Sustain the Exponential - Hi-Trust Audit Mapping
INTRO
Corruption is a symptom of a compound system failure where whole truth practices are no longer governed. Valuetrue proposes minimum trust-flow audit to rectify this global maths mistake
Imagine the difference between a world where the largest 1000 organisations are only programmed to extract the most money every last quarter from every person ; or a world where their sustainability investment duties include compounding a second goal "Sustain the Entrepreneurial Exponential". It turns out that the 2nd world compounds better conseqeuences for every person of goodwill including true investors. To see why we need transparency maps designed round this ABC
A Accountability to deepest entrepreneurial purpose
B Busting no flow
C Compounding no conflicts
* * *
Mathematically there is no correlation between 3 different organisational performance periods: historic quarters, current year, compound 4+ years future consequences. In 2000, the DC economics/law institutes Brookings/Georgetown issued a shocking report "Unseen Wealth". Most of the world's largest organisations are not being governed around flows relevant to what truth/consequences they are compounding. On both sides of the Atlantic (see http://euintangibles.net and Chairman Ray Anderson's video) very strong language was used about the compound risks of such oversight. valuetrue.com transparency mapmaking communities unite those who seek to open source the minimum audit to resolve the greatest maths mistake ever spread.
Critical System patterns to visualise contextually:
spirals - either sustainability exponential up or destruction exponential down.
system gravity = lifelong entrepreneurial purpose , whose truth is communally interacted.
The audit also unites entrepreneurial revolution trilogy demands first made in The Economist between 1976-1984. -an unprecedented transformation in organisational economics needs to be mapped if the service and networking era is to sustain integration of every community in a collaborative globalisation
Our primary beneficaries are : sustainability and above zero-sum economics (future generations, every stakeholder except speculators); transparency (local societies, systemic entrepreneurs, world citizen networks, people who want to make a difference with their lifetime's exponential)
About You
Location
Project Street Address
Project City
Project Province/State
Project Postal/Zip Code
Project Country
Your idea
Focus of activity
Oversight/Accountability
Year the initative began (yyyy)
1991
Positioning of your initiative on the mosaic diagram,
Which of these barriers is the primary focus of your work?
Lack of Accountability & Transparency
Which of the principles is the primary focus of your work?
Reward & Create Honest Leaders & Institutions
If you believe some other barrier or principle should be included in the mosaic, please describe it and how it would affect the positioning of your initiative in the mosaic:
Corruption is a symptom of a compound system failure where whole truth practices are no longer governed. Valuetrue proposes minimum trust-flow audit to rectify this global maths mistake
Imagine the difference between a world where the largest 1000 organisations are only programmed to extract the most money every last quarter from every person ; or a world where their sustainability investment duties include compounding a second goal "Sustain the Entrepreneurial Exponential". It turns out that the 2nd world compounds better consequences for every person of goodwill including true investors. To see why we need transparency maps designed round this ABC
A Accountability to deepest entrepreneurial purpose
B Busting no flow
C Compounding no conflicts
valuetrue maps organisation as system of productive*demanding relationships. Critical System patterns:
spirals - either sustainability exponential up or destruction exponential down.
system gravity = lifelong entrepreneurial purpose , whose truth is communally interacted.
The audit also unites entrepreneurial revolution trilogy demands first made in The Economist between 1976-1984. -an unprecedented transformation in organisational economics needs to be mapped if the service and networking era is to sustain integration of every community in a collaborative globalisation
Name Your Project
Sustain the Exponential - Hi-Trust Audit Mapping
Describe Your Idea
INTRO
Corruption is a symptom of a compound system failure where whole truth practices are no longer governed. Valuetrue proposes minimum trust-flow audit to rectify this global maths mistake
Imagine the difference between a world where the largest 1000 organisations are only programmed to extract the most money every last quarter from every person ; or a world where their sustainability investment duties include compounding a second goal "Sustain the Entrepreneurial Exponential". It turns out that the 2nd world compounds better conseqeuences for every person of goodwill including true investors. To see why we need transparency maps designed round this ABC
A Accountability to deepest entrepreneurial purpose
B Busting no flow
C Compounding no conflicts
* * *
Mathematically there is no correlation between 3 different organisational performance periods: historic quarters, current year, compound 4+ years future consequences. In 2000, the DC economics/law institutes Brookings/Georgetown issued a shocking report "Unseen Wealth". Most of the world's largest organisations are not being governed around flows relevant to what truth/consequences they are compounding. On both sides of the Atlantic (see http://euintangibles.net and Chairman Ray Anderson's video) very strong language was used about the compound risks of such oversight. valuetrue.com transparency mapmaking communities unite those who seek to open source the minimum audit to resolve the greatest maths mistake ever spread.
Critical System patterns to visualise contextually:
spirals - either sustainability exponential up or destruction exponential down.
system gravity = lifelong entrepreneurial purpose , whose truth is communally interacted.
The audit also unites entrepreneurial revolution trilogy demands first made in The Economist between 1976-1984. -an unprecedented transformation in organisational economics needs to be mapped if the service and networking era is to sustain integration of every community in a collaborative globalisation
Our primary beneficaries are : sustainability and above zero-sum economics (future generations, every stakeholder except speculators); transparency (local societies, systemic entrepreneurs, world citizen networks, people who want to make a difference with their lifetime's exponential)
Innovation
Description of initiative
INTRO
Corruption is a symptom of a compound system failure where whole truth practices are no longer governed. Valuetrue proposes minimum trust-flow audit to rectify this global maths mistake
Imagine the difference between a world where the largest 1000 organisations are only programmed to extract the most money every last quarter from every person ; or a world where their sustainability investment duties include compounding a second goal "Sustain the Entrepreneurial Exponential". It turns out that the 2nd world compounds better conseqeuences for every person of goodwill including true investors. To see why we need transparency maps designed round this ABC
A Accountability to deepest entrepreneurial purpose
B Busting no flow
C Compounding no conflicts
* * *
Mathematically there is no correlation between 3 different organisational performance periods: historic quarters, current year, compound 4+ years future consequences. In 2000, the DC economics/law institutes Brookings/Georgetown issued a shocking report "Unseen Wealth". Most of the world's largest organisations are not being governed around flows relevant to what truth/consequences they are compounding. On both sides of the Atlantic (see http://euintangibles.net and Chairman Ray Anderson's video) very strong language was used about the compound risks of such oversight. valuetrue.com transparency mapmaking communities unite those who seek to open source the minimum audit to resolve the greatest maths mistake ever spread.
Critical System patterns to visualise contextually:
spirals - either sustainability exponential up or destruction exponential down.
system gravity = lifelong entrepreneurial purpose , whose truth is communally interacted.
The audit also unites entrepreneurial revolution trilogy demands first made in The Economist between 1976-1984. -an unprecedented transformation in organisational economics needs to be mapped if the service and networking era is to sustain integration of every community in a collaborative globalisation
Our primary beneficaries are : sustainability and above zero-sum economics (future generations, every stakeholder except speculators); transparency (local societies, systemic entrepreneurs, world citizen networks, people who want to make a difference with their lifetime's exponential)
Innovation
Changing Economics
Our networks originated with experts in how powerful systems and media are operated. Power can be exerted to good or bad ends. We make presentations at global risk and reconciliation conferences on the coming wars between goodwill and badwill networks, and train others to do likewise 
Hi-trust auditing maps very simply:
A-accountability to truth of entrepreneurial context
B-Bursting no flows of trust or working connections across departments, hierarchies or networks of organisations
C-zero tolerance of conflicts between any productive or demanding source connected by the organisational system
How can any hi-trust leader quarrel with the value of mapping these human relations connections?
Understanding a map as the simplest system tool is crucial. It's impossible for a company to know whether it is compounding sustainability's exponential if its people do not have a communal map. It is impossible to be transparent at boundaries without a map. It's impossible to empower entrepreneurial truth of purpose without a map - because all three are system qualities connecting productive and demanding sources of the organisation and the wider networks it is a part of.
HOW TO PROMOTE TRANSPARENT DEMOCRATIC ROUNDTABLE CONVERSATIONS WITH 10-WIN MAP
1 Remember that your conversation is contextual and can only be as good as the information assumptions you lay out on the table
2 The red data comes from Transparenct Intl-Ashoka dvd of Peter Eigen. Let's discuss what relevance it could have had to Tony Blair before choosing to ally with Bush's Iraq war. It would suggest that the day after toppling Saddam, the 3 transparency leadership governings of most importance were transparency of energy, arms, and construction. Whatever else the qualification of a Bush from Texas (Enron/Exxon land), a Cheney of construction industries and a nation that spends more on arms than any other, this was not a wise team to ally with for a transparent future Iraq. The play-writer Harold Pinter argues that human sustainability will depend on how fiercely we as citizens question our democratic leaders. Either Tony Blair did not know the most elementary transparency international data or he made the least transparent decision by a Prime Minister in my life time as a Brit. Of course through this interactive media, I (chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk) would love to learn if there is another interpretation
3 In green, I have over-simplified some of the empowerment economics data patterns (of the sort that a leading British economist (aka my dad) argued in 1984 would be vital to design into the way we unite round globalisation) that appears most relevant of we are going to ensure we bridge digital divides before we progress a knowledge empowered and inter-networking century. Again you can contextualise greater detail, but as Sir Nick Stern presented in his famous World Bank speech of 2005, transparent policy out of this institution depends on integrating this sort of information. The relative failure to invest in exponential development economics during the first 50 years of the world bank would appear to relate to this data not having been included in system decision mapping.
Like Sir Nicholas Stern, we define the only sustainable globalisation as one which integrates every locality in a transparently mapped way. As per this 1984 extract on Death of Distance's future history, in a networked world , economic paradigms that do not see a lasting strong economy as being generated by healthy society are not sustainable
By clarifying the most coherent 10-win cases at http://worldeconomist.net we can invite the world's 1000 largest organisations to a mother of all benchmarking parties. Unless the 1000 biggest organisations are prepared to unite simultaneously in being the most responsible, the most sustainable and the least corrupt benchmarks that human spirit can design, then there is not much point expecting that smaller organisations will, on their own, change the world in time.
007 is our 24th year of debating how near to irreversibility we have reached on the 7 crises that we have been tracking since 1984 as defining whether the Death of Distance generation will be the sustainable one or not. In 008, we will publish 2 major books guiding you to the highest trust collaboration (top-up) entrepreneurs are 25 years of searching have mapped thus far. The books will be open source so that local networks can republish their own travel guides mixing what they like from the worldwide benchmarks with what they select locally. In 2012, London invites the world to scrutinise all local to global travel guides - if enough sustainability knowledge flows have not been found we will demand the BBC as world service broadcaster either takes over the project or is closed down.
The world is now too crowded for zero sum economics to be the globalisation paradigm. World citizen networks -and their global village meetings such as ted.com, microcreditsummit, Clinton Global Initiative- will need to encourage the system transformation needed. Sustainabilityclub.com ranks world meeting league table
5 year Intercity Collaboration Program : Passports to Sustainability
The battle for the convenience of truth is ultimately about open networks and societies rules of the game where transformational changes to media and education will depend on intercitizen actions.
Historic Fallibility: In the late 20th Century, young people were increasingly deprived of voice and real community in an old and selfishly polluted world -a world embedded with laws wriiten in stone such as where accountants still count people as costs to cut, only machines and thing-stocks can be booked in as investments. But young people also propagate how fashion waves. Why not demand that sporting heroes twin their limelight with heroines with a human sustainability cause. Why not link together the best practices of the internet with the most communal real meeting practices such as open space
Delivery Model
Every large scale social or economic disaster was a system problem. Mathematicians are taught that true system reconciliations are tricky because you need to interface context and multiple systemic solutions combinatorially - there is no one systemic intervention that will cure all systems that are at the high risk stage of breaking apart. However, two of the most connecting interventions you can make involve:
what's the number 1 measure we will unite people's attention around? (what you measure is only what you get but what the system will compound)
what's the communal and communications intervention?
Above. we have introduced how maps provide the missing lens for sustaining exponential progress, and at we show cases of how this unites everyoe's compound interst including owners, societies, business partners and customers and workers. Let's look at communications
Living & Learning Brand Transparency
In the 1990s, I pioneered this practitioner genre with the book Brand Chartering. However I made one big mistake. We had got as far as the acronym ADEP*T - ie Actions, Direction (eg budgeting), Experience/Learming unite in a brand's Promise/message and it would be a good idea if all that which was Promised earned the Trust of all you are serving. After several years research, Brand Chartering catlogued the best questions and workshops we could find so that all discipines participated in the corporate or largest brand (architecture) identifying the unique organsiaing purpose. Our top ranked question: what would the world uniquely miss if the brand ceased to exist tomorrow- probe at the 10 detailed levels of demand and service shown on the 10-win molecule above. In Brand Chartering this is a survey or set of wokshops everyone the company relies on is repsctfully encouraged to debate. If there are gaps in view these need understanding and openly resolving.
My biggest mistake was that I got a series of projects where some of the biggest brand owners in the world asked me to moderate this question. And what we found was huge conflicts in the promises te brand was making to different stakeholder in different localities. Moreover whilst grassroots teams help meetings to inno vate ways through this the further up the heirarchy the more vicious the conflicts got. In one case where the new owner of the comapny wanted this folowed through, my team had to have armed protection. In another case we came across an unsafe product whose risks had not been announced as early as they had been discovered.
In another case our model forecast that a multibilion dollar company would go bst unless its leadership team quickly behaved very differently ; they didnt, this whole professional firm wnet bust 12 quarters later. What I didnt have at that time was as simple a way as mappin g to explain that this wasn't just a communications problem, it is a valuation, maths, analysis problem. Now we have that. So these days our delivery model involves educating long-term investors and others who need to understand how expoentials benchmark if they are to make sustainable leadership decisions. In parallel, our teams of mapmakers are happy to work pro bono for communities who recognise their worldwide crsisis is recahing an exponential tipping down. We would like to open source faster because by definition our molecule is What You See is What You Get. Find me a mathematician who is prepared to argue in public that any maths could be more interconnecting with sustainability than this.
Key Operational Partnerships
Many of our most inspiring partners are citizens*netizens. Transparency is both a boundary (system *system) and an empowerment problem involving those (often with the least voice) inside. Take London for example- the city where more languages are spoken than any other. Well before 7/7 in which we lost one of my great mentors, Londoners had worked out that against our will our national government had made us the test case for the future sustainability of all multi-cultural cities. We have been inviting netizens and citizens to join us in being collaboration knowedge cities. Resilience to risks cannot be governed top-down. Critical responses need to happen from localities up and cross-culturally side to side. Wave risks like the tsunami or terrorists have no respect for where man draws boundaries around owning bits of land, nor who's the king canute. Often, it's at boundaries where the greatest risks fester. Collaboration knowledge cities offer a vital dynamic in what some social entrepreneurs call the 3rd organisational typology - which the Global Social Entrepreneur Academy called world citizen organisations and networks. This typology will need to be even more brilliant at transparency mapping than the 2 huge organisation powers it seeks to interact with and sustainably transform - the national down gov and the global corporation. But at what sorts of meeting spaces and media will mapping knowledge be propagated? So far Collaboration knowledge citizens have identified the sorts of emerging needs (pictured) to share the word, to action learn, to flow true innovation around what hierarchical big boss systems only know how to siloise.
truth city survey. You don't have to answer all questions at once; and we welcome the opportunity to learn synonyms for nearly similar communal methods for opening space to collaborate and search for what social entrepreneurs projects either need to be open sourced in this city or sponsored by twin citizens to their favourite developing country in need.
Impact
Financial Model
Various people are microfinancing it until we have educated the emergence of benchmarking movements or found a no-conflict combination of partners. But as with many knowledge-networking services, its really not money but well known opinion leaders that matter. Of course ,it would be great to train and offer mapmaking as a professional 2.0 career to more and more people. We would also have preferred to have scaled maps faster instead of reaching so periloulsy close to tipping points where they become the last chance resolution. However the same remarks, as far as we know, apply to open sourcing all globalisation transparency educational/certification methods. And what we will not do as marketing experts is waste money on paying for advertising and stuff to compete with the quasi-professional monoplies that are gaining from ruling over zero-sum economics. Timing when and how to partner transformative introductions of transparency methods is absolutely critical in terms of the most precious resources we have.
I find it weird (unintentionally corrupting) that in a transparency competition you ask so many questions about separation of value where the number 1 crisis in transparency is the way people fail to value flow- truth is about how there is more value in connections than separation - at least that's the way I read Gandhi and Einstein to name but 2 of the world's transparency greats. Worse still -ask yourself a simple maths question - how can we take economics above zero sum unless we see how to value (and trust-flow)connectivity above separation? is there globally any point in investing in social entrepreneurs unless you can open source their most life critical discoveries?
What percentage, if any, of the total operating costs does earned income (from products, services, or other fees) represent?
100+
How is the initiative financed? Is it financially self-sustainable or profitable? How much do beneficiaries contribute?
Transparency and colaboration entrepreneurship is a public media problem. If you systematically review the work this project seeks to interconnect, you would know that this question makes little sense in this context. If we reach our goal of helping to bridge digital divides and unite colaborative world citizens, those who will reflect back on this question's context may compare it in a very small way with how was microcredit financed?
When it comes to whole truth media models required to empower and integrate transparency from every locality into a globally true world, this question is akin to how do we finance freedom of speech? Obviously there are more vital collaboration issues than who we each box up separate finacially strong pieces of truth reporting
some ideas on this which we welcome your additions to are being posted at http://hi-trust.tv/_wsn/page2.html
Please note that if you fail to value transparency as being most of all about connectivity and least of all about separating your own ownership of system changing information, then you will ultimately be part of the problem. Mathematically transparency mapping involves studying how life-critical truth information flows through boundaries, and how to reduce degrees of separation of what people with the least voine or in the most digitally divides most need to communally understand in time to individually act on. valuetrue.com
Effectiveness
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If you want to nomniate an entry into the top 200 most trusted colaboration entrepreneurs- have a look at up-top and then mail us at info@worldentrepreneur.net
If you have a grassroots project that needs open sourcing we can try to help at http://www.citizenagency.tv
or if you find a better co-agency space, please tell us so we can list it. We are delighted when people find ways to scale collaboration around a vital human solution more effectively than we knew how
If you have a story that you believe broadcasters should be filmin g for humanity, we like to hear about that at info@worldcitizen.tv - all we do is post links to stories we wich broadcasters would follow up. We do not do film productions or broadcasting ourselves. We do relentlessly chase journalists for humanity until we have worked out whether there are sustainability stories he or she wants to question as open lifelong inquiries
we welcome all ideas on how to be more effective and less inconvenient wherever it comes to communications of humanity's deepest truths; we have always assumed that there needs to be a healthy symbiosis between media and learning; at the end of the day that is an assumption that all mathematicians we admire appear to make - read eg my dad's biography of John von Neumann in his pursuit to open source computing and above zero-sum economics, or share with us your favourite Gandhian text once you have read any of his diaries
Exercise 10-win transparency exchange - organisational economics
Example Grameen
Translation to Collaboration Wish to Transparency of a Social Entrepreneur's Mosaic
-further discussion
Which element of the program proved itself most effective?
Future History's Transparency in an era of Post-Industrial & "Glocal" Entrepreneurial Revolution (100) appears to us to have had 5 datemarks that my family has contributed loosely to:
1991 I published first of a library of books on World Class Brands Transparency - a subject that calls for an appreciation of the exact opposite truth of practice from all past mass media practices at nationally segregated levels
1984 I co-authroed with dad First Future History on Death of Distance (local to global networking Economics and entrepreneurship) - a genre aka since 2004 as World is Flat though of course its maps were questioned back in the 1930s by the likes of Orwell, Gandi and Einstein
1976 - Publication of the first of a trilogy of Entrepreneurial Revolution in The Economist by dad
1949 When dad started at The Economist having been to war before reading economics at Cambridge- 1942-1948 was a strange time for Cambrisge economist; Keynes was giving his last lectures while elderly economists who had survived the war in Britain had observed a communal resilience (or socila entrepreneurial) among the peoples that bo economics could explain. This is relevant to because today's most empwering econonmics leader manmohan Singh was to enjoy the same tutors a few years after my dad
1843- James Wilson founded The Economist to be the media that specialised in using statistics to get rid of vested interests from politics and to unse the media to debate compound future expoentials of every emerging market sector. James died before his time 10 months into a socila entrepreneurial projectin Calcutta aimed at chnaging the lost transparency of the British Raj. He was in need of the oral rehydration that BRAC might today have been able to dispense. In Scotland's hall of fame for social entrepreneurs, James stands a step beyond the reach of what our other worldwide clans have ever succeeded in mapping transparently.
Number of clients in the last year?
This question has zero relevance to open sourcing the mother of all benchmarking quality and compound truth valuation initiatives. If you seriously do not understand why, I am happy to correspond chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
What is the potential demand?
BE THE VALUER: What is the potential demand for social entrepreneurship? In communities afflicted by the big 4 compound crises which Larry Brilliant talks about in this video - it is all or nothing? How much easier for networkers and safer for citizens would it be to cross-culturally open source social entrepreneur franchises in places where transparency's whole truth governs, versus those that are corrupt or warring?
Do you believe that you will see (Transparency Intl Founder) Peter Eigen's wish of a simultaneous end to corruption around the world while a large majority of the world's 1000 largest organisational systems do not know how to wholly value transparency, sustainability, and goodwill's entrepreneurially pursposeful (emotionally and socially intelligent) trust-flows?
LOCAL TO GLOBAL ECONOMICS- THE ARLINGTON CONSENSUS
Also, would it be easier to sustainably interconnect the mosaics of the global academy's big 6 if the transformation of transparency in large organisational maps meant that capitalism's top decision-makers wanted to be mentored in the context applicability of all these 6 lifetime missionaries communicating whole value futures as one. Do these 6 rivers flow collaboratively into each other's appraisal of which big organisations to trust most : Beyond Corporate Responsibility*Transparency*Workers' Lives SA8000*Microcredit*Privatization/empowerment of grassroots services for families of the poorest children*Social Entrepreneurship*Social Business Stockmarket?
Scaling up Strategy
SUMMING UP
Corruption is a symptom of a compound system failure where whole truth practices are no longer governed. It festers primarily around a triangle of deadly sins from the 7 that economists, social entrepreneurs, journalists for humanity, scientists, future think tanks mapped out in 1984 -as a tribute to George Orwell and aware that sustainability exponentials' global integration challenge of every community was about to hit one generation 1984-2024
Truth's 7 Deadly Sins
Valuetrue proposes minimum trust-flow audit to rectify this global maths mistake
Partnership challenges vary by tipping points of the 7 deadly sins. They put human life at extraordinary risk around much of the above transparency triangle wherever countries believe in the fallacy that guns are a freedom or that abundant open community spaces are an unnecessary cost.
Your score card of the 7 deadly tipping points may be different than ours though in the 24 years of debating it, we advise 2015 is the best estimate of global system irreversibility; and that the transparency triangle has to be systematically developed before the 4 other consequential tipping points can be wholly reconciled. We will enjoy debating this in the conversation space below this competition entry
Stage of the initiative
1
Expansion plan
CitizenAgency.tv, an affiate of the worldcitizen.tv network, places free ads for anyone who wants to colaborate in making travel guides to change world the most popular genre of the decade. Why do we have restaurant and hotel guides to every city but not to where you can participate with a social entrepreneur? Why don't we have civic centres (hubs, open university spaces like Johannesburg first for the world ) where everyone is invited to discuss what social entrepeneurs to search for worldwide and where those who want to be disciples of that Social Entrepreneur are elected to become alumni? Why are Al Gore and Muhammad Yunus so far the only social entrepreneurs to particpate in training 1000 citizens at a time? How can we learn from microcreditsummit's 16 different ways of interacting with participants - you don't have to own a bank to help open source microcredit; and there are many ways of collaborating around transparency than donating money!. If social entrepreneurs want to be the new heroes (a kind worldwide trusted but not superficially celebrated) they need to bring their mosaic maps to youth everywhere, and then youth will stop buying big business's prodicts where these are all image and have no sustainable connections with doing good socially. It is in my readers' and teamworkers' minds A B C obscene that many global brands spend a billion dollars a year on advertising images and next to no marketing money on reality making of doing good.
But youth united across cultures can reinvent a new whole truth marketing- even of the brand with the most globally dadicting image.. For a start, why make a hero out of a sport star if that star refuses to twin their glory with news of a rising social entrepreneurial mosaic. The cost of sharing fame with such better for the world work is marginal, and indeed superstars might themselves enjoy more sustainably rewarding lifestyles than the Jacksons, Spears, Anna Nicoles if they had found one human interest in life beyond their sport or looks or idols.
Origin of the Initiative
Analysis of Goodwill
007: I was brought up on texts like those of my father's, Peter Drucker's, Harvard's Theodore Levitt that marketers help progress humanity's needs. I worked from 1976 for 12 years on market modelling researching what local societies wanted from multinational companies. I worked on projects in 30 countries including most Asian countries. Testing companies largest innovations with customers boardrooms used to listen when our data showed a brand wasn't quite what a local society wanted. Then spreadsheets came in, numbers started taking over from whole truths - multinationals started making 90 day decisions at global levels where the numbers flowed rather than nationally. I remember this strange week. On day 1 I was told my hard work had been rewarded with a directorship. On day 7 I was told Robert Maxwell had taken over our company. I left the same day. Within three years Maxwell jumped ship having rifled his company's pension in trying to cover up some of the speculative corporate purchases he made.
After a year out writing a book "World Class Brands" asking whether we had valuation methods in place to make the new responsibilities of global corporate brands transparent, I joined Coopers and Lybrand to be their senior consultant on brand. Day 7 of my new job was a bit unnerving. I was introduced to the senior partner of our division. On his wall, there was an autographed letter from Robert Maxwell: I recommend C&L because they always do exactly what I tell them to do. (This was about a year before Maxwell jumped ship)
I persevered at Coopers & Lybrand for nearly 5 years. I found that my ways of valuing brand goodwill as involving whole system trust-flow were not what the Big 5's global accountant chose to model. They did need to make a choice because as companies globalised goodwill went from being a small % of market value compared with tangibles a company owned to being the lion's share. They chose a maths that separated goodwill into boxes not that trust-flowed it.
This background is vital as we - collaboration entrepreneurs and world citizen networkers - make a list of globalisation's inconvenient truths: Corruption the formal subject of this competition. Zero tolerance for working slavery. What HM Treasury economist Sir Nicholas Stern has called the biggest market failure of all: whether organisations have information which tells them how to value whether long-term consequences of their decisions are sustaining future human generations or ending them. None of these human truths is separable. They all flow and compound in how goodwill is appraised; how truth of knowledge is openly flowed wheresover it impacts compound life-developing or destroying consequences. Freeedom of speech as far as whole truth is systemised and networked across system boundaries
You can map back consequences of truth becoming inconvenein t or hidden in each global sector (of which the place sector of nations is just one economic power source). The problem is often not what happens within our organisation's ring fences but what responsibility we externalise. For example, it was as late as 2005 that the world's major chocolate manufacturers could sign a declaration of we have ended slavery from where we source cocoa. Prior to this cocoa had been traded as just a commodity. Only price governed its buying and selling - before 2005, no more detailed global and local system interfacing questions mapped by chocolateers.
Take 2 : to be clear while goodwill is wrongly measured vis a vis the audit criteria our work proposes , I am not accusing most boardroom members of knowing, I am revealing the state of not knowing when the machine-age model of organisation is "separability" into boxed in units, instead of simply seeing whole truth economics of organisations through flows that relate all sources of productivities and demands in mapping what futures we are revolving, collaboratively as well as competitively. Please recall: evolution of our race's civilisations and democracies have been founded on it taking 16 years or so of collaboration to mature from childhood to adult. What would ever happen to a species where its children asked truer questions on transparency than its grown ups? Since Einstein and his practitioner "Truth-action-learning" peer Gandhi, many mathematicians and architects have warned: will we pass mankind's final systems examination as networks make more and more systems interdependent- with the weakest link being the most corrupted subsystem. Unfortunately system mapping as the new Right of "serve the world" education alongside reading ,writing, arithemetic is the missing curiculum vitae at every grade 1 to 40. For example from grade 3, the US Catholic system requires children to memorise wholly non-systemic definitions of entrepreneurship. This mortal sin was commited on my daughter last year! As a counter-move, I have decided to microfinace a publication on all the advances in learning that have been made in the last 25 years which Western Schools are except with rare exceptions refusing to ever try. email chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you want to be one of the first readers of this guide.
Take 3: We are living in what George Soros calls an era of fallibility -when economics forgets its origins in grassroots freedom and happiness, and entrepreneurs forget their system transformation birthright (preneur=take *entre= between as in 1800 when the asset of land was being taken back to empower the productivity of more people than France's kings or England's Corn "Lawds").
Moreover between now and 2015 we will be confronting a series of tipping points where it becomes quite possible for the first networking generation to be misled into re-engineering a globalisation that ends human sustainability. A lot depends on which way round economics of organisations integrates the system triangle illustrated below. If as women leaders usually do: we map empowerment from the micro up -integrating every locality into globalisation, the networking 21st C will be the great simultaneous leap forward for all cultures, all races. If as late 20th C man often speculatively did on and on: the titanic of globalisation economics continues to power over beings and truth from the macro top of 1000 biggest and least transparent organisations , our generation will end human sustainability about 3 generations out.
Globalisation is a system. It can only irreversibly spin one of two exponential ends. It is worth noting what the economics editor of The Economist after 35 years in the job wrote in 1984 about the main lesson for the first decade of C21:
“we now know that the macroeconomic policies which were the main stuff of democratic politics from the 1930’s to the 1990s were disgraceful chicanery”
Remember too Bagheot -the number 1 economist to work on reforming a globally corrupting empire (England) : the constitutional role of national government is to be the minimal referee, not the chief system tamperer, not the ivory tower with the least transparently rooted maps. Networks as system*system*system require that people of all ages and cultures learn system true behaviours. It can be as simple as ABC. System transformations need to be mapped from the bottom-up - to see all the truths that must co-exist in a world citizen garden of living, breathing, entrepreneurial, hi-trust, open system-truth economics.
To map, or not to be! that is the CitizenAgency Question
C.M.Macrae.72@cantab.net and N.A.Macrae.42@cantab.net , us tel 301 881 1655
This Entry is about (Issues)
Sustainability
Main Obstacles to Scaling Up
Lack of colaboration spaces for benchmarking every compound risk and dimension of lost transparency - please help me nomnate who open what leadership spaces on this at http://hi-trust.tv/_wsn/page2.html
Main Financial Challenges
to come
Main Partnership Challenges
SUMMING UP
Corruption is a symptom of a compound system failure where whole truth practices are no longer governed. It festers primarily around a triangle of deadly sins from the 7 that economists, social entrepreneurs, journalists for humanity, scientists, future think tanks mapped out in 1984 -as a tribute to George Orwell and aware that sustainability exponentials' global integration challenge of every community was about to hit one generation 1984-2024
Truth's 7 Deadly Sins
Valuetrue proposes minimum trust-flow audit to rectify this global maths mistake
Partnership challenges vary by tipping points of the 7 deadly sins. They put human life at extraordinary risk around much of the above transparency triangle wherever countries believe in the fallacy that guns are a freedom or that abundant open community spaces are an unnecessary cost.
Your score card of the 7 deadly tipping points may be different than ours though in the 24 years of devating it, we advise 2015 is the best estimate of global system irreversibility; and that the transparency triangle has to be systematically developed before the 4 other consequential tipping points can be wholly reconciled.
TIPPING POINTS
Climate began in 06 with Gore & Stern & Branson
Poverty began with Nobel recognition of Yunus in 06
Health & other boundary network risks are not resolved but have an epicentre of energy in google.org's brilliant
Just as we were writing thi media's tipping point opened up at the bridge between American Idol and AfricanIdol
Learning & Peace are nowhere near tipping points though solution vectors are clear
Top people's valuation of sustainability investment can be chnaged by open sourcing this project, but will it be?
How did you hear about this contest and what is your main incentive to participate?
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I published the first in a library of marketing revolution books in 1991 called World Class Brands. Different brands need different league tables for their economic and social impacts to compound transparently if sustained progress of the human lot is to be our outcome. A revolutionarly league of brands that has emerges since 1991 as most vital for 6 billion people to be aware of is the No Cost Global Brand. This should be focused on life critical missions where public broadcasters sjould be propagating truth news of the brand for free. The brand's equity should either be owned by the whole human race, or those for whom it has life or death consequences for locally. Whichever you choose it requires collaboration entrepreneurship flows beyond the nations borders that the 20th Century erected. These have all but shredded truth when it comes to sustainability's tipping points which anyone alive to travel through the globalisation warp of 2005-2015 needs to wholly collaborate around, as well as communicate transparently. Professional People always tend to be scared of the next 7 years' biggest challenges- so I have dug out how we wrote up to this challenge to Brand experts in 1999, and my 1991 book World Class Brands still remainders in the Amazon!
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I dug out an editorial I wrote for a triple issue of the journal of marketing management (1999) which I guest edited, it shows I fear how little marketers are able to progress when boxed in as a function rather than helping to -systematically map and transparently communalise the flow
My own conclusion supports that of founder of Transparency Intl, Peter Eigen. We'll never get a better opportunity to wave transparency around the world than with the recognition that it is time to step back and recheck every aspect of globalization. If Nick Stern's call to wholly reinvest 1% of economies to save 20% appies to the market failure of climate; why not to such other connecting market failures as ending systemised poverty, ending ever increasing spends on national taxpayers money in arms, finding a way to make healtcare affordable. Unlike Sir Nick, I believe the good news is these are not really taxes at all; once you invest in them they take you into above zero sum economies that more than return the investment. But none of these tipping point opportunities can be invested successfully without a systematically higher order of transparency -locally to globally - and a restoration of marketing's or markets' core role in planting communications that connect round Entrepreneurial Truth
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When, back in the 1950s, Peter Drucker said that marketing and innovation add value, everything else in an organisation adds costs, his context was that of marketing being integrated into everyone’s job. Forty years deviation from this ideal - at least in many Western companies - raises the question whether today’s marketers are up to the master-integration job. Ironically, if they understood that the emerging power of intranets depends on editing web’s of knowhow to communicate so simply that any function can understand marketing’s Promise, then marketing leaders might surprise themselves at how much of their common sense is needed to really drive value creation- organisation-wide and organisation-deep. By enabling every section of employees to question and answer the brand promise, through learning organisation approaches to branding - eg Brand Chartering (Macrae 1996) - every employee’s understanding of the promise of the brand lifestyle can be developed through all levels of involvement from awareness to passionate commitment.
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Drucker later wrote : "Increasingly what motivates people is a marketing job. What motivates - especially knowledge workers - is less about the paycheck; it is about a shared challenge. Needing to know an organisation’s mission and believing in it. ...The only competitive advantage developed countries can hope for is the productivity of their knowledge workers. Yet this is still abysmally low - unimproved in 100 years - for the simple reason that nobody has worked at improving this productivity. All our work on productivity has been on the productivity of the manual worker. "
Dave Allen (1999), CEO of Enterprise IG, reminds us of the various ways in which 2-way communications could work so that a company learns as much about the wants of people who relate to the company as it knows about what it -the company - wants. "
"Intuitively, we all know that relationships build value when they continuously exchange something that both sides couldn’t get without the other. Whilst we talk about this in concepts like image, identity, experience, value, learning etc, few companies have really stood back and asked how to redesign processes to leverage the main differences between the 20th century’s one way corporate communications processes, and new two way processes. For example, how many customer complaints processes do you as a customer know of which reward you when you fill a gap in the company’s competence to promise?
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Yet, the knowledge-age service company will build even more value if it can design its core activities around both of these exchanges and the interaction between what more can employees give and take from customers.
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When you look at the brand architectures that many 20th century companies have invested in, they are not conducive to taking advantage of all - or even the majority of - the trends of globalisation, digitalisation and networks. Often brand architectures are hangovers from times when the powers of brand operators included cheap media, national audience reach, uncrowded markets, consumers whose national segmentations and geographic distances from each other separated them from knowing what was the world’s best quality and value. The good news for humankind is that such consumer ignorance is disappearing at the speed associated with electronic networks. The bad news is that many over-powerful organisations are reacting defensively. In the short-term, consumers will be propositioned with the worst of both worlds of mass one- way communications and two-way dialogue, before we can all discover what the best of both worlds should be. Just look how few brand web sites today really encourage browsers to talk back to their creators.
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I believe I speak for all the writers in this journal when I say we are acutely conscious that there is a lot of work to be done to get from where we are today to where the brand and the communications industry need to be if branding is actually to earn the right of being a company’s most valuable interactive asset. In reality, this can only happen when CEOs realise that the total system of marketing learning organisation - in its markets, its employees’ passions and in the pride in its focused knowledge systems - calls on all the talents of grown up communications professionals. To make all the promising connections, to integrate so that the whole has integrity in every loyal relationship it seeks, to design places and mental spaces where productivity grows, and to sustain value added by the human drive to learn.
This is editorial I wrote as guest editor of a triple special issue of Journal of Marketing Management on brands with Employee Brand Reality, Jan-April 1999
Chris Macrae, email wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
ps incidentally: this journal's one advantage for me was that I did a mini-lecture tour of it including talks at Harvard and Dartmouth- I was told however this was a subject that flew in the face of what researchers were likely to get funds for. As a practitioner, I never did find out why that was...
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007 update on Transparency of Zero-Cost Global Branding on What missions matter most
March 007 - this is example of the most urgent correspondence I can engage in
Dear Peter ZERO COST FOR BRAND ARCHITECTURE OF SAVE AFRICA FROM MALARIA NETWORKS
Regarding your clinton question - I dont know. I think its worth a phone call trying 2 gambits on them - 1) Clinton's wish does ask for expert help, and your network know grassroots africa if they need help on malaria in Rwanda; 2) while Clinton's big meet is in September his web site says something about a semi-annual meet in April ; it might just be this is the planners non-news get-together
I have no contact with Clinton apart from being on their generic mailing lists. However I am preparing a letter for his office . I am writing a book on the 200 collaboration entrepreneur guides the world should most trust in 2008. And while at least a third of those will be chosen by ordinary people, I am asking the big name networks to choose the others. I want to send this to Clinton and to my dad's friend Mary Robinson http://www.eginitiative.org - my number 1 new york heroine
I guess my strategy with the likes of Clinton's network is to just say I am always here (24 years actually http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html ) exploring: asking the ordinary person's practical connections questions ... I don't know if your malaria strategy can wait the same way mine can. In the 17 years since I wrote world class brands, we have learnt that Timing is everything in staging revolts against global brands
Another angle, we could convene one hour collaboration cafes in New York asking how do passionately concerned citizens actually connect with eg Clinton GI or with ted-global. Do they have a monthly surgery where New Yorkers can be triaged in case they have a collaboration idea? Oddly its the same question in DC - how do passionate people across DC collaborate with the city's number 1 hub for world good leveraging their knowhow not just donating money.
Within 12 months I expect citizens out of London such as Tav and Sofia will have struck back with the idea of a confederation of city to city hubs. On climate 12 months is all citizens have left if they expect to keep the market debate open on how 1% of national economies is reinvested in sustainability. http://passports.jp Surfing tipping points is something I have only ever seen 2 global brand leaders accomplish in 25 years of modelling studies of communications halo effects. They are so nearly always led astray from their founding action learning purpose by their ad agents or their accountants- the 2 professions least capable of facilitating change it is possible to imagine. One because their maths measures history not the future; the other because with tv's 20 second war of attention on your mind they have come to believe that truth is the last job an ad spot needs to care about. I have worked at or with almost all the largest ad agencies in the west - They are scary places if you share the hi-trust entrepreneurial system view that communal truth is where sustainability openly begins and openly ends each cycle along the compound exponentials of lifetime integrity
Hubs are where citizens permanently raise questions about projects that could be done. Imagine the potential project being a tour you could go and look at; why should the future's humanitarian projects be as exciting to tour as historic site. As a network once formed hubs will be more relevant for worldwide circulation of knowhow than any singular social-good organisation or media platform because their aim is to collaborate with all who cares most out of each city. They know how to host open space meetings and link all citizen networks that have ever branched through the city. They do not separately box separate relationship building academics and practitioners, students from workers, one race or place's origin against another in ways that many NGOs and philanthropists do. Hubs love flow like nature, and the way transparency's great Scottish economists defined freedom of speeches and entrepreneurial truth markets to do. http://top10s.tv/_wsn/page3.html
If putting on one or more conversations of that sort made sense, I would be happy to host them in New York some time in the next few weeks. The organisation www.idealist.org also NY based has started a parallel conversation
I am also trying to connect with American Idol's coverage of Africa. If you feel like telling me what content to put on one page dedicated to malaria Africa please tell me - my space is http://africanidol.tv I am also preparing a parallel blog which is without then of African http://africaidol.blogspot.com The story of how Bush trashed Blair on Africa is priceless http://africaidol.blogspot.com/2007/03/march-11-american-africal-ido-new...
Our world citizen mapmaking networks' value, such as it is, is like a stalking horse. Not having any Africa or Charity status of my own, I can just try and ask cheeky questions, and map how answers connect. Of course how to do that most re-constructively with American supersize egos is a guessing game? But as a global branding experienced person, I feel strongly that in the next 5 week's run up to American Idol giving back to Africa, its best I try and explore any way of seeding a media reality revolution I can
cheers
chris
ps lost media transparency - up to 98% of cost of everything
this email exchnage with folk interested in grassroots solutions to some of Africa health's most urgent problems illustrates why there will be no systemic progress in global transparency without transforming media transparency
if you do not see why but want to debate the topic, I am at chris.macrae @yahoo.co.uk
Peter - sounds great. I have applied to go. I love Prahalad's work though I sometimes feel he needs to be bridged between academia and practice entrepreneurs.When Competing for the Future was current in 1994, I proposed to his co-author Gary Hamel that practitioners needed to present brand architectures as a collaboration/partnering frame for leadership to map/see the open-flow connections between organisations in search of deepest service/intrapreneurial passions. Unfortunately Coopers and Lybrand, whose phone I was using to talk to Gary, were not very pleased with the idea. (Nor 4 years later were Andersen when valuetrue multiplier models were shown to them of how worthless they were making their global brand)
As a reformed global branding expert interested in media transparency, I buy CK's "sandbox" idea that many global organisations could simplify their branding they use for rich citizens to offer a basic service to rurals at one fiftieth of the cost (no loss of quality other than meaningless image-laden excess of choices and a society-wide commitment to a trust contract that like Microcredit says neither side will use lawyers in trying our best as service providers and communal customers). I assume its not particularly surprising to us that many of the earliest 50 times better value cases identified by Bottom of Pyramid Alumni turn out to be in health areas
If you need more references to CK's sandbox or BOP ideas than appear at http://worldeconomist.net, please say. In so doing they could find Unseen Wealth's last exit of reforming their globalisation systems wherever these are currently measured tocompound of externalities - profiting from putting the weakest or most ignorant at risk of what theitr industry sector specialises in knowing most about)
(Basically while truth media experts now know that over 50% of the cost of everything in global markets is liable to be wasted on media and channels, the idea that media*law already wastes 98% of everything on life critical markets shows how near the end of sustainability loss of empowerment & truth systems of entrepreneurship have reached)
Tell me if you are coming - perhaps we could host a collaboration cafe immediately afterwards so that anyone in Washington interested in how grassroots colaboration entrepreneurs can end malaria can make a connection
cheers
chris macrae 301 881 1655
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html
http://macrae.tv
previously
The World Resources Institute and the International Finance
Corporation cordially invite you to the presentation of the report:
The Next 4 Billion:
Market Size & Business Strategy at the Base of the Pyramid
Discussions of base of the pyramid (BOP) markets have relied
principally on business case studies and rough estimates of market
size. WRI, with the cooperation of the International Finance
Corporation, has leveraged unique access to national household surveys
for the purpose of understanding low-income communities as sources of
entrepreneurship and as potential markets. Drawing on income data
from 110 countries and standardized expenditure data from 36 countries
across the globe, the report is an important first look at the market
opportunity represented by four billion individuals who make up the
BOP. This briefing on the report and the follow-on discussion of
business strategy and market research will be the first public review
of the report and its data.
Date and time: Monday, March 19, 2007 at 11:00 a.m.
Location: International Finance Corporation Auditorium
2121 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington DC, 20433
Featuring: C.K. Prahalad, Paul and Ruth McCracken
Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy, Stephen M.
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
I would like to end with a question
- if we people networks are to collaborate in maintaining a league table of top 10 bookmarks on systematically ending corruption locally and globally, how many nominations to the top 10 can you make now?
I think of brands as gigantic dynamic jigsaw puzzles
Think about it : what value do communications elements have if they do not truthfully connect communities across time, leading how we develop, make human progress?
Moreover the first pattern rules of a communications network is that is never the sum of its parts, always more or less depending on how energetically it flows
So when you identify all the key elements of a brand (and incidentally even a nation is a brand as far as its identity goes) - way beyond just its logos and ads but what promises its leaders make, what the vision and competences of the company are, what its entrepreneurial system attracts in terms of productive and demanding sources
the big question is where pieces do not connect the whole truth , and why, and what reconciliation is possible?
there can be quite innocent explanations for brand transparency leaks:
2 different creative people excecuted stuff at different times with different briefs
entrepreneurial innovation involves daring to learn from temporary failures and relenlessly keeping at it
2 different expert departments did not understand each other well enough to deliver a custoer service, particularly in an unexpected but still vital area to the customer
the company's past expertise and future ones are chamging as is the environment but the road-map hasn't quite caught up especially as some brands need to inform tens of thousnands of employees and potential a third of the world of customers where change takes place
but then we start to get to less and less transparent reasons:
the cost of the commun ications of the brand is the largest single component of the whole thing -something that has been hapepning to many brands that became over-addicted to tv ads whose cost has gone up expomentially in many countries
promises are being made to 2 different groups of people and the company hasn't worked out a way in which both promises can be kept in every practical circumstance
a promise is being made to a group which is pure image and has no reality whatsoever
a promise is being made to mislead because if people knew the future truth of what are industry is compunding on the world they would stop interacting with us or call for lawyers or demand huge new investments in change which would dent our profitability for a few years
a promise is being made which we know will put some people's lives at risk or prevent them from developing on the other side of the world but which we have outsourced in a way that no liability will come back to us
The interesting thing about a brand is its communications are by definitions visible. The reasons why there are disconnects of course need investigating. Often times you will find that 2 different parts of the organsiation have diferent explanations. However at the end of the day -now we have the internet - if enough of you know how charter a brand , all its communities can help to discover whether its 100% sustainable and transparent; got problems that need fixing; or is a system that is falling apart and needs to be handled in such a way that the most innocent parties suffer the least from the death of teh system and the waves it map link through networks it was connected to
As promised in our entry, we would love to encourage debate where you see the tipping points of Truth's Deadly Sins. Our collaboration foci need to scale and multiply yours if world citizens are to reverse globalisation 7 inconvenient truth's in time including Transparency's Top 3 :
to open up debate, we score the tipping points thus:
*Climate began in 06 with Gore & Stern & Branson
*Poverty began with Nobel recognition of Yunus in 06
*Health & other boundary network risks are not resolved but have an epicentre of energy in google.org's brilliant
*Just as we were writing this media's tipping point opened up at the bridge between American Idol and AfricanIdol
*Learning & Peace are nowhere near tipping points though solution vectors are clear
*Top people's valuation of sustainability investment can be changed by open sourcing this project, but will it be
If your most hi-trust leaders of all time include gandhi or mandela, then I suggest this is because they systemised Gandhi's lifelong maxim - knowledge is that which liberates us-
if you look back through history of empires going wrong you can see that brain washing colonial childrens with unusable education was one of the great mortal sins; my mothers' family line were in the British Raj - so can testify to that
Education is becoming as hot a tipping point debate in 007 as climate in 006 and dumbing-down wars in 005. Here is a mail I am sending out to folk who might want to transparently question this empowerment revolution's future. If it makes sense to you, and is worth relaying please do. contact point chris macrae email info @worldcitizen.tv us tel 301 881 1655
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Along with some social and sustainability entrepreneurs I am within 3 weeks of publishing a small travel guide to everything we most want to question about education. For example, leading advisers to our publication are the Gandhi family at the world's largest school http://www.cmseducation.org/ and their daughters alumni of the school are economists one at Oxford University and who has just completed a 10 year stint at the world bank where she was one of Wolfensohn's top 10 young women to link around
City Montessori has 50 years and 30000 students per year experience. They help us map how empowerment education of the sort that Montessori, Gandhi and my father who deputy edited The Economist for 4 decades wish to see flowing worldwide;
(includes entrepreneurial revolution trilogy and original Death of Distance change www debating materials published in The Economist 1976-1984)
I have a ten year old daughter currently going through the catholic education system in the Bethesda region ; I am appalled at how out of date the content is when it comes to empowerment and cross-cultural integration with the world; my father and I are in our 24th year of a mission to make sure that what content we wash our childrens brains with changes sustainably...
Our travel guide would be happy to carry a no cost ad to your publication -and how concerned parents, youth and people around the world can interact with it - if you know exactly where a permanent bookmark to it will be
Following through a extra-network delegate role I volunteered for www.simpol.org during the UK's Make Poverty History year of 2005 (web collaborators comic relief), our London, Oxbridge, Scottish and Irish networks have been helping us connect transparent maps to many deep African links with future education wishes... education is also a number 1 theme of the Clinton Global Initiative this year so one would hope that your flow matches with theirs.. if Mandela and Gandhi rank amount the most hi-trust leaders to web humanity's most valuable purpose, they do as educational architects of the big picture truths starting with Gandhi's lifelong maxim: knowledge is that which liberates us.
My grandad (maternal) was a repentant judge in the British Raj - complicit in imprisoning Gandhi in the 1920s, editor of the legalese that Mountbatten and Gandhi negotiated for India's Independence. So educational truth matters in whatever I can help explore.
should the spirit of this mail blend with your purpose, please feel free to relay it; clearly any mistakes in curiosity are mine alone, but the questions (action learnings) the world now needs to ask of education are unprecedented and a huge opportunity to cross-culturally unite; and as just one example if climate is reaching a tipping point so is education
if Mandela & Gandhi rank top of hi-trust leaders, reason is they lived Gandhi's truth motto: knowledge is that which liberates us
cheers
chris macrae http://myidol.americanidol.com/blogs/africanidoltv http://africanidol.tv http:/oxbridge.tv
http://worldcitizen.tv http://herstory.tv http://up200.tv
I would be interested in hearing YOUR VIEWS apart from corruption and war themselves, which social and communal crises are the least transparent???
I had assumed water and climate (clean energy, water, food) were very non-transparent issues because of their misinformation, and how often governments have sol out their societoes long-term sustainability to short-term coporateers
However, as a direct response to thsi competition entry I have learnt that malaria is up there as the worst of crimes non-transparency commits- killing off a child every 30 seconds
we are collecting 10 of transparency crises' most shameful videos at http://simonsays.jp - do help search if you can
A basic loss of transparency is caused by what the rich world's media never truly covers -which videos do changemakers and world citizens most need to network until we know of the same human truths, from which we can discuss what most urgently to do
Entrepreneurial Revolution 10 -TOP 10 VIDEOS FOR SUSTAINING HUMANITY- vote in this thread or to info@worldcitizen.tv
This changemakers competition should pull no punches on how corruption kills off the potential for most social entrepreneur franchises to fly everywhere they could do good
If no other space is being used to catalogue the world's biggest published corruptions- please feel free to do so here
example: Global Fund Scandal a Lesson
Editorial | 12 Mar 2007
http://allafrica.com/stories/200703121492.html
New Vision That Uganda has been blacklisted by the Global Fund is a blow to the
country. As a result, $16m in funds are being lost: $14.7m for malaria and $1.1m for
tuberculosis.
The mismanagement of the Global Fund money has been sufficiently exposed by the
Judicial Commission of Inquiry. The Ogoola report was a brilliant but sad document of
humanitarian aid being squandered and diverted for personal gain.
However, terminating the grants after phase 1 of the project is unfair for two reasons.
Firstly, it is punishing the wrong people. Malaria in Uganda is claiming 320 lives per
day,...
Suppose we live in a world where we don't know the truth about 90% of the world's biggest system disasters? What action can we communally take to change faulty systems if we have no open way of browsing through failure lessons.
I first got very worried by this lost transparency issue when a business school professor and engineer showed me a paper in the early 1990s. He had reanalysed over 100 industrial and transport disasters through his lifetime experience. His conclusion over 90% did not come to the whole system truth of what went wrong. There were various reasons, one of which I find the most badwilled of all. Insurance companies and lawyers like to settle behind the scenes on condition that the truth is never revealed - because if it was leaders might be found to be criminally liable or trust in companies or governments might be bankrupted. Not only is the whole truth not debriefed, some lifeless thing is blemaed - a widget that broke, a foam that burnt. Note this lack of disclosure isn't just to the public it is to risk prevention experts and the industry. This means disasters repeat for the same reasons. In effect we never learn from what risks we are compounding, especially where management had presided over conflicts or made too many cost-cuts for truth knowhow to flow 24/7/395
Writ large this professional disgrace explains our age of ever increasing fallibility and any incoveneient truth context including climate. It explains why our chances of saving the world for future generations are plumetting to zero unless we can change the way these professions and the leaders they protect have used ever greater powers to misinform peoples.
Writ small it is humanly sad. I am reminded to post this today, because if you go to google you will find its Yuri Gargarin day. The mysetery of the first man in space's death has never been clarified. Although this particular missing shred of knowledge is long past is usability date, it does make you wonder how can we now interconnect and empower a world for all people if the causes of system faulures are never transparently mapped. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/article2442171.ece
Kremlin vetoes new inquiry on death of a spaceman
The world's first space hero
* Yuri Gagarin was born in Klushino, near the town of Gzhatsk, 150 miles north-east of Smolensk, on 9 March 1934.
* His parents were workers on a collective farm, but they were reportedly well educated. Gagarin began an apprenticeship as a foundry man in a metalworks. He took night classes at technical school, learnt to fly, entering a military pilot school in 1955.
* Gagarin was 5ft 2ins tall, which gave him an advantage in the cramped cockpits of fighter jets.
* On 12 April 1961, Gagarin became a Soviet national hero and global icon after simultaneously becoming the first man in space and the first to orbit earth.
* On 27 March 1968, Gagarin died in a crash while on a routine training flight
Welcome - who can we cooperatively gain from mapping? How can maps be transparency's simplest simultaneous worldwide tool?
INDEX
1 Kiva networks to empower microentrpreneur projects, certified by microcredit networks in 39 countries
2 on to come
ps please feel free to spread the html code anywhere: (the reason why Londoners as a leading collaboration entrepreneur city chose the backdrop of olympics cities is that if world citizen networks do not have open information to map that sustainability is spinning the life enabling way by early 2012, we seek to boycott the olympics and call for the closing of the BBC unless it goes beyond sports and programmes more vital communications).
Truth Valuing Clubs 1 2 3 4 5
The world's largest public broadcaster is the key collaboration gift that the UK can offer to share with sustainability's world; what's your regions?)
KIVA: K1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kenya ,K8-11 Uganda,K12 Tanzania,K13-14 Nigeria,K15 Cameroon, K16 Togo, K17 Ghana, K18 Democ Congo, K19 senegal, K20 mozambique, K21 honduras, K22 nicaragua, K23-24 mexico, K25 ecuador, K26 bolivia, K27 dominican republic, K28 ukraine, K29 afghanistan, K30-31 azerbaijan, K32 cambodia, K33 vietnam, K34 indonesia, K35 moldova, K36 bulgaria, K37 Tajikistan, K38 gaza, K39 samoa
Hello,
My name is Rich Gottbreht from Global Insights and I am one of the entrants in the competition. Our work centers on helping anyone concerned about corruption learn about the subject through my book, our board game and its associated seminars, as well as low cost consulting. To find out more about us please visit our website www.globalinsights.biz. From the home page, you can link to information about us, our products and what people say about our products and services. From the details in the initiative we submitted you should also note that some of the proceeds from our sales will eventually go to a high integrity leadership development foundation. Also, if you are interested, down the road we will be looking for alliances and contacts in every country.
Thanks,
Rich Gottbreht
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