queen asks whether humanity has turned aganist itslef
Queens Christmas Broadcast
The Queen delivered a sombre Christmas broadcast yesterday, reflecting on a year blighted by natural disasters and terrorist atrocities.
It was a year, she confessed, during which she had sometimes thought "that humanity seemed to have turned on itself - with wars, civil disturbances and acts of brutal terrorism".
The Queen: Sombre broadcast
The July 7 suicide bomb attacks on London's transport network, which claimed 52 lives and injured hundreds more, had "totally changed" many people's lives in this country, bringing pain and suffering, she said.
Across the world, the Asian tsunami, the earthquake in Pakistan and India, and the hurricanes that hit New Orleans and the Caribbean, had done the same.
"This Christmas my thoughts are especially with those everywhere who are grieving the loss of loved ones during what for so many has been a terrible year."
She added: "This last year has reminded us that this world is not always an easy or a safe place to live in, but it is the only place we have. I believe also that it has shown us all how faith - whatever our religion - can inspire us to work together in friendship and peace for the sake of our own and future generations."
Note clearly the blindness of those in chnarge of large organsiational governance and measurement has turned expoentially aginast humanity:
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futher references:
We're all Intrapreneurial Now (1982); 30th Birthday of Entrepreneurs (2006); 21st Birthday of DoD's Project 30000
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Sunday, December 31, 2006
Aide Memoire from EU dialogue on Open Learning & Clued Conversations
The Promise (as yet unfulfilled but not through lack of human potential) includes connecting:
vison 2010: 25 country knowledge society & meta-disciplinary lifelong (e)learning
KM Europe as post-industrial leader for knowledge workers
Unseen Wealth of Intangibles Valuation : Trust & Emotional Flows of service economy , collaborative innovation webs of network economy
Virtual and real community & collective intelligence formats/media/social spaces
Open source and above zero-sum economies
Harmony of trade with poorest parts of world - no more wars
LEARNING Networks & Open Mentors: History's newest revolution:1974-1984-2004-2024Sample Eight main beliefs of one of most inspiring books around in 2004:
- 1. The world is hurtling through a fundamental turning point in history.
- 2. We are living through a revolution that is changing the way we live, communicate, think and prosper.
- 3. This revolution will determine how, and if, we and our children work, earn a living and enjoy life to the fullest.
- 4. For the first time in history, almost anything is now possible.
- 5. Probably not more than one person in five knows how to benefit fully from the hurricane of change - even in developed countries.
- 6. Unless we find answers, an elite 20 percent could end up with 60 percent of each nation's income, the poorest fifth with only 2 percent.1 That is a formula for guaranteed poverty, school failure, crime, drugs, despair, violence and social eruption.
- 7. We need a parallel revolution in lifelong learning to match the information revolution, and for all to share the fruits of an age of potential plenty.
- 8. Fortunately, that revolution - a revolution that can help each of us learn anything much faster and better - is also gathering speed.
This book tells its story. It also acts as a practical guide to help you take control of your own future.The main elements of the revolution are twofold. They link the modern marvels of brain research with the power of instantly available information and knowledge
posted by macrae.nets @ 11:14 AM Saturday, July 16, 2005
Related discussion We need to keep management theses open, instead of judged by all the usual suspects. One harvard professor recently admitted that 95% of strategy is conceived dead because the theory is so out of touch with practice. The global corpoartion of 10000 knowledge workers ruled by the fears and stick options of a 12 person board is the least flexible or valuable/sustainble organisational design we could imagine powering over strategiues- so why dont we transparently question such closed monoploies over people's working lifetimes?Odd how management education takes 95% of its precedence from such a small part of the world's diversity as Boston. But then the vicious quartert of :
- Delaware Corporate law
- Boston educationalists' separatism before meta-discipline, and impact on professions that now separate their business case instead of connecting hippocratic service-to-people oathes
- Chicago's global accounting
- And Wall Street's financial speculatorshave straitjacketed the world in the greatest investments apartheids our poor globe has ever seen, and bright western minds seemed to have given up student rebellions just when they are needed against the educationalists.
Come to the Delhi/Gandhi alumni sponsored rebelolion in 2007 ( I think I know enough of the organsiers to enable any mice present to have fun there); or go to Lucknow's Chief Justices conference (I have no contacts there though wish I could find an explorers mutual group who wanted to build such links)
posted by macrae.nets @ 12:11 AM Saturday, April 02, 2005
Who do we learn leadership from now the most valuable man has gone?
Pope John Paul 2
In seeking to resolve the globalisation conflict era in which money sought to take over community, John Paul actions included:
Beatifying Mother Theresa for her tireless, selfless work in the slums of Calcutta, for giving “without counting the cost”
Fiercely criticising unfettered capitalism, he castigated the rich industrial countries for not fighting poverty, hunger and disease in poorer regions. He rebuked despots to their faces for crushing human rights. He was a withering critic of the selfishness that afflicts so many
“When freedom does not have a purpose” he warned “when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society”
posted by macrae.nets @ 12:41 AM
Thursday, March 24, 2005
searching the future origin's of learning, networks and macrae views
This google would make one starting spaceAs open sources of learning and networking, we are interested in hearing from any other clans or networks interested in the future of elaring - would you like to co-edit their view with one month's free space in the archives of this blog?
posted by macrae.nets @ 3:28 AM
Monday, February 28, 2005
Job 1 Connecting the Disconnected
Since 1984 we have identified Connecting the Disconnected (1) as this as job #1:Multiply learning where most needed; most likely to pass through the 6 degrees of relationship permissions that interconnect anyone online (or less if they are parts of large virtaul communities); Take the world above zero-sum economics in making poverty history; and other meta-network colaborationshaving shown what networks can do when people open source information and trust-flow, improve competence of collaborative innovation in every organsaition
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Sunday, February 27, 2005
Job 2 Tutor children in searching out their own 5 best mentors through life
We have started to converse about this in terms of 12th grade email training; but clearly one needs to similarly discuss graded use of weblogs, real meeting , every mode of communicationsWe also need to get the world's largest public media BBC on side of training kids why email etc changes every curricula. We understand why commercial mass media is frightened that the internet may end its dumbing down rule over people, but it is scandalous how little the BBC covers the real potentials of virtual life including all the main jobs listed for debate at this blog!We are also interested in how everyone outlines new curriclum through all grades in an open way.
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stories inspiring open knowledge, community
systemisation, & blog action
Value Multiplicatio coordinates of productivity & Open People Networks:
What are the most inspiringly productive things people are doing?My linkedin friends and I started piloting story collections a year ago themed round 5 dynamics of productivity whose exploration intrigued us. I am keen to openly expand this survey now, and if it's relevant see how people can multiply relevant stories at the KM fringe event -at 5 Knowledge flowing energy levels
K1 as people
K2 as groups (eg nets, communities) within large organisations
K3 as leadership visions, hierachical led consensus
K4 as business sector partnerships
K5 as societally or cross-cultural led initiatives
K1*K2*K3*K4*K5
EXPLORATION SPACES
Blog Action Firsts
Clinton Global Concerns TapestryYou're welcome to join our open surveys of how productivity multiplies through networks Results of 5 years of quizzing Knowledge Management Experts as an Unseen Wealth Researcher
Results of 5 years of quizzing Knowledge Management Experts as an Unseen Wealth (
Intangibles Valuation Auditing*Transparency's advance conflict scouting at borders where systems have multiplicative impacts*
Sustainability Investment) Investmnent Researcher I felt the call to research KM experts for the following reasons. I did so openly at the EU’s knowledgeboard, whose conversations will be extracted in this blog and linked while they are permitted to remain where they began
Trust-Flow and other Energy Flows of productive & Demanding Realtionships determine how network economies revolve Like so many human spirits at every locality, I had always Peter Drucker's perspectives of knowledge workers and my fathers of
entrepreneurial revolution necessary for service economy to be revolutionary different than working under machines, which is what the industrial age required of most people. Then in 1984, my father and I
co-scripted the first 40 year of networking organisations and concluded that the system change of globalisation and local societal networks was going to be an even greater change to measurement sciences of economics etc than going from machine economies to service economy. So when in early 2001, Margaret Blair told me about the results of the inquiry =she had chaired at Brookings into Unseen Wealth – 90% of all future value… ...
RSA values
-IntegrityWe revere honesty, even where it incurs criticism, controversy or unpopularity. We welcome disagreement as the spark from which new fires of creativity might be ignited. We jealously guard our independence, which enables us to work with integrity and be listened to as an authoritative & respected voice. But as an organisation committed to innovation we also recognise that we will sometimes fail: when we do, we promptly disclose any bad news.
PracticalityThe Society has always been pragmatic and practical. We do not apply palliatives, but search for the solutions to underlying problems. When we devise solutions we seek to have them implemented, often prototyping so that we can lead by example. Above all, we seek to make a real difference in society.
QualityThe RSA honours excellence – from whatever source – where it contributes to our purpose. We also strive to achieve excellence in our own Programme work. As a charity, in the other areas of our work we try to meet the expectations which our stakeholders have of us, adding value where we can and eliminating activities which have become redundant.
VersatilityWe have thrived by being flexible in a world that changes rapidly and sometimes violently. We embrace change, and develop our own projects so that they are adopted by other organisations or stand alone – this enables us to move on to new work and new projects. What remain constant are our values: they may be modified in the light of fundamentally changed circumstances, but they will always be firmly rooted in the Society’s origins and in our commitment to do good., 26 July 2005 @ 15:09 PM
RSA Values -part 1
Mr Chris MacraeThe Royal Society of Arts born in London 251 years ago is one of the world's deepest mixers of culture, collaboration cafes and influencing leaders through the fringe. So RSA's values may be worth many networkers seeing through, knowing...The RSA’s values explain ‘the way we do things’; they are at the core of the Society and guide all our decisions, from the most strategic to the most mundane. The RSA’s values are rooted in the humanitarian, liberal thinking of the Age of Enlightenment, from which also came our desire to do good. Our values are pragmatic statements of what works best for us in the real world: they enable our Fellows, our partners and everyone connected with us to understand what makes us tick.HumanitySince 1754 the RSA has existed to create a more civilised world, encouraging the development of a sustainable society. Our concern for the betterment of humanity remains at the very heart of the Society, but this does not mean making improvements today at the expense of those living in the future. Our concern works at an individual level, too, which means that we treat people with respect, value different perspectives and strive to be open to new ideas. We listen carefully to all points of view before making decisions, and we deal with everyone in the way we want to be dealt with. We aim to practise what we preach with our own staff.DiversityFrom our very beginnings we have been keen to be open to people of influence irrespective of irrelevant factors such as gender or ethnicity. As well as doing this because it is right, we also recognise the practical advantages that flow from an inclusive approach, from celebrating the amazing diversity of humanity, and from harnessing the talents which everyone has to offer. The Society therefore embraces equality of opportunity in our programmes, our ways of working, and our employment practices. Recognising the law and the commitment of our own Bye-Laws, we seek out positive opportunities to encourage participation from under-represented or marginalised groups.
Gillian Bush , 24 July 2005 @ 12:32 PM Bravo Royal Society of Arts
Ms Gillian BushBravo RSA from ClubofCity
The RSA web announces its newest fringe spaceCafé RSA is the Society’s latest venture aimed at generating informal and exciting discussion on a local level. Based in Café Muse at the University of Manchester, the project will follow a similar format to the hugely popular Coffeehouse Challenge, using the Café setting as a catalyst to provoke audience input into the discussion. This format intends to break away from the traditional perception of the RSA event as a lecture-based forum, drawing on the key principle of ‘Inspiring the Future’ in order to promote the work of the RSA to its younger audience.The Café RSA project was conceived by the RSA’s North West Regional Committee and will consist of a series of six discussion events spread over one year. These discussions will be grounded in the RSA’s five Manifesto Challenges, the purpose being to explore each challenge in depth at least once. A further crucial factor in the format of these events will be the linking of the theme of each event to the local community in Manchester, thus generating a debate that has relevance on both a global and local level. Each event will be supported and contributed to by one of the Café RSA’s five collaborative partners: The BBC; Sport England; The Arts Council; British Association for the Advancement of Science; and Museums, Libraries and Archives North West.Booking and promotion for the events will take place online and be orchestrated through the RSA’s central office. Further details of each event will be posted on this site, as and when each one approaches.More information coming soon....
Chris Macrae , 23 July 2005 @ 10:34 AM who's truly up for deepest communal learnings - part 2
Mr Chris MacraeDear XXXWe met at a coffeehouse challenge at The National Gallery in May and I passionately believe that spaces for hosting conversations on diversity and open community involvement are vital, ever more so given the challenges London now faces. This blends with networks I loosely connect, emerging out of a
21 year future history systemic forecast my father at The Economist and I co-authored back in 1984 : 2005 would become mankind’s most dangerous year of globalisation and evolution, whose reconciliation would need almost every being to feel openly involved in debating projects that could win-win in making poverty history.I came across the new magazine launch of Society Today at another coffeehouse challenge. Whilst its on its own learning curve, it struck me that the combination of Starbucks and
Society Today could multiply much needed deep community in inspired ways.Experimental Ideas include having sample copies of this magazine available for browsing in Starbucks cafes around London. Get involved with the café challenges that diversity journalists writing for Society Today are themselves intent on hosting. Work together with pooling ideas that Royal Society members or the BBC or others passionate about healing London’s and Britain’s communal diversity want to keep testing as seeds for planting open public dialogue.Hom the editor of Society Today once. His would seem to me to be on an uniquely caring mission, capable of sustaining deep networks of supporters around Society Today – a not for profit development that might make an extraordinary multiplier with Starbuck’s commercial business and London as a hub for reconciliation. Multiplying open invitations simultaneously across all ages and faiths seeking to bridge community respect and love seems to me to be our defining challenge, which London as a cross-cultural crossroads has become a world epicentre of.Please contact Hom and explore whether this opportunity could be as great for each other’s goals as the sustainability of deep society out of Britain I believe it to be.SincerelyChris Macrae___________________________________________________Letter Enclosed first issue of Society Today, whose web is at
www.society-today.comSmallprint on my personal stationery letterhead provides 2005’s calendar of diversity reconciliation events including Global Reconciliation Network annual meeting hosted this year in Sarajevo August ; Clinton
Global Initiative hosted in New York September; corporation lawyers mediation debate sponsored by
http://www.simpol.org,/ provisionally October Select Committee Room, Houses of Parliament London.Chris Macrae , 23 July 2005 @ 10:31 AM who's truly up for deepest communal learnings -part 1
Mr Chris Macrae1) How missionaries communalise
(link)2) Emotional Intelligences of Life & Death - London Calling
(link at KMEI)3) Research with
BBCIcan on how cafes work to spread diversiyty good-cheer simultaneously across open grassroots invitations -some may call the fringe3a) Prior research on
simpol cafes and
London as Collaboration Knowledge City4) Draft of letter to Starbucks Community Development Coordinator (see part 2)Chris Macrae , 29 May 2005 @ 16:57 PM
open cafes number 1 economic & social catalyst of networking age?
Mr Chris MacraePosts show the social capital spaces afforded by open cafes are the most vital economic catalyst peoples can enjoy.Summing up : 1 how did we nearly forget this? 2 what exactly makes a cafe zing? 3 how do we include everyone in this most basic enabler of democracy and entreprenurial wherewithal1 we forgot because mass media made obese couch potatoes of us, broadcast news of fear and governments got so impressed with image-making ads and PR that they preferred big corporations to the people..we Londoners' vote to go
Beyond-Branding before its too late;other ideas welcome...2 a cafe provides a safe relaxing space and quality time; so a group of people can commune round a common interest/concern ; and having developed trust in each other keep networking;3 to play people need the space near where they live; and easy ways to participate in announcing cafes they want to participate in as wll as calendars of event; realising that getting even 5 people around the same table at the same time is very difficult now we have got to such a time compressed world, and one in which many of the people with greatest innovation needs either fear to come out or have duties that eat up their free time (eg babycare)over the last fortnight, BBCican reporters and the Royal Society of the Arts have hosted 3 events in London with well over 100 participants:how to make London safer for womenhow to put community back into Londonhow to help our children learncafe spaces in their different modes were the biggest solution I heard in each meeting; of course this doesnt mean just posh pay for cafes like Starbucks though those are excellent for innovation by those who can afford them; it means cafe community centres for everyone, and if a local council can't find a cheerful format for financing that it should be sackedfor children, it also means -as open space experts can mentor anyone who needs to know - teaching teachers to allow cafes for teens up or perhaps younger; hosting and participating in a round circle meeting becomes one of the most vital learning in a social networking age; it is as vital as using email and blog because none of the three can enable innovative communications and actions without the otherqueries, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk, ironical that the whole of KM and ebusiness comes down to cultivating this open infrasructure into the living fabric of our knowledge cities...bon courage in seeing it happen around youClub of London - summer cafe Festival:June 3 Can youth film-makers change the world- British Library Cafe Friday 12.30 provisional - sponsor www.simpol.orgJune 6 Play the Sustainability Game & linkin your deepest network Friends House sponsor AmedJune 7 People for Pensions - 17.30 Starbucks 51 Great Russell Streel WC1 -co-sponsors
BBCican, Starbucks,
RSAChris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 18:19 PM v3 science's 20th C luminaries and alumni
Budapest and similar European cities, which mothered so many of the 20th century's greatest sceintists including those that begot the compute would not have attracted the great thinkers and schooling of the day without the civilisation and social fashionability of cafes.
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 18:12 PM V5 Leading social-economic opinion leading network
http://www.thersa.org/acrobat/coffeehouse.pdf Britain's leading network connecting entrepreneurs and socialites would have existed without the cafe. This network's reputational and mentoring influence across leaders remains one of the most likely to restore human sense to those of the world's 1000 largest organisations that have lost true social fabric or love of people.
Chris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 18:09 PM K5 Artistic, Intellectual, Fashions
A lot of artistic, fashions and intellectual movements would not have started without cafes
Coca-Cola wouldn't have existed without the late 19th century equivalent of cafes in the USA. Whether nationwide highways and packaged goods would have developed so quickly in the America without Coca-Cola is unknowableChris Macrae , 28 May 2005 @ 18:01 PM
v3 property markets Because of K2 (culture) much of the value of residential property in cities developed from where cafes were. K2 community culture, social networksMuch culture, hobbies, communities were born in cafes
v5 industry sectors and trading markets -Many of the world's largest industry sectors and most of the financial trading markets were born in cafes
