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MarCom as a Bridging Agent to Healthy Companies and Society?

* Collaborative Design, * Organizational Learning, * Social Innovation, Favorites 0

WHAT IS MARCOM AND HOW IS IT CHANGING? OLD DEFINITION: (wikipedia) Marcom is targeted interaction with customers and prospects using one or more media, such as direct mail, newspapers and magazines, television, radio, billboards, telemarketing, and the Internet. A marketing communications campaign may use a single approach, but more frequently combines several. NEW DEFINITION: (vic’s) […]

Building a Sustainable Enterprise: Considerations for Effective Application

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Sustainable Innovation Through Whole System Design My experience has taught me that the design and application of sustainability requires a ‘whole-systems’ approach. It requires ability for team members to work while recognizing multi-system interdependency’s called a ‘Design Ecology’. For example, although energy is a critical touch-point for effective implementation of sustainability, the impact on other […]

Occupy Movement’s Underlying Purpose

* Collaborative Design, * Cultural Mythology, * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning, * Social Innovation 0

Occupy’s presence is felt to this day. Seeds that were planted years ago have been germinating, and now breaking ground. The reason no one could get their arms around the Occupy movement is because it was of principle, not of policy, and not yet a way of practice. Principle is highly intentional and not always […]

Changing Normal – An Interview With Vic On How To Create A Global Mythology

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Collaboration By Design: The Missing Link

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Have you ever noticed how video ratings get very close but rarely hit “5” as an average? Well, these 3 videos hit that big ‘5’ rating, with the first two presently around a million views, and the third ‘hugs’ video having over 57 million. Why do these videos have such huge ratings and viewings? I […]

Defining a Regenerative Commerce System

* Sustainable Development commerce, principles, regen, regenerative 0

Regenerative Commerce is a system based on a broader understanding of what it means to develop technology and business. I propose that, using these principles, a region’s economic system can revitalize itself and perform beyond today’s assumptions and expectations. The following represent shifts in awareness of the models we use to create and innovate within […]

Fractal Scaling Social Innovation – Alignment with Fractal Brain Studies

* Collaborative Design, * Cultural Mythology, * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning, * Social Innovation, * Sustainable Development, Favorites 0

The Fractal Nature of Nature There has been talk within my Facebook ‘Social Innovation’ (SI) groups to figure out a way to scale it for growth. I proposed that we can not apply the same methods to social innovation as we have for all our other forms of innovation, as that would backlash and bring […]

The Dirty Little Secret About Sustainability

* Collaborative Design, * Cultural Mythology, * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning, * Social Innovation, * Sustainable Development, * Workshops & Trainings, Favorites 0

With all the growing commitment to green, is sustainability actually happening? As an advocate for sustainability for many years, I sincerely want to know what you think. My goal here is to rattle things up a bit. To shake and stir us sustainability advocates into sharing what I believe is a silent voice regarding its future. On […]

The Notion of Right and Wrong … is Wrong

* Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology beliefs, misguided, right, truth, wrong 0

The primary principle of innovation is this. It is being able to consider and change our ‘notions’; our so-called facts of our experiences; our factual claims; into something new that goes beyond our own individual reality. The statement of this work is at the foundation of collaboration and discovery. He speaks of science and the […]

The Empathic Civilization

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Is it possible for us to manifest a better world? One filled with more peace, well being, and harmony? Yes, I believe we can. We just have to remind each other – often. Watch this amazing video below. The Empathic Civilisation, by Jeremy Rifkin Share this … Buffer Linkedin Twitter Facebook Google Pinterest Diggit Tumblr […]

Lossy vs Efficient Organizations – How to Design a Sustainable Supply Chain Management System

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My recent insight on Sustainable Supply Chain Management System design … Lossy vs efficient organizations – how to design a ‘sustainable’ supply chain management (scm) system sustainability in supply chain management is optimized by measuring the lossiness cause by reflective coefficients at the sources and sinks of each learning node (suppler/vendor) in the chain. This refers […]

Alice’s Mirror and the Great White Elephant

* Collaborative Design, * Cultural Mythology 0

A story of conflict and healing in human interaction & collaboration With compassion in his voice, he said (something like) you can be too sensitive. The energy with it was almost as if the conflict was not that big of a deal, and more in your mind; as if it wasn’t real enough. Since […]

Revolution or Evolution?

* Cultural Mythology, * Social Innovation 0

I used to watch videos like this. Watching youth getting jazzed would give me a chill (a real thing) that would go all the way up my spine. But now, I only get a small shiver that is felt in only a small section of my spine. Is my physical response sending me a message? When […]

For Those Who Stand in the Arena of Change

* Collaborative Design, * Cultural Mythology, * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning, * Social Innovation, * Sustainable Development 0

May 2014 be the year when the men and women of ‘the arena’ (see below) come together to share our triumphs and struggles, and to celebrate the making of a world that works for all. I wish a to extend to each of you who stand in this very special place, a joyful and transformative New Year. […]

Ethics To Innovation Workshops

* Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Workshops & Trainings 0

Preparing Your Enterprise for an Emerging Global Ethic Email Vic To Learn More About Onsite and Online Workshops at Your Company From Ethics To Innovation I have been been training businesses and educational institutions using a unique approach to ethics management. Our ‘Right vs Right’ workshop has been taught at UC Santa Cruz’s Leadership and […]

Is There an Ecological Unconscious?

* Leadership Ecology, * Sustainable Development 0

I find that this subject is one of the more revealing issues of our time. A place that requires us to reshape our understanding and meaning of ‘environment’. Read this great article on the link between our human psyche and the Earth. +++ By DANIEL B. SMITH Published: January 27, 2010 The terms in which […]

The Paradox in ‘Sustainable’ Innovations

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The Paradox in ‘Sustainable’ Innovations I want you to click on the picture of the ‘invention machine’ at the left and watch the video. As your watching the video, make a list of the things that (in your mind) make up ‘sustainable’ innovation, based on how they describe it to be. Then, look at your […]

Our Truths Are Based On Internal Beliefs That Are Too Often Wrong

* Leadership Ecology beliefs, leadership, truth 0

Here’ an important message to our leaders and decision makers: Assume that your truths and beliefs are an Illusion. . Consider how our brain works … Watch what happens to your belief system as you stare at this image. 1-Follow the moving pink dot: What do you see? 2-Look at the middle black cross. Now […]

Social Innovation in Action: Vic Applies for the Bucky Fuller Design Challenge Award

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BuckyFuller Design Science Challenge: How to shift innovation’s intent from creating intellectual widgets to forming intelligent societies. I want to share that last week I applied for the Bucky Fuller Challenge Award. Hoping you will wish the inGENuity team and me lots of luck. Learn more at links to the story below. Vic 🙂 . . . . […]

Days of the “Sage on Stage” are Over

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Experiment: A test was given to physics students all over the world. Results showed that students only comprehend 14% more its basic concepts over a quarter. Outcome: Listening someone to talk is not an effective way for humans to learn. However, if small group discussions are used to learn the same material, it was found […]

Ecological Design Principles

* Collaborative Design, * Sustainable Development balance, boundaries, Capra, cycle, design, dynamic, ecological, ecology, holistic, model, principles, systems 0

Principles of EcologyFrom the Center for Ecoliteracy (By Fritjof Capra) 1-Networks*Interdependence, Diversity, and Complexity* The members of an ecosystem are interconnected in a vast network of relationships in which all life processes are interdependent and achieve stability through a diversity of linkages. 2-Boundaries*Scale and Limits* At all scales of nature, we find living systems nesting […]

Going Beyond the Idea of ‘Conscious Capitalism’

* Collaborative Design, * Cultural Mythology, * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning, * Social Innovation, * Sustainable Development 0

The following are my comments to an associate who went to the ‘Conscious Capitalism’ conference. I anticipated when I reviewed Gil’s notes from the ‘Conscious Capitalism’ Conference, that I would be brought into a state of aggravation. Expecting that the language would point to the same old talk about doing good business, while actually covering […]

Here’s Where the Idea of ‘Collaboration’ is Going

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Collaboration is redefining what it means to be busy. It is becoming the vehicle for formulating new forms of innovation – sustainable innovation. More and more, you will find it in your work place to get things done more efficiently, and for establishing a new c0llective world-wide governing system – something even beyond the idea […]

Vision Quest: Faith seeps through the gaps of our despair.

* Cultural Mythology, * Social Innovation 0

The corporate oligarchy is now fully in charge. Things will be getting worse for 2/3rds of us, while 1/3 will flourish. Which are you? Chris Hedges is my new champion. He speaks of the dark state that we are in as a humanity. Naming specifics of our dying plant’s woes, being held in the grasp […]

Sustainability is Only for the Rich

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I’ve never been able to grock how the well-known triple bottom line phrase ‘people planet profit’ has anything to do with sustainability. Please tell me how ‘profit’eering has anything to do with creating healthier societies and a balanced earth ecology? My interpretation of people, planet, profit goes like this: Elitist PEOPLE who PROFIT from others get […]

World War 3 – In the Name of Social Good – For Who?

* Cultural Mythology, * Social Innovation 0

With the Ukraine literally ‘up in arms’, is World War 3 on its way? As with most all wars, this one’s about power mongering. Nothing different. They’re all the same. It has little to do with keeping freedom. In fact, war itself demonstrates we have never had it. I feel helpless to its ways. Wars […]

Authentic Leadership Coaching

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A Unique Coaching Experience, For Business & Personal Leadership Development Authentic Leadership Coaching Is For … Coaches, Executives, Managers, & Those in Life Transition The professional coaching process is not what it once was. It’s purpose and intent is changing. Your own leadership abilities will improve and become more meaningful to you -and others- once […]

Innovation is a misrepresented characterization of humanity's creative process.

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Innovation is a misrepresented characterization of humanity’s creative process. It is too often used to describe the entire process of manifestation. Actually, INNOVATION is sandwiched between INSPIRATION and INVENTION. This more (w)holistically describes a full creative cycle. More . . . Share this … Buffer Linkedin Twitter Facebook Google Pinterest Diggit Tumblr Reddit Email

If I Wanted America To Fail: Positioning Humanity’s Future

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Notice! : I recently received negative feedback on this article. People are particially reading it, then watching the video, and assuming that I am advocating for right wing politics, which is not at all the point of my article. So, as you read, watch for the fears as they arise in your mind. Read with a discerning […]

Plutonium is Flowing into Our Oceans and Skies

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Dead sea creatures cover 98 percent of ocean floor off California coast as result of Fukushima nuclear fallout (click for article) Do you know this?! Do you know what plutonium is? Do you know that it’s leaking into the Pacific? Do you what this means? And here we are – watching CNN journalists argue about […]

Moving from Thinking to Action – The Fears and Myths that Bind Us (part 1)

* Cultural Mythology, * Organizational Learning

Transformation or Collapse? Many of us sense that humanity is a a place of act now or die – no exaggeration. Yet, not much change seems to be happening, especially in human behavior. There seems to be incredible unconscious fears about acting on ideas, and even more about the future that is ours … Just […]