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Posted on July 23, 2010 - by Vic Desotelle

Is There an Ecological Unconscious?

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation Uncategorized

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 [...]

Posted on August 26, 2010 - by Vic Desotelle

Solar Roadways: Now This Is Sustainable Innovation !

Sustainable Innovation

Check this out. These guys are truly onto next generation innovation. Can you imagine intelligent, power-generating, roadways? The technology is all there to make it happen. Hmmmmm .. I wonder what the mass production equation looks like.

Posted on June 30, 2010 - by Vic Desotelle

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

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution

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 [...]

Posted on June 9, 2010 - by Vic Desotelle

Unsustainable Everything

Articles By Vic Learning Communities Sustainable Innovation Uncategorized

I love it when somebody is able to synthesize the incoming data into a meaningful message. Watch this video and understand how the world economy works … I mean is ‘not’ working. Sustainability should go to another level of understanding for you after you watch this 4 minute clip.

The Notion of Right and Wrong … is Wrong
by Vic Desotelle on June 7, 2010
The Future of Innovation and Technology has Already been Figured Out by Nature One Million Years Ago
by Vic Desotelle on June 7, 2010
A Practical Theory On Leadership – ‘The Shirtless Dancing Guy’
by Vic Desotelle on May 28, 2010
The Empathic Civilization
by Vic Desotelle on May 25, 2010
Vic’s Supplements Plan For Wellness … and Sustainability
by Vic Desotelle on May 9, 2010
Sustainable Economics – We’re in Trouble
by Vic Desotelle on May 6, 2010
Videos To Fuel Discovery, Collaboration, & Change
by Vic Desotelle on April 24, 2010
Role of Emotional Intelligence in ‘ALL’ of Our Lives
by Vic Desotelle on April 21, 2010
EWG Action Fund’s Healthy Home Checklist
by Vic Desotelle on April 20, 2010
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Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation Uncategorized

Is There an Ecological Unconscious?

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 [...]

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution

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

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 [...]

Articles By Vic Learning Communities Sustainable Innovation Uncategorized

Unsustainable Everything

I love it when somebody is able to synthesize the incoming data into a meaningful message. Watch this video and understand how the world economy works … I mean is ‘not’ working. Sustainability should go to another level of understanding for you after you watch this 4 minute clip.

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Uncategorized

The Notion of Right and Wrong … is Wrong

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 [...]

Articles By Vic Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation Uncategorized

The Future of Innovation and Technology has Already been Figured Out by Nature One Million Years Ago

I’ll say it again: The future of innovation and technology has already been figured out by nature one million years ago. Watch this TED video …

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities Learning Evolution

A Practical Theory On Leadership – ‘The Shirtless Dancing Guy’

I got this video off of Charles Lemos’ site and was referred to it by Ben Roberts’ Facebook conversation. Derek Sivers gave this presentation at the TED Conference this week and got a standing ovation. It’s pretty brilliant in its takeaway. The video below is a healthy perspective on the collective’s role in leadership, especially [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

The Empathic Civilization

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

Articles By Vic Learning Communities Sustainable Innovation

Vic’s Supplements Plan For Wellness … and Sustainability

Our wellness influences what we create as human beings and how it either supports or depletes the world’s complex ecology of life – a planetary well being, so to speak. Our individuality is made up of a physical body, mind(fulness) and thoughts, emotions and attitude, and spiritual connection with something greater than us. The interactions [...]

Articles By Vic Learning Communities

Sustainable Economics – We’re in Trouble

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, watch this moving picture video as it unveils the U.S. economic decline from the perspective of the unemployed. It doesn’t slow down a bit since 2007. What is this telling us? Who is responsible for this decline? How are you and I being held accountable [...]

Articles By Vic Learning Communities

Videos To Fuel Discovery, Collaboration, & Change

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology

Authentic Leadership Coaching For Coaches, Executives, and Managers

Welcome to UnCoachMe.com Online Coaching and Leadership Development Services Authentic Leadership Coaching Coaching For Coaches, Executives, and Managers Professional coaching is not what it once was; it’s purpose and intent has changed. As a coach for others, or as an executive or manager, your own leadership or coaching abilities will improve and become more meaningful [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Uncategorized

Victor-Victim-Villain: The Obstacle That Keeps Us From Deep Collaboration

Victor-Victim-Villain … Your life is more dependent on these three ‘V’s than you probably know. Our ways of thinking shape our world, and whether we know it or not, there are formulations of ideas that are controlling how we see the world and how we make choices. Think for a moment: How might these these [...]

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology

Our Future and the Mistake We Continue to Make

the mistake we continue to make is about how we learn and make Decisions Taking action on our future is less about ‘what‘ we know and ‘who‘ is in the room, than it is about ‘how‘ we come together to learn. We’ve had this wrong for a long long time. Look at the photo below. [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Sustainable Innovation

Innovation: A Three Phase Transformation Process

I often like to dabble in the abstract. There, I am taken to transitory state that help me feel closer to the Creative Source. For example: below consists of two intertwined trinity models, of which I like to play with when considering the architecture of ‘whole systems‘. These models help us to both ‘look at’ [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Uncategorized

Collaboration By Design: The Missing Link

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 [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Uncategorized

Religion is the Unseen Barrier to Effective Collaboration

Religion? A barrier to collaboration? Who’da thought? One must stop for a moment to deeply consider why I have placed this subject here in the category of ‘barriers to collaboration’. Read on … Religious positioning may in fact be the essential obstacle that stands in between a healthy human(e) collaboration. If there is a place [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities

Alice’s Mirror and the Great White Elephant

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 there [...]

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology Uncategorized

Collaboration “IS” the New Government

My twine.com webbed a good one today. Although extremely simple, this video triggered a BIG insight for me. Imagine a new definition of government. Rather than provider of fixes, it becomes a convener of ‘we the people’ and we generate our own solutions. This act shifts a STATIC ‘government’ institution into a DYNAMIC ‘governance’ system. [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation Workshops (Colabs)

Not Your Basic Ethics – Values Development Training

Ethics? Values? Who cares!? “YOU” better care. Did you know that each person’s underlying values and beliefs systems are what drives their actions? Those actions are how things get done by your team members. By linking individual values with your company’s principles, practices, and policies, your world becomes a happier place, with more sustained commitments [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Uncategorized

The Notion of Right and Wrong … is Wrong

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 [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities Learning Evolution

A Practical Theory On Leadership – ‘The Shirtless Dancing Guy’

I got this video off of Charles Lemos’ site and was referred to it by Ben Roberts’ Facebook conversation. Derek Sivers gave this presentation at the TED Conference this week and got a standing ovation. It’s pretty brilliant in its takeaway. The video below is a healthy perspective on the collective’s role in leadership, especially [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

The Empathic Civilization

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

Collaborative Design

Can Collective Intelligence Save the Planet?

Can Collective Intelligence Save the Planet? By Thomas Malone Published May 05, 2009 [This article is part of a series of interviews from the MIT Sloan Management Review published on GreenBiz.com. It is adapted from "All Together Now (or, Can Collective Intelligence Save the Planet?," an interview published by MIT Sloan Management Review in April [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Uncategorized

Victor-Victim-Villain: The Obstacle That Keeps Us From Deep Collaboration

Victor-Victim-Villain … Your life is more dependent on these three ‘V’s than you probably know. Our ways of thinking shape our world, and whether we know it or not, there are formulations of ideas that are controlling how we see the world and how we make choices. Think for a moment: How might these these [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Sustainable Innovation

Innovation: A Three Phase Transformation Process

I often like to dabble in the abstract. There, I am taken to transitory state that help me feel closer to the Creative Source. For example: below consists of two intertwined trinity models, of which I like to play with when considering the architecture of ‘whole systems‘. These models help us to both ‘look at’ [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Uncategorized

Collaboration By Design: The Missing Link

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 [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Uncategorized

Religion is the Unseen Barrier to Effective Collaboration

Religion? A barrier to collaboration? Who’da thought? One must stop for a moment to deeply consider why I have placed this subject here in the category of ‘barriers to collaboration’. Read on … Religious positioning may in fact be the essential obstacle that stands in between a healthy human(e) collaboration. If there is a place [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities

Alice’s Mirror and the Great White Elephant

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 there [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation Workshops (Colabs)

Not Your Basic Ethics – Values Development Training

Ethics? Values? Who cares!? “YOU” better care. Did you know that each person’s underlying values and beliefs systems are what drives their actions? Those actions are how things get done by your team members. By linking individual values with your company’s principles, practices, and policies, your world becomes a happier place, with more sustained commitments [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

Who Says It Ain’t Easy Being Green ?! (Sustainable Business Planning Workshop)

How to Create a ‘Sustainable’ Business Plan AN ONLINE WORKSHOP .Join Vic Desotelle from DiscoveryFuel.com for an ONLINE collaborative sustainable business planning workshop series. This session will allow you to preview and inquire about the series, which is for small business social entrepreneurs who have dreamed of owning a sustainable business. Learn how to make [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

Communication: Differentiating Debate, Discussion, & Dialogue

I have been asked to clarify the difference between ‘debates‘, ‘discussions‘, and ‘dialogues‘ (note wikipedia incorrectly clumps discussion into the same definition as ‘debate’). Below is a first attempt at trying to evolve our understanding of these three primary communication processes. I ask for your feedback, and also for your own insights on this matter. [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

Creating a Learning Exchange Marketplace

Learning Exchange Markets uncover hidden innovation which is often at the fringes of an organization. Within a Learning Exchange Market, a shift of emphasis occurs between the participants from debates and discussions to generative dialogue, which must be in place for true forms of sustainable innovation to emerge. During the learning exchange process, multiple conversations [...]

Collaborative Design

Caryn Balaban asked: Millions of dollars are spent every year on advertising, marketing communications and package design. Companies spend thousands of dollars conducting market research focus groups and interviews to ensure that their advertising and marketing resonates with the intended audience. Yet, all too frequently, the most important step for ensuring that your company’s advertising [...]

Collaborative Design

Intrigue Design asked: 1. Final OutcomeProfits as Proof. Agencies do not represent overhead to be justified. Agencies are deployed when the investment can be shown to generate profits, and they know they have to prove it every time. Intrigue Design has a proven plan to combine image with message and smart marketing strategies to produce [...]

Collaborative Design

Ian G Cook asked: Is your upcoming meeting a strategic planning session? A sales or project launch? A departmental communications day? Or, perhaps, teambuilding for an intact management or project team? Whichever it is, it undoubtedly involves a significant investment.First you have the value of the participants’ time, more precious than ever in this time-starved [...]

Collaborative Design

tia jones asked: Virtual teams need the support of a secure, easy to use, web-based collaboration environment that allows them to work and share ideas across time zones and continents. Central Desktop (CD) is an online collaboration software solution that supports efficient communication among members of virtual teams, their superiors and their clients.Central Desktop’s web-based [...]

Collaborative Design

Christian Fea asked: (c) 2008 Christian FeaCollaboration marketing is a specialized segment of relationship marketing?where, simply put, the relationships that a business has with its customers is developed for long-term sustainability. With the success of Internet businesses, competition for customers is fiercer than ever. Distinguishing your business from others by developing strong relationships with consumers [...]

Collaborative Design

John asked: Collaboration software is typically online information system software that enables efficient communication between or among virtual team members, their superiors and clients. Example can be a central desktop (CD).There are numerous stumbling blocks in every process as Virtual teams plan to work towards achieving a common course as a team. Some of these [...]

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation Uncategorized

Is There an Ecological Unconscious?

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 [...]

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution

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

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 [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Uncategorized

The Notion of Right and Wrong … is Wrong

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 [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities Learning Evolution

A Practical Theory On Leadership – ‘The Shirtless Dancing Guy’

I got this video off of Charles Lemos’ site and was referred to it by Ben Roberts’ Facebook conversation. Derek Sivers gave this presentation at the TED Conference this week and got a standing ovation. It’s pretty brilliant in its takeaway. The video below is a healthy perspective on the collective’s role in leadership, especially [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

The Empathic Civilization

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

Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution

Role of Emotional Intelligence in ‘ALL’ of Our Lives

The role of emotions in our lives continues to gain more and more acceptance. This TED video powerfully captures the role of women in EQ. And it is VERY (if not even more so) appropriate for men as well. In this passionate talk, Eve Ensler declares that there is a girl cell in us all [...]

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology

Authentic Leadership Coaching For Coaches, Executives, and Managers

Welcome to UnCoachMe.com Online Coaching and Leadership Development Services Authentic Leadership Coaching Coaching For Coaches, Executives, and Managers Professional coaching is not what it once was; it’s purpose and intent has changed. As a coach for others, or as an executive or manager, your own leadership or coaching abilities will improve and become more meaningful [...]

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology

Our Future and the Mistake We Continue to Make

the mistake we continue to make is about how we learn and make Decisions Taking action on our future is less about ‘what‘ we know and ‘who‘ is in the room, than it is about ‘how‘ we come together to learn. We’ve had this wrong for a long long time. Look at the photo below. [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Uncategorized

Religion is the Unseen Barrier to Effective Collaboration

Religion? A barrier to collaboration? Who’da thought? One must stop for a moment to deeply consider why I have placed this subject here in the category of ‘barriers to collaboration’. Read on … Religious positioning may in fact be the essential obstacle that stands in between a healthy human(e) collaboration. If there is a place [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities

Alice’s Mirror and the Great White Elephant

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 there [...]

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology Uncategorized

Collaboration “IS” the New Government

My twine.com webbed a good one today. Although extremely simple, this video triggered a BIG insight for me. Imagine a new definition of government. Rather than provider of fixes, it becomes a convener of ‘we the people’ and we generate our own solutions. This act shifts a STATIC ‘government’ institution into a DYNAMIC ‘governance’ system. [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation Workshops (Colabs)

Not Your Basic Ethics – Values Development Training

Ethics? Values? Who cares!? “YOU” better care. Did you know that each person’s underlying values and beliefs systems are what drives their actions? Those actions are how things get done by your team members. By linking individual values with your company’s principles, practices, and policies, your world becomes a happier place, with more sustained commitments [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

Who Says It Ain’t Easy Being Green ?! (Sustainable Business Planning Workshop)

How to Create a ‘Sustainable’ Business Plan AN ONLINE WORKSHOP .Join Vic Desotelle from DiscoveryFuel.com for an ONLINE collaborative sustainable business planning workshop series. This session will allow you to preview and inquire about the series, which is for small business social entrepreneurs who have dreamed of owning a sustainable business. Learn how to make [...]

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology

The Ecology of Leadership: A Twist on the Idea of Professionalism

In our attempt to be ‘professional’, it seems that our society has become afraid of our own human-ness. Have we lost our sense of how to be with each other in the messiness of our humanity? I was reading my LinkedIn Groups this morning and came across Mike Smith’s ‘Life Back West’ thoughts on people, [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

Communication: Differentiating Debate, Discussion, & Dialogue

I have been asked to clarify the difference between ‘debates‘, ‘discussions‘, and ‘dialogues‘ (note wikipedia incorrectly clumps discussion into the same definition as ‘debate’). Below is a first attempt at trying to evolve our understanding of these three primary communication processes. I ask for your feedback, and also for your own insights on this matter. [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

Creating a Learning Exchange Marketplace

Learning Exchange Markets uncover hidden innovation which is often at the fringes of an organization. Within a Learning Exchange Market, a shift of emphasis occurs between the participants from debates and discussions to generative dialogue, which must be in place for true forms of sustainable innovation to emerge. During the learning exchange process, multiple conversations [...]

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

Growth Myth: How Sustainability is Linked to Poor Economic Design

The future of HUMAN sustainability is directly linked to the models that we have created to manage our social systems. And our inability to connect with exponential growth concepts is about to take the whole thing down in flames. I highly encourage you to watch Chris Martenson‘s ‘Crash Course‘, which covers a slightly different set [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Sustainable Innovation

Web Technology as Sacred

I want you to take your business hat off for a minute to read what’s below. I am about to enter the twilight zone and attempt to bring in what some may consider ridiculous or impossible. For me, what I am about to say touches on the profound, and believe it is a critical subject [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation Uncategorized

Principles of Regenerative Commerce

Regenerative Commerce is a system based on a broader understanding of what it means to develop technology and business. DiscoveryFuel.com proposes 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 [...]

Sustainable Innovation

Solar Roadways: Now This Is Sustainable Innovation !

Check this out. These guys are truly onto next generation innovation. Can you imagine intelligent, power-generating, roadways? The technology is all there to make it happen. Hmmmmm .. I wonder what the mass production equation looks like.

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation Uncategorized

Is There an Ecological Unconscious?

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 [...]

Articles By Vic Learning Communities Sustainable Innovation Uncategorized

Unsustainable Everything

I love it when somebody is able to synthesize the incoming data into a meaningful message. Watch this video and understand how the world economy works … I mean is ‘not’ working. Sustainability should go to another level of understanding for you after you watch this 4 minute clip.

Articles By Vic Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation Uncategorized

The Future of Innovation and Technology has Already been Figured Out by Nature One Million Years Ago

I’ll say it again: The future of innovation and technology has already been figured out by nature one million years ago. Watch this TED video …

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

The Empathic Civilization

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

Articles By Vic Learning Communities Sustainable Innovation

Vic’s Supplements Plan For Wellness … and Sustainability

Our wellness influences what we create as human beings and how it either supports or depletes the world’s complex ecology of life – a planetary well being, so to speak. Our individuality is made up of a physical body, mind(fulness) and thoughts, emotions and attitude, and spiritual connection with something greater than us. The interactions [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Sustainable Innovation

Innovation: A Three Phase Transformation Process

I often like to dabble in the abstract. There, I am taken to transitory state that help me feel closer to the Creative Source. For example: below consists of two intertwined trinity models, of which I like to play with when considering the architecture of ‘whole systems‘. These models help us to both ‘look at’ [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation Workshops (Colabs)

Not Your Basic Ethics – Values Development Training

Ethics? Values? Who cares!? “YOU” better care. Did you know that each person’s underlying values and beliefs systems are what drives their actions? Those actions are how things get done by your team members. By linking individual values with your company’s principles, practices, and policies, your world becomes a happier place, with more sustained commitments [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Communities Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

Who Says It Ain’t Easy Being Green ?! (Sustainable Business Planning Workshop)

How to Create a ‘Sustainable’ Business Plan AN ONLINE WORKSHOP .Join Vic Desotelle from DiscoveryFuel.com for an ONLINE collaborative sustainable business planning workshop series. This session will allow you to preview and inquire about the series, which is for small business social entrepreneurs who have dreamed of owning a sustainable business. Learn how to make [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

Communication: Differentiating Debate, Discussion, & Dialogue

I have been asked to clarify the difference between ‘debates‘, ‘discussions‘, and ‘dialogues‘ (note wikipedia incorrectly clumps discussion into the same definition as ‘debate’). Below is a first attempt at trying to evolve our understanding of these three primary communication processes. I ask for your feedback, and also for your own insights on this matter. [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

Creating a Learning Exchange Marketplace

Learning Exchange Markets uncover hidden innovation which is often at the fringes of an organization. Within a Learning Exchange Market, a shift of emphasis occurs between the participants from debates and discussions to generative dialogue, which must be in place for true forms of sustainable innovation to emerge. During the learning exchange process, multiple conversations [...]

Articles By Vic Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation Uncategorized

Sustainability as Whole-System Catalyst to New Forms of Innovation

Sustainability as Whole-System Catalyst to New Forms of Innovation Since the concept of ‘sustainability’ is feathered into most future forms of innovation, I’d like to suggest a few pages below that list concepts of “Sustainable Innovation”. What is Sustainable Innovation http://discoveryfuel.com/what-is-sustainable-innovation/ Deep Innovation for our future goes beyond ‘technologies’ as mere device structures, but also [...]

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

Growth Myth: How Sustainability is Linked to Poor Economic Design

The future of HUMAN sustainability is directly linked to the models that we have created to manage our social systems. And our inability to connect with exponential growth concepts is about to take the whole thing down in flames. I highly encourage you to watch Chris Martenson‘s ‘Crash Course‘, which covers a slightly different set [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Sustainable Innovation

Web Technology as Sacred

I want you to take your business hat off for a minute to read what’s below. I am about to enter the twilight zone and attempt to bring in what some may consider ridiculous or impossible. For me, what I am about to say touches on the profound, and believe it is a critical subject [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation Uncategorized

Principles of Regenerative Commerce

Regenerative Commerce is a system based on a broader understanding of what it means to develop technology and business. DiscoveryFuel.com proposes 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 [...]

Articles By Vic Leadership Ecology Sustainable Innovation

The Link Between Ethics and Innovation

Ethics to Innovation Article (Download a more readable PDF file) By Vic Desotelle and Michael Kaufman Table of Contents Introduction The Ethics/Innovation Relationship What are Ethics? Forces Creating Managerial Dilemmas (Principle Forces Creating Practical Dilemmas) What is Innovation? Innovative Wholes and Inventive Systems (Fractal Wholes vs Fractured Parts) The Emerging Global Ethic Innovation through Ethical [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Leadership Ecology Learning Evolution Sustainable Innovation

Innovation and the future of socialism and capitalism

“You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it”, says an economics professor at a local college. He made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an ENTIRE class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be [...]

Articles By Vic Sustainable Innovation Workshops (Colabs)

Aug 11th Webinar: Sustainable Innovation from the Amazon

Runa: Energy, Sustainability & Innovation from the Amazon A forefront conservation enterprise, Runa is partnered with native agronomists in the Ecuadorian Amazon to achieve market-driven restoration. The venture will be the first to market read-to-drink Wuayusa tea, a traditional beverage similar to Yerba Mate, that enhances mental clarity and personal energy. Tyler Gage, Runa CEO, [...]

Articles By Vic Sustainable Innovation

The Paradox in ‘Sustainable’ Innovations

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 [...]

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