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“The idea that the desk is a unit of productivity is changing very, very rapidly. Your productivity is not measured by the amount of time you sit behind a thing called a desk. It is what you do. It is about your output,” he said. “It is about getting the balance of specs right so it is not just get everybody in the open, have open plan but have the right balance of spaces where you can get in a zone of concentration.” 
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Join a group of fun and engaged activists for the joy of exploration, singing, rethinking, dancing, laughter, eating, sharing skills and organizing strategies, and more singing, storytelling and game playing.
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President Clinton was in town recently at an event with BoE Governor Mark Carney, Christine Lagarde, Paul Polman and Prince Charles amongst the many speakers. In the room were alleged to be the people who control a third of the world’s liquid assets – in short the 1%.
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Gar Alperovitz is an economist and historian at the forefront of the movement for a new economy. Join the discussion today.
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Technology has given us powerful tools to co-create and configure what we want. The conventional, top-down, one-size fits all solutions that we have been provided with so far seem to be losing their ability to solve our current challenges and to create the next level of value.
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Entrepreneurs are making fortunes with digital companies existing on a cloud. And there are a plethora of new job titles. Who would have thought five years ago that “Android instructor” would be an actual job?
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The geographer David Harvey says fixing inequality will take more than tinkering.
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When attempting to manage something, it is always best to understand what it is we’re trying to manage. For example, if one were to attempt to manage confusion, it may come as a shock when presented with a large group of guinea fowl (yes, it is one of those weird animal group names). With the excitement surrounding the business potential in social media, wouldn’t it be nice to start with a great definition?
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Using this article to create a local conversation around organizing for a new economy Want to promote local action for economic democracy? Here’s a few ways to build a strategic dialogue in your community about systemic solutions: 1) Share this article We’ve prepared a PDF version of this article for easy printing—feel free to distribute [...]
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Life today is drastically different from the way it was 200 years ago. Technology has completely reshaped people’s lives and work by moving them from the land to the factory to the office. People now live longer, and the quality of life has improved in many ways. But many think that society has suffered losses as well, and a few wonder how to regain what has been lost. One of those people is Aaron Hurst. He has asked, and then answered, some very important questions: What if technology enabled impact, stronger relationships, and personal growth? What if success was measured more by the quality of what one creates rather than how much money one makes? What if companies were built to cultivate rather than exploit the planet and the people living on it? What if purpose-driven, human-centered work was not a nice-to-have but, for everyone, a must-have? Welcome to the Purpose Economy. Hurst, globally recognized as a top social entrepreneur, explains that the progression of economies, from agrarian to industrial to information, has not stopped. What will be next? Hurst says, “I look across every industry, and the post-information-economy changes we see are about increasing purpose for people and having deeper, more meaningful relationships.”
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The Dalai Lama was invited by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) to discuss human happiness, economics and the moral core of free enterprise. In the media, the AEI is described as a conservative or a right-wing think tank. The Dalai Lama, with other invited speakers, was at the AEI for about three hours to talk on this important subject. In (social) media the following sentiment ruled the days after this visit:
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The rules for the new economy haven't been written yet. Well, they have...it's just that they were written 50+ years ago when the 9-to-5, 30-years-and-a-gold-watch career path was the rule, not the exception. They haven't kept up with the changing economy or the new workforce.
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I am envisioning a new global economic system1 where you do not provide service or goods to another person because they pay you, but because you evaluate how much, which and how they themselves have provided services and goods to others in the past. You announce your availability of a given service or goods to others, interested apply, and based on your values, beliefs, and information about their past contributions, you decide to whom you then provide given service or goods. Such economy promotes balance, is not impersonal and can properly award cultural, artistic, and sustainable services and goods.
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This past weekend was the 103rd birthday of the late Ernst Friedrich “Fritz” Schumacher. An economist and scientist, Schumacher has picked up an eclectic coterie of fans and admirers over the years, as evinced bythe list of “new economy” speakers recommended by the Schumacher Center for a New Economic, including Hazel Henderson, Jeremy Rifkin, Frances Moore Lappé, Peter Barnes, and NPQ friend Gar Alperovitz. Among the luminaries who have delivered the annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures have been Benjamin Barber, Ivan Illich, John McClaughry, John McKnight, Van Jones, Bill McKibben, Kirkpatrick Sale, Winona LaDuke, and frequent NPQ contributing author Bill Schambra.
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In practice, a new class of middlemen and intermediate agents is busy emerging to take their share of the pie. Two months ago in response to complaints by the hotel industry, the city of New York imposed restrictions on renting out flats and rooms through the website Airbnb, an online accomodation agency.
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Professor Jan Jonker, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands will publish a new book in the series: New Business Models. This book: Samen werken aan waardecreatie or – translated in my own words: Collaboration for value creation – will be presented and discussed during the Symposium New Business Models, November 13, 2014. It is an inspirational book which will hopefully activate more people to implement WEconomy. This blog post tells about the co-writing process and zooms in on Guiding principles for WEconomy, the chapter of the book my group has been working on.
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From Value Chains to Stacks: how technology is transforming the architectures of whole industries In the past decades, technology has driven waves of industr...
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Nielsen's latest research shows that the sharing economy just keeps getting bigger. Here's what that means for your business.
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Welcome to the era where we get the chance to create a new economy, one that is collaborative, participatory and creative. This new economy is not hamstrung by old systems, processes and politics. The new economy is defined by ‘expand to include’ and ‘leading from your current position’.
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We are witnessing technology give rise to a new economy and push prosperity to new heights. This new economy is based on creativity, new platforms, and open data — unlike the old economy of scale — based on an industrial and concrete system. New technologies are making way for collaborative consumption and a true sharing economy. This peer-to-peer industry is valued at more than $26 billion a year — with the added value of a new trusting and cooperative community. Miami, through events like the May 1-7 Emerge Americas Tech Conference and IBM’sMade with IBM initiatives, is working to jump-start this opportunity.
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A debt-free money system as an alternative to a debt-based money system (money-as-debt) may seem too good to be true, but there are now practical examples of debt-free money systems that have been implemented by communities around the world. Debt-free money is important because economies are suffocating in a growing mountain of debt.
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Cahootify is the team-based recruitment and collaboration platform for freelancers, project leaders and employers in the fast-evolving world of work. Cahootify exists to help people do more of the work that they love. We want to help talented, dedicated and value-led people come together to make interesting, exciting, worthwhile projects happen - no matter how “commercial” or “social” those projects are. Our mission is to become a leading online talent acquisition and management platform - and the leading platform worldwide for sourcing or joining dynamic, flexible project teams. Cahootify - love work more! Click here to invest anything from £10 to £10,000 in our crowdfunding campaign and own a share of the business; we're raising £105,000 to help us improve and market the platform.
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When I started my life of activism I worked on political issues, ones that make the blood boil, and experienced the government and corporations trying to poison the largest aquifer in the US with radioactive waste. We fought extremely important fights and we won some battles temporarily but often ended up losing them again later when we weren’t looking or lacked organisation. Then, working in state legislature and on local politics, I soon realised that if you win it’s often a fluke — if you challenge business interests the money game is almost always stacked in their favour. This leads to a growing sense of disempowerment with our political system, which is at once undeniably realistic and at the same time a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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The term and meaning of a Resource Based Economy was originated by Jacque Fresco. It is a holistic socio-economic system in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude. All resources become the common heritage of all of the inhabitants, not just a select few. The premise upon which this system is based is that the Earth is abundant with plentiful resource; our practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter productive to our survival.
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The Purpose Economy 100 was created by Imperative in partnership with CSRWire to celebrate the pioneers who are driving the evolution of our economy from one based on information to one based on people and their quest for purpose. The list was compiled based on hundreds of nominations across the country. At the early stages of this economic shift, we felt the best way to capture it was through the stories of its pioneers, celebrating them and inspiring new leaders of the emerging Purpose Economy. View the list as an infographic or interactive profiles below. Later this year we will be releasing international editions of the list.
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