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Posted on March 14, 2010 - by Vic Desotelle

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

Imagine something that you’ve never imagined before. Or, if you have imagined what I’m about to say: Imagine turning your implicit idea into an explicit act for change.

First question:
How might this subject relate to the nightmare of a workplace that you are in?

My Point:
Most, if not all, of our decisions emerge through this foundational culture-making model. Geeeeez. I really don’t get a warm fuzzy thinking that may be so! Do you? What might be another model that maybe could work just a bit better? I would say that, if we could become conscious myth-making creatures, then we could design ‘it’ (the model dynamic), rather than the other way around, where we have become the result of “it” designing us.

Here’s a gaseous cloud of possibility to consider …

So. All models have rotation or spin. Thus each subject within a model becomes one of the others. For example, in my case, I (Vic) have become a ‘victim’ through the ‘victor’ (and its not just because of my name It seems that the victor-villain-victim archetypal interaction has (like all models) a dynamic movement that moves each subject into becoming one of the others. In this (shall we call it) “3V” case, the the victor becomes the victim, the victim becomes the villain, and the villain becomes the victor. And in our society, there is attention placed – not on the hero, but on (unconscious as it may be) are focused on being the villain being the hero. What’s with that?! Anyway, this is the spin – the archetypal movement in action.

Second Question(s):
In a (w)holistic view, do we need to allow the time it takes for each one of us to become the other? If so, then this must be a conscious act, does it not? Otherwise each of us (too often) gets caught migrating from one identity to another and falls into a polarized oscillation – bouncing back and forth (maybe due to DNA recapitulation?) to/from the identity we had for ourselves previously … and previously … and so on. Rather than moving (ahhhh spin action) to the next identity in the mandala-like triad within the archetypal configuration, we instead get kind of stuck.

An Open Conclusion:
What if we had an archetype for this dynamic – an archetype of archetypes (orrrrr archetype squared)?

Would this allow humanity’s failing displays of destructive expression to be able to move downstream

into other realms of possible life, form, awareness, and consciousness? Don’t know. Right now, I’m writing a book on ‘cultural misfits’, and it seems that this may be its charter – to transmute “objective isolated acts” into “subjective interdependent actions”. Why; you might ask? And what does this all have to do with COLLABORATION? (Or a lak there of?) Well. Call me and let’s have a dialog 831-454-8046, or email me below, or make a comment.

Just wanting to share today’s brain fart with you … LOL ! Mean time … Spin rules! … Hmmmmmm … Wonder what comes after that?

Vic

Posted on March 6, 2010 - by Vic Desotelle

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 governing body becomes a manager (or governor) of the ecology of interactions that happen by us the people. Collaboration then becomes the vehicle that acts as this governor, as it enables the flow of action and change. In this way, collaboration and governance become almost synonymous.

What does this do? Well. We no longer have to wait for government to get on board to see the change we want. Instead the governing body builds the infrastructure that allows connection and decision-making to happen. Decisions are no longer made by them. Instead they are made by us and they merely create tools and processes (many via the internet) that allows everyone much more access to the learning and decision-making process. This then becomes a healthier form of control. Rather than government directing and making the decisions, it instead becomes an enabler and ‘governor’ (as it was meant to be) by acting as policy makers but with a different understanding of the meaning of ‘policy’. Now, government monitors rather than polices the outcomes that occur when publicly induced design occurs. Government evolves along with the society by being entwined in the overall feedback system. They become watchers of the difference between consciously derived guiding principles and actual applied experiences that occur in communities of practice.

This diagram shows how the interaction between PRINCIPLE, PRACTICE, and POLICY. It shows that none of these three can sustain the system on its own but each must instead act interdependently with the other two. Here, the policy box is government, or in other words, the convener of a dialog between principle (which is generated out of desire, need, vision, and design possibility) and practice (which is how the design is experienced in the real world). Policy becomes a way to keep the FEEDBACK going between these two subjects the same way a governing value acts on a pipe – too much or too little puts the system into instability. The people inside the government do not make the decision to adjust the flow of choices. Instead, they create and maintain the channels (or policing) that allow the collaboration process to INFORM itself. This is a self-generative behavior and occurs via the interactions between the engagement of the people involved in each of the principle, practice, and policy domains.

Yes, Collaboration “IS” the New Government.

Posted on November 21, 2009 - by Vic Desotelle

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 and pattern recognition too.

A List of Sustainability Principles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sustainability_principles
Important to the future are the principles that guide its design.

Concepts of Sustainable Design
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_design
Considerations for designing physical objects, the built environment, and services that comply with the principles of economic, social, and ecological sustainability; otherwise known as the ‘triple bottom line’.

Sustainability System Categories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sustainability
A limited but growing list of categories that link sustainability into an interconnected world community design system.

Appropriate Technologies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology
Usually used to describe simple technologies suitable for use in developing nations or less developed rural areas of industrialized nations. This form of appropriate technology usually prefers labor-intensive solutions over capital-intensive ones, although labor-saving devices are also used where this does not mean high capital or maintenance cost. In practice, appropriate technology is often something described as using the simplest level of technology that can effectively achieve the intended purpose in a particular location.

Posted on September 11, 2009 - by Vic Desotelle

Innovation is a misrepresented characterization of humanity’s creative process.

Innovation is a misrepresented characterization of humanity’s creative process. It is too often used to describe the entire process of manifestation. Actually, INNOVATION is sandwiched between INSPIRATION and INVENTION. This more (w)holistically describes a full creative cycle.

More . . .

Posted on August 14, 2009 - by Vic Desotelle

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 enterprise. Note that a ’shift’ means we are including new information that expands existing models and does not mean that we are replacing them.

A Shift …

1:  A Shift From Single -> To Triple Bottom Line Management

Developing Evolved Organizing STRUCTURES

2:  A Shift From Building Mechanistic Systems -> To Growing Living Wholes

Advancing Technological PATTERNS

3:  A Shift From Linear Sequencing -> To Nonlinear Cyclic Closed Loops

An Integration of Value-Web PROCESSES

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DiscoveryFuel.com’s long term objective is to create a global network of innovation learning centers. Each interdependent center will incubate innovative technologies and companies that can work for a our emerging globally conscious community.

The concept, known as ‘Regenerative Commerce‘, will act as an integrating framework for incorporating principles of sustainable innovation for the realization of business products and services that work for a post-industrial society.

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RELATED CONCEPTS

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1- Sustainable Design Techniques
Closed Loop Systems * 7e’s of Strategic Innovation * 7 Elements of New Enterprise * Sustainable Innovation Defined

2- Development Principles for Metabolic Growth
Biomimicry * Ecological Systems * Knowledge Capacity * The Natural Step * Permaculture * BauBiologie

3- Knowledge Distribution Methodologies
Triple Bottom LIne Matrix * EcoManagement * Innovation Mapping

4- Regional Design & Dialogue Frameworks
Tri-Cellular Communities Model * Conversation Word Map * World Dialogue Experiment on Change & Myth

5- Sustainable Enterprise
Ethics & Ethics to Innovation * Values Considerations * Innovation vs Invention * Technology Council * Sustainable Business Planning Guide

6- Networked Communications Modeling
Concentrix Management For Group Design * Collaborative Learning Exchange Markets * Community Domains For Culturally Creative Design

Creating Sustainable Society Based on Conscious Design

In the near future, the PRINCIPLE-PRACTICE-POLICY model ( 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5) will be integrated into the Regenerative Commerce (RegenCom) concept.

Here, the policy body acts as a ‘governor’ that monitors the effectiveness of pre-determined guiding principles via the principle body, and provides feedback to the overall system so that adjustments can be made as the chosenb principles play out in a practical way within the practicing body.

What is missing in today’s model for community design and development, based on this 3P’s model?

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What are you’re thoughts? Blog me below, or contact me directly at RegenCom@DiscoveryFuel.com, or join me and others in collaboratively designing and applying this concept by going to the Regenerative Commerce collaboration wiki (This is a new effort and I need and want your help!).

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Posted on August 1, 2009 - by Vic Desotelle

“Be The Change!” – 7 Steps To Manifestation

“Be the change you want to see in the world.”

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Mohandas Gandhi’s quote above is powerful, isn’t it?

Being the change requires that we embody change itself. To do this, each of us must surround ourselves with a community of others that can provide us with encouragement and supportive feedback.

Seven Steps To Becoming The Change:

• Know WHY you want change and be able to articulate it.
• Understand WHAT it means for that change to happen.
• Time WHEN the change can best occur.
• Find WHO you want to ally with.
• Consider WHERE the change can best serve.
• Practice HOW the change needs to emerge.
• And always always always be aware of the influence of your change on others – Our greatest risk is that we become blinded by your own righteousness about our own need for change. This is why a community is necessary to keep each of us highly motivated and always in check.

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Become a ‘Fuel-Molecule’ within the Solution of Change

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Because ‘WE’ being change is far more powerful than just ‘ME’ being change.

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Posted on October 27, 2008 - by Vic Desotelle

Vic’s “Be The Change!” Twibes Twitter Postings

Vic’s “Be The Change!” Twibes Twitter Postings

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