Great seeing to you yesterday

 

The value chain analysis lady at USAID that I think it would be worth fixing a meeting with between you and me is Jeanne Downing . Her job title says Senior Enterprise Development Adviser. She has been coordinating a whole series of breakfast meetings on value chain analysis. The two cases I most recall were Bangladesh with CARE and Kenya with Dao (I first met Tony Barclay in Bethesda who used to run Dao because of BRAC correpondence - do you still stay in touch). It seems to me that Value Chain analysis is DC-speak for one of the main strategic interventions BRAC has led, as well as ultimately one of the main tools of all involved in transparency maps - 20 years of work on this as the antidote to what Price Waterhouse Coopers taught my peers to do in early 1990s makes me feel I have something that Sir Ronald Cohen needs as well as his technical adviser David Blood who also co-founded a sustainability investors Group with Al Gore. MIT's Berner Lee has also been working in London on community responsibility for social services but I havent found out on what. Back in London it is micro-energy groups we have highest level connections with through being co-activists of Economist shareholders and common interests of prince charles and bbc nature coorespodents and micelha palin (a huge cross-cultural supporter of bangladesh). Another fascinating charcater I need to find an excuse to interview in london is Mo Ibrahim who made his money with cell phones in an africa but sponsors the largest transparent leadership prize in africa, and links in his knowledge with MIT.

 

. One of my foci in making a diary of what mobile can do to make the world better is what mobile interventions can microcredit networks now use to change the value quality producers get however small they are. The example of milk quality now being a mobile app is one with analogies in many other critical poor-producers markets cooperative certification. I recommend that someone at BRAC needs to get quadirs team updating this catalogue from its centre of practice in this sort of area, and its link into all the student entrepreneur competitions and capital channels that linkin to makiing MIT number 1 job creating university in the world (creating more jobs than all but 10 nations!). Sir Fazle's daughter http://legatum.mit.edu/TamaraAbed (dont understand why she is named as BRAC Diary) already appears at the legatum web as a friend of Legatum, and the link between mastercard as a huge supporter of Iqbal and as BRAC partner in Uganda may be key. The Mastercard foundation http://www.mastercardfdn.org/microfinance.htm is based in Toronto, and I look for an excuse to interview them

 

I am trying to find out anything I can on CARE and Opportunity as potential the right side, and I abslutely want to demolish Accion's goodwill rankings (I do not accept impoverishing mexico microcredit to build an americal charities funds, and being headquartered in Boston I have serially seen accion trying to fund students to do macro things with micro). Unfortunaetly the former head of Accion went to work for Hilary, and I still havent worked out what damage that did.

 

(Another interesting way into value chain and producers value is www.makerfaireafrica.com an annual expo of artisns in any core community sector - I know its convenor who also led the hosting of Ted Africa in Tanzania - he is actualy based in New York as much as he is based. To date the 3 maker faires have been strategically convened in Egypt, Ghana, and Kenya. It is interesting to me that the other link to value chain analsys in DC Karen Spainhower (whose paper on BRAC we published in teh special issue) says the 3 countries she is confident her group know how to make progress in are these three. Of course the other very micro intervention in produce markets is wholefoods. I look for any chance to interview mackey and still believe he is a natural sponsor for a Texas youth1000 but the grameen partner who sits on wholeplanet board wont help me (well until I get Monica to be more confident in asking that yunus partners in usa help each other and her)

 

Technically I was a bit astonished to hear that BRAC might put its name to a brand without demanding that others who invest in that have to recognise the goodwill of BRAC as worth more than eg the money they put in. Maybe that also explains how Yunus first went wrong from his viewpoint with grameen phone. Someone like Branson wouldnt extend Virgin without requiring the brand's value be fully recognised by other investors- and apart from Hasina issue Grameen and BRAC remain the 2 most vital trust brands in deveolping world, and in effect in determining the future goals the net generation is empowered to produce. They are (or if microcreditsummit had been conceived correctly in 1997) as much signature brands of the knowledge networking age as Coca-Cola was of the distribute fast moving consumer goods age. While Sam Daley-Harris is one of the most modestly well-motivated and charming educators I ever expect to meet, his peer group's ignorance of the conflicts in media and economics has been part of the problem withy microcredisummit which could have been the worlds number 1 process of actioning millennium goals the net generation voted for as per my dads 1984 book http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html

I continue to believe that Sam needs to meet you before he gets too far into shaping his new civil society network. Realistically that probably means offering to go up and down one day on the train to princeton. In the event that your diary can accomodate that please tell me. I wish to take time to do a part 2 of everything microcreditsummit has learnt. In the few weeks available to compile issue 3, Zasheem and I didnt get much help in trying to find the collaborative stories that 15 years of microcreditsummit could have bene networking round - but we thought it was best to put something in every delegates hand in spain and then work out who wanted to be reinterviewed on what they would have wanted to be in a sumary of all that has been action learnt so far. I guess the young leaders at www.mficonnect.com, Ingrid Munro, Peter Ryan of www.microloandfoundation.org are the three who may already agree to be active re-writers of the issue we handed out. At a European level I know most of Paris' movers and shakers of microcredit; I know the one person who went to spain from grameen 5 years ago and knows anoine who is doing good stuff in spain.At least Yunus made sure Queen Sofia knew who he is. I hope to become better linked to the EU's eastern links with microcredit- it is useful that Poland is a major linker in of this as my father was probalbly Polands number 1 international adviser of what economics spins in its first 5 years of separation from USSR. I hope to sponsor an eastern europe christmas happy hour in DC . I will also keep on at sam. Would love any advice you have- I guess this is a project with about a year to run.

 

Fingers crossed that Sir Fazle's operation is a success. Focusing, I would say Monica Yunus is the one person I wish could be inttroduced to the abed family. Her attempt to unite artists and communities is at www.singforhope.org - her mentors include Placido Domingo. Her story is that until 9/11 she thought that focusing on being the best she could possibly be at opera was enogh; but since that moment she has asked how can the famous people she meet support upcoming artists to support spending any extra time they have cheering up communities - particularly schools and hospitals in new york region. This is a model I have been theoretically working on for 8 years. The West has contructed mass media to make the most artificial of stars so that youth no longer no who the real heroes are. I aslo want to end the extremely uneconomical advertising spot and get corporations with youth brands celebrating things like youth1000 jobs brainstorming - I try and make sure Monica is aware of these other colaboratively most interesting youth projects of yunus. and while she doesnt want it I assume that by 2020 what good ihe world assocaited with Yunus will mainly be linked in round her.

 

Hoping Sir Fazle makes a good recovery - if you think he would ever want a private facilitaion in dialogue of what is the future connection between the goodiwll of brac and the leadership roles of his diffeernt family members I would gf course be delighted to travel to Dhaka to see if any of the case comparisoons I know of can help facilitate such discuision. And of course from my point of view anyone with the Abed name is most welome to join in being identified with 2010s being youths most productive decade www.yclub100.com if I can ever get that to be a club worth everyones while. The only way I can think of getting economics and media back to what my father thougth teir purose was is to keep on searching out those whose actions are compatible with this clubs mission of 2010s as youths most productive decade

 

best chris

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0 1984 the internet generation can be 10 times more productive : their most exciting decade 2010s depends on doubling knowledge around ending poverty first

1 2008 consider bangladesh2 1962 consider japan

3 1975 consider asian pacific www century -

4  1975 americas 3rd century - Time review5 1976 entrepreneurial revolution6 1982 intrapreneurial now 
7 1984  healtchare is compounding bust futures everywhere8 every place's safest future for innovative youth and sustainable families is to have government controling under 25% of how peoples earnings are spent http://oxbridge.tv 9 1972 - from 2012 global financial system will serially implode unless we have redesigned a segment of sustainable capital markets being thoise that invest in every nations youths jobs and what the net generation vote for as the next decades most heroic goals
10 the view from messina is the EU is worth co-creating if only to end europe as epicentre iof world war http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU1qSQzTN7k

11 prince charles in his be-fated japan tour

 

World’s Greatest Innovation – General Search   It seems to me that if a person  and her or his founding team members are prepared  to commit a lifetime to asking people in most desperate need what they need most, and helping their families create jobs that serve more and more of those communal needs in a sustainable way then it is quite possible that a world’s greatest innovation will emerge during that lifetime pursuit   I realize that there are multiple lens for judging what a world’s greatest innovation is form social to economic, from cultural to what past and future generations can do differently as humanity builds on each last generation’s progress in what may be very patchy ways while mans endeavours were geographically separated. By Grameen Social Business microcredit passes every mathematical test I - or any other mathematician my dad or I have been able to find - can transparently throw at it.   Admittedly part of what has made the world’s first and largest bank owned by the poor sustainable is unique. The poor’s savings were invested in the greatest ever mobile telephone licence deal ever made because Grameen was there when the world’s mobile telephony industry assumed the world’s poorest nation would be the last to need its services while Grameen’s poorest women members demonstrated they were the first to be able to increase productivity with such a tool.     Does that mean Grameen is a one-off? No if you buy into the topline hypothesis. And no: because at least two other thriving examples exist – another in Bangladesh and one in Kenya.   Equally nobody has a chance in reproducing this world’s greatest innovation unless: They mathematically what in its system design cant be changed (eg the ownership model), what you should only change if you can prove you have a different combination of conflicts to innovate through, and what would need to be changed because of a wholly different environment.   The long-term first nature of exponential win-win-win impacts is valued by seeking a founding team which in some way can sustain as much energy as that which has taken Grameen’s founders 35 years of work. The good news here comes from a hypothesis that dad and I forecast 27years ago, . Probably around 2010 the annual doubling which moores law configured around capacity of silicon chips would move on focused knowlwedge network actions ob those life critical needs whose degrees of separation (from global expert to locally most needy) we most needed to reduce

World’s Greatest Innovation- Person Exploration   By age of 22 I had decided that if I possibly could I would spend my life’s work on some combination of mathematics, media and researching innovation.   Why? Six generations of my family have worked in media or mediation. I had personally found maths what I liked best at school and at6 graduate and postgraduate levels of university. The mathematical part of projects can be quite lonely but seeing that the data applies actual innovations people need is more than sufficient reward.   Also I lucked out: my first full time on turned out to be a project which created an hourly internet between 500 young psychologists. I was helping both to build content and to study how they used new media to learn, and indeed what behavioural responses improved or blocked their learning.

 

Linda- I'd happily come up to boston any time if you could arrange 2 collab cafes for me
1 is with you
2 is a cafe with some people you are most working with but also with sloan and mit entrepreneurs- sloan sponsored lots of my dads writing and my dad's last big story was 10 times more economical banking is possible - as long as we "the net generation interacting with the poorest" dont call it microcredit but get on with open sourcing the more economical basic banking models of the triple-win models joy of economics for and by people:
*grameen that is community (global village) based
*jamii bora which is peer network based
*brac which redesigns whole markets to be free from the bottom up
 
we can blend these models and we have barely begun to map what heroic peoples banking china is already innovating - what happens to being economical when  you take an ebay tech for the poor and a banking model for the poor and have every poor person accessing free markets through zero cost mobile telecoms?
 
THE GEN THAT DOUBLED SOMETHING EVERY YEAR FOR 40 YEARS
-what will that something be- orwell's and wall street big brotherhood, or adam smith's and yunus'  future herstory of openly free markets? Youths choice: Exciting 2010s phew!
 
like every crisis of opportunity there are before and after being networked models of the above; dad (and I believe peter drucker) would say once we have understood networking win-wins and digitals death of distance these models can make basic banking not only 10 time but 100 times more economical; thats why reaching out to the berners lees, the $100 laptop, the others in mit who are moibile networking entreprenurs is important - the purpose of basic banking integrates optimalisation of the productivity of every persons life by interfacing sustainable communiuty grounded systems (of health, clean food water energy, action elarning instead of examined stanadrads, amart medi ) around them
 
basic banking uses the ideas of loans, savings and insurance both to invest in the human's being productive lifelong develoment expoentials , to hub how life-shaping knowledge multiplies in use and to design community grounded markets where the value of all the (net)work stays in the community or the peer network but in such a way that the market's equity is owned or wholly and ecologically participated in by the poorest or (as yet) least employed
 
mobile operations (when a media is owned by the poorest - the huge innovation of grameen phone) can bring the cost of hosting markets and monitoring of financial transcations down to almost nothing
 
you can download the first version of celebrate bangladesh which we launched at the economist boardroom at www.macrae.tv  - before yunus testimony in congress I would like to help fcitizens publish future capital celebration of
1 kenya & s.africa
2. east coast cities boston through dc
3 spain
4 paris
5 glasgow
 
of course anywhere else too but 1,4 and 5 like bangladesh are spaces to learn with
2 and 3 most deperately need to celebrate connecting the actions and constitutions of 10 times more economical banking if europe and usa are to join in net gen's most exciting decade
 
chris macrae DC:  301 881 1655 Family Foundations skype isabellawm
 
Especially I copied these people for the following reasons (* means met at dad's party in Economist boardroom)
*peter microloanfoundation obviously
 
*jonathan and lesley - their 6000 entrepreneurs www.the-hub.net  in 50 shared city open spaces know most about hubs as a worldwide citizen opportunity to connect global villages and spent the last week seeing what projects lesley can volunteer first around ingrid and jamii bora
 
*estelle corresponds out of paris whetre global social business partnering of yunus began and her dad open sources the most economical transactiin standard of mobile age
 
3000 LEADER CLUB OF SB & 2010s MOST EXCITING DECADE
*Bangladeshi freedom fighter-peacemakers zasheem, and *shafi and Bangladeshi vilage student *mostofa - we need a one pager on the microloanfoundation -mit view on how to make 2010s most exciting ; zasheem is developing the first issue of a journal of social business which includes such vision pledges and which my family is giving a loan to so it will be mailed to 3000 leaders yunus choses; if people have other ideas of leaders peer networks to mail to - of course we will loan for that too

Bangladesh-home of 10 times more economical economics - 40th birthday 2011
 
mostofa is spending next month in dhaka improving version 1 of celebrate bangaldesh as sustainability word's trade centre - a brochure we launched at the economist boardroom to celebrate dads life as well as his joy of linking in to the most economical economist in the world dr yunus - the person who can connect the human common sense of this debate across our region without even mention banking words is monica yunus www.singforhope.org  in new york; and sam is the person who is designing people summits so that you can celebrate society with or without the banking if we believe in designing constitutions and media around optimising every youth's lifetime productivity potentials; chris temple and alex are west and east coast students leading mfi connections
 
alvin-toffler futurist alumn eric meade clarified (for me) in 2 hour collab cafe yesterday how the way to win the microcredit wars is not to mention microcredit just get on with impement banking models that are 10 times more economical/pursposeful- the good thing about inviting the net generation to play this game is that 99% of stuff big banking thinks matters professionally is utterly irrelevant once we innovate death of distance age in which we can all be virtually as well as geographically useful in serving each other
 
alex is the nearest hub member in dc to me and raj the nearest compass member and charles skuba his professorial mentor who has also distributed 200 yunus books around georgetown mba students; alex 2 and *chris are east coast and west coast student connectors of www.mficonnect.com
 
hopefully and joyfully yes we can see some interpersonal connections to get webbing!

dear ... and ...  please could you choose time & place we can meet ...

paris branch week of 20 april- I will be at same hotel (rue racine ) where you met sofia and me last time; if you want to come round and pick up photocopy of draft of the book please say- either we can meet for a coffee or i can leave copy of book at reception for you if I know you are coming

I am trying to map various ways readers can mobilise round the book at http://www.worldcitizen.tv/ ; of course I am happy to post other suggestions; in fact I am most delighted if each city (with one or more alumni fan networks of yunus) has a particular collaboration action approach it wants to post. I am connecting about 400 youth from the 3 leading business schools in dc region to test market lots of different collaboration actions; once  I know some of these , I am more than happy to put youth chapter leaders in direct contact; I dont want to be in the way of anything that might open up do nows of sb collaboration 

Back in 1993 with gary hamel's and ck prahalad's permission I coined the leadership practice of brand architecture to neighbour their family of strategic architecture tools - how to connect brands, identities, and component parts of marketing mix inside and across organsitions designed to network unique purposes. In any brand architecture one needs to:

find the epicentre that wll sustain whatever gets cocked up by others

double check that the epicenhtre can't be spoilt whatever others do

the budget epicentre of sustainability decade 2010s with all due respect to hero yunus  (and I rate him the greatest media player of all time ) is grameen danone - so let's create  ning of that and map why the whole entrepreneurial world depends on what france collaboration networks - entreprenons, generation solidaire, vive la monde 

chris macrae

Franck Riboud and Muhammad Yunus to be honored by Pasteur Institute Monday May 17

 

Through my working life I have become more and more passionate about searching out the most purposeful originations in the world and understand  how their systems are designed. It seems to me that purposeful organizations are good for everyone, employee, customer, owner, societies they re in as well as your nation and world. I think that purposeful organizations need be part of education of every age group. Why aren’t they?

 

I don’t think we need to get too clever about the search for purpose.. Its pretty common sense stuff. Buy yes perhaps it matters most when it comes sustanabolity issues where for example on out of 7 children born to day has almost no chance of  meaningful life- will be ill hungry abused and expected to go to works at 11 with almost no education.

 

It is evident that the world we live in does not value purposeful organizations truly – and that may either be a measurement issue or  celebration issue. So for example if your wish to argue that there is a whole cluster of purposeful organizations that will be ignores because there is no way they can make high profits, I would argue that these organizations should get positive discrimination when it comes to publicity- and clearly they don’t – not even in the country I come from where  huge share of voice is constitutionally kept in public broadcasting.

 

As it happens beginning round 1988 I started studying both metric and medic errors partly for my first sole authored book World Class Brands. I now have a huge catalogue of  metrics errors Roughly I will lay tem out according to 3 interconnected system properties that are mot measured properly

 

Brand trust and goodwill

 

Transparency

 

Sustainability s  exponential dynamic whether you model that at a global market level, an individual organization system  or of some network of partners

 

I was horrified by the invention of brand valuation algorithms in the late 1980s. They were constructed so that the brand's value went up the more it advertised. The reality is that heavily advertised organizations are usually the least purposeful – first because if you are highly purposeful you don’t need a  lot of advertising image. Secondly because the cost of minds has gone up faster than just about anything – to be ad led brand means to know that this company has already damaged the economics of its cost structure

 

In service and knowledge economies, goodwill is worth more than all the things a company makes; and goodwill depends mainly on peoples relationships and trusts being purposefully kept but we are ruled over by a global accounting standard that decrees people are always costs to cut while things can be booked in as investments. This is probably the greatest maths errors that global accounting numbers make though there are many others. The mindset of global accounting may be the most non-systemic of all professions. For example, it is part of the professions ideology that they are counting up the past to the current second but never beyond. This has weird and sad effects. Firstly any speculative manager can make more profit in its last quarter by cutting something which damages quality but whose  impact on sales is lagged. egg if I make chocolate biscuits and because chocolate is the most expensive ingredient, I halve chocolate input, then my costs will come down and in the current period this consumer probability wont find out. So I make more profit for that period while making it almost certain I lose future sales. In the old days we used to call this milking of a brand, and any marketer who deliberately did this would be fired. But today global accounts spreadsheet do this all the time; its almost as if they re so number focused they don’t even know they are milking.

 

One of the worst things to do with a brand and its goodwill is to make strong promises which you have no capability to keep. Te gap between brand as image and brand s earning its trust has got greatest every year since the start of brand valuation algorithms and managing by spreadsheet numbers. Its no wonder that surveys how trust is plummeting. This is a vicious spiral ; and yet for 22 year's that I have bee raising it most people shrug their shoulders. So what? Well ultimately we end up min so much untruth that people cant see the woods from the trees- clearly wall street couldn't in its recent meltdown

 Coming soon more on transparency and sustainability’s abuse by major professions

please help us rate them - please dont ask me to rate my own family's reach I know too well at eg http://www.normanmacrae.com/future_history.html http://erworld.tv http://worldclassbrands.tv http://isabellawm.com

1 Yunus Future Networks of Sustinability - unfortnunataly yunus keeps changing the name of these - betwen 20o5-2009 they were called future capitalism - he now calls them (global) social business and creative labs as far as I can see; stiill he is the only person with worldwide awreness and friends optimistically connecting all the biggest wishes of sustainability (see correspondence lower down); help us case that at http://journalofsocialbusiness.com

2 other nominations DC region where I live : alvin toffler -along with peter drucker, toflfer inmspired dd and I more than anyone else to imagine in the 1980s whether the net geneartion would susrvive or not; ralph nader (forget the politics- thius gut has comnsistley impoverished himself to try to fight for communities and consmers and demands respect in any world where people ask questions but ban political answers)

3 spin must get bck to work of manuel castales

4 canda don tapscott's work on net generation ws always very commercia buyt therwise as ner as right for the future as comentato0rs in the kidst of big client coulkd get

5 the work of jim colains remins extraordinary - why re there no practice networks if it

6 my dd was co-brnder of intraprenur of j gifford pichot - wonder where te traytown movement went; similrly where do herman kahn hudson institiyute networkers impact tody's debates

7 somewehre in the depths of MIT I ssume these futurists nd the web still try to breathehe; equivlently in indi is nilekani te mn; in chna is jck of ali baba the mn? ; in dhakr does it ll connect with www.grameensolutions.com and www.bnkbillion.org

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my maternal grandad sir kenneth kemp was a bar of london barrister who fought, and over 25 years came to work with, another Bar of London barrister - Mahatma Gandhi. Granddad's favourite motto when I was four and he was soon to die; nothing is impossible. What was he mentored on by Gandhi  mainly in the city that was then called Bombay? That most innovative type of system transformation -the human relationship and hi-trust network practices needed when a country's people are being poverty chained by your own profession - in gandhi's and grandads case the colonial laws of Empiredom.

. To Vidar ceo of Grameen America and http://www.worldcongress.com/ Dear Vidar - in response to your qustion about the superb microcredit stsudent club at princeton  There were 2 co-student club leaders jhiller@princeton.edu, abhatia@princeton.edu Jacob Hiller and  Ankit Bhatia  - friends like peter burgess and sam daley-harris may be able to add to my review: club interested in all micro-application areas one of 2 best I have visited in terms of likely sustainability from micro-up viewpoint blog is at http://princetonmicrofinance.wordpress.com/ The sponsoring dean was  Karen McGuiness at Woodrow Wilson Scholo of International Affairs - her full contact details are at this staff list http://wws.princeton.edu/people/index.xml?display=Staff details of the meeting I attended folow- if anyone wants to blog on any of the 7 micro area at the blog http://yunusforum.blogspot.com/ we are cerating around dr yunus 69th birthday party at launch of youth ambassador 5000 please say

MCI NY : Grameen .. ASA .. BRAC .. FC NY 1 1 2 Youth's Future Capitalism NY Jan08 3 Collaboration Solar Energy 1 2 Capitalism 4 Goodwill*Ypartners : corp CGI JFH TDA 10000 Uni 5 womens microcredit 1 2 6 mobile/internet for poor Future Capitalism 1 2 3

 understanding is that dr yunus wants youth & anyone to pitch any social business idea to him and other microcredit leaders on june 29 http://yunusforum.net http://futurecapitalism.com

20 april 2009

Dear Sir Keith

 

Wonderful speaking to you on telephone today- here’s the dr yunus good news story.

 

My father and I feel that networks connected with Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus are mapping the most exciting entrepreneurial breakthroughs using the internet. They have already reduced the cost of basic banking by ten fold - making it possible for the poorest to get loans to create work, as well as communally collaborating on ending poverty. Father and I bought 1000 copies of Dr Yunus new book at the start of last year since we felt that it is the only one that truly values the compound impacts of sustainability investment.

 

Last year we hosted a lunch for dr yunus in London and this year I am arranging for a 69^th birthday party for dr yunus in Dhaka http://yunusforum.net  . He particularly wants students around the world to understand that there is an alternative system design forward to the macro way of Wall Street’s big banks. Since he was awarded the Nobel prize he has been challenging most resourced organizations to partner with his deepest grassroots service networks, and celebrate the outcomes with youth. These future capitalism  partnerships guarantee no loss to the corporations involved but any surplus of the joint social business is reinvested in replicating the franchise. For example, with the French water multinational Veolia’s capability to filtrate out arsenic, Grameen has just opened up drinking water sold at 80 times less cost than any commercial water supplier.

 

In effect Dr Yunus is offering corporations a far better way to global brand than spending money just on advertising.

 

Health partnerships are the overall top focus of Dr Yunus with about five signed up his first 12 months of launching future capitalism – including GE : imaging, Mayo Clinic: training, Pfeizer: health insurance. I log up new partnerships that I hear of at http://www.yunuspartners.com. The two attachments are talking points which Dr Yunus inspired 2000 delegates with at last weeks http://www.worldcongress.com including details of his progress on $2 health insurance which is at http://www.grameenkalyan.org

 

It would be fantastic if anyone comes to your mind in Britain who might be interested in exploring the idea of collaborating with Dr Yunus’ health vision and partnerships further.  I can either put them in contact with the most relevant people in Bangladesh or if there are any young researchers of others who would want to join in our day’s brainstorming with dr yunus on June 29, of course they would be most welcome

 

I have researched innovative organizations all my life and never come across one with people doing so much with so little as grameen. They still treat the internet as a blessing that can change every way that knowledge is connected unlike many organizations in the west.

 

Sincerely

  

Chris Macrae

You can ask Mostofa any details you like. He has been working directly with dr yunus leadership secretariat on youth outreach on surrounding interview/field visits program for Dhaka june 29 as announced at http://yunusforum.net . This has been exponentially increasing since the Nobel prize when citizens around the world asked dr yunus to develop forum social network spaces with them and where dr yunus prioritised undergraduate city centres as one area to collaborate with. Dr Yunus has spent about 50 days a year connecting with youth since the nobel prize; june 29 is an opportunity to debrief what the future impacts of this are from all hemispheres of interaction and social business networking tools, and content resources eg http://yunus10000.com  (host some good news dialogues) http://bankabillion.org (mobile) http://muhammadyunus.org (leadership choices that adam smith might have expected open business universities or world service media could debate) http://www.grameenkalyan.org (health)  http://www.gshakti.org (energy)

I am just a mathematician, and both my dad and I have applied our lives mainly to crises in media models. I was fascinated by dr yunus future capitalism book as it is the only open publication with sustainability investment metrics congruent with my dad  http:///www.normanmacrae.com  and my's compound/systemic standards http://erworld.tv  not just in banking but all major areas of sustainability . It shows that after the nations first third of a century, Bangladesh is well on the way to inviting the world to join in 10 times more economical banking * health * education * media * energy ..see also the new publishing genre innovationg collaboration that Bangladeshi networking friends of Dr Yunus launched at start of this year..and  the netfuture scenario of compound opportunity of ending digital divides of dad and my 1984 book summary in future history section of normanmacrae.com -specific 1984  forecast 21st C sustainability would need a reality tv program on poverty museum apprenticeships co-produced by DD and BBC, hosted by a nobel laureate and connected to internet searches for 30000 replicable community rising projects by interactive viewers

My friends and I are trying to invite as deeply concerned people as possible who either know my family's microeconomic models in these practrice areas or who are leading youth's collaborations bottom-up including eg obama yes we can networks to converge on dhaka at june 29 orv who support the bangladeshi national strategy as scripted by alumini of people like yunus and fazle abed. Unfortunately USA yes we can self-confidence of american youth is being shredded with every falso move or delay in rectifying the corruptions wall street reigned and still reigns over. With George Bush being the 21st C's Kaiser Wilhelm, we are now probably at the last crossroads in the war between microeconomics (sustainability) and macroeconomics (which gandhi/einstein/von neumann to name but 3 all warned would compound a unsustainable planet at local levels. A crossroads impacting a whole generation or probably as Einstein anticipated our whole species survival.

If we can get the right sort of first reunion, perhaps we can make this an annual day after birthday party for dr yunus (this is his 69th year) and all who agree with his national startegy of bangladesh as number 1 sustainabuility investor/replicator/networker. I am sure far motre capable people than me exist to invite people to collaboration celebrations ensuring we dont return to old wall street's normalcy, but then playing with global branding concepts is what I have done for 20 years since my 1989 book world calss brands. Its quite possible to experiment on big ideas with as low cost as experimenting on small ideas. why wouldnt the next generation want to make poverty museums their collaboration space race if only elders encouraged them not to lurk now 

I will bcc you on a few mails that show how our homework is developing, or please ask more specific questions

My maternal grandad was britain's main barrister interfacing with gandhi over the quarter century from the 1920s that removed top-down colonial profwessions- this makes a 6th area of collaboration the social MBA because currently MBAs are destructing worldwide sustainability as fast as the English were destructing Indian communities in the 1920s

Do you know people like Ganesh and Modjtaba who have had to hear my stories on that topic since 2004 when I gave a Delhi talk (the coming wars between goodwill and badwill networks -what would a brand architecture for peace look like - co-sponsor sunil's company in india) at Indira Gandi Centre as part of the annual celebration of the global reconciliation network.

cheers

chris macrae

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=yunuschoolusa&aq=f

a response to sir martin at FT's old capitalism blog

My exponential disagreement with Sir Martin reaches new heights. Everything to do with trust-flow, communal goodwill and transparency of information, of which brands are a pivotal connector, has been misvalued by Global Accounting's Light Brigade who measure how much money they take out every quarter to the exclusion of how much productive and demanding sustainability is being compounded into the future's purpose of the identity (brand) or network identity (worldwide sector and/or brand partnering architecture). Back in 2000 Brookings issued a report "unseen wealth" forecasting that whilst the missing maths of trilliondollaraudit went unaccounted for, risk would compound ever more bubbles - as we saw with dotcoms, andersen, enron, other ponzi schemes, corporations that claimed they could not afford to be the first to lead industry sector responsibility, housing, banking, rating agencies, insurance. Meanwhile what wasn't invested in while these short-term rulers towered down on us includes healthcare, green energy, education, jobs created at community levels. In the midst of this mass media has played a depressing  and distractional role that has often gone way beyond inconvenient truth. Obama has said we have tried top-down global and our lesson is it does not work. The idea that the pendulum will swing back to the old normalcy seems wholly unreasonable -and in these times ungracious - to communicate. ChrisMacrae.com

part of a 20 year debate on how the maths of brand valuation did not need to value image over reality, speculator value over shareholder integrating value, Andersen-logo campaigns over identifying 21st century responsiblity of the big 5 accounants,...

thanks Bill, and a new question - are life insurers (MET, PRU, HIG, LNC, GNW, AIG) on the brink

there's certainly a lot to like about the format of the chrismartenson presentation but thanks too for the heads up of being wary about the motivation

one of the other pennies that dropped today was people really need to search through not just the immediate barons of wall street who are trying everything they can to influence (I would say pervert) democracy of treating bankrupt organisations as bankrupt by calling what they own too big to fail but the indirect barons

it wasnt obvious to me until it was mentioned that one of the biggest owners of junk banks is probably warren buffett - so even those who I guess many of us have previously assumed were sensible investors as opposed to speculators may not be worth trusting in this of all risky moments

I guess I fera for Obama because I am not sure he has anyone in his inner circle capable of searching this independently

chris

--- On Thu, 9/4/09, Bill Sharon  wrote:

Subject: RE: a thread on did x really say that about banking
To: "'christopher macrae'" <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thursday, 9 April, 2009, 1:28 AM

Chris,

There is a guy named Chris Martenson at www.chrismartenson.com who has something called the Crash Course.  It is about 15 – 16 video chapters that provide an excellent explanation of how the monetary system works and how what is happening was not only predictable but the only possible outcome of our monetary system.  The presentation is well done and as dispassionate as one can be about what is going on.  So I would recommend the Crash Course.

Unfortunately, I don’t subscribe to the conclusions that Martinson draws from his analysis.  I interviewed him on my radio show and contributed to his website for a while but then discovered that he is into separating the responsible people from the so-called irresponsible people.  I found that thinking reprehensible not only because it is divisive but also because he knows better.  So I recommend the Crash Course but not the content of the rest of the site.  Frank Sinatra could sing but you probably wouldn’t have wanted him as a friend – and so it is with Martenson.

I recall a conversation that we had several months ago when I was saying to you that I didn’t think the time was right for organizing because there were not enough people who really understand what is going on.  I think that is still the case but I don’t think it will be very long before there are enough folks for there to be critical mass.  The question then becomes – what should we do.

My sense is that it is more about changing individual behavior than it is about mass rallies and demonstrations.  We are in a debt based monetary system.  If people begin to live within their means and begin to save money that will fundamentally change the system. It’s not dramatic but at the end of the day it is really the only thing that will foster change.

Geithner’s plans will fail because they don’t make any sense.  The monetary system hasn’t made any sense for some time but there was no transparency.  Now, even if you don’t understand the details of the plan you know it is just more of the same.  So while we are wasting time with this kind of nonsense I’m not that concerned because it isn’t going to work.  The question is whether or not Obama understands in his heart of hearts that it isn’t going to work.  He will have a small window of time to pivot and moved towards a saner system.  To be successful he will have to elevate the art of politics to heights that we have never seen before.  I guess time will tell.

All the best,

Bill Sharon

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From: christopher macrae [mailto:chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk]

http://futurecapitalism.ning.com/forum/topics/does-anyone-think-usa-banks black- america's big banks became a ponzi scheme http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04032009/transcript1.html co-author of monthly report on congressional oversight on tarp - in yesterday's monthly report we conclude treasury policy only make sense if you believe the losses are unreal kuttner - this is becoming the worst thing ever to have happened to a generation of americans robert johnson , former managing director of soros funds- I have know geihtner's family for 15 years but I am sorry to say I think its time he was asked to resign http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/bill-moyers-journal-robert-johnson ==== help me if you have a simple way of explaining more of this since i get the feeling that 99% of america doesnt really understand the full stories of what will happen next chris

Alan - are you available to interview my dad on either april 20 or 22 - let's get the model of some of these specified in terms of which productivity and demand coordinates were systemised in win-win-wins  -my trouble is I know darn well how they were designed but the language doesnt fit conventional economic speak - and that's because MBA or conventional economic speak no longer has any entrepreneurial concepts that anyone popularly agrees on - let alone which matches their origin of meaning

Intriguing stories abound- like when dad won a higher honor for reporting japanese capitalism than the UK CBE, the citation from the emperor and japanese embassy said in exqusite japanese politeness something like inspiring japan to a more noble vision of global marketing than beating the crap out of americans at their own zero-sum game

I will try sending some letters off to people like vinod khosla and john doerr - perhaps they would wish to come to dhaka http://yunusforum.net  to report directly how their models of silicon valley capitalism worked originally (also a survey in The Economist about 30 years ago)

In search of

 

The most purposeful organisational system ever sustained (win-win-win) through half a generation or more

 

* Bangladesh SB 1976- to now –micro-networking capitalism combines model 1.0 social business capital, model 2.0 future partnerships capitalism

 

* Japan 1960-1980

 

*Silicon valley capitalism first 10 years

*MIT open source and www capitalism

* google pre IPO

 

*India infosys capitalism

 

*Singapore micro–place-service capitalism

Norway Mobile Capitalism

Nordica online capitalism (the new vikings)

 

Ford first 20 years

Also Tv age capitalism first 10 years

 

Intrapreneurship around tarrytown and hudson institute & drucker

 

Family companies eg SC Johnson

 

SE Education capitalism –nz*india*s.africa

 

Green Capitalism – bangladesh/denmark/....

 

Healthcare capitalism ???? (BRAC capitalism )

chris macrae

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Re: feb 15 luncheon at RAC 12.00 Dr Yunus and Norman Macrae

Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 4:43 PM

From:

"Simon

To:

"christopher macrae" <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk>

Dear Chris

I'm most terribly sorry, but a family matter has come up and I am unable to attend the lunch on Friday Feb 15 2008.

I have got hold of the  book and would have loved to hear Dr Yunus talk about it. But I am afraid I simply cannot manage the lunch.
With sincere apologies

Simon

>>> christopher macrae <chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk> 1/18/08 3:50 pm >>>
To Simon Long, Asia Editor, The Economist
   
  Dear Simon
   
  It was kind of Johnny Grimmond to connect us.
   
  Yunus new book
  http://www.amazon.com/Creating-World-Without-Poverty-Capitalism/dp/1586484931/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200670041&sr=8-1
   
  It would be great to welcome you to the Yunus RAC luncheon on Feb 15..
   
  I have been sampling 1000 copies of his book on social business as a network potentially humanly greater than microcredit around London, and a couple of copies reached number 10 and 11 after economist Rebecca Harding hosted the 475 conference http://wes08.net  for world entrepreneurs last week. The letter Yunus wrote to this network after my Jan 3 meeting with him in Dhaka is attached, as is an early booktalk he gave me.
   
  My dad loves Yunus book as a realisation of his 1984 forecast http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687 Also as dad served in world war 2 in Bangladesh he recalls the port of Cox's Bazar that Yunus wants, as a tyoe 2 social business,  to turn into a modern day singapore and turn over ownership of not to government but to the country's poorest women.
   
  So there may be a few big stories to openly debate at this RAC luncheon- if any sound  relevant to collagues' curiosities, please relay the invitation -its also an early 85th birthday party for dad.
   
  On the same day Yunus gives his public lecture at the London School of Economics and is scheduling other events/meets feb 14-17 through his publisher Victoria in London and Whitney in USA
   
  All the best
   
  Chris Macrae

I have researched at least 50 founding/leadership teams of world famous organisational systems, and I come back to this grid as being quite useful; its also pretty controversial for those who believe they can socillay network productively with hundreds or thousands of people
see post below

How To Use the Grid

1) Always look for the first 3 founders of a hugely innovative happening that has scaled not one. Typical roles:
the inspirational flame who insists purpose of a heroic innovation can be achieved through thick and thin

someone who is most trusted by the core group whose desperate needs that the innovation is most supposed to serve -

someone who is sensible or sensitive with resources

A triangle of 3 is the minimum for mapping any system around

There are two reasons why I also choose to identify 10 people around your entrepreneurial gravity. The first is that productive and demanding relationship systems have 10 primary coordinators as illustrated here - see more

The second is I find it fascinating to research in busienss who a leader seems proudest of spending most time linking in with - is it 10 different types of people or much fewer? This can explain a lot in terms of what opportunities and threats the leader will both be able to see let alone take ahead of time action on

.Paternal Grandad Scot from a family line of missionaries. Was studying postgraduate clergy in Heidelberg when world war 1 broke out. As one of few Brits who spoke German was deployed in rather small spy-type teamwork. Enjoyed these so much that at war's end gave up idea of clergy and worked as a British consul. This meant that my dad lived in an itinerant family and grew up seeing some extremely nasty top-down regimes. For example, grandad was consul in Stalin's Moscow about 1930, and in Galatz Romania, a port that Europe's jews used to flee from Hitler.

.Dad studied economics from an Indian correspondence course as a teenager whilst waiting to navigate RAF planes out of Bangladesh in world war 2. He then went up to Cambridge as the last class to be taught by Keynes; his tutors were the same as India's brillaint-economist-to-be Manmohan Singh's a few years later. By which time dad was writing leaders for The Economist which he did to 1989 more abundantly than anyone. Dad is an avowed microeconomist and supporter of Entrepreneurial Revolution- his 1984 book which I contributed internet scenarios to questioned the sustainability of the generation going global 1984-2024. Typically you may read: We now know that macroeconomics is disgraceful political chicanery - integrating the worldwide around microeconomics is the only way for sustainability's exponentials to blossom. By 2010 the human race will need to unite around ending poverty as the networking generation's number 1 space race. So we help networkers map Muhammad Yunus and Bangladeshi Micro-up leaders as the centre of gravity for collaboratively linking in to a sustainable world.  January 08 collaboration NY cafe on will any professions social business entrepreneurially network yuNus

.My maternal grandad, another scot, was a Bar of London Barrister of a second generation family in the British Raj. For 25 years his life's work connected first against and then with the social transformation networks around the Bombay region of another London qualified barrister - Mahatama Gandhi. Gandhi's triangular crisis of system transformation involved education, media and ruling professions - the latter being the greatest compound risk to the transparency and whole truth (Satyagraha leadership) of all of our tomorrow's

Will youth create most productive birthday party dr yunus & poverty museums have had

Contract between chris macrae, youth leaders and co-founders training (& doing) youth journalists of future capitalism 1 2  - a sub-branch of JournalistsForHumanity.com and SaintJames.tv

 

1 Who am I. Accidentally I spent all my career helping people handle world famous identities. So did my 2 grand fathers (one with Gandhi, the other British embassy consular between the 2 world wars), and my father who worked at The Economist 1950 (4^th ranked weekly English newspaper, 1989 one of a kind global magazine). There are a lot of unknown stories about history’s connections with what futures we will connect more at my web-log

 

2 My main lessons on handling world famous identities- extremely political process where my experience is predominantly opposite (bottom up system round) from brand gurus and ad agencies:

nobody wants to help before you are handling fame, everyone under the sun wants to be your best friend once you are at the centre of famous identity...

 

so know your unique purpose before you become famous and know anyone of the first 10 people you choose to help you most can conflict and then destroy the purpose

more

 

3 Who is proposed as main triangle of future capitalism journalists- actually not me: mostofa, vivian and YL- you need to earn trust of pivotal Bangladesh leaders including my friend Dr Yunus (and pro bono client) of the national strategy of unite world round race to poverty museums by openly source replication of everything microentrepremneurs and sustainability can design

it’s in mostofa’s interest cos

it’s in Vivian’s interest cos

it’s in youth leader’s interest (self-complete)

 

3a June 29 is likely to have quite a lot of elder journalist including:

Alan Mitchell

probably someone from The Economist

paul rose bbc broadcaster

 

4 what needs to be done before yunus 69^th birthday party June 29:

-invite anyone you ever want to contact on issues that matter most to you – even if they don’t come or send a delegate its like research and permission connecting that can do a writer no harm

-probably be in Bangladesh a week before and a week after meeting to make most of meeting absolutely anyone any of the participants want to meet as well as working out which exercises are best to do during the day and how to keep project action connections going on afterwards –exer 1 bangla5000; ex2 33 years research of 10 green bottles

-plan what sorts of writings you want to do and how you want them distributed so that yunus can put his name or networks round helping you as well as helping us map who is correspondent for which subsections of future capitalism ; we need this mirror process to happen both in Bangladesh and in any city that use future capitalism to empower Obama supporters and yes we can – probably grameen’s biggest weakness is that its staff are not organized like a newspaper would be to correspond with outside world ; its probably my job to politely explain this after 18 months of researching all the chaos this lack of structure causes-its also the case that at least in advising usa applications of banking and green , all Bangladesh leaders need on clearing house not many separate funding groups

-anything else you can think of

 5 why does this matter: 25 years of studying how system exponentials spin reveals that unfortunately unless other miracle happen what happens on June 29 has more leverage on stopping usa from leading into world depression for a decade than anything else I have been able to search for- of course it will be great to hear any other nominations searchers of june 29 have- there are also some unique exercises we can connect because of 33 years of studying entrepreneurial revolution, future capitalism, how well or badly people handle fame of leading nations or corporations

Hi Folks

will need to design 10 minute collabcafe format (as a micro version of 60 minute one) before june 29 - 

reasoning how to get best 10 minute youtube dialogues  -as one fo the content banks of future capitalism journalism and yearbook

I have put one of my all tme favourites up at http://chrismacrae.com which accidentally describes just about the only project I have yet seen dr yunus' team fail on - there he is spending 50 days a year flying round the world top talk to youth yet his social action (yes we can) portal is 18 months behind chapter 11 eta

during a 7 hour dialogue day, I can imagine nine 10-minute video colab cafe breakouts where we get yunus or one of his co-leaders:

dipal barua energy

kazil islam mobile

mrs begum youth mentoring

questioned by a circle of 3 while the wider group watches

there is plenty of time for rehearsal of what are the 9 subjects the world might msot want to hear from dhaka

some guesses

poverty museum race as the only way obama can retrieve yes we can

update on banking formats that bangladesh's panel of microcerdit experts can offer to the world - it would be cool if we do that one with definition f problem and them ask which type of microcerdit segment is best for answering that problem

world most socially actiive university formats and how this linksin with mostofa duty to identify 5000 youth ambassabors of collaboration micro in one socoia business newtork

microenergycredits market and parallel for other millennium goal mobile loyaltu points adminstered in partnership with world's deepst micro-infrastructures as demanded by 92 congressmen

is this idea clear or do I need to elaborate

circulation list- most practised cc people in new york and london; plus gordon (learning), paul and nina (green), marriah and tara (large meetings on how to take chnarge of your caeer and life) , vivian and alan (journalism) - who else ought we circulate

chris

poverty race script now below - 25 years ago

Jane Wales:

Dr Yunus- because you’re the world’s best problem solver I have ever known , I am going to ask you about some of the things that are in the plate of the next president  of the united states. He will come in and he will face  

• poverty including new poverty at home and abroad 
• the employment crisis
• the need to provide quality education for all
• the need to provide affordable healthcare
• post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation 

if were you advising the new president, would you urge him to take an integrated approach or to deal with each independently?

Muhammad Yunus

well I can only tell him of my way at looking at it –first of all  if he wants to be serious about poverty – after all, the president of US is de facto the president of the world, so what he does impacts the whole world. So when he talka about poverty he provides the leadership that others take.

Now we have the millennium goals which are a wonderful set of goals which inspire all the world but were unfortunately derailed by other things that came up so first of all restore total support for the millennium development goals and withdraw from other stuff united states got involved in such as war on terror,

so concentrate on the one of  making sure we achieve the millennium goals, achieve them 100% this will be a tremendous achievement for the whole world that we have done something its not some of UN goal setting and forgetting, this is a real goal and a realty to celebrate having done it

and then for this president the best thing is to show total commitment of ending poverty set a new date when the world can be at zero poverty – we have 2015 at halve poverty so why don't we set the next goal zero poverty so that we know this is the direction we need to take,

when we set the date everything else will fall into place:

how do you measure, how do you do it there are several things that will play an important part

1 microcredit   because it has shown its effectiveness in unleashing the capacity of people

2 technology how to bring technology  to the poorest people so that they can change their whole world

3 healthcare

so its nothing separated, its integrated but you cant have one organisation doing everything, you need several organisations but focused so that everything is achieving the same goal to lift the person

and as the president is declaring the date for zero poverty in the whole world at the same time encourage the united states to set their date when their city be zero poverty when their county gets to zero poverty  - if someone says well we have no poverty how do you know if you have poverty or not –its very simple the first question I ask is do you have a welfare program, a welfare department? As long as you have a welfare department you have poverty, otherwise why do you have it, poverty means that nobody is on welfare tat is  clear sign so you have to close down your welfare department, find something else for those people to do, so all the related things you have to welfare you close down as you have crossed that level and you are never going back- city by city, county by county, state by state, it can be done and it will encourage everyone else –

that state can do it, we can do it

this is the way to go, so poverty will be the challenge –and once you have solved poverty other solutions come right away, environment will come right away- like in the case of bangladesh environment and our survival is an integrated problem, we are the ones on the front line – eliminated by global climate change because of our flat country, so for us its such an important issue

the united states missed the whole leadership on the global warming issue, never got to the Kyoto protocol and as a result the whole world got derailed,  ..so now is the chance to go back to preparing for the 2012 UN binding resolution .. that way you n=know where you are

the moment government becomes serious , technology starts going in, its not a question of it cant be done , simply we have to make a serious commitment that we will do it-the moment we make the serious commitment, technologies will come , how do we replace the things that are causing the problem, replacing them with new technology without harming anyone in any way

the present way of living life in a way which might enjoy life today but may be harming someone else’s life somewhere  on the planet, its not a good feeling: I am doing something that puts someone else life at stake because of the way I do things – so the basic principle we should all adopt, every child should be taught, every family be taught my way of living should not harm anyone else  , and that’s how I would like to live

its possible once you make that commitment all the environmental problems will be solved