The Great RemixWorking toward a just and sustainable balance

among people and the planet.Prepared for MaRS in partnership with CSI.

Version 2 - 080501

With systemic collapse increasing common, the

sense of immediacy grows stronger. Major shifts in operating context can occur at any moment.

A brief history...

The system has is flat-lining and those who are holding on are “the flat-liners”.

Industrial Revolution

1860-1960

Earth Born4.54 billion years ago

Homo Sapiens130,000 years ago

Agricultural Revolution

4,000 years ago

Information Revolution

1960-2000

Modern Civilization

6.6 Billion people

Political

Cultural

Economic

Knowledge Media

Regulation

Icons

Government

Trade

Good & Services

Technology

Care

Humans have been undergoing

extensive evolution based on conquest... bringing civilization to a global scale.

Death

Displacement

MarginalizationExclusion

Extinction

Extraction

Contamination

Burning Platform

Flat-line

entrenched interests

perceived barriers

siloed operations

“Growth is Great!”

music, air, auto industries

“sub-prime”

Darfur

This biggering is buggering us...

What’s our

Future?

Cool culture of

change

The cool choice

“Look at me!”

“I’d never... !”

Oprah’s Big Give

Muhammad Yunus

“SUV’s Suck!”

An Inconvenient

Truth

Hurricane Katrina

passion

purpose

competencies

connections

insight

Cool culture of

change

It’s all connected!

The Quickening

Flat-line

Burning Platform

Compelled to action

ACTION

shifting systems

caring for people + planet

helping them do it

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curiosityINQUIRY

involve

observe

react

interpret

decide

influence

ACTION!!!

Elements of Action

What IS. What WILL BE.

empathyANIMATION

observe react interpret decide influence involve

From the smallest thought to changing everything.> > > >> >>>

Entrepreneurial Dynamics

Generatively scrappy

Tie up the camel

Engage wisdom

Value reflection

Intentional receptivity

Connect with purpose

Passion

Purpose

Competencies

Connections

Insight

Transformation is catalyzed by passion emerging from instability or frustration from reaching the limits of the organization’s effectiveness. It requires a reconnection with purpose and a deep insight to be most effectively accomplished.

Modes of Action

Ideation is initiated by passion, and grounded in an underlying purpose. From purpose insight can be developed by engaging diverse wisdom in understanding.

IdeationTrans-

formationOperation

Building

Building is most dynamic when grounded in a clear purpose and most efficient when the idea is translated into a viable model around/into which resources are connected/drawn.

Operating is characterized by specialized competencies seeking optimization and incremental improvement. The organization is drawn to focus on sustaining

itself (growing) over and above the purpose it was created for. Passion diminishes.

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ARTIFACTS

SERVICES

EXPERIENCES

Legal

Telecom

Faciltation

Consulting

Web services

Accounting - bookkeeping

Credit cards

Friends and Family

Grants

Bank Loans

VC investment

Government contributions

Events

Courses

Conferences

Meet-ups

Workgroups

Conversations

Books

Magazines

Blogs

Movies

Podcasts

Media

Websites

Person

Person

Person

Person

Person

Person

Person

PersonPerson

Person

Person

Person

Person

Person

Person

Person

Chaos

Um...help?

PlatformFor purpose-driven people taking action.

Of and for the frontiers

• Amp-up action• Bolster basics• Push purpose• Kick-up context

Self-emergent

Dynamic organization in individual context

Broken down to essential elements

organize custom spaces

(secretariat?)

dynamically connect

resources(online hub)

• Insight• Competency• Connection

• Inquiry• Action• Shared purpose• Shared experience

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The qualities of open, fluid, and dynamic

Acting with a light spirit, sense of fun, creativity, and a perspective of opportunity

Spaces for people, as they are, as they want to become

Embracing the richness and wisdom in differences

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LEVA

LUES