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President of Miller electric - source
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been working 1.5 years through this model... share, and discuss problem relating to governance
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Every individual born wtih a unique potential - acorn to oak tree
- genertically coded... that we can achieve
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The introduction of elements and condtiions determine whether it can flourish, or not...
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WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS... rain, relationships, embodied learning, higher calling...
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what are the conditions that need to be in palce for an individual to floruish
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Generativity - group of people or community flourishing together... not single acord ot oak but whole forest
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environmental conditions so people can flourish together.
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idea of experiment to run around how we might build a generative local community in reality...
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5 things we know the world already knows how to do
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local organisations supporting local business
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convert money into flourishing
- organisations that do this already
- take money and deliver conditions for a population
- Intellectual, spiritual, adn physical flourishing
- local anchoring orgs supporting local business
- Key instutions thgat are. local, local health, education, utilites, government, private business
- each with own supply chain needs
- can have big impact on economy by keeping those supply chain needs local...
- Vs. outsourcing to larger multinational corporation
- creating local business network
- idea of multiple - the sum being greater than the parts
- synergies
- By pulling local busiensses together under single banner, they can work together...
- GLC prototype - in Miluakee
- govern a network of businesses
- If you are pulling together a network, how would they potentially be governeed
- Mondragon
- DAO.
- we know it is possible
- Governance becomes the really focus when we have pitched... it is at heart of how the whole thing fworks...
- Mondragon as a story / prophesy / proof it is possible...
- social impact investors focus investment on root cause issues.
- working on root causes of issues
- available capital to be investted in social and community development work
- Complexity mindset and intercoonnected mindset on how we invest those dollars...
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We are not focused on Issue 4
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What if we could connect these 5 things in a neighborhood system... if we did that... would that allow us to achieve or move towards GRC concept...
- Can you cash flow positive this network of businesses
- incubator kitchen
- laundromat
- by day retail
- evening commercial / industrial
- fork to farms
- restraurant
- yoga center...
- primary reason is to create flourishing... but need cash flow... and nice to have community anchor organizations create more cash flow
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Expect cash flow positive ina way there is profit at the end - not for short term... but for long term... discerning how they convert extra resources into various forms of flourishing...
- Assume network is run like agenerative business
- set of principles... that is not optimizing wages at the top, but distributes it so that everyone has a living wage...
- can we do money conversion to flourishing, and can we manage a network of businesses effectively
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Jane
- are you assuming one model of governance is appropriate for all
- economic (ecosystem of businesses)
- social cultural
- rights
- each have unique nuances.
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It is all hypothesis - so whatever we do is a test of that hypothesis...
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Any business... shaped by economic and social realities it serves...
- In short term old world... businesses have to profit to survive (potential problem)
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not about short term thinking with domapine
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Investors who understand the long term
- short term is ROI...
- but also impacting continued legacy...
- so that after 10 years - willing to step aside from ownership so that neighborhood can flourish...
- After 8 years - 30k / month going back into the hands of hte community - to invest in microloans to help with home ownership...
- homes increasingly owned outside community and outside country...
- to local community land trusts...
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Forrist
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Black assembly of God / church of God network - so could be scalable and deployed in many places using faith based communities...
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learn from this project and then scale
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Discrete autonomous identites stepping out of identiteis to participate in something different - that leads to conflicting interests...
- vs. netowrk of people who are contributing to different uses
- generative business contrives many different uses, revenue streams, times of day, etc...
- federated co-op model - taking into the DAO realm...
- Functioanl and identity limitations keep showing up - I wonder why?
- by naming a netowrk of businesses - honoring difference as well as wholeness...
- Network of to happen to us as individuals... give we are trained to see mine, network, territory, identity...
- so that we can work in wholeness...
- Individual entrepreneurs in a network?
- or a conglomerate managed by one governance structure?
- what is the set of principles to be part?
- do we use what exists in the place?
- take what exists and exapt
- Some type of governance, across a bunch of businesses, connected together as a unit...
- if we have money coming out... how do we govern how it does...
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B Corp certifications...
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DAOs...
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Sub model of certification for generative business, that is a form of B Corp...
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Co-Ops,
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Trusts...
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Solve the underlying problem... of is your goal of a board member to maximize shareholder revenue... or other obligations
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Jordan
- long history with dense interaction with Mondragon
- where this model works and where it does not
- interview with the keeper of Mondragon - Jose
- synthesis into a system of system
- in any community
- customised
- allow interoperability
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go to this part of recording for details
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figure it out for one generative community and all of them are different
- figure out the complexity as we go