Past – Present – Future – - -

Learn from the PAST – Adapt to the PRESENT – Envision the FUTURE

That is what happens in every generation – with or without any real progress – until the “next” generation posts its manifesto of wanted change on the wall of history. The real change that has occurred is that pundits are posting those ‘mandates’ in real time, 24,7.

You can now search the web and find an unlimited supply of “now-new” ideas and good intentions and upstart initiatives that want to create that change. They all want to enroll us in their vision of the future, cleaning up from the past, and stepping into their global change effort. Many even have a plan and a time-line. They are empowered to publish, connected to converse, and positioned to compete. “But” what they don’t have is a ‘clearinghouse’ or coordination, “because” they are not yet interoperable or cooperative.

• How have we so ’successfully’ re-created digital stove-pipes, globally?
• What is the carbon footprint of all that duplication of those environmental and ‘reductionists’ efforts – why are there so many efficiency initiatives ?
• Why is our process still broken – and why do our results mirror only repeated frustration?

learn from past?

“Because” we have not entirely learned from the past  or adapted the tools of the present, we may NOT be creating the future we envision or desire – or so critically need to even survive.

Worse yet, we may be rushing to re-create the very same things that we want to escape from our past, just like countless generations before us. Our abhorrence of the past entices us to create the possibility of the future without regard for the limits of the present circumstance that we may then inadvertently re-create. The agreed urgency to change from the past can ensnare those who react to the emotion of the present to avoid the prediction of pending doom in the near future. We are willing to give (present) credit to those who hope to reduce the footprint of our errors, even if what they do may be found to actually be worse in total impact (future). Nobel prizes may await those pundits who can manifest the best version of this questionable call-to-action formula, literally!

But when is all is said and done, there is just a lot more said… and little if any done that creates sustainable change. Worse yet it can trumpet those bad ideas from one-to-one-millions to speed their acceptance and then aggregate those errors for deployment across the communities represented in all those threaded discussions. Our hope in a new promise enrolls us in a well-intentioned vote.  B_u_t “politics as usual” soon surfaces b_e_c_a_u_s_e  our ‘new’ process does not transparently identify and then accountability exclude our past mistakes. So many good intentions, so little to show for it, so sad.

If we want change so badly:

• why do we make wrong choices
• why do we passively accept status quo
• why don’t we define meaningful improvements
• why don’t we implement truly sustainable solutions

Here is a basic truth – we individually and collectively do it “because”.  We hang on to some element of erroneous belief that passes for an excuse (our individual and group-think rationale for irrational behavior). The emperor’s new clothes are always a poor fashion statement – the audacity of transparent hypocrisy is always  unbecoming, just “‘because”…

So if we are to escape the bounds of our self-imposed gravity, the first step for man – on behalf of all mankind, is to get off our “BUTS” (those bastions of defensive opinions) and trade in our effort-guzzling clunker-thinking rationale (“because”) for the logical and objective results of root cause analysis.

We must first integrate and then cooperate in

• finding collective insight (from PAST lessons)
• coming to collective consensus (about the PRESENT)
• coordinating collective actions so we can minimize the effort in
• creating sustainable outcomes (for our mutually-beneficial FUTURE).

And one more thing, we will all have to be actively engaged in the equitable representation of that self-governed process in order to enjoy an equitable remuneration share of its co-operative innovation economy. “WE the PEOPLE” is about “OUR government” -

“BUT”, until “we” get to the root cause,

“we” may just suffer more of the same old stuff,

generations to come – “Because”…

What’s NEXT with YOU – care to comment…?

- dare to COOPERATE?

Let us know what part you want to enjoy – with us!!

NOTE: While this website is my personal initiative, the ASK4™ approach is a participant-managed collaboration platform and the U-Netted Nations™ is the result of our ‘Collaboration On Purpose’. My voice becomes one in a million – immediately.

Twitter (flown the coop.?)

Who would have thought that the thrill of posting what you are doing into the unraveled abyss of threaded conversations would eventually start to dissipate?  Who would have thought that those interested in doing so for the perceived 15 seconds of fame  from others would start to dwindle?  Who would have thought that those who were paying less and less attention to each other would start to wane?

Maybe a noisy Twitter ‘hen-house’ and loud clucking is not enough.

Connectivity and community is only the start; convergence and results are the desired end-game.

That phenomenon is what the social scientists have observed since long before we were web-enabled. Even the old Coleman stove company is now reminding us  that it was the original social network ‘hub’. The web (they suggest) is just another version of that warm and useful campfire around which our tribes could gather, contribute to a shared initiative, and their mutual hunger be equitably satisfied (results).

Convergence – isn’t that what we all hoped for when we gathered here around the internet? Weren’t we seeking ‘Collaboration On Purpose’ that creates consensus – that spawns initiatives – that create the mutual benefits of equitable representation and equitable remuneration across these ‘U-Netted Nations’?

That hasn’t happened yet in web-time, but the virtual framework that can make it happen is being envisioned, and its mutual benefits are widely needed as we become one global community – and must cooperate in real time to mutually prosper, or even survive.

To gain that mutual benefit:

I have to know how to converse with you,

we have to lean how to engage others in objective dialogue,

our ‘tribes’ have to come to consensus,

so that we can cooperate on sustainable solutions, and soon.

It’s a start to broadcast our opinions, better to have conversations, better yet to find consensus, still better to envision solutions, even better to cooperate to mutual benefit.  That ideal is what is common in all the echoed voices of well-meaning bloggers, local activists, regional representatives, and global leaders.

That won’t happen without convergence. Twitter only serves to remind us that unraveled conversations on a threaded format have run their course, served a purpose, and must now be replaced by convergent conversations. Those conversations must now afford all of us equitable representation, support our shared-governance, and provide us equitable remuneration (whether economic or altruistic).

It is time for us to all ask – for what we want – from ourselves and each other – We The People…

When all the social networks begin to inter-operate, support convergent conversation, uncover consensus, and enable cooperative initiatives where we can all enjoy participation in and benefits from that syndicated community, all their numbers can and will increase.  Or at least that is what I for one would predict (and prefer).

What’s NEXT with YOU – care to comment…?

- dare to COOPERATE?

Let us know what part you want to enjoy – with us!!

NOTE: While this website is my personal initiative, the ASK4™ approach is a participant-managed collaboration platform and the U-Netted Nations™ is the result of our ‘Collaboration On Purpose’. My voice becomes one in a million – immediately.