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Sunday, February 26, 2006

Beyond the fashion of calling yourself an Entrepeneur

When Donald's Trump's latest apprentice mentioned on tv guide that he was writing a book on Entrepreneurship, I just thought that I'd better do a reacp of 30 years of my father's work on that and nearly 200 years of beliefs that The Economist gravitated due to being founded by one of the most visionary social entrepreneurs Britain has ever celebrated. As it is the 30th birthday of Entrepreneurial Revolution's publication in The Economist, we invite those who do connect with our perspective to join in writing up one page scripts of what they have taken back for society or wish to. We'll publish, link -and circulate across our networks - any we can believe in as advancing widespead value or cross-cultural humanity.
chris macrae , wcbn007@easynet.co.uk, Bethesda , MD & Oxbridge 1 2




My father and I have been working for 30 years on language as the great integration crisis of leadership as well as system theorists. Every professor needs a different term to copyright their fame and alumni class and journal (sub-discipline, sub-professional business case or startegic power)- we need to open up such intellectual chaining all over the world's web

My father's beginning in this was to publish Entrepreneurial Revolution in The Economist in 1976. Odd collaborators included Romano Prodi who hosted an Italian roundtable in venice where all Italy's great leaders of the day sung the chorus of 10 green bottles (administrative barriers Entrepreneurs need to open space through). If you think about it now whether people claim leadership or facilitation gravity to unleash wealth or societal goods, they are usually happy to call themselves either entrepreneur (if business audiences are listening) or social preneur - see eg this fantastic meeting in Oxford next month http://clubofoxford.blogspot.com

To celebrate our 30th birthday of ER, which is actually close on the 200th birthday of the founder of The Economnist (probably the world's first social preneur as his only editorial goals were to repeal corn laws and end capital punishment - both Victorian England's remaining slave chains) , we invite you:
to translate what every your system language is so that it connects with preneurs as a trojan horse for changing global economics
and to choose a place name clubof which we can weblog a debate of how your systemic method helps cross-culturally interrate any type of preneur (ideally 2 million club of global villages are needed!)

Above I have put one slide up which shows 200 years of preneurial language revolutions and since we are also mathematicians, we will need to slay the monopoly of tangible accounting which assigns 0 value to goodwill as a system flow and compounds maximum conflicts by separation every quarter. Knowing that's the fina system barrier is the only way that any system's theory can interface with changing leadership atop the wordl's biggest organsaitions be they corporate of government. As well as 30 years of ER scripts we have 22 years of death of distance scripts since tracking what webs will do has been my whole career and in 1984 I teamed up with my dad and a sci-fi writer to write a book on how 1984-2024 would challenge humanity to its wits end because becoming interconnected in obe generation was always going to be the biggest revolution our species had encountered ; and our species copes with revolutions in ways that spin either very good compound outcomes or in this case ones that will mean no 22nd century. So given this is just a language problem of eladership, why not open source the preneur word unless you can sugest one that can flow through more corridors of power without them knowing what confusion has open spaced

I know swapping the language you believe in most is diffciult. happy to try to help with any 1:1 or many:1 Q&A

chris macrae wcbn007@easynet.co.uk
http://entrepreneurialrevolution.blogspot.com/
http://openspaceraces.blogspot.com/
http://clubofbethesda.blogspot.com/
http://ecosaintjames.blogspot.com/
http://project30000.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Debate between New York (Charlie Rose Space) and Bethesda (HQ of open space, future history, phosynthesis energy scriptwriters and roundatble hosts) and DC, ecosaintjames and London (hubworld for organisational democracy, US alumni of deep democracy and carnivals as a way local communities connect with joys of global innovations)

I have been reflecting on Bush's open space race to end addiction to petroleum economics. This connects with these Charlie Rose Threads http://boards.charlierose.com/board/forum.asp?fi=24 -see page 2, 3 if not on page 1:
-the role of Exxon - this thread
-the threads on Thomas Friedman, eg Green is Next Red, White & Blue
-the threads on Norman Augustine and other nap.edu advisers to the President's Gathering Storm

It seems that everything converges on one missing question which someone needs to brief Charlie on: are you on 6-year race or a 25 year race

We can assume - even from its current advertising campaiogn - that Exxon is on a 25-year race and will do everything it takes to spoil the 5 year race. If I am wrong, and that is not why CEO Raymond is one of Bush's 20 Gathering Storm leaders, please do inform me.

Let's be clear: the 25 year race uses patents and other blocks to collaboration everywhere that money can pay for them; it is entirely possible through photosynthesis energy to turn the corner on America's addiction to petroleum energy within 6 years, but it will take the mother of all collaborations. On my side I am happy to write to the 21 presidents men and women to ask which race-timeliene they are on and to publish replies or lack of them. If you believe there are other people I should include in this open survey, please say who they are. Or mail me at wcbn007@easynet.co.uk if you have any ideas on what we ordinary people can do to cheerlead those who are on a 6 year race.

http://openspaceraces.blogspot.com
This mail ilustrates why a key question every intercity ambassador needs to relentlessly explore is what 2012 timelines will the world miss unless our citizens mobilise the future that is already happening around what we know most or most passionately wish to train for. London has already decalared 2012 to be a carbon-free olympics; for this to happen we must collaborate with anyone else on this smae timeline to end petroleum economics addiction. Is your city in or out of tis open space race?

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

End of March is a busy time for earth networkers in London?oxford & New York. Al Gore is over in the Uk for 2 meeetings : Oxford & London, meanwhile New York's meeting details follow:

The Earth Institute at Columbia University is convening the fourth biennial State of the Planet Conference to discuss the feasibility of sustainable development for billions of people worldwide. The dates of the conference are March 28-29, 2006.

Internationally renowned scholars and opinion leaders will lead discussions, present ideas, and outline research throughout this two day forum, which seeks to explore the fundamental requirements of science, economy, governance and human behavior needed to achieve sustainable development.

State of the Planet 2006 will be held at Roone Arledge Auditorium, Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University. The auditorium is located at 2920 Broadway (between 114th & 115th Streets), New York, NY.

For more information and to register, visit http://www.stateoftheplanet.org

The list of speakers is below.

Lastly, registration for this conference is FREE.

I hope to see you there!

Steve
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Steven G. Brant, Business Futurist
Founder and Principal
Trimtab Management Systems
sbrant@trimtab.com
http://www.trimtab.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-g-brant/

"Human history becomes more and more
a race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells
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Opening Address

Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University; Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan

Speakers

Carol Bellamy, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Learning; Former Executive Director, UNICEF

Abby Joseph Cohen, Partner and Chief U.S. Investment Strategist, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Joel E. Cohen, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations, Rockefeller University; Professor of Populations, Columbia University; Head of the Laboratory of Populations, The Earth Institute at Columbia University and Rockefeller University

John Coomber, Retired Chief Executive Officer, Swiss Re Group

Sir Partha Dasgupta, Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge;
Fellow of St. John's College

Amy Davidsen, Director of Environmental Affairs, JPMorgan Chase

Andrew Dobson, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Stuart L. Hart, Samuel C. Johnson Chair in Sustainable Global Enterprise, Professor of Management, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

Denis Hayes, President, The Bullitt Foundation;
National Organizer of the first Earth Day

Georg Kell, Executive Head, United Nations Global Compact

Steven E. Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP p.l.c.

Nicholas D. Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times

Mark Malloch Brown, Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary-General, United Nations

Parker Mitchell, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Engineers Without Borders

Rajendra K. Pachauri, Director-General, The Energy and Resources Institute; Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Tim Palmer, Head of the Probability Forecast Division, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast

David J. Refkin, Director of Sustainable Development, Time Inc.

Frank Rijsberman, Director General, International Water Management Institute

Johan Rockström, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute

Joseph Romm, Executive Director, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions

Eric V. Schaeffer, Director, Environmental Integrity Project

Ismail Serageldin, Director, Library of Alexandria in Egypt

Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University

Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations

Dato Lee Yee-Cheong, President, World Federation of Engineering Organisations 2003-05; Co-Coordinator, UN Millennium Project "Science, Technology and Innovation" Task Force; Senior Fellow, Academy of Sciences Malaysia

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Today, we welcomed the birth of Club of Greenwich with this opening post

As a death of distance researcher 1 2 over the last 22 years, I have come to believe that collaboration knowledge cities -or at least networks of citizens - learn most about sustaining value multiplication -and other searches for economics of abundnace - from VILLAGES, as well as how these villages connect across the cities vibrancy of cultures and so to love harmony among peoples all over the world.

In fact the chief economist of future historian alumni -who happens to be dad to me -wrote back in 1984 that if the human race is to survive newtorking as the greatest challenge to ver face one genberation of people (1984 to 2024) then we would need to change economics until transparent world trades zinged across 2 million global villages (some geographically twinning rich and poor cultures as a way of bridging digital divides), some connecting professions because the powerfully separatist profession compounds more risk in a knowledge worker world than anything else transparency mapmakers 1 2 can imaginePerhaps there is an even greater game to play where 2 villages also share the same name - were they founded for overlapping reasons? this is a quiz that every schoolchild can search and play as well as every powerful citizen and everyone else in between

Now when it comes to London's Greenwich - we have the great start of being the epicentre of maps (of 0 degree separation). Maps will prove to be even more valuable to 21st C humanity (if such a species is to thrive) because no knowledge networks survive without them; today's greatest investmnent in cpaital is every human being's likfetime and not to have access to transparent maps and searching is the greatest discrimination we could systemis against any peoples, the 21st C apartheid if you willWhen it comnes to Greenwich in New York, another magic happens ; we've taken extracts from 2 Greenwich Village websites since its clear from their passion that they can descrobe their future histories better than any words my friends and I can conjure up from my desks in London and Bethesda and ... and ...

guided excerpt 1 from Village AllianceWelcome to the Village Alliance Web site! We are a not-for-profit Business Improvement District located in the heart of Greenwich Village one block north of Washington Square Park on 8th Street & extending eastward to Second Avenue & St Marks Place. Over the years, the 12 blocks included in the Village Alliance have been home to some of America's most creative minds and artists.Welcome to our Historic Neighborhood! The location where Jimi Hendrix built the Electric Lady sound studios; Where Barbra Streisand debuted at the Bon Soir and where Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the Whitney Museum and Andy Warhol and Lou Reed created the citadel of Hippiedom at the Electric Circus on St Marks Place.Welcome to our world renowned community where a clean, safe & friendly environment awaits your visit to a variety of shops, quaint alleyways and a culture of diversity.And welcome to 8th Street, the Shoe Capital of The World!

Guided excerpt 2 from NYCGV
For over 100 years, this small area below 14th Street and west of Broadway has been a Mecca to the creative, rebellious and Bohemian. Although today no starving artists could afford to live here, the vibe still lingers and the beat goes on

Saturday, February 11, 2006

How do cities choose their Twins?

This Charlie Rose debate with Lazard's Wasserstein suggests laterally that Lazards might vote that New York and New Orleans twinned in collaboration.

Could be the smartest fashion theie magazine side of New York could futurise now that anyone linked by 22 years of studying death of distance dialogue scripts 1 2 know the world is flat and its time for the most collaborative space races in the history of humanity and nations

lazards was founded in New Orleans though today its world centre is New York

both places were once great ports ( one continues to be a world trade centre , the other needs some help in renewing this though as the most loved crosscultural crossroads of its size, perhaps york needs to learn as much about the carnival and jazz spirit from Orleans as vice versa)

Both have suffered tragedies in century21 which left theit citziens totaly unprotected whether it was due too much tod down FEMA (for nature's globalisation dynamics to bear) or whomever the senate debates decide this time round

Sunday, February 05, 2006

According to the last 30 years of alumni circles of Entrepreneurial Revolution and Death of Distance Open Source networking: one of the greatest preneurial challenges people everywhere face involves taking back enough hi-trust public briadcasting media to collaborate with web/net media. Both need each other's greatest ethicas, and one offers deep interactive contextual lines of inquiry while the other provides an urgency of scale so that people's debate jam together in one virtual community, so that connections can be searched and progress made from concept to pilot project to replication by open source and through zero degress of separation information that is life critical to te wother side of the world.

We at open schools & media-trust villages such as FoL & Bethesda are therefore accutely interested in New York's fair and any other similar movements you can log up for us. Here's an extract of Fair.org's gravitational pull

What's Wrong With the News?

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Independent, aggressive and critical media are essential to an informed democracy. But mainstream media are increasingly cozy with the economic and political powers they should be watchdogging. Mergers in the news industry have accelerated, further limiting the spectrum of viewpoints that have access to mass media. With U.S. media outlets overwhelmingly owned by for-profit conglomerates and supported by corporate advertisers, independent journalism is compromised.

Ultimately, FAIR believes that structural reform is needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting, and promote strong, non-profit alternative sources of information.

Check out these links for more of FAIR's analysis of the media business:

Corporate Ownership
Advertiser Influence
Official Agendas
Telecommunications Policy
The PR Industry
Pressure Groups
The Narrow Range of Debate
Censorship
Sensationalism

Incidentally, over at St Paul, public media's marketwatch is surveying what are the big stories of whether future sustainability will be won or lost? Someone might drop by and gently explian that media is one of the sectors that will make or breat sustainability of the globe which all the world's people share as well as commune round.

Worldwide, club of city supports collaboration and networkers: to pose serious questions, notably on future curves that seem to be trending down in many places and communities. How do all peoples and media 1 2 3 turnround such examples as:
  • Healthcare – ever increasing costs
  • Children – increased family strain, lost safety of community
  • Professionals- loss of Hippocratic oath, ever more bureaucratic
  • Water – Clean water is getting scarcer
  • Transport – getting slower
  • National Government – Increasingly powering over instead of facilitating what people need next Mass media – dumbing down, loss of social space and transparent debates
  • Food chain – cost of good for you food going up
  • Nations Cultures- love of each other’s diversity going down
  • Pensions (investment in sustainable growth) – going down
  • Adult confidence in making a difference with lifelong learning potentials – seems to be going down
  • Insurance – cost going up, learnings across biggest tragedies seem increasingly blocked
  • Underclass – compounding underclass- their loss of hope in life and mutual risks to all of us in a hi-connected world
  • NGOs/Charity – Global*Local infrastructure further removed from depth of grassroots needs in crisis or sustainability turnround challenges
    We are interested in any city network that either recognises any of these as a problem which it wants to question or has some answers they are happy to share with the world
    Chris Macrae, wcbn007@easynet.co.uk, London & DC, 30 years at origin of Entrepreneurial Revolution, 21 years @ Death of Distance transparency networking, valuetrue mapmaking 1