Hi Suresh and All

Open letter readers - I enjoyed starting to get to know Suresh yesterday through the Movement Camp back channel on Skype, and then via his videos on you tube

Suresh - This is in response to Re: [OK] How To Build A Social Movement - Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy and our e-meeting.
This post is a "quick clipboard" (as much for me as for you) - to provide some kind of framework for our next e-meeting. My responses first - in rough note form - more background and links below.

All  - you are welcome to read this. It is shared for its interesting links (and any idea scraps that make sense) - but it is written "to me" as a memory jogger - not to make sense to other people ;-)
 
Suresh - Great areas of overlap. Agree with much of the viewpoint. It is part of "Earth Date Zero" paradigm - Earth date zero is a date only recognised retrospectively. It is the point of critical mass, globally, when "new thinking" such as you mention on collaboration etc become mainstream. Agree analysis of competitive, fragmented etc society (relates to the "invisibility" culture shock of coming back to UK after Africa - or even being to SE England after being "up North" or back to Cornwall - the Safe Smiling Zones idea.) 

Agree let's have skype video chat around this.

Your dance video (ref in email below this) - it's the one I was thinking of initially when MM referred to a dance video (fortunately I knew the other one too). 

BTW you can count me among your followers. I like the commentary to this version of the video - but there is also another version via a TED talk. It is longer - it includes the time before this video  - the time when the leader is getting it wrong - failing to connect with possible first followers - losing them.... This video only shows a brief part of the struggle that you have to do alone before any joins in ...

Much ties in with your ideas behind investment for social entrepreneurs and the struggle to get any support .

Ref google example - and an insight. Relates to "Wealth of Nations" and "Wealth of Information" - changing paradigms:

• Land owners to "new money" - How can you have power if you only have capital? - power impossible without land ownership and aristocratic "breeding" - capital can never equal power.
• Capitalists to "Earth Date Zero" thinkers - How can you have power if you only have ideas, information, knowledge, networks, social capital, trust, collaboration, sharing? - power impossible unless you have much more money than anyone else.

In UK in Queen Victoria's reign (time of industrial revolution) the aristocracy often had to marry money to save their estates - and new money liked to marry into "society" - theme of many Anthony Trollope novels and TV costume dramas - including the latest on UK TV on the Sunday 9pm drama series slot (?Grantham Abbey)

Around "Earth Date Zero" we have similar alliances between capital and information. Google is the prime example of a brilliant alliance between traditional consumer-society model (making money through advertising) and  "Earth Date Zero" model (sharing information freely). We have to learn form that model and extend it.

Some how we need to get similar alliances between people with money to invest (ie money surplus to thier immediate need - but which they feel a need to have available for later needs/wants) and people who are social entrepreneurs who need money but are rich in intangibles (knowledge of underlying problems, connections with key people, knowledge of innovative solutions, etc) .

I suggest that at present such potential alliances are seen too much from the side of the esablished power system - those with money seeing that they are needed by those without. We need to help them see that "they need us  - and much as we need them" - because we are their stepping stone to the new paradigm.

As I said - this is really my notes to me - to provide some kind of framework and boundaries for our first chat. What time suits you. My skype ID is pamelamclean. My current time zone is GMT+1. We will be putting clock back to GMT in a few weeks time.

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