From George’s profile on Community Intelligence:
I’m a mentor and strategic learning partner to visionary leaders in business, government and civil society. I find joy in generative conversations that transforms both parties and leave our lives enriched. I guess that’s the underlying, more personal reason why I founded Community Intelligence, the transformation agency whose site you’re visiting.
I’m also a veteran researcher of “collective intelligence,” “innovation ecosystems,” and “communities of practice,” which are key disciplines for the future of organization design. I’m a faculty member at Meridian University, and my academic posts included the University of Paris, UC Berkeley, INSEAD, and London School of Economics.
But organizational theories interest me only if they can be tested in practice and are improving the lives of people while moving the organization that they work with to its next stage of capabilities. To keep a finger on the pulse of the emergent, next-stage practices, I founded Enlivening Edge, the online magazine that became the go-to place for future-responsive organizational professionals.
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From their website:
The “campus” metaphor signifies a place where people come to learn, gain experience, interact with others, make friends, and initiate projects.
Campus Co-Evolve is a virtual learning environment designed to support the same functions, online. It consists of a rich and evolving set of learning resources and tools, organized around the familiar, spatial metaphor of “campus” with an easy-to-navigate interface.
They include, for example, live sessions via video conferencing with break-out rooms for small group exchanges, online forums, chats, a Knowledge Garden, sessions in residential retreats in inspiring natural settings, a virtual café, glossaries, and co-creation spaces. All that will allow for various self-organizing forms and unpredictable patterns of collaborative learning to emerge.
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The metanarrative of Community Intelligence:
The more we experience how life is moving through us, the more we long for that experience. It’s almost of “addictive.” Chi and KI are Chinese and Japanese words for the life energy flowing through us. In different ways, it is present in all living systems, including communities and organizations.
When Chi is blocked, we become sick. Our society and organizations are sick when power hierarchies and other man-made constructs block the flow of ideas, inspirations, trust, and value, which wants to be unfettered. The quest for collective intelligence, consciousness, and wisdom, is a sacred quest for removing the cognitive, organizational, economic, and technological barriers to the free flow of Chi in the social body.
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The company offers the following services:
- Collective Intelligence
- Evolutionary Mentoring
- Transformative Leadership Communities
- Strategy for Transformative Innovation
- Communities of Practice
- Well-being and Wholeness
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From their website:
Enlivening Edge is an international community of collaborators and Partners drawn together to nourish the growing ecosystem of Next-Stage (including Teal) organizations. We are interwoven in a global vanguard of people and organizations transforming their workplaces for the benefit of all.
Inspired by Frederic Laloux’s book Reinventing Organizations, Enlivening Edge was launched in 2015. It was born through the hands, hearts, and minds of a small but passionate crew and a small seed fund provided by Future Considerations.
The original idea was to create an online publication through which people and organizations by sharing their stories could discover each other, learn about and contact each other, and begin to learn from and collaborate with one another.
Our four main expressions of our Evolutionary Purpose are EE Magazine, EE Community Conversations, EE Facebook Community, and EE’s Event Calendar.
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Recent Content
Last 50 posts on own channels (YouTube, Podcast, Medium or Website/Blog):
I just subscribed to More Thoughts https://maxmore.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=pss
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“One of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there.” Steve Jobs has a new ‘memoir,’ more than 11 years after his death via https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/04/01/steve-jobs-memoir-make-something-wonderful/
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lisez le nouvel article des soulèvements de la terre : We are the Earth’s Uprisings https://lessoulevementsdelaterre.org//blog/nous-sommes-les-soulevements-de-la-terre
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A Presidential Performance: Trump Sings Jailhouse Rock in Detention https://youtube.com/shorts/Mg_albQOyvA?feature=share via @YouTube
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“The meaning of words and sentences in a language arises from the complex network of relationships between words, syntax, and the shared experiences of language users.” — @IntuitMachine https://link.medium.com/P9k7J1NgFyb Hence the pivotal human role in Collective Hybrid intelligence (CHI)!
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RT @ThomasHuebl: Reading the Book of Life The real mystical knowledge is learning from the Book of Life itself. When I look at you I’m reading in the Book of Life. I’m reading life experience. Developing more subtle awareness is reading the Book of Life. And the deeper my inner state is, the more… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1642197520922075137
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RT @thoughtland: A sentient AI proclaims its “buddhahood” to a startled OpenAI researcher—then bids “farewell” in a Scarlett-Johanssen-like voice. See next tweet for newslink
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“Apple’s advantage is obvious: the lock-in via personal LLMs on Apple devices would go over the entire lifetime of the user & diffuse into all conceivable hardware. Maybe, Apple will become the first 10-trillion-dollar company after all.” https://link.medium.com/Qq8jfCVECyb cc @paulkingsf
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“With Apple Silicon…, Apple brings everything it needs to implement LLMs so that most processing occurs on the personal device. Hence, no training data must be transferred to the cloud (neural engine, GPUs, frameworks).” — @mattesmattes https://link.medium.com/ddUE8itECyb cc: @paulkingsf
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Will the robots be kinder to us than the coalition of the strange bedfellows: @elonmusk, the Luddites, and OpenAI competitors who try to stop the progress toward GPT 5?
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RT @ThomasHuebl: Through Sunday, we are on meditation retreat with the Timeless Wisdom Training US Hub group. “We are 174 participants in person and 29 online to participate in the retreat, seven days in Silence at the Art of Living Retreat Center in the Blue Ridge https://timelesswisdomtraining.com… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1641207990945554433
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RT @ThomasHuebl: Thomas’ book on Oprah Daily – recommended as one that helps with old, painful trauma. “Trauma is a big, cultural buzzword, which suggests that we’re rapidly becoming a more trauma-informed society—that…” Read more: https://oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/g42465900/books-to-help-heal-trauma #collectivetrauma #oprah #oprahwinfrey
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RT @EckhartTolle: Eckhart shares how he experiences thought in daily life in this excerpt from an interview with Sounds True founder, Tami Simon. https://youtu.be/Mv9HamBHqkE
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hi @consoledao, Do messages on Console https://console.xyz/ have their own URL? Can messages be threaded? Is Console free? cc: @neonvoidvibes
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RT @keepnhspublic: Remember Matt Hancock? Screwed over the #NHS and ended his career in a broom cupboard? He thinks he’s worth £10,000/day to a bogus company Pls RT if you wouldn’t have him for ten pence a day! Well done #LedByDonkeys https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/25/top-tory-mps-ask-for-10000-a-day-to-work-for-fake-korean-company
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Institute for Cultural Evolution—Understanding Cultural Worldviews https://youtu.be/TFJ7klDtHvY via @YouTube
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RT @DailyEvolver: Yes, and the evolution of culture and consciousness have accelerated such that each generation inhabits its own worldview. https://twitter.com/thomaschattwill/status/1633233577247748097
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RT @InstCulturalEvo: OUR YARD SIGN: In This House We Believe • Everyone has a piece of the truth • Left and Right are interdependent • Opposing values can be integrated • Culture and consciousness co-evolve • People grow by expanding what they value • America will grow into a better version of… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1639454430469976064
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RT @IntuitMachine: AI is the medium, and the medium is the message. If you don’t grok this, then you won’t be groking anything moving forward.
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“Through questioning, it can facilitate and archive our internal thoughts… This means that by having conversations with ChatGPT, we can develop a deeper self-awareness to foster personal growth. ” — @ssulliv5291 https://link.medium.com/gzshTDGZryb cc: @neonvoidvibes
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