My friends and I have chronicled a lot of my father's years up to 75 at A & B
1976 began conversational dialogues around Entrepreneurial Revolution published in The Economist. 2006 is the
30th birthday party of such open scripting and has now branched into 5 types of preneurial revolution, most foretold in the book I co-authored in 1984 on why networks and globalisation would revolutionise the peoples economics we will need to be sustainable - see
1 2 3 4During the 1980s I was the first English guy to help a French firm compile a database of million hours of interviews with societies worldwide on what they culturally needed from globalisation. This I wrote up as the revolutions of world class branding, chartering the service economy -to live & learn - brand architecture, and co-authored brand knowledge identities needed in a networking age under such titles as Beyond-Branding, Total Corporate Brand Responsibility; THE MAP for Valuation of Trust-Flow*Transparency*Sustainability -email me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you have inquiries on how all these human disciplines need to intercobnnect if we are to upcurve thye
exponentials of global sectors instead of compounding a future in which "humanity turns on itself" (
Queen Elizabeth -end of year 2005 message to friends of Britain and Commonwealth) Or Visit the
5 village networks of London's future and tell us if
your city's peoples want to map something similar in terms of its collaboration interactions around the world.
For a retirement hooby dad also wrote a biography of Johny von Neumann and his hopes that compiters would compound an age where people united in the greater vision of
collaboration knowledge city than the national competition obssession that turned out to have been the 20th Century's
great british hangover.
Review of 2005 The Coming Wars of Goodwill & Badwill (or just plain blind, or hyper-separated) Networks My greatest learning of the year started in Xmas week in Delhi in 2004. At Global Reconciliation's Annual Gathering, I had presented my talk on the coming wars between goodwill and badwill networks , where 2 of the 4 people I admire most in India were chief guests and hosts. The person who in my book is most multicutured in the whole world of Km (linking Iran and Frace, China and Japan, UK and Canada all of whose languages he is fluent in) said Chris the number 1 goodwill war could be learning slavery. Audit what governments now fund and will not fund. Look at school curricula and the modes of learning that are permitted and not permitted. Look at all the measurements and what those numbers are constructed to condition (in the workplace investment in machines and the curring of peeople's deepest lifelong learning curves). Clearly then KM has become schizophrenic: there are people who still believe in Drucker's knowledge work or my father's learning network future histories, and there are people who claim to value that but use KM to adminsiter the opposite. I hope you know which side this blog is on. If you are, why not ask to co-edit it at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk. If you are not please go away there are plently of stages who will applaud you for every hundred learning slaves you chain. The greatest investment stories we have been tracking using our 5 preneurial lens linkin to aSIN where people and communities are suddenly deciding there are contexts so important that the future is worth investing in, and those who stick with it for a generation get 100 times return because they co-create 1000 times with society. Making today's speculative analyst and city news reporter look like a pale and ghsotle scrooge-as if we needed to return to the worst of Dinkesian Time. Queen Elisabeth called it good in her Xmas message- Britons all through next year use every conversation space you can starting with the BBC or the city you commune in : is humanity turnin on itslef. Thorough the net start the same conversations with the Commonwealth or any deep diversity of people you can reach. No question that I am aware of has ever been so urgently or accurately raised by a monarch. Long Live the Queen might have some extra meaning at a few New Years Eve parties, and Long Live Canada (Solaroof open inventors network 1 2 began in Canada) and India 1 2 too for there is nowhere that has been cooperating with humanity's deepest needs for energy and water like some of your citizens So this is an unsual end of year summary. Let's review some great webs to explore together or not the people at the centre of them would endorse my last paragrph; these people love contexts and whenever I get to meet them I know that learning would be in great hands if we could find them some microfinanceThank you for your exciting mail . I will try to pick up on one a day from others who replied but your areas of interest have been on my inquisitive mind since he first chaired a sig for Knowledge Management of NGOs at the EU's www.knowledgeboard.com, and gave it a southern hemisphere focus because of his love of Brazil. I have always said (and will always say to my last keyboard) that if a web intends to a big open networking region then its humanity sig needs to be central and free; something all the largest web communities of 2000-2005 I used to know have systemically abused because of closed-minded bureaaucrats or greedy investors. Have seen this malaise ever since my first 1973 job in computer learning networks, so by know I am quite cross about it because its not the future of transparent networking that I want my 8 year old to inherit from our generation. Mathematically, we (if we read von neumann, einstein, gandhi, buckminster fuller, drucker or my dad etc http://valuesystem.blogspot.com ) can be certain -give or take a blip in time- there are less than 3 generations left for most of this earth if closed defeats open and short-term greed defeats long-run sustainable growth for all http://exponentials.blogspot.comFortunately open is quite a simple solution in idea even if hard to practice when timekeepers pollute your daily bread. Give me the names of the 5 people you trust most for the humanity and what a pyramid of mailing we could start, but be sure you bet everything you believe in for humanity with whomever you select. Before we can play learn or action, we need space opened by conflict resolution facilitators of hi-trust, and love of deep context Far away from whatever KM has so often become as some abortion of connecting human spirits in favour of investing in machines, I started in computer assisted learning in 1973, so all I can believe is that we should all be openly co-mentoring each other. These 2 bookmarks of what I believe knowledge work needs provide a start: http://www.valuetrue.com/home/glossary.cfm?letter=nhttp://futureoflondon.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_futureoflondon_archive.htmlWhilst co-exploring, I am particularly interested whilst I think of you & Brazil and global developing villages in seeing whether theer are connections between 3 areas: www.cedus.nl which I will go web explore but send me anything else on this I should read http://trustmicrofinance.blogspot.com which puts all the links I have found so far to network openly in this area social hubs and Jams- the very best Southern Hemisphere hub so far discovered by me is in Rio at www.catcomm.org ,where I have got to know the founder's mission and network abilities the very best jam is www.habitatjam.com - the technology used in this 72 hour event looked awful but for example all in one web it collated 100 countries views of the conflicted system that city slums are, so within 3 days a web of deep multicultural info was co-created unlike any other and it will be used as input into summer's vancouver meeting of experts in urban conflicts/design Best of new years to you. I wonder if I should plan a quick trip over to Netherlands to reconnect with a few people knowledgeboard has banned me from conversing with within their walls. This year I spend about 60% in Washington DC about 30% in London about 10% in revolutionary projects -we having a 30th year birthday parts at http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com , and I will go to any open spaces that want me to share that sort of learning curve with them. Meanwhile our book on the exponentials of human*social*intellectual (they need connecting and conflict ahead auditing for their flows to be worth anything in the future) capital should be written up Alan Mitchell by next year cheers chris
Paraphrasing Peter Drucker, you never know anything until you have tried teaching it let alone teaching as you and a team practice Whilst I (as a student of maths of value multiplication such as the system exponentials of economics) have grounded this by spending my adult life researching trust and how people play at learning when given trust's time and space, it was only recently that I spent a year moderating conversations on the connections between knowledge , trust, and energising other emotional intelligences. Don't know how to sum that up in one post but here's a first go: The value word somewhat confuses me when you conect it with organisational learning studies of emotional (trust, flow, intelligence, literacy, energy, current or currency etc) To explore more deeply, you could google any of those pairs - eg value*emotional literacy or value*emotional intelligence value*trust trust*flow Then if you love Human KM ( 1) you might want to map human relations system ( singular of plural) or human relationship system ( singular of plural) or human relationships network or something that buxxes me like collaboration knowledge cityYou also have our sig on Km and Emotional Intelligences, aborted from its editors at about 3 years young but still currently viewable at http://www.knowledgeboard.com/community/zones/sig/kmei.htmlTo communicate with Americans as needs be: What summary is useful in a David Letterman late night show format? I'll only attempt 5 conversation opening soundbites on why emotional intelligence is always more valuable than any numbers your thinking measures or that mesaure what you are permitted to think. 5 Though many people including myself feel trust is most central flow of valuation, I still have a hankering to always keep in minds eye the gods of community: faith, hope and love. Love is clearly what sustains context, community, mutual care, respect acrosscreed, race etc. I suspect faith and hope have deeper ancient meanings on life time competences and conflict resolutions than their sometimes diluted implications today. Perhaps love gravitates the contexts we choose to map systems of human relationships around and thereby explains what future exponentials compound around quality and sustaining transparency at boundaries between collaboration systems. 4 So why in the name of simplicity does Trust seem to be closest to value multiplcation. If the organisation of a context loses all trust, it will through time be pulled down, valueless. Andersen's addiction billions of business value + 0 societal value = billions didn't know society's lost trust would zeroise it because in a connecting system times over-rules plus (billions*0=0); tells you something that is sorely missing if all you measure performance by is tangibles.3 The Dalai Lama engages emotionless economists with an argument that by not studying where fear lies in a community; their depressions also degrade any organisation's humanity. I think fear is used to control. Courage is needed to change, innovate, pass through conflict which is the greatestcommunal innovation of all if you believe open space facilitators. I am quite clear from personal discussions in 34 countries that most of the so-called Muslim-West strife circulates from fear caused by compounding economics of externalities so those who least understand a risk like that erected in Bhopal also get the most to suffer from it. That is a terrifying act of globalism because the compound consequences we all gettrapped in. Courage probably has openness too- been reading aboutmissionary work done by likes of David Livingstone. Odd how much of that still needs to be resurrected now (at least the Salvation army tells mesoon as leading team trainer in HIV affected communities around Africa) 2 I do like to love joy. It is the positive virus to unite us all. It turns up in deep flow. In fact, there is a measure developed by one of Peter Drucker's colleagues of how much of a lifetime is being used productively. By this measure that percentage of time being used to deepen experience of what you can most make a difference to is the most logical measure of compound personal productivity we are likely to come up with. It fits nicely with getting on exponential learning curves, which I believe we do when we are still growing with our time. It also fits this extraordinary comment onwhether we really understand the strategic juice made by Alfonso Lingis,and which a conference in Delhi is being congregated on in 2007; becauseIndian's view of community up economics is sustainably and diversely different from that controlled by those Bigs in the West who prefer to rule over diversity. "One always sees things in joy. Itseems to me that there is a very fundamental kind of existentialdecision we make: do we believe our joy or do we believe our neutralstates? In the latter case, the move is always one of prudence - not tomake decisions in a time of enthusiasm when one is carried away, butrather to wait until everything cools down. I think one of the mostimportant things there is - I would almost say one could make this akind 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 cautiousor fearful state of mind". - Alphonso Lingis." 1 The coming wars of goodwill and badwill networks will determine what globaliaation does to nature and yiour chuldren and mine. All positive emotional flows are correlated and attract each other; as do negative energies (I personally reserve some as in between - eg anger wakes me up to try to do something though (I don't want it to turnviciously into hate). Transparency, truth, fairness seem to beinfrastructural needs that underpin human systems as far as I can see. Mathematically they map intangibles valuation and strategic implementation as well as we'll ever need. http://intangibles-valuation.blogspot.com/ A map gives me confidence (and helps 360 degrees co-mentoring networks) that I am an equal participant with all who knowledge share its accuracyand that seek to ensure there are no professional silos or hidden agendas: (it supports visualization of networking connections, as well as simplifying all actions). A community or organisation without a see-through map is unlikely to systemically sustain context wherever that needs life.
Remembering John Diebold
INTRAPRENEURING: WHY YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE THE CORPORATION TO BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR. Resource: Malaysia Institute of ManagementDISCOVERING "THE DREAMERS WHO DO" Why would anyone choose to be an intrapreneur if he or she could become an entrepreneur just as well? I first asked myself this question in 1978 during a seminar at Bob Schwartz's School for Entrepreneurs in Tarrytown, New York. Of the four great opportunities for entrepreneurs that Bob mentioned, one seemed a contradiction in terms and the paradox attracted me. Quoting his friend, Norman Macrae, who in 1976 had written in the London Economist that "successful big corporations should devolve into becoming 'confederations of entrepreneurs,'" Bob suggested that-if anyone could figure out how to make it work-the opportunities awaiting entrepreneurs inside large corporations could be tremendous. The idea was jarring: The independent entrepreneur and the "organization man" seemed irreconcilable opposites, at least until Bob exploded some of the myths about the personalities and motivations of entrepreneurs. This new perspective gave me the first clue as to how established firms might make a place for what I came to call "intrapreneurs." From the standpoint of a company, the benefits of having intrapreneurs are obvious: Intrapreneurs introduce and produce new products, processes, and services, which in turn enable the company as a whole to grow and profit. But back then it was less clear to me exactly how to design a system and culture within a large organization that would allow a place for someone like the entrepreneur. "The Coming Entrepreneurial Revolution: a survey," The Economist, Dee. 25, 1976, p. 42. Norman says he dreamed up the idea with his friend, John Diebold, at John's Institute of Public Poliey Studies. Needless to say, the resources of a large corporation can be attractive to a would-be innovator. Corporations can provide manufacturing facilities, networks of supportive suppliers, a depth of proprietary technology, all kinds of personnel resources, and marketing clout. Such advantages, however, are often offset by bureaucratic systems that inhibit intrapreneuring. These inhibitions are compounded by the popular image of the entrepreneur as a money-hungry empire builder, a personality antithetical to the culture of the big company. But this image was among the myths Bob's school challenged. I learned, to my surprise, that the primary motivation for most entrepreneurs is not the acquisition of wealth. Many do become wealthy, but they do so almost by accident in the course of pursuing some vision of what their customers, and the rest of the world, might need or want. Since their ventures must be financially successful if they are to satisfy their customers' needs, money becomes an important way to measure progress-but in and of itself, it is rarely the purpose of the venture. Entrepreneur Howard Vollum, cofounder of Tektronix, explains that when he started out he had no idea the company would become large; much less the largest employer in Portland. "I would have been quite satisfied with a small company," he said. "I wanted to provide the tools needed by those of us who were coming home from World War II. We discovered we could not go back to what we were doing before the war. We were hooked on electronics, but the tools we had to work with were antiquated. In the beginning I just wanted to build the best oscilloscopes in the world." Indeed, entrepreneurs are primarily motivated to satisfy a personal need for achievement, usually by bringing the world new products and services that are meaningful to themselves as well as to the market. Understanding this, I realized that the entrepreneur's commitment to action and drive to introduce new products rapidly was precisely what laree orzanizations need. I was heartened by the fact that the primary goal for most entrepreneurs is not the acquisition of great personal wealth, for I saw little opportunity for accord should the entrepreneur within the corporation require the same multimillion-dollar payoffs an independent entrepreneur might receive upon launching a successful new business. Given this insight, the corporation's challenge to attract, motivate, and retain intrapreneurs appeared a solvable problem: Rewards for intrapreneurs would have to include something more directly related to intrapreneurial needs, in addition to salary and bonuses. I learned through conversations with dozens of new entrepreneurs that most leave corporations not primarily because they find their pay and benefits insufficient but because they feel frustrated in their attempts to innovate. They need empowerment to act as much as they need material compensation. When entrepreneurs succeed in independent businesses, they earn much more than wealth and prestige; they earn the freedom to act. The capital earned in the ventures empowers entrepreneurs to take risk, adopt a larger time frame in which to try new ideas, and pay for their own mistakes without having to justify them to a boss. Corporate entrepreneurs, despite prior successes, have no capital of their own to start other ventures. Officially, they must begin from zero by persuading management that their new ideas are promising. Unlike successful independent entrepreneurs, they are not free to guide their next ventures by their own intuitive judgments; they still have to justify every move. They have difficulty taking the long view because they never know whether their projects will be capriciously killed. How different this is from successful entrepreneurs who have capital of their own and thus can do as they choose. Intrapreneurs' inability to use the earnings from one success to fund the next is among the greatest barriers to intrapreneuring. It is however a poor reason not to be an intrapreneur at least once, because success as an intrapreneur gives you the experience and track record to more easily succeed as an entrepreneur. Failing to empower successful intrapreneurs prevents corporations from benefiting from their seasoned innovators, who leave or become ineffective. We know for certain that the entrepreneurial personality is to some degree intolerant of authority, and this makes it hard for intrapreneurs to beg for permission. I have seen intrapreneurs grow frustrated as they watched the corporation earning millions from their last business ventures while they remained unable to launch their next. What was needed if intrapreneurs were to remain inside the corporation, I concluded, was something that would function like capital does for the entrepreneur. What I devised was a new system of rewards including "intracapital," a fund set aside by the corporation for use by a specific intrapreneur to start new businesses on behalf of the corporation. Originally, the purpose of the intracapital system was to reward past success with a tangible kind of freedom in the form of seed money for future ventures. I then spent several weeks imagining how such a system might work. In the fall of 1978, four weeks after Bob Schwartz issued his challenge, I outlined the basic principles of such a system and coined the word "intrapreneur." Within three months I had sold my manufacturing firm and begun studying the intrapreneur and intvapreneuring in depth. At the time I was proud of the system I had created, but Bob and I agreed that corporations were not ready for it. That was just before the Japanese competitive scare hit, and American management was still too set in its ways to consider changing. Yet I knew the time would come for intrapreneurs. To prepare for that time, I went to work for a new product consulting firm to see how new products and new services were handled in many different firms. I found myself bringing good ideas to firms that already had enough. Their real problem was that their intrapreneurs were prevented from implementing the ideas they already had, so bringing in more ideas solved the wrong problem. I decided again to dedicate myself to helping companies lower the barriers to implementing their people's own ideas by finding ways to encourage and empower the army of frustrated intrapreneurs which was their greatest resource for innovation. Since deciding to work full time removing the barriers to new ideas within large corporations, I have divided my time among three tasks: Helping audit and improve the environment for intrapreneurs in companies such as AT&T, Du Pont, 3M, Martin Marietta, and Xerox. (None of the specific information in this book comes from my studies of these companies as a consultant. I have taken the basic principles gathered from in-depth studies, and found examples of these principles in other firms.) Making case studies in order to better understand the care and feeding of intrapreneurs everywhere. Speaking to anyone who will listen about what I have learned. After I agreed to write about intrapreneuring, it turned out that the publisher and I had different books in mind. They had expected one on how to succeed as an intrapreneur despite the system. I had hoped to explain how managers could create an environment supportive of innovation and intrapreneuring. This book addresses both subjects, because understanding the basic barriers to intrapreneuring is useful both to would-be intrapreneurs and to their managers. In fact, most of the book is devoted to explaining how corporations and intrapreneurs interact, not to prescribing what to do about it. Even when I direct my words specifically to intrapreneurs or to managers, I want the other group to listen in. By addressing intrapreneuring from both points of view, I hope to raise the level of dialogue about innovation and to make intrapreneurs, managers, and their organizations more effective. Right now, our society honors entrepreneurs, senior executives and inventors, but rarely intrapreneurs. If big companies want to quicken the pace of innovation and be cost effective at it, they must honor and empower intrapreneurs. Through this book, I hope to encourage and point the way for both intrapreneurs and those managers who want to help them flourish. -Gifford Pinchot III January 1985 BOOKS RESOURCE Malaysian Institute Of Management Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya, Pulau Pinang, Johor Bahru and Miri
New York Times :John Diebold, 79, a Visionary of the Computer Age, Dies By JENNIFER BAYOT Published: December 27, 2005 John Diebold, a visionary thinker whose early and persistent promotion of computers and other far-reaching innovations helped shape industrial development in America and beyond, died yesterday at his home in Bedford Hills, N.Y. He was 79. Skip to next paragraph John Diebold in the early 1980's. The cause was esophageal cancer, said his nephew, also named John Diebold. Mr. Diebold, who held degrees in business and engineering, was an evangelist of the future. In 1952, at a time when computers weighed five tons, his book "Automation" described how programmable devices could change the day-to-day operations of all kinds of businesses. Even the book's title was novel: it introduced the modern-day meaning of a term that had previously applied only to the mechanical handling of automobile parts at the Ford Motor Company. Mr. Diebold (pronounced DEE-bold) made a career of recognizing relevant advances in technology and explaining them to the likes of A.T. & T., Boeing, Xerox and I.B.M. Through books, speeches and his international consulting firm, Mr. Diebold persuaded major corporations to automate their assembly lines, store their records electronically and install interoffice computer networks. In 1961 he and his firm, the Diebold Group, designed an electronic network to link account records at the Bowery Savings Bank in New York. Rather than being updated after hours, the records immediately reflected both deposits and withdrawals and were available to any teller. Customers could then bank at any branch and at any window. Soon other New York banks hired the Diebold Group to help them install such systems, which cost more than keeping paper records but quickly became vital for modern banking. Another data network eliminated much of Baylor University Hospital's paperwork in departments like accounting, inventory, payroll and purchasing. More important to Mr. Diebold, the system made medical records and statistics available to researchers in electronic form, permitting studies that were otherwise too daunting. The American Hospital Association embraced the project, and hundreds of other institutions created data systems modeled on it. "Today's machines, even more than the devices of the industrial revolution, are creating a whole new environment for mankind and a whole new way of life," he told The New York Times in 1965. "Today's machines deal with the very core of human society - with information and its communication and use." Many of his most ambitious proposals seemed to lead nowhere, but they often planted ideas that came to fruition years or even decades later. In 1968, 10 years before interstate ATM networks, he advised several Chase Manhattan Bank executives of the costs and benefits of a national system for electronic funds transfer. His audience included Paul Volcker, the future Federal Reserve chairman. What is more, innovations that he presented to newspaper executives in 1963, including an "input keyboard" and "editing consoles" to replace typewriters and carbon paper, became widespread only in the 1980's. "John Diebold's credentials as a prophet of high technology are impeccable," wrote Robert Lekachman, the economist, in a 1984 book review of one of Mr. Diebold's 12 books, including nine volumes of his speeches and scholarly articles. Mr. Diebold came to believe that computers and other information technologies could reshape society, and he guided dozens of municipalities and foreign countries in using them to manage the budget (Venezuela), to compile government data (Indonesia) and to streamline public services like fire protection (Savannah, Ga.) and the distribution of welfare (California). He envisioned a utopia built on technological progress, complete with cars that diagnose their own problems and refrigerators that know to order groceries. He described his greatest hopes in 1987 in a series of published letters to his daughter Emma, then 2. By 2010, he wrote, defensive technologies will render nuclear weapons powerless and human tissue farms will grow replacement organs, while AIDS and heart disease will all but disappear. In addition to Emma, who lives in Bedford Hills, Mr. Diebold is survived by his wife, Vanessa; a daughter, Joan, of Quincy, Mass.; and a son, John, of Bedford Hills. His marriage to the former Doris Hackett ended in divorce. John Theurer Diebold (he later dropped the middle name) was born on June 8, 1926, in Weehawken, N.J., and received a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College and a master's degree from Harvard Business School. He also had an engineering degree, and became interested in automation after observing the mechanized antiaircraft controls on a ship doing convoy duty in World War II. In addition to the Diebold Group, he started John Diebold Inc., an investment firm, in 1967. It financed such ventures as a computer leasing company and a well-known manufacturer of polling machines. After selling the Diebold Group in 1991 to Daimler-Benz, Mr. Diebold focused on the Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies, a research group he founded in 1968 to promote broad, technology-based reforms.
Who else should KM people remember before they call themselves gurus? Your nominations welcome at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk : 1= Peter Drucker, Mahatma Gandhi
In London Change Global Village 2 0f 5, I met the coordinator of Tomorrows Global Company this month and voluntered to connect our networks with his initiative to form an interesting leadership benchmarking study group Could we get to know 30 companies with greatest human potential? Could we get to know 30 companies with greatest human potential? Imagine this is like a fantasy league table. All nominations and transparency questions about nominations welcome. In view of what evidence is supllied, league table positions will go up and down. 1 Google whose role currently leads what the people can make of bringing degrees of separtaion down on the internet - eg explore co-mentoring 2 Interface -who has turned industrial carpets into one of America's favourite companies to work for and persuades that there is no business case worth leading if valuing human life is externalised from a sector's compound future vision 3 Toyota -who remains the archtypal company for making 100000 different models of car more interesting and so better quality and lower cost than American companies who try to make people and machine starmeline round 1000 models. Also the number 1 case in a book written seevral years by an accountant expliaing all the errors of perpetuating 19th C accounting brules in a 21st C world. 4 on who would you say? Chris Macrae Inspirations Log:"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- references 1,, 2Attachments: (No. of attachments - 2) 29 k valuation chartervaluation charter- the system error in current world trade, national politic and drowing grassroot communal integrity in fear and distrust. Can we see a way to map how to govern trust-flow in time? (02-Jun-05) 131 k sustainabilityinvestmentsustainability investment - an open source blue-green paper (03-Jun-05) KnowledgeBoard, 1st June 2005Categories: KM and Emotional Intelligence SIG, Any AnswersPublished by: Chris MacraeStory read: 1403
Case 3 Mr Maxwell Ironically for a mathematician, whose only work is to try to help people and organsiations value deep trust and action learnings multipiers for sustaining human progress - peoples economics mapped through the exponential wealth our open human collaborations can compound and network, my worst ever career move began in 1988-1989. This was when:- I joined a big 5 accountant because foolishly I believed they want to build on my experience of modelling local markets worldwide, the leadership (future history ) secarios of networking and globalsiation models that my father and I co-authored on a 1984 future history to 2020, and the entrreneurial revolution circles we have been hosting, 2006 being the 30th birthday party circles of my dad's publication of Entrepreneurial Revolution in The Economist.I had left a company I loved working for doing deep market modelling work in over 30 countries the day Robert Maxwell bought a controlling share in it. A few weeks earlier after the youthful exuberance 8 years of working night and day on jobs that at the timed seemed to be about helping to innovate stuff people urgently needed, I had been promoted as a director of the company I left but I was unaware that French law permitted 2 boards one of whome did the Maxwell deal before I even heard of it. So I needed a new job and innocently assumed that globalsiation accounting for markets might be important for mathematical transparency especillay knowing how revolutionary service and network economy scenarios looked liked being. I was about my fifth day in this Big 5 accountant as senior consultant for valuing intangibles of brand amd markets, that I got a very ominous signal. I had been invited as part of my first 10 days initiation to have a cup of tea with the senior partner of our division. There jutting out of the front of his desk was a framed letter from Robert Maxwell: I recommmend Big 5 firm XXX because they always do exactly what I tell them to do.
Of course at the time, all I knew I disliked was the sort of ruin of deeply contextual market research (which needed a lot of iteratuive human questioning and not just number crunching to get at any expoentail dynamic more interactive than linera separation). This ruin of the mathematics of hi-trust market relationship info was coming in because collecting more and more data was the big money spinner the more the data collection companies and computer salesfolk teamed up. A couple of years later Max jumped off his yacht when it was found that he had doubly gambled - both doing a sort of CEO's Nick Leeson or covering one bad bet with another over a compound period of time and by playing with the company's pension funds. It amazes me that given such a clear early warning case of what can go wrong with global auditing when it is subservient to the big boss client, that for almost a decade and a half now pensioners rights haven got better in most democratic countries, nor has governance of intangibles valuation judged by transparent mathematical maps of what future exponentials global market sectors are compounding. But then Macs like I are just humble mathematicians -seeking to value space, resolve conflicts befopre they destroy trust and deeply purposeful relationship systems, and empower people who have a deep passion for contextual knowledge and helping others to web a difference around it can ask open questions without fear or favour - not a smart Max I guess this is not just my cv but archetypal of any transparency mapmaker: if you know of project work for Macs not Max, our webs and networks love to hear from you at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk Chris Macrae , World Class Business/Brand Networks
The Networks of Messrs DeSkilling
Please tell us at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk subject = skilling of case studies you feel we should follow of people whose networks have compounded untold harm to the hi-trust dynamics that ll knowledge workers need to be systemically supported by case 1 Mr Skilling For a time as the trial reports below indicate Mr Skilling ruled Enron. His other alumni links include McKinsey and Andersen (one time biggest auditor of new/knowledge economy corporations and auditor of Enron). Infamously Mr DeSkilling, was a thought leader in a programmen McKinsey advised boardrooms on called War on Talent. In Skilling's reign at Enron this took on one of the most fearsome measures ever to governa an organsiation. The bottom 20% of monetary performing employees were to be cut each year. Think of the chance of goodwilled people surviving 5 years in such an organsiation. We all have lives and families too. If we love them, there are times when tragedies derail us from being hi performers or there are other times when we need to invest in learning new competences. Moreover, why should people in a team or any group situtaion behave in trust-connecting ways, if they know that there are no incentives at connection levels, only the fear of having your head chooped off with another 20% of individuals Extract from Seattle Times 31 Jan 2006Lay reacted by quickly posting on his personal Internet site ( www.kenlayinfo.com) a statement terming Causey "a victim of the government's continuing abuse of power." "Most of his money was frozen when he was indicted," Lay continued, "thus limiting his ability to defend himself. He was told that he may be facing 35 to 40 years in prison with no hope of parole, and he did what he thought he needed to do to provide for his family." Lay had made similar allegations in a mid-December speech to a crowd of 500 at the Houston Forum, a business group that sponsors talks by politicians, diplomats and corporate executives. "It's like a trial horse — they're trying it out to see how it plays," said Houston attorney Dick DeGuerin, who worked with Lay's lead defense lawyer, Michael Ramsey, to win the 2003 acquittal of Robert Durst, an eccentric New York millionaire accused of killing and dismembering an acquaintance in Galveston, Texas. "I'd say they probably need a better focus group than the downtown businessmen's club," he added, referring to the grudge Houston-area residents appear to hold against Lay and Skilling. In pretrial questionnaires sent to hundred of potential jurors, some 80 percent of respondents held negative opinions about the defendants, DeGuerin said. Lay's main defense is that despite having a doctorate in economics, he was a true figurehead in the last few years of his tenure. Skilling, an intense former McKinsey & Co. consultant with a master's in business administration from Harvard, took over as president and chief operating officer in early 1997 and basically ran the company from then until his surprise resignation on Aug. 14, 2001, barely six months after he'd become chief executive. Most of the charges against Lay stem from the period after Skilling resigned and Lay had to resume the chief executive's role. He is accused of lying on several occasions, including a Sept. 26, 2001, online conference when he assured Enron employees that "the third quarter is looking great. We will hit our numbers." He said this, the government alleges, despite knowing that the company's finances were unraveling. Skilling has not been as talkative as Lay, but in a series of recent interviews, he and his chief defense lawyer, Daniel Petrocelli, have contended that the government is trying to criminalize legitimate business decisions. Skilling also will emphasize that he was advised by outside lawyers and auditors, who approved the accounting transactions in question. "Not one lawyer has been charged," noted Houston defense lawyer Joel Androphy. "If none of the lawyers committed criminal acts, then how can the clients who followed their advice be guilty?"
Case 2 Chainsaw Dunlap If a hall of CEO shame is every publically posted on the web, Mr Dunlap deserves a special lifetime destruction award. As a CEO, and leader of distrust, many who google him now feel he only knew (or apparently had deep expertise) in one strategy. Change to a new company every 18 months or less. Put out a bid to global management consultants to see who would come in and cut the most employees. Chainsaw Dunlap developed a double speculators network. For a few months when he entered a company the share price would go up, but the big killing was to short the shares before they were bound to come down with all the most competent employees having been either cut our or leaving the burning deck the first day after Chainsaw rule came to what had previously been decently run companies. I believe it is true to say that Dunalp is now prohibited from running a stockmarketeted company again. Oddly the prohibition has nothing to do with any of hios chainsawing. But at some stage he tried diversifying to fiddling with numbers as well as people, and for that he finally agreed a deal not to be a CEO again. He's probably very rich in his life of leisure, but if you have new sightings or updates, by all means post them.
For 30 years, entrepreneurial revolution study groups- launched out of The Economist in 1976 - have been looking at abundancy and sustainability that the peoples economnics of a networking age can openly co-create if we can move beyond economics of scarcity and designed solely round making big power bigger however corrupting of trustworthy human and communal relationships the compound consequences of superpower. You can look at the various new economics of abundance that need networking together at our Future of London site, whose transparent mapping rationale is also introduce in Club of Village. Since 7/7 the future sustainability of any cross-cultural city (or community of people) and that of London have become the same co-creation challenge. So enabling everone to participate in hi-trust people's economics is a primary goal of London's initiative to be a collabortation knowledge city around which 2 million global vilages can grow in win-win-win harmony. ER dialogues convince us this is the only way open cross-cultural societies can defeat the 20th century's compound causes of terror as well as love each other. Moreover in 1984 we published a book on the timeline that needed to be integrated if the human race is to be sustainable beyond century 21 as networks take people global and local. One of the big powers that needed to be opened up rather closed into separate boxes was professionals- especially those that society gave semi-monpoly licences to rule over us with emasurements or other laws. It was vital that a world ranking region developed an open virtual community where all peoples could see professions colaborating in simplicity as the peoples economics integrated historic valuation views including those where nations externalised great compound risks onto the elast knowledgeable. Death of didatnce we argued in our 1984 book would need to bridge such digital divides as one of the first priorities of a golden age of sercvice economy and multiplying learnin in use. Around the chnage of milennoium when the world got excited about the interenet it was vital that all 6 billion beings could see the best an open virtual comunity could be and in its 2010 knowledge society vision the EU provided a tewst case because its number 1 objective was claimed to be integrating 25 countries to be much more than their parts. A question was could knowledgeboard.com become such a community. When I joined knowledgeboard in 2002 as a sub-editor of emotional intelligence and intangibles (human relations) valuation, not many conversations were going on. Chunky bits of research were being published by rival fund centres and te people behind the research were not even signed up to openly answer questions about their writings. Worse there was a Luxembourgan view that KM was about technology not people - which was hijacking all that Peter Drucker and other preneurila advocates belied knowledge work should be designed round so that the post-industrail revolution did not repeat the make the least of workers' humanity that the machine age had always made most money out of. Still the founders of knwoeldgeboared were vociferous that they wanted to explore cluetrianed type visions of virtual communities open sourcong professions and ssytemising interfaces between networks of excellence in simple and transparenct ways. We designed convesations around Human KM and TRUST became the number 1 topic resonating through the community. So much so that this dymamkic of organising emotional literacy was soon given its own special interest community - the only time in KB histiry that a special interest had opened into another interest. For a year or so, extraordinary knowledge angel networks blossomed with over a hundred people paying their own way to meet in London and Berlin and Luxembourg to debate the future of a humanistic knowledge management. They were encouraged to seek a small budget in the next round of EU funding and after thousands of days of volunteered time not only refused any budget but prevented from continuing to develop conversations in the area of the knowledgeboard community they had been invited to co-create. We have extracted here some souvenirs of what they used to celebrate colaboratively at knowledgeboard in those open days of 2002-2003 Unfortunately the top 10 most linkedin people to hi-trust dialogues were edged out between late 2003 and 2005, by the simple expediency of making every content host a volunteer apart from 6 or so paid for managers who intefered with the patterns of hi-trust open knowledge jamming and sought to stir jealous rivaries wherever they could influence community by rewarding closed debates and control of what got front page featuring. At least that's how it seems to me, as is illustrated by these final searches of what we had started. In a final coup de gras, in early january 2006, they also introduced a new version of KB in january 2006 wiping much of the communal conversations 2000-2005 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22human+km%22&btnG=Google+Search The Most Human KM In Systems and Technology
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[PPT] Computer-Based Decision Support
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Can we trust NGOs w'out knowing their financiers? ... How to measure trust in your organisation. ... To trust or not to trust: the American Red Cross ...
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The Value of Trust - 01 Nov 2002
It’s hard to measure the value of trust in a relationship but we know the cost of losing it. This can be seen in our personal lives – for instance, ...
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The Mechanics of Human Trust - 06 Jan 2004
In this article, Miguel Cornejo suggests that trust can be based on well-worn, everyday, commonplace things such as formal contracts and clear rules.
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Between 2000-2003 many people were led to believe that the European Union's knowledgeboard.com was intended to be the most open experiment for Human Knowledge Management and Peoples Economics. It had been chmapioned as a critical open space need by Unseen Welath researchers whsoe year 2000 reports on the future were chaired out of Washington DC instituitions: Brookings Economics Institute and Georgetown Law School. Befitting the evolution of a service and network learning century untiting the globes localities: integrating how valu exchnagee subsystems compund purposeful contexts through transparency maps, which can be openly catalogued and explored below by indexing how the connectivities K1*K2*K3*K4*K5 flow and multiply future goodwill or badwill These people included a knowledge angels network of well over 100 people who were encouraged to pay their own way to meet in open spaces in London, Berlin and Luxembourg; to identify future curricula of KM which had not been understood well in 2000, and to work out alumni networks around each. All of this extraordinary experimentation was suddenly discouraged towards the end of 2003, leaving a community without the 100 action learners who had most connected it and deep lines of inquiry that each knowledge angel had shown their personal time and interest in exploring. Moreover a connected view of knowledge management had been encouraged by the EU who spent hundreds of millions of Euros on surrounding programs including : Knowledge Society - how to integrate the best of 25 countries open capabilities Need for Lifelong Learning Need for Corporate Responsibility and other programmes (please help us list what else was connected while millennial optimised in what the internetworking world could achieve for humanity's progress was at its peak) K1 how a free to join virtual community could connect professions in a networked age where the experience/learning curves and productivities of people to make a difference * integrating K2 group formats such as teams, practice communities and social networks, and such interdisciplinary content hubs as emotional intelligence * integrating K3 Gravitation of transparent organisational leadership governed as a purpose compounding system of productive & demanding relationships *integrating K4 integrating into the most valuable future exponential for its global market sector to serve people *integrating K5 harmonising sustainably with societies' investments and knowledge collaboration city, 2 million global villages and other constructs that recognise the need to connect: 1) places of diversity being ultimately where all longest-term cultural, natural and human resource investment is sustained even whilst death of distance means that peoples mentors and work may connect many different places. This section will collate some general background. The K links connect some conversations looking at the 5 productivity dimensions that could be integrated in the peoples economics which entrepreneurial revolutionaries have been sharing in knowledge dialogue networks for 30 years, and which leading economists, future historians, technology inventors and investors in people forecast to be a critical exponential in globalisation's future as compounding goodwill or badwill across humanity - with 2005-2010 being a final turning point for what 21st century evolves and whether 30000 projects uniting the greatest care for and with 6 billion beings will be openly linked together in time A critical incident for anyone who maps the people relation dynamics of open networks: the 5 most linked people in knowledgeboard's community (including the one responsible for animating content on not for profit missions where the whole community of nearly 10000 members could connect in inspiring goals) and vision at the end of 2003 were given such awful times by the European Union and a new breed of separatist administrators that took over knowledgeboard that they had all gone by middle of 2005. To start 2006, knowledgeboard is changing its platform, and it is unclear what dialogues of the years that KnowledgeBoard could have fulfilled the greatest example of what meta-disciplinary knowledge through virtual community media and real networks connecting Europe's 25 countries with the world could do. So we have tried to record some of these indexed by which of the 5 K dimensions the conversation seems to have been at (though obviously connections across the K's are more important than each. Click any K to see what we have preserved. If you have found something that was at the old knowledgeboard that you want linked in to the 5 value multiplying dimensions of knowledge please mail to wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
Since knowledgeboard's future for humanity depended on what economists over the last 2 centuries have learnt about global and local media sectors, we briefly review this - more at value100:
investors stakes (including the peoples in such public media as the British Broadcasting Corporation) can be returned 100 fold over a generation but only if the medium multiplies 1000 fold value across the societies it connects, and does not exclude neighbouring societies from interacting (so their cultures and communities multiply transparently)
Always ask what the founders one or two main themes were, and whether the current meta-editorial team are still networking those themes (if not why and how will now be losing from spending time with the media if they assume its compounding the same cultural DNA and open leadership values as it originally planted). At value100 and FutureofLondon, and Beyond-Branding, we provide links to how such British media as The Economist and the BBC globalised, and we will also note that the birth of the worldwideweb depended on the British cultural philosophy of public media . Its as true withy how the future of a media sector evolves as it is at the top of a global corporation or a powerful nation that ultimately a few people make decisions on which the future welfare of millions or now billions is interconnected. Do these few love the future purpose and transparency and hi-trust that every humanly great institution that compounded over time once gravitated.For example since most citizens' and netizens' lives are ruled by strictures of economics, we now need to inquire whether economics as a schooling is still stewarded the way those who originally chartered why women and men would always need constitutions enabling the most transparent possible searches and connections with how compound future exponentials are linked through time and the deepest historical beliefs humanity has come to communally trust (sometimes referred to with such terms as cultures and diversity and communion around social goodwill)Today when we look at the world's 1000 biggest organisations of all typologies, we see a huge risk. Never have such a large percentage of the world's 1000 largest organisations deviated from their founding communal trusts - contexts that system*system mapmakers of these value exchanges turn into network pictures of gravitational epicentres around which connections of human relations of productivities (ehg K1*K2*K3*K4*K5) and demands.
Physical spaces like cities 1 2 3 4 need to be governed as a media (the people's spaces, cafe stages, forums and speakers corners (now most usually blogged)) model as much as any other type of model (eg transport/distribution or in the case of capitals a hub of how national constitutions interact sustainably for humanity). Indeed the ultimate challenge of sustaining 6 billion beings in productive and demanding joys has been mapped over 30 years of entrepreneurial revolution debates hosted by stewards of peoples economics as depending on the 2 million global village networking paradigm that Schumacher coined, linking with such truth-testing community and collaboration knowledge economics as Gandhi founded and Einstein endorsed and Johnny non Neumann assumed would be inspirationally interconnected for peoples around his catalytic intervention (obscene interest were his words for how much of his life he devoted to this collaboration technology) into the age of computing. In the example of the moon race, he would have been overjoyed at what productivity collaborative teams of people could achieve. Ever since he must be turning in his grave at how computers have been used by people with large financial budgets to cut people (tangible accounting's governing rule is to invest in machines and cut people). Never in the course of human history has the new collaborative economics, that could have multiplied service and action learning curves of 6 billion beings productive differences, been so opaquely desecrated by so few, professionally self-interested and backward sighted people.
knowledge angels prior to 2006 used to connect here http://www.knowledgeboard.com/community/zones/sig/angels.html though since 2003 we have not been able to add new thtreads, only posts and in those cases censored ones we're told much wil still be there from 2006 on, but here's a cross-section of what we used to know and link. If you see connections of value that turns out not to have lovingly been sustained as any library let alone 25 countries of peoples open networking for humanity has a right to expect, I suggest you might get hold of Euro MP and ask him to bet Brussels to explian why they censored and made so many apartheid boxes out of what the people of Europe were encouraged to spend their own time and money developing open learning curricula round As proposed by the founding mother and father of knowledgeboard, These are the values that all knowledge angels swear to try to behave up to everywhere we open space and network: Angels commit to try to practice these 4 values across K'Board and Network of Practice build on smart relationships act as a living system to be open, transparent, excellent to think big These are the coordinates of some of the angels who were prepared to be names after hosting big inquiries in Berlin or Liuxembourg. If you are an angel and want to be added here, please say: ANGELS ALUMNI: LUXEMBOURG Geoffrey Thompson Frithjof Weber Peter Troxler Patricia Wolf Chris MacraeANGELS ALUMNI: BERLIN Frithjof WeberBen HealdPeter HeisigPatricia WolfPeter TroxlerThomas SchaelDimitris Apostolou Chris Macrae, Intellectual Cap. Club, rtd11Bernd BredehorstMichael WunramGeorge TsekourasMichele Gorgoglione Dunja MladenicJozefa Fawcett Mariusz StrojnyJoel Van HoolandtWout SteursBernd BieberAngelica CovielloDavid JoslynRemco KranendonkDiane McDonaldTobias Mueller-ProthmannHarry StavrinidesPop Ramsamy Geoffrey Thompson Inigo Alvarez Atta Badii Amir Fazlagic Gero Bornefeld Chryso Christodoulou Gil Horsky Paul Kersten Joanna Kluczewska-Strojny Pablo Ruiz Minguela Katerina Nicolopoulou Ronald Orth Sigrid Peuker Ramon Sanguesa Robert Schindler Marieluise Schaper Barbara Sienko These were 11 of many areas of Knowledge Management first voted for as needing much deeper connecting around people's personal and human knowledge management than the original 2000 investments in machine views of KM by the EU seemed to include. Moreover, each of these terns needed connectiung with its counterparts in other disciplines becasue it was recognised at angel meeting s that langauge divided us even within Km let alone in helping communal practices gravitate around deep experiences in contexts where the languages of KM may be unknown: RTD Conversations - discussing the research areas and research questions: Picturing all integrated1 Advantage2 Strategy3 Culture System4 Networking the Entrepreneurs5 Process Design7 People8 Technology Potential9 Harvesting10 Quality... 10b Quality11 Intellectual Cap. MeasureChris Macrae would love to help and be helped in animating a treasured netwoek survey anywehere and everywhere this could connect in user valuable ways. Please debate how to do this with him any time wcbn007@easynet.co.uk he is also Kboard's main open content coordinating volunteer if you have threads on emotional enrgies of any kind and in particular trust-flow, love, courage, joy of action learning, being open in the way you network in real life and virtual media lets both make a list of treasured networks and lets prepare ahead for inter-network boundary policies. TREASURED NETWORKS cm the linked-in missionaries
K5* investments societies make in harmonising globalisation, cross-cultural trust, the futire of 6 bilion beings productive lives everywhere on the net as well as in specific local places....synonyms may include social capital, social preneurs, sustainability investment, open source preneurs, open space for future history global and local debating scripts, world service media, transparency mapmaking, politics beyond borders, global reconciliation network, grassroots community-up global village leads, intellectual capital of nations, collaboration knowledge city country village...global university human rights nets, multipliers in use of open education and open health, mail wcbn007@easynet.co.uk for other terms we could search and connect here K1 how a free to join virtual community could connect professions in a networked age where the experience/learning curves and productivities of people to make a difference * integrating K2 group formats such as teams, practice communities and social networks, and such interdisciplinary content hubs as emotional intelligence * integrating K3 Gravitation of transparent organisational leadership governed as a purpose compounding system of productive & demanding relationships *integrating K4 integrating into the most valuable future exponential for its global market sector to serve people *integrating K5 harmonising sustainably with societies' investments and knowledge collaboration city, 2 million global villages and other constructs that recognise the need to connect:
1) places of diversity being ultimately where all longest-term cultural, natural and human resource investment is sustained even whilst death of distance means that peoples mentors and work may connect many different places.
Economics and exponentials research can now demonstrate that 90% of the wealth we peoples compound is now governed unseen. Questions: how do govern this more transparently? 1what are the sources of this unseen wealth 1 2 : turns out that trust-flow or any of the highly correlated flows of emotional intelligence/literacy which systemise the inegrity of productive and demanding human relations systems is one arena to explore as is any combination of the following: choose one of these words : human, social, intellectual, sustainability and one of these words capital , preneur and then add a context which may be "knowledge city", "of nations" or any of these 21 global categories where people most urgently need simultaneous conflict resolution. As open space and other facilitators/transfomation networkers of widespread co-creation or systemic innovation will tell you - changing a global sector that is exponentially destructing human relations and value to an uptilting colaborative and positively value multiplying expoential is the greatest innovation and leadership achievement we all can discover and celebrate Here is an example of searching Kboard1.0 for Edvinnson, KM's father of Intellectual Capital: KnowledgeBoard: the European Knowledge Management (KM) Community ...Name, Leif Edvinsson. Organisation/Company, UNIC. Position, professor. Email, leif.edvinsson@unic.net. Telephone, +46705925078. Address, Sormenvagen 60 ...www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-site/whoswho. cgi?action=detail&id=102660&authorid=702306 - 17k - Cached - Similar pagesIntellectual Capital for Communities online event transcription ...But Leif Edvinsson ,that have been chosen to the, Brain of the Year, succeed in this. ... Leif Edvinsson: Hello Friends, just looking for the Future.... ...www.knowledgeboard.com/item/136339 - 57k - Cached - Similar pagesIntellectual Capital for Communities online event transcription ...Leif Edvinsson: Hello Friends, just looking for the Future. ... Leif Edvinsson: One angle to see is to look for the collaborative possibilities to shape a ...www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item. cgi?id=136339&d=101&dateformat=%25o-%25B - 57k - Cached - Similar pagesKB Book of the Month January: Intellectual Capital for Communities ..."Bounfour and Edvinsson's extension of the burgeoning intellectual capital literature to communities/regions/nations is timely and very rewarding." ...www.knowledgeboard.com/item/134925 - 34k - Cached - Similar pagesKM Bibliography: KM Applications - Intellectual Capital - 20 Jun 2002Edvinsson, L. (2000); Some perspectives on intangibles and intellectual capital, ... Edvinsson, L. (1997); Developing intellectual capital at Skandia, ...www.knowledgeboard.com/item/83964 - 30k - Cached - Similar pagesThe Innovation Superhighway: online transcript: 14/07/04 - 14 Jul 2004Leif Edvinsson:Hello everyone, Innovation is much more than tech, ... Leif Edvinsson:The bridge between intelligence and wisdom might be the knowledge zone ...www.knowledgeboard.com/ cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=128499&d=pnd - 55k - Cached - Similar pagesHow Sweden leads the world's Intellectual Capital - 01 Jan 2001of a nation", based on the Intellectual Capital Navigator of Edvinsson. ... From Deming to Senge, to Romer and Edvinsson, the hub and spokes of leadership ...www.knowledgeboard.com/ cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=111928&d=pnd - 43k - Cached - Similar pagesThe Innovation Superhighway: online transcript: 14/07/04 - 14 Jul 2004Leif Edvinsson:Especially today we are in an era of urban design, ... Leif Edvinsson:Bryan can you comment on the emerging concepts of urban design as ...www.knowledgeboard.com/item/128499 - 55k - Cached - Similar pagesThe Innovation Superhighway: online transcript: 14/07/04 - 14 Jul 2004Leif Edvinsson:Hello everyone, Innovation is much more than tech, it is among others ... Leif Edvinsson:Wisdom seems to be the contextual understanding. ...www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/ item.cgi?id=128499&d=744&h=746&f=745 - 36k - Cached - Similar pagesIntellectual Capital for Communities online event transcription ...Transcription of the KnowledgeBoard online event with Ahmed Bounfour and Leif Edvinsson to discuss their book Intellectual Capital for Communities, 27/01/05 ... www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/ item.cgi?id=136339&d=744&h=746&f=745 - 29k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pagesHere's a travelogue of Leith wordings that I selectively encountered the last time I clicked through the above links: "Let's light up the collaborative world"Leif Edvinsson: The world is starting to see the invisibles or the capabilities in the relationships ... One angle to see is to look for the collaborative possibilities to shape a common wealth (Albert Angehrn: ... like in OpenSource,,Ahmed Bounfour: Yes, and this means that collaboration dominate the conflict ...sari ehrlich: Leif & Ahmed, Why Communities Now ? ) Leif Edvinsson: Just remember the Commonwealth....also referred to as UK, of which we are just renting the language for this dialogue Leif: Trust is the bridge for knowledge sharing, like a bridge, so for the world of today we have to learn to build Fast Trust, as a priori judgement for interaction and collaboration...A book in progress is called Collaborative Entrepreneurship, by Raymond Miles, Berkeley among others looking into recipes like Linux...Linux community offers a way of building organisational capital that resembles more of the political science than business admin. One esssential dimension is to have so called protocols of volunteers rather than job description etc. The mapping system has to aligned to the trust issues, rather than harvesting and competing. Acknowledgement of sources seems to be one essential ingredient, resulting in share with delight instead of stolen with pride IC for a city is also the future earnings capabilities in terms of people, infrastructure, and relationships. A K-City can be defined as a City that purposefully designed to encourage nourishing of collective knowledge as a capability to take efficient action to create a sustainable wealth.The C(apital of City) is standing both for Community and Context, for the knowledge worker. Therefore it is essential to develop a deeper understanding for the influences , positive and negative for the k-worker....Level of performances are many; but the most simple structure is to look for the levels of individual and the brain, then the group, then the larger group and finally the society... (Edna pasher: In our chapter about IC of Israel it is obvious that knowledge and education are linked. )Leif Edvinsson: Hofstede has done such culturally characteristics studies for regions among others, ...One of the most successful cases referred to in my book is Ragusa, a city that sustained its wealth creation for 500 years, between 1200-1800, until Napoleon outsmarted their social intelligence forces...According to me Ragusa purposely designed a social intelligence, across the community and also designed internal activities, as a city to govern the incoming insights. One recent case is Barcelona, that installed a CKO in 1999, and in december last year a Chief Innovation Officer, just recruited from MIT. So in short words what is missing today is social intelligence and social innovations...We have to remember that the industrial dimensions are a temporary concept, that has been around for about some hundreds of years. As such very efficient to give wealth to nations. But what we see today is also that there is a global dynamics resulting in lost of wealth for many nations. Remember around 1000 years ago Sumatra was a very wealthy place, later followed by South America and after that Europe and next to come..... Leif Edvinsson:A knowledge zone might be the design space for reflective design, i.e. to get the intangible insights, aha...Especially today we are in an era of urban design, but what is emerging, industrial cities...I learned from Nonaka that a BA is also a place for appreciation, ie a place for value and values...From history we can learn that cities emerged to be effective places for trade of goods. Now cities or regions or communities are the same for trade of knowledge. ...But we have to learn to focus on innovations in these trading or exchange environments, to go from Best practice to Best option, where the value is in the time advantage on knowing
Seaching More Pearls of Edvinsson http://www.corporatelongitude.com/download.asp?id=162&Healthandwealthbydesign.pdf Many significant value-creating assets are qualitative, complex and invisible from a strictly financial viewpoint. We delude ourselves if we believe that the toolbox of classical accounting is neutral. It accentuates those facets of life that resemble the dead mechanical universe for which they were originally designed. Putting one’s faith in a set of rigorous deductions, based on biased assumptions, is utterly irrational. http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/ic/edvinsson.shtml "The traditional model of accounting, which so beautifully described the operations of companies for a half a millennium, is now failing to keep up with the revolution taking place in companies...The chilling fact is this: At this moment we have no idea which companies, large or small, young or old, have sustainable organizational capability," http://www.euintangibles.net/conferences/proceedings/PRISMFinalConfProceedings.pdf Leif Edvinsson began his response to the previous comments by congratulating the PRISM group for its work and stressing that the conference was a milestone in the development of our understanding of intangibles and intellectual capital. He reiterated the importance of analysing the sources of value creation and that the problem with measurement is not to develop new indicators but rather to be sure that we are going in the right direction with measurement and that we are less ignorant about value creation, which he collectively nicknames ‘me-assure’. We need to build trust in indicators beyond those that measure wealth. Managing intangibles is about in-sourcing capital in waiting (getting the brains), while corporate social responsibility is about out-sourcing (the relationships between the firm and its environment). Managing intangibles is not only also about the micro level, but about the very micro level: the individuals, the brains. The departure of a key employee can lead to a fall in a firm’s value: hence some intangible assets can also be considered intangible liabilities in waiting. He poses the question as to whether the collective intellectual capital of the 300m Europeans can be considered as assets or liabilities in waiting.
searching knowledgeboard 2000-2005 for Prodi
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sitesearch=knowledgeboard.com&q=prodi&btnG=SearchZones and SIGSRomano Prodi, President of the European Commission at e-Economy Conference inBrussels, 1 & 2 March ... FP6 is not business as usual: link to EU High-Level Research Intangibles: PR 1 “the story of the e-Economy is complex, but it is one we need to understand since the prosperity of the EU Citizens depends on it”Romano Prodi,President of the European Commissionat e-Economy Conference in Brussels, 1 & 2 March... FP6 is not business as usual:ERA- a new context for EU supported RTDMoving to a European level Research policy– Strengthen co-operation between National and EU Activities – Improve links between National and EU policies and schemes– Take into account enlargement– Development of a “shared vision” on European RTD – Potential for co-funding arrangements Realising ERA will require – New thinking: more strategic and goal oriented – New approach: integration, concentration, critical mass and flexibility– New scope: taking account of the international dimension of RTD•greater awareness of who’s doing what greater awareness – New instruments: Integrated Projects (IPs) & Networks of Excellence (NoEs), Integrated Infrastructure Initiatives (I3) KnowledgeBoard: the European Knowledge Management (KM) Community ...I joined to the first consortium industry-university for innovation promoted inItaly by IRI, at that time leaded by Romano Prodi: Genova Ricerche. ... Are you having any unusual converstations? - 17 Feb 2005... I believe the former EU president Romano Prodi campaigned for many yearsthat this decade would be one of not business as usual. ... eg1
Are you having any unusual converstations? I believe the former EU president Romano Prodi campaigned for many years that this decade would be one of not business as usual. I am therefore most interested if your expertise is being involved in any unusual conversations, and what gist of them you can share with us without revealing confidentiality issues.
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unusual conversations as norm - part 2
Mr Chris Macrae
what wikinpedia should say for :economics of externalities -
compound consequences where those that suffer most and first are always those with the smallest voice and/or the other side of the globe from where the worst compound example is happening
for various reasons including networking technology's acceleration impacts (on connectedness , which is a a feature of any sustanability gravity) we are pretty far up the globalisation's exponential curves to implosion; the trouble is trying to scale what that means if we continue to do nothing for too long; my guess is an equivalent of a Tsunami or 9/11 every 3 years; that one of the sustainability issues (as a trigger to many interconnections) will end at least a billion lives within 50 years - maybe 50 is hundred
given that it would be human to want to prevent this, it seems to me that what one can best do is paint a cool picture (ie we dont have to talk of a billion dead to illustrate the point that we are seeing more and more disasters where waiting to happen means that had gone too far up their exponential not to be likely to happen) of why every compound (ie sustainability issue) is bound to attract a network of concern around it as soon as the public makes the translation -if an expert says an agenda is a sustainability one , it means one where a disaster is waiting to happen or soon will be;
which of these networks of concern will damage corporate reputations first is OK a guessing game, which you can even take to clients; would they have thought that Coke would in all likeliihood be permanently devalued more by labour practices amongst one of its bottlers (albeit another form of not taking global outsourcing care) than say obesity; yet Coke is already the number 1 hate brand of 100000 people world social forums and its badmouthing on the net now reaches many millions especially in countries where being Coke and American makes any amount it spends on ads utterly irrelevant; would they have seen how absurd it was for global pharma industry to believe that advertising was a more valued competence than side-effect safety transparency- something that means that what was a year ago one of the two largest global phrama companies is in a value meltdown that looks unstoppable
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Chris Macrae , 17th February 2005
unusual conversations as norm -part 1
Mr Chris Macrae
Not sure I enjoy it but a penny dropped with me working in DC this week- these days I am linked to more unusual conversations than usual ones. I guess its time to form a communuity of unusual, if anyone wants to have a space for confidentially rehearsals
Let me give you 2 examples of what I mean
The week before Xmas I became very interested in HIV. I was in Delhi listening to how the salvation army traina local support teams in communities across Africa, and a young Kenyan testifying to what the work involves. Click to the day before yesterday. I am at a meeting listening to 3 of the biggest budget holders for worldwide aid reparation of HIV: world bank, the G8 fund, and the presidents emergeny fund. There's the head of the world bank budget saying: in prevention trems , the real timebomb is India, and so far they don't seem to want to work with us in getting prevention messages out. Hmm just doesnt fit my experience in Delhi. Just does fit with how people at top of big money hierachies just dont know how to network with folk from local grassroots up. Tsunami Squared. I guess I am going to have to mail out to hundereds of people to find whose the middle disconnection just because the world bank doesnt know how to network. People always seem to love using up volunteer's time in the least time-efficient way. It seems inequitable
A second unusual conversation. Seems like a world experienced guy in setting up syndicated corporate opinion pols has decided that sustainability is the next big thing every global corporate may need to buy. Here is part of our conversation:
TO LEAD WITH GLOBAL WARMING OR NOT
Personally I see sustainability as being about 50 globally compounding issues of which global warming is atypical and also unlikely to be first with real movement for geopolitical reasons
So would either not lead with one issue at the risk of turning people off from the one of 50 they could first locally grab hold of; or if one has to lead take fresh water; given human beings are mainly water, there is no substitute if we run out of water; also water is immediately linked to discrimination against women in poor contries and to many local wars
The common pattern to every sustainability story includes:
both monopoly of wrong current analysis of compound consequences, and wrong legislation and wrong education because law etc tends to look back at putting something historically right rather than question the biggest future compounding risk
worst practice of any top 50 sustainability concern likely involves some power who has over several decades become biggest by being most careless; most powerful and therefore uses every communications way to cover up or deflect impact of the issue on to someone else |
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PKM at the value multiplying centre of Human Relationship Systems ...... entrepreneurial revolutions from his editorial desk at The Economist and withinfluential conversationalists including: -Italy:Romano Prodi -Sweden's Employers Recent Person-empowering KM stuff to impressed me most- Steve Barth ( 1, 2, 3),, 1999 literature review>
Prior terms of huge practical wisdom include Wheatley's & Owen's self-organising
KM's story so far in the 1980s, Drucker visualised how the knowledge worker would need to be valued as the central relationship multiplier in service economies and knowledge networking revolutions such as serving markets with the world's best offers whilst repsecting society's most desperate local needs. At the same time writers like my father popularised the future histories of intrepreneurual and entrepreneurial revolutions from his editorial desk at The Economist and with influential conversationalists including:
-Italy:Romano Prodi
-Sweden's Employers' association
In other words, to go beyond zero-sume economics:
people's hi-trust relationship would need to be systemised at the centre of organsiational contexts. Let's visualise this
In parallel we will need to web ways of keepingh all such relationship tensions healthy so that they coordinate the sustainability of context and dont disconnect and erode it. Examples include include living scripts, open space, self-organising methods including storytelling, network and community practice methods gravitating around specific service skills; networked brand architectures which loved caring transparently for the local responsibilities of their industry sectopr's greatest risks. Technology was to be the revolutionary facilitaor of all this greater human system potential conditioning our next generations opportunities (including those where nation states no longer ruled people's access to learn how to maximse their specific talents). So all sorts of worldwide cases, as well as deeply personal ones, needed connecting by being made for whole human systems not selling in technology to replace human beings.
Global Accountants didnt get this plot. They preferred their vested interest of controlling how the boardroom measured everything: historic quarterly numbers, separated performance rewards, making the separate case for different professional inputs; and they did deals to separate parts so that KM's business case was owned by ICT providers; branding business case was owned by ad agencies; Human Resources business case was owned by people qualifued in firing-hiring laws; etc. In particular all this was driven by machine age standards of historic reporting based on the follwoing mathemtical principles:
-people must be booked in as costs, nothing to do with systemising people training or trust-flow relationships is an investment; meanwhile machines and technology can be booked in as investments
-every function must be made separately accountantable so that numbers can look precise; reporting must also separate the past so that compound model of future relationships obscures how we have ringfenced what we are measuring
Trouble is according to most people who know networking's human and social mapping connectivities, between 75% and 99.5 of all knowledge-age value does compound (spinning as a systemic whole even while you count up the past); depends on relationship and context integrity; is built from knowledge workers up. European Guide to Good Practice in Knowledge Management - 08 Apr 2004I dont particularly like screens that are more border than content but if KB'sred had been embossed with these words of Prodi from 2000, maybe we would The Conversing Company is the Hub for Innovation - 09 Mar 2004the EU Citizens depends on it” (Romano Prodi,2003) - rewind to 1976. Where we can speedily agree is in supporting Debra's vision, but then I was privileged PKM at the value multiplying centre of Human Relationship Systems ...-Italy:Romano Prodi -Sweden's Employers' association. In other words, to go beyondzero-sume economics: people's hi-trust relationship would need to be European Guide to Good Practice in Knowledge Management - 08 Apr ...... I dont particularly like screens that are more border than content but if KB's redhad been embossed with these words of Prodi from 2000, maybe we would have ... Defining KM as NOT management as usual; tell us your 5 greatest ...... the story of the e-Economy is complex, but it is one we need to understand sincethe prosperity of the EU Citizens depends on it”Romano Prodi, President of KnowledgeBoard Technical #1 - Personal Knowledge Management - 28 ...... entrepreneurial revolutions (translated 1976 into Italian by one Romano Prodi,intrepreneurs a movement that pioneered by Gifford Pinchot took root in 1 2345678910Next
For over 3 years we provided conversation threads for people from different countries to offer their cross-cultural testoimonies on why they felt passionately abput connecting KM for the good of all societies and all peoples Here's some of what was said out of England:
1 reminscing: 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.
Gillian Bush , 16th July 2005 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 knowledgeboarder
a Be The Changer a fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and go-between for the great speakers on Sustainability, and a deep linkin supporter of Tomorrows Global Company a blogger a waiki-editor a 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 This is the Obituary his networks asked the BBC to co-edit
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 reply from Peter:Further, 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
Here is news of the 12th cafe I have invited Londoners to join in since we started to connect together ways of making London the equal of any knowledge collaboration city, and the launch of a new tour guide aSIN -association of Sustainability Investment NetworksAs you may know, many of London's people networks have joined simpol -who first sponsored the simpol collaboration cafe - in relaying the invitation to join these mini open spaces 1 2. Tonight's is cn-sponsored by the BBC, Starbucks and the Royal Society of Arts. To match a local theme with a global one I choose the debate of People for Pensions - will there be any for Londoners of the Future, and what happens if at a time that making poverty history most needs Londoners to be self-confident about the future of finances they become introverted and fearing only for their own needs. As some may know, statistically the pensions crisis would have hit before any others in Europe becasue we were the first to baby boom after recobvering from putting family grwoing on ice during world war 2. It didnt have to be agravated by that most malicious accounting firm in histopry -Andersen - advising labour of how to cream 5 billion a year stealth tax out of funnds for pensions. It didnt have to set an example in which many financial service firms offering pensions took more and more out of the long-term wealt they were supposed to be compounding for people. We didnt have to let corporations continue to be able to legally raid pension funds after seeing that fine example Robert Maxwell had seet at the start of 1990s. It shows how the people's future of London has been shredewd and sharded by those whom they gave a monopoly licence to rule over organsiation with truth and fairness, as as a mathemtician I side with the recent private eye cover - even more teriifying than what a Bin Laden can do is what badwilled mathematicians sysemise to lace their own pockets. So this is quite a hot cafe tonight but I put the invitation out across London's people betworks in these cooler terms: Café Debate Tonight - Can Londoners’ Pensions Crisis Change Organisations for the Better? Mr Chris Macrae Last 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 people
There 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.
Do 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?
Open Community 1 of ENGLAND @ knowledgeboard.com -neighbour cross-cultural threads of KM Fin 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 countrySome UK Inputs : UK Cabinet Office pdf on Social Capital20 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?
K4 integrating into the most valuable future exponential for its global market sector
to serve people
*integrating K1 how a free to join virtual community could connect professions in a networked age where the experience/learning curves and productivities of people to make a difference * integrating K2 group formats such as teams, practice communities and social networks, and such interdisciplinary content hubs as emotional intelligence * integrating K3 Gravitation of transparent organisational leadership governed as a purpose compounding system of productive & demanding relationships *integrating K5 harmonising sustainably with societies' investments and knowledge collaboration city, 2 million global villages and other constructs that recognise the need to connect: 1) places of diversity being ultimately where all longest-term cultural, natural and human resource investment is sustained even whilst death of distance means that peoples mentors and work may connect many different places.
Benchmarking of the 3rd Kind I believe the Future of London (the second of Collaboration Knowledge City London's 5 global change villages) is discovering this kind of benchmarking as per this end of January 2006 note reproduced below. I came across benchmarking of the first 2 kinds when working at Coopers and Lybrand's in the early 1990s on valuing what Baldrige and other Total Qulaity Management movents had achieved in opening colaboration spaces whose research eladers systemically incorporated. I wrote a short article on this for Robert Heller's Annual on World management News: type 1 benchmarking starts well enough in opening up a collaboration network but ends with more standardisation than context leadership systemisation needs to compound the most valued futures in terms of tangible product quality; type 2 benchmarking implements what's needed but does not close the standard to deeper context evolution as far as could be understood in the pre-networked world which Deming's Total Quality revolutions were boundarised by. see also value systemL-Village 2: One of London's most exciting leadership launches in 2006 is Tomorrows Global Company. This has been rehearsed as an annual benchmaking sysndicate for leading UK companies for about 7 years, itself a networking branch of The Royal Society of Arts, a network where the great, the good, and the socillay preneurial have been getting together in cafes LV5 and open spaces LV3 for 251 years; so both daughter and 251 year old parent feel they are now ready to go global. I am loosely involved in helping issue TGC inivitations to companies with big enough collaboration chalenges to chnage the world of transparent leadership. Next week one of our team meetings is being held in London prior to the annual inspiration lecture Al Gore is giving us in March. My current question here: what has knowledge got to do with tomorrow's global company. If you have a short answer that I can understand, I will collate it and circulate it among the team. chris wcbn007@easynet.co.uk -subject TGC KM
The future of the world - and the human race if there is to be one after century 21 - depends on governing global sectors transparently and sustainably (map the future's compound exponentials simply enough for all the world to hold communal debates to our open hearts contents) The first test case of this will be water. Because clean is the number 1 ingredient of life as well as health, and because water waves are coulpled with other environmental waves of nature's evolutionary power, which at a global level of species promtion and extinction will always be more determinant than what beings race to do. So before knowledge angels (a name the EU coined for transparent and meta-professional networking in 2002) were destroyed by apparently frightened bureaucrats (or self-centred "piecemeal expert" academics lobbying) the European Union from 2003 on, we started some far reaching debates on sustaining water and life. Here are a few of them.
Can KM learn from The Day that Water Dies |
There is KM for goodwill organisational systems and KM for badwill organisations. The two may be opposite, even warring, communal practices. By ignoring deep contexts as only social, we probably disconnect ourselves from the greatest human challenges. If only from the mathematical view of human relations systems and complexity - that may be the biggest mistake the first networking generation can make and compound for ever...
MEMORIAM
Dec 31 (update): Swedish deputy foreign minister says she fears total of lives lost might go above 200,000.
(Before next time: Can we learn the simplest tenets of cricial incident KM)- wikipedia
breaking news, dec 26:Tsunami Help: http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/ Check out this url for info/updateson the Tsunami disaster and if you would like to help in anyway...through donations, volunteer work, etc.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs maintains http://www.reliefweb.int,/ a Web site that lists information by disaster.
Here are some of the organizations:
• The International Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in southern Asia. Donations are being accepted at 800-HELP-NOW and http://www.redcross.org./
• AmeriCares. Call 800-486-4357 or visit http://www.americares.org/ to donate.
• Doctors Without Borders is preparing relief supplies for the area of Indonesia closest to the epicenter of the earthquake, among other projects. Contact 888-392-0392 or visit http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org./
• Mercy Corps, an international coalition of humanitarian agencies , is accepting donations at 888-256-1900 and http://www.mercycorps.org./
• Save the Children Federation is seeking $5 million in private and public support for its emergency response through its Asia Earthquake/Tidal Wave Relief Fund. Contact 800-728-3843 or visit http://www.savethechildren.org./
• Care is mounting an emergency response in areas hardest hit such as Sri Lanka and India. Contact 800-521-2273 or visit http://www.careusa.org./
Open Copyright Asserted by Chris Macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
2004 – Death of Water
1994 – Source of The Economist’s Death of Brand Manager
1984 – The 2024 Report: The 2 Future History scenarios- goodwill versus badwill - of how the networking system revolution will spin our world.
The Day that Water Dies – Number 1 in the Knowing what will Happen Series
1) Everyone’s connected
2) Everyone over 50 has a sick water story
3) If the system sickness isn’t turned round water will die
4) Who holds the key to restoring water’s life globally?
1) Everyone’s connected
If you are interested in the survival prospects of the human race, a simple question to start with concerns goodwill between our 6 billion people. Is goodwill growing sustainably at all localities, or is it in some globally vicious and humanly destructing spin? You might have a feeling about the answer by looking around you. But for those who want the simplest scientific inquiry, here we boldly go. The 6 billion being question can be explored by asking: what interconnects all of us humans? Water is a simple, if not the simplest answer - even with technology’s networks spawning global villages as you read this.
Broadly speaking if you ask any doctor, you will be told that your body may survive 60 days without any food but only 3 days without any water. Moreover, without clean water the human race would face all sorts of epidemics and slow building cancers because not much else could be cleaned. So if the day that water dies is approaching us any time in the next 100 years –the life span all our grand children appreciate – then we should be concerned by this disaster scenario. It merits as much news coverage as predictions that an asteroid or some other weapon of mass destruction is going to hit planet earth. (Note of school project to Britons: Does the BBC World Service get this picture? If not, why do we, the people, still licence the world’s largest public broadcaster?)
2) Everyone over 50 has a sick water story.
Mine isn’t that interesting but it may be quite typical of a northerner or westerner living in a country that appears to have almost unlimited tap water. It’s about earliest childhood memories. I don’t know yours but mine were of summer holidays. Probably I was three years old. We were up staying in my aunt’s house in Lamlash on the Isle of Aran, and a Mackerel shoal came in. I have never seen so many fish in my life. Every householder was cooking fish and chips. That fresh Big Mac was as nutritious a feast as it was delicious. During the second half of my lifetime, fish haven’t been seen off the isle of Aran; nor would you eat fish as a good-for-you-food from such oily waters even if you did catch the odd one or two.
Harsher stories about water come from usually the South & East where a billion people don’t have access to fresh water or have to travel at least 15 minutes to get a single drop. In the latter case, women – in such poor areas it is usually women on whom the children’s household stands or falls – spend a large part of their lives carrying water to and fro. It is an image worth kids in the world’s schools knowing about – and talking about from internet chatroom to wherever friends hangout over a brand of soda-water. Then none of us will grow up being uneducated about the most human truths relating to the cost of water.
3) If the system sickness isn’t turned round , water will die
So, being chilled out about water would seem to be a careless or even an evil thing for the human race to permit happen globally and systemically. As ever with the study of goodwill mapping, we are talking about the sustainability of a system over the years, not the global accountants’ 90 day measures of one group’s interest versus another’s. The two –sustaining the life of a human relationship system and quarterly extraction of money – require tensely opposite mathematical models wherever governance is intended to be democratic (always looking forward to the good interest of the most people, instead of the fewest). Can it be an accident that we have seen the most shocking models of big corporation profiteering relate to the most basic stuff on which life and societal wellbeing depends? For example, to the extent that any of Enron’s numbers were about actual quarterly profits, they involved markets like that of California’s energy, where shortages and outages were staged time and again so that people would be prepared to pay more and more. I wonder how many people know that in the case of water, one global utility wouldn’t accept a contract for supplying people in Bolivia unless a law was passed which forbad people from collecting rainwater. What responsible regulator with a good map would support such a value chaining ruse for ensuring a monopoly - one whose prices for a large slice of the community predictably became so high that they had to give up food or medicine? Should we look to see whether water’s ever spreading sickness is related to illwill having taken over the mathematics of measuring what’s humanly most valuable?
4) Who holds the key to restoring water’s life globally?
We have suggested that 2 primary factors are capable of spinning each other towards the death of water. Faulty economic models that turn against the goodwill of local majorities as viciously as any apartheid or slavery recorded in man’s history, and the troubles to nature of compounding chemically dirty water faster than we can clean it up. Today’s challenge: while we blindly let these forces rule, water dies. If we see the problem in this way, then the 6 billion people question becomes: what sort of decision-making can change the whole global system?
We can draw more detailed pathways around the above globe if, for example, you have the urge to pit one nation against another. However, to understand the future of the human race, an eye-opening question is: which governments are people 100% certain of being on our side for developing a sustainable system worldwide so that water begins to come alive again, instead of increasingly dying?
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Chris Macrae , 28 January 2005 @ 11:18 AM
world economic forum discusses water
Mr Chris Macrae
The Chief Executive of Alcan is moderating a debate http://www.knowledgeconcierge.com/WEFPublic/kc_panel.asp?eventName=EIXLWIDOO442K9&PanelID=PE_1338.15632.32775.15632.59326.180
extract below
It is also notable that President Lula from Brazil is speaking tonight at 18.00. I'd be quite surprised if he doesnt invite any water or ecological system scholar to the party that Foz is planning this September.
the World Economic Forum is working to spur private and government cooperation in the management of water and watersheds “from the summit to the sea”. Among practices that address the global water challenge:
Replacing open water-channels with pipes and buckets that deliver water, drop-by-drop, to crop roots. Such drip irrigation conserves water that would otherwise run off or evaporate, and it can double or even triple the amount of food produced per unit of water.
Selling inexpensive tools that expands the ability of poor farmers to get water. For example, inexpensive foot-powered pumps that cost about $35 per unit allow farmers to pump water they could not access before, yet return some $100 in their first year of operation. More than a million have been sold in Bangladesh alone.
Reusing wastewater and modifying common practices to conserve water in order to prevent evaporation and run-off by lining canals to make them water-tight. Some 65% of Israeli wastewater, for example, is now reused.
According to most scholars and policy-makers, however, the most important needed reform is simple awareness. Today, one billion people do not have access to fresh water. By 2025, the number will rise to four billion. (ed if this figure is correct then we are in for the deepest economic & human depression of any quarter century) |
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Adite Chatterjee , 18 January 2005 @ 04:12 AM
a more humanitarian approach to trade
Adite Chatterjee
Tsunami has impacted the lives of poor fishermen and people in "low-cost" countries. The EU Trade Commissioner has stated that "The localised nature of the damage poses real challenges in ensuring that relief hits the target, but there are trade measures we can use to assist rebuilding in the countries affected by the disaster, notably by speeding up measures to improve their access to our markets". This is key to sustainable relief and rehabilitation of the people (see url for the full statement)
http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/issues/bilateral/regions/asem/pr110105_en.htm
Second, there are new challenges that these countries faced, some of which are highlighted in this paper:
http://www.oxfam.org/eng/pdfs/pp050107_tsunami.pdf
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Chris Macrae , 15 January 2005 @ 10:46 AM
could we use (even one front page indexed thread in) knowledgeboard..
Mr Chris Macrae
to establish a transparent and cumulative log of learnings about securing Indian Ocean Coastlines for the Future?
It seems to me that what the public have walked and talked across Europe in the last 2 week says we should.
It is a very small start but the sorts of content we might be accumulating and linking includes working to increase access and memorability to such stories as:
Some very context-specific issues, including non-technological ones
Do no shrimp farming at the expense of mangroves
Keep elephants on the beach as lifeguards; if the sea unusually looks as if its disappearing down a sink, run for your lives in the opposite direction
Don’t build houses on the sea shore; know where the nearest evacuation hill is
Establish a bush network that goes beyond nations; is there someone with a mobile or an email who can be alerted every 3 miles along inhabited coastlines; how would mass media or someone like google be involved in getting that alert out in minutes. There isn’t time for powerful people (national governments, scientific experts) to get advance warnings first; alert news must be openly distributed for local people to choose what to do.
These stories need taking to other spaces that could popularise them be they the ecological curricula we teach our kids at school or public broadcast media who as scearioised in my 1984 co-authored book should now be helping in getting 30000 projects tested and freely franchised for improving world harmony if globalisation is to be the sustainability of our species not its extinction (mathematically we have less than a decade to at least start passing what Buckminster Fuller and system thinkers call mankind's final examination in connectivity and trust-flow)
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Chris Macrae , 12 January 2005 @ 22:07 PM
for the want of shrimp, thousands died
Mr Chris Macrae
When I started this column in October, as a systems thinker concerend because i had heard a few too many stories on how governments policies on water had deserted the people for big business , it didnt occur to me that tens of thousands of people would die because governments preferred the shrimp farming industry to caring about people
but here is conclusive looking knowledge:
Oceangate 26 Dec04
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22rape-and-run+industry%22&btnG=Google+Search>search rape-and-run industry
so if anyone's reading this, do please tell me who is knowledge management for until or unless we the people can get governments taking our side against vetsed interests of big business - here's a way in to the simplest network of newtorks of the people |
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Chris Macrae , 03 January 2005 @ 01:35 AM
overwhelmed by my inbox in last 5 days
Mr Chris Macrae
I asked myself which was the most typical post I see from strong networking communities that I do not see from KB. I decided this would be as good a sample as any - am I the only one at KB who feels this post may represent a silent majority of the world's people's opinions?
From: Ned Iceton, NSW Australia
Social Developement Network
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:02:21 +1100
To: Friends & Sydney Morning Herald
Subject: Is God playing at terrorism?
Dear Sirs,
Could the melting of the polar ice-caps under the influence of the contemporary global warming be shifting the continental plates in a way that will make earthquakes and tsunamis, as well as the weather, worse from this point on? Is an ego-centric humanity about to discover that a God who takes no sides is unimpressed and can play at terrorism too!?
What a tsunami disaster we are seeing unfold! I wonder will this event shock people to begin pulling together instead of mutually exploiting, being exploited, suppressing and rebelling? That would be the only possible silver lining.
Will humanity draw the lesson? Will the various exploitative, terrorism-provoking governments and transnational corporations, AND the 'blow-back'* reactionaries they have brought into being in response, get the message and desist? There are more important things to do. Can we make another effort as a species to become trustworthy, trusting, loving and generous? Why not try at giving ourselves a future on this planet?
-- Ned Iceton ____________________________________________________________________________
* Chalmers JOHNSON, "BLOWBACK: The Costs and Consequences of American
Empire", 2000, Little Brown & Co, UK, and 2002 Time Warner paperbacks,
London.
[Chalmers Johnson is President of the Japan Policy Research Institute
and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. "No
one else has exposed the shortsightedness, hubris, corruption and
instability of (USA's) imperial overreach with such impassioned
incisiveness - 'BLOWBACK' is a wake-up call for America" - John W.
Dower. A book written in advance of the 'blowback' event known as
September 11 2001. (Over 100,000 Iraqi civilians are said to have been
killed thus far.)]
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Chris Macrae , 03 January 2005 @ 01:19 AM
some knowledge sharing from google communities
Mr Chris Macrae
http://www.google.com/tsunami_relief.html
extract from google any answers conversation
Subject: Re: Top 5-10 Bookmarks on Differentiating World's Public Sector TV Broadcasters
From: hydcallin-ga on 26 Dec 2004 21:44 PST
I am sure, by now that you would have heard about the Tsunami? Since a tsunami happens with a warning, which is inevitably an earthquake and in our case we had a 3 hour warning and yet no one knew what was
happening. So maybe a Telecom-TV-Internet network would have helped, at least in getting
people off the coast or maybe reducing the casualities.
3 hours would have meant some folks straddling the beaches could have been saved,
From: simpolnetworker-ga on 02 Jan 2005 05:32 PST
yes sadly, the Tsunami connects with what I am trying to ask whether 6 billion of us might want to change in a kaledidoscope of ways.
Before the disaster, many countries (other than Sumatra) could have had up to 2-3 hours notice of this critcal incident to come. It might not have changed much if the seismologist scientist nets had contacted
all the mass media, or if google had had a disaster emergency alert inbox and newsletter to people sampled at every locality - but will we get that working before the next worldwide distributed disaster countdown? We need to know (not today but with absolute transparency one year on) what went wrong with the core scientists efforts: is it
true that the message got to Bangkok but because a false alarm had been released 6 years ago, those in charge effectively said dont worry the tourists this time? I dont think we should care about the soundbites of knowing now, but I would like no doubt in having that rumor quashed or sustantiated in the minds of all of us by Xmas 05?
What's this tell us about the future media & KM infrastructures needed (or at least widescale public conversations) so another time we can openly know as fast as the media covers events might be worth a conversational document on?
Something completely different:
After the Disaster, BBC & DD could - if they have the collaborative world service spirit - can/will develop an ongoing documentary format:
which OceanGate communities are recovering, which need the next most urgent help, are we learning anything like Mangroves are good and some aspects of globally smart development are context-communally disastrous. This kind of program could also be developed into some
reality quiz show on vital human matters or linked to one conversational area on the net (such as 30000 action projects being piloted at knowledgeboard)where people who have tried a communal safety project (or poverty resolving one) and got working in one place could freely franchise to matching hi-trust communities wherever they are located. |
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Chris Macrae , 31 December 2004 @ 13:41 PM
jigsaw piece - part 2
Mr Chris Macrae
Rising sea levels - in the absence of protective coral reefs and mangroves, and presence of recent human coastal developments - guarantee that any tidal wave will prove maximally destructive. As Jeff McNeely, chief scientist of the Swiss-based World Conservation Union (IUCN), explains: "When a tsunami comes in, it first hits the coral reef which slows it down, then it hits the mangroves which further slows it down. It may get through that but by then a lot of the energy has already been dissipated."
This tidal wave is the most recent "natural disaster" indicative of ecological collapse commencing on a planetary scale, first exhibiting itself particularly hard in Asia. This is because Asia is unrivaled in terms of intensive land alterations and ecological destruction over millennia. This is anything but an aberration, as deadly flooding and droughts have become routine in deforested areas of the Philippines, Indonesia and China.
Simply, Asia's current population can not be sustained given current natural capital and spiraling climate change. Asian ecosystems have overshot their carrying capacity, and we are witnessing what happens when humans live without regard to ecology. Lasting social recovery and ecological sustainability throughout Tsunami impacted coastal Asia will depend upon restoring mangroves, coral reefs and other natural coastal ecosystems, while restricting coastal development.
More systematically - in Asia, and indeed globally - failure to address climate change, deforestation and over-population means massive man-abetted natural disasters will increasingly become the norm.
This observation is made with utmost respect and concern for current and future victims of ecocide. Humanity has long abused the Earth - and we continue to do so at great risk. The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth. As goes the Earth will go humanity.
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Chris Macrae , 31 December 2004 @ 13:40 PM
jigsaw piece? -part 1
Mr Chris Macrae
This seemed a relevant piece of knowledge written from an observer in Indonesia- as always only you can decide if its part of a jigsaw concerning you. Personally I wonder if it would be too much to hope for that one day soon the British Broadcasting Corporation will use some of our taxpayer's livence to do a world service documentary. Hire a helicopter and fly up and down the ocean's coastlines involved (if no map exists) to discover examples (if they exist) of where the report below is most true. If large scale foreign developers were involved in any places make a list on the BBC website so at least we can see who didn't know the cultures they were re-developing. My personal knowledge plea is that 22 years on from first doing surveys in Jakarta- life-critical systems are so much more context specific than some global planners ever seem to understand. I dont particularly believe in some extreme ecological scearios but I do believe in context deep care and championing situated communal wisdom.
Asian Tsunami Hails Ecological Collapse
Rising seas, coastal development, over-population and loss of mangroves and coral reefs make such natural disasters more likely and deadly
By Dr. Glen Barry
December 28, 2004
Asia's recent utterly tragic tsunami was caused by a natural earthquake, but worsened by human activities. The reactionary anti-Earth right has been quoted several times in recent days as saying it was only a matter of time until environmentalists blamed the catastrophe on global warming and other environmental causes. Well here goes...
There is nothing new in tidal waves and storm surges hitting coastlines. This has shaped and molded both coastal geography and plant communities forever. This is why traditional peoples rarely lived right on the beach, preferring to reside back a bit. This tidal wave was so damaging because of commercial coastal development, Asia's perilous over-population, and destruction of protective coastal ecosystems such as coral reefs (by over-harvest, climate caused bleaching, and dynamite fishing) and mangroves (particularly for shrimp farming).
The Asian Tsunami is indicative of the types of problems that global warming can and will exacerbate. It is known conclusively that climate change is raising sea levels, at least 10-20 cm over the past century, and it is expected this century's increases will be even greater. There is no doubt that all else equal, higher sea levels would contribute to greater damage from such waves. Simply - if you stand up quickly in a full bathtub, it is more likely to overflow than if half full. |
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Chris Macrae , 30 December 2004 @ 06:56 AM
Different KM Practices of Goodwill & Badwill Systems -part .. of ..
Mr Chris Macrae
The Different KM Practices of Goodwill & Badwill Systems (version 0.0)
1.1 All human relationships systems are spinning: sustainable growth or destruction (see the green curve, red curve picture lower down). It’s important to know which system curve you are in and how far down the curve is compounding. Goodwill means that all sides are gaining what is most important over time. Badwill means that either all sides are losing or one speculative interest is taking everything from all other people groups.
1.2 Spin happens because when you communally assemble several sides around a context, there are natural tensions and energies between them. Healthy tensions naturally cause growth. Unfortunately it is easy for a tension to snap. If its not transparently repaired in time, its error compounds cycle after a cycle, having a cancerous impact (rupturing other healthy tensions)
1.3 It is important to emphasise that many of the people in a badwill system are not bad but blind. They feel helpless, powered over, disengaged, so they go along with the coercion of the system. And as we illustrated with the snapping metaphor when they first joined the system it may well have been good.
1.4 Goodwill systems tend to attract each other and multiply power across their networks; so unfortunately do bad. A meta-system such as globalisation is ultimately an intangibles war between all goodwill systems and all badwill systems. Only one of two extreme outcomes can ultimately spin from it.
1.5 Badwill systems tend to be powerfully resourced with money, negative emotions such as fear, controls, need to know, lack of transparency. They tend to be active not just talk.
1.6 It is therefore vital that enough KM people study the opposite ways goodwill systems can spin. Usually hi-trust is vital in networking relationship permissions. The danger of a lot of talk must be projected into an action franchise. Once that franchise has been made to work somewhere, it should be open sourced in all matching contexts.
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Chris Macrae , 28 December 2004 @ 20:01 PM
2 cents & back to this thread's stream
Mr Chris Macrae
My 2 cents on Denham's last post: If water cant cleanse the communal spirit, I am unclear what can. On content coverage I believe I help animate quite a diverse range of conversations around this community, is your map of inquiry as broad/deep as this:
From water contexts in the last year I have enjoyed high level global policy dialogues unlike any other with huge learning for understanding compound cosequences of worldwide goodwill (next post) as well as breakdowns in networks. Ultimately, I belong to the camp that much of KM is quite a meaningless subject without context; I respect you belonging to a different camp as you choose.
Today my father first heard the most sad news of the death of
David Kinnersley, a phd Candidate he tutored in Cambridge just after the war. David's network at wateraid is immense finding more water wells to dig to free up womens' lives than any other group known to me; go look at news of how a child dies needlessly every 15 minutes because we haven't yet systemised water as a universal human right
Economist and public servant who helped form WaterAid
Jim Haworth
Friday December 17, 2004
The Guardian
In 1980, the economist and public servant David Kinnersley, who has died aged 78, attended the launch of the United Nations' water decade in New York. Inspired by this and his experiences of witnessing the struggle of people in developing countries to get safe water, he believed that the UK water industry should make a contribution to ensure that people throughout the world had access to clean, safe water.
Returning to London, he was largely responsible for organising the National Water Council's Thirsty Third World conference in January 1981. Encouraged by influential conference delegates to seek the backing of Sir Robert Marshall, chairman of the NWC, and other council members, he prepared for the formation of what became WaterAid.
Despite scepticism from some quarters, the charity was set up in March that year "for the relief of poverty and suffering among the peoples of the developing countries through the improvement of drinking water supplies and sanitation". This was Kinnersley's drafting that, little changed, has stood the test of time.
His energetic support and determined advocacy continued through his life, and he saw WaterAid's annual turnover rise to £18.3m. The charity's reputation and influence are now substantial and eight million people throughout the developing world have now benefited from its work.
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Denham Grey , 28 December 2004 @ 12:47 PM
Clarification
Denham Grey
Chris,
My critique is not commercial in origin. I feel many of your posts are tangential to the community spirit here at KB. BTW I have no authority to voice KB mission other than as an active & concerned member of this community.
I'm here to learn, understand and practice knowledge management - your issues around intangibles, openness and repetitive tirades against commercial wrong doing (Enron & Andersen) seem to detract from deep discussion, discovery and learning about knowledge work IMO. |
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Chris Macrae , 28 December 2004 @ 07:35 AM
bigger pictures
Mr Chris Macrae
You seem to be voicing some commercial concerns; yet let's look at how google's big picture progressive system has in 5 years compounded value has helped nurture 50 billion growth for its owners and I imagine 100 times that for its communal users
but then I hear someone say but that's a learning product, so let's take water (a very tangible substance but one whose universal connections with every living act of people will be detroyed if it is commercialised by primarily closed minds instead of keeping its open its source and cleanliness)
Seeing the inter-relationships of deep context and those who role play value demand and connecting sources of knowledge/service woould seem to be a natural startin place for any community interested in conversing about such commercial understanding
 . The ten leading seats/coordinates around this communal conversation roundtable are described at the top of the KMEI sig beginning with this community's current hot agenda of the role of PKM . Here is Google's case analysis opened up by this communal visualisation frame.
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Denham Grey , 28 December 2004 @ 03:38 AM
The role of KM here?
Denham Grey
Chris,
Please expand on the role that KM plays here?
What are the KM related activities that leverage our empathy and understanding in this area?
What unique insights does this water related networking bring to the KM domain?
Our mission here (on KB) is not to save the human race (nobel as that may be), it is to understand, practice, appreciate and learn how to work with knowledge.
A challenge to you - Show us the connections please!
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Chris Macrae , 27 December 2004 @ 22:04 PM
to friends of critical knowledge flows
Mr Chris Macrae
3) I have copied some of my friends at simpol including global founder John Bunzl and Australian coordinator BJ(the first Australian MP to pledge Simpol RS appears to be active for ecological issues) -perhaps Brian can confirm how high up her priorities these sorts of issues may be or who else in Australia may love water as the gateway to opening up other human rights
I will send you my draft chapter on water as one of the top 10 globally active networks in my book biography of networks later in the week
4) Do you know which package tour companies already include Foz in their brochure; it would help me kick some London travel agents brochures into shape if I knew. I will see if my brand design friends like Jack in NZ have any ideas on how to start planting a world humanitarian site plaque on select destinations like Foz- if it can be done with relais & chateau, why not landmark conference areas and 21st C wonders for humanity?
good 2005 to all context-deep explorers of change activism Chris Macrae http://chrismacrae.blogspot.com/
Mikail Gorbachev's Foreword to Water- drop of life
WATER LIKE RELIGION and ideology has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilisation, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.
We need it for drinking, for cooking, for washing, for sanitation, for industry, for energy, for transport, for rituals, for fun, for life. And it is not only we humans who need it; all life everywhere is dependent on it water to survive.
But we stand today on the brink of a global water crisis. Although certain parts of the world have abundant water resources, supplies of drinking water are inadequate in many regions. Let us acknowledge that access to clean water is a universal human right, and in so dong that we accept that we have the corresponding universal responsibility to ensure that the forecast of a world where in 25 years time, two out of every three persons face water stress is proven wrong.
Without water security, social , economic and national stability are imperilled. This is magnified where water is shared across borders - and becomes crucial where water stress exists in regions of religious, territorial or ethnic tension. Thus we are faced with a mighty challenge.
Fortunately we have a history of meeting great challenges using imagination and our irrepressible capacity to adapt, and thousands of people around the world are already mobilised to the cause of preserving water for future generations. Just as we are moved by water, we must now move in order to save it.
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Chris Macrae , 27 December 2004 @ 22:03 PM
to FF & friends of critical knowledge flows -part 1
Mr Chris Macrae
Can I check whether you or Brazilian Embassy have started connecting up the Biodiversity Corridor ( http://search.blogger.com/?as_q=foz&ie=UTF-8&ui=blg&bl_url=clubofbrazil.blogspot.com&x=57&y=9 ) of Foz's 100 Water Dam & River Basin project program and world meeting in September 05 to this list of contributors to the Water-Drop of Life film and book? (If you prefer me to try to send first cheeky mails to any of this list, please say which...)
Primary Contributors to Water- the drop of life:
Kofi Annan, Secretary General, United Nations
Isabel Allende, Chilean Novelist & Playwright
Jimmy Carter, Founder of Jimmy Carter Centre
Johan Cruyff, Founder of Johan Cruyff Welfare Foundation
The Dalai Lama, Spiritual & political leader of Tibet
Ted Danson, President of American Oceans Campaign
Mikhail Gorbachev, Founder of Green Cross International *** Foreword Footnoted Queen Noor of Jordan, Chair of King Hussein Foundation Simon Peres, Founder of the Peres centre for Peace Anita Roddick, Founder of the Body Shop -more links as I have time to code them at http://waterangels.blogspot.com/
2) May I introduce you to Australian founder of Global Reconciliation Network www.globalreconciliationnetwork.org , Professor Paul Komesaroff at Monash- together with www.simpol.org the 2 most globally active linking networks for humanity that I know of (see eg GRN's pre-Xmas testimony expedition to Delhi http://clubofdelhi.blogspot.com and cc alumni of that event Ganesh, Adite, Modjtaba )
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Chris Macrae , 07 October 2004 @ 13:35 PM
DC, you have a problem - so do we
Mr Chris Macrae
Amazing grace in a book on water for 12 year olds- thanks Anita Roddick!
As water dies so will people -blogs on why the social networks of 20000 visiting London don't want that to happen to water
Where water dies it will be because governments listened to global corporates to the exclusion of their people. I do understand this is tough for the political ruling class- how can a ten person cabinet sitting in Downing Street (a tip for the heart flutterer- empower the BBC to do investigative journalism again starting with water, you can be bigger than Hutton) - or wherever - be expected to understand better than the industry's greatest scientific experts? and wouldnt you expect the world's biggest organisations to know more than your local people?
Well no as a mathematician I would not in the case of anything as much to do with trust as water; we map mathematical models for rebuttal here and Wiley publishes them early next year once a business journalist as finished getting business leaders across London to interview them
and regarding the context of water- 2 years discussed at knowledgeboard here
If this doenst make sense, and/or you are lucky enough to live with a government who you truly trust your water's future to, there are many who would love to hear of the case and come and learn from it. Please tell us!
chris macrae
Why Not London & 50 other cities
with thanks to The Simultaneous Policy for globalisation people want and to many social lawyers including the inspirations of Joel Bakan (www.thecorporation.com) and Margaret Blair (Unseen Wealth) ; and of course the two Roberts Monks & Hinkley; and Marjorie Kelly |
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Unfortunately, this is not the first time that a massive tsunami has been the cause of widespread disaster and it won't be the last time either. Here is a link to a detailed collection of lessons learned from the massive tsunami of 1960 stemming from the largest earthquake ever recorded.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1187/
But what are the efforts being made to communicate such lessons learned to the people that need them? I am familiar with the UN's International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, which seems like a great initiative, but why is there nothing about the tsunami on their home page?
http://www.unisdr.org/
The International Community for Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management has some lively discussion going on about the tsunami response.
http://www.iscram.org
Anyone else know of good sites or forums on the subject of KM for disaster response?
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Chris Macrae , 27th March 2005
You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the dinosaurs begin.”
Mr Chris Macrae
I had to tell you of an on KMalert context journal paper that begins with this quote
you can download it from http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/
Special Issue on Information Systems for Emergency Preparedness and Response
The particular paper I loved is that on
Believe in the Model: Mishandle the Emergency, Simon French and Carmen Niculae
Would love to hear if people get time to read any of the accompanying papers - sounds like there are some real practice crackers to be enjoyed |
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Chris Macrae , 16th March 2005
war between law and KM
Mr Chris Macrae
Our civilisation is unsustainable if law and insurance is always going to block learning from disasters. At two annual meetings of risk managers that I have spoken at on KM of risk in recent years, their stories of how law serially stops learning and causes tragedies to be repeated is horrific-it burns my soul.
When I read this newspaper report on Tsunami it gives me the sickest feeling of deja vu:
"The seismologist in charge of the Government probe said yesterday that his report would be kept from public scrutiny, and its conclusions would never be put in writing.
Samith Dhammasaroj told a Bangkok press conference that it was his patriotic duty to prevent leaks of information which might be used to substantiate the charges of "serious lapses" filed against the Government of Thailand in a New York district court last week."
In every context of KM, I ask you to consider : what can we do to make sure that law does not stop us from learning from disasters? Two years ago, I chose this as my main focus when testifying to the British Standards authority on KM & Culture. Surely this is the very least memorial we owe to loss of human life. For our part we invite (mail me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk) any sustainability analyst to join in editing World Shares - a blog (being prepared in Londoners' representations on future of British Broadcasting, since UK is world's largest public investor in this sector) that judges each days news for what sectors are profiting from economics of externalities - which is any way in which a sector uses its deepest knowledge to profit from putting another society at risk or blocking full understanding that could make our chnaces of sustaining life better next cycle round
Apart from rampant speculators, there is a new mood emerging amongst those who pick investments on behalf of pension funds and other investments that societies everywhere makes. If we don't join scolars of law in ending economics of externalities, investment in progress- and in life itself - comes to a halt. It will be interesting to see if the KM profession -and indeed who if anyone in Europe's Union - will lead the way in demanding chnage to leaderships attitudes regarding world shares.
Fiddling while Rome burns has never been a KM success factor...as far as I understand
chris macrae, Future of London and open syndicatiion through intercities |
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Chris Macrae , 4th March 2005
fascinating article
Mr Chris Macrae
starting with how Darwin had reported on a Tsumani, it nailed these 2 points; the second one seems to me to generalise to prevention of so many disasters (spread of hiv, keeping water unpoluted...) If anyone is studying inter-local up community networks of any sort of application, my mail is wcbn007@easynet.co.uk and we'd love to form a mapmaking club with them...I can see that ordinary people are going to have to do this because in none of the application areas have I ever yet global or local governments with funding processes designed around inter-local networks- of course soon, interlocal leadership and media coverage will need to be valued if there is to be a day after tomorrow
nature article extract: bring together the different scientific communities, such as seismologists involved in tsunami warnings, meteorologists involved in storm-surge warnings, and oceanographers involved in both, to develop an integrated, multihazard system...this will require unprecedented cooperation among a wide community of experts and stakeholders. But it would also dramatically improve cost-effectiveness, by both reducing the initial investment and spreading the burden of long-term costs.
Tailor the system to local cultural, social and economic conditions. Although the tsunami warning system must work on a global scale, its users will be local. As with so many things, we need to be thinking globally and acting locally. Civil populations cannot be educated or warned without accounting for — and benefiting from — local knowledge and concerns. Outreach, education and public awareness efforts will only work if they are woven into national, cultural and local environmental fabrics. For example, in Aceh, Indonesia, it has been suggested that rapid delivery of warnings could exploit the wide distribution of Islamic mosques with loudspeaker systems used for calls to prayer.
Ultimately, the development of the scientific and technical backbone of a tsunami warning system is a global responsibility, but preparedness remains a task for individual nations, or regions. We will require novel mechanisms for cooperation between scientists and social scientists, and between different organizations at the international, national and regional levels.
In particular, the international scientific community must not get carried away with the tantalizing but flawed idea that there is a quick technological fix to these complex societal issues. Instead, we need to broker a process through which countries of any given region come to recognize themselves as the true owners of the system. In their eagerness to help, states or organizations from outside the region might even obstruct the process by which Indian Ocean rim countries come together to plan, create and implement a system. But... |
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Erich Feldmeier , 4th March 2005
A quick technological fix is not the best response to the December tsunami
Erich Feldmeier
Nature
Published online: 2 March 2005; | doi:10.1038/434019a
Watching over the world's oceans
Keith Alverson
Keith Alverson is at the Global Ocean Observing System of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, 1 Rue Miollis, 75732 Paris, CEDEX 15, France.
A quick technological fix is not the best response to the December tsunami.
Best regards,
Erich
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Chris Macrae , 24th February 2005
erich, your bp story interests me a lot
Mr Chris Macrae
1) After Lord John Brown at World Economic Forum made a speech about business leaders not being active enough to wholly turn round African continent's troubles, I sent him a cheeky letter inviting a reply of what BP was doing or helping others cooperate in as well as sending greetings from my father whom he used to know; I did get a reply from someone in charge of corporate communications, which was creditworthy because such letters currently evoke 20% reply rates across all our networks experiences (1,2,3) but it wasnt as clear as yours
2) I am particularly interested because I spent my week before Xmas 04 in Delhi with the main community team training provider of UNAIDs in Africa and India - which turns out to be the Salvation Army. If anyone has read the stories of Daving Livingstone as a missionary, it is probably the case that nothing as deeply and geographically broadly caring and humanly connecting in community terms has happened as an outside initiative for Africa since Livingstone and before the Salvation Army training of how local youth can support HIV afflicted communities. Of course I am delighted to be told of other external supports that have linked at the grassroots, but as yet I don't see them coming from all the g8 talk this year of Africa05; perhaps I am biassed because last week I was listening to 3 global aids funds budgetholders (including that of the G8) explain their multibillion dollar funding programs in a Washington hotel, and I couldnt connect it at the gravitaional/"situated" level that I could talking to the salvation army training team; I hope some of those at KB who specialise in CoP will understand that this story is partly written for them to consider benchmarking, or cross-examining if I err...
In fact, when it comes to prevention of HIV, the disconnect with local correspondent network up among these 3 budget-holding people with 10 billion to spend sounded eerily like the disconnect of scientists with the tsunami coastline network (this thread has discussed as not yet being interlocally linked- I suppose this is because you dont primarily build an observer/volunteer prevention/alert network with money and professionals, or is there another reason anyone can think of? ) |
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Erich Feldmeier , 24th February 2005
use km to save money and lives!
Erich Feldmeier
especially to the posting of chris, 18th jan.:
citation out of ark-group newsletter:
“I knew I could save money for BP using KM techniques, but I didn’t realise we could use them to save lives.” Geoff Parcell, Senior Knowledge Management Adviser, BP.
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Mr Parcell, who has just returned to BP after a secondment to UNAIDS, the UN agency tasked with co-ordinating the response to HIV and AIDS, said:
“I have had a fascinating and meaningful opportunity to be involved in making a difference to people’s lives using knowledge-management techniques honed in a business setting. It is without doubt the best thing I’ve ever applied my KM skills to, and I am looking forward to sharing what I have learnt with participants at this year’s Knowledge & Content UK.”
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Doug Carlson , 9th February 2005
Scientists' Support of Communications
Thanks for the information on the "get the word out" article, Erich. I found the story sufficiently relevant to include it in my latest post at http://www.tsunamilessons.blogspot.com. It was something to see Dr. Charles Groat quoted: "All the technology in the world doesn't do a lot of good if you can't get the word out."
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Erich Feldmeier , 7th February 2005
Environmental scientists told to 'get the word out'
Erich Feldmeier
Asian tsunami highlights problems with spreading information
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050131/full/050131-17.html
Scientists are not doing enough to make sure that that information is getting out of the lab to those who can use it, a meeting of environmental scientists in Washington DC heard this week.
For example, scientists knew about December's Indian Ocean earthquake within minutes of it happening. Yet no formal alert was sounded and the resultant tsunami killed hundreds of thousands.
All three links of the warning chain were weak: the monitoring system in the Indian Ocean wasn't good enough; there were no communication channels to local authorities; and the public was not educated.
And compared with establishing lines of communication and teaching the populace to run for high ground, setting up a few buoys is the easy part, speakers told the conference of the National Council for Science and the Environment on Thursday 3 February.
"All the technology in the world doesn't do a lot of good if you can't get the word out," said Charles Groat, director of the United States Geological Survey.
Scientists are best known for keeping to themselves, said Charles Kennel, director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. "Too many times in the past the researcher kept all his work in a filing cabinet somewhere and you didn't get your hands on it until he was dead."
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Doug Carlson , 31st January 2005
Avoiding the Blame Game while Pursuing Progress
Andrew and others, I'm new to blogs and message boards, so I drifted away from the KM site for a few days and just read your posts here. Thanks for the support on the TsunamiLessons blog. It's truly gratifying that someone is reading these posts. I sometimes feel like I'm dropping a stone down a well in cyberspace and never hear the sound of hitting anything. I'll be more diligent in reading the site.
I'm trying to keep my "blame game" mentality at a minimum and don't want to nail someone's hide to the wall, but sometimes it's difficult. Last night on the Discovery/Science channel in the U.S. they had an hour-long program on the Indian Ocean tsunami, with many interviews of Dr. McCreery and others at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. And once again, they completely wrapped themselves in the argument that they did everything they possibly could and could have done no more. Nowhere in the past five weeks have we seen any NOAA representations that the pro-media argument has merit. And when I think of the lives that might have been saved with an emergency media notification plan in place, well....I tend to think some blame might be merited. But who knows? Maybe the communications professionals and even the PTWC scientists have been thwarted by superiors in their efforts to set up a network because of a "control" issue.
I'm preparing testimony for NOAA's hearing on Wednesday that will cut to the quick without placing any blame. The public record is pretty clear about what was done and what wasn't done on Christmas Day, Hawaii time, and it will be for the senators and the public to decide whether it was appropriate.
Please include me in the collective effort to improve emergency communications. And thanks again for your comments.
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Doug Carlson , 31st January 2005
Making Tsunami Warnings Simple
Thanks for your note. I tend to agree with the old maxim, KISS -- Keep It Simple, Stupid. It's likely to be more productive if a direct call is made to global news organizations that are manned 24/7 than try to go through intermediaries whose contacts are problematic. What NOAA should do -- indeed, what any corporate communications office does between crises -- is solidify contacts with news organizations so the media know what to do when the emergency call comes in. It's really a no-brainer, but as a commentator wrote over the weekend (see my blog: TsunamiLessons.blogspot.com), maybe scientists don't think this way.
Aloha, Doug |
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Andrew Lewis , 31st January 2005
Message from an expert (cont'd)
Andrew Lewis
from Mike MacDonald:
I do not want you to assume that I am speaking for NOAA in this note. I am not. But I do not think that you should assume that the key players at NOAA that can act to make a difference here are indifferent to the current situation, or that they are only interested in spin. I believe that they care deeply about the situation and will be part of the solution. Let's start talking about how we can work productively together to enable the Indian Ocean Basin Disaster Knowledge Management System in shortest time possible. I see your web log (tsunamilessons.blogspot.com) as a part of the solution. We are currently scheduling planning meetings with colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the U.N., WHO, key relief organizations, key governmental command centers. We are hoping to set up Healthy Communities Network Resilience Nodes on the ground in Banda Aceh, India, and in Sri Lanka to deal with the still unfolding crises on in the disaster areas. Let's make sure that we are spending most of our time looking forward to anticipate emerging problems and not just seeking blame for what went wrong, otherwise we will just be focused on the last problem (e.g., the shoebomber syndrome) rather directing resources on the current and emerging crises.
I don't want to give the impression that everything is being handled or that it is clear that the DKMS(s) can be optimized in a short amount of time, or that other solutions might turn out to be better. We are dealing with an incredibly difficult set of problems (some potentially insurmountable in the short-term) in the Indian Ocean Basin (IOB) Tsunami/Earthquake Disaster Areas. However, I expect that we can have an initial "As Is" model of how knowledge is being shared and not shared globally to address the unfolding challenges in the IOB disaster areas in the next few weeks. We will be standing up a strawman "To Be" system and developing a gap analysis over the next month. Again, I do not want to be perceived as speaking for NOAA, but I can tell you that many NOAA, NWS, and other related water researchers will be receiving the Tsunami DKMS report over the next month. I fully expect that they will be part of the solution, and I see your efforts contributing to the solution.
That said. let's see what comes out of the Senate hearings.
Sincerely,
Mike
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Andrew Lewis , 31st January 2005
Message from an expert on disaster knowledge management systems
Andrew Lewis
This message is from Dr. Mike Macdonald, Coordinator, NDRCI National Disaster Risk Communication Initiative:
Doug,
I, with members of the National Disaster Risk Communication Initiative, have been following the tsunami events since December 26 and your web log (tsunamilessons.blogspot.com) since the beginning of January. You are doing a great job with it.
I run the National Disaster Risk Communication Initiative (NDRCI) in the United States. There is no question that we can do better with risk communication than was done in the case of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake/Tsunami. I coordinated the during and after action risk communication research efforts on the 2004 hurricanes in Florida. The collaborative discussions included representatives from NOAA, NWS, DHS, Red Cross, DOD, PBS&J, Global Health Initiatives, CDC, HHS, American Psychological Association, FEMA, etc. As one outcome of these collaborative post-hurricane discussions, I have been coordinating the design of the Disaster Knowledge Management System (DKMS). The early design pilots of this System are being tested in the hardest hit communities of Southwest Florida. The second instantiation of the DKMS is proposed in the Mid-Atlantic Hurricane Resilience Network (MAHRN). The third instantiation of the DKMS is proposed as the Indian Ocean Basin Disaster Knowledge Management System to be deployed as a global system to address the earthquake/tsunami disaster areas of the Indian Ocean Basin.
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Erich Feldmeier , 30th January 2005
low tech and common sense
Erich Feldmeier
Doug, thanks for your contribution.
A list of phone numbers or a e-mail-alert-list
sounds really very simple; besides I see the same problem as you:
"...won’t learn from this experience and will do nothing to adjust its protocols for tomorrow’s massive ..."
what I thought was:
>Instead of calling the media, they picked up >their phones and called friends and colleagues >in the Indian Ocean region;
those also had the possibility to get an immediate/direct contact to regional mass media!?!?
Best regards,
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Doug Carlson , 27th January 2005
Tsunami warning must include low-tech news media
My web log (tsunamilessons.blogspot.com) explores the premise that the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center didn't have usable crisis communications protocols in place when the earthquake hit that would have enabled it to issue a usable tsunami warning via the AP, CNN, BBC, etc. Nothing written anywhere in the past four weeks suggests they tried to issue such a warning through the mass media -- even though the Center's scientists suspected a tsunami had been generated an hour before the waves hit Sri Lanka and India (according to NOAA's own timeline). Instead of calling the media, they picked up their phones and called friends and colleagues in the Indian Ocean region; that scenario has been reported in numerous media outlets. A UPI story carried in the Washington Times and elsewhere on January 7 quoted a NOAA spokeswoman as saying the Center doesn't even maintain a list of media contacts. (All this is reported on my blog.) Scientists are caught up in high-tech thinking, which may be understandable, but you have to wonder whether NOAA has done its job and devised low-tech warning plans for fast and efficient alerts via the news media to affected areas even outside NOAA's Pacific Rim community. From NOAA's own account, I don’t think it has — and now NOAA is in high-spin mode defending its reaction to the earthquake. The danger is that NOAA and its agencies won’t learn from this experience and will do nothing to adjust its protocols for tomorrow’s massive earthquake and resulting tsunami. |
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Chris Macrae , 27th January 2005
imagine all the people
Mr Chris Macrae
Above Doug's blogspot for anyone who wants 1-click http://tsunamilessons.blogspot.com
Also I would be interested in any ideas on how to google newtork resileince for people. About three quarters of NR references seem to be talking about how much redundancy is needed in machine coverage. So far nearest search I've got to NR people
if we included the sort of agenda Erich has just mentioned in a really open event like this one requested
I thought I was first promised such a community event 16 months ago as one of the outcomes of spending a day contributing to the event the critical incidents sig held in Brussels, but better late than never... of course at that time we also had an NGO sig and other threads where knowledge society and knowledge of business could cooperate with each other's questioning of each other, but those channels of communications seem to have been narrowed, not opened during 2004. I have been told it is intimidating to make such an observation, but I -and many other Londoners, people from India, from Brazil, and all around our networks - beg whole-heartedly to disagree. People should speak openly from waht they believe in , rather than edit out the action-ideas from the conversation. |
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Erich Feldmeier , 27th January 2005
open information
Erich Feldmeier
Nature writes:
Data sharing for disasters 339
Last month's tsunami and its aftermath have highlighted a need for more science — and more effective sharing of data.
doi:10.1038/433339b
Solo efforts hamper tsunami warning system 343
Lack of coordination and data sharing causes global confusion.
doi:10.1038/433343a
A system that works ... if people listen 343
Lack of coordination and data sharing causes global confusion.
doi:10.1038/433343b
Scientists also found in citation indexes that nearly half of top scientists (founded by billions of $ to create progress, publishing that k. in top magazines) does not even know about or use knowledge from other top scientists.
(NATURE|VOL 425 | 11 SEPTEMBER 2003)
Again: What are we (re-)searching then?
In my opinion the problem is
-information overload
-physiological limitation to build knowledge from information (k. leading to action) Krumholz)
-lacking tech transfer from documentation and bibliography to a relatively new branch IT, lacking decades of experience knowledge
-too less interdisciplinary people working in reviewing (i.e. comdig.org)
(cp. Walter Krumholz, Robert Fugmann, Gustav Born, Peter Drucker)
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Chris Macrae , 26th January 2005
dear Thawat
Mr Chris Macrae
Your testimony sets an important example for openness
Sitting in London, I have been asking myself what is it that all people can continue to do if they want this tragedy's kaleidoscope of lessons to never be forgotten. Perhaps I need help with my conclusion, but tentatively it is listening to those real lessons one comes across and trying to connect a network of people who are doing the same at every level from my remote place in London, to someone on an Indian Ocean beach to anywhere between.
We can post up what we know and who we connect with and hopefully one day someone like google will wake up to there being one central clearing house for the milions of people who may have some of the clued testimonies. I dont know if KM has a term or even a case for such a meta-network assembled from every locality up, but it ought because the parallels are there with every global humanitarian problem - the disaster is local but some of the answers are in the worldwide connections being reduced to as near as possible no degrees of separation
Whilst writing the little I know:
Accidentally, I was in India 10 days before Tsunami and spent 3 days with someone who is now one of the main local coordinators of ongoing support the local Indian ocean people need. So I could collate any real questions people might have to ask this person in due course, and it would be particularly valuable to know if other people know a similar contact on other parts of the ocean coastline. So that one time when they have a bit of breathing space they can be linked into an email circulation list and share their testimonies
Most of the water angels networks that KB started about 2.5 years ago involve cataloguing information where people have too little water. I will make sure that where people meet eg 1 on these topics the other side of the coin is on the map.
Realising how little I understand about water as the most universal system all people are interdependent on, I am particularly keen to see where people are insisiting that we must build a learning curriculum on water from grade 1 to grade 40. If anyone knows where teachers are shaping that at any of those age levels from 7 to 50, it would be good to be told of some bookmarks on contact points.
Since I no longer value KB's own search on any huge topic, I must add in google on KB on water |
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Thawat MATTE , 26th January 2005
Tsunami learning
Mr. Thawat MATTE
This lesson, we got it with a big loss of our valuable things e.g. life of relatives & friends, natural resources, tourist opportunity, occupy, home,car and so on. It will be the worst if we don't learn about this subject.
In case of Thailand, long-time invation into public beach area by thousand of luxurious hotels and resorts as well as local communities, these invations destroyed a lot of a natural wave-buffer such as sea-shore grove, curly sand (wave breaker)or a line of green-belt and instead by building, cement pathway or small road or nice rock-wall but all laid on sand for example.
For rich people who lost his/her 2nd hotel or resort, they still have a chance to recover by themself but for local people who lost their home, fishery tools or their family, they need help primarily. The next step is local people or community need to be facilitated on "Tsunami learning" for instance where is the hazardous area, where can alleviated power of giant wave Tsumnami by natural mechanism, how many ton of sand can be hold by thousand roots of sea-shore plant etc. They should learn in this way and during local people still do not earn any income, Donate fund can support them through reforest (sea-shore plant)promotion for example and who grew sea-shore plant and take care them until survive they can earn income from help fund before they will be handle their job normally. One thing is very importance that is "learning of people" before they get any help or support, they should learn even that for what they have to grow each sea-shore plant on the hazardous area and they will protect their sea-shore forest when they understand why they grew it. |
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Andrew Lewis , 21st January 2005
And let's not forget malaria...
Andrew Lewis
There was an interesting report on the French news the other night about how Malaria is still the most deadly of all diseases and how DDT might be the most reasonable method of eradicating it, i.e. DDT is not pretty, but in small quantities does a lot more good than harm. http://www.malaria.org/DDTpage.html
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Chris Macrae , 18th January 2005
parallel lines
Mr Chris Macrae
Erich - can I check if I'm thinking on parallel lines
Its dawned on me with almost every potential crisis of global (or at least oceanwide) proportion, there's some very simple missing link
So for Tsunami, it was bush telegraph alert system all around the coastlines
For HIV it seems to me we need a map of all locations where new incidences are still snowballing and a local report on which of about 50 awareness or cultural issues is the cause of the spreading infection; this all needs ingle souce pooling and updating at one web
Again where people are without freshwater, we need one (online) atlas of locations with reports again of which one of about 50 detailed causes is the problem at each point on the map?
So on... as we go through the cases, there's a slighlty different nuance to what isnt being connected, and what local correspondent/observer network needs knitting. But its something very human, interdiciplinary, above the deep expert level, cheap to do if one could use word-of-net relationship permissions; and in most cases it could be specified at a digital interface if everyone agreed to pool the missing link through the same space
If what I am describing makes sense, can you elaborate what the extreme flu version of this missing linking up might be
Generally, assuming Kboard isnt up for this I think I will write around to some of the foundations started by the google, ebays of this world. (Sugestions welcomed!) I dont want money. I just want to see these simple central connections being linkedup. Am I missing something or is this simple if at the same time requiring a lot of people to pool something detailed? |
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Erich Feldmeier , 17th January 2005
an analogy: think tsunami, act on flu
Erich Feldmeier
Jeffrey Pfeffer argued excellently in "The Knowing-Doing Gap" why people are talking, not acting, and how to change, of course. Lutz von Rosenstiel shows the central dilemma of successful management (talking for career) vs. efficent management (a time consuming process to care about employees).
So, in case of flu, Peter Palese says: "We didn't transform 30 years of scientific knowledge in flu research". Scientists who do laboratory work instead of self-marketing receive no budgets nor attention. We should install interdisciplinary promotors to prioritise meaningful knowledge for public wealth (and health).
Sincerely, Erich
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20050112/01
Public health experts worried about avian influenza amid tsunami chaos
Nature writes:
"Vietnam's war on flu:
Having suffered heavily from avian influenza in 2004, and with new cases now emerging, Vietnam might be brewing the next human flu pandemic. Yet, as Peter Aldhous discovers in this free News feature, local researchers don't have the resources to investigate the risk properly.
and:
Dangerous state of denial:
Despite the warning shots of SARS and last year's Asian outbreak of avian flu, governments are still not doing enough to monitor and prepare for the next viral pandemic. This inaction is scandalous."
WHO rises probability rating for flu --> no public reaction.
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Chris Macrae , 8th January 2005
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Mr Chris Macrae
Just as the people have led governments and corporates with donations, it is likely to be people who need to keep on questioning how the restoration picture connects. This is where all the great public broadcaster from the world's largest resourced the BBC to the world's with largest tv audience reach (India's DD) need to cooperate and know what investigative journalism all people have rights to in these matters.
We are looking for white papers and networks of interests connecting (and open sourcing democratic inquiries) these sorts of areas at this google answers. |
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Chris Macrae , 8th January 2005
Is there a master checklist all relief agecies have access to (1)
Mr Chris Macrae
From the history of past major natural disasters, is there a commonly agreed categorisation list of combination of activities that may come up in each place?
I am concerned that there may be lots of reinventing of the wheels, as well as failure of different relief organisations to be working to a common map (if two groups were building a tunnel from different ends you would hope they would meet)
Here its seems to me that we have many simultaneous tunnels:
from immediate relief to the end state each locality needs everyone's help in restoration towards as far as is humanly possible;
It would be an absolute waste if the castlines connected by the Indian ocean do not learn from benchmarkable parallel intiatives just because they are in different countries. One example seems to be the help that all the fishing communities will need repairing their boats since this by definition a main industry sector across all poor parts of the coastline. One would imagine that over the next 2? years one needs one organsiation dedicated to repairing as well as lifting back to sea 10000? boats all around the coastlines. Instead we may have 200 charities with partial budgets and & different nations demanding parts of that, and within the whole process lack of transparecy as to where the aid goes. Usually its the case that those who get least news get the elast help. So we should have public broadcasters like the BBC developing a documentary series which flies around the caostlines scoring how equitably help is being developed, and clarifying what the next block or challenge is where. After all this would be a genuine world service and deep future news resource providing feedback inter alia on all the personal donations the people have made in countries across the globe.
What is done with fishing and news, needs to be done with a list of other activities which I would like to see agreed in one conversational forum the world's publioc can observe as the local experts on the ground shape it: eg basic infrastrucures such as water, telecoms, roads and bridges; rebuilding tourism etc. The possibility is to build a network of correspondents from each locality up; a map of what is the email bush telegraph post at each locality would itself be vital so that if another Tsunami attacked alerts connecetd people much more than they did this time. Many business sectors might have a role to play, and thise that played the best role would get far more customer credit than spending money on fatuuous advertising. Think what reality-making travel agents could be doing if they saw their brochure responsibility to all the coastlives as not just selling separate locations but open pooling local situation reports that wherever they happen to have representaives or local correspondents on the Indian Ocean coastlines. |
K1 how a free to join virtual community could connect professions in a networked age where the experience/learning curves and productivities of people to make a difference * integrating K2 group formats such as teams, practice communities and social networks, and such interdisciplinary content hubs as emotional intelligence * integrating K3 Gravitation of transparent organisational leadership governed as a purpose compounding system of productive & demanding relationships*integrating K4 integrating into the most valuable future exponential for its global market sector to serve people *integrating K5 harmonising sustainably with societies' investments and knowledge collaboration city, 2 million global villages and other constructs that recognise the need to connect: 1) places of diversity being ultimately where all longest-term cultural, natural and human resource investment is sustained even whilst death of distance means that peoples mentors and work may connect many different places.
Accidenatlly, I have had quite close encounters with various of the different origins of KM, and I note that they had systemically different purposes in mind. In the 70s my father at The Economist wrote the survey Entrepreneurial Revolution whoch became a 3-part series: 1976 on what we have learnt about innovation now we are exiting from the machines age rule of organsisation 1982: what Intrapreneurs do to systemise and sustain organsiational energies of teams (and franchises) of people in the service econmy 1984: the book, I co-authored on the greatest revolution ever to the way people organsie productuivities and demands : networks and their impacts such as going glolbal and loca Much of this work out of England, paralleled views of Drucker's knowledge worker and chnage megatrnds of Naisbitt or Toffler. Indeed my father frquently met these people at conferences in the USA where they were co-speakers. However my father's work in The Economist was usually published anonymously so these others are more well known in KM or future chnage fields. In parallely, just as my father had been a frequent visitor to japan in the 1960s, I did a lot of work there in the mid 1980s on corporate purpose and the way this was systemised by leadership. The internal consensus dialogues and deep spirtual values and rituals of the Japanese always meant that Japanese KM was never going to be remotely similar to Western KM. Indeed, this gulf was in many ways a continuation of the gulf in operationalising quality. Meanwhile, in the West there is always a dange however much the only value of an emerging discipline is systemic that sme department will take it over and create a budgetary (separation) disease out of it. This is what KM became in many corporations especially those whose global accountants persisnted in booking machines in as investments, whereas people were cost to cut. This introduction brings us to 2 questions that can contextualise a leadrship team's mode of KM: Do they themselves connect with it or see it a function to budget? Do they see it as about emowring human beings to make a difference or replacing people by machines? One day soon all intangibles valuation and corporate goverance -it may be hoped - will ctach up with el;aders who give inhuman answers to the above.
What a suprising number of Knowledge Management experts do not know What a surprising number of people working in KM don't know" I’ve been reading Verna Allee’s wonderful book on the future of KM. It clears up a lot of mysteries for me on the trail to the big mystery that interests me most (more on that further down) Here are some of Allee’s myths demolished and mysteries ‘solved’ The terms intangibles, intangible assets, knowledge assets and intellectual capital are all used by different groups to describe basically the same thing. The premise for thinking of intangibles as assets is that knowledge, relationships and ideas are more important for success today than physical assets. A surprising number of people working in Knowledge Management are strangely unaware of the critical linkage between intangibles and the focus on knowledge. The early leaders in Knowledge Management – such as Saint-Onge, Sveiby, and Edvinnson – did not start with the knowledge question, they started with intangibles. Their first question: “How is Value really created?”. The response they came up with “Intangible assets are the real source of value in the knowledge economy”. Then another question came up. “What is the best way to fully utilise intangibles and how do you increase them?”. So that was the second piece of the puzzle. Fortunately, most of the early practitioners talked with each other fairly frequently. The view of enterprise that includes intangibles as assets takes us an important first step beyond industrial age management practices. A living system view brings new understanding of how a business renews itself and creates value. Warning: once you go down the path of intangibles or intellectual capital, you will not want to go back to your old ways of thinking about value. Tom Stewart, Fortune editor who first brought awareness of intellectual assets to the general public suggests we simply drive a stake through the heart of our old accounting practices and declare them dead and buried. The real foundation of the Knowledge Economy isn’t things, it isn’t bits and bytes, it isn’t the balance sheet; it is people and their intelligence. However, digital technologies help people connect with ach other and share images and documents to a degree and speed previously unimaginable. As a result, we have seen an explosion of sophisticated products and services that require huge amounts of intelligence, smarts and knowhow to create and deliver, but require negligible physical assets such as plants and machinery. Intangibles are at the heart of all human activity, especially socioeconomic activity. Moreover, intangibles, knowledge and benefits are the very foundation of value creation. We exchange intangibles all the time as a key part of the way we do business. We can, of course, exchange knowledge for money in the form of a product or service. We can also exchange knowledge for other knowledge when we socialise with our peers, participate in professional symposiums or exchange expertise. Yet all this offering, trading, swapping, and exchanging of knowledge and other intangibles doesn’t fit what is generally understood as how markets work. Or does it? If we go back to the basics of economics, we find the molecular activity is the exchange. An exchange implies reciprocity, meaning the quality of the exchange is that it is fair or of comparable value. The Brookings Institute Task Force on Intangibles, headed by the former SEC Commissioner Steven Wallman, points out that the value of any intangible asset comes from its interplay with other assets, and that attempting to value it on a stand alone basis is pointless. This is an important point. Intangibles are dynamic; they are not static like physical assets. So while some of the language of intangibles may be familiar, their behaviour (and compound impact) is not. Intangibles are very different. With knowledge and other intangibles, there is no common unit of exchange. An executive team’s knowledge about the competitive environment cannot easily be converted into monetary value. Neither can your business network. But if one cannot assign a valuation to something, it cannot be traded in “the market”, where money is the agreed unit of value. This is not news to the intangibles systems experts. Quite a number of us even consider this to be “the problem”. These are the people who are trying to assign a value to intangibles so they can be traded in the market, or who are trying to assess intangible value in monetary terms to place a value on the company. To make such an attempt is to completely miss the point. It is simply the wrong question. This comes from believing the old rules can be stretched just a little to include intangibles. If intangibles worked the same way as tangibles, they would not be called intangibles! So we need to stop trying to drag them back into our old models of value creation. They are intangible and we must try to understand their market dynamics as intangibles, not by treating them as something else of trying to fond a way to count tem like monetary units. The great hope and opportunity offered by the intangibles perspective is that at long last we may be able to reconcile our business and economic models with the fabric of society and the web of life. Another term entering popular usage is social capital. The World bank defines social capital as “ the norms and social relations embedded in social structures that enable people to coordinate action to achieve desired goals. Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam describes it as “features of social organisations such as networks, norms and social trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation fore mutual benefit.” Don Cohen and Larry Prusak , co-authors of “In Good Company : How Social Capital Makes Organisations Work” suggest that social capital is a useful perspective for understanding behaviours and support that support or impede knowledge creation and sharing. In their view, “social capital consists of the stock of active connections between people, the trust, mutual understanding, and shared values and behaviours that bind the members of human networks and communities that make cooperative action possible”. THE BIG MYSTERY Emotional Literacy Why are so few organisations governed by knowledge flows which seeks to maximise:• the value dynamics of what stakeholders demand most ( ie those demands that will cause distrust and devaluation of the organisation if they are not delivered &• all the productivities that are openly possible now that we have knowledge workers and networking technologies. Please vote on which of these reasons you feel underpin the Big Mystery or nominate others. a) Dynamic valuation governance requires metrics that respect the system as a whole where the entire measurement culture to date has been based on separability. Its as if accountants only know the mathematical operand of addition and not that of multiplication which is more relevant when flows interact and compound. b) Auditing pervasive connectivity: until the rapid emergence of global communications technology in the 1980s, most of a large company’s assets were tangibly separate. Today, the vast majority is interconnected in the intangible relationships of knowledge productivities and value demands. Companies that operate blind of this networked dynamic are at risk of having their goodwill zeroised. c) Humanity has been lost from the organisational practices of many disciplines. Notably, the biggest professional group within each discipline now makes its own business case by touting extraction of the human being as a cost saving. This is what accountants build into their numbers; how IT platforms often justify their cost; how advertising appears to suggest marketing should broadcast promises rather than keep them or learn from customers in 2-way communications feedback. Professional vested interest in the opposite dynamic to the health of the client’s living system is one of ten common organisational diseases harming emotional intelligence, which we can simulate as actually being compounded by the bit part metrics ruling most organisations today. An example of another disease is bad news not passing up the hierarchy because there is a feeling that the messenger will be penalised. d) The Catch 22: many mergers and acquisitions – and other deep partnership networking ideas fail. But then this is what would be predicted if you don’t have the right knowledge flows to govern and select such adaptations. Ultimately the greatest dividends of a networked economy are on ice until dynamic valuation of trust-flow shares governance in companies with the opposite mathematics currently monopolising accountancy and all its associated metrics of performance analysis. e) Leaders from Henry Ford downwards used to preach that an organisation whose only purpose is measured by making the next profit number is unsustainable and will end in collapse. Today’s greatest non-transparency is a few powerful interest groups rewarding themselves short-term while they systematically destroy the goodwill and unique socio-economic purposes that all other stakeholders demand from organisations as living systems. The system of system breakdowns and terrors that will result locally from the world’s most powerful organisations behaving in closed ways and disrespecting trust of human relationship dynamics will lead to a world that is the opposite of every charter of human democracy and relationship reciprocity. This way ahead will lead to disaster because over time healthy human and social capital compounds strong economic states not vice versa Cast your votes for which of 1-5 you agree with or nominate another to me.
K1 how a free to join virtual community could connect professions in a networked age where the experience/learning curves and productivities of people to make a difference * integrating K2 group formats such as teams, practice communities and social networks, and such interdisciplinary content hubs as emotional intelligence
* integrating K3 Gravitation of transparent organisational leadership governed as a purpose compounding system of productive & demanding relationships *integrating K4 integrating into the most valuable future exponential for its global market sector to serve people *integrating K5 harmonising sustainably with societies' investments and knowledge collaboration city, 2 million global villages and other constructs that recognise the need to connect: 1) places of diversity being ultimately where all longest-term cultural, natural and human resource investment is sustained even whilst death of distance means that peoples mentors and work may connect many different places.
knowledge collaboration cafe
A cafe is a 60-minute format you could convene in your lunch break inside or outside a corporation! Below is a thread where we first started rehearsing this idea- designed round the need to innovate what open space takes 3 days to do in 60 minutes. We had to give up some of the goals of open space and gain other connections SUMMARY A cafe invites people to join in round one specific but organsiation-wide challenge that you feel passionately about By choosing to lead te issue you become the centre of its social network As long as it is systemically connected to building higher trust relationships of everyone around the company and its vision, why wouldn't you be premitted to unse intranet, internal weblogs or other online modes to host a co-creation idea aligned with the comoany and in people's lunchtime?
In the thread below, we were talking about citizens cafes not necessarily connected to the corporate colaboration cafe. However as Fast Comany founder Bill Tailor and value100 research of Entrepreneurial Revolution economists over te last 30 years confirms : the companies that return the most to investors over a generation are those that connect with those customers who have the clearest societal vision of the future of industry sector you are potentially leading both globally and locally.
Would you like to convene a Knowledge Collaboration Cafe- on what, why, where?
Chris Macrae
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Chris Macrae , 25-May-2005
coffehouse challenge cafe
Mr Chris Macrae
About 100 cafes 'challenges' around the UK are being sponsored until end of June by a combination of Starbucks, BBCIcan and the Royal Society of the Arts. Each last for 90 minutes, on a theme that passionately matters to a convenor and the people who come to debate it. see eg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ican/A3953216
http://www.rsa.org.uk/chc2005/greater_london.asp
The RSA is an extraordinary network/club of people concerned with the connection between business and society/community. Hitherto, a venerable, 250 year old British Institution, itself started in a cafe by William Shipley, RSA is now developing worldwide (I can put people in touch if you or your region may be interested)
Having attended 4 of the cafes, I am hosting one myself to debate whether people wearing the cap as future pensioners take an active a role in demanding investment business with uniquely sustainable long term purpose and human KM as we would or should.
Strong societal belief of this direction precedes strong economy in every history book and place I have read about.
A growing network of us will be helping people discuss and storytell this theme anywhere they wish. So please contact me if interested, and if in London on this date, you'd be most welcome to join in
London
Pensions for people
Starbucks 51 Great Russell Street London WC1
Tuesday 7th June
5.30 p.m.
Contact:
Chris Macrae
wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
Extract from following source
It is not surprising that William Shipley, founder of the Royal Society of Arts, spent much of his time reading and talking in coffee houses. Such places were a lively source of vibrant and democratice debate in 18th Century London.
In 1753, William Shipley, travelled from Northampton to London. The 38 year old's mission was to promote a scheme for encouraging arts, manufactures and commerce by seeking the support of "gentlemen of fortune and taste". Although he was only a provincial drawing master, at the time virtually unknown, he was certain his idea could benefit the whole nation if it could be developed.
Shipley's Society took off after a meeting with his fellow gentlemen activists and his loudest supporters among the nobility - Lords Folkestone and Romney. On 22 March 1754, Shipley met with 10 mena at Rawthmell's Coffee Hosue in Henrietta Street, Convent Garden.
By the mid 18th century, the coffee house was central to London's social life. Splendid coffee houses had sprung up around centres of financial, intellectual and political power, providing an arena in which the capital's cultural life could flourish. Visitors were struck by the sheer number of such places -estimated at over 2000 - and bemused by the extraordinary fondness Londoners had for their three pleasures: coffee, company and conversation.
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Chris Macrae , 14-May-2005
cafe script part 1.2
Mr Chris Macrae
Now, we need to open source the most valuable learning networks so as to avoid Orwellian Big Brothers making learning slaves of us all. This idea virus actually came to me from one of Japan/China’s top experts in KM. There is a whole social ambiance view of KM in Japan that isn’t very easy to search through the word BA; when I worked in Japan in the 80s the key term connecting KM and Leadership Learning Organisation was Hoshin Planning.
As a Scottish Brit, my family and I have through generations been @ the search of how to translate diverse cultural ways of linking meaning through organisations mapped as human relationship systems back into my lazy mother tongue of English. It is not a very good language for sustaining or systemising tacit (emotionally intelligent) constructs, and if possible American and legal Englishes are even sadder in this regard. For example, on key human relationships words, the Japanese often have 10 words where the English (eg love) have one. Of course real cafes enable you as people to translate the living word in the way that computer mediated screens will not.
No wonder London’s value as a collaboration city in world trade has always been correlated with how well the hi-trust promise “ a gentleman’s word is his bond” has been openly actualised and compounded over time. Trust-flow compounds more valuably than any other human proxy including money. Teach your 8 year old that before any other current affairs curriculum if you believe leaders and student can systemise the value of goodwill.
Since 1984 the UK’s senior economist and I have been storytelling preneurial & post-industrial open futures* -open source, open space, open transparent boundaries, open all – we have been advocating learning networks as the high way above zero-sum economics as passionately as anyone. Mapped in terms of how all our productivities can be connected in every more health and wealthy trading patterns. But we have never meant organising around technology alone. To clarify networking economics as a genre means blending both real and virtual ways of spending your time in deepening network relationships around your own deepest competence. Knowledge collaboration cafes provide a way of doing that. Fringe them in every city, community, near wherever summits and large expert meetings meet and maybe 6 billion beings will echo John Lennon’s Imagine sustaining hopes and turning dreams into the realities of 21st localities worldwide.
By all means edit the above “Café Script” to be polite to whomever you are seeking to influence as Dale Carnegie used to say but rehearse those parts of it which you might later be greatest risk of forgetting before trashing them from your brain’s association with true and fair play.
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Chris Macrae , 11-May-2005
2 tacit points
Mr Chris Macrae
Something very tacit that I probably haven't voiced before but that all cafe hosts know:
there is nothing like hosting a cafe for strenghtening your network connections; think of it this way, discovering what people care so much to learn about or serve that they come to a place with their time gives you far more knowledge on what depths of experience they have than reading hourws of virtual threads
this brings us to some hard nosed truths; in metacommunities I see 3 different roles among others -
thise who truy and manage other's conversations - I leave that to others more expert than I
those who are just there, with an aim to help people lay out the cafes and fringes they want to gravitate
those who also cross borders between meta-communities
Probably the skills, behaviours, styles of all 3 of those roles need to be different.
I (or we should you be willing) have been rehearsing this feeling or action learning on how collaboratiion cafes and fringes work on and off the board
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Chris Macrae , 28-Apr-2005
may update part 2
Mr Chris Macrae
OurIntercity friends also catalogue megatrends in the questions cafe-netizens are most urgently asking and searching fior people to connect in action project franchises. Examples:
1 Who's Sustainably Who? ie Who helps make leaders for global sustainability? 1 |
2 Where to find frames for educational diversity? 1, 2,3,4 |
3 What models of system can scale globally other than corporations? 1 |
4 How do we transparently encourage everyone (1,,2,,3) to experiment with, participate in and share elearning on how to map above zero-sum economics |
5 London is pioneering some of the world's best linked meta-networks -eg the 300 national and 5000 worldwide NGOs of MakePovertyHistory- how can every person who wants to actively link through the world's greatest action projects |
6 How do we transform the world's largest public broadcaster to be fit for 21st C world service and learning-up instead of dumbing down celebrations of humanity |
7 In which contexts - eg World Health Care - have people the world over had enough of the status quo - and how can we link transparently to do and know better |
Inquiries - chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk |
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Chris Macrae , 28-Apr-2005
May's worldwide update -part 1
Mr Chris Macrae
London (1)is the world's open source franchise centre for the Collaboration Cafe Format, also know in honour of our most active hi-trust network franchiser as SIMPOL CAFE.
The connecting benefit of co-producing this cafe series is to inter-link networks across all the cafes' deepest action learnings ...and these days we're starting to linkin connections around 50 cities
We're interested in sharing practices with any cafe producer, we are helping annual conferences add on Fringe events.
The Learning Network surveys of WCBN ( World Class Business Network) also helps map back some world congresses where our core networks can provide world change scale and open space links. Many collaboration cafe producers have well over 1000 personal permissions to search through in making sure cafes have the best possible mentor cluster acessible by time, place and context, and indirectly belong to networks with reach to dozens of countries and diversities of culture.
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Chris Macrae , 22-Apr-2005
news from a recent open space cafe
Mr Chris Macrae
I have just been privileged to receive these report from one of Club of London's collaboration knowledge cafe members. Maz became inspired to do some value exchanging between his Pakistan friends in England and in Pakistan. Here's part of his updating story:
After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1990, my professional life has been spent in large corporates. The vast majority of my time has been spent on the initiation, design and execution of performance improvement projects seeking to either improve revenues or reduce operating costs. In 2002 I set myself up as an independent management consultant in order to bring myself and my values to bear fully on the work that I do - it has been a roller coaster ride.
From an existential perspective I personally find the 'western life style' lacking in terms of meaning and spiritual filfilment. Through my participation in The Curriculum For Living delivered by Landmark Education, I found the courage to set-up Humanity In Action in 2003.
Humanity In Action is a small charitable organisation - it has no employees, and I pay all of its administrative expenses. As a charity, Humanity In Action is focussed on Education, Healthcare, Poverty and Human Freedom. The best way to give you an idea of what it is to tell you of my latest field trip to Pakistani occupied Kashmir:
1) £5,000 was available to 'invest' in actioning the causes of the Charity;
2) My cousin and I flew to Pakistani - paying all costs out of our own personal pockets, and met various people to determine where to 'invest' the available funds;
3) We saw a primary school that has 128 children and yet not a single toilet for these children to use. We provided £750 for two toilets to be built - we are monitoring progress. We gave £1,000 to a girls college to build a long and tall wall that will prevent land from sliding away - a major problem in the area - that is vital for access to the college. The same college received another £500 to purchase computer books, networking equipment and black and white laser printers.
4) We provided £1,000 to a medical trust (funded by donations) that provides the only 24 hour medical service in Islamgarh - a village. This money has been earmarked specifically for the poor - those earning less than 2,000 rupees a month (roughly £20).
5) We have given £500 pounds to a young school teacher - a female teacher - to use to assist the 'poor' that she is aware of or becomes aware of in Islamgarh
more here
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Chris Macrae , 5-Apr-2005
Sami
Mr Chris Macrae
If you're in London this year and have an hour, let's do your cafe eg around what future innovations are clearest if you are resident in Nordica region
As far as I know Blogwalk and KCC emerged about the same time. Blogwalk (from the one I went to) seems to be a circle for people interested in Blogs and the types of learning flows they report but where identity of being a blogger is the loose network. KCC aims to connnect every network a person uses.
I formally started hosting KCC about a year ago as did a pilot start up team of 6 other Londoners. We pooled our home networks in terms of aiming to find the participants that best matched the table expert guest. We experienced that city and virtual network multiply each other's advantages for any person who sees them that way.
Cities have different advantages in this respect and London wishes to share such findings with other cities. London's particular advantages include:
a lot of expensive conference where we can borrow a star speaker gratis
founded or has very active branch of some of the world's most extraordinary network or virtual communities ranging through http://www.ecademy.com http://www.simpol.org http://www.bethechange.org.uk
Perhaps the most amazing surprise is how network models involving collaborations of hundreds of organisations have reached a tipping point in London:
there's huge learning to be had from the collaboration of www.makepovertyhistory.org - just think of how 300 organisations develop new team processes when committed to joint actions
also: newly compounding associations such as fair trade movements which are changing product categories; large companies that thought they dominated with these advertised brands are in effect missing the tidal wave in every way (so suddenly the internet's sclae which some have written off is coming back to change everything and the dirtier an industry sector's big secrets the more I would take your pensions out of them because transparent networks will change knowledge flows irrevocably)
Incidentally KCC are of course good wherever large people are present at the sanme time; so you can change C of city to C of annual conference. We were specifically modelling this cafe on parallels with Open Space, which my hero Harrison Owen founded 25 years and 50000 stagings ago. A real open space typically lasts 3 days , invites people to one big challenge - if 100 people are there, aims to maximise 100*100 converation flows (where everyone's proposal of an agenda within the overall challenge is equal say 18 hours=11 minutes speaking time each if everyone was on a podium). The KCC cafe has the same invitation process as open space; but is a 9 meet 1 format; which is why we can do it in an hour but still can depend on facilitation expertise if the chief guest doesnt have her own favourite style
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Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi , 5-Apr-2005
On What, When and Where is the next KCC?
Dr. Abdul Samad (Sami) Kazi
Interesting idea Chris. Was wondering if this has any connection with Blogwalk? In either case, for starters at least, would be nice to take part in a KCC. Any idea as to on what, when and where will the next KCC will be held?
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Chris Macrae , 5-Apr-2005
KCC- What, Why, Where
Mr Chris Macrae
A Knowledge Collaboration Cafe (KCC) can be held in a city (home where you live or away while your visiting) or at large conferences where your sort of network is meeting. It takes the form of a roundtable with usually 10 people maximum, with one person moderating a Q & A session on a specified subject that everyone has come to network around. It usually is timetabled for 60 minutes. That's just the tangibles- what is the Community of Producers of KCC learning by experience?
WHAT
1 Does the prospective moderator have a topic she or he openly wants to share so that it sustains a new network or connects existing networks ( or the infrastructures that supprt networks such as cities and savvy conference producers such as those who trust open space)
WHY
2 Why might this be an hour to die for being there? Is there a societal application? Does the convenor want to start a local alumni chapter or other communal practising ceell? Will there be a chance to co-agent each other's work? Is this going to be a meeting of the 10 greatest networkers on the planet relating to a subject that's core to my competence?
WHERE?
3 It seems the where involves a place where a lot of people are naturally congregating. Anyone can find an hour in their diary for the most urgent elarning experience they need if they are already within leg's reach of the place and the time and are in the networks or virtual communities that co-produce the world's most interesting KCC.
So this begs a circle of questions. Good ones may be analagous to those that open space alumni ask when staging 50000 cases so far that are 3-days long not one hour fun. Which virtual communities stage the best KCC? What topics are they going to be on? Will you contribute one of the topics by moderating a cafe- what, why, where? What experiences with linking networks do co-producers of KCC have and what drives them to do the kind of connecting work needed to match the 10 people who turn up?
Now this thread would very much like to hear from anyone who wants to moderate a cafe - tell us the what and why and we can then think about the where. (Or if I havent sufficiently explained how KCC multiplies deep networks- how about asking a caring question?)
Chris KCC co-producer Club of London and InterCities
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K1 how a free to join virtual community could connect professions in a networked age where the experience/learning curves and productivities of people to make a difference
* integratingK2 group formats such as teams, practice communities and social networks, and such interdisciplinary content hubs as emotional intelligence * integrating K3 Gravitation of transparent organisational leadership governed as a purpose compounding system of productive & demanding relationships *integrating K4 integrating into the most valuable future exponential for its global market sector to serve people *integrating K5 harmonising sustainably with societies' investments and knowledge collaboration city, 2 million global villages and other constructs that recognise the need to connect: 1) places of diversity being ultimately where all longest-term cultural, natural and human resource investment is sustained even whilst death of distance means that peoples mentors and work may connect many different places.
I particularly welcome hearing from people who want to re-edit this guide and then use it in open dialogues. Why might this first flight through future history genres of the second half of the 20th Century be relevant today. Well, Entrepreneurial Revolution roundtables have now been happening for 30 years, an early outing being in 1976 when Romano Prodi (who later became President of the European Union when it first started huge investments of public minies in Km and Ksociety) hosted events with business leaders across Italy. Today, death of distance is one of the revolutionary reconstructs American leaders have been revisiting in identifying such new space races as those announced by President Bush in Jan 2006: 1) End our addiction to petroleum economics and 2) empower our kids to love learning science as much as they do sports.
1 ER 2 DOD 3 DRUCKER
Future History Scripts associated with 1 and 2 originated with my father Norman Macrae’s work over 4 decades of Century 20 at The Economist. We are delighted to see them used for any open dialogues about the future and co-creating a world which sustains humanity and innovates value multiplication through learning and transparency of networks.
1 ER Entrepreneurial Revolution
Notes:
2006 marks the 30th birthday parties of my father Norman Macrae’s publication of Entrepreneurial Revolution as a 1976 survey in The Economist. It generated widespread interest in innovative leadership- eg Romano Prodi translated it into Italian and hosted a roundtable among leading industrialists of the day. It soon became part of a trilogy: 1982 was published in The Economist as We’re all Intrapreneurial Now ( debating how the service economy required a transformation in organisations from machine-age command and control to supporting service teams- those who best practiced Intrapreneurial now have returned up to 100 times investors stakes over a generation but only by multiplying even more value across society and by enabling service workers to enjoy a lifetime of making a difference http://value100.blogspot.com )
preneurial originated in 19th century France and concerns what assets society peacefully needs to take back because they are not being used productively or are blocking widespread
preneurial can be used to frame debates on how to change economics so that it always fairly represents the peoples interests transparently and is not manipulated by vested interests or to make big power bigger. For example, the 19th C founder of The Economist was concerned with 2 goals : repealing the corn laws and ending capital punishment (after which social reforms he expected the paper to be closed). Since this global viewspaper did not close, it has the responsibility to open up peoples economics and help all people debate what exponentials will compound around each new future history revolution - more notes at
http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com and http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com
2 DoD Death of Distance (Networking’s Revolutions systemising human relations of productivities and demand such as the last quarter century's chnage overs to service economy, post-industrial, global village nets)
Published in 5 languages 1984, this can be regarded as the 3rd part in the preneurial trilogy and was co-authored by Norman and Chris Macrae. We posited that networks would be the most urgent revolution to impact a single generation of mankind – that of 1984-2024 because they involved transport, telecommunications and cultural learning revolutions all in one. Another way of putting this is that networking connectivity is a higher order system whose governance and practices cannot be professionalized by thinking within the current system. Writings of both Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, as well as Orwell to whom our 1984 book was also inspired by, confirm that globalisation’s integration of societies at every locality can only compound exponential goodwill or exponentially badwill, which by 2024 will be spinning an unturnable trajectory. We collated various preneurial scripts with the added help of a science fiction writer and doctor of biology who did not want to be named. These included photosynthesis as the clean energy revolution of 2000-2025; taking back sufficient public media to connect with the internet both to make extreme poverty history and to start smartening up learning media instead of the dumbing down that excessive commercial media became; going beyond national governments both to network exchanges between 2 million global villages and because in a networked world of waves the major risks need to be prevented interlocally (nature does not respect man’s top-down borders); multiplying value through open source collaborations wherever possible – both because learning multiplies in use unlike things that get consumed up, and because all the 20th Century’s greatest mathematicians foresaw collaboration as the way to sustain larger footprints and make
The 21st Century the most progressive in humanity’s history. They also foresaw that if we do not achieve this optimistic scenarios, the most likely outcome of networks as systems multiplying systems is the very reverse- end of most of our species before the end of the century
UPDATE
In Bush’s 2006 State of the Union, he launched 2 unexpected space races: end America’s addiction to petroleum economics and make sciences as fashionable for youth to study and be inspired by as sports.
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