Jean Lievens: Reinventing Organizations: A Radically Inspiring Way to Work Together

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Reinventing Organizations: A Radically Inspiring Way to Work Together

Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux might fundamentally change the way we do things. It tells the story of how companies have evolved along a spectrum of paradigms and ideas to the point where we’re capable of a pretty rad new way of working together.

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Kosmos: Double Enclosure — the shut down of democratic accountability, participation and transparency

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, 11 Society, Access, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Culture, Design, Earth Intelligence, Economics/True Cost

kosmos logo‘Double Enclosure’- the shut down of democratic accountability, participation and transparency

What’s going on is a double-enclosure: a massive privatization and commodification of the physical world – the atmosphere, land, forests, genes, life forms, and more – and a massive privatization and commodification of economic decision making and democracy themselves.

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Harold Meyerson: The Big Skim — How Financial Scams Suck Money from Corporations Instead of Investing in Capability and Jobs

03 Economy, 11 Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government

Harold Meyerson

Shareholders’ big skim

As a result of the shareholder revolution, the money that once went to expansion and new ventures has gone instead into shareholders’ pockets.

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Richard Wolff: Class, Change, & Revolution

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

richard wolff 2Class, Change and Revolution

The winds of change are blowing harder. The crisis since 2007 has renewed criticism of capitalism, but pressure for change has built far longer than that. So it is time to draw some lessons from the major social changes of the past and apply them now. One of the most important lessons concerns class. How activists see and act on today’s class system can make social movements more effective now than in the past – as a brief historical review can show.  . . .  What is possible now is a new class perspective that defines revolution in 2015 as clearly and explicitly targeted to end exploitation in any form.

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