Please RSVPhttp://bit.ly/bOFiX5 for the Future Salon on Monday the 8th of November: Our Financial System: Facing Hard Facts, Creating Positive Futures presented by Catherine Austin Fitts from Solari.com.
Abstract: The global financial system is being used to engineer a revolutionary centralization of governance on planet Earth. In the process, trillions of capital has been shifted out of Europe and North America, much of it by illegal means. Many of us do not share a vision of non-accountable, centralized currencies and debt systems. Let's reject the financial coup d'etat underway by taking steps to protect our families, businesses and communities and do so in a way that shifts our assets to a more productive, transparent, decentralized vision supportive of free people and healthy ecology.
Catherine Austin Fitts offers Solari subscribers and customers a unique perspective on how to navigate the opportunities and risks in the global financial system and political economy. Her background includes:
Entrepreneur: President of The Hamilton Securities Group, investment bank and financial software developer.
Government Official: Assistant Secretary of Housing - Federal Housing Commissioner, Bush I.
Investment Banker: Managing Director and member of the board of Wall Street firm Dillon, Read & Co. Inc.
One of the amazing facts about her is, that she is a regular on KPFA as well as on Alex Jones's radio show.
More details to come soon.
Future Salons have the following structure: 6-7pm is networking with light refreshments proudly sponsored by SAP; 7-9+pm is the above format. Please RSVPhttp://bit.ly/bOFiX5
SAP Labs North America, Building 1, Room: Southern Cross. SAP is located at 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304[map]. Free and open to the public.
Many people came up to me last night and told me that this was one of the best Future Salons. Really timely and interesting. The panel also told me that they liked the quality and diversity of the questions asked by the audience in the room as well as from the webcast. Everyone had a great time.
At peak we had over 22 people on the webcast, which is a record and 14 of them were still connected after 2 hours.
My notes from memory:
Update: One of Rachel's comments opened my eyes.The internet first gave us access to information, then access to things, now it is making it social and connects us to other people, the next thing will be that it is connecting us to stories.
Every product will have a story with pictures, videos, ... New products will be bland, they are all the same, shared well preserved products will be rich. Once the story telling functionality is turned on, sharing will explode.
Rachel Botsman, co-author of What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, after being asked why she thinks the sharing economy has tipped: It's the perfect storm of 4 trends coming together: 1) Economic downturn forces people 2) Alternative to the consumerist lifestyle of the 20th century. Longing for a more sustainable life 3) Technology platform finally supporting the sharing capabilities (PayPal open API, Master Card APIs coming too) 4) Realization how rewarding and important community is. Sharing plays a huge role in creating and strengthening these relationships.
Jessica Scorpio Co-Founder of Getaround. Love that this venture sprung out from a Singularity University project. Also love that come January legislation in California is allowing car sharing with your regular car insurance.
John Zimmer, Founder & COO of Zimride, has sold his solution to over 60 Universities so far and his company is breaking even as the Universities pay for the service. The breakthrough was to offer the solution just for that university, not universally connected. Trend: First the Universities didn't want Facebook integration. Now they are asking for it. John later told me that Zimride is looking for PHP developers.
Angel VCs that are open to P2P sharing: John Zimmer said his own Angle Investors were open for it: Teddy Downey and Keith Rabois.
According to Punsri Abeywickrema, Founder & CEO of Rentalic the typical rental object is mid prized about 10% of the actual value and often seasonal products like camping gear or snow chains.
Sign that we are realizing the importance of community: Many more farmers market sprung up in recent years than Walmarts.
The discussion went to celebrities and Rachel got really animated and said: "This is the next thing I want to tackle." -- I was thinking yes, tackle that out of proportion cult of celebrity, but then she added: "If we get 5 celebrities to endorse the sharing economy it will accelerate the adoption rate by 5 years." She is right, but it wasn't was I was hoping for. Comment on the webcast chat: (g) Jon Reed: ugh.cult of celebrity. Shame to have to cater to it to affect change.
Big thanks to Neal Gorenflo, publisher of Shareable Magazine for putting the panel together and moderating it so nicely.
Update II: GilsonTeixeira SAP BI consultant living in Brazil wrote me the following: During my master degree in London (Hypermedia Research Center, University of Westminster), this theme was very present once Dr. Richard Barbrook was my mentor and director of the HRC. He is a great thinker and I would like to suggest some of his papers.
Enjoy and share! There were folk from transition economy in the audience. Please contact me, as this is a great theme for a future Future Salon in the new year.
Catherine Austin Fitts offers Solari subscribers and customers a unique perspective on how to navigate the opportunities and risks in the global financial system and political economy. Her background includes:
Please RSVPhttp://bit.ly/9uQsZS for the New Sharing Economy Future Salon happening Tuesday in a week 26th of October 6pm at SAP Labs in Palo Alto.
The first wave of Internet innovation helped people connect to information. The second connected people to each other. The next is about connecting people to stuff. This could be the biggest shift yet. The organizing principles of the Internet are now restructuring our material world moving us from an ownership to an access economy.
The confluence of the web, real-time location aware mobile technologies, economic and environmental crisis, and the first web-native generation coming of age has created a perfect storm for sharing in the real world.
This is the change we need. With a peer-based, sharing economy comes cost savings, stronger communities, environmental conservation, broader access to resources, and higher quality products made for sharing. Sharing addresses many problems at once - an appropriate solution for an era of interconnected crises.
In this month’s Future Salon, we’re featuring a panel of thought leaders and entrepreneurs designed to help innovators succeed in the sharing economy. The panel will discuss the opportunities and challenges in the space, weaving in questions from the audience as the conversation progresses. Our panelist for the evening:
Neal Gorenflo, publisher of Shareable Magazine and co-producer of a new report on the sector, The New Sharing Economy, will moderate the panel. Joining him will be:
John Zimmer, Founder & COO of Zimride, a venture-backed ridesharing service based in Palo Alto, California.
Punsri Abeywickrema, Founder & CEO of Rentalic, a leading person-to-person rental marketplace based in Sunnyvale, California.
Casey Fenton, Founder of Couchsurfing, a leading peer-based travel accommodation site run as a nonprofit with the mission to, “Create inspiring experiences.”
Future Salons have the following structure: 6-7pm is networking with light refreshments proudly sponsored by SAP; 7-9+pm is the above format. Please RSVPhttp://bit.ly/9uQsZS
SAP Labs North America, Building 1, Room: Southern Cross. SAP is located at 3410 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304[map]. Free and open to the public.
It is becoming a bit of my signature to play the harmonica. This time it was unintended. I got asked whether I know how to flicker the room lights to get people in their seats. Sure I can do that, but I could also play some harmonica to bring everyone off their feet. The answer was: “At any other event I would love to, but at this even with so many people I am not sure how David will react …” . One of the in my mind charming features of the Future Salon is, that we tackle serious themes, but do that in a playful manner, in a relaxed atmosphere. I also seldom refuse the opportunity to make a total fool out of me ;-) So I didn’t play at the total beginning, but could not resist when I introduced myself and welcomed everyone.
finnern: Wrong crowd OD consultant? OverDose consultant? Person next to me clued me in: Organizational Development consultant ;-) #futuresalonView Tweet
This was a really interesting experience of having a total different crowed in the room. Mostly HR and Coaching professionals, I would say 70% successful women. A much better dressed crowed for sure, the flip side being I felt rightly or not more conscience of my own outfit, got my blazer for the SAP introduction.
futuresalon: Cool lots of change agents in the room Neuroscience Leadship #futuresalonView Tweet I loved that perspective to the coaching professions, they are change agents and it looks like David Rock is their rock star.
First great insight If you want to successfully change something in your company as well as personal live. Create safety first, do everything you can to ground people. We have to double our efforts in this world of accelerating change and uncertainty.
futuresalon: David Rock recommendation: Daniel J Siegel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Siegel#futuresalonView Tweet From Wikipedia: Siegel is known for his work in Interpersonal Neurobiology, which is an interdisciplinary view of life experience that draws on over a dozen branches of science to create a framework for understanding of our subjective and interpersonal lives. Source - The Developing Mind (Siegel 1999). Siegel's most recent work integrates the theories of Interpersonal Neurobiology with the theories of Mindfulness Practice and proposes that mindfulness practice is a highly developed process of both inter and intra personal attunement. Source - The Mindful Brain (Siegel 2007)
Where do you get your best ideas? In the shower, while driving, … It seems like you need to occupy some of your brain to let solutions bubble up. Very interesting insight.
futuresalon: Productivity tips: Most important 1st, most interesting 2nd (raise dopamine) short break every hour non threatening activity #futuresalonView Tweet Productivity boost in 140 characters or less. I recommend the non threatening activity to be juggling. You get your mind off to something totally different, you get some light movement in and you put some smiles on the faces around you too. Oh well, you may also distract them. Your mileage may vary.
This is probably for me one of the hardest nuts to crack. I internalize a lot of emotions and to get better at reappraising these will make an enormous difference.
Focus on SCARF is the essence of NeuroLeadership. Organizational change for example is threatening, to status as well as certainty. Good leaders adjust by improving other areas of SCARF by being proactive in communication of the changes as well as giving more autonomy.
He had spend the afternoon with a well known startup’s CEO where they were working on how to implement these into their organization. His tweet from earlier in the day reveals that it was Twitter:
davidrock101 David Rock Fab meeting today with CEO (EV) & leadership team at Twitter. They're up to great things around organizational culture. View Tweet
Cudos to Evan Williams and team from Twitter for trying to make Twitter a great organisation and place to work for.
A colleague of mine, whom I forgot to ask for permission to quote him, therefore he will remain unnamed for now, was fascinated by his message and wrote me the following:
… personal productivity, coaching, leadership/management. And even in how you come up with strategy that when communicated to people in the organization minimizes threat and maximizes reward so that you increase the chance of the strategy being adopted …
The first thing that should happen at SAP is for people to start realizing that no amount of technology innovation can transform the company unless we transform the way that we work together especially in managing and organizing ourselves
I think his observations are on the mark and relevant not only to SAP, but to all organizations that want to continue to be successful in this ever accelerating changing times.
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