Category: Cultural Intelligence

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Michel Bauwens: The Emerging Fourth Sector

Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Communities of Practice, Cultural Intelligence, Culture, Earth Intelligence, Economics/True Cost, P2P / Panarchy
Michel Bauwens

Richly deserving of careful attention.

The Emerging Fourth Sector

The Three Traditional Sectors

Businesses create and distribute goods and services that enhance our quality of life, promote growth, and generate prosperity. They spur innovation, reward entrepreneurial effort, provide a return on investment and constantly improve their performance responding to market feedbacks. They draw on the skills, effort and ingenuity of individual workers, and share with them the economic value created by the enterprise.

Non-profit organizations give us ways to celebrate, build and protect the many human values that give rise to healthy, thriving communities. They have worked to ensure that all people have adequate necessities of life, including clean air, water, food and shelter; an equitable share of wealth and resources; and opportunity to develop their full physical, mental and spiritual potential. They create spaces to celebrate the joy of culture and artistic expression, and reveal opportunities for generosity. They have helped protect the environment, working to ensure that human capacities, technologies and organizations sustain and support, not systemically alter, degrade or destroy, the Earth, its diversity of life or the ecological systems that support life. They remind us that many species share this planet and depend on each other, and that humanity must not only care for itself, but must steward an entire world.

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Jon Lebkowsky: Higgs Boson Culture Hack….first steps

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Knowledge
Jon Lebkowsky

Higgs Culture

Whether it was the Higgs Boson, or just a reference to the actual particle, the CERN discovery is already generating cultural waves and memes.

How to explain Higgs boson discovery | Science | The Guardian

1 day ago … Everyone's talking about the ‘God particle' – but what if someone asks you to explain it. Well, it depends if…
What Can We Do With the Higgs Boson? | Wired Science | Wired.com1 day ago … How can you discuss the Higgs discovery with non-scientists? It is a great start to a discussion about science
The Higgs boson walks in into a church. The priest: We don't allow Higgs bosons in here. Higgs boson: But without me how you can have mass?
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Worth a Look: Top Books on Integrity at Amazon

Cultural Intelligence, Ethics

2009 Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality

For Cloud, an author, clinical psychologist and corporate consultant, integrity is more than just a person's ethics and morals. The French and Latin meanings of the word hint at its origins, “that the whole thing is working well, undivided, integrated, intact and uncorrupted.” Achieving this “wholeness” requires the development of six character traits (creates trust, unafraid of reality, results-oriented, solves “negative realities,” causes growth and finds meaning in life) which Cloud examines in great detail.

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Michel Bauwens: Indignados are (not so) silently gaining strength

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, IO Deeds of Peace
Michel Bauwens

Despite appearances, Indignados are (not so) silently gaining strength

The 15-M movement has gone beyond protest: it has succeeded in altering the collective imagination and the political atmosphere at its very roots. It has generated a process of re-politicization of society. The agenda of actions has expanded and been radicalized: now we do not only occupy the squares, but we are taking back the public spaces in our own neighborhoods. We stop evictions. We crowd-fund our initiatives. We bring legal actions against bankers. We build our own parallel networks of social support. Does this show a weakened movement, running out of strength? Or does it rather show a dynamic movement, working in the underground on a silent revolution?

Far from losing strength, decentralization has allowed 15-M to become ever more dynamic, writes Martha Sanchez:

“Is the 15-M movement going invisible? Or is it rather gaining strength in the ‘underground’? The mainstream media keep claiming that the indignados have lost support since last year, that its only success is its ability to bring people together on special dates. Spanish newspaper El País concluded in May 2012 that, one year after the birth of the movement, popular support and sympathy for the indignados had decreased around 13% among the Spanish population, despite the massive mobilizations that took place from the 12th until the 15th of May, commemorating the anniversary of the movement. ABC opened its edition of May 15 stating that “the indignados movement shows less strength on their anniversary.” But the media misses the point. In reality, rather than losing strength, the movement has become stronger, more organized, better coordinated, and supported by the commitment of hundreds of people.

The decentralization of the movement

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Michel Bauwens: Emergence, Crisis, Replacement

Cultural Intelligence
Michel Bauwens

Emergence, Crisis, and Replacement of the Era of Decentralized Networks

“Technology, and particularly communications technology, generates the conditions of possibility for changes in power structures. Daniel R. Headrick argues in The Tools of Empire that 19th century European imperialism, which at one point controlled three quarters of the surface of the Earth, only became possible when transport and communications technology resulted in the establishment of economic networks […] After all, before a colony could become valuable and annexed to a European economy, a communication and transport network had to be laid.

>Via jean lievens

Moment 1: The Emergence of Decentralized Networks;  Moment 2: The Crisis of Decentralized Networks; Moment 3, the beginning of the transition: Hacker Culture as the successor to the decentralized systems era

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Robert Steele: Landmark Forum Trip Report

07 Health, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence
Robert David STEELE Vivas

UPDATE 28 June: Added Linked-In Exchange at End of Post

Landmark Forum 001

First, I want to thank Bob for making this experience possible.  I am about to go into an intense three-day boot camp but have already gotten my first insight from a meeting last night.

“Accept responsibility for how you are heard, not for what you say.”

Duh.  Not so obvious to me.  I have gone my whole life assuming that I should put what I think on the table and rely on others to triage, ingest, etc.  So this is my first big insight, the undertone is that your body language is part of how you are heard and obvious impatience, which I have already been trying to curb, is a downer.

I will not return as Miss Congeniality, but I am certainly going to return vastly more sensitive to effect rather than intent.

Landmark Forum 002

This is exhausting.  It is also very worthwhile, and the course does NOT impose any restrictions on going to the bathroom or taking an urgent phone call, nor does the course force everyone to expose their innermost concerns.  In a class of about 120, there are ample volunteers for the training points to be made.  At no time did I feel, observe, or hear anyone else observe, that the course was over-bearing.

Day One focused on three big things:

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