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The Great RemixWorking toward a just and sustainable balance
among people and the planet.Prepared for MaRS in partnership with CSI.
Version 2 - 080501
With systemic collapse increasing common, the
sense of immediacy grows stronger. Major shifts in operating context can occur at any moment.
A brief history...
The system has is flat-lining and those who are holding on are “the flat-liners”.
Industrial Revolution
1860-1960
Earth Born4.54 billion years ago
Homo Sapiens130,000 years ago
Agricultural Revolution
4,000 years ago
Information Revolution
1960-2000
Modern Civilization
6.6 Billion people
Political
Cultural
Economic
Knowledge Media
Regulation
Icons
Government
Trade
Good & Services
Technology
Care
Humans have been undergoing
extensive evolution based on conquest... bringing civilization to a global scale.
Death
Displacement
MarginalizationExclusion
Extinction
Extraction
Contamination
Burning Platform
Flat-line
entrenched interests
perceived barriers
siloed operations
“Growth is Great!”
music, air, auto industries
“sub-prime”
Darfur
This biggering is buggering us...
What’s our
Future?
Cool culture of
change
The cool choice
“Look at me!”
“I’d never... !”
Oprah’s Big Give
Muhammad Yunus
“SUV’s Suck!”
An Inconvenient
Truth
Hurricane Katrina
passion
purpose
competencies
connections
insight
Cool culture of
change
It’s all connected!
The Quickening
Flat-line
Burning Platform
Compelled to action
ACTION
shifting systems
caring for people + planet
helping them do it
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+=
curiosityINQUIRY
involve
observe
react
interpret
decide
influence
ACTION!!!
Elements of Action
What IS. What WILL BE.
empathyANIMATION
observe react interpret decide influence involve
From the smallest thought to changing everything.> > > >> >>>
Entrepreneurial Dynamics
Generatively scrappy
Tie up the camel
Engage wisdom
Value reflection
Intentional receptivity
Connect with purpose
Passion
Purpose
Competencies
Connections
Insight
Transformation is catalyzed by passion emerging from instability or frustration from reaching the limits of the organization’s effectiveness. It requires a reconnection with purpose and a deep insight to be most effectively accomplished.
Modes of Action
Ideation is initiated by passion, and grounded in an underlying purpose. From purpose insight can be developed by engaging diverse wisdom in understanding.
IdeationTrans-
formationOperation
Building
Building is most dynamic when grounded in a clear purpose and most efficient when the idea is translated into a viable model around/into which resources are connected/drawn.
Operating is characterized by specialized competencies seeking optimization and incremental improvement. The organization is drawn to focus on sustaining
itself (growing) over and above the purpose it was created for. Passion diminishes.
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ARTIFACTS
SERVICES
EXPERIENCES
Legal
Telecom
Faciltation
Consulting
Web services
Accounting - bookkeeping
Credit cards
Friends and Family
Grants
Bank Loans
VC investment
Government contributions
Events
Courses
Conferences
Meet-ups
Workgroups
Conversations
Books
Magazines
Blogs
Movies
Podcasts
Media
Websites
Person
Person
Person
Person
Person
Person
Person
PersonPerson
Person
Person
Person
Person
Person
Person
Person
Chaos
Um...help?
PlatformFor purpose-driven people taking action.
Of and for the frontiers
• Amp-up action• Bolster basics• Push purpose• Kick-up context
Self-emergent
Dynamic organization in individual context
Broken down to essential elements
organize custom spaces
(secretariat?)
dynamically connect
resources(online hub)
• Insight• Competency• Connection
• Inquiry• Action• Shared purpose• Shared experience
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The qualities of open, fluid, and dynamic
Acting with a light spirit, sense of fun, creativity, and a perspective of opportunity
Spaces for people, as they are, as they want to become
Embracing the richness and wisdom in differences
STY
LEVA
LUES