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book on who changes world more : 100 richest or hi-trusted
Posted to: <Ned> Front Porch by chris macrae (22), Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:37:02 PDT
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I am just sending proposals out to prospective publishers -any ideas on whom might bite welcome:
its seems like time to bite now that Dr Yunus http://grameen.tv is asking cities whether they know how to map the 1000 people who most want to collaborate around him (if so he'll find some hours) , and encouraging other world changing social entrepreneurs to ask a similar question
here's a bit of the proposal logic
This book asks readers to help fill a gap in worldwide knowledge. There are plenty of global and national surveys on the world’s richest people. And every sport and fashion has its own league tables which elevate their stars into worldwide consciousness. However, there are few or no surveys on the world’s most trusted people defined in terms of how deeply and broadly they inspire other people to act in ways that are best for the world and human sustainability.
Whither Above Zero-Sum and Sustainability Economics The worldwide attention disorder to mapping hi-trust human beings is peculiar. It is their goodwill networks which exponentially compound the most communal value over time, bridge cultures and empower sustainability of each community rising. Our goal is to make this discovery –and innovation truth curiosity - clear as you journey through the book. The logic mapped is the same as the entrepreneurial system foundation on which my father and my 1984 book on how globalisation can economically sustain better worlds for everyone was founded. http://www.normanmacrae.com/netf uture.html In other words our mapping of collaboration entrepreneurs has 24 years of searching practices linked around it as well as abundant case studies on how truly value multiplying trust-flow systems are.
Naturally, there are more nuances to map than just who are the 100 most trusted. First, collaborative people support each other, so we will see many connections between the heroines and heroes in this guide. Moreover, people on a truly collaborative mission to improve the human lot are delighted if someone comes along and offers to open source with them an even simpler communal innovation. So this book is not just about identifying individuals. Our whole truth aim is to search to catalogue and understand the rivers of trust-flow world – the arenas of human endeavour that can sustain humanity if we cross-culturally attended to vital challenges of life as much as we do to sports or pop idols
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By chris macrae (22), Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:57:50 PDT
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If anyone sees has suggsetions on more practical tips from these 2 greatest super-franchisers of solutional solutions of our age -please do "gift" them to or editors
BRAC learnt this from birth. It had developed the cheapest product ever (oral rehydration) to save infants’ lives –up to 10% of infants had been dying of dehydration. But then BRAC found that the government were not interested in distributing it to be always within arms reach of every village mother at the exact time infants needed its applcation. So BRAC had to develop a village nurse network embedded into each community.In effect, BRAC’s DNA became providing the public service needs that were too desperate for bureaucratic government to serve in the field. Fortunately Fazle Abed was the right person to lead this. Before coming back to Bangladesh after the nation’s Independence, his youthful career curve had been focused on operations for Shell petroleum company.
At origin, Yunus and Fazle were unleashing very different productivities. Yunus by beginning microcredit with people whose businesses were paying money sharks weekly interest returns that the non-poor paid annually was in effect working with the most productive people to be found. Fazle was training up large groups of peers in very specific vocational duties which every village needed.
The idea of embedding the service professional in the village 24/7 community is critical. Fazle says that all his experience shows that a professional that works from outside a poor community never works. Bit by bit they start governing over the community instead of serving from inside. He preferred to train his own cadre of job-hungry village nurses from scratch than to start with some who already saw themselves as professionals.
With the dozens of public services BRAC now offers in infant health and primary schooling, it has had to develop a clear franchise model for each one so that people can implement them out of every village. The number of solutions that BRAC has sustained make Fazle Abed probably the greatest franchise modeller in the hi-trust 100, or anywhere. BRAC has become legendary for benchmarking the service best practices of the world’s biggest service businesses (eg McDonalds) to see what can be learnt.
These days BRAC isn’t public-service only – for example it has a microcredit franchise and like Grameen it is very astute at partnering for the long run. BRAC is Bangladesh’s and the world’s largest service organisation model that is neither corporate nor government. Unlike Grameen that shares its model worldwide but only operates in Bangladesh, BRAC has announced that funders have asked that it extend its operations to Afghanistan, Pakistan and 5 of Africa’s countries with significant muslim populations.
Grameen and BRAC are amazing testimonies to what one founder can do when he designs optimal service franchises and openly seeks to scale them to every locality with urgently matching needs. Scaling up is one of empowerment world’s most urgent challenges. Unless we learn the maximum from and with Yunus and Fazle Abed, millennium rights look to be way behind their scheduled 2015 promise. This involves a mother of all media challenges, and a test of how participative world citizen networks truly wish to be. It will require professions and others who systemise globally down to revisit their whole system structures to see where the could empower communities but have so far been accidentally blocking them. This parallels a 100 year old learning from Gandhi’s Whole Truth curricula of Satyagraha, look first at whether education, media and professions could be more empoweringly systemised. Expect that 10 times higher order efficiency can be sustained from whole truth than systems with hidden conflicts, vested interests, disrupted flows. Not only is this at stake in the debate between a future which is globally big brothered or empowering every community rising- with network boundary flows matter. We are today mapping system * system * = system**N and need collaborations all across these networks not closed system optimised only to be separately run.