Change takes Time - sometimes pretty long ;-)

Back in 2008, I had just left BMW to venture out as a team entrepreneur around the concept of CoWorking, the financial meltdown hit the world. Thinking that this would be the right time to stir up change across business, education, and institutions. Two years in time, things seem to be back to "normal" and yet everywhere around the globe sparks of change light up.

When do we see and experience the change in our community? 
What are the things that could be better than is right now? 

Reply by Ralf Lippold on December 26, 2008 at 6:18am

Hi ...,

Thanks a lot for sharing your case study and thoughts around it.

It makes me curious to get deeper into the field as I sense that in the current situation in business and society most people are either stuck or have to leave their community (such as an organization).

Looking forward to getting more understanding in how to start such initiatives.

Best regards

Ralf

Wind of Change

A few minutes back on my other blog OrganizationalThinking
something caught my eye. Just a link. It was Otto Schamer's blog.

Even though I am not in Egypt or the area where the change of
history is happening right, I am confident that words and connecting
people, resonate, and reshape thinking through conversation will
also make a difference from the city of Dresden.

1989 in Dresden (back then East Germany) and elsewhere the pictures
were quite similar to the ones today we see on YouTube, CableTv, and
Twitter and Facebook.

Let's support each other with what we know from our past history. We
can all learn together collectively across boundaries (that are only existent
in our minds).

WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD

The Tipping Point of Collaboration

It was summer 2009 when Google announced Google Wave as the "next big thing". Should it be useful for the (potential) users?

I remember vividly meeting with Alina Hsu in Harvard in 2009. We talked about Lean Thinking, System Dynamics. The major finding was, "An aggregator for all this interdisciplinary information is deeply needed. Is there one way or the other?" A few months later I got an invite to GoogleWave by Siggi Becker. The experiment could start.

We have used the tool for several sub-projects around LockSchuppen - quite successfully.

Then early 2010 the big earthquake in Haiti hit the news. Quickly the desaster made it clear that GoogleWave was helpful in order to work as an integrator of information flows. Nevertheless the service and active contribution by Google to its newest collaboration tool was lately cut down.

Egypt and its people raised the "Power of Pull" (thanks John Hagel & John Seely Brown) to reinitiate the platform to collectively create our future. (Note: one has to have a GoogleWave account to step in, searching for "Egypt" a seed will be found).

There are probably already hundreds of blog, website, aggregators of news/ info / support on the web. Let bring them together in a joint effort. This small seed could be helpful - just a beginning for a lovely flowbed of collective knowledge ;-)