My Favorites: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

My monthly “My Favorites”    routine includes posting links to great content I ran across, to encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. Enjoy!

Greetings!

Today I want to present to you two relatively young and one very old concept of how to tackle today’s challenges:
 
Social entrepreneurship – the new heroes? 
Social entrepreneurship is the process of pursuing innovative solutions to social problems. More specifically, social entrepreneurs adopt a mission to create and sustain social value. They pursue opportunities to serve this mission, while continuously adapting and learning. They draw upon appropriate thinking in both the business and nonprofit worlds and operate in all kinds of organizations: large and small; new and old; religious and secular; nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid.
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Tim Kelley interviews Rich Tafel about Social Entrepreneurship
Sociocracy
Sociocracy is a system of governance, using consent-based decision making among equivalent individuals and an organizational structure based on cybernetic principles. The most recent implementation of sociocracy by Gerard Endenburg, also known as Circular Organizing, was developed as a new tool for governance of private enterprise, but has been adopted in many different kinds of organizations including public, private, non-profit and community organizations as well as professional associations.
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Vipassana

Far from some fluffy-pillowed-tropical-fruit-filled-yoga-on-the-beach type of retreat, the 10-day vipassana silent meditation retreat pushes you to your limits. It’s not a getaway or a vacation; instead, it’s an opportunity to work hard and reap the rewards of a clearer mind and higher levels of consciousness.

Read more at What I Learned From A Hardcore 10-Day Meditation Retreat

 

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter Langenecker
Dieter

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