I have tried to put on one map
everything I have heard the 5 times I have met Dr Yunus. I am sure there are both more brilliant artists and wordsmiths than me
but the forbidden questions of social business modelling seem to be
1 what are the sources of positive cashflow
for a social business - there seem to be a combination of 6 - colored green ; each of these 6 has been messed up by western macroeconomics as mass media took over its free and true assumptions
In light
blue: 2 are these the sorts of solutions that Bangladeshi microeconomists have come up with over 30 years of entrepreneurially
developing social businesses; they define what a rural community needs to compound sustainability:
its own bank -microcredit
its own doctor and teacher - eg BRAC
and so on
in dark blue: 3 are these the 7 microsummits DR Yunus is asking us both to
network worldwide and empower through microentrepreneur telecentres
if you go
back to the dark green - then can we turn round these 6 macro-economics confusions before they collapse more than the global
financial system:
6 investment banks would not have needed to collapse if they had goodwill metrics of sustainability
investment - this is the unseen wealth crisis compounded as Brookings 2000 forecast it
would if all we are ruled by is the global tangible accounting monopoly's maths of extract to the max every 90 days
5 is in essence the intervention of future capitalism book http://www.smbaworld.com/id8.html- and can we take back enough mass media to ask which
global market sectors are system-compounding their greatest risk responsibly
4 is Dr Yunus' plea to
billionaire philanthropists- please design social business entrepreneurship (empowering micro-up) not charity's trickle
down -particularly if knowledge era is different from industrial era in going above zeros-um
3 was the lesson of the 2nd world war that the EU aimed to be a permanent solution to but very quickly
spiraled back from its lofty ideal - for all I know all the chapter 1 "development
elites" have the same problem but as a Scot I better only throw stones at my own continent's white house
2 is what
BRAC did - and in a way what asking for new laws for microbanking does; its also dr yunus's biggest wish - coxs '
bazaar so that Bangladesh can have the infrastructure to trade with china and neighbours;
oddly my father www.normanmacrae.com was one of those who coined privatisation but
professions sponsored by big interests quickly systemised it the opposite way round than he had mapped
1 relates
to the misunderstanding that the greatest inventions and entrepreneurial revolution don’t just respond to customers
but they help societies' sustainability investment in people's jobs and lifetime
potentials develop where people want to go
any errors are of course mine - but each separate story
- like the American Bar Association's Yunus article asking lawyers will you help? needs to connect with some overall collaboration compass through which networks of peoples can multiply goodwill and deep
contextual action learning to their hearts content
I think here are lots of ways
we can put the jigsaw puzzles of this compass together and many of the 25 micro-video stories we are sending out to 10000 youth request pieces to be worked on and connect (other videos need to be found which I am
confident 10000 youth can help facebook, youtube and google out)
chris macrae
301 881 1655
I will try and put a more interactive version of this up at http://yunusworld.com - there must be some way to invite all of Dr Yunus's most passionate supporters to explain which pieces they are focusing on connecting - after all if all 7 summits are to interconnect
as well as each help end poverty as much as micocreditsummit that's far more collaboration
employment to co-create than is currently going on round dr yunus' open
source franchises