Getting permission to thrive…
- Posted on 1st January 2012
- in Art Based Solutions, Community Change Management, Green Business, Social Capital
- by ydubel
Where do you go for permission to thrive? The question feels at the same time ridiculous and profound so I decided it was worth using as a starting place.
Instead of lamenting about how I wish I had posted more often in the time between this post and my last one...let's just say that is a given and move on (I wanted to do a smiley face here but I don't like how the auto icon conversion looks on this new background).
Since I don't know how long this post will be let me give you a peek inside my note book. In the near future here are topics of interest for exploration and discussion here in upcoming posts:
- Don't drown in the business of customer segmentation and other psychographic (mis)adventures.Exploring models and approaches to psychographic data collection and analysis to develop/inform Art Based Solutions.
"Psychographic Data- is associated with the lifestyle of the customer and their personality. What are your customer’s attitudes, opinions, values and interests? Why do they buy? Where do they buy? What are their beliefs? Knowing these answers can affect positioning of the product, the copy, the distribution, the packaging, etc. An example of this could be art and who’s being targeted with what product." Source:http://sunjestermarketing.com/the-advantages-of-segmenting-your-customers
- Exploring the Maverick Hero archetypes to decipher how "something better" takes shape. Looking more closely at the value this hybrid archetype has to offer business owners and individuals today.
- Reasons for optimism - "something better" is taking shape - poverty abatement and related programs benefit from projections and indicators about growth in new wealth and collaboration, this is the end to which business is the means
- Introducing the Insiders Guide to Innovation in 3 Leaps, baby Steps worked in past days of mechanistic progress at snail's pace, today's pace requires Transformative Leaps for evolutionary organizational and internal processes in this age of quantum solutions. Paradigm shifts are happening and they are pushing re-invention and innovation. We can see an end to hunger, homelessness, and abatement of our ecological degradation during our life time. New ways of thinking and doing things is already having an impact on how many of us live and do business...
The kingdom of nanotechnology is infinitely more complex and mysterious than the atomic world first sketched out by Democritus because it spans both the atomic and the subatomic. Nanoengineers manipulate individual atoms by controlling their ability to chemically bond. But to bond, atoms must share tiny bits of themselves — electrons. Electrons are subatomic particles, so a few rudimentary concepts from quantum mechanics must be used to characterize their behavior...
...Most of us have a general understanding that once we shrink below the size of atoms things get exceedingly strange. We know the atom is made up of subatomic particles — protons, neutrons and electrons — and that subatomic particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics. In the quantum zone impossible things like “electron tunneling” begin to occur. This describes the phenomenon of electrons tunneling through an energy barrier and coming out on the other side without ever occupying the space in between. In our material plane, this would be equivalent to moving directly from one side of a brick wall to the other without ever passing through the wall or even the space occupied by the wall.
Another baffling example of quantum behavior is that under certain conditions, two particles will influence each other no matter how far apart they are. Quantum theory allows a single, pure quantum state — a particular polarization, for example — to be spread across two subatomic particles, such as a pair of simultaneously created photons. Such photons are said to be “entangled,” and they remain entangled even when they fly apart. The uncanny result of this entanglement is that physically measuring one photon will instantaneously influence the properties of its twin, even if they are on opposite sides of the galaxy. Even Einstein thought this was too weird, because it violates a bedrock principle of the theory of relativity, that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.
Source: 2005 Article at Salon.com - "Everything you always wanted to know about nanotechnology" by Alan H. Goldstein http://www.salon.com/2005/10/20/nanotech/
Where do you go for permission to thrive? As far as your closest mirror if you require eye contact.
Instead of resolutions - this year I am exploring aspirations and their role in helping set the tone for the year. I was able to get a head start on a couple of mine - starting Context magazine and redesign of the website, both launched before the first day of 2012 so feeling good about that.
What are your Aspirations for 2012?
Tags: archetypes for change, Art Based Solutions, aspirations, better world, business, business processes, change, change management, community change management, Context Magazine, customer segmentation, do business, ecological degradation, ending, ending poverty, freedom, Green Business, homelessness, hunger, implications of nanotechnology, innovation, Innovation guide, maverick hero, nanotechnology, new year 2012, New Year resolutions alternative, personal liberation, personal responsibility, psychographic data, quantum age, quantum solutions, resolutions, salon.com, social impact, social innovation, Societal Transformation, something better, transformation, Yvette Dubel
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