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Not Your Basic Ethics – Values Development Training

STOP !!! … WRONG THING TO DO!
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 [...]

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 a viable business [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Sustainable Innovation

Our Future and the Mistake We Continue to Make

Our future and the mistake we continue to make
You may be surprised to hear this: Taking action on our future is way less about ‘what‘ content and ‘who‘ is in the room, than it is about ‘how‘ we come together to learn. Geez, we’ve had that all wrong for a long long time.
Look below [...]

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.
The [...]

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 [...]

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’ [...]

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 [...]

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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. The [...]

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

Not Your Basic Ethics – Values Development Training

STOP !!! … WRONG THING TO DO!
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 [...]

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 a viable business [...]

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, teams, [...]

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.
The [...]

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 of [...]

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 Workshops (Colabs)

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 Tension
Sustainability: Bridge from Ethics to Innovation
The New Innovation [...]

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

Not Your Basic Ethics – Values Development Training

STOP !!! … WRONG THING TO DO!
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 [...]

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 a viable business [...]

Articles By Vic Collaborative Design Sustainable Innovation

Our Future and the Mistake We Continue to Make

Our future and the mistake we continue to make
You may be surprised to hear this: Taking action on our future is way less about ‘what‘ content and ‘who‘ is in the room, than it is about ‘how‘ we come together to learn. Geez, we’ve had that all wrong for a long long time.
Look below [...]

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.
The [...]

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 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 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 design integration processes [...]

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 of [...]

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 Workshops (Colabs)

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 [...]