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Small groups focused on impact will reach greater impact when trust is growing into evolutionary friendships, where people care as much for each other's well-being and well-becoming as their own.
The opportunity-based narratives need the passion of those explorers who want to work on the greatest opportunity: liberating the social creativity of labor from the regimes of command-givers and command-takers.
Networks will help us to scale impact when they spawn communities of practice that grow into systems of influence.
Movements are slowly coalescing into issue-oriented ecosystems, waiting for the emergence of a new breed of ecosystem catalysts working for civilizational renewal.
On the Edge of a New Decade
We’re heading into a new decade today. It’s not just a new year, but a new decade.* It’s a turning point, a historic moment, and provides us an opportunity to reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re headed. It’s all in the numbers I believe in the power of numbers. I don’t think it’s an acc...
John, here's a bit to the symbology of the 20, from the Native American tradition: the Sacred Twenty Count.
https://www.wayofthehuman.net/2011/inspiration/earth-medicine/twenty-count/
On the Edge of a New Decade
We’re heading into a new decade today. It’s not just a new year, but a new decade.* It’s a turning point, a historic moment, and provides us an opportunity to reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re headed. It’s all in the numbers I believe in the power of numbers. I don’t think it’s an acc...
Acquired, cultivated capabilities? Yes, and there’s a further distinction that can be made.
In times of a massive, epic transition in the world, leading through breakdown or breakthrough to our next evolutionary plateau, the compound capability to upgrade one's operating system takes on vital importance.
Here are some sample components of that compound capability:
Attention leadership
Ability to manage one’s attention to what one pays attention to, as a high-value personal asset
Building a personal advisory board
Ability to attract and work with trusted mentors in various areas of one’s life
Cognitive load management *
Ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques
Cross-cultural competence *
Ability to operate in different cultural settings
Generative listening and generative conversation
Ability to listen and speak from the highest potential of the other person
Perspective-taking
Ability to perceive a situation or understanding a concept from an alternative point of view, such as that of another individual
Symmathesy
"Ability to position and reposition, calibrate, shift, and respond to responses within contexts of multiple, simultaneous interaction" (Nora Bateson)
(Abilities marked with * are sourced from the Institute of the Future.)
These and similar capabilities are so edgy that they may not yet be found in institutional practice, certainly not in an integrated manner. Nevertheless, their study is essential to increase individual and institutional well-being and well-becoming in a changing world.
The research methodology that can be up for that task is Generative Action Research (GAR) that I wrote about here https://www.academia.edu/33749187/On_the_Verge_of_Collective_Awakening . I'm open to applying it to a "next-stage capabilities" research in collaboration with the Quest for Capabilities at the Center for the Edge.
The Quest for Capabilities
At the Center for the Edge, we’re launching a new research effort and we would welcome suggestions and ideas. Redefining work This research effort is an extension of our most recent research on the untapped opportunity that all institutions have to redefine work and deliver far more value to the...
John, thanks for your courage of writing about and for the narrative, in intellectual climate dominated by the post-modernists "no narrative" narrative.
I just posted a blog dialoguing with yours, here: http://www.schoolofcommoning.com/content/commons-emergent-narrative-our-times .
The Pull of Narrative – In Search of Persistent Context
We live in a world of ever more change and choice, a world where we have far more opportunity than ever to achieve our potential. That kind of world is enormously exciting, and full of options. But it is also highly disorienting, threatening to overwhelm us with sensory and mental overload. In ...
with that post, you became my role model!
Non-Technological Mornings
I used to run to the computer when I awoke. There were emails to read, blog posts to write. I needed to check into my vibrant world and see what was happening. The morning would turn to noon and although I felt connected and educated, I hadn't necessarily got anything done. I was left with an em...
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Bernd, i think what you suggest is a direction in convo processing definitely worth to explore.
It's not clear how I could contribute to it.
What I've been experimenting with is collaborative, time-stamped note-taking that parsing the notes for gems and complete them from the audio segment at the corresponding time stamp, if need be.
Want more meaning from meetings? How to untangle the conversation.
Update 2010-08-09: added second video to show simulated tagging. Edchat on Junto - 2:00, tagged, unfiltered on Vimeo. Monika, Adam and Jim were having an educational conversation when I happened in. Two minutes of getting settled on the Junto Alpha platform. Same clip edited to show ...
> If I find you in both A and B that attracts my attention and I realize we have more in common.
I forgot to tell that I wrote something related to that in 2003, in a blog about "community straddling" http://bit.ly/zBRNM , in which I borrowed and referenced Sebpaquet's concept of the same, which he mentioned in his essay on "Online Communities and the Future of Culture" http://bit.ly/buBjiJ .
In his comment on my blog, Flemming Funch added: "George also pointed out in an e-mail today the leverage found in the ability to speak multiple languages, in terms of collective intelligence. American supremacy made the world learn English. But now there probably are more people who speak two or more languages in Europe than in the U.S. More people who are fluent in straddling multiple cultures. This is all important, I think. Will become increasingly important. People who act as neurons between cells that otherwise wouldn't be connected, because they speak different languages or have different world views or specialize in different areas." http://ming.tv/flemming.html/__cat/_c1832/_p6/
Now, reading CoCreatr's thoughts on connecting circles, and being present to the zillions new tools enabling it, I feel it's time for some serious, participatory action research into this fertile area of boosting our CI at increasing scale. I just wish we can find a Medici for the new Renaissance to sponsor it... :-)
If two social circles connect, how can you tell?
click -> big Messaging via twitter more often than by telephone and e-mail combined these days, I have been following the #Junto hashtag for a while, and more recently #Kaizenblog. #Junto is a discussion platform enabling open collaboration, concept courtesy of @VenessaMiemis. She wrote it u...
hi openworld,
> a person's user profile might quickly (visually) show causes and people they consider part of their "extended self," in civic, personal, and business dimensions
awesome! when we get there that would be a BIG step accelerating the process of our planetary innervation!
> We may do a #junto or Skype session this Saturday around 11 pm Eastern time - if you're free, it would be great to have you and any other kindreds join!
I'd love to but didn't find a "Register" link at http://junto.cc/. What did I overlook?
If two social circles connect, how can you tell?
click -> big Messaging via twitter more often than by telephone and e-mail combined these days, I have been following the #Junto hashtag for a while, and more recently #Kaizenblog. #Junto is a discussion platform enabling open collaboration, concept courtesy of @VenessaMiemis. She wrote it u...
CoCreatr, more such mutual recognitions are happening not only in yours and my universe, but also in the universe of everybody else I know on the edge. Wondering what does it tell about the likelihood of a social singularity within our lifetime? How would it look like? Can it be a milestone pointing to Omega Point http://bit.ly/dkpOxS or, at least, a step towards the global mind awakening to sentience? In either way, fun times ahead; also hugely challenging. That's because higher-order, global-scale CI is not optional, it's an imperative of survival, IMHO.
If two social circles connect, how can you tell?
click -> big Messaging via twitter more often than by telephone and e-mail combined these days, I have been following the #Junto hashtag for a while, and more recently #Kaizenblog. #Junto is a discussion platform enabling open collaboration, concept courtesy of @VenessaMiemis. She wrote it u...
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