space, dancing, flowers....Ron Dvir Andy, thanks for the idea for the open space session on the Knowledge challenges related to aging population. I think that open space technology is a must-have in a fringe track – as by definition it enables the conversations and shared exploration to emerge naturally with the interests of the participants. So, I hope we will perhaps have several open space sessions.Arup –great idea on dancing during one (or more) of the breaks. Are you interested to organize it and make it happen? Regarding your ideas on having a space that is not only full of interesting conversations but also looks nice – you are absolutely right. We need to think of the most simple things e.g. flowers and – what else?
Andy Boyd , 28 July 2005 @ 11:17 AM A Knowledge Capture open space sessionAndy BoydLooking at the Issue of the 'Big Crew Change' - an aging work population and a sharp increase of the retirements due to the baby boomers over the next 10 years. I would like to host a session where we explore strategies, processes, ideas and experiences of capturing knowledge and experience from experts, and passing it over to new people, before the experts retire. Shell and the Telematica Instituut are interested in this topic and are in principle keen to facilitate such a session, probably utilising the open space process. Andy BoydKnowledge Manager Shell Global Solutions International BVCarel van Bylandtlaan 23, The Hague P.O. Box 541, 2501 CM The Hague, The Netherlands
Chris Macrae , 23 July 2005 @ 10:41 AM labouring with more difficulties than need beMr Chris MacraeLondoners would of course love it if the Fringe could help with any way of developing our view of knowledge collaboration cities - see the first 3 references in this million bookmark search Because of wilful obstruction of freedom of speech in some quarters new content and file uploads are diffciult and laborious on my time for me to make at this time, so my 2 main threads that flow across fringes and collaboration knowledge cities within KB would appear to be here & here Chris Gravity 200 & Clubs of Bristol & London & of Collaboration Cities
arup dasgupta , 21 July 2005 @ 17:50 PM fun filled forecasts for fringe SESSIONSarup dasguptaDURING THE BREAK T FEEL WE SHOULD HAVE A SURPRISE DANCE SHOW WHEREIN SOME PEOPLE WILL BE ASKED TO DANCE WHILE GIVING REPLIES TO DIFFERENT QUERIES ON FUNNY MATTERS IN RELATION TO KM.I THINK THE PLACE SHOULD BE COLOURFUL AND SHOULD HAVE BEAUTIFUL POTRAITS OF SECNIC BEAUTY.I WOULD LOVE TO BE AMEMBER OF THE ORGANISING TEAM. PLS LET ME KNOW AS TO HOW I CAN BE OF FURTHER HELP.SINCE I ENJOY DOING EVENT MANAGEMENT I WOULD LOVE TO BE A PART OF IT.
Gillian Bush , 21 July 2005 @ 17:38 PM sounds goodMs Gillian Bushthanks for clarifying which Fringe Track we want to be on; I am still a bit puzzled about the name change away from KM Europe (web's and its contents gone?) and the apparent split of communities that the name change may add to but echo John's call that we try and inform the whole community...the snailmail postcard of this conference that I have seen is quite difficult to construe but maybe they haven't mailed it out to their whole mailing list
John Curran , 21 July 2005 @ 15:26 PM Fringe PricingMr John CurranI for one will be happy to attend the fringe event if it is priced realistically - 75 euros seems fine to me. Let's get the message out though or we won't have many people!
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 21 July 2005 @ 15:06 PM Personal and communal Summit Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureIs this fringe enough? Embry of a Bill for the Ministry of Reconciliation INTRODUCTIONSince the United Nations adopted a list of illegal drugs in 1948, there has been a systematic deployment of a confrontation, which has developed into the war on drugs. It goes on, being perpetuated in the fields of addictions, at the expense of the public purse, spreading its confrontational damages over two generations now, through out the earth. As a result, there is ongoing multiplication of the confrontations amongst families, neighbours, communities and nations. The costs to individual and communal peace are perpetuating the state of cultural and social divisions such, that the human and the economic costs have gone on spiralling in the wrong direction. This vicious circle has decayed democratic societies from the inside out and keeps the doors wide open to the entity of terror-anti-terror to feasting off all sides at the same time, for the benefit of the very, very few. Governments and the people must join forces to transfer all resources that are going into the war on drugs and to invest them into the individual and communal victory over stress and compulsive behaviours. Motion of the Bill for the Ministry of Reconciliation “WE the citizens of Canada and of all Nations who care to join, declare our resolution to endorse and to move with our resources from out of the war on drugs and to deploy ourselves with our resources, into the victory over stress and compulsive behaviours. We do so to provide to individuals, families and the communities of the member Nations, with the common ground and with the framework to set in motion The Ministry of Reconciliation. The Ministry of reconciliation is the instrument by which we, the people of the participating Countries, take on the right we have, to fulfil our needs to host, to develop and to deploy the Faculty of Living with our tax money that now go in the war on drugs. The itinerary of the motion is to secure the passage from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government. I -----------, hereby pledge my personal interest into the Ministry of Reconciliation, to establish and to deploy the victory over personal and community stress and compulsive behaviours, in the simplicity of good health and happiness.” Signed: -------------- Date: ---------------- Address: -------------- Ph # -----------------
Ron Dvir , 21 July 2005 @ 11:31 AM ideas, open nature of the track and feesRon Dvir Hi All,Jeffery – thanks for your idea on Idea Management. John – thanks for your idea on business simulation. Piers – thanks for your idea on Creating "The Effective Knowledge Worker Handbook" (and to John Curran who suggested to join this initiative).Nazar – thanks for your idea on Business Process Management as a Knowledge Acquisition Tool. All sound fascinating and different from the usual staff. We got several ideas also through emails. The event team will draft the program based on the many contributions and contact each proposer. Regarding Gillian and Martin comment on the open nature of true fringe events and the conflict of this concept with the call of ideas and pre-planned program and selection process: very true dilemma, and we will need to find a solution. For example: Perhaps one day open (e.g. open space and similar methods) and one day pre-planned. Regarding confusion on fees – yes, the plan was that participation of KM fringe will be priced on a minimal cost basis, and the assumption was that many of the KM fringe participants will be interested in this event – and not interested to participate in the more expansive main stream. The range of 75 Euros (more or less) was discussed with Ark. I will contact them to see if there is any change and to ask that it will be published.
Martin Röll , 21 July 2005 @ 10:23 AM KM Europe vs KCC. Martin Röll Gillian, when we (the "fringe track" people) started thinking about the fringe event, we (or at least I) assumed that KM Europe would be continued in 2005 as it was in the last years, where it was free to attend the event and only some keynotes required a fee. It was a large gathering of KM people and therefore a natural place to run KnowledgeBoard events. I can only speak for me personally and not for the rest of the fringe team, but I do not want to support a Knowledgeboard Fringe Event at a business conference like "KCC" now seems to become. Working together with KM Europe was based on the event's openness: Like to KnowledgeBoard, anyone could come to KM Europe when he was interested in Knowledge Management. I think the cooperation was worthwile for both sides: KM Europe helped us to have a space and time to bring people together. In return, we helped KM Europe provide more value to the visitors. But now? What is the additional value for KnowledgeBoard to do a Fringe event at an €800 business conference? KM Europe had hundreds of participants - how many will come to KCC? And what about the students, the researchers, the businesspeople and the others, that are neither interested in Content Management (which seems to be the new focus of the event) nor willing or able to pay 800 Euros to attend an event like this? If we want to provide a "fringe event", we should look for an event, which many people from our community attend to. KM Europe used to be this event. But I doubt KCC will be it. We should look for a better alternative.
Gillian Bush , 21 July 2005 @ 08:19 AM knowledgewalk EuropeMs Gillian BushFor three years now, quite a few of us have been talking about the need for an annual knowledge walk. The catch 22 is that you can a hire hall for several hundred knowledge fans to open space and walk with their own 2 feet if you know that at leat 100 will turn up at the same place for the same 2 days at a ticket process of 50 Euros per person. But to do that you need the medium of a deeply connecting community space that announces that throughout the year ane reherses the topics people want to include in the market of conversations. True networking of the most active and learning kinds comes back to trust in the identity of a virtual forum as being KM for all people who want to explore progress as opposed to a handful of institutes trying to control the spaces where people converse. It may be ironical that the diversity of KM across 25 countries or the world comes back to transparency of what a few people are actually intent on controlling or commercialising. I think it is also worth knowing the case of what is probably the most famous Fringe of all - the Edinburgh culture festival. Edinburgh's festival started as Scotland's high art festival for top people. Then youth and people who wanted art to be a way the people could connect in all diversity came along and staged more and more events around the official calendar. These days about 10 times more people go to Edinburgh for the free and experimental knowledge's living theatre of the Fringe than the costly and formal performances, excellent as these may be for the upper classes of the art world. The buzz of all lively festivals seems to be with the fringe's determination of annual renewal and self-organising, its open curiosity, adpativity rather than the planners choice of what is best. I wonder which side of my view the KM fringe track team members are on, and how much they know of Ark's intent.
John Curran , 20 July 2005 @ 14:56 PM KME morphs into KCCMr John CurranUnlike KME, KCC is a fully 'paid for' event. Cost is £595. This seems steep for a conference which has struggled to maintain sufficient interest. KME was always critised for its polarisation between systems centric KM and people centric KM. KCC seems to be even more systems centric - a not unexpected outcome now that it covers CM and 'collaboration' as well as KM. I was intending on being there but I'm not sure that I can justify the cost. Maybe I should just attend the 'fringe' event? Is that possible? How does KnowledgeBoard feel about the new structure? The most depressing aspect of the whole thing is Ark's attempt to blatantly capture market intelligence via a survey on the KCC website. In their own words: "Ark Group has decided to leverage its unique position at the heart of Europe’s information-management community to compile the most thorough and far-reaching survey of information, knowledge and content managers ever undertaken. Not only do the results of this survey highlight the future direction of collaborative working but this industry intelligence is the backbone of this years KCC Europe programme. Canvassing the opinions of more than 200,000 information-management professionals has enabled us to bring you an event that matches exactly the IM community's needs and requirements These results will represent pan-European industry-intelligence of a scale and depth never before seen and they will be revealed at KCC Europe forming the centrepiece of the conference programme." A quick look at the survey, which runs to only 13 questions, makes this last statement seem completely implausible. Note also that the venue has changed.
Gillian Bush , 20 July 2005 @ 00:42 AM kmeurope 2005Ms Gillian BushIs this year's general attendance free or pay for this year?
John Curran , 15 July 2005 @ 10:56 AM Knowledge Worker HandbookMr John CurranThis is something I'm also interested in doing - currently writing a book at the moment on Smartworking - effectively a handbook for knowledge workers. Would be good to explore what knowledge work means to people at KME. Piers - we met briefly at KME last year - I'm happy to do something with you.
Ton Zijlstra , 15 July 2005 @ 09:47 AM Thanks for the input sofarTon ZijlstraHi guys, thanks for the input sofar. Also feel free to have a look at the wikipage the fringe-team have been using to collect thoughts and ideas in the past weeks: Link to the wiki
Nazar Rasheed , 14 July 2005 @ 20:37 PM Business Process Management as a Knowledge Acquistion ToolMr. Nazar RasheedThe term Business Process Management (or BPM) refers to a set of activities which organizations can perform to either optimize their business processes or adapt them to new organizational needs. Although it can be said that organizations have been performing BPM for some time, a new impetus has been given to the theme with the advent of software tools (business process management systems or BPMS) which allow for the direct execution of the business processes without a costly and time intensive development of the required software. In addition, these tools can also monitor the execution of the business processes, providing the management of an organization the means to analyze their performance and make changes to the original processes with the aim of improving them. Using the BPMS the modified processes can then be quickly placed into operation. Another important aspect of BPM is its use as a Knowledge acquisition tool; Most organisation today lack a consolidated view of the knowledge that is scattered within the various systems, and in their employees head. The idea is to present this topic and than to demonstrate, using the latest software technology on how this knowledge acquistion can be achieved, through live hands-on practical examples.
Piers Young , 14 July 2005 @ 19:18 PM Creating "The Effective Knowledge Worker Handbook"Mr Piers Young* What is the idea? Organisations are beginning to have to adopt increasingly devolved management structures in many areas of their business in order to cope with rapid change. For that to work, there needs to be a core trust in the "basic training" of individual knowledge workers on the frontline. The aim of the workshop is to explore what sort of basic training organisations need knowledge workers to have, and begin to develop a Knowledge Worker Handbook. * How would the session look like?A short introduction (5-10 minutes) to why organisations should have a Knowledge Worker Handbook, followed by an hour or so long open-space session, as we did last year for the PKM strand. The main teaser questions I had in mind were: Who's the most effective knowledge worker you know? Why? How could you train someone else to be like that? What are your worst knowledge work habits? What effect do they have? How could you avoid them? How did you learn how to do knowledgework? Do you think you're any good at it? There'll be wiki support, where people can add ideas before, during and after. [I started a very sketchy one over at wiki.knowledgenetworker.net, which others have added a little to - I'd envisaged building on that.] * Why is it a “Fringe” session? Currently, there seems to be very little work on what key processes everyone doing knowledge work should be good at. It's easy(ish) to say whether you are a knowledgeworker or not, but much harder to know whether the way you go about your knowledge work makes any sense. Knowledge work has a halo of sorts, being bound up as it is with creativity, epistemology and emotions etc. As a result, being a better knowledgeworker is often seen as purely personal (PKM) or purely group oriented (CKM), and relating mainly either to the tools to support either approach or to more slippery, human concepts such as trust. The fringe aspect here is the contention that organisations *can* and *should* give people basic training in Knowledge Work that is oriented to both the individual and the group and both tools and your brain. The challenge is to work out what that training manual should contain. * Are you interested in conducting it yourself? Yes * Recommending somebody else for the job?Would welcome a couple of partners in crime.
John Curran , 14 July 2005 @ 13:15 PM Knowledge Business SimulationsMr John CurranWhat about an interactive business simulation which focuses on the role of knowledge within organisations? With my colleagues from the European Knowledge Group we could run an open event that people could drop in and out of during the course of the day - swapping roles as appropriate. We would use one of the Celemi simulations - possibly Apples & Oranges or TangoNet. This is definitely NOT a presentation but a truly interactive experience - user involvement required to build the most successful knowledge business!
Jeffrey Baumgartner , 14 July 2005 @ 12:52 PM Workshop proposal: campaign based idea managementMr. Jeffrey Baumgartner I propose doing a workshop on idea management - specifically the campaign based model. The workshop would be a look at the various models of idea management (e-mail, suggestion box, idea pool, campaign), their advantages and disadvantages. It would then look at how to model and manage an ideas campaign. As a follow up, I could set up an on-line ideas campaign on a specific issue of interest to the participants. This could continue for a period after the event. Idea management is on the fringe of KM. But rather than capturing and managing knowledge, it is about capturing and managing ideas. Idea management uses some of the structures of knowledge management, but also uses some of its own structures. I believe this workshop could be interesting to mainstream KM pros who may be able to apply a variation of the campaign approach to mainstream KM. I am indeed interested in conducting it myself. For more information on idea management, please visit http://www.jpb.com/ideamanagement/. Jeffrey Baumgartner
What would attract you to join a cross-industry community of European business innovation practicioners?
Organizations don't innovate - people do. We keep meeting some great individuals that have a passion to transform their organizations. After organizing a couple of events in Poland where a lot of positive energy was created through the knowledge exchange, I am wondering what could be done to connect those efforts on an international level, and create a community of Business Innovators - innovationg products, processes and business models.Would you like to join?What would be your expectations and aspirations?Do you know any similar organizations or some local associations that could connect across Europe and beyond? We will be soon organizing a seminar in Poland with people from Norway, Italy, Ukraine, UK, USA - you might want to join us then (www.innovatika.com/innovationdays). If you can't but are still interested - please let us know. Tomasz Rudolf
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Benoit Couture , 14 August 2005 @ 17:03 PM
The mandate of an entire Province was voted to do just that
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Because Alberta, Canada is now debt free, the Premier and his team of MLAs were re-elected in Nov. 2004 to seek out the expertise from all the world and to now prepare for the future, when there will no longer be any oil revenues. 20 years left they figure. Health, education and the environement have gathered the support democratically, to be the priorities to be preserved and improved upon. The promise is also made to make of the Province, the most online jurisdiction of the world. Is there a possibility to link Alberta and Poland? There certainly is a very vibrant Polish community in Edmonton at: http://www.abheritage.ca/albertans/index.html
Let the heart of John Paul II live on in the simplicity that took him to spread the beauty of Poland to the earth.
Hi Thomasz,
This sounds really interesting and I strongly support the idea of connencting experts on an international level. I'm wondering if the announced event has already taken place. If so, it would be great if you could provide the community with further information.
Thanks
Martin,
Selling knowledge is difficult - why?
* Any deep knowledge exchange requires trust, social capital and relationship for effective transfer & flows
* Knowledge is very context dependent, a small change in the external environment can change the utility of the knowledge greatly
* Most knowledge is intangible, tacit and personal - hard to explicate, wrap, package, describe and promote
* Knowledge is very closely tied to identity, reputation and needs dialog to emerge and be formed. This makes it problematic to deliver without contact and interaction.
* Knowledge is mostly a social agreement on what is important useful, works, or worthwhile. Knowledge then quickly degrades without a community to keep it 'alive', relevant and verified.
'Hard' knowledge in the form of patents, contracts and copyright are subject to ever shortening 1/2 lives and the maket value (e.g. established by bidding) is only a snapshot in time and unlikely to remain stable for long as needs and players change.
So 'selling' knowledge is a difficult and intractible problem IMO.
Thoughts??
Knowledge is mostly a social agreement on what is important useful, works, or worthwhile.
The core lies in
Who has power to decide what is important useful, works, or worthwhile.
What are values (a part of their knowledge) of powerful decision makers when they decide to invest money in/buy something
Benoit Couture , 15-Aug-2005
Selling of knoledge=protection of command and control
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Here's a line from a song about aboriginal people, from a French Canadian singer: "..if they are now sick and ignorant, it wasn't for free, they had to pay for that. Paul Piche"
When we speak of the history of Eupopean colonization around the world, we speak of the days when the dark age ended and then began to fleurish the import amd export of people, goods and knowledge. I go back this far to show that what we call market is in fact the very handling of knowledge. Because of the competitive and warring nature of humans, knowledge protection became more important than the sharing of it. The danting task is now to gain the trust of those entire civilizations who have been oppressed by these knowledge institutions of command and control so that the information age can find a way to massively attract intelligence to buy its way out of the dark age that such market is causing. Awareness and recovery of what defaces the beauty of so many's time and health, is the focus needed to be invested in by all discipline of expertise. A refining process to depolute the minds is nesseacery because of the fact that good health and time are the most precious commondities. Buying and selling knowledge is determined by how to haddle and to invest ourselves, in the good care of continuity. A market that goes on using its knowledge to build war machines and poisonous self-destruction in the name of fun and leisure, is not a good thing to buy in.
What are the sources of fear?
What are the sources of fear? Fear's HomePageChris MacraeAll culturally healthy converssations involve iteration and recursion- a community that does not know that isn't worth living in let alone lurking in DISTINCTIVE PERSPECTIVES· Beyond the rosy spectacle view of innovation, the transformation school stresses that innovation involves a social process of leading people through conflict barriers. It's possible that thing-inventions may not involve conflict-guiding but all knowledge-living innovations will.· Know the innovation barometer around you: is this a hi-innovation time for people and societies around you? Does your most unique objective in life involve hi-innovation? If so, who and what spaces will you trust to rehearse your innovation barriers with? · The biggest picture of knowledgeboard: the most open professional space on the net for succeeding in network age transformation involves as hi-innovation as localities worldwide will get. If you want to help with this two ways forward could be:· State your own biggets innovation goal openly · Develop a social network of like minded people and then state your group goal How can we help you in these endeavours?
Tales of the Intolerables:· Command 1: Community chief emails you saying: Do A, do B, Do C & this mail is strictly private , never show it to anyone· Response 1: If you ever mail me again like that your post will be all over the web before Ucan say abracadra
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[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 08 June 2005 @ 03:38 AM Invitation to considerStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, the EU knowledgeboard is a unique venue to keep on fostering ideas and dreams of ongoing embellishment and celabrations of innovations to better serve mankind with. Because I participated to this thread, I thought you might like to be informed of the following campaign I posted at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 It connects directly with the 5 century old European project called Canada, to negotiate peacefully in the never ending of French-English ambiguity who are yet to know how to deal properly with the Aboriginal hosts. Canada is the ongoing ground invitation to unite humanity at righting the wrong in peace and joy in the way that the United Nations aspire to do. We are deployed to become the training ground for the local scene, busy to innovate the maturity of a people of all people and I invite you to help me see it through for us all. Benoit
Jack Yan , 03 June 2005 @ 10:21 AM The cycle of fearJack YanYou're right, Chris. Fear can certainly be marketed, and everything from Y2K to raised terror alerts can cause runs on computer gear to gas masks. Seems rather out of place in the supposedly "advanced" 21st century. But like so much in life (and in marketing), we're re-enacting an old playbook here. The 2000s aren't particularly more caring than the 1980s. Every decade we say how much better we are, and in fact our advances are so incremental, so tiny, that these past-millennium techniques still sucker us in. Remember how in 1980 the supposed experts were telling us how we would get rid of the excesses of the previous decade and be more caring? After the Thatcherites, we learned that the '80s were worse. Then in 1990, we said the same thing. And we were wrong. In 2000, we said the same thing. And what has, really, changed? The world continues to be divided between those who know and those who daydream through life, and it is perhaps the job of the few "outside the Matrix", so to speak, to alert the others. The good news is, perhaps as your father predicted, we have a better chance using these technologies in doing so than ever before. Then, those with a sufficient profile can paint a better path for us to travel on. It would be worthwhile, because the number of supporters will have reached a tipping point far sooner.
Chris Macrae , 03 June 2005 @ 08:52 AM reformed marketing and sales peopleMr Chris MacraePhillippe - I know a bit about what you say, in fact most of my career has involved understanding how marketing works. But there are many of us who now believe that the paradox- I would go further and say the ethical crisis of valuation - is that human beings cannot sustain relationships if all the largest powers they meet use medium to propagate fear. Its a mad mad world and unless those leveraging the biggest systems- the largest .govs and .coms - come in from this cold war against the people, there is no future to it 1,2,3 generations out. It would transparently do the EU's core identity/gravity a lot of good -and sustainable energy - right now if it mapped back the last week's 2 no votes for undercurrents of fear, of which systemically there are many amongst ordinary peoples, if not amongst powerful bureaucrats. To be European was surely not to be the most fearful species on the planet- is that the actual vision 2010 that Europe's spin-men will materialise? and by the means of budgeting the people's money on systemising such an end?? I am not a fan of the way the world's largest public media - the BBC - has been coopted into fear. Nor are most of the British people if you read their thousands of testimonies here. Ironically for a Prime Minsister who though himself more media savvy than any predecessor, his abuse of the media has lost more respact among British people than just about any act from Numnber 10 in living memory. Is it really the case that leaders have to go through the crisis of disrespect before they rise again- perhaps Bill and he should start their fall leadership transformation inquiry by exorcising that knowledge of fear http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ eg http://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/first_phase_responses/M/M.htmlhttp://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/first_phase_responses/W/Webb_Peter.rtfHaving said that one part of the BBC has hosted dozens of people cafes in the last month all to do with how people live community, of which I have been to four. In everyone of these cafes, people ended up seeing that fear had been stopping them make better community, even go out and network, talk, play, find time to breathe beyond being too busy to live. So thank you BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A4140947 Through fringes and knowledge collaboration cafes, iCAN, UCAN, weCAN
Philippe Leliaert , 03 June 2005 @ 00:11 AM the politics of fearPhilippe Leliaert ... and I forgot to add the politicians: masters of the F-U-D game (examples abound on the world stage over the last couple of years). Is this perhaps a required course in political & social studies ?
Philippe Leliaert , 03 June 2005 @ 00:07 AM FUD=Fear, Uncertainty & DoubtPhilippe Leliaert It's on the first page of a salesperson's - and consultant's - handbook: scare the living daylights out of them and they will buy what you have to sell !(It certainly worked with Y2K).Fear gets people's attention: adrenaline starts pumping, pupils dilate, hair follicles contract. Everything from that moment on is geared to self-preservation. It often comes from uncertainty: the not-knowing what is on the other side, what will happen (and hence people's imagination has free rein to come up with the worst doubts, i.e. a lack of trust or belief (in oneself or someone else). So indeed, trust/faith/belief is one extreme, where fear is the other. Acceptance vs Resistance.Dare I even say: love/giving/sharing vs hate/taking/possession. But it all depends on the situation: I know I am sometimes innovator or early adopter when it comes to change; in other situations I will be a pretty tough resister. And when I resist I will have a good reason to do so. On this KnowledgeBoard platform one is likely to find a community of 'sharers', 'believers'; innovators. But ask yourself this: have you ever 'held back' from sharing what you know with others in this community - and why ? Have you ever felt "once bitten, twice shy" about sharing - and why ? What can you/we do to eliminate such "negative" feelings ? Does there not lie the key to unlock the negative spiral some communities fall in to ?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31 May 2005 @ 15:01 PM Great opportunity to address local-global fearsStay at home dad Benoit CoutureChris and all,I see a direct link from personal inner conflict resolution on to the stability of the Faculty of Living that lives where the clarity of meaning and the meaning of clarity connects from beyond languages, where personal-communal inner-outer resolution is at peace in the joy of being here and now. The sight and sound of humanity in the experience of unity is unfolding...please sister Elisabeth the 2nd, brother BenedictXVI, brother George Bush of the US and all of Europe's people of heart and spirit, do consider the following invitation to voice into existance the Permanent People Summit, so that democracy may come of age in the maturity of a people of all people, away from conflict and agitations... Benoit Couture Dear All Delhi government in association with Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies is hosting the international e-Government Summit titled Conflux 2005 in the month of October 2005. During this three day conference Key government officers from India and Asia Pacific will exchange their experience on planning, implementing and maintaining e-government projects. Besides senior officers from International agencies such as World Bank, UNDP, IDRC etc. are invited to participate in the conference. One of the key tracks during the conference will be on the sectoral e-government case presentations from India, Asia and Europe. CALL FOR PAPERS The papers from the e-government stakeholders and experts are invited for presentation during the conference. Details are available at http://www.conflux.csdms.in. I am pleased to extend the invitation to the members of the group to present papers, participate as delegates or associate in other ways with the conference fore the exchange of learning practices and accelerating e-government movement. Should any of the members require any further information, please feel free to get in touch with the undersigned. Warm RegardsVikas KanungoMobile : 9312722591Fax: +91-120-2500060email: [email protected]
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31 May 2005 @ 14:13 PM Faculty of LivingStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and all,I wish to respond in kind to part of the introduction message, located in bold letters at the top of this thread. It is by conveying on a most personal note of mine that I began my contact with you at Disruptive Mouse first and then here on the EU Knowledgeboard a short while ago. So far this back and forth contact has been done in breathing the waves of meaning and love, upon the rising tide of humans seeking to come together in the unison of the faith and hope that lives beyond languages and which is victorious over the human challenges of inner and inter personal conflicts. Your feedbacks to my postings have allowed me to experience the activation of my own personal inner conflict resolution with a rippling effect. Yesterday morning, after reading your postings in this thread, both, my wife and our first son of 24 years old said : "It almost seem like he's addressing to connect with you intimately!" I say this because the word spin is used often in economic context. Inner conflict resolution of the magnitude that is presently fosterd here in my personal life on this thread is the spin generating that touches the trans generational bridging by using the virtual to stimulate organically growing spiritual health! From inner conflict resolution to family healing from reconciling that which ignorance and indiscipline had burried in past, become humus. Because of the purest of generosity, the EU Kowledgeboard, the Disruptive Mouse and Minciu Soda Lab are presently mapping humanity's recovery road from virtual to the reality of healthy open sourcing to process humus and human life's manure into the experience of knowing into the Faculty of Living. My following post will conclude this one. Benoit Couture
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 07:14 AM What collaboration spaces or places can help you innovate and guide people through conflicts?Mr Chris Macrae1) Micronetworks?2) Cafes?3) co-blogs (1 of 20 ways to love) shared across cities· Blog -eg1- syndicating to any university town· TwinCity Blogs -eg1· OpenCity Blogs -eg14) Fringes of large conferences5) BHAG of KB to be number 1 transformation & sustainability community - ie one where participants are either all on openly stated innovation missions or helping others who are?
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 00:11 AM Testimonies 1Mr Chris Macrae"I am located in the margin. I make a definite distinction between the marginality which is imposed by oppressive structures and that marginality one chooses as a site of resistance - as location of radical openness and possibility. This site of resistance is continually formed in that segregated culture of opposition that is our critical response to domination."-bell hooks, 1990 "It is not to "awaken consciousness" that we struggle...but to sap power, to take power; it is an activity conducted alongside those who struggle for power, and not their illumination from a safe distance."-Michel Foucault, 1996 "[A]ll those on whom power is exercised to their detriment, all who find it intolerable, can begin the struggle on their own terrain and on the basis of their proper activity (or passivity). In engaging in a struggle that concerns their own interests, whose objectives they clearly understand and whose methods only they can determine, they enter into a revolutionary process."-ibid from cf presence: When we eventually grasp the wholeness of nature, it can be shocking. As Bortoft puts it, the part is a place for presencing the whole. Nowhere is it more important to understand the relation between parts and wholes than in the evolution of global institutions and the larger systems they collectively create... It may seem odd to think of about titanic forces such as globalisation and the information revolution as arising from the actions of a new species. But it is also empowering. Rather than attributing the changes sweeping the world to a handful of all powerful individuals or faceless “systems” we can view them as the consequences of a life-from that like any life-form has the potential to grow, learn, and evolve. But until that potential is activated, industrial age institutions will continue to expand “blindly”, unaware of their part in a larger whole or of the consequences of their growth, like cells that have lost their social identity and reverted to growth for its own sake
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 30 May 2005 @ 17:39 PM The 2 sides of my fear fabrics: lonelyness/ irrelevancyStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and all, "...if you can want to ask these questions, then you can move forward, to be...sign up...we can form a micro-community of practice." I've been on these questions under one form or another since I was 4 years old. I have tried for years to find a way to move on and to ignore the observations that force these uninterrupted interrogations, but in vain of course.Am I lonely because I am irrelevant? Or, am I irrelevant because I am lonely? It is in relating that loneliness disolves into relevancy. My journey has taken me to where I have to complete the crossing of the trans-generational barriers to high-trust and care, from stranger to family, from within the proximities of personal-communal development from grade one to 40, in the Canadian context. "Perfect love casts out all fears." The practice of the micro-community is to develop the Permanent People Summit, built from intimate relevancy within the boundaries of the ministry of reconcilliation. Once the microcosm grown, the first stage of local application will be to bring the PMO in Canada to go from Prime Minister Office to Prime Ministry Office, as in "the Ministry of Reconciliation". Because of the current shape of the political and social scene of corrupted national disunity in Canada, there is a golden opportunity to plan for the transition to Prime Ministry Office to be launched with the shaping up of Live -Aid II. The movement of unity is on and the microcosm is standing by to be materialized and deployed according to the correctional measures that are called for. Am I thinking of the right kind of micro-community to overcome universal loneliness and irrelevancy? Benoit Couture
Gary Lawrence Murphy , 30 May 2005 @ 16:54 PM "Fear" may be a societal glueGary Lawrence MurphyIn an old 60's era Alan Watts' lecture, I think it was "Zen Practice, Zen Art", he reflects on how the socialization of the human has as a byproduct the neutralization of the essential free-spirit of the child, and he muses that perhaps we have evolved psychotherapy as the peculiar western antidote to the peculiar western education system, and further muses how, in other cultures, this may be the ecological role of religious practice such as found in Buddhism. Having had the spark of the creative burned out of us by diligent school marms bent on making us "good citizens", it's the job of the inspirator to re-discover and re-ignite it. In these discussions, there is a danger of confusing many things under the umbrella term of 'fear' -- there is a complacency that is entrenched by our school systems, the "Play by the rules and you will succeed" that I cannot disqualify as good advice because I myself did not and certainly did not as a result. So in that way, there's a fear of stepping outside the lines. Is this the same as the fear of bodily harm that arises from, say, arachniphobia? A phobic response to a stimulus generally arises from a prior real or imagined experience, with good evidence that the response is classically conditioned (partially because it can be removed by classical conditioning) but is the solution to re-igniting free-thinking so simple as an NLP reframing? Both may involve our "mirror neurons" and thus we can see them as different aspects of the same phenomenon, one being the ecological purpose for a social creature, the other a malignant mis-application of that same governor-circuit.
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 10:01 AM repetitionMr Chris MacraeI intentionally repeat the end of the last post because it connects with 15 years of my own work on chartering and personal mappingWhat opportunities will I have missed because I did not plan, prioritize, and pursue my own vision today? How will this effect the people close to me? my unborn children? the world? What is my ideal life in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What do I need to change to reach that vision today? now? here? In our own work on identity whether personal, corporate or communal- the simplest question to start the forward journey is what would the world uniquely miss if you ceased to exist?: make a list of who in the world would uniquely miss what that your greatest vision, and activation intents are about Now that you see this list - your own personal value exchange hub if you wish - confront what blocks you from progressing this There are at least 2 common blocks assuming that you are uniquely competent to serve your vision 1) is disconnections- not having the relationship permissions to action all that you want to serve -do you have some hi-trust peers you can discuss these disconnections with?; will they link you through their social networks?; will they stage a cafe around these people and the connections you next wish to activate?; is there an open community - god willing there's KB of the future - where you can ask for such connections? 2) conflicts between the different promises and deliveries you are making to different groups of people; so why is that- time conflicts or because one group won't let you serve another group; and how do you jump over those barriers that some social controlling agent is unnecessarily putting in your way If you can want to ask these questions, then you can move forward, to be. If you feel that's worth doing -sign into this thread saying so, and we can form a micro community of practice.
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 09:50 AM thanks Dr EddyMr Chris MacraeFollowing Deepest Fear search is indeed a path full of learning eg I found this Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson, excerpt from "A Return to Love" There are those moments when just by thinking a thought it becomes a reality. You may have thought the same thought many times before, but with no effect. But this time something else is different and 'if' turns into 'when'. Religious people call it a conversion. Secular people call it a moment of clarity. It could happen when someone sees injustice, the same type that others see, but for some reason it touches them at such a strong level that they devote their life to alleviating it. It might be years of drunk driving, and then one serious accident where the individual knows they will never drink a drop of alcohol again. In physically violent relationships that are held together by fear, it could be the strength to leave. In a dead-end job one has had for years, it could be the decision to relocate and pursue one's passion.I don't know what causes these moments exactly. Some people never have them, some people have them on a somewhat regular basis. I know for me, these moments have shaped my life. Living between these specks of time becomes the easy part when I remember the power of the commitment I made. I believe that we all have the moments boiling up inside of us and that we probably are already aware of them on some level. Something that brings it out for me are when I fully visualize and experience the following questions: If I pursued the path I'm on right now, what would my life look like in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What opportunities will I have missed because I did not plan, prioritize, and pursue my own vision today? How will this effect the people close to me? my unborn children? the world? What is my ideal life in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What do I need to change to reach that vision today? now? here?
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 08:28 AM Transdisciplinarity : great ideaMr Chris MacraeWould love to see a worldwide transdisciplinary curriculum from grade 1 to 40 As this schema tries to illustrate: I tend to feel ever 3 years, a higher level of transdiciplinary understanding would involve clarifying what was over-simplified or too separated at the previous level that now needs more integration, not just in knowing the facts but experiencing their application I also tend to assume that where stuff has changed - like in the last 15 year the interent - then it will be necessary to work back on somne topics that grade 40 does not know that eg grade 15 does; in other words the curricula could be wiki'd not just by elders but alos by youngers imagine therefore 13-14 parallel wiki's looking into the world's transdisciplinary curriculum and the possibility to include subjects never valued before like going beyond national culture to integrating the ebst of 2 or more nation's ways of interpreting the world and appreciating each other; intercity open review boards like LondonRiga would be one way to keep making the wisdom more inclusive as well as living with curiosity; every university town could join in with a global concerns/meanings of life blog- this one out of the same place as KB takes 10 minutes for any university town to take over their version that began with some common leads but was edited locally until it divesrified from the common roots as far as its youth wished Out of such iterating openness, let's hope the world's peoples would understrahd how applaud those who participated by bringing new big questions to the table and nobody who wanted to prioroitise one view as factually superior to the other would get away with such closure Further ref Transdisciplinarity was also advanced across KB by pathleading communities of Quaerere and Knowledge Angels, among others Building bridges across experts takes a lot of courage- the more so since many vicious or greedy professions have siloised their own business cases in recent years. Ironically, a primary study among risk experts has emerged as that of recognising what professional apartheids have been spun to global levels of dehumanisation
Arturs Puga , 30 May 2005 @ 07:48 AM wayDr Arturs Puga Perhaps to understand: We, our children, next generations should learn KNOWLEDGE, like MATH, LANGUAGE, PHYSICS, HISTORY - a new discipline/area/the WEB-enabled field of transdisciplinarity in schools, universities, virtual networks, etc
Arturs Puga , 29 May 2005 @ 17:37 PM nextDr Arturs Puga How to help to free an individual from the fear TO BECOME KNOWLEDGEABLE AND ACTIVE IN KNOWLEDGE SHARING?
Lars Bredmose , 29 May 2005 @ 03:52 AM Sources of fear: intermediate summaryMr. Lars Bredmose This has turned out to become an interesting thread. Thank you, Chris, for starting it. May I propose the following summary? The sources of fear so far defined are: • Separation of economics and religion/faith/love creates systemic fear in societies (Chris).• A fear that we do not have endless resources (zero-sum economics view, Chris).• A perceived lack of knowledge in itself creates fear (Nikolai).• A perceived lack of freedom and belief in self and others (trust?) creates fear (Arturs).• Criticism of our actions by others creates the fear of being different (Chris).• The potential to loose what one has (status, expertise, goods, career) creates the fear of sharing and creating knowledge in untraditional ways (Lars, Arturs).• The perceived omni potency of humans makes us afraid of ourselves (Eddy). Have I missed anyone's point with this summary? Feel free to edit and add. This list could become a useful starting point for identifying reasons for lack of sharing of knowledge. Regards,Lars http://bredmose.net
Dr Eddy Kloprogge , 29 May 2005 @ 00:02 AM Fear comes from within"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson is the author of A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3 The famous passage from her book was used in his inauguration speech by Nelson Mandela and the "deepest fear" quote is often erroneously attributed to Mandela.
Arturs Puga , 28 May 2005 @ 17:32 PM thanksDr Arturs Puga I agree with Lars, the fear is in us. ----- What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid, but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness. He may have his own. A man's genius, the quality that differences him from every other, the susceptibility to one class of influences, the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for him the character of the universe. Ralph W. Emerson ----- PKM and KM, foresight based on universal values help to do with fear
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 15:49 PM search fear and trustMr Chris MacraeIf we google fear and trust, we come across some pretty big clues In this example, a psychologist tells a story of obserrving an american and mexican 5 year old on a beach - the one being strictly sueprvised, the other ropaming free if somewhat riskily. I believe there are some lessons here in any place that is over-governed -or do you take out something else? But are we really talking about some counter-culture philosophical movement? This is just a little boy skipping across boulders to a deliciously awaiting ocean expressing a freedom that many of us knew in childhood and lost. It is simply childhood: unbridled, uncensored, uninhibited living. It is old, ancient, and everyone knows what it is -- except those who have forgotten or pretend they cannot remember. It is spirit, beauty, exuberance, human nature at its finest, the golden glowing grace of humanity and childhood exquisitely expressed in movement, dance, and unpretentious joy. And the greatest enemy to the full, evocative expression of this central element of living is fear, mistrust, and foreboding. Psychiatrist Alexander Lowen's Bioenergetics, comes close to the target. He describes how a naturally joyful child comes into adulthood by passing through myriad checkpoints of criticism, admonishments, rules, frustrations, deprecations, evaluations, cautions, and asundry punishments. The result is that, with time, the child loses that unique effervescence all children at one time or another had. Lowen considers this the beginning point of adult neurosis. His therapy specializes in the rediscovery of the body, which is not that far distant from the rediscovery of childhood. Children sitting in front of television, inside, alone, become blunted and sedentary, overweight, and even show elevated cholesterol levels...all bequeathed from a restricted, inhibited, and increasingly virtual childhood.
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 15:30 PM recollectionMr Chris MacraeArturs comment reminds me in particular of this extract from a talk that the American philospoher Alphonso Lingis gave in Delhi. If I could dream, I would have this saying hammered onto the wall of every EU budgetholder of KM, and indeed every policymaker who funds learning/research into productivity and demands "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 neutral states? 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, but rather 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. One should believe one’s joy more than one’s prudence, or any cautious or fearful state of mind".
Arturs Puga , 28 May 2005 @ 15:00 PM Values Dr Arturs Puga I think, Freedom, and belief in yourself and Man are keys for us. And knowledge, I see, is the assimilation of the message of freedom placed by Creation in a man.
Nikolai Krjachkov , 28 May 2005 @ 09:54 AM Re: What are the sources of fear?TextVirusExpert Nikolai KrjachkovA lack of proper knowledge or education is a source of fear, I think? Religion as a hierarchical model for society (and economy) neither prevents nor solves the problem of fear. Religion is too personal (therefore can’t be obligatory) to be a proper institution for networking and nature based society. For example, some people afraid of ‘text virus’. They prefer not to consider risks and not to understand the variants of hidden (in texts) possible actions, but rely on illusions and therefore let someone to use them as resources.
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 08:14 AM a novice in the knowledge of fearMr Chris MacraeI have come late to this inquiry. For example leading schools in getting over fear have century's of practice in the East: Goleman's interactions with the Dalai Lama on destructive emotions help me. Would love to hear other seminal lights from Asian and Eastern perspective. I look forward to Delhi's world congress in 2007 for any people who want to learn from Gandhi, as I expect his truth testing practices of communal knowledge exorcise fear. Religious people I know in the West now believe that the separation of economics from societal/religious goods such as faith, hope , love is : the (root cause of) systemic fear (terror) that is dividing the world, as well as stopped attempts however well or badly intended to end extreme poverty everywhere. Since the 1970s system mappers have suggested that networking connectivity demands we get over this before any advantages of ebusiness, or global trade can be sustained on all sides. Lynne Twist in the soul of money explains how fear of money makes all our lifetimes smaller than we could have been. Life revolves round: What we appreciate appreciates. The big fear is to be driven by there's never enough; I feel passionately that we need leaders who explore economics of abundance not of externalities. I am sad how little the media and our schools lets people and youth debate this openly. Is it really that complex, beyond human beings to grasp? Or is it that machines will never get this, and a fundamental flaw in 20th C management measurement dictates that owners invest only in machines, never in people. Why can't we get post-industrial and start enjoying service and learning economies? Fear is the way we are socially controlled in the west through debt or the prospect that we will not be able to afford healthcare for our family or we will have no pension etc. So unless a society's government cares minimally socially for its people on such common goods as well as making laws so simple that there is no corruption, I doubt if that country or region will make further progress in developed parts of the world. Many people fear to debate the likelihood that extreme capitalism becomes as dehabilitating as extreme communism, or that left and right are irrelevant for most learning age policies. It seems odd that if we could get rid of fear people all round the world could quickly everyone's potential to live rewarding lives. Yet personally I would bet all my knowledge on that belief, and therefore wish to discover ways to clarify in which countries politicians and peoples understand that.
Lars Bredmose , 28 May 2005 @ 04:59 AM Fear of lossMr. Lars Bredmose In short, the major source of fear is the potential for a loss. Effects on people: - Not trying, for fear of loss of investement.- Not sharing, for fear that investment is not recognised (again, loss of investment).- Not combining or creating new concepts and knowledge, for fear of ridicule by subject matter experts (loss of status). Other suggestions, anyone? Regards,Lars http://bredmose.net
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[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 08 June 2005 @ 03:38 AM Invitation to considerStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, the EU knowledgeboard is a unique venue to keep on fostering ideas and dreams of ongoing embellishment and celabrations of innovations to better serve mankind with. Because I participated to this thread, I thought you might like to be informed of the following campaign I posted at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 It connects directly with the 5 century old European project called Canada, to negotiate peacefully in the never ending of French-English ambiguity who are yet to know how to deal properly with the Aboriginal hosts. Canada is the ongoing ground invitation to unite humanity at righting the wrong in peace and joy in the way that the United Nations aspire to do. We are deployed to become the training ground for the local scene, busy to innovate the maturity of a people of all people and I invite you to help me see it through for us all. Benoit
Jack Yan , 03 June 2005 @ 10:21 AM The cycle of fearJack YanYou're right, Chris. Fear can certainly be marketed, and everything from Y2K to raised terror alerts can cause runs on computer gear to gas masks. Seems rather out of place in the supposedly "advanced" 21st century. But like so much in life (and in marketing), we're re-enacting an old playbook here. The 2000s aren't particularly more caring than the 1980s. Every decade we say how much better we are, and in fact our advances are so incremental, so tiny, that these past-millennium techniques still sucker us in. Remember how in 1980 the supposed experts were telling us how we would get rid of the excesses of the previous decade and be more caring? After the Thatcherites, we learned that the '80s were worse. Then in 1990, we said the same thing. And we were wrong. In 2000, we said the same thing. And what has, really, changed? The world continues to be divided between those who know and those who daydream through life, and it is perhaps the job of the few "outside the Matrix", so to speak, to alert the others. The good news is, perhaps as your father predicted, we have a better chance using these technologies in doing so than ever before. Then, those with a sufficient profile can paint a better path for us to travel on. It would be worthwhile, because the number of supporters will have reached a tipping point far sooner.
Chris Macrae , 03 June 2005 @ 08:52 AM reformed marketing and sales peopleMr Chris MacraePhillippe - I know a bit about what you say, in fact most of my career has involved understanding how marketing works. But there are many of us who now believe that the paradox- I would go further and say the ethical crisis of valuation - is that human beings cannot sustain relationships if all the largest powers they meet use medium to propagate fear. Its a mad mad world and unless those leveraging the biggest systems- the largest .govs and .coms - come in from this cold war against the people, there is no future to it 1,2,3 generations out. It would transparently do the EU's core identity/gravity a lot of good -and sustainable energy - right now if it mapped back the last week's 2 no votes for undercurrents of fear, of which systemically there are many amongst ordinary peoples, if not amongst powerful bureaucrats. To be European was surely not to be the most fearful species on the planet- is that the actual vision 2010 that Europe's spin-men will materialise? and by the means of budgeting the people's money on systemising such an end?? I am not a fan of the way the world's largest public media - the BBC - has been coopted into fear. Nor are most of the British people if you read their thousands of testimonies here. Ironically for a Prime Minsister who though himself more media savvy than any predecessor, his abuse of the media has lost more respact among British people than just about any act from Numnber 10 in living memory. Is it really the case that leaders have to go through the crisis of disrespect before they rise again- perhaps Bill and he should start their fall leadership transformation inquiry by exorcising that knowledge of fear http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ eg http://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/first_phase_responses/M/M.htmlhttp://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/first_phase_responses/W/Webb_Peter.rtfHaving said that one part of the BBC has hosted dozens of people cafes in the last month all to do with how people live community, of which I have been to four. In everyone of these cafes, people ended up seeing that fear had been stopping them make better community, even go out and network, talk, play, find time to breathe beyond being too busy to live. So thank you BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A4140947 Through fringes and knowledge collaboration cafes, iCAN, UCAN, weCAN
Philippe Leliaert , 03 June 2005 @ 00:11 AM the politics of fearPhilippe Leliaert ... and I forgot to add the politicians: masters of the F-U-D game (examples abound on the world stage over the last couple of years). Is this perhaps a required course in political & social studies ?
Philippe Leliaert , 03 June 2005 @ 00:07 AM FUD=Fear, Uncertainty & DoubtPhilippe Leliaert It's on the first page of a salesperson's - and consultant's - handbook: scare the living daylights out of them and they will buy what you have to sell !(It certainly worked with Y2K).Fear gets people's attention: adrenaline starts pumping, pupils dilate, hair follicles contract. Everything from that moment on is geared to self-preservation. It often comes from uncertainty: the not-knowing what is on the other side, what will happen (and hence people's imagination has free rein to come up with the worst doubts, i.e. a lack of trust or belief (in oneself or someone else). So indeed, trust/faith/belief is one extreme, where fear is the other. Acceptance vs Resistance.Dare I even say: love/giving/sharing vs hate/taking/possession. But it all depends on the situation: I know I am sometimes innovator or early adopter when it comes to change; in other situations I will be a pretty tough resister. And when I resist I will have a good reason to do so. On this KnowledgeBoard platform one is likely to find a community of 'sharers', 'believers'; innovators. But ask yourself this: have you ever 'held back' from sharing what you know with others in this community - and why ? Have you ever felt "once bitten, twice shy" about sharing - and why ? What can you/we do to eliminate such "negative" feelings ? Does there not lie the key to unlock the negative spiral some communities fall in to ?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31 May 2005 @ 15:01 PM Great opportunity to address local-global fearsStay at home dad Benoit CoutureChris and all,I see a direct link from personal inner conflict resolution on to the stability of the Faculty of Living that lives where the clarity of meaning and the meaning of clarity connects from beyond languages, where personal-communal inner-outer resolution is at peace in the joy of being here and now. The sight and sound of humanity in the experience of unity is unfolding...please sister Elisabeth the 2nd, brother BenedictXVI, brother George Bush of the US and all of Europe's people of heart and spirit, do consider the following invitation to voice into existance the Permanent People Summit, so that democracy may come of age in the maturity of a people of all people, away from conflict and agitations... Benoit Couture Dear All Delhi government in association with Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies is hosting the international e-Government Summit titled Conflux 2005 in the month of October 2005. During this three day conference Key government officers from India and Asia Pacific will exchange their experience on planning, implementing and maintaining e-government projects. Besides senior officers from International agencies such as World Bank, UNDP, IDRC etc. are invited to participate in the conference. One of the key tracks during the conference will be on the sectoral e-government case presentations from India, Asia and Europe. CALL FOR PAPERS The papers from the e-government stakeholders and experts are invited for presentation during the conference. Details are available at http://www.conflux.csdms.in. I am pleased to extend the invitation to the members of the group to present papers, participate as delegates or associate in other ways with the conference fore the exchange of learning practices and accelerating e-government movement. Should any of the members require any further information, please feel free to get in touch with the undersigned. Warm RegardsVikas KanungoMobile : 9312722591Fax: +91-120-2500060email: [email protected]
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31 May 2005 @ 14:13 PM Faculty of LivingStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and all,I wish to respond in kind to part of the introduction message, located in bold letters at the top of this thread. It is by conveying on a most personal note of mine that I began my contact with you at Disruptive Mouse first and then here on the EU Knowledgeboard a short while ago. So far this back and forth contact has been done in breathing the waves of meaning and love, upon the rising tide of humans seeking to come together in the unison of the faith and hope that lives beyond languages and which is victorious over the human challenges of inner and inter personal conflicts. Your feedbacks to my postings have allowed me to experience the activation of my own personal inner conflict resolution with a rippling effect. Yesterday morning, after reading your postings in this thread, both, my wife and our first son of 24 years old said : "It almost seem like he's addressing to connect with you intimately!" I say this because the word spin is used often in economic context. Inner conflict resolution of the magnitude that is presently fosterd here in my personal life on this thread is the spin generating that touches the trans generational bridging by using the virtual to stimulate organically growing spiritual health! From inner conflict resolution to family healing from reconciling that which ignorance and indiscipline had burried in past, become humus. Because of the purest of generosity, the EU Kowledgeboard, the Disruptive Mouse and Minciu Soda Lab are presently mapping humanity's recovery road from virtual to the reality of healthy open sourcing to process humus and human life's manure into the experience of knowing into the Faculty of Living. My following post will conclude this one. Benoit Couture
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 07:14 AM What collaboration spaces or places can help you innovate and guide people through conflicts?Mr Chris Macrae1) Micronetworks?2) Cafes?3) co-blogs (1 of 20 ways to love) shared across cities· Blog -eg1- syndicating to any university town· TwinCity Blogs -eg1· OpenCity Blogs -eg14) Fringes of large conferences5) BHAG of KB to be number 1 transformation & sustainability community - ie one where participants are either all on openly stated innovation missions or helping others who are?
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 00:11 AM Testimonies 1Mr Chris Macrae"I am located in the margin. I make a definite distinction between the marginality which is imposed by oppressive structures and that marginality one chooses as a site of resistance - as location of radical openness and possibility. This site of resistance is continually formed in that segregated culture of opposition that is our critical response to domination."-bell hooks, 1990 "It is not to "awaken consciousness" that we struggle...but to sap power, to take power; it is an activity conducted alongside those who struggle for power, and not their illumination from a safe distance."-Michel Foucault, 1996 "[A]ll those on whom power is exercised to their detriment, all who find it intolerable, can begin the struggle on their own terrain and on the basis of their proper activity (or passivity). In engaging in a struggle that concerns their own interests, whose objectives they clearly understand and whose methods only they can determine, they enter into a revolutionary process."-ibid from cf presence: When we eventually grasp the wholeness of nature, it can be shocking. As Bortoft puts it, the part is a place for presencing the whole. Nowhere is it more important to understand the relation between parts and wholes than in the evolution of global institutions and the larger systems they collectively create... It may seem odd to think of about titanic forces such as globalisation and the information revolution as arising from the actions of a new species. But it is also empowering. Rather than attributing the changes sweeping the world to a handful of all powerful individuals or faceless “systems” we can view them as the consequences of a life-from that like any life-form has the potential to grow, learn, and evolve. But until that potential is activated, industrial age institutions will continue to expand “blindly”, unaware of their part in a larger whole or of the consequences of their growth, like cells that have lost their social identity and reverted to growth for its own sake
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 30 May 2005 @ 17:39 PM The 2 sides of my fear fabrics: lonelyness/ irrelevancyStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and all, "...if you can want to ask these questions, then you can move forward, to be...sign up...we can form a micro-community of practice." I've been on these questions under one form or another since I was 4 years old. I have tried for years to find a way to move on and to ignore the observations that force these uninterrupted interrogations, but in vain of course.Am I lonely because I am irrelevant? Or, am I irrelevant because I am lonely? It is in relating that loneliness disolves into relevancy. My journey has taken me to where I have to complete the crossing of the trans-generational barriers to high-trust and care, from stranger to family, from within the proximities of personal-communal development from grade one to 40, in the Canadian context. "Perfect love casts out all fears." The practice of the micro-community is to develop the Permanent People Summit, built from intimate relevancy within the boundaries of the ministry of reconcilliation. Once the microcosm grown, the first stage of local application will be to bring the PMO in Canada to go from Prime Minister Office to Prime Ministry Office, as in "the Ministry of Reconciliation". Because of the current shape of the political and social scene of corrupted national disunity in Canada, there is a golden opportunity to plan for the transition to Prime Ministry Office to be launched with the shaping up of Live -Aid II. The movement of unity is on and the microcosm is standing by to be materialized and deployed according to the correctional measures that are called for. Am I thinking of the right kind of micro-community to overcome universal loneliness and irrelevancy? Benoit Couture
Gary Lawrence Murphy , 30 May 2005 @ 16:54 PM "Fear" may be a societal glueGary Lawrence MurphyIn an old 60's era Alan Watts' lecture, I think it was "Zen Practice, Zen Art", he reflects on how the socialization of the human has as a byproduct the neutralization of the essential free-spirit of the child, and he muses that perhaps we have evolved psychotherapy as the peculiar western antidote to the peculiar western education system, and further muses how, in other cultures, this may be the ecological role of religious practice such as found in Buddhism. Having had the spark of the creative burned out of us by diligent school marms bent on making us "good citizens", it's the job of the inspirator to re-discover and re-ignite it. In these discussions, there is a danger of confusing many things under the umbrella term of 'fear' -- there is a complacency that is entrenched by our school systems, the "Play by the rules and you will succeed" that I cannot disqualify as good advice because I myself did not and certainly did not as a result. So in that way, there's a fear of stepping outside the lines. Is this the same as the fear of bodily harm that arises from, say, arachniphobia? A phobic response to a stimulus generally arises from a prior real or imagined experience, with good evidence that the response is classically conditioned (partially because it can be removed by classical conditioning) but is the solution to re-igniting free-thinking so simple as an NLP reframing? Both may involve our "mirror neurons" and thus we can see them as different aspects of the same phenomenon, one being the ecological purpose for a social creature, the other a malignant mis-application of that same governor-circuit.
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 10:01 AM repetitionMr Chris MacraeI intentionally repeat the end of the last post because it connects with 15 years of my own work on chartering and personal mappingWhat opportunities will I have missed because I did not plan, prioritize, and pursue my own vision today? How will this effect the people close to me? my unborn children? the world? What is my ideal life in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What do I need to change to reach that vision today? now? here? In our own work on identity whether personal, corporate or communal- the simplest question to start the forward journey is what would the world uniquely miss if you ceased to exist?: make a list of who in the world would uniquely miss what that your greatest vision, and activation intents are about Now that you see this list - your own personal value exchange hub if you wish - confront what blocks you from progressing this There are at least 2 common blocks assuming that you are uniquely competent to serve your vision 1) is disconnections- not having the relationship permissions to action all that you want to serve -do you have some hi-trust peers you can discuss these disconnections with?; will they link you through their social networks?; will they stage a cafe around these people and the connections you next wish to activate?; is there an open community - god willing there's KB of the future - where you can ask for such connections? 2) conflicts between the different promises and deliveries you are making to different groups of people; so why is that- time conflicts or because one group won't let you serve another group; and how do you jump over those barriers that some social controlling agent is unnecessarily putting in your way If you can want to ask these questions, then you can move forward, to be. If you feel that's worth doing -sign into this thread saying so, and we can form a micro community of practice.
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 09:50 AM thanks Dr EddyMr Chris MacraeFollowing Deepest Fear search is indeed a path full of learning eg I found this Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson, excerpt from "A Return to Love" There are those moments when just by thinking a thought it becomes a reality. You may have thought the same thought many times before, but with no effect. But this time something else is different and 'if' turns into 'when'. Religious people call it a conversion. Secular people call it a moment of clarity. It could happen when someone sees injustice, the same type that others see, but for some reason it touches them at such a strong level that they devote their life to alleviating it. It might be years of drunk driving, and then one serious accident where the individual knows they will never drink a drop of alcohol again. In physically violent relationships that are held together by fear, it could be the strength to leave. In a dead-end job one has had for years, it could be the decision to relocate and pursue one's passion.I don't know what causes these moments exactly. Some people never have them, some people have them on a somewhat regular basis. I know for me, these moments have shaped my life. Living between these specks of time becomes the easy part when I remember the power of the commitment I made. I believe that we all have the moments boiling up inside of us and that we probably are already aware of them on some level. Something that brings it out for me are when I fully visualize and experience the following questions: If I pursued the path I'm on right now, what would my life look like in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What opportunities will I have missed because I did not plan, prioritize, and pursue my own vision today? How will this effect the people close to me? my unborn children? the world? What is my ideal life in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What do I need to change to reach that vision today? now? here?
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 08:28 AM Transdisciplinarity : great ideaMr Chris MacraeWould love to see a worldwide transdisciplinary curriculum from grade 1 to 40 As this schema tries to illustrate: I tend to feel ever 3 years, a higher level of transdiciplinary understanding would involve clarifying what was over-simplified or too separated at the previous level that now needs more integration, not just in knowing the facts but experiencing their application I also tend to assume that where stuff has changed - like in the last 15 year the interent - then it will be necessary to work back on somne topics that grade 40 does not know that eg grade 15 does; in other words the curricula could be wiki'd not just by elders but alos by youngers imagine therefore 13-14 parallel wiki's looking into the world's transdisciplinary curriculum and the possibility to include subjects never valued before like going beyond national culture to integrating the ebst of 2 or more nation's ways of interpreting the world and appreciating each other; intercity open review boards like LondonRiga would be one way to keep making the wisdom more inclusive as well as living with curiosity; every university town could join in with a global concerns/meanings of life blog- this one out of the same place as KB takes 10 minutes for any university town to take over their version that began with some common leads but was edited locally until it divesrified from the common roots as far as its youth wished Out of such iterating openness, let's hope the world's peoples would understrahd how applaud those who participated by bringing new big questions to the table and nobody who wanted to prioroitise one view as factually superior to the other would get away with such closure Further ref Transdisciplinarity was also advanced across KB by pathleading communities of Quaerere and Knowledge Angels, among others Building bridges across experts takes a lot of courage- the more so since many vicious or greedy professions have siloised their own business cases in recent years. Ironically, a primary study among risk experts has emerged as that of recognising what professional apartheids have been spun to global levels of dehumanisation
Arturs Puga , 30 May 2005 @ 07:48 AM wayDr Arturs Puga Perhaps to understand: We, our children, next generations should learn KNOWLEDGE, like MATH, LANGUAGE, PHYSICS, HISTORY - a new discipline/area/the WEB-enabled field of transdisciplinarity in schools, universities, virtual networks, etc
Arturs Puga , 29 May 2005 @ 17:37 PM nextDr Arturs Puga How to help to free an individual from the fear TO BECOME KNOWLEDGEABLE AND ACTIVE IN KNOWLEDGE SHARING?
Lars Bredmose , 29 May 2005 @ 03:52 AM Sources of fear: intermediate summaryMr. Lars Bredmose This has turned out to become an interesting thread. Thank you, Chris, for starting it. May I propose the following summary? The sources of fear so far defined are: • Separation of economics and religion/faith/love creates systemic fear in societies (Chris).• A fear that we do not have endless resources (zero-sum economics view, Chris).• A perceived lack of knowledge in itself creates fear (Nikolai).• A perceived lack of freedom and belief in self and others (trust?) creates fear (Arturs).• Criticism of our actions by others creates the fear of being different (Chris).• The potential to loose what one has (status, expertise, goods, career) creates the fear of sharing and creating knowledge in untraditional ways (Lars, Arturs).• The perceived omni potency of humans makes us afraid of ourselves (Eddy). Have I missed anyone's point with this summary? Feel free to edit and add. This list could become a useful starting point for identifying reasons for lack of sharing of knowledge. Regards,Lars http://bredmose.net
Dr Eddy Kloprogge , 29 May 2005 @ 00:02 AM Fear comes from within"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson is the author of A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3 The famous passage from her book was used in his inauguration speech by Nelson Mandela and the "deepest fear" quote is often erroneously attributed to Mandela.
Arturs Puga , 28 May 2005 @ 17:32 PM thanksDr Arturs Puga I agree with Lars, the fear is in us. ----- What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid, but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness. He may have his own. A man's genius, the quality that differences him from every other, the susceptibility to one class of influences, the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for him the character of the universe. Ralph W. Emerson ----- PKM and KM, foresight based on universal values help to do with fear
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 15:49 PM search fear and trustMr Chris MacraeIf we google fear and trust, we come across some pretty big clues In this example, a psychologist tells a story of obserrving an american and mexican 5 year old on a beach - the one being strictly sueprvised, the other ropaming free if somewhat riskily. I believe there are some lessons here in any place that is over-governed -or do you take out something else? But are we really talking about some counter-culture philosophical movement? This is just a little boy skipping across boulders to a deliciously awaiting ocean expressing a freedom that many of us knew in childhood and lost. It is simply childhood: unbridled, uncensored, uninhibited living. It is old, ancient, and everyone knows what it is -- except those who have forgotten or pretend they cannot remember. It is spirit, beauty, exuberance, human nature at its finest, the golden glowing grace of humanity and childhood exquisitely expressed in movement, dance, and unpretentious joy. And the greatest enemy to the full, evocative expression of this central element of living is fear, mistrust, and foreboding. Psychiatrist Alexander Lowen's Bioenergetics, comes close to the target. He describes how a naturally joyful child comes into adulthood by passing through myriad checkpoints of criticism, admonishments, rules, frustrations, deprecations, evaluations, cautions, and asundry punishments. The result is that, with time, the child loses that unique effervescence all children at one time or another had. Lowen considers this the beginning point of adult neurosis. His therapy specializes in the rediscovery of the body, which is not that far distant from the rediscovery of childhood. Children sitting in front of television, inside, alone, become blunted and sedentary, overweight, and even show elevated cholesterol levels...all bequeathed from a restricted, inhibited, and increasingly virtual childhood.
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 15:30 PM recollectionMr Chris MacraeArturs comment reminds me in particular of this extract from a talk that the American philospoher Alphonso Lingis gave in Delhi. If I could dream, I would have this saying hammered onto the wall of every EU budgetholder of KM, and indeed every policymaker who funds learning/research into productivity and demands "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 neutral states? 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, but rather 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. One should believe one’s joy more than one’s prudence, or any cautious or fearful state of mind".
Arturs Puga , 28 May 2005 @ 15:00 PM Values Dr Arturs Puga I think, Freedom, and belief in yourself and Man are keys for us. And knowledge, I see, is the assimilation of the message of freedom placed by Creation in a man.
Nikolai Krjachkov , 28 May 2005 @ 09:54 AM Re: What are the sources of fear?TextVirusExpert Nikolai KrjachkovA lack of proper knowledge or education is a source of fear, I think? Religion as a hierarchical model for society (and economy) neither prevents nor solves the problem of fear. Religion is too personal (therefore can’t be obligatory) to be a proper institution for networking and nature based society. For example, some people afraid of ‘text virus’. They prefer not to consider risks and not to understand the variants of hidden (in texts) possible actions, but rely on illusions and therefore let someone to use them as resources.
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 08:14 AM a novice in the knowledge of fearMr Chris MacraeI have come late to this inquiry. For example leading schools in getting over fear have century's of practice in the East: Goleman's interactions with the Dalai Lama on destructive emotions help me. Would love to hear other seminal lights from Asian and Eastern perspective. I look forward to Delhi's world congress in 2007 for any people who want to learn from Gandhi, as I expect his truth testing practices of communal knowledge exorcise fear. Religious people I know in the West now believe that the separation of economics from societal/religious goods such as faith, hope , love is : the (root cause of) systemic fear (terror) that is dividing the world, as well as stopped attempts however well or badly intended to end extreme poverty everywhere. Since the 1970s system mappers have suggested that networking connectivity demands we get over this before any advantages of ebusiness, or global trade can be sustained on all sides. Lynne Twist in the soul of money explains how fear of money makes all our lifetimes smaller than we could have been. Life revolves round: What we appreciate appreciates. The big fear is to be driven by there's never enough; I feel passionately that we need leaders who explore economics of abundance not of externalities. I am sad how little the media and our schools lets people and youth debate this openly. Is it really that complex, beyond human beings to grasp? Or is it that machines will never get this, and a fundamental flaw in 20th C management measurement dictates that owners invest only in machines, never in people. Why can't we get post-industrial and start enjoying service and learning economies? Fear is the way we are socially controlled in the west through debt or the prospect that we will not be able to afford healthcare for our family or we will have no pension etc. So unless a society's government cares minimally socially for its people on such common goods as well as making laws so simple that there is no corruption, I doubt if that country or region will make further progress in developed parts of the world. Many people fear to debate the likelihood that extreme capitalism becomes as dehabilitating as extreme communism, or that left and right are irrelevant for most learning age policies. It seems odd that if we could get rid of fear people all round the world could quickly everyone's potential to live rewarding lives. Yet personally I would bet all my knowledge on that belief, and therefore wish to discover ways to clarify in which countries politicians and peoples understand that.
Lars Bredmose , 28 May 2005 @ 04:59 AM Fear of lossMr. Lars Bredmose In short, the major source of fear is the potential for a loss. Effects on people: - Not trying, for fear of loss of investement.- Not sharing, for fear that investment is not recognised (again, loss of investment).- Not combining or creating new concepts and knowledge, for fear of ridicule by subject matter experts (loss of status). Other suggestions, anyone? Regards,Lars http://bredmose.net
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[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 08 June 2005 @ 03:38 AM Invitation to considerStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, the EU knowledgeboard is a unique venue to keep on fostering ideas and dreams of ongoing embellishment and celabrations of innovations to better serve mankind with. Because I participated to this thread, I thought you might like to be informed of the following campaign I posted at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 It connects directly with the 5 century old European project called Canada, to negotiate peacefully in the never ending of French-English ambiguity who are yet to know how to deal properly with the Aboriginal hosts. Canada is the ongoing ground invitation to unite humanity at righting the wrong in peace and joy in the way that the United Nations aspire to do. We are deployed to become the training ground for the local scene, busy to innovate the maturity of a people of all people and I invite you to help me see it through for us all. Benoit
Jack Yan , 03 June 2005 @ 10:21 AM The cycle of fearJack YanYou're right, Chris. Fear can certainly be marketed, and everything from Y2K to raised terror alerts can cause runs on computer gear to gas masks. Seems rather out of place in the supposedly "advanced" 21st century. But like so much in life (and in marketing), we're re-enacting an old playbook here. The 2000s aren't particularly more caring than the 1980s. Every decade we say how much better we are, and in fact our advances are so incremental, so tiny, that these past-millennium techniques still sucker us in. Remember how in 1980 the supposed experts were telling us how we would get rid of the excesses of the previous decade and be more caring? After the Thatcherites, we learned that the '80s were worse. Then in 1990, we said the same thing. And we were wrong. In 2000, we said the same thing. And what has, really, changed? The world continues to be divided between those who know and those who daydream through life, and it is perhaps the job of the few "outside the Matrix", so to speak, to alert the others. The good news is, perhaps as your father predicted, we have a better chance using these technologies in doing so than ever before. Then, those with a sufficient profile can paint a better path for us to travel on. It would be worthwhile, because the number of supporters will have reached a tipping point far sooner.
Chris Macrae , 03 June 2005 @ 08:52 AM reformed marketing and sales peopleMr Chris MacraePhillippe - I know a bit about what you say, in fact most of my career has involved understanding how marketing works. But there are many of us who now believe that the paradox- I would go further and say the ethical crisis of valuation - is that human beings cannot sustain relationships if all the largest powers they meet use medium to propagate fear. Its a mad mad world and unless those leveraging the biggest systems- the largest .govs and .coms - come in from this cold war against the people, there is no future to it 1,2,3 generations out. It would transparently do the EU's core identity/gravity a lot of good -and sustainable energy - right now if it mapped back the last week's 2 no votes for undercurrents of fear, of which systemically there are many amongst ordinary peoples, if not amongst powerful bureaucrats. To be European was surely not to be the most fearful species on the planet- is that the actual vision 2010 that Europe's spin-men will materialise? and by the means of budgeting the people's money on systemising such an end?? I am not a fan of the way the world's largest public media - the BBC - has been coopted into fear. Nor are most of the British people if you read their thousands of testimonies here. Ironically for a Prime Minsister who though himself more media savvy than any predecessor, his abuse of the media has lost more respact among British people than just about any act from Numnber 10 in living memory. Is it really the case that leaders have to go through the crisis of disrespect before they rise again- perhaps Bill and he should start their fall leadership transformation inquiry by exorcising that knowledge of fear http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/ eg http://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/first_phase_responses/M/M.htmlhttp://www.bbccharterreview.org.uk/first_phase_responses/W/Webb_Peter.rtfHaving said that one part of the BBC has hosted dozens of people cafes in the last month all to do with how people live community, of which I have been to four. In everyone of these cafes, people ended up seeing that fear had been stopping them make better community, even go out and network, talk, play, find time to breathe beyond being too busy to live. So thank you BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A4140947 Through fringes and knowledge collaboration cafes, iCAN, UCAN, weCAN
Philippe Leliaert , 03 June 2005 @ 00:11 AM the politics of fearPhilippe Leliaert ... and I forgot to add the politicians: masters of the F-U-D game (examples abound on the world stage over the last couple of years). Is this perhaps a required course in political & social studies ?
Philippe Leliaert , 03 June 2005 @ 00:07 AM FUD=Fear, Uncertainty & DoubtPhilippe Leliaert It's on the first page of a salesperson's - and consultant's - handbook: scare the living daylights out of them and they will buy what you have to sell !(It certainly worked with Y2K).Fear gets people's attention: adrenaline starts pumping, pupils dilate, hair follicles contract. Everything from that moment on is geared to self-preservation. It often comes from uncertainty: the not-knowing what is on the other side, what will happen (and hence people's imagination has free rein to come up with the worst doubts, i.e. a lack of trust or belief (in oneself or someone else). So indeed, trust/faith/belief is one extreme, where fear is the other. Acceptance vs Resistance.Dare I even say: love/giving/sharing vs hate/taking/possession. But it all depends on the situation: I know I am sometimes innovator or early adopter when it comes to change; in other situations I will be a pretty tough resister. And when I resist I will have a good reason to do so. On this KnowledgeBoard platform one is likely to find a community of 'sharers', 'believers'; innovators. But ask yourself this: have you ever 'held back' from sharing what you know with others in this community - and why ? Have you ever felt "once bitten, twice shy" about sharing - and why ? What can you/we do to eliminate such "negative" feelings ? Does there not lie the key to unlock the negative spiral some communities fall in to ?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31 May 2005 @ 15:01 PM Great opportunity to address local-global fearsStay at home dad Benoit CoutureChris and all,I see a direct link from personal inner conflict resolution on to the stability of the Faculty of Living that lives where the clarity of meaning and the meaning of clarity connects from beyond languages, where personal-communal inner-outer resolution is at peace in the joy of being here and now. The sight and sound of humanity in the experience of unity is unfolding...please sister Elisabeth the 2nd, brother BenedictXVI, brother George Bush of the US and all of Europe's people of heart and spirit, do consider the following invitation to voice into existance the Permanent People Summit, so that democracy may come of age in the maturity of a people of all people, away from conflict and agitations... Benoit Couture Dear All Delhi government in association with Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies is hosting the international e-Government Summit titled Conflux 2005 in the month of October 2005. During this three day conference Key government officers from India and Asia Pacific will exchange their experience on planning, implementing and maintaining e-government projects. Besides senior officers from International agencies such as World Bank, UNDP, IDRC etc. are invited to participate in the conference. One of the key tracks during the conference will be on the sectoral e-government case presentations from India, Asia and Europe. CALL FOR PAPERS The papers from the e-government stakeholders and experts are invited for presentation during the conference. Details are available at http://www.conflux.csdms.in. I am pleased to extend the invitation to the members of the group to present papers, participate as delegates or associate in other ways with the conference fore the exchange of learning practices and accelerating e-government movement. Should any of the members require any further information, please feel free to get in touch with the undersigned. Warm RegardsVikas KanungoMobile : 9312722591Fax: +91-120-2500060email: [email protected]
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31 May 2005 @ 14:13 PM Faculty of LivingStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and all,I wish to respond in kind to part of the introduction message, located in bold letters at the top of this thread. It is by conveying on a most personal note of mine that I began my contact with you at Disruptive Mouse first and then here on the EU Knowledgeboard a short while ago. So far this back and forth contact has been done in breathing the waves of meaning and love, upon the rising tide of humans seeking to come together in the unison of the faith and hope that lives beyond languages and which is victorious over the human challenges of inner and inter personal conflicts. Your feedbacks to my postings have allowed me to experience the activation of my own personal inner conflict resolution with a rippling effect. Yesterday morning, after reading your postings in this thread, both, my wife and our first son of 24 years old said : "It almost seem like he's addressing to connect with you intimately!" I say this because the word spin is used often in economic context. Inner conflict resolution of the magnitude that is presently fosterd here in my personal life on this thread is the spin generating that touches the trans generational bridging by using the virtual to stimulate organically growing spiritual health! From inner conflict resolution to family healing from reconciling that which ignorance and indiscipline had burried in past, become humus. Because of the purest of generosity, the EU Kowledgeboard, the Disruptive Mouse and Minciu Soda Lab are presently mapping humanity's recovery road from virtual to the reality of healthy open sourcing to process humus and human life's manure into the experience of knowing into the Faculty of Living. My following post will conclude this one. Benoit Couture
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 07:14 AM What collaboration spaces or places can help you innovate and guide people through conflicts?Mr Chris Macrae1) Micronetworks?2) Cafes?3) co-blogs (1 of 20 ways to love) shared across cities· Blog -eg1- syndicating to any university town· TwinCity Blogs -eg1· OpenCity Blogs -eg14) Fringes of large conferences5) BHAG of KB to be number 1 transformation & sustainability community - ie one where participants are either all on openly stated innovation missions or helping others who are?
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 00:11 AM Testimonies 1Mr Chris Macrae"I am located in the margin. I make a definite distinction between the marginality which is imposed by oppressive structures and that marginality one chooses as a site of resistance - as location of radical openness and possibility. This site of resistance is continually formed in that segregated culture of opposition that is our critical response to domination."-bell hooks, 1990 "It is not to "awaken consciousness" that we struggle...but to sap power, to take power; it is an activity conducted alongside those who struggle for power, and not their illumination from a safe distance."-Michel Foucault, 1996 "[A]ll those on whom power is exercised to their detriment, all who find it intolerable, can begin the struggle on their own terrain and on the basis of their proper activity (or passivity). In engaging in a struggle that concerns their own interests, whose objectives they clearly understand and whose methods only they can determine, they enter into a revolutionary process."-ibid from cf presence: When we eventually grasp the wholeness of nature, it can be shocking. As Bortoft puts it, the part is a place for presencing the whole. Nowhere is it more important to understand the relation between parts and wholes than in the evolution of global institutions and the larger systems they collectively create... It may seem odd to think of about titanic forces such as globalisation and the information revolution as arising from the actions of a new species. But it is also empowering. Rather than attributing the changes sweeping the world to a handful of all powerful individuals or faceless “systems” we can view them as the consequences of a life-from that like any life-form has the potential to grow, learn, and evolve. But until that potential is activated, industrial age institutions will continue to expand “blindly”, unaware of their part in a larger whole or of the consequences of their growth, like cells that have lost their social identity and reverted to growth for its own sake
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 30 May 2005 @ 17:39 PM The 2 sides of my fear fabrics: lonelyness/ irrelevancyStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and all, "...if you can want to ask these questions, then you can move forward, to be...sign up...we can form a micro-community of practice." I've been on these questions under one form or another since I was 4 years old. I have tried for years to find a way to move on and to ignore the observations that force these uninterrupted interrogations, but in vain of course.Am I lonely because I am irrelevant? Or, am I irrelevant because I am lonely? It is in relating that loneliness disolves into relevancy. My journey has taken me to where I have to complete the crossing of the trans-generational barriers to high-trust and care, from stranger to family, from within the proximities of personal-communal development from grade one to 40, in the Canadian context. "Perfect love casts out all fears." The practice of the micro-community is to develop the Permanent People Summit, built from intimate relevancy within the boundaries of the ministry of reconcilliation. Once the microcosm grown, the first stage of local application will be to bring the PMO in Canada to go from Prime Minister Office to Prime Ministry Office, as in "the Ministry of Reconciliation". Because of the current shape of the political and social scene of corrupted national disunity in Canada, there is a golden opportunity to plan for the transition to Prime Ministry Office to be launched with the shaping up of Live -Aid II. The movement of unity is on and the microcosm is standing by to be materialized and deployed according to the correctional measures that are called for. Am I thinking of the right kind of micro-community to overcome universal loneliness and irrelevancy? Benoit Couture
Gary Lawrence Murphy , 30 May 2005 @ 16:54 PM "Fear" may be a societal glueGary Lawrence MurphyIn an old 60's era Alan Watts' lecture, I think it was "Zen Practice, Zen Art", he reflects on how the socialization of the human has as a byproduct the neutralization of the essential free-spirit of the child, and he muses that perhaps we have evolved psychotherapy as the peculiar western antidote to the peculiar western education system, and further muses how, in other cultures, this may be the ecological role of religious practice such as found in Buddhism. Having had the spark of the creative burned out of us by diligent school marms bent on making us "good citizens", it's the job of the inspirator to re-discover and re-ignite it. In these discussions, there is a danger of confusing many things under the umbrella term of 'fear' -- there is a complacency that is entrenched by our school systems, the "Play by the rules and you will succeed" that I cannot disqualify as good advice because I myself did not and certainly did not as a result. So in that way, there's a fear of stepping outside the lines. Is this the same as the fear of bodily harm that arises from, say, arachniphobia? A phobic response to a stimulus generally arises from a prior real or imagined experience, with good evidence that the response is classically conditioned (partially because it can be removed by classical conditioning) but is the solution to re-igniting free-thinking so simple as an NLP reframing? Both may involve our "mirror neurons" and thus we can see them as different aspects of the same phenomenon, one being the ecological purpose for a social creature, the other a malignant mis-application of that same governor-circuit.
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 10:01 AM repetitionMr Chris MacraeI intentionally repeat the end of the last post because it connects with 15 years of my own work on chartering and personal mappingWhat opportunities will I have missed because I did not plan, prioritize, and pursue my own vision today? How will this effect the people close to me? my unborn children? the world? What is my ideal life in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What do I need to change to reach that vision today? now? here? In our own work on identity whether personal, corporate or communal- the simplest question to start the forward journey is what would the world uniquely miss if you ceased to exist?: make a list of who in the world would uniquely miss what that your greatest vision, and activation intents are about Now that you see this list - your own personal value exchange hub if you wish - confront what blocks you from progressing this There are at least 2 common blocks assuming that you are uniquely competent to serve your vision 1) is disconnections- not having the relationship permissions to action all that you want to serve -do you have some hi-trust peers you can discuss these disconnections with?; will they link you through their social networks?; will they stage a cafe around these people and the connections you next wish to activate?; is there an open community - god willing there's KB of the future - where you can ask for such connections? 2) conflicts between the different promises and deliveries you are making to different groups of people; so why is that- time conflicts or because one group won't let you serve another group; and how do you jump over those barriers that some social controlling agent is unnecessarily putting in your way If you can want to ask these questions, then you can move forward, to be. If you feel that's worth doing -sign into this thread saying so, and we can form a micro community of practice.
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 09:50 AM thanks Dr EddyMr Chris MacraeFollowing Deepest Fear search is indeed a path full of learning eg I found this Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson, excerpt from "A Return to Love" There are those moments when just by thinking a thought it becomes a reality. You may have thought the same thought many times before, but with no effect. But this time something else is different and 'if' turns into 'when'. Religious people call it a conversion. Secular people call it a moment of clarity. It could happen when someone sees injustice, the same type that others see, but for some reason it touches them at such a strong level that they devote their life to alleviating it. It might be years of drunk driving, and then one serious accident where the individual knows they will never drink a drop of alcohol again. In physically violent relationships that are held together by fear, it could be the strength to leave. In a dead-end job one has had for years, it could be the decision to relocate and pursue one's passion.I don't know what causes these moments exactly. Some people never have them, some people have them on a somewhat regular basis. I know for me, these moments have shaped my life. Living between these specks of time becomes the easy part when I remember the power of the commitment I made. I believe that we all have the moments boiling up inside of us and that we probably are already aware of them on some level. Something that brings it out for me are when I fully visualize and experience the following questions: If I pursued the path I'm on right now, what would my life look like in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What opportunities will I have missed because I did not plan, prioritize, and pursue my own vision today? How will this effect the people close to me? my unborn children? the world? What is my ideal life in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? On my death bed? What do I need to change to reach that vision today? now? here?
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 08:28 AM Transdisciplinarity : great ideaMr Chris MacraeWould love to see a worldwide transdisciplinary curriculum from grade 1 to 40 As this schema tries to illustrate: I tend to feel ever 3 years, a higher level of transdiciplinary understanding would involve clarifying what was over-simplified or too separated at the previous level that now needs more integration, not just in knowing the facts but experiencing their application I also tend to assume that where stuff has changed - like in the last 15 year the interent - then it will be necessary to work back on somne topics that grade 40 does not know that eg grade 15 does; in other words the curricula could be wiki'd not just by elders but alos by youngers imagine therefore 13-14 parallel wiki's looking into the world's transdisciplinary curriculum and the possibility to include subjects never valued before like going beyond national culture to integrating the ebst of 2 or more nation's ways of interpreting the world and appreciating each other; intercity open review boards like LondonRiga would be one way to keep making the wisdom more inclusive as well as living with curiosity; every university town could join in with a global concerns/meanings of life blog- this one out of the same place as KB takes 10 minutes for any university town to take over their version that began with some common leads but was edited locally until it divesrified from the common roots as far as its youth wished Out of such iterating openness, let's hope the world's peoples would understrahd how applaud those who participated by bringing new big questions to the table and nobody who wanted to prioroitise one view as factually superior to the other would get away with such closure Further ref Transdisciplinarity was also advanced across KB by pathleading communities of Quaerere and Knowledge Angels, among others Building bridges across experts takes a lot of courage- the more so since many vicious or greedy professions have siloised their own business cases in recent years. Ironically, a primary study among risk experts has emerged as that of recognising what professional apartheids have been spun to global levels of dehumanisation
Arturs Puga , 30 May 2005 @ 07:48 AM wayDr Arturs Puga Perhaps to understand: We, our children, next generations should learn KNOWLEDGE, like MATH, LANGUAGE, PHYSICS, HISTORY - a new discipline/area/the WEB-enabled field of transdisciplinarity in schools, universities, virtual networks, etc
Arturs Puga , 29 May 2005 @ 17:37 PM nextDr Arturs Puga How to help to free an individual from the fear TO BECOME KNOWLEDGEABLE AND ACTIVE IN KNOWLEDGE SHARING?
Lars Bredmose , 29 May 2005 @ 03:52 AM Sources of fear: intermediate summaryMr. Lars Bredmose This has turned out to become an interesting thread. Thank you, Chris, for starting it. May I propose the following summary? The sources of fear so far defined are: • Separation of economics and religion/faith/love creates systemic fear in societies (Chris).• A fear that we do not have endless resources (zero-sum economics view, Chris).• A perceived lack of knowledge in itself creates fear (Nikolai).• A perceived lack of freedom and belief in self and others (trust?) creates fear (Arturs).• Criticism of our actions by others creates the fear of being different (Chris).• The potential to loose what one has (status, expertise, goods, career) creates the fear of sharing and creating knowledge in untraditional ways (Lars, Arturs).• The perceived omni potency of humans makes us afraid of ourselves (Eddy). Have I missed anyone's point with this summary? Feel free to edit and add. This list could become a useful starting point for identifying reasons for lack of sharing of knowledge. Regards,Lars http://bredmose.net
Dr Eddy Kloprogge , 29 May 2005 @ 00:02 AM Fear comes from within"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson is the author of A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3 The famous passage from her book was used in his inauguration speech by Nelson Mandela and the "deepest fear" quote is often erroneously attributed to Mandela.
Arturs Puga , 28 May 2005 @ 17:32 PM thanksDr Arturs Puga I agree with Lars, the fear is in us. ----- What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid, but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness. He may have his own. A man's genius, the quality that differences him from every other, the susceptibility to one class of influences, the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for him the character of the universe. Ralph W. Emerson ----- PKM and KM, foresight based on universal values help to do with fear
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 15:49 PM search fear and trustMr Chris MacraeIf we google fear and trust, we come across some pretty big clues In this example, a psychologist tells a story of obserrving an american and mexican 5 year old on a beach - the one being strictly sueprvised, the other ropaming free if somewhat riskily. I believe there are some lessons here in any place that is over-governed -or do you take out something else? But are we really talking about some counter-culture philosophical movement? This is just a little boy skipping across boulders to a deliciously awaiting ocean expressing a freedom that many of us knew in childhood and lost. It is simply childhood: unbridled, uncensored, uninhibited living. It is old, ancient, and everyone knows what it is -- except those who have forgotten or pretend they cannot remember. It is spirit, beauty, exuberance, human nature at its finest, the golden glowing grace of humanity and childhood exquisitely expressed in movement, dance, and unpretentious joy. And the greatest enemy to the full, evocative expression of this central element of living is fear, mistrust, and foreboding. Psychiatrist Alexander Lowen's Bioenergetics, comes close to the target. He describes how a naturally joyful child comes into adulthood by passing through myriad checkpoints of criticism, admonishments, rules, frustrations, deprecations, evaluations, cautions, and asundry punishments. The result is that, with time, the child loses that unique effervescence all children at one time or another had. Lowen considers this the beginning point of adult neurosis. His therapy specializes in the rediscovery of the body, which is not that far distant from the rediscovery of childhood. Children sitting in front of television, inside, alone, become blunted and sedentary, overweight, and even show elevated cholesterol levels...all bequeathed from a restricted, inhibited, and increasingly virtual childhood.
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 15:30 PM recollectionMr Chris MacraeArturs comment reminds me in particular of this extract from a talk that the American philospoher Alphonso Lingis gave in Delhi. If I could dream, I would have this saying hammered onto the wall of every EU budgetholder of KM, and indeed every policymaker who funds learning/research into productivity and demands "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 neutral states? 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, but rather 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. One should believe one’s joy more than one’s prudence, or any cautious or fearful state of mind".
Arturs Puga , 28 May 2005 @ 15:00 PM Values Dr Arturs Puga I think, Freedom, and belief in yourself and Man are keys for us. And knowledge, I see, is the assimilation of the message of freedom placed by Creation in a man.
Nikolai Krjachkov , 28 May 2005 @ 09:54 AM Re: What are the sources of fear?TextVirusExpert Nikolai KrjachkovA lack of proper knowledge or education is a source of fear, I think? Religion as a hierarchical model for society (and economy) neither prevents nor solves the problem of fear. Religion is too personal (therefore can’t be obligatory) to be a proper institution for networking and nature based society. For example, some people afraid of ‘text virus’. They prefer not to consider risks and not to understand the variants of hidden (in texts) possible actions, but rely on illusions and therefore let someone to use them as resources.
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 08:14 AM a novice in the knowledge of fearMr Chris MacraeI have come late to this inquiry. For example leading schools in getting over fear have century's of practice in the East: Goleman's interactions with the Dalai Lama on destructive emotions help me. Would love to hear other seminal lights from Asian and Eastern perspective. I look forward to Delhi's world congress in 2007 for any people who want to learn from Gandhi, as I expect his truth testing practices of communal knowledge exorcise fear. Religious people I know in the West now believe that the separation of economics from societal/religious goods such as faith, hope , love is : the (root cause of) systemic fear (terror) that is dividing the world, as well as stopped attempts however well or badly intended to end extreme poverty everywhere. Since the 1970s system mappers have suggested that networking connectivity demands we get over this before any advantages of ebusiness, or global trade can be sustained on all sides. Lynne Twist in the soul of money explains how fear of money makes all our lifetimes smaller than we could have been. Life revolves round: What we appreciate appreciates. The big fear is to be driven by there's never enough; I feel passionately that we need leaders who explore economics of abundance not of externalities. I am sad how little the media and our schools lets people and youth debate this openly. Is it really that complex, beyond human beings to grasp? Or is it that machines will never get this, and a fundamental flaw in 20th C management measurement dictates that owners invest only in machines, never in people. Why can't we get post-industrial and start enjoying service and learning economies? Fear is the way we are socially controlled in the west through debt or the prospect that we will not be able to afford healthcare for our family or we will have no pension etc. So unless a society's government cares minimally socially for its people on such common goods as well as making laws so simple that there is no corruption, I doubt if that country or region will make further progress in developed parts of the world. Many people fear to debate the likelihood that extreme capitalism becomes as dehabilitating as extreme communism, or that left and right are irrelevant for most learning age policies. It seems odd that if we could get rid of fear people all round the world could quickly everyone's potential to live rewarding lives. Yet personally I would bet all my knowledge on that belief, and therefore wish to discover ways to clarify in which countries politicians and peoples understand that.
Lars Bredmose , 28 May 2005 @ 04:59 AM Fear of lossMr. Lars Bredmose In short, the major source of fear is the potential for a loss. Effects on people: - Not trying, for fear of loss of investement.- Not sharing, for fear that investment is not recognised (again, loss of investment).- Not combining or creating new concepts and knowledge, for fear of ridicule by subject matter experts (loss of status). Other suggestions, anyone? Regards,Lars http://bredmose.net
Who wants to remove ambiguity about knowledge?
Indeed, KM lays upon three pillars: knowledge, tools and applications.; it aims to manage those three pillars (and not only knowledge as its name could induce to beleive it). Business people are first of all interested in applications and afterwards in tools which allow them to work up the very knowledge involved by those applications. Where there is an ambiguity lies in the word knowledge. Let us look at some examples: When we say "The Web allows any human being to access knowledge", we do not precisely state which kind of knowledge we mean: of course, which is in question is knowledge useful to him in the context which he lives in and we are not always sure that this knowledge exists. Be careful when you speak of knowledge in a too general a way: nothing is more different from the Einstein theory than the average amount of a supermarket customer's bill. Don't you think that every theoretical assertion about KM is so dependant on the kind of involved knowledge that we should have to specify it, which implies a new typology of knowledge? Guy Benchimol
KnowledgeBoard, 29-May-2005
Benoit Couture , 7-Jun-2005 Invitation to considerStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, the EU knowledgeboard is a unique venue to keep on fostering ideas and dreams of ongoing embellishment and celabrations of innovations to better serve mankind with. Because I participated to this thread, I thought you might like to be informed of the following posting I made at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 It connects directly with the 5 century old European project called Canada, to negotiate peacefully in the never ending of French-English ambiguity who are yet to know how to deal properly with the Aboriginal hosts. Canada is the ongoing ground invitation to unite humanity at righting the wrong in peace and joy in the way that the United Nations aspire to do. We are deployed to become the training ground for the local scene, busy to innovate the maturity of a people of all people and I invite you to help me see it through for us all. Benoit
Patrick Murphy , 6-Jun-2005 Ambiguity in Knowledge ManagementPatrick MurphyAmbiguity has value for knowledge management. In Claude Shannon's celebrated model for a communication channel, noise is a form of ambiguity. At Bell Labs, Shannon's aim was to filter noise out of the channel, but he recognized that some measure of noise in a channel is useful because it causes the receiver to pay closer attention to the message and, in fact, to draw on his/her own tacit knowledge (he didn't call it that) to decipher the message, thereby adding value to it (he didn't use those words either, but I'm drafting him into the KM camp). This immersive effect is especially interesting because of what it promises for knowledge communities. Detective fiction works this way. All those red herrings (noise) cause the reader to become intensely involved in the fiction. That's why writers of detective fiction develop such dedicated fan clubs—think of the following that Conan Doyle still enjoys. Shannon's model is a useful overlay for all kinds of epistemic systems. I once borrowed it to explain Coleridge's notion of imagination. It maps very well with STC's discussion of imagination, the driver of creativity, in his "Biographia." I believe it would be a fruitful line of research to test the value of ambiguity in promoting innovation within organizations. Types could be classified after Empson ("Seven Types of Ambiguity") and their different trajectories charted. I suspect that the research would find that ambiguity drives innovation in very real ways.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 31-May-2005 I do, I need to, I must go from ambiguity to clarity...Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureGuy, what you are conveying in English is the French distnction that lives between the knowledge that comes from information management which is "connaitre" and the experience of knowledge which is "savoir". The motto of French Canadian's people in the province of Quebec is: "I remember", "Je me souviens", which is, in its application, the meeting of the experience and of the information of knowledge. Considering the voice of French resistance to be manipulated by any form of ambiguity, could this French American reality be shun forth from Europe so as to activate the Spirit of human remembrance who has learned the wisdom of enjoying the moment in love and genuine authenticity from home to home, where ever one might be upon the face of the earth?! Benoit Couture
Ambika Natarajan , 31-May-2005 Knowledge -The way you use itThere are scores of results that pop up for any search query. But the catch lies in how we interpret and customise what we read to the situation on hand. This is where true knowledge lies. If I can explain how I handled a scenario based on what I read-an asset is created.We have to primarily differentiate /disseminate on the perceptible difference between KM and IM.
Will Merck survive or is it another Arthur Andersen?
Will Merck survive or is it another Arthur Andersen? (ruined by the absurd belief that 90 days number-chasing is the only thing that makes a share worth owning; how on earth do you expect any person to believe your company is the world class leader of a sector if is incapable of truly investing more than 90 days ahead of its leader's nose) As leaders (who care about organisation and not personal incentivisation) with slightly more knowledge know, today's main management task is getting the whole organisation to contextually understand the conflict between the maths of how much you have taken out the last 90 days and how much quality of context you are compounding into the future. The two are driven by opposite types of mathematical measures:backward versus forward separating versus connecting human relationship systems conflict compounding versus transparently conflict resolving ending innovation versus investing in it hyper-competing versus knowing how to collaborate with humans as well as competing investing only in machines versus investing in people too investing only in image versus investing in trustworthy reality too externalise anything you can get away with less internal cost however many people it kills versus 'do no evil, and cause NO organisation link in your extended network including outsource to do evil' It turns out that if you are in service or networked economies, far the greater value compounds with the 2nd measurement set. This future track is measurable - are you spinning sustainable grwoth or destruction a few quaretrs out Andersen didnt know this in time to save itself; its looking as if Merck didnt what industry sector will be next to ruin itself as well as cause untold human harm in the process? Why isnt it as simple as Europe putting a 100% tax on any trade with the Bechtels of this world (who only go in to privatise water when laws are passed so that the poor cant colect rainwater - as in Bolivia) or Dow who inherited the Bhopal mess because it thought it could get lawyers to get it to walk away from the responsibility? We are contaminated by doing anything less, and if the EU cannot stand up for people it is time it too went the way Andersen did Chris Macrae
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21 May 2005 @ 07:36 AM
Inferior Economics or Superior Economics - that is the first question of KM
Personally, as a brand expert who also grew up with "I love to teach the world to sing" I find it depressing that the world's favourite 20th C brand cannot transform its sustainability. Badwill really started brewing when Coke's bottling partner in Colombia adopted mafioso tactics with its employees. By spring of last year Coca-Cola's security guards were knocking a shareholder to the ground at its AGM. Youth is leading the expression of customer distaste as published here. Likely only strategy that will save Coke from ever greater 21st C obscurity is to get rid of economics of externalities; take the lead the water angels have been demanding from you. Rutgers University of New Jersey, with more than 60,000 students, faculty, staff and administrators, has not renewed Coke’s exclusive beverage contract. The Rutgers University community was among the largest consumers of Coke products and the largest collegiate consumer of Coke’s Minute Maid products. Thus, hundreds of Coke machines and fountains from the three Rutgers New Jersey campuses are being removed along with Coca-Cola scoreboards, clocks and other Coke ads that polluted the university. The decision that effectively bans the sale and marketing of all Coke products from campus was made on May 10 after a long-fought, two-year Campaign led by student organizations and the faculty union. At public hearings, one speaker after another called on the University to end its relationship with Coca-Cola and to ban the sale of all Coke products. No one at the hearings spoke up on behalf of Coke. Rutgers’ 10-year exclusive contract with The Coca-Cola Co. expired at the end of July 2004. The Campaign on campus had become a hot political issue that the administration had to deal with, according to administration insiders. Some university officials complained that there were so many Coke machines and such a large infrastructure created by Coke on campus that it would be very difficult and costly to replace, thus key players in the decision felt that it would be a lot easier to simply stick with Coke. However, pressure on campus was such that the university said that it would have to extend the Coke contract for 10 months to give them sufficient time to make a change, if Coke did not clean up its act. The issue on campus would not go away, but intensified. Campus newspapers covered the issue extensively. As early as the fall of 2004, we were told by “informed sources” at Rutgers that Coke would be removed from campus and that Pepsi would likely be the replacement. The tenacity of the students and faculty ensured that Rutgers took the right course of action to hold Coca-Cola accountable. This should serve as an example for both large and small campuses to emulate.
Benoit Couture , 22 May 2005 @ 13:16 PM
Alberta, Canada advantage
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
One of the great changes to come in health, will be when we are thaught to actualy learn how to know and to touch our own personal body so as to release the built-in self-healing and self maintenance of health. Phamaceuticals would have no choice but to follow suit and this way there would be a true coming together of the world's different approaches to healing. A whole lot of the pramceutical that era consumed today came into existance directly as a result of centuries spent as if the body was a mysterious, immoral and disallowed territory. Asia and the aboriginal understanding of the body are where governments must turn toward and develop the working relationship that wiil see diagnostic,surgery and infedtions treated from the west. Healing and maintenance of health from Asia. As long as we compete one against the other and not side by side against illness and desease, we'll be waisting precious time. The experimental ground to develop this partnership is growing in Alberta, Canada but it is held back by all the conditionings from the past and resistance to change. Benoit
24-May-2005 Knowledge personTextVirusExpert Nikolai KrjachkovBenoit, do we need to think how to spread the term “knowledge person” instead of “knowledge worker”? I wrote 7th March 2004 at http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=123794&d=pnd : “… the term - ‘knowledge worker’ - is out of date (as far as I remember ‘knowledge worker’ is P. Drucker’s concept).Absurdly for the person to be a knowledge worker (in working hours) and to be a gullible customer (in free time) whose behavior/life is being managed from outside (by producers of intangibles who spread - brands, advertisements, news, etc.) and based on belief, not on understanding.I would suggest a term ‘knowledge person’ instead of ‘knowledge worker’”.
24-May-2005 Dear Nikolai -part 1Mr Chris MacraeSince you value text expertise, I will have to say that technically I do not wholly agree with your suggestion of altering vocabulary knowledge worker to knowledge person. Main reasons: The disaster uniting most of the 6 billion beings on this earth is a lack of freedom to exercise and connect our greatest personal productivities and learnings. So it is about the conflicts with letting us network our greatest contributions as knowledge workers in systems that promote hi-trust and sustain gravities of purpose that enrichen all who participate truly and practice communally. Let's pause here for a few bookmarks· There's 20 pages of correspondence going on in the current transparency goverance fortnight debate at http://www.kwork.org involving many famous KM folk as well as an odd fool role-player like me; if you get there to late to see the 20 pages, I suppose I can send them to you for personal use only- chris at [email protected]· Missing maths timeless blog http://valuetrue.blogspot.com - always searching for transparency champions who want to timeshare this editing space for connecting every measning of transparency, sustainability , transfroamtion and human inspiration· Peter Drucker on and on Paradigm ShiftValuing Future History, Q&A with UK's senior economist: debating superior economics, and survey of world class learning networks
24-May-2005 Dear Nikolai -part 1Mr Chris MacraeSince you value text expertise, I will have to say that technically I do not wholly agree with your suggestion of altering vocabulary knowledge worker to knowledge person. Main reasons: The disaster uniting most of the 6 billion beings on this earth is a lack of freedom to exercise and connect our greatest personal productivities and learnings. So it is about the conflicts with letting us network our greatest contributions as knowledge workers in systems that promote hi-trust and sustain gravities of purpose that enrichen all who participate truly and practice communally. Let's pause here for a few bookmarks· There's 20 pages of correspondence going on in the current transparency goverance fortnight debate at http://www.kwork.org involving many famous KM folk as well as an odd fool role-player like me; if you get there to late to see the 20 pages, I suppose I can send them to you for personal use only- chris at [email protected]· Missing maths timeless blog http://valuetrue.blogspot.com - always searching for transparency champions who want to timeshare this editing space for connecting every measning of transparency, sustainability , transfroamtion and human inspiration· Peter Drucker on and on Paradigm ShiftValuing Future History, Q&A with UK's senior economist: debating superior economics, and survey of world class learning networks
24-May-2005
Dear Nikokai part 2
Mr Chris Macrae
The disaster introduced in previous post is caused by the fact that the governance of all our bigeest organsiations is subject to a mathematical error as detailed in this one-pager http://www.knowledgeboard.com/download/5794/Unseen-Wealth-Analysis-Kit.doc
The error (send me any mathematician who disagrees!) is caused by a paradigm shift from industrial to service economy and beyond to learning network economies. In the industrial economy, the perfect if cruel maths treated people as something that came last to invest in because machines were the greater differential advantage. Perpetuating this in a service economy where competent people multiply far more value differentiation than generic machines is an extraordinary economic and political mistake. It leads to "confusion" at the top. This is a technical system terminology. When a revolutionary change happens in the environment of a system, at least one thing that was perfectly right for the top people to control is no longer adequate. Failing to note this compounds more errors every measurement cycle. For 20 years people at the top of organisations have been missing out on the trust-flow control that rewards knowledge workers : their capital of life time, joy of learning a competence that they can do best, joy of sharing knopwledge , courage to tell the top that another change is coming. And boy do networks bring a lot of local chnages globally.
Also if you search "knowledge worker" you will come across a term with a precise origin "Peter Drucker". Unlike the confused term Knowledge Management, Peter used the term Knowledge Worker to mean that top people could no longer multiply value just by commanding and control; they would need to learn from people who were nearer to customers or local societies than their global top could ever be; and they would have to selectively collaborate across networks with every bit as much energy as they believe they need to compete. Gravity of purpose is an interesting human relationship energiser to organise around. Because when you model great gravities they are so unique that 2 organisations are in anywhere near as much competition as they used to be when stuck in single land or product catgories. Almost all of Porter's 80's strategic tomes make the wrong assumptions for context-rich gravities, a construct his book does not include. So knowledge workers will also have to openly re-edit startegy and include every diverse cultural perspective in such re-writing if we are to make the most of connecting 6 billion being's productivities rather than the least. The choice for a few more eyars is knowledge workers to make. If we make the wrong choice all networking systems will be spiralling out of sustainability even faster than Anderson's or Merck's, and that will not be good for anyone, though paradoxically it may be worst for people at the top.
28-May-2005 ScopesTextVirusExpert Nikolai KrjachkovChris, I think we use different scopes. People use (should use) knowledge not only when do WORK, but also when learn, buy, consume, teach kids, elect, etc. Therefore ‘knowledge person’ is more relevant to knowledge society (economy is its part) than ‘knowledge worker’. Let’s don’t separate work from life. Knowledge person as customer can influence a particular industry which use trained knowledge workers. For example, imagine – knowledge persons as customers start demanding bee honey instead of medicine. What will be with so called knowledge pharmaceutical industry and its stock market? This example demonstrates that a term ‘knowledge’ isn’t neutral (any crime includes knowledge) and if we are talking about global sustainability for everyone a definition of knowledge must include natural limitations. ‘Knowledge person’ could be a brand for healthy commodity. Who wants to co-develop this brand or KnowledgeBoard is only talking community?
28-May-2005
they shoot horses dont they?
Mr Chris Macrae
I am in no disagreement that the whole 21st C environment has changed - we need open learning for all citizens everywhere. However that is no reason why we should change the 25 years of meanings involved with the term knowledge worker.
By all means let's debate whether we need to change the term KM which I happen to believe would be more valuable if practised as Learning (Beyond Management). Breaking in horses - the literal derivation of management- is not how I prefer to treat co-workers, or reciprocally.
Benoit Couture , 8-Jun-2005 Invitation to considerStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, the EU knowledgeboard is a unique venue to keep on fostering ideas and dreams of ongoing embellishment and celabrations of innovations to better serve mankind with. Because I participated to this thread, I thought you might like to be informed of the following campaign I posted at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 It connects directly with the 5 century old European project called Canada, to negotiate peacefully in the never ending of French-English ambiguity who are yet to know how to deal properly with the Aboriginal hosts. Canada is the ongoing ground invitation to unite humanity at righting the wrong in peace and joy in the way that the United Nations aspire to do. We are deployed to become the training ground for the local scene, busy to innovate the maturity of a people of all people and I invite you to help me see it through for us all. Benoit
Superior Economics -Seeing the Emotional Intelligence of it All
valuetrue transparency communities & licensed associates assert property rights to this material. On completion of the 100 posts, an html blog version strictly for personal learning & co-editing is offered to KB members at the sepcial offer rate of 0.0 Euros. There's lot of good news coming up in the next 100 days, unless you are a hopeless lose-loser. Superior economics isn't just for the expert - it works transparently, sustainably, when everyone in an organisation can see how to produce it, feel it, know it. That's what trust-flow systemises. Networks locally, and globally! To prove how much good news there is for human beings and people-centric organisations, this thread will post 100 excerpts from a book that has taken a leading business journalist 5 years to write. Not because he's a slow writer but because all the points individually are simple as knowing your context gravity. But they will only make inferior economists redundant by connecting, and connecting... If this thread is of interest, the way to save the bother of coming back to this thread for each of the 100 new posts is to add a post yourself. If all you want to do is to register rather than express an opinion from the start, just hit the button and write hello (or if you prefer holo as friends of the holon system & holon network clubs) In contrast, look at the global accounting maths ruling and ruining potentially intangibles wealthy and people- rich companies (those that produce service economy and could have been highly motivated as purpose-sharing knowledge co-workers). It's monopoly rule is the operand of addition - separating, and separating, and separating. It's done such a powerful job - it has made various of the world's biggest organisations many conflicts deep. Leadership, when you are in such a vicious spin, becomes so system dizzy that as Ackoff explains the more you defend with the old strategic controls, the faster you will lose the last goodwill relationships you have. Even most of the so-called Built to Last companies have started turning viciously against their peoples and purpose during the last few years acccording to recent reports by world class strategy adviser Gary Hamel. But now the good news is coming out, there are only 2 choices for the future of organisations. Join all those who want to transform for sustainability. Or become ostracised, as valueless as the way you have been treating the trust of all the peoples you have been extracting from. Companies with no human purpose, compound nothing of value-true interest to people or markets. Let's see and rejoice in that.
KnowledgeBoard, 20-May-2005
Chris Macrae , 31 May 2005 @ 08:07 AM Q&A 1 from JG AustraliaMr Chris MacraeQ1 I looked at your map and wondered why you had left out what I consider to be a critical component. For intangibles to be fully valued, either the asset itself a has a market sale value or the asset must lead to new initiatives that generate future cash flow. These initiatives or projects don't seem to feature in your map, yet in the majority of organisations we have looked at, they make up most of the market determined intangible value. A1 There are 2 views of intangibles – those who want to sell off parts, and those who perhaps as implied by the old word goodwill see the value multipliers as connecting the whole system. Mathematically, intangibles originally meant: all that is so humanly interconnecting that it cannot be measured the way that tangible separable things can. In other words, the unseen wealth of intangibles (the vast majority of all future compounding value) is seen in the integrity (minimal conflicts) of the human relations “trust-flow” system gravitating around the wholly unique purpose of the organisation. Sure our method clarifies more clearly than any other method how much that value is spinning up and down but not in a bits and piece way. Whenever accountants count only in bits they destroy intangibles, as Andersen did by not understanding that goodwill multiplies through every relationship- if you let your identity have zero value to society, all your business value becomes zero. In a networking world of value multiplication, bottom line arithmetic, that only uses the separation operand of addition, is the most risky thing you can monopolise governance of life by. Chrishttp://holonetwork.blogspot.comhttp://intangibles-valuation.blogspot.com
Chris Macrae , 30 May 2005 @ 16:26 PM sep5Mr Chris MacraeAn alternative governance frameworkWhat we need, then, is not a better way of shoe-horning new and emerging challenges into old frameworks, but a new and different framework which follows its own logic. At its core lies the idea of whealth creation – that is wealth creation with the added ‘h’ for human, holistic and healthy. If wealth creation is about getting richer in financial and material terms, whealth creation is about different dimensions of enrichment. A whealth creating organisation recognises a simple, undeniable and unavoidable fact. We are already in the business of making more than money and products and services. In one sense, for example, organisations are already ‘making’ their social and natural environments, and they are either making them worse or better. So we have a choice. Do we want to make our environments worse by using up non-renewable resources and polluting air, water and so on? Or do we want to make them better? To be sustainable (i.e healthy) we need to look at the broader (i.e holistic) picture. Likewise, organisations are also already ‘making’ human lives and resources. The difference between physical resources such as pieces of metal and human resources such as knowledge, creativity or motivation is that when use a piece of metal, you consume it; you use it up. But using human resources such as knowledge, creativity and motivation are not only acts of consumption, they are also acts of production at one and the same time. Every minute of every day, organisations have a chance to deepen and extend the talent, scope and potential of the people who work with them. To broaden their experience. To boost each individual’s own personal bottom line – his or her sense of satisfaction, fulfilment and reward – at the same time as making things and money.
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Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 16:07 PM Amazon's previewMr Chris MacraeEditorial Reviews Book DescriptionTo survive and flourish, organizations must create win-win relationships with the people they deal with. This, in fact, is every businesses underlying purpose: to organize and connect different groups of people (customers, employees, investors, distributors, partners etc.) in a collaborative quest for a particular form of mutual value creation. Most thoughtful business leaders are well aware of this, yet rarely make profitable use of their knowledge for one simple reason: no one has yet managed to translate this rather abstract and generalistic insight into concerted, practical action. Until now. Value Multiplication Mapping does just that, providing professionals with the tools they need to discover the value of the people, knowledge, networks, culture, behaviours, brands, communities, and learning that form the basis of today's corporate value measurement.
Chris Macrae , 27 May 2005 @ 15:52 PM the new (network) world's 30 most valued corporationsMr Chris MacraeVarious networks of informed Unseen Wealth observers around the world are cooperating in the following transparency search. Look out for 30 of the world's largest 1000 organisations that can be valued because their leader has a transparent presentation which any other leader can openly use to make the superior economic business case. Here is example 1 of occasional series, -more important is your nomination for transparently hi-value sustaining organisational leadership frames if you have one: Ray Anderson Interface- Goodwill Business casing as he told it to 300 Londoners at Royal Society: Most of the time Ray tells founders and mission stories, and he uses the mount sustainability picture or a chinese whispers game style that I will describe below. He only brings out the engineer's system map occasionally to remphasise where a story he has just told fits on the map.The Chinese whisper game of sustainability is also called how to do business case to maximise sustainable profit. Put down two words on top of each other profit and sustainability. Now these are the 2 objectives- what word somes next if we are to profit from sustainability. As Ray's web shows saving money on waste not just by reducing it but discovering which of your waste is another sompanies input. So network transparency- becoming the cheer leaders for a whole newtork's value multiplication- enters in as the next line in the business case. Now what happens - all sorts of good people get atracted by this so let's add in people. In Ray's case: Interface is in top 50 favourite places in America to work - unheard of in a sector like Industrial carpets. See lots of godwill multiplying in society; people selling you on so you need to spend less on marketing. People coming to you with innovations. What you find is whatever story to tell next in multiplying value connects with a positive word. Emerging is a list of all the links in the business case all positive human realtionship connections spinning profitability. This is just another interpretation of goodwill attracts goodwills patterns as conversely does badwill. Any Harvard or other MBA who does not know how to construct a hi-profit business case through goodwill should be shown the carpte as fast as possible. Sadly if you look at this thread you will find the fashion over the alst 15 years started by global accountants (who I lived with for much of the 1990s) is to separate good relationships into parts. Because they never even see the system spin then are genetically incapable of measuring anything else but badwill business cases wherever their emasures are used to reward performance or to make the utterly nonsensical valuations of parts of intangibles like their brand algorithmsMore details on this case here.
Chris Macrae , 27 May 2005 @ 15:10 PM sep4 Mr Chris MacraeIt doesn't matter if you treat and measure a piece of metal simply as if it was a means to your own ends. What are you supposed to do? Strike up a conversation with it? But it does matter if you treat people in the same way. People bring a whole set of new and different considerations to the party: considerations that simply cannot be contained by the closed loop narcisstic purposes, methods and measures. For example, people bring social and moral judgements to the things organisations do, which cannot be calibrated by financial measures. And they have motivations, purposes and potential contributions (such as, say, creativity) which often react badly to instrumental attitudes and methods. So people-issues don't lend themselves to the hammer and nail treatment. They pose a different type of challenge that follows a different type of logic.
Chris Macrae , 27 May 2005 @ 13:07 PM Dont cry for me economicsMr Chris MacraeQuite an extraordinary event happened yesterday with 200 Londoners witnessing. Ironically it happened in a room that had been hired from the British Medical Association First someone in the panel reminded us of Unseen Wealth's research that economics and all accounting management measures now explain less than 20% of what future value or productivity compounds Then a guy who had introduced himself as being responsible for purchase selections of 1.5% of the British stockmarket said that as a pension funds representative he was under a legal duty to follow those numbers Next door to him, someone interjected perhaps that's why over the last 10 years pensioners to be would have better off in a building society with its interest rates If anyone feels like discussing the crisis world where most of us have no sustainable pensions then I am doing a starbucks/BBCIcan?RSA cafe on that on LondonPensions for peopleStarbucks 51 Great Russell Street London WC1Tuesday 7th June5.30 p.m.Contact:Chris [email protected] Cost- Free coffee etasting to cheer us all up before we do the courageous conversation bit This was only the first round of knowledge of economics implosion that happened to the 200 of us. I suggest the presence thread may help with some background understanding of how this isnt a peculiarly British blindness (though heaven knows those delegates to look after investemnts for the common people seem to be ruled by law that has gone far beyond being just an ass)
Chris Macrae , 22 May 2005 @ 16:11 PM SEP3 nothing as communally practical as a good mapMr Chris MacraeWith respect to Lewin, I believe he was wrong in saying that there's nothing as practical as a good theory, I far prefer a holistic map. For example, tell us if you would like to test out one of those big words - transformation, sustainability, management, etc -. At least this map enables us to ask that we question the word from the perspective of each constituency represented. I have noticed people spend hours talking across purposes about a word with different meanings to different disciplines without realising that that any actions they later enact will be different just because of this. Worse is the modern fashion deliberately to mislead. You will hear people making very mean decisions on the altar of shareholder value, but press these social controllers for a definition that makes transparent the timespan their analysis reflects and something stange happens. Usually they were not talking about a typical shareholder at all but the most rampant speculative type - who's as interested in pumping up an organisation to short it on the way down as anything else.Do we really spend our lives in organisations to serve people who are deliberately content in seeing the organisation destruct its purpose and future value once they have wound up trust to breaking point and bet against the company's future? The silence of the lambs has nothing on letting SVA rip as a measure to govern industries in your neighbourhood with. Meanwhile here are a few of the other reasons, our journalist loves the knowledge sharing honesty of maps: What Maps doMaps help people focus on what matters, at that particular time and occasion. They help people to:• see connections and relationships and to focus on the critical ones• place things in perspective• identify destinations, barriers and obstacles and ways round them• plan journeys• calibrate progress• communicate with others about all the above to generate shared understandingsDifferent types of map focus on different aspects of the same reality. We happily shift from one map to another, depending on what we are trying to achieve. Some maps show political boundaries. Others depict transport routes, weather systems, physical terrain or destinations of interest. Also, depending on the task at hand, different types of map depict different aspects of reality Technical note: more on the scale of the intangibles valuation crisis here, together with notes on scholars of law, and others trying to rectify this mass destruction of organisation.
Chris Macrae , 21 May 2005 @ 14:58 PM Superior Economics 2 SEP2Mr Chris MacraeConsider the productivity potential gained when a complete network of relationships aligns – so that what A does to keep his promises to B also helps him to keep his promises to C. In this case, we have a virtuous spiral where each party’s best interest is served by helping other parties achieve theirs. This is a positive game where each party has good reason to contribute to, and invest in, his relationships with the others, because that contribution will in turn feed the benefits he receives. In such a case the network has integrity, in both senses of the word. It works well as a whole, and it is trustworthy: it deserves the trust people who invest their precious assets and resources in it, because it gives a good return on their investment. Zing! Let’s invent a technical term for this: ‘zing’. When the potential of the people involved with the organisation is fully unleashed, everybody within its network ‘zings’ with energy. But generating ‘zing’ is not something that happens automatically. And it’s not something that happens simply as by-product of other management activities and priorities such as formulating and implementing strategies, improving productivity, driving sales and margins and so on. Generating ‘zing’ is a task in its own right – one which should encompass and influence everything else the organisation does. Zing is about creating virtuous wealth creating spirals. It is about organisations making the most of the people they come into contact with, in order to make the most for them. To build sustainable, value-creating environments (where ‘value’ is both economic and human) that are invigorating and enriching to work for, be a customer of, and do business with. To be a Type A organisation in other words. The narcissistic corporation Right now in the world of work however – especially profit-oriented business – there is miserable, hope-sapping, soul-destroying, cynicism-inducing but widespread and deeply embedded assumption that Zing is not possible... Holo!
suleman lodhi , 21 May 2005 @ 09:13 AM Humanist Systemssuleman lodhiDear ChrisIt is our responsibility as humans to work for the development of humanist systems. “That is if we want humans to survive” SmilesSuleman
Chris Macrae , 20 May 2005 @ 20:38 PM Superior Economics 1 - SEP1Mr Chris MacraeHolo! Consider two organisations. Which would you rather work for?A. An organisation which seeks to realise the full potential of the people who work for it.B. An organisation which uses its staff (and other people) simply as a means to its own ends. Which would you rather be a customer of?A. An organisation which seeks to prosper by helping its customers prosper.B. An organisation that seeks to make money out of its customers. Finally, as a citizen, which organisation would you prefer?A. An organisation which enriches its surroundings – its society, local communities, environment, etc?B. An organisation which profits by plundering the resources around it? If your answer is ‘B’ then clearly you’re a sad loser with no interest in reading or questioning the next 99 posts of superior economics.
Have you heard an exceptional story and how can we collectively verify it?
Have you heard an exceptional story and how can we collectively verify it? Chris Macrae
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Benoit Couture , 07 August 2005 @ 12:12 PM Perfect examplesStay at home dad Benoit CoutureThose are great examples to demonstrate how important it is to apply the concept that will take democracy from competing to completing before we go on with globalization that is infected with mindless competing. Habitat for Humaniy http://www.hfh.org/sponsor03.html is a special concept to help low income families to own their houses. They started using the geo-thermo energy to keep up with the heating of the houses. It is produced freely by the earth. That organisation has many volunteers from the legal professions such as judges and lawyers, who join in an effort to encourage the hand up concept of Friedman, as opposed to the hand out concept as from Keynnes. The reason that they go about doing their business quietly concerning their enrgy use, might have to do with their legal knowledge that mega interests might decide to clamp down on them, as mentioned in the previous posting. Their project and efforts should be universally branded and protected now and made used of, as one of the main part of the strategy to go from self-destruction to self-control to community self-governing. All the while, with a socio-cultural model fit to guide humanity from competing to completing.It seems like an ideal pet project for the EU and for all who wish to promote the local live structures of the global renewal. Lets put together the strategy in the open such as here on the EU KM Board and lets bring it to a point where decision-makers are then invited with complete debriefing, to openly ratify the processes into action. It would release us from the grip of speculation. In the process of a first decision being reached this way, there will be born the alliance between academia-technica-practica. As mentioned, we would bring to reality what is needed to:"ensure that professionals word became their bon again; all contract promises being recorded so any reaonable jury could see what each side expected and in terror situations, the clues delivered would be so rich that probably terrorists as well as corrupting professionals would go out of business"
Troy Rice , 07 August 2005 @ 10:44 AM personal mobile cctvA few years ago a lab in one of the world's top mobile infrstructure firms prototyped the feasibility of a personal cctv. Concept values were: Permit emergency switching on as discretely as patting your chest From then on everything happening around you would be started to a databank accessible by yourself and choice of eg lawyer, next of kin etc. Like with cctv, you would wipe 99.99% of content but the other .01% would: ensure that professionals word became their bon again; all contract promises being recorded so any reaonable jury could see what each side expected and in terror situations, the clues delivered would be so rich that probably terrorists as well as corrupting professionals would go out of business why did this lab not pusue this concep? certainly not NPD cost, all the work appears to have been done; its rumored that that the lab team were told the product did not fit the strategic plan of what businesses the cimpany was deciding to be in, and a patent blocks others from bringing this out.
Chris Macrae , 31 March 2005 @ 21:44 PM more from our expert part 2Mr Chris MacraeThat is where the discussion usually stops. However the real opportunity for a practical low cost and safe liquid fuel is rarely mentioned - but that future Bio Fuel http://solaroof.org/pmwiki6/pmwiki.php/SolaRoof/BioFuel is Bio Diesel http://solaroof.org/pmwiki6/pmwiki.php/SolaRoof/BioDiesel . This is the path to an alternative Hydrocarbon Economy rather than a Hydrogen Economy http://www.unh.edu/p2/biodiesel/article_alge.html - a realistic plan based on a truly massive production of low cost carbohydrate liquid fuel derived from Vegetable Oil, which is possible without any burden of investing in expensive new distribution - and the Bio Fuel will run hundreds of millions of existing diesel engines http://solaroof.org/pmwiki6/pmwiki.php/SolaRoof/FutureEnergy . The palm tree is the most productive vegetable oil producer of any land based plant - producing over a ton of oil per acre - while various seed and nut crops produce a thousand pounds per acre per year or less. In their projections, almost never do the doomsayer (LifeAfterTheOilCrash) energy experts consider the high productivity of our Biomass Production that could be harvested from urban roof areas - one of the Blue Green energy solutions. Michael Briggs, University of New Hampshire, Physics Department states: "Enough biodiesel to replace all petroleum transportation fuels could be grown in 15,000 square miles, or roughly 12.5 percent of the area of the Sonora desert (note for clarification - I am not advocating putting 15,000 square miles of algae ponds in the Sonora desert. This hypothetical example is used strictly for the purpose of showing the scale of land required). That 15,000 square miles works out to roughly 9.5 million acres - far less than the 450 million acres currently used for crop farming in the US, and the over 500 million acres used as grazing land for farm animals [only 3% of the 2.3 billion acres within the US, or 66 million acres, is categorized as urban land]." You can see the entire message at my Log. This will help to guide those who are interested in this breakthrough to understand how this photosynthesis based energy future is an integral feature of the SolaRoof approach to BUILDING a sustainable future. Comments are also welcome at my Log http://solaroof.org/pmwiki6/pmwiki.php/SolaroofguyLog/20050325 . Best regards to all, Rick
Chris Macrae , 31 March 2005 @ 21:43 PM more from our expert -part 1Mr Chris MacraeThanks for networking this question. I hope we get lots of feedback. I do have a new series of patents that will be filed soon on this subject. This patent activity will be undertaken for the purpose of locking as much as possible of the production knowhow into the Ethical Public Domain. Those who wish to support, invest or collaborate with my initiative are welcome to join a leadership team, which will be a workgroup of our LIFE Synthesis enterprise. Many discussion groups are concerned about the "end of oil" - we need to transform this fear and focus on solutions. I wrote to a group that discuss Contraction & Convergence with a message suggesting a reason for new hope and offering a practical path to the future of our dreams: Those that want to ultimately discredit Biomass energy will focus attention on Conventional Biomass Crops http://solaroof.org/pmwiki6/pmwiki.php/SolaRoof/BiomassCrops , which could never supply the world's existing and growing demand for energy. Forestry crops for wood energy have the very lowest energy supply potential and only non sustainable clear cutting and mono crop tree plantations can increase the rate of supply - but only to a limited extent since both forestry and agricultural crops (for methanol or ethanol) are very detrimental to the planetary ecology and biodiversity and are also dependent on non renewable petrochemical resources http://solaroof.org/pmwiki6/pmwiki.php/SolaRoof/ChemicalDependentAgriculture . The only other alternative for solar energy that is seriously considered today is PV. PV has a high financial cost, which is primarily the cost of embodied energy. The proposal for PV energy systems is not in my view an appropriate energy technology for communities that are poor. I would not even suggest that rich communities should invest in PV at this stage. PV, like nuclear, removes no CO 2 from the atmosphere and produces electrical energy, which adds the complexity and cost of electrical energy storage systems and delivery systems (like hydrogen or grid distribution) and the attendant utility cost and distribution losses. If the PV industry (now owned by big oil) wants market share they should do something to bring down the supply cost.
Chris Macrae , 31 March 2005 @ 06:53 AM provisional replyMr Chris MacraeOne of the things I revel in is declaring I am a total amateur in something. I love the innovation and people that are working in this area but the technicalities are outside my scope so I will refer your question on. So I dont feel there's any egg on my face in talking about this story until we can all see what the truth is. My understanding is that some of the breakthrough research was done at places like the University of New Hampshire. But the innovation was too big for traditional oil industry to bear. It brings an order of magnitude of economies and social benefits. Knowing of other such innovations being shelved by industries and governments, I can entirely believe this one has been surpressed too. The good news to emerge from this is that almost all the innovations have been turned into an open source community with many hundred now working on it in small applications that will be launched in many places at the same time. I did ask my friend how long it would take to get the algae producing all the oil America needs if everyone was willing to go ahead with it. Doable before 2010 was his answer. You can see why I wouold feel it is a big story that I ask we find a way to verify one way or another but openly...If anyone else has a big story they would just like verifying openly, I suggest this thread holds the space for that.
Guy Benchimol , 30 March 2005 @ 17:03 PM Market lawsMr Guy BenchimolYour story is very exciting and, insofar it is consistent with reality, I ask a few ingenuous questions: - Are there patents pertaining to this field?- Were feasibility studies already done?- Is it possible to form an idea of the ROI? - Are investors interested in growing algae and transforming them into oil? In the country of free enterprise, does the legislation prevent from producing new energy sources -namely sustainable ones- according to the MARKET LAWS? Methinks answers to the above questions would allow us to appreciate whether the process your story allude to is utopian or realistic.
Chris Macrae , 28 March 2005 @ 20:55 PM the most extraordinary story I've evere heardMr Chris MacraeI was told this story last Tuesday. Twenty people were listening to its telling, and none has yet been able to disprove it. I have also spent another 8 hours discussing it You may know that about 50% of the USA is unbuilt on. If we took about 5% of that area (deserts will do) it is possible to develop algae that produce through bio-diesel oil all the oil America needs and clean up the climate in the processes they use to make oil. If you have questions about this story and want them past on to its origin, I will happily do that. Chris MacraeIn ordinary weeks, this breaking news in my inbox would also seem exceptional. Since its theme is partly related, I thought I'd include it: The NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/opinion/27friedman.html March 27, 2005OP-ED COLUMNIST Geo-Greening by ExampleBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMANHow will future historians explain it? How will they possibly explain why President George W. Bush decided to ignore the energy crisis staring us in the face and chose instead to spend all his electoral capital on a futile effort to undo the New Deal, by partially privatizing Social Security? We are, quite simply, witnessing one of the greatest examples of misplaced priorities in the history of the U.S. presidency. "Ah, Friedman, but you overstate the case." No, I understate it. Look at the opportunities our country is missing - and the risks we are assuming - by having a president and vice president who refuse to lift a finger to put together a "geo-green" strategy that would marry geopolitics, energy policy and environmentalism. By doing nothing to lower U.S. oil consumption, we are financing both sides in the war on terrorism and strengthening the worst governments in the world. That is, we are financing the U.S. military with our tax dollars and we are financing the jihadists - and the Saudi, Sudanese and Iranian mosques and charities that support them - through our gasoline purchases. Finally, by doing nothing to reduce U.S. oil consumption we are only hastening the climate change crisis, and the Bush officials who scoff at the science around this should hang their heads in shame. And it is only going to get worse the longer we do nothing. "Right now, there are about 800 million cars in active use. By 2050, as cars become ubiquitous in China and India, it'll be 3.25 billion. That increase represents ... an almost unimaginable threat to our environment. Quadruple the cars means quadruple the carbon dioxide emissions - unless cleaner, less gas-hungry vehicles become the norm." All the elements of what I like to call a geo-green strategy are known...
Helen Martin , 28-Jul-2005 IP rightsHelen MartinHi Jacques, Rajesh and Benoit, Thank you for your comments which in turn raise interesting questions - it will be truly fascinating to see how IP rights develop. We have just had a new development here in Denmark. A copy of all material with the .dk domain, which is published on eletronic communication networks MUST be deposited with the state electronic archives. Furthermore, so must all material from outside of Denmark which is aimed at a Danish readership. The data will be harvested electronically. Do the other EU Nations have a similar legislation? Helen
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 27-Jul-2005 From ownership battles to owning up to lifeStay at home dad Benoit CoutureRajesh, your views are pointing in the same direction I was writing about this week on ownership. The personal ability to own up to whom and what each one is made of, in the context of co-operation, turns mathematics into the order of one plus one makes one. The organisation becomes an organism. We go from unlimited competing to completing so that as you point out, intellectual ownership no longer is a matter of who owns what but of what is the need, where and when? Intelligence owns up to intelligence and patent becomes a safe, ongoing stimulation and breathing of creativity and relevancy that pulsates healthy leadership to move with.
Rajesh Sulabha , 26-Jul-2005 Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) - Advanced Application of KM?Mr. Rajesh Sulabha Hi Helen,Thanks for the good and concise read. The progressing initiatives on the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) may help find solutions to many of the present day issues related to Patents; but presently it may be a complex, time consuming and expensive procedure. By year-end 2004 of PCT,"One million technical advances publicly disclosed, fueling technology transfer and stimulating still more innovation".http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/million/index.html PCT Statistical Indicators Report, May 2005http://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/statistics/patents/pdf/pct_monthly_report.pdf In my views, if such IP initiatives can find more cooperation among the national unions and industry-associations and forums, its a positive sign. So Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and similar ones may be considered as 'Advanced Applications of KM'. KM finds more life than its present image of making software KM-tools on Database Management packages and publishing. >>>> What will happen in the future? Will only>> the big organizations have the clout to>> protect their rights? Can patents still do >> what they were designed to do? I do not>> think so. It will become as difficult to>> enforce IP rights, etc.>>This will make us ask more questions on is it the 'Organizations(economy)' lead the 'nations' and 'national unions of interest' or the other way in the future? Is it growth of human civilization ('quality of life') independent of continents high priority (of organizations and nations) or is it 'showing the short living superiority (of organizations and nations)) over the weaker ones?' In the long run, if there is days of the human civilization in the future when the whole world become the "Organization and nation together" taking care each -one and -other as "employee and citizen" and everyone loves to contribute more for the collective overall growth, then, in my personal views, the concerns of protecting the rights and ownership will change to how fast one (or group) can make the innovation reach to the masses around. Once again thanks for the good article.best wishes,Rajesh.
Jacques SOUILLOT , 23-Jul-2005 KM sources and IP understandingJacques SOUILLOT Funnily enough when you carry out an Internet search on “Intellectual Property and KM” the results you obtain most often lead to warnings which tell you, more or less, that intellectual property must be protected and that information about innovations must be kept as secret as possible. Is the KM world totally paranoid? Could it be that one of the fundamental aspects of the system of patents, copyrights and so on, is being put aside? If intellectual property is protected it is because it is made known! If it were not officialized through the IP regulations it would become public just because of what is published or produced. Don’t forget that without the rules protecting innovations through patents and so on, it would be quite easy to just copy what has been put on the market (ever heard of back-engineering?). Could it be that the management of innovation is lacking some perspective at the level of patenting in the KM populations? A dire misconception revealing a serious lack of information in that domain… But of course a simple Internet search might not be absolutely trustworthy. In anycase, thanks again Helen for bringing the subject under the spotlights of KB2.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 4-Jul-2005 Rights of one versus what is right or with it?Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureHi Jaques, The enforcing of one's rights that you begin with, connects with the moral aspect you raise. The word moral, as you employ it in relation to the rights of an individual to his own work, is a matter of absolute. In the relationship between a Micheal Angelo or Leonardo D'a Vinci and those who got them to say ok, I'll do it, there had to be a way of interacting that respected, supported and stimulated the inspiration and the genius of the artist. O)therwise, there would not be their work to be seen. But at some point, the artist needed to deliver, as of a delivery of himself into thes ervice of his genius into talents and skills. Therefore, the way to safeguard the rights of the author, is to insure as a society that the author gets granted with all that is needed to carry out the aims and purposes of the particular authorship needed to bring on completion of its reasons and purpose of authoring. This way, in time, individual ownership will fleurish in communal, self-governing initiatine and ventures, away from the pressure of competition and with the benefit of humanity being recovered and enhenced at the office as well as home. As individuals, our rights are limited to the service we do. The true reward is to be and do what keeps the joy of living healthy. It is by going on serving in full integrity that what is right goes on spreading. The benefit of spreading welbeing and welfare is the reward. of our right to contribute to humanity.
Helen Martin , 4-Jul-2005 Illegal substancesHelen MartinHi BenoitYou raise an interesting point - but it goes to support my statement that it is very difficult to enforce one's rights. Patents are published to inform about what has been invented and the process involved. In the case you mention, the rights of whoever worked out how to produce the mind-altering/destroying substance (if it was ever patented) are being abused. But what can be done to enforce the inventor's rights? It really is a moral dilemma.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 2-Jul-2005 SuggestionStay at home dad Benoit CoutureHelen, you ask: "What will happen in the future? Will only the big organisations have the clout to protect their rights?" Intellectual property rightsmakes sense to protect the knowledge that can go in the wrong direction. As a current example: Where we live, there is this receipe on the internet, made of house hold products which, once put together under the guidance of that knowledge, becomes crystal meth, they call it. Along with crack cocaine, it is the most destructive street power ever seen. From this example of a plague, to the isolated maniac who will spend a life time gathering the components for causing disasters of any kind? So the handling of securuty is where intellectual property rights is imperative. This is a matter of health in the socio-cultural environment. Security and the collective advancement of personal justice, peace and joy is where the ownership of knowledge needs to be framed. The context to fully participate, to enjoy and to celebrate making life better for everyone is the reward of the inventor. Of course, when profit is involved, then the inventor out to be granted all the freedom to proceed at will, with the support, into more inventions that will help him or her to fullfil the life time thread of contributions. The safety of sanctity must secure knowledge distribution, so that the open soure does not get poluted nor infected.
Jacques SOUILLOT , 1-Jul-2005 Bravo Wipo!Jacques SOUILLOT The WIPO (World International Property Organization) web site offers a very interesting, exciting presentation of everyday life seen through the eyes of a specialist of IP. It is called "Intellectual property in everyday life - a virtual tour" http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/athome.htm That is when you realise we do not live in a simple three dimension world!
Helen Martin , 28-Jun-2005 CopyrightHelen MartinI received the following additional information from Brian Hoolahan and think it may be of interest to others -it certainly is to me! Hello Helen, I read your piece on KnowledgeBoard which was a good description of how things are in the IP protection world. However, the power of 'Copyright' protection is a lot stronger then many imagine - although the problem has always been 'Prove Copyright existed at a certain point in time'. The areas you mentioned that cannot be patented: discovery; scientific theory or mathematical method; aesthetic creation such as a literary, dramatic or artistic work; scheme or method for performing a mental act, playing a game or doing business; presentation of information, or a computer program. Four of the five above can be protected by Copyright - or 'Authors Rights'. You do have Copyright but officially no real protection. This is however always down to a legal court to decide whether or not you have 'protection'. But the whole process of any copyright protection begins with the fact that you should be able to prove the origin of the copyright. Brian C Hoolahan, CEO, File-Reg International
Can KnowledgeBoard transform the KM world?
The transformational role of KnowledgeBoard:An online discussion and a face to face workshop at the ECLO conference in Birmingham on May 24th 2005. KnowledgeBoard is the largest Knowledge Management community in Europe and possibly in the world with 12,000 members, 25,000 visitors per month and a rich live library of some thousand documents. It offers its members a wide range of channels for knowledge sharing – for example physical and virtual events, special interest groups, newsletters, summer schools and summer camps.But, what is the next big frontier? In this workshop we invite people from academia and industry to help us envision together a much more challenging role for KnowledgeBoard. We will try to discover together if and how KB can:· take an active role in the transformation of the knowledge management discipline (why? how? into which directions?)· take an active role in the transformation of the knowledge management community and increase significantly its intellectual capital?· Contribute to the main stream KM thinking, or perhaps be more on active on the fringes of this discipline· Or maybe disrupt good old Knowledge Management, and invent a new paradigm and line of thinking?The face to face workshop will take the shape of a knowledge café at the European consortium for Learning Organisation conference, on 24 May 2005. ECLO event details page The face to face workshop will be facilitated by Ed Mitchell and Thomas Schael from KnowledgeBoard. And,it will actually start 2 weeks before the ECLO conference, right here and now, in an open pre-conference virtual discussion in the KnowledgeBoard forums facilitated by Ron Dvir, KnowledgeBoard events co-ordinator. Event discussion space in the KnowledgeBoard forums We hope that this mix of online/physical event may yield some really interesting, perhaps even breakthrough ideas. The results will be fed back to the whole community, and used in the process of establishing KB strategic direction beyond 2006. So, dear KnowledgeBoard members – what do you think: Can KB transform the KM world – and if so, how?
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Report from the KB workshop at the ECLO conference, 24 May 2005. (08-Jun-05)
KnowledgeBoard, 11-May-2005
Hi all,
the workshop at ECLO's conference was very small but interesting. We did a brief summary of the pre-conference preparation and comments and asked the attendees what they wished to discuss.
The focus of interest was the more immediate application of KB for professionals rather than the larger picture as opened up in some of the previous comments - attendees at the workshop were much more interested in the application of tools and techniques, and hearing stories from other 'do-ers' on KnowledgeBoard than discussing the larger issues.
The main points of discussion were:
1. The introduction of commercial interests
2. Working the public and voluntary sectors
3. Case studies as vital
4. One member's feedback
5. KnowledgeBoard and 'KM' communities
I have written this up in a document, which I have attached to this story, or you can email me and I will happily send it on.
Benoit Couture , 2-Jul-2005
If truth be told in love, key to KM
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Salut everybody of KM, may I suggest a round table between academia, technica and pracrica. The aim of this table is to become the kitchen table of the KM's quest for the universal home of humanity. The round table begins by identifying one topic where all 3 are practically involved and where KM becomes the conduit that connects the 3 from complexity to simplicity, from separation to completion and from stranger to family. Each of the 3 represents a voice for individuals to identify with, be it as observer or participant. The permanent theme is: "Lets live to know, so that we may know to live." The aim of the industrial age and of technology has always been driven by the promise of making life more simple and easier for everybody. The greatest push ever seen by humanity in that regard was brought on by the collective dream of never going to war again after the 2ww!? Why is simplicity getting more complex and why are the tools of knowledge stimulating so much isolation, compulsive behaviours and socio-cultural disintegration of the human fabric in the West? The journey from the formality of the round table to the simplicity of the kitchen table will serve to deploy the Faculty of living. Given the right context, we can all learn to live; we cannot teach each other to live; such is the mystery of the Faculty of living. Hunger to learn is from being alive. We can experience, feed and spread life but we cannot explain life into being. The organic opening to the spiritual source restores and maintains our being alive: that is the essence of KM at the purest level. So for the core to develop, we need the Curriculum of humanity's Recovery Road! As a lead, I propose the motion that EU Knowledgeboard establishes the round table of academia, technica and practica. The purpose of their existance is to build the conduit from the divided state of knowledge to the intimate, personalized serenity of the kitchen table where each resolution is welcome to be debated, to help ease the 3 pillars of knowledge to become integrated as one, conceiving the embryo of all needed decision making for the Home's blossom of Humanity’s Faculty of Living.
Do you know how to vision & do we know how to vision?
Do you know how to vision & do we know how to vision? There is at least a suggestion that this community has less than 20% common understanding of how to vision = let's see if we can raise the bar! You might have to share google with me, and of course if any of you would share your google with me too we could be a COV - Community of Vision Chris Macrae
KnowledgeBoard, 18-May-2005
In doing post 1, did you discover this : Core Purpose3M To solve unsolved problems innovativelyBoeing To push the leading edge of aviation, taking on huge challenges and doing what otherscannot doMerck To preserve and improve human lifeNike To experience the emotion of competition, winning, and crushing competitorsTelecare To help people with mental impairments realize their full potentialTeaching Co To ignite in all people the passion for learningEU To atone for world wars by nations collaborating in peace and transparent economicsSony To experience the sheer joy of advancing and applying technology for thebenefit of the publicBecton-Dickinson To help all people lead healthy livesWalt Disney To make people happyFannie Mae To strengthen the social fabric by democratizing home ownershipTimes Mirror To contribute to the performance of the communities we serveMarriott To make people away from home feel they are among friends and really wantedMary Kay To give unlimited opportunity to womenMcKinsey To help leading corporations and governments be more successfulTaylor Corp To provide entrepreneurial opportunity and security for our peopleWL Gore To have fun doing innovative things that make moneyIsrael To provide a secure place on Earth for the Jewish peoplePatagonia To be a role model and tool for social changeUniv. of Texas To transform lives through inspired learningWal-Mart To give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people Part 2:which entry was not in original list Part 3:Do you know simply what the founder promised this institution would live or die by
Benoit Couture , 08 June 2005 @ 03:37 AM Invitation to considerStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings, the EU knowledgeboard is a unique venue to keep on fostering ideas and dreams of ongoing embellishment and celabrations of innovations to better serve mankind with. Because I participated to this thread, I thought you might like to be informed of the following campaign I posted at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 It connects directly with the 5 century old European project called Canada, to negotiate peacefully in the never ending of French-English ambiguity who are yet to know how to deal properly with the Aboriginal hosts. Canada is the ongoing ground invitation to unite humanity at righting the wrong in peace and joy in the way that the United Nations aspire to do. We are deployed to become the training ground for the local scene, busy to innovate the maturity of a people of all people and I invite you to help me see it through for us all. Benoit
knowledge management
please can you tell me what are the concepts of knowledge managements? divya krishnaraj
KnowledgeBoard, 20-Jul-2005
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 24 May 2005 @ 13:54 PM The sound of visionStay at home dad Benoit CoutureVision comes to those who exercise themselves to see what they hear, as they listen, who learn to see what is said and who enter in the experience of simple perceptual connection with the wide open personal completion to the moment's happening. As one develops the maturity of full participation with the moment, so does the perceptual envisioning dexterity. From the normalization of envisioning into one's perceptual connection getting firmly established in the daily living, then comes the invisioning. The invisioning is the imagination's inner screen lighting up in context of where the envisioning grows. To envision is to become aware from soaking in the atmosphere. To invision is the focus coming in contact with the natural deployment grown from the whole envisioning atmosphere I soke in daily. The essence of vision is from the personal relatedness development in its whole simplicity of perceptual connection of the moment. The sign of a vision is confirmed when it gets communicated in the context that it addresses and that the focusing message lights up a healthy stimulation of the imagination screen and creativity from each listener's own personal perceptual relatedness. It is also recognised from the pure joy of effortlessly knowing beyond any possible argument, Benoit Couture
]Benoit Couture , 20 July 2005 @ 18:01 PM KM begining is yet to be defined Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Divya, Corinna and Guillian, Since Feb. 2002, I have been moving on the internet via email with complete transparency, in order to reach the powers that be, to try and to bring a governance initiative to their attention. I have no education, only a strong sense of direction, as a stay at home dad of a young woman who is part of the first generation who will outlive their parents, when born with a degre of disability such as she has. Three months ago, I was guided to certain links which took me to the heart of technical terminology and operations of open source KM. Now, as a non-educated voting stay-at-home-dad citizen, I have received enough mentoring to now reach for the opportunity to help mapping a beginning for open source KM, with no more decosion-making behind closed doors. In other words, KM has yet to break through the damm before it reaches its own true beginning. Creation and innovetion are that beginning. When a damm breaks open, the start takes a long time, but once the first feew trickles come through, then gravith quickly fininshes the opening. Why not make room to bring on all possible elements and angles to help to build the pressure and to break free as of Mr. Clinton's conference. This would link directly into the inspiration and guidance that would reassure Dinya's quest into KM. It would provide a footing for Guillian and I to be framed in context and it would allow for Corinna to remain objective and cautious, as we certainly must make sure of, at all time.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 20 July 2005 @ 15:47 PM Open Sourced KM and Mr. Clinton (part 1)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Guilian, the 3 days conference of Mr. Clinton should be his personal invitation to a fresh start of his own personal healing and recovery from Western society's stress and compulsive behaviors. Humanity needs to witness the personal(local and communaal(global) apprenticeship on how to go from spiritual stranger to family, free from the temporal bias of blood and flesh. The general tragectory is to go from self-destruction to self-contrlo to community self-government. We need from Mr. Clinton how to toilet train the market economies and to cure the markets that are alergic to self-sufficiency. The conference ought to be the turning on of the light of open source KM, with that weekend a the start of a transparency implementation. This will only happen if BBC and CBC are allowed to take on immediatly the permanent promotion of the conference and the on-air central feed for the deployment to all other networks.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 20 July 2005 @ 15:46 PM Open Source KM and Mr. Clinton (part 2)Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Mice and EU KM Board members, I am microscopically growing at Minciu Sodas lab and I seek and find my macro alignment with the Mice and I promote on KM on EU KM Board. There has been great development of focus recently at the lab. John Lennon stood up and spoke up as a witness of the personal summit which is available to us all. The name "summit" has been applied at Minciu to describe the following: Christ on earth among His people means that the world is given the spiritual nature to deploy restorative justice and community mental health, from the Spirit who feeds inner justice, peace and joy. Every idealogy I have known runs out of steam, sooner or later. The spiritual nature does not run out. I have met so many idealists who are spiritual but who do not relate to any religious language at all. They know and that is enough for them and they do go on with all the steam needed, while religious minded people fall short of stamina. My personal reason to specialise in the New-Testament is because of the official nature of the calling I follow. I still aim to bring forward the initiative of ...cleansing our vision of the Crown... in order to facilitate the participation of her majesty Queen ElisabethhII as the Defender of the Faith, as well as the Vatican and Mr. George Bush on their official restoration of their respective Offices, into the experience of organic spiritual unity. In the name of Christ, there is the ground and the authority to guide us all to the holy renewal of organic spiritual unity. Every idealist benefits from seeing humility at work to teach the higher levels of decision-making on how to unite from the open Source into the genuine service to God and humanity. In that sense, we are very well equipped at Minciu Sodas to go on serving and to facilitate the culture of all good will on earth, the Faculty of Living. Let us not preach but rather, let us be free to be and to become, on and on, far away from any possible dogma mentalities; such is the joint-reality of our biology, when we are spiritually healthy... Anders, Ed, do not hesitate to delete this posting if it trespasses the Mice's guidelines. I thought important to link Minciu Sodas lab and the Mice on the basis of the summit, from beyond the negative reach of our differences, where justice, peace and joy rule in our spirits and hearts and where reconciliation is the ongoing live pulsation of the moment, whenever that might be.
Gillian Bush , 20 July 2005 @ 08:59 AM How many &'s does a sustainable organistion's purpose systemise in managing managementMs Gillian BushHow Open is the Source of KM? There will always be hierarchy but if you value people in an organisation how do you make the most of hierarchy &people's greatest passions to make a difference. Clinton is calling for a 1000 leaders to come up with new interactive answers to this http://clintonglobalinitiative.com -the potentially the greatest global KM so far staged or society's rights in an organisation (given that societies invest in learning, health, natural & cultural resources, safety of beings, infrastructures like knowledge cities and zero digital divides...) and does a vibrant industry sector have organsiations that are great border players with other organisations (in effect synergetically mangaing each other). This is a knowledge flowing idea whose time has come if you want to make the most of the internet and globalsiation. The webbed like nature of the internet's most valuable innovations should be obvious. Globalisation's requirement that organisation's systems are great at their boundary interfaces is less well known. It turns out that quality of sustainability depends on realising that one organsiation's (waste) output is another's input. The business case for sustainability depends on whether you value life itself. Nobody is clearer about the economic and cultural necessity of designing this into the view you hold of knowledge managemnt of the world's largest organisations than Ray Anderson chairman of Interface here. Will we have the living system knowledge to share Ray's changes to economic strictures in time?http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/iadmin.cgiAt the end of the world, the way we chose to value people's productivity and transparency of diversity will be down to failing to enable every person's most productive connections in playing a trustworth role in KM. Will the largest policies be changed in time? When the likes of even George Bush says for the sustainability of Africa he will change America's agricultural policy if Europe will change its, many humanitarian networks, media, societal leaders, religions & superstars wait with bated breath to see what quaility of KM Brussels is truly capable of. GB
Guy Benchimol , 20 July 2005 @ 08:02 AM Mapping conceptsMr Guy BenchimolDivya, Here are some maps to begin with (they were elaborated in another thread thanks to IHMC's courtesy): http://skat.ihmc.us:80/servlet/SBReadResourceServlet?rid=1110739012921_1791199579_2695&partName=htmltexthttp://skat.ihmc.us:80/servlet/SBReadResourceServlet?rid=1110635429781_130278608_2166&partName=htmltexthttp://skat.ihmc.us:80/servlet/SBReadResourceServlet?rid=1112303497476_1056069109_4404&partName=htmltext (Some icons allow you accessing by clicking specific documents for more details) This may be a basis for a future discussion. All the best Guy
Benoit Couture , 15 July 2005 @ 15:37 PM What lead is to be followed?Stay at home dad Benoit CoutureQUIETNING SILENCE of PATIENT WISDOM Dear Guillian, may I feed back into your dream in this thread here, until we see it come true and through? With my approach to a healthier humanity, I find myself where no one can deny, avoid nor contradict what I suggest, but it can only happen from the inspiration that metamorphoses the old order of divide-conquer and command-control into the experience of spiritual unity. A dream comes true when we are two to believe in it. Here is a thought on how to head with some lead. Open source knowledge management is the reason the EU sponsors the EU Knowledge Board. We don’t want to tick them off. Yet, the fact is that open source can potentially mean disaster if the wind begins blowing in the wrong direction, so caution is the key word to start. That being said though, the open source's mission at EU KM Board is to guide public and private intelligence to find a way out of the hands of security and secrecy and into the hands of transparency and wisdom. In order to do so, why don’t we start giving shape to focus with the likes of a daily round table, one for each 7 days of the week, where each topic would go on once a week until completion of the exhaustive process? One key topic to the EU board's vision and purpose a day, to set the tone and the atmosphere of civility's limits in effecting the transitions on all fronts of the Faculty of Living from self-destruction to self-control to community self-government. The format sees a moderator and two opposite views that must be addressed but need some coming together for eventual mass media announcements of consensus reached in the cool setting developed by the EU KM Board. Just imagine our first Monday roundtable moderated by Daly Lama and Bill Clinton, inviting the Middle-East leaders for decision-making sessions. Each sitting allows the 13000 members of the EU to upgrade to intimate circuit video KM Board and to volunteer to research and to activate either the solutions discussed at each sitting, thereby furthering the next week's sitting with either solutions implementation's reports or more focused questions to help reach the target. Seven days a week of decision-making round tables. We have the tools, do we have the sacred fire to ignite justice and peace on earth from out own EU KM Board!!! Our leaders are begging for a lead and it is time to rescue intelligence from permanent insults. Let's open the Source...Shall we?
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 15 July 2005 @ 14:24 PM Symphony of threadsStay at home dad Benoit CoutureThe EU KnowledgeBoard is equipped to civileze civilization with the tools to engage all sections of the world's societies in the renewal of democracy from home to education to governinig to business. Here are a few threads I see helping such symphony of human perceptions and community. Democracy must learn to accomodate consensus; here's some threads to help do so. http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=129672&d=pndhttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=142410&d=pndhttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=114995&d=pndhttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=110941&d=pndhttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2911http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?comment=2990http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=142321&d=pndhttp://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=141351&d=pnd
Gillian Bush , 15 July 2005 @ 00:06 AM loving 30000 action projects to make poverty historyMs Gillian BushI would nominate this 30000 project thread as one I would most recommend to people. I find it quite amazing that a network of storytellers can have been exploring for 21 years the scenario that 2005 would be year of living globalisation most dangerously - needing to find 30000 win-win-win projects which started to make poverty history (if terror and other unsustainable impacts of rich and poor divides in an intimately conncting world are to be sustainable. ) The knowledgeboard's membership's response to this thread seems meagre. That said,recently we have the good news that 30000 at a stroke seems much more reachable now that leaders like Clinton are committing to 1000 action projects each. see the Clinton global initiative in September where 1000 world opinion leaders are invited to attend but only if each commits to leave with an action project. You would have thought spreading the news of such a growing catalogue of action projects was the nearest to 0 degrees of separation that the net and blogs were made for. Or do I miss something about what excites you all by knowledge management including its fringes, communal open spaces and PKM responsibilities?
Chris Macrae , 8-Jun-2005
Games Communities
Have you tapped into the knowledge of games designers and educators? A first look at your partners seemed not to go through to games developers themselves though included some of the channels that distribute games. Or have I misunderstood the level at which you seek to analyse visual content dynamics and interactions
Benoit Couture , 8-Jun-2005 My mistakeStay at home dad Benoit CoutureDear Chris and people of aceMEDIA, my apologies for the confusion. In my hurry to connect the dots toward my next step, I misread the info on the type of productions being discussed in the thread. I'll see to it that the mistake ends up contributing to the apprenticeship along the way. Thanks for your patience with innocence, Benoit
Benoit Couture , 7-Jun-2005 How about a story of success in the making at EU knowledgeboard.comStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings,As a Canadian citizen born of the European colonizating effervency from within the political paradox made of the federal forces of monarchy's generosity toward people's self-governing and of provincial confederalism powers seeking the pre-eminency of the right to be fully themselves in order to be the best possible part that can be made of "I" for the whole of us all in the experience of spiritual unity, it would seem that the only ingridient missing to work as the catalyst, is the intellectualk honesty in regards to the fact that for a long time, there has been no knowledge left to aquire in orser to activate the dynamics of equality, liberty and fraternity! Would you consider joining in my personal dream to make a success of tools like the EU knoledgeboard such, that our collective awakening into its potential shall be from here on the reason for Europe, the Americas, the Commonwealth, the francophonie and all of Europe's real contribution to humanity to get ourselves together enough to deal with who we actually are in this world in relation to Asia, Africa and the Middle East? For more info see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/U1590685 Benoit
Thank you for your contributions to this article. Actually, I am looking for success stories that took place in the past and *not* how KnowledgeBoard could contribute to your personal success in the future.
Please focus on success stories that clearly show how KnowledgeBoard contributed to your personal success in the past.
Thank you.
Benoit Couture , 16-Jun-2005
recent personal success of the EU Knoledgeboard
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Dear Rene, I became acquainted with the EU open source KB only a few weeks ago, when I was seeking to invite her majesty, Queen ElisabethII's attention to an opportunity that exists for the Crown to help the world with in Canada. I started my campaign in 2002 with no formal education as I dropped out of high school in grade 10 in 1976. "I went to seek knowledge that they would not teach me in colledge" as the singer of The Police, Sting sings out. The more I got acquainted to the real world on my own terms, the more I realized how much of a difference there is between knowledge and awareness. So much knowledge and yet so little awareness of our essential needs as a speicies and how to make room to such "awareness knowledge". And so at 47 years old, my success story is to have been allowed to express my awareness at the fore front of where humanity is doing its very best to release the future in the hands of justice and open source as opposed to go on with the past oppressions of the "command and control" structure. So if EU KB accept and embark with me and my family in making this story relevant as an ongoing succes story working in paralel together, me from Alberta, Canada, to the open source from Europe, who knows, we might just tap into the experience of spiritual-organic unity in such a way as to ignite the healing of meaning, of being and of living from stanger to family instead of going striving from stranger to business. Here is my last entry of this morning, in order to keep in step with the unfolding and stimulation of our past success...
http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=142212&d=1&h=417&f=56&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y Benoit17
Marketing KM or KM Communications?
The Asian Development Bank adopted in 2004 a KM framework. An also approved Information Systems and Technology Strategy is dealing with the IT components of KM. Knowledge capture, sharing and transfer, i.e. by disseminating lessons learned, are important components of this KM framework. Throughout the organization KM Coordinators are nominated. They have requested training materials which they can use to articulate the concept of knowledge management in their departments. We are not looking for theoretical concepts of KM but practical instructions and things KM Coordinators can do within their respective departments to raise awareness and supports the importance of having KM coordinators in this initial adoption phase. Does anyone of the KM community has a clear communication plan, useful training materials? Daan Boom
KnowledgeBoard, 15-Jun-2005
Chris Macrae , 16-Jun-2005 cultureMr Chris MacraeYes - to share or not to share is part of culture- and there's quite a lot of research that shows that people's first few months in an organisation shapes most of what they feel the culture is about
Toby Howard , 16-Jun-2005 Engage with users and deliver something they needToby HowardHi,I work for a multinational organisation. In the past we've tried something similar to what you appear to be doing. We've appointed Net Managers who's job has been to promote intranet use and knowledge sharing. It never really took off because there was no compelling reason for people to share knowledge. As KM practitioners we understand the value of sharing knowledge but most other people don't even think about it.An approach that is now working for us is to focus on specific job functions (ie marketing) and to work with them to identify their knowledge needs. That way, you can identify quick wins that will make their lives easier (either by saving them time or helping do their jobs better) thus demonstrating the value of a knowledge-sharing approach. Once you have demonstrated value you will find that k-sharing activity will become entrenched in those that benefit and you have compelling success stories to persuade those who are less willing to operate in the way you wish. So, in essence, deliver something first and then use the success to persuade the laggards.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 16-Jun-2005 Serenity of simplicityStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings people, KM is about people learning the simplicity of being and of becoming with the help of the complicated machine which duplicates complex functions of the human brain. The reason why artificail intelligence has grown so much in the first place, was to simplify the "command and control" capacities. Now KM is confusing all that because KM is about people who are trying to break free from such a state of order. "Relate, trust and innovate toward self-geverning to live and to let live" is in conflict with the boundaries of "command and control". In French, knowledge has 2 avenues of meaning. One is to be informed and to other is to be acquainted. Home life and the education curriculum have developped for 14 centuries under the command and control order of military intelligence under one form or another, prying knowledge and acquaintance apart. US tax payers are going to spend 440 billions on that intelligence this year alone. KM is allowing people to see another direction possible but are faced at the same time with the inner conditionings of the ruling order who does not know how to transit from the present formality of the public and private sectors business protocols to the transparency of complete access and high-trust flow. It is up to the people to either move on and out of the command and control order or else as some suggest, go on watching ourselves getting surrounded in a global elctronic command and control police state. My hope for KM, is that we will cause the command and control structures to get to see democracies and other regimes like China, coming to terms with the fraud we have been and go on being to ourselves, when it comes to treating each other with the devotion of truth and love. If Havard reading on KM reaches Mr. Clinton's effort in September by bringing to the fore front such a position, then we might set sail to mature our way into complete simplifying of life style by the renewal mode of relating to each other humbly. By fostering KM like that, we will provide the service to guide self-governing out of the consequences of that old oppressing grip, so as to expand life in the comfort from home to school, instead of the other way around. Let's keep talking, it is happening for more and more people... Benoit17
Denham Grey , 16-Jun-2005 SuggestionsDenham GreyRead these books: Collison & Parcell "Learning to fly" - how they got KM started at BP Von Krogh, Ichijo & Nonaka "Enabling knowledge creation" - starting conversations and empowering staff to adopt KM.
Chris Macrae , 15-Jun-2005 chartering communications/identity architectureMr Chris MacraeThe method I would try first is developing quizzes at an interdisciplinary level. These can become joint workshops which connect people's ideas and commitments to:what technology can dowhat we need real meetings to share experiences aroundwhat we are pursposefully developing for the future as well as what we are serving now Between 1990 to 1995 I developed these quiz formats for brand communications (instead of KM) though the same sorts of principles apply because the aims whether you use technology as media - or all other conversational spaces as media - is to open up everyone's emotional commitments to an organsiation's biggest goals as well as the neccessities it must achieve to be sustainable. What ICT you embed is what conversation and learning architecture you will have to live with. Our experiences since 1990 suggest that: Architecture should never be installed in bits, rather than wholes or modular holons; and never be driven by the business cases of the architectural supplier rather than the people whose lives -and networking connectivity - will be structured (liberated or confined) by ;, and never be closed out through jargon, legalese and other complex and non-adaptable ways of governing relationships instead of making maps as simple and transparent for all knowledge workers to use, and future-emerge with More on the quiz format whiich we call chartering here http://www.valuetrue.com/home/glossary.cfm?letter=c If a group of people specifically wanted to develop chartering only around KM's media as opposed to integrate all media, we could edit the language and open source the chartering notepads to use so that everyone has access to the same core information documents as well as the open right to linking their next questions
Guy Benchimol , 15-Jun-2005 Tools for workMr Guy BenchimolNow you got the tools you have to use them;inside each department, the coordinator has to discuss with the head in order to explore what he is waiting from his collaborators. This is the first stage of the study which aims to model the activities and tasks in a hierarchical way (more and more detailed zooms). Once this has been done, you have to search for the necessary knowledge to implement the tasks and use the KM tools to bring it to the people who do the work. Methink it is clear enough but if you wish, we may study a peculiar example.
Information Technology & KM
Hi Folks (Newbie Here) I'm currently reading a book called Havard Business review on KM. I can't really grasp what KM is - can anyone help? Is there a relationship between IT & KM? Are there any KM tools? What do Leonard & Straus mean "Putting your company's whole brain to work" - Is that by using left brain & right brain workers (creative abrasion) How does KM contribute to product innovation - Would that be, by using everyones input into the product. Wouldn't that be to much to handle if you had a large company? Any help would be much appreciated. Stephen Hurley
KnowledgeBoard, 15-Jun-2005
'Segun Odujebe , 29-Jun-2005 Its About People and Making Knoewledge ExplicitDr 'Segun OdujebeDear All, I think a few core issues have been higlighted by the various comments. Focus is on people. You can't have organisations or systems without people. The keyword is knowledge. As contrasted with information, knowledge implicitly recides inside people. The primary goal of KM above all is encourage the expression of "context specific" knowledge in an explicit form that can be accessed at the point of need. The basic process is that upon access by another individual context can be added to it based on what the individual does with that knowledge. Where IT systems come in really is in providing platforms that act as interfaces in this human to human interaction. Due to the immense computing and integration power now available, KM is now being pursued as almost purely related to IT. Stephen, putting your company's whole brain to work is about making most of the knowledge inside people and your systems as explicit as possible so that the repository of it can be accessed to impact on decisions and the mission. Thats the little I 'll like to contribute.
Shashi Kadapa , 20-Jun-2005 KM covers all facets of our life, read the analogy to know howContent Manager, KMI Shashi KadapaHi Stephen, Pl allow me to contribute in my own small way: Let's use an anlogy. Everyday suppose you go out for a morning jog. You have been doing this for quite sometime and know all the little paths and know which lanes are safe, have the right incline, etc. and may be know which paths those cute girls use.. So when a friend asks you for advice, you have everything mapped in your brian and all you need to do is spell it out or put it down on paper, or an email and send it to your friend. Well Stephen, welcome to the KM club. You have just developed expertise on a process, mapped it, documented it, shared it with others and spread knowledge. Your friend, if he is enterprising, will experiment with the info, find some more paths and pass on that info. So between the two you have set up a knowledge network! Translate this into real life, the world of biz and you can apply it anywhere. IT, hospitals, defense, Manufacturing and so on. Infact, anywhere where experience and previous learnings help others. When many poeple share their knowledge, the results are tremendous. That is what probably Leonard & Straus meant when they said "Putting your company's whole brain to work". Yes, it can used for product innovation. If you are using CAD packages like IDEAS, Ansys, etc. then if some one tells you, do not put too much load on the shaft 'cause it breaks when the car goes uphill, then that is KM speak. Too much to handle: Well you know, you have to heat a liter of milk to get a few milligrams of cream. So redundancy is always a fact. But you can use filters, etc. to get over with it. KM Tools: Well plenty of them. Some good some bad. This is not the right place to discuss specific tools. Hope this helps, Cheers, have a great day, Shashi KadapaKMI Patni Computer Systems Ltd.
[Edit] [Remove]Benoit Couture , 16-Jun-2005 Sereinity of simplicityStay at home dad Benoit CoutureGreetings people, KM is about people learning the simplicity of being and of becoming with the help of the complicated machine which duplicates complex functions of the human brain. The reason why artificail intelligence has grown so much in the first place, was to simplify the "command and control" capacities. Now KM is confusing all that because KM is about people who are trying to break free from such a state of order. "Relate, trust and innovate toward self-geverning to live and to let live" is in conflict with the boundaries of "command and control". In French, knowledge has 2 avenues of meaning. One is to be informed and to other is to be acquainted. Home life and the education curriculum have developped for 14 centuries under the command and control order of military intelligence under one form or another, prying knowledge and acquaintance apart. US tax payers are going to spend 440 billions on that intelligence this year alone. KM is allowing people to see another direction possible but are faced at the same time with the inner conditionings of the ruling order who does not know how to transit from the present formality of the public and private sectors business protocols to the transparency of complete access and high-trust flow. It is up to the people to either move on and out of the command and control order or else as some suggest, go on watching ourselves getting surrounded in a global elctronic command and control police state. My hope for KM, is that we will cause the command and control structures to get to see democracies and other regimes like China, coming to terms with the fraud we have been and go on being to ourselves, when it comes to treating each other with the devotion of truth and love. If Havard reading on KM reaches Mr. Clinton's effort in September by bringing to the fore front such a position, then we might set sail to mature our way into complete simplifying of life style by the renewal mode of relating to each other humbly. By fostering KM like that, we will provide the service to guide self-governing out of the consequences of that old oppressing grip, so as to expand life in the comfort from home to school, instead of the other way around. Let's keep talking, it is happening for more and more people... Benoit17
Denham Grey , 16-Jun-2005 Sharing thoughtsDenham GreyIs there a relationship between IT & KM?Yes but do not put IT not at the center, KM is about people. Are there any KM tools?There are (perhaps way too many) - again it is not the tools but the connections, conversations and content that they enable, that is key "Putting your company's whole brain to work"Enabling collaboration, creating 'forums', empowering learning, increasing awareness... at every level How does KM contribute to product innovationHelps spark creativity, gathers a diversity of ideas, empowers critical thinking, facilitates deep dialog, improves decision making, assists with learning......
Guy Benchimol , 15-Jun-2005 KM and brain(s)Mr Guy BenchimolWhen you try to define brain, I suppose you begin to ask "For what is it used?"; starting from this question, you will discover its main functions and for each function how it possibly works. As for KM, it is the same; you will ask: "Why do I need knowledge and which kind of knowledge for MY activity, in MY firm, in MY environment or context"; if you are not able to answer this question, don't think any more of KM but if you have the answer, you solved a great part of the problem (The "K" of KM) and you have the "M" of KM to consider: this is more easy because solutions already exist and you have only to choose among them according to the kind of knowledge you need to access. To simplify, you order your study as below: - Finality or goal- Method- Resources involved namely knowledge- Tools necessary to get the ressources When you say that every brain could be concerned, it is true for every person who thinks, needs information and knowledge* and consequently is concerned by KM (even if she accesses it through an enterprise portal! * there is no rigid frontier between IT and KM because "knowledge" often comes from "information" after treatment or transformation (such as conclusions obtained after submission of data to a decision support system or BI)
Benoit Couture , 29 June 2005 @ 16:33 PM
The glow of meaning
Stay at home dad Benoit Couture
Salut Jaques and Cindy, I thank you for this thread of reflexion. I see the nature and the definition of innovation with the image of what breathing is about, in all of its application to life, health and hapiness. Teach your child the awareness of breathing well under all circumstances, and he or she shall always be know the freedom of mindand with the physical balance to adapt to the moment with the creativity as needed by the instance. What else can we expect from the word innovation, but a better and better way to relate and to be relevant here and now, in the authenticity of transparency?!... When viewed with this image of breathing, innovation is the art of flowing with the lead, neither ahead nor behind but with it, so that an innovator is a following-leader-leader-follower. But put the word in the restrictive framework of business and indeed, as with everything else that busuness does, it will take evrything, turn it into nothing and the perpetuate the innovation until another one comes to swallow everything into nothing. No meaning can resist the swallowing powers that the beast is made of. The thought of watching globalization being innovated by leaving its sterring wheels in the hands of the market place is frightenning. The one comforting thought I get from this thread is that I cabn respectfully ask Mr. Sergio Zyman to get away from promoting and supplying self-destruction. The view of true innovation receives a tremendous boost of clarity when we get away from giving the eqivalent of 60 tea spoons worth os sugar in 10 ounces of product at the time. I can hear you say: " those are the market forces. Demand and supply." And I say to this royal decree over the world of business to accept the French counter acting force to demand and supply. In French we say: "The offer and the provision". We dont demnad and cu=ause a supply, we artistacally produce what our gifts allow us to produce, we offer them and we provide them if you need them and accept the price. No command and control attitude and ongoing escape that the laws of the market place decide. Before the market place can ever talk of innovation in its true sense, it will have to invest massively at healing the meaning of life, health and hapiness. Let's start by turning the look of coca-cola into a clear substance poiting to clarity of mind instead of the hype of ignorance...
