tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-338875442024-03-13T08:19:50.765-04:00The Business4Good Blog Think Good, Do Good, Be Good.Exploring the connections between business, development and transformation: Conscious Business, <br> Enlightened Entrepreneurship, Inclusive Markets, Sustainable Development, Transformative Leadership.Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-69749518403391999082017-03-11T06:16:00.000-05:002017-03-11T06:16:59.105-05:00I am now blogging at Medium @NaglerUNDPI have concluded my blogging on Business4Good.<br />
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<br />Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-56868819240608677752015-07-17T14:22:00.003-04:002015-07-22T18:51:10.129-04:00Reflections on the UN Financing for Development Conference in Addis<div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
<a href="http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/ffd3/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/FfD_Logo-140.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/ffd3/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/FfD_Logo-140.png" border="0" class="transparent" src="http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/ffd3/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/04/FfD_Logo-140.png" /></a>This week over 7000 participants from all over the world gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the Third International Conference on Finance for Development (FFD). Someone called it the biggest conference having been held in Africa ever. Certainly, Addis was in 'FFD-fever', hotel prices skyrocketed and conference rooms were overfilled. <br />
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On 13 July 2015 the UN Secretary-General Ban opened the gathering with the challenge: 'World leaders must put aside "narrow self-interest" to break a deadlock over how to finance the United Nation's bold new global development agenda'.<br />
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While the official, governmental discussions continued in the main conference rooms, over 200 side events were held. International organizations, governments, private sector, civil society and academia shared their perspectives.<br />
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After days of negotiations delegates agreed on an outcome document. A UN statement praised it as <a href="http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2015/07/countries-adopt-addis-ababa-action-agenda/" target="_blank">historic agreement</a> to generate financing for the new sustainable development agenda. Ban summarized: "The Addis Ababa Action Agenda is a major step forward in building a world of prosperity and dignity for all.”<br />
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There are already several good summaries done on the outcome, such as from the <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=51437#.VaizNIrXenM" target="_blank">UN</a>, <a href="http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/blog/2015/7/21/The-Addis-Ababa-Action-Agenda-A-step-forward-on-financing-for-development-/" target="_blank">UNDP</a>, <a href="http://www.odi.org/comment/9718-addis-ffd-agreement-reaction-aid-tax-financing-development#.VaeNHbwT4bQ.facebook" target="_blank">ODI</a>, the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/jul/16/where-are-concrete-plans-action-development-finance-deal?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">Guardian </a>and <a href="https://www.devex.com/news/the-future-of-development-finance-live-from-addis-86527" target="_blank">Devex</a>. Therefore I don't want to add another substance analysis but did a small innovation. How to get the essence of the outcome document with over 130 articles? Out of curiosity, I did a word count of key works and a 'wordle':</div>
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302x development<br />
251x countries,<br />
214x finance/financial/financing,<br />
155x sustainable,<br />
77x investment,<br />
63x debt,<br />
59x cooperation,<br />
53x trade,<br />
52x technology,<br />
35x tax<br />
34x infrastructure,<br />
28x partnership.<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>"The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell."</b></span></span></i><i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;">— Dag Hammarskjöld, fromer UN Secretary-Genera</span>l </span></span></i></blockquote>
Personally to me, FFD3 was a demonstration that the UN and it's processes remain relevant and critically important. Who else could bring together officials from 193 countries with all types of stakeholders from society and business? Who else can facilitate global dialogue on most complex issues?<br />
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Is this sufficient to solve the world problems? Of course not. It will take even greater ambition, leadership and self responsibility by everyone to translate aspirations into reality. The new sustainable development goals (SDGs), to be signed off in September at a special UN summit, will be a new shared ambition of global leaders to make sustainable development a reality.Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-66868998761744493022015-06-05T13:46:00.000-04:002015-06-05T13:47:55.107-04:00This Blog is transforming - towards Changemakers and Leadership "We must look within ourselves..." Nelson Mandela<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After more than 8 years as a blog
focused on "business as a force for good", this blog is transforming.
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Mirroring my own personal and professional development, it is time to look
beyond business. Yes, business is a major force for change and development. So what
force then, is stronger? People. Changemakers and leaders. You don't need a
title to be a leader. <br />
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Each person is a CEO, each of us a boss. Aware of it or not, each of us is the
boss of our own life. This translates to greater self-responsibility and
self-power. If one is less aware of this fact, they might not see themselves as
the creator of their own destiny, but rather consider themselves as a
consequence of their circumstances, upbringing, interactions with other people,
etc… but that is only part of the 'story', at best. <br />
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There is increasing awareness that each of us is indeed THE change agent in our
life. This relates back to leadership since at the core, we first lead our own
life before we lead those of others. Because how can you authentically lead
others if not by example?<br />
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Long story short, transformational leadership and self-empowering approaches
have captured my imagination. I myself have seen the transformational changes
that insights and breakthroughs from within can cause. I have also seen the
non-effectiveness and lack of sustainability of superficial 'outside' aid. <br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two examples, one from the the UN and the other about aid vs. self-development:
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1) I have seen UN colleagues overcome deep frustration and blossom at work,
after participating in a transformational leadership program. 2) Or take
Youchaou Traore from Mali, who was this tree child and became an entrepreneur, a
school and NGO director due to his passion, perseverance and can-do attitude. Those
opportunities were not afforded to him otherwise. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://riverlife.ch/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Butterfly-Transformation.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://riverlife.ch/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Butterfly-Transformation.jpg" height="101" width="320" /></a></span></span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Therefore, the Business4Good blog is going into hibernation. Something new about transformational </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">leadership is going to arise... as a butterfly does from a
caterpillar.</span>
</span>Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-56388751053361539722014-06-19T09:26:00.001-04:002014-06-24T08:24:42.662-04:00Africa is on the move - Transforming itself - How to put the Intentions into Reality?<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QkyyhKMWUzo/U6ltrMwnLrI/AAAAAAAACc4/gKXvxoyXFhQ/s1600/Africa+diamonds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QkyyhKMWUzo/U6ltrMwnLrI/AAAAAAAACc4/gKXvxoyXFhQ/s1600/Africa+diamonds.jpg" height="200" width="185" /></a><b>Africa is on the move - Transforming itself</b><br />
Last week I attended the Global Compact events hosted in Addis Ababa, co-organized by UNDP AFIM and other UN agencies, entitled "<a href="http://unglobalcompact.org/docs/issues_doc/un_business_partnerships/UNPSFP2014/2014%20ALNF%20PSFP%20Agenda.pdf" target="_blank"><i>Africa: Advancing Partnerships and Responsible Business Leadership</i></a>". It was an interesting event - held for the first time in Africa - bringing over 300 participants together from business, Global Compact networks, UN and government.<br />
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One of the key topics was on the role of business in Africa's Economic Transformation which is a hot and complex topic. One of my key observations was that Africa is transforming itself, partnering with various actors from China, Europe, US etc... while multinational companies do play a role it is increasingly clear that it's African policy makers and business people in setting the continents own agenda.<b> </b><br />
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<b>Inclusive Growth requires Jobs, Inclusive Business and Social Entrepreneurship</b><br />
The new mantra that economists and development practitioners are reciting to tackle inequality and achieving development goals is "inclusive growth". As UNDP's Eugene Owusu stated "inclusive growth needs to be job rich, and the private sector has a major role to play". <br />
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UNDP AFIM sees inclusive growth (macro) achieved by <a href="http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/partners/private_sector/IMD.html" target="_blank">inclusive markets development</a> (meso) and <a href="http://www.undp.org/content/rba/en/home/library/reports/poverty-reduction/realizing-africa-wealth" target="_blank">inclusive businesses</a> (micro). Participants also mentioned social entrepreneurship and responsible investment - next to inclusive business - as key ingredients. "Jobs don't fall from heaven, they need to be created by responsible entrepreneurs" said UN Global Compact's Georg Kell.<br />
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Overall there is agreement that business needs to go well beyond philanthropy and CSR, towards making its core business better for societies and the environment. Owusu concluded that "responsible and inclusive business can transform poverty into prosperity for all."<b> </b><br />
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<b>Transformation is much more than Growth</b><br />
Africa is expected to be one of the world's fastest growing regions, with 4.8 percent growth in 2014 and over 5 percent in 2015, according to the recent African Economic Outlook 2014. However, while this transformation entails growth it goes well beyond it.<br />
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Transformation is much more fundamental and usually more leap-frogging and disruptive as incremental growth. The African Union Vision 2063 is an attempt to visualize how a continent with so much potential could transform itself. The jury is still out and to predict Africa's transformation requires more soul-searching and observing.<br />
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Addis Ababa, as Africa's diplomatic capital is an interesting example in this transformation process. People who visited it some year ago, hardly recognize the city with its tall buildings and all present construction sites including a new light rail, ring roads and express way.<br />
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<b>How to put the Intentions into Reality?</b><br />
Most of the discussions were interesting with largely agreeing participants on what is needed (such as we need more and better infrastructure, education, skills, infrastructure, jobs, policies etc...). The WHAT was well articulated but less the HOW.<br />
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So this question of the moderator Peter Ndoro (SABC) resonated with me: "How do we turn intentions into practice?". Unfortunately this question came in the closing and I wish it to be a starting question for future meetings. Less wishful thinking but deeper reflections on getting to the core of making it happen.<br />
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<b>What role does Attitude play?</b><br />
A similar 'game-changing" question arose in a special session on education. UNICEF stated rightly that "education is not an expenditure but an investment". And the discussion continued with diagnosis of what is and what is needed.<br />
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Then one participant asked: "What role does attitude play?" Attitude of the educators, of the students, of the various people in the system. To me this question is going down the rabbit hole and would lead to real insight. I would add some more questions:<br />
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<li>What role does our thinking and awareness play? (as thinking leads to decisions and actions).</li>
<li>What role do attitudes, aspirations, passion and 'inner' side? play (as inner creates the outer)</li>
<li>How to see development more holistically, from personal to societal?</li>
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Let's take some young entrepreneurs as an example. Will they do better or worse with a "can-do" attitude? With being open-minded, self-motivated, passionate, pro-active, solution-seeking? (even if all other environmental and support factors would be the same). If so, then how can we empower people and entrepreneurs, how can mind-sets and inner attitudes be shifted? These dimensions do matter and can be developed if taken into account.<br />
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Otto Scharmer calls the 'inner' side our blind spot. Unless someone has tried meditation or a a similar practice it is a difficult topic for economists and development practitioners to grasp. But until we learn from the personal development, coaching and psychology fields, I feel we are scratching the surface and could do a much better job with a more holistic <a href="http://www.business4good.org/2013/08/the-inside-out-development-paradigm-can.html" target="_blank">'inside-out' development approach</a>.<br />
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<b><i>"Development is not something that we do for people. Development is what people do for themselves. It must start and end from within. Our job is to facilitate the process."</i></b><br />
- IFAD President Kanayo F. Nwanze, Addis Ababa, May 2014</blockquote>
<br />Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-10066729501998326152014-03-20T04:05:00.002-04:002014-03-21T04:52:05.400-04:00Happy "International Day of Happiness" - book recommendation for Robert Muller, former UN leader<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8VGy_HeZDto/UyqYdZA8siI/AAAAAAAACY8/HdxIndbRhd8/s1600/1891242_10152415140495934_2078336437_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8VGy_HeZDto/UyqYdZA8siI/AAAAAAAACY8/HdxIndbRhd8/s1600/1891242_10152415140495934_2078336437_n.jpg" height="320" width="320" /></a>Happy International Day of Happiness! The UN General Assembly <a href="http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=%20A/RES/66/281">resolution
66/281</a> in 2012 proclaimed 20 March the <a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/happinessday/" target="_blank">International Day of Happiness</a> recognizing the relevance of happiness and well-being as
universal goals and aspirations in the lives of human beings around the
world.<br />
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I have written in an earlier article why I agree that we urgently need an approach that aims at a higher goal rather materialistic 'wealth' in my blog on<a href="http://www.business4good.org/2013/08/the-inside-out-development-paradigm-can.html"> "Happiness as a UN goal? The Inside-Out Development Paradigm?"</a>. A happiness day can raise awareness with people and policy makers alike to explore more holistic approaches to human development.<br />
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<i>"The world needs a new economic paradigm that recognizes
the parity between the three pillars of sustainable development.
Social, economic and environmental well-being are indivisible. Together
they define gross global happiness.”</i><br />
-UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon </blockquote>
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One of the most inspiring books in this regard I have ever read is "<a href="http://robertmuller.org/happiness/" target="_blank">Most of All, They Taught Me Happiness</a>" by Robert Muller (here on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Most-All-They-Taught-Happiness/dp/1932943056" target="_blank">Amazon</a>). The book is a fascinating life story of an authentic person embodying
the spirit and value of the UN. I therefore highly recommend it to anyone
who wants to be inspired and learn about the UN's evolution.<br />
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Muller fought in WWII and developed a passion to overcome wars by uniting countries beyond borders. He first joined the UN as an intern and rose through the ranks over a 40 year career to become Assistant Secretary-General under three Secretary-General.<br />
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He was known by some as "the philosopher of the UN" and his ideas about world government, world peace and spirituality led to the increased representation of spirituality in the UN. As a visionary leader he was instrumental in the founding of numerous UN agencies and programmes, including UNDP and WFP. Muller received numerous awards and was nominated repeated times for the Peace Nobel Price. <br />
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<i>"Are you happy? Decide to be happy! Happiness is a state of mind, a conscious, determined decision or will to embrace with fascination, enthusiasm the entire world and creation. Happiness is total consciousness. Happiness is not external to man, it is a genial force in him, an attribute, an essence of the human person."</i><br />
-Robert Muller, former UN leader</blockquote>
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His legacy lives on in many inspired coworkers and people,
and also in the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica whose first
Chancellor he became after retirement. Muller furthermore documented
over 7000 'idea-dreams' who are disseminated in a daily, inspiring newsletter (sign
up <a href="http://robertmuller.org/rm/R1/Subscribe.html" target="_blank">here</a>). Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-22136892761058052002014-03-03T07:44:00.002-05:002014-05-26T06:06:48.093-04:00Developing Transformative Leaders: 2014 programme open for registrationInteresting for all UN staff, consultants and Global Compact member companies working with the UN, is this "Transformative Leaders" 2014 Training Programme which I had the honour to co-create and also participate in last year.<b><br /></b><br />
<br />I am delighted to invite you to engage in an exciting leadership
programme being offered by the UN
Transformation Network - a network of innovators and change makers in
the UN system who want to transform the UN from within. Last year, our
first programme generated excellent feedback and so, due to its success,
we want to build on the momentum and launch more sessions. The
practical skills I gained in communicating, inspiring others and leading
in complex situations was especially impressive. It helped me achieve
my learning goals of leading positive change and innovation as well as connect with like-minded colleagues. <br />
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The overall intention of this leadership programme is to build the
skills and capacities of UN staff - at all levels - so as to increase
personal effectiveness and to evolve the UN system to have greater
impact and relevancy. We hope to catalyze UN innovation and
collaboration to enable colleagues to deliver even more powerful results
in the field. This is a transformative inside-out approach to
development as we believe that leadership potential exists within
everyone, regardless of role. The time is now to harness our wisdom and
creative intelligence because the sustainable solutions we seek reside
within each of us. One of the best part of this course is being part of a
bright, innovative and motivated group of peers who generated support
for doing things differently.<br />
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As one participants from UNDP BDP said, "The course
introduced us into a new world about transformation and leadership. It's
not enough to have the motivation to be a leader or an innovator, you
need the knowledge and skills to understand change, see how this plays
out within organizational cultures and structures, and manage the
processes to guide transformation. The course filled this
vacuum." Another colleague from the Ethiopia Country Office said, "It
gave me the confidence to speak up and the skill set take positive
action."<br />
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Please note that there are both in-person and on-line cohorts and all
UN agency staff and consultants are welcome to participate. The <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">NY session starts on April 3rd,</span></b> the <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Geneva session</span></b> <b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">starts on March 27th</span></b>. I am currently working on creating an in-person course for Addis Ababe in fall 2014, please email me in case your are interested.<br />
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For more details on this unique programme, please visit:<b> </b><a class="ext" href="http://transformative-un-leaders.org/">http://transformative-leaders.org</a>.
Feel free to pass this message onto other colleagues who may be
interested. There are limited seats so I encourage you to take action! Lastly, please consider joining our LinkedIn network group - the link
is below. We now have over 300 members world-wide, consisting of all
UN stakeholders, and the conversation keeps growing.<br />
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Warm regards<br />
<b>UN Transformation Network </b>(Co-leads: Patrick McNamara, Juergen Nagler, Elizabeth Soltis, Ian Thorpe) <br />
Visit <a class="ext" href="http://transformative-un-leaders.org/" target="_blank">http://transformative-un-leaders.or</a><span class="ext"></span>g<br />
Join <a class="ext" href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4469347" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4469347</a><br />
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PS: Thanks a lot to Patrick McNamara for drafting the brochure and excellent facilitation work, and to Elizabeth Soltis for inspiration and a lot of the text of this article. Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-14213529089717723112014-01-17T03:21:00.000-05:002014-01-17T03:22:10.836-05:00Business Fights Poverty (BFP) Interview<b><i><img alt="Business Fights Poverty" src="http://api.ning.com:80/files/WNs2tWllEhPdIZEWRL664Tn4fN0EQNrm5GozK0EZ6pBtvDsh-Un1GnwF7qKI*PBPvh9j9ZkY9i-TAhUpJ*Xa3ZEP3JDEry0-/logo.png" /> </i></b><br />
<u><i>Many thanks to Business Fights Poverty (BFP) for this Member of the Week Interview:</i></u><b><i> </i></b><br />
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<b><i>BFP</i></b><b><i>: What do you do?</i></b><br />
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<b>JN:</b> UNDP <a href="http://www.undp.org/africa/privatesector" rel="nofollow">AFIM</a>
is advancing inclusive business and market development in Africa. We
bridge partnerships between public and private sectors and develop
capacity along target value chains contributing to sustainable
development and inclusive growth, especially through job creation and
income generation.<br />
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For instance, we have undertaken regional <a href="http://businessfightspoverty.org/blog/2012/06/29/undps-innovative-way-on-private-sector-development-through-project-facilitation-platforms-in-africa/" rel="nofollow">Project Facilitation Platforms</a>
in East, West and Southern Africa advancing several key agri-food value
chains such as sorghum, dairy, onion, mango, ground nuts and soy beans
benefitting thousands of farmers and all value chain actors in each
project.<br />
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Personally I focus on partnership building, communication, innovation
and project coordination. AFIM has released several knowledge products
including the major report “<a href="http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/poverty-reduction/realizing-africa-s-wealth--building-inclusive-businesses-for-sha/" rel="nofollow">Realizing Africa’s Wealth</a> – Building Inclusive Businesses for Shared Prosperity”.<br />
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<b><i>BFP</i></b><b><i>: What is the best part about your job?</i></b><br />
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<b>JN:</b> I love working within the United Nations with people from
all nations to advance universal goals. Considering myself a
‘bridge-builder’, it’s a privilege to connect different stakeholder
groups, learn from them and facilitate knowledge exchange.<br />
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This also allows me to be part of the paradigm shift in development
approaches towards greater engagement of the private sector and
enlightened business leaders to realize UN goals which links to my own
work experiences from the business, NGO and UN worlds.<br />
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As UNDP is consulting with people from all over the world about the
post-2015 development agenda, I am also very grateful to broaden my own
development knowledge and philosophy. For instance, the UN General
Assembly clearly recognized the need to go beyond measuring GDP as an
indicator for a country’s wealth and calling “<a href="http://www.business4good.org/2013/08/the-inside-out-development-paradigm-can.html" rel="nofollow">happiness” a more holistic approach to development</a>.<br />
<br />
<b><i>BFP</i></b><b><i>: What have been your greatest challenges? </i></b><br />
<br />
<b>JN</b>: Scope of demands and financial resource pressures have
been the biggest challenges so far. As UNDP has a very broad global
human development mandate it attracts very high expectations and demands
from the widest set of stakeholders. Moreover, as some countries
shifted focus on reviving their own economies UNDP has experienced
challenging financial resource limitations.<br />
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<b><i>BFP</i></b><b><i>: How have you overcome these challenges?/ What advice, would you give to others?/ What is the secret of your success?</i></b><br />
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<b>JN</b>: A shared vision and positive attitude have helped me to
overcome challenging times and to grow from self-employed entrepreneur
to business manager and from UN intern to UNDP staff. My advice, even if
it may sound philosophically, is to follow your heart and succeed in
what one loves doing and is passionate about. Then one is able to work
and lead not only hard but smart achieving transformative results.<br />
<br />
For instance, I honorary also co-facilitate the <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/UN-Transformation-Network-4469347/about" rel="nofollow">UN Transformation Network</a>
which is a close to 300 members strong group of like-minded UN
innovators, change-makers and thought leaders that are interested in
advancing collaboration, innovation and transformation within the UN
system and its work, hopefully leading to a future-ready UN 2.0.<br />
<br />
Personally, I also see the importance of development happening
“inside-out”, therefore inner work plays an important role in my life
which includes personal development practices such as meditation. In
many instances have I positively experienced that a shift in my inner
attitude to a problem lead to an outer transformation - from a negative
problem to a neutral challenge to a positive lesson learned.<br />
<br />
<b><i>BFP</i></b><b><i>: If someone wants to do what you do, where should they start?</i></b><br />
<br />
<b>JN</b>: There are many different ways to work at the cross-roads
of business and advancing UN goals. For several years I have been
sharing relevant stories and insights on my blog at <a href="http://www.business4good.org/" rel="nofollow">www.business4good.org</a>.<br />
<br />
Companies increasingly shift from philanthropy and CSR to the next
level, may it be called inclusive business, creating shared value or
whatever the name. Leading firms join the UN Global Compact or the
Business Call to Action, so these are good sources of inspiration.<br />
<br />
NGOs also play an important role to bridge the ambitions of lead
firms with realities on the ground, e.g. by mobilizing and building
capacity of youth, women and farmers in rural areas which have been
previously been out of reach for most companies.<br />
<br />
The UN is a highly competitive place to enter and there is no
substitute to the right education and experience. Internships and
consultancies provide ways to gain UN experiences and to expose oneself
to the organization and its work. There are also national recruitment
assessments for some countries and it is key to monitor for suitable
positions to apply online, e.g. directly at the relevant UN agency
websites or through specific search engines such as unjobslist.org.<br />
<br />
<b><i>BFP</i></b><b><i>: Finally: what do you hope to get out of being part of the BFP community?</i></b><br />
<br />
<b>JN</b>: I appreciate the platform for sharing knowledge and
experiences, not only to fight poverty but to advance shared prosperity
and sustainability. Therefore, it’s great to connect with like-minded
people, share stories and together bridge the power of business for the
greater good.<br />
<br />
Source: <a href="http://community.businessfightspoverty.org/profiles/blogs/juergen-nagler-programme-specialist-united-nations-development" target="_blank">Business Fights Poverty</a> Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-46804323178884283552014-01-17T02:11:00.000-05:002014-01-21T01:55:54.130-05:00UN Global Compact Leaders Summit & Muhammad Yunus<img src="http://3blmedia.com/media/Leaders_Summit_2013_NO_Date_Blue_Logo_RGB-01_0.jpg" height="172" width="320" /><br />
Some months ago I had the privilege to attend the UN <span class="il">Global</span> <span class="il">Compact</span> Leaders Summit 2013 in New York. This major even, happening only every three years brought together 1,200 participants making it the largest UN business meeting.<br />
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Chaired by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, chief
executives met with leaders from civil society, Government and the United
Nations to unveil the Business Engagement Architecture to align and
scale up business action in support of sustainable development
priorities.<br />
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<i>"The Global Compact has helped generate a major shift in corporate mindset in just one decade. Enlightened leaders are making sustainability a core part of business strategy. Today, I ask you to be architects of a better world. What was once a call to the founding members of the United Nations is now a rallying cry to business and civil society leaders everywhere. Help us to respond to the urgency of our global challenges and build a better tomorrow".</i><br />
<i>- H.E. Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary-General</i> </blockquote>
It has has been the third Summit I have been able to attend and these major events have gone from strength to strength. Recently, the summary report has been published and is worth a read as it outlines the global Corporate Sustainability agenda for years to come.<b> </b><a href="http://www.unglobalcompact.org/docs/about_the_gc/LeadersSummit2013Report.pdf" target="_blank">Read the summary report</a>.<br />
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A personal highlight was the encounter with Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus. He has been a true inspiration for many years, firstly for pioneering microfinance, followed by his work on the social business concept. His perspective that humans not only interact as economic agents maximizing their own utility but also as social beings seeking happiness is playing an increasingly important role.<br />
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Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-68395009379428141032013-08-18T04:34:00.000-04:002013-08-20T03:52:58.876-04:00Happiness as a UN goal? The Inside-Out Development Paradigm?Are we seeing a new, more holistic human development paradigm emerging? Can happiness be a UN goal? There are some interesting signs...<br />
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Since the UN General Assembly declared 20 March the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_Happiness" target="_blank">International Day of Happiness</a> in 2012 the idea of happiness as a goal for development and global well-being has gained even more traction. Discussions advance happiness not just as a personal matter but also a global development goal.<br />
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is personally very interested in the new development paradigm including global well-being, happiness and Bhutan's Gross National Happiness (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness" target="_blank">GNH</a>) index. The 2013 UN General Assembly Note called "<a href="http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/67/697" target="_blank"><i>Happiness: towards a holistic approach to development"</i></a> gives a clear recognition of broader measurement of development beyond GDP and a call to further action.<br />
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Recently and during my holidays in Germany, I attended the first 'Global Well-being Lab Forum' in Berlin. It was organized by Germany's GIZ Global Leadership Academy (commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)), the <a href="http://www.presencing.com/projects/global-wellbeing-and-gnh-lab" target="_blank">Presencing Institute</a> and the GNH Bhutan Centre with OECD, Italy, Finland, World Bank Institute et al. also being active.<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kS8jNrECd0c/UhIPso-_rOI/AAAAAAAACJw/9XrC51hTKWw/s1600/Enrico+Giovannini+Development+Paradigm.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kS8jNrECd0c/UhIPso-_rOI/AAAAAAAACJw/9XrC51hTKWw/s400/Enrico+Giovannini+Development+Paradigm.png" width="400" /></a>See a key diagram by Enrico Giovannini, former OECD economist pioneer, mapping the links between needs, skills, forms of capital, well-being and happiness with the new development paradigm (see also at the bottom the resource library giving an overview of other initiatives presented).<br />
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For me personally very interesting is that this new development paradigm seems neither top-down nor bottom-up but 'inside-out'. A key insight that I heard from both the Bhutanese monks at the forum but also Otto Scharmer, Founder of the Presencing Institute, is that "transformation has first to happen inside oneself, then it manifests outside".<br />
<br />
This new field appears to be an exciting, innovative approach promising
transformative impact and contributing to the realization of long-term
development goals for all. Are we seeing a new development paradigm 'happiness' emerging? <br />
<br />
At the moment this space is still relatively new and much more research is needed to make the new approach practical. Given my strong personal passion for the topic, I am considering to explore this new development paradigm through an action-oriented PhD thesis with a German university while continuing my work for the UN.<br />
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Key part of the initiative would be to interview global change-makers and transformative leaders to synthesize insights on realizing the new emerging development paradigm, from theory to reality, within the UN context. What about the title 'transformateurs'? Suggestions for interviewees?<br />
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For further information see also the very informative <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8ECYDR0fTuJMFFROGR1bDRXSXM/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">resource library</a> by Stefan Bergheim, Centre for Societal Progress. Looking forward to hearing from you.Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-51530744076402336542013-08-04T06:31:00.001-04:002013-08-07T02:37:28.628-04:00Live TV Interview on Inclusive Business in Africa - UNDP Kenya Report LaunchIs the business & development paradigm changing? Last week I had the honor to travel again to Kenya to present on the key findings of the major <a href="http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/partners/private_sector/AFIM.html" target="_blank">UNDP AFIM</a> report<a href="http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/corporate/Partnerships/Private%20Sector/UNDP%20AFIM%20Realizing%20Africas%20Wealth.pdf" target="_blank"> “Realizing Africa’s Wealth – Building Inclusive Businesses for Shared Prosperity”.</a><br />
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The launch event in Nairobi on 31st July 2013 brought together around 100 leaders of private and public sector, media and academia. Together with the presentation and panel discussions, my personal highlight was the Live TV interview for Kenyan national TV station KTN. Watch the 4 minute video here:<br />
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It was great to discuss with private sector companies such as Novartis,
development partners (DFID, Sweden, Denmark), government
representatives, media and UNDP Kenya colleagues the concept and
successful cases of inclusive business models in Africa.<br />
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Kenya is such a hotbed for business innovation and together with South Africa has the most inclusive business models as identified in the report. Most cases are in agriculture, financial services, ICT, energy, water and extractive industries. Read the <a href="http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/corporate/Partnerships/Private%20Sector/UNDP%20AFIM%20Realizing%20Africas%20Wealth.pdf" target="_blank">report </a>for more details.<br />
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Below a photo with key representatives including UNDP Kenya Country Director Maria-Threase Keating (middle), Inclusive Economic Growth Team Leader Carolin Averbeck (2nd left) ) and Business Call to Action representatives Karen Newman (left) and PanAAC CEO Lucy Muchoki (right):<br />
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Personally I see Inclusive Business demonstrating that good business does well by taking a more holistic and long-term perspective with a shared value and triple bottom line approach of social, environmental and financial dimensions.<br />
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This goes hand in hand with the current paradigm shift in development cooperation from traditional aid towards greater individual empowerment, self-responsibility, local ownership and business engagement leading to more inclusive markets and sustainable development.<br />
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For more follow also on Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/Business4Good">www.twitter.com/Business4Good</a> and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/UNDP_AFIM">www.twitter.com/UNDP_AFIM</a><br />
<br />Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-86916232115734167872013-03-08T08:24:00.001-05:002013-03-08T08:41:39.922-05:00Inclusive Business can transform Poverty into Prosperity<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Inclusive Business can transform Poverty into Prosperity: <br />
Experiences by UNDP’s African Facility for Inclusive Markets (<a href="http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/partners/private_sector/AFIM.html" target="_blank">AFIM</a>)</span></b></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jürgen Nagler, Programme
Specialist</span></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP)</span></span></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">The need for inclusive growth and inclusive market
development</span></b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Economic growth, which is
essential for development, is largely driven by the private sector – from micro,
small and medium-sized enterprises to multinational corporations. Six of the
ten fastest-growing economies in the world over the past decade are in Africa, and
the overall GDP growth rate of sub-Saharan Africa is expected to reach 5.4 per
cent in 2013, making it the fastest-growing region in the world.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[i]</span></span></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, Africa’s impressive recent economic
growth has been largely ‘jobless’ growth and has failed to provide job and
income opportunities for the majority on the continent. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/corporate/Partnerships/Private%20Sector/Lady%20with%20a%20hoe.jpg/_jcr_content/renditions/cq5dam.thumbnail.300.200.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Woman in Field" border="0" src="http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/corporate/Partnerships/Private%20Sector/Lady%20with%20a%20hoe.jpg/_jcr_content/renditions/cq5dam.thumbnail.300.200.png" /></a><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Therefore, inclusive growth must
address the phenomenon of ‘jobless’ growth and must tackle critical issues to create
inclusive employment and income-generating opportunities for the majority in
Africa. Jobs are first and foremost created in the private sector, and as Helen
Clark, the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), states: “Businesses
are engines of growth and have the potential to help improve the lives of
people through their investments and activities.” </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">The landscape of global human
development and official development assistance is changing rapidly. Especially,
the area of engaging and partnering with the private sector has received a significant
increase of interest over the recent years, as recently embodied in discussions
at the Busan Forum for Aid Effectiveness<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[ii]</span></span></span></span>
and the statement issued by 11 of the world's largest bilateral donor agencies.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[iii]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">There is a paradigm shift from traditional
aid to sustainable development, from official assistance focusing on
governments to the inclusion of the private sector with its core business. This
stresses the importance of inspiring the private sector to use inclusive
business models, and governments and development partners to develop inclusive
markets.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">The UNDP’s Inclusive Market Development (IMD) approach</span></b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">The UNDP has been a leading
agency in promoting private sector partnerships and inclusive market
development through projects and initiatives such as the Growing Sustainable
Business (GSB) initiative which started 2003. The UNDP´s ambition is to foster broader
and more strategic alliances with the private sector around key development
challenges of common concern, such as the provision of energy, job creation and
supporting green growth.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">IMD focuses on developing private
sector markets to make them more inclusive of and beneficial to low-income groups
as producers, consumers and employees. Specifically, IMD seeks to strengthen
value chains to empower small enterprises, producers and distributors to
participate in and benefit from the existing and potential markets in which
they do business.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[iv]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">The UNDP’s global private sector
strategy for IMD combines private sector development and private sector
engagement.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[v]</span></span></span></span>
The objective is to stimulate the sustainable economic growth that creates jobs
and thereby reduces poverty – primarily by ensuring that small enterprise
owners and their employees participate in the growth of expanding markets. The
most frequently employed approach to IMD is the development of value chains
with growth, job and income generation potential.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">IMD is a useful approach to employ
when partnering with the private sector to inform, inspire and initiate
inclusive business models and to integrate low-income populations into their
value chains. To support IMD implementation, the UNDP published an IMD handbook
and three related tools: Assessing Markets, Inclusive Business Models and
Brokering Partnerships.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[vi]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">The power of inclusive business models and value chains</span></b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Inclusive business is a relatively
new approach, encompassing those businesses that consciously include low-income
people into their value chains as producers, consumers, employees and entrepreneurs.
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Such
businesses are not only profitable, but also improve the lives of low-income people
and communities. <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Therefore, it
is </span>key for scale and sustainability to <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">e</span>ngage the private sector as a strong partner,
i.e. with their core business - beyond philanthropy and corporate social
responsibility (CSR). </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In 2008, a global UNDP report noted that </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i>inclusive businesses include low-income people
on the demand side as clients and customers, and on the supply side as
employees, producers and business owners at various points in the value chain.
They build bridges between business and the poor for mutual benefit. The
benefits from inclusive business models go beyond immediate profits and higher
incomes. For business, they include driving innovations, building markets and
strengthening supply chains. And for the poor, they include higher
productivity, sustainable earnings and greater empowerment</i>.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[vii]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Inclusive business models by the private sector and supported by public
sector and development partners, can turn poverty into prosperity. The UNDP
promotes exactly such business models, where the pursuit of wealth creation,
human development and environmental sustainability</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
are seen as fully compatible<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[viii]</span></span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>What can the private sector do to
contribute to sustainable development? </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">First,
businesses can benefit low-income people by including them in their core
business operations, whether as suppliers or business partners in their value chains,
as employees in the workplace, or as consumers in the marketplace. There are
many examples of companies which have successfully integrated low-income people
into their business models. </span></span></span>
<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">For
example, A to Z Textile Mills of Tanzania is an African producer of
long-lasting insecticide bed nets. Its products help in the fight against
malaria, and the production provides work for more than 3000 women. This was
made possible by a broad public–private partnership involving, among others,
the Japanese chemical company Sumitomo, which is member of the UN Global Compact and the Business Call to
Action (BCtA), a UNDP-supported initiative challenging companies to develop
innovative business models.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[ix]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span>
<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Second,
the private sector can make important contributions to advancing sustainable
development by bringing low-cost innovations to market. The low-cost mobile
technology exists to conduct life-saving heart scans; there are energy-efficient
LED lamps which enable children to do their homework at night; there are smokeless
stoves which support better health; and mobile phone and Internet applications
which help small farmers and fishermen get access to better information and prices. </span></span></span>
<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">One
such innovative product solution in the agribusiness field comes from Amiran
Kenya, which won the 2011 Youth Empowerment Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
award in Kenya. Amiran’s Farmers Kits offer local small-scale farmers
affordable access to modern agricultural technologies, methods and inputs to
suit the climate, terrain and agricultural experience of the farmer.
Innovations like these, when accessible to low-income people, have the
potential to significantly contribute to <span style="background: yellow !msorm; mso-highlight: yellow !msorm;"><span style="mso-prop-change: elsa 20121130T0814;">making
markets </span></span>more inclusive.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></span>
<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Third
and perhaps a more traditional way for businesses to support development goals,
is giving back to the community through CSR activities and philanthropy. The
scope and magnitude of these kinds of activities have grown exponentially in
recent times – and indeed they need to be brought to scale more consistently,
to have a wider and more sustainable impact. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In
conclusion, inclusive business models and inclusive value chains generate jobs,
help low-income populations increase their productivity and income, and enable
people to access affordable products and services. Several prominent examples
show that this paradigm shift towards a new way of doing business is possible,
and that it pays off in sectors as diverse as agriculture, healthcare and
financial services.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></b></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">UNDP’s continental platform: The African Facility for
Inclusive Markets (AFIM)</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">In November 2010, the UNDP launched
the AFIM, specifically for Africa. This project constitutes a continental
platform working in partnership with the public and private sectors,
development partners and UN agencies in Africa. AFIM works to reduce poverty
and accelerate progress towards sustainable development, by supporting inclusive
growth and inclusive market development across sub-Saharan Africa.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">The facility aims to achieve four
main goals: </span></span></span></div>
<ol>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Increase
private sector-related capacity of targeted, regional institutions and
governments;</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Strengthen
regional and country-level initiatives; </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Build a
broad-based alliance of partners for IMD in Africa (private sector, regional
institutions, UN agencies, donors and other development partners); and </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Improve
access to finance for small producers and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[x]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
</ol>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">AFIM, which builds on the work of
existing pro-poor national and regional initiatives, serves as a platform for
coordinating inclusive growth activities between various partners. The platform
also facilitates knowledge sharing and access to finance, advances tangible
value chain projects, and disseminates best practices in inclusive market
development where the emphasis is on creating opportunities for low-income
groups – especially women and youths.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">The project’s particular focus is
on promoting inclusive market development in Africa through developing and
expanding regional value chains in job-creation sectors. Due to the importance
of agriculture (which employs about 60 per cent of people in sub-Saharan Africa)
and its key relevance for food security, AFIM focuses on agriculture and agribusiness.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[xi]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Thus far, AFIM has undertaken and
published several mappings and studies on the ‘Roles and Opportunities of Private
Sector in Africa’s Agro-Food Industry’ and ‘Inclusive Business Finance’. The
AgriBusiness Forum 2011 (in Johannesburg) and 2012 (in Dakar) were co-organised
with the NGO EMRC, and aimed to boost Africa’s agricultural sector by bringing together
African agribusiness representatives, investors and policy makers from all
over Africa and beyond. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">More specifically, the UNDP-led
high-level public–private dialogue held in Johannesburg in October 2011 led to the
adoption of the Johannesburg Declaration: “Engaging the Private Sector in
Furthering Africa’s Agribusiness, Food Security and Nutrition Agenda”. This, the
first joint declaration by the public and private sectors, calls for joint
action to advance Africa’s agro-food agenda.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[xii]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">AFIM has built an alliance of Inclusive
Market Development partners, including African Development Bank (AfDB), the African
Union Commission (AUC), the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD)
Planning and Coordination Agency (NPCA), the NEPAD Business Foundation (NBF), the
Pan-African Agribusiness Consortium (PanAAC), Regional Economic Communities
(such as EAC, ECOWAS, COMESA), UN agencies and bilateral development partners.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">AFIM’s innovative way of engaging the private sector
through project facilitation platforms (PFPs)</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">AFIM has been establishing PFPs in
East, West and southern Africa to boost food production as well as job and income
opportunities for farmers, through engaging the private sector to advance
agriculture value chains. Through these platforms, government stakeholders, UN
agencies, the private sector, farmers, financiers and civil society discuss
partnerships and their respective value-add as partners, in terms of strategic
agri-food value chains.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[xiii]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">For example, the first such platform
for East Africa was launched in Nairobi, bringing together East African
Community (EAC) partners from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and
Ethiopia. Project promoters presenting planned interventions included Africa
Harvest, East Africa Dairy Development Project and UNIDO/UNDP to advance
specific value chains of sorghum, dairy and soy.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">The platforms are unique in that
they focus on cross-border and regional value chains, bringing together all the
relevant players and building the capacity of regional institutions to organise
such platforms themselves in the future. Furthermore, bridges are built between
the public and private sectors, and resolve issues arising between policy level
and practical project implementation. The West Africa platform, attended by representatives
from 13 countries and launched together with ECOWAS in Dakar, Senegal, has been
advancing the value chains of cassava, mango, onions and palm oil.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">To catalyse the field
implementation of selected regional value chains, AFIM has put in place a
catalytic funding programme for promising value chain projects, in addition to developing
an African Supplier Development Programme (SDP). The SDP aims to develop the
capacities of African suppliers, i.e. smallholder farmers and SMEs in
agricultural supply chains, to increase their productivity, reduce post-harvest
losses and thereby increase income and production levels. The programme has
received strong interest from African and international lead firms which want
to strengthen and grow their supply chains.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Increased importance of innovation for transformational
results</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">To achieve greater development effectiveness
and unleash the power of the markets and of people, innovation and inspiration
are increasingly recognised as key drivers. Leading thinkers on the theory of development
change pose the question: ‘How are transformational results achieved?’ As yet there
are no widely accepted answers. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">What seems to come to the fore is
a recognition of the importance of people, societies and institutions in
developing their own innovations, sometimes inspired by leading examples which
are shared rapidly through communication technologies. Transformation differs
from change in the sense that it is more fundamental, sometimes even ‘disruptive’
(e.g. the Arab Spring), an (r)evolution that has grabbed the attention of many
African governments. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Transformation comes from a
deeper level within the entity being transformed, and gives rise to a change in
status level, just as a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly. In terms of
international development, this could see one form of governance changing into
another, typically not without difficulties and periods of disruption. In terms
of business it could mean a drastically different business model applying a new
way of thinking and doing business. ‘Breakthrough’ innovations and related
shifts in awareness can inspire such transformations.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Transformation from jobless to inclusive growth through
inclusive markets</span></b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">A paradigm shift is taking place in
the spheres of both business and development actors. Inclusive business models
provide a useful new approach in advising new business thinking beyond CSR and base
of the pyramid (BoP) approaches. For development and government actors, IMD represents
an innovative, holistic conceptual framework integrating economic and social
development elements into a pragmatic multi-stakeholder development approach.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">There is a clear need for
inclusiveness and collective action, because no single actor alone can develop
new markets in an inclusive way. Only through inclusiveness and (self-)empowerment
will the transformation from jobless to inclusive growth happen. Further
research is recommended to build the evidence base of inclusive business
models, related value chain development and the more holistic inclusive market
development paradigm.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">[xiv]</span></span></span></span>
Advancing both the evidence base and practical action-oriented implementation
will build the envisaged future on a step-by-step, leap-by-leap basis.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Looking forward, one of the UNDP´s
ambitions is to build broader and more strategic alliances with the private
sector and other partners around key development challenges of common concern,
such as the provision of energy, job creation and supporting green growth. In doing
so, not only is development stimulated, but the potential of as-yet-unrealised
markets is unlocked. Innovation and new ways of development and doing business
will increasingly play vital roles in achieving transformative results, towards
an envisaged and desired future.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: text1;">References:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div>
<div style="mso-element: endnote-list;">
<div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[i]</span></span></span></span> African
Economic Outlook 2012, <a href="http://www.africaneconomicoutlook.org/">www.africaneconomicoutlook.org</a></span></span>
</div>
</div>
<div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[ii]</span></span></span></span>
The 2011 High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan stresses the importance
of partnering with the Private Sector, see <a href="http://www.enterprise-development.org/download.aspx?id=1854"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Joint
Statement on Expanding and Enhancing Public-Private Cooperation</span></a></span></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn3" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[iii]</span></span></span></span>
Eleven of the world’s largest donor calling for more private sector
partnerships, see <a href="http://www.enterprise-development.org/download.aspx?id=1645" title="External Link"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bilateral Donors' Statement in Support of Private Sector
Partnerships for Development</span></a> at the UN Private Sector Forum 2010, <a href="http://www.enterprise-development.org/page/download?id=1645">http://www.enterprise-development.org/page/download?id=1645</a></span></span>
</div>
</div>
<div id="edn4" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[iv]</span></span></span></span>
See UNDP’s <a href="http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/partners/private_sector/IMD.html">Inclusive
Market Development</a> (IMD) approach,
www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/partners/private_sector/IMD.html</span></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn5" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[v]</span></span></span></span>
See UNDP’s <a href="http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/partners/private_sector/OurStrategy/">Private
Sector Strategy</a> (2007),
www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/partners/private_sector/OurStrategy/</span></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn6" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[vi]</span></span></span></span>
For UNDP’s Inclusive Market Development (IMD) handbook and related tools (2010)
see www.undp.org/africa/privatesector</span></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn7" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[vii]</span></span></span></span>
See UNDP global Growing Inclusive Markets report <a href="http://www.growinginclusivemarkets.org/publications/global/">Creating
Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor</a>,
www.growinginclusivemarkets.org</span></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn8" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin-right: -9.4pt;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[viii]</span></span></span></span>
For more inclusive business cases and relevant reports see UNDP’s <a href="http://www.growinginclusivemarkets.org/">Growing Inclusive Markets</a>
(GIM) initiative</span></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn9" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[ix]</span></span></span></span> <a href="http://www.businesscalltoaction.org/members/2010/08/sumitomo-chemical">Sumitomo
Chemical</a> is a Business Call to Action (BCtA) and <a href="http://www.unglobalcompact.org/participants/lead/8866-Sumitomo-Chemical-Company-Limited" target="_blank">Global Compact</a> member company</span></span></div>
</div>
<div id="edn10" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<div class="MsoEndnoteText">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[x]</span></span></span></span>
For more information on UNDP’s African Facility for Inclusive Markets (AFIM)
see www.undp.org/africa/privatesector<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[xi]</span></span></span></span>
See UNDP AFIM’s <a href="http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/corporate/Partnerships/Private%20Sector/Market%20Study.pdf">Roles
and Opportunities of the Private Sector in Africa's Agro-Food Industry</a>
report, www.undp.org/africa/privatesector</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[xii]</span></span></span></span>
For the Johannesburg Declaration and the conference report on the AgriBusiness
Forum see www.undp.org/africa/privatesector </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[xiii]</span></span></span></span>
See article on UNDP’s Project Facilitation Platform on <a href="http://www.businessfightspoverty.org/profiles/blogs/undp-s-innovative-way-on-private-sector-development-through">Business
Fights Poverty</a>,
www.businessfightspoverty.org/profiles/blogs/undp-s-innovative-way-on-private-sector-development-through
</span></span></div>
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<div id="edn14" style="mso-element: endnote;">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[xiv]</span></span></span></span>
UNDP AFIM and GIM have been working on documenting African inclusive business
cases and will launch a major report on this topic in 2013.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Note:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This article was originally written for the publication of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) "Value chain development by the private sector in Africa: Lessons learnt and guidance notes" due to be published in March 2013.</span></span></div>
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Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-85364529342813292372012-06-12T10:02:00.000-04:002012-06-12T10:02:44.939-04:00UNDP's innovative way on private sector development through Project Facilitation Platforms in AfricaI am excited to share with you UNDP's innovative way on private sector development through Project Facilitation Platforms to boost food production and job & income opportunities for farmers through advancing agriculture value chains.<br /><br />UNDP's regional private sector project in Africa, the African Facility for Inclusive Markets (<a href="http://www.undp.org/africa/privatesector/" target="_blank">AFIM</a>), is launching such platforms in East, West and Southern Africa. Stakeholders representing governments, UN agencies, private sector, farmers, financiers and civil society are discussing partnerships and value addition of the various partners in strategic agri-food value chains.<br /><br />I am writing this from the first platform for East Africa launched this week in Nairobi convening partners from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Ethiopia. Project promoters presenting planned interventions include Africa Harvest, East Africa Dairy Development Project and UNIDO/UNDP to advance specific projects of sorghum, soy and dairy value chains.<br /><br />Aeneas Chuma, UNDP Resident Representative who opened the Nairobi workshop stated: “A new private sector is emerging in Africa with great potential for creating new jobs, generating higher incomes and delivering products and services for all. Agriculture value chains and agribusiness are critical to advance food security and economic opportunities”.<br /><br />The platforms are unique by focusing on cross-border and regional value chains, bringing all relevant players together and building capacity of regional institutions to organize such platforms themselves in the future. Furthermore, bridges are built between public and private sectors as well as between policy and practical project implementation issues.<br /><br />“UNDP’s African Facility for Inclusive Markets is brokering partnerships and building capacity to develop inclusive markets that contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and inclusive economic growth. The level of participation for this East Africa platform is very encouraging, and we will launch similar initiatives in West Africa and Southern Africa,” said Tomas Sales, AFIM Manager.<br /><br />With the positive start and feedback from the East Africa platform, I am looking forward to tangible impact of the strengthened projects and to the platforms in West Africa (July 2012) and Southern Africa (end of 2012).Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-988300531112036312012-01-24T04:34:00.002-05:002012-02-01T04:04:17.137-05:00"Entrepreneurs: The World needs You!" article in Special Issue of Thunderbird International Business ReviewIt is with great pleasure that I am sharing with you my first internationally published article, in the Thunderbird International Business Review (TIBR) Special Issue on "The Fight Against Poverty", called "Entrepreneurs - The World needs You!". The fight <i>against </i>poverty is actually for me more a quest/path <i>for </i>a better world through more consciousness, inclusive and sustainable development.<br />
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I wrote this piece in personal capacity and I am an authentic believer in several global initiatives of the UN, its vision and potential of inclusive and conscious business for sustainable development. Therefore, I naturally mentioned several of UN's initiatives in this area I have been involved with such as the Global Compact, Growing Sustainable Business and Inclusive Market Development.<br />
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While this article calls on entrepreneurs and business people, in fact the world needs the full, authentic, conscious You, i.e. Essence/Potential/Soul of each of us. I hope its an inspiring article that you enjoy. Any feedback most welcome.<br />
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<b>Abstract:</b><br />
<i>The way we see the role of business is changing dramatically. What have we learned from the recent and ongoing crises? Where does one look for guidance on the “right thing to do” now? In a world where we live on one globe, it is time to shift our energy to real responsibility and sustainability. This requires a new paradigm. As Albert Einstein said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” We are not separated from our environment, nature, and society; we are actually a part of it.</i><br />
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Therefore, let us unleash entrepreneurship and the power of business in a way to serve us more holistically. This new type of thinking, this expanding consciousness, is giving birth to all the new concepts of social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, corporate sustainability, inclusive business, conscious capitalism, and sustainable development.</i><br />
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On the global level, there are increasing numbers of business-oriented initiatives aimed at steering the power of business toward the public good such as the UN Global Compact and the Business Call to Action. Where to look for inspiration at the individual level? Within yourself. As Mahatma Gandhi said, “You have to be the change you want to see in the world.”</i><br />
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<b>Continue reading the </b><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tie.21433/pdf" target="_blank"><b>Full Article (PDF)</b></a><b><a href="" target="_blank">. </a></b>Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-42101201704332479832011-11-02T10:08:00.001-04:002011-11-02T10:17:17.257-04:00Exciting Inauguration of new Sterntaler Vocational School in Mali<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Last week I had the great pleasure to return to Mali, West Africa, in my capacity of founder and chairman of the NGO 'Sterntaler für Afrika' (and unrelated to my UNDP work). It was of great honor to inaugurate the biggest project so far of this 3-year old organisation driven by private initiative: a new Vocational School!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I am very proud and grateful for the great work of our Malian partners, Youchaou Traore and his team, and all Sterntaler and Mali Initiative supporters. It was a festive ceremony with over 400 people and the Malian TV covered it in their weekend news. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Below you find the text of my passionate speech:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r-Gb-2kbh6c/TrFMWoRYzvI/AAAAAAAABsg/SS-Unz_tV00/s1600/PICT5220.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r-Gb-2kbh6c/TrFMWoRYzvI/AAAAAAAABsg/SS-Unz_tV00/s320/PICT5220.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><hr style="font-family: inherit;" /><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">"Mayor of Kalabancoro<br />
Officials of the Government<br />
Representatives of the Community <br />
Mesdames et Messieurs<br />
Parents and Students</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<i>28 October 2011, Kalabancoro, Bamako, Mali</i></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">I am Jürgen Nagler, Chairman of Sterntaler für Afrika, the German NGO who has supported this important project. It is my honor to speak to you now and share the reasons for our support and also some words from my heart to inspire positive change.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Together with my three friends accompanying me, we represent the over 100 German supporters, from parents to students and companies, that have donated resources, from finances to laptops to time & effort to spread the news about the vision of this school. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Why have we come to Mali and invested our time and energy into this? When I first came to Mali in 2008 I was first shocked by the poverty and lack of infrastructure and opportunities. However, underneath the surface, there were signs of hope: </span></div><ol start="1" style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Malians are people with a big and peaceful heart, and a great sense of humor. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">There is a strong network of family ties and people seem to help each other much more than in more urban, industrialized and individualistic cultures.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">There are courageous people taking initiative, not only to develop themselves but also the wider communities around them.</span></li>
</ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">One of the most courageous and inspiring people in the development field I have ever met, is also the visionary of this project: Youchaou Traoré. Coming from a small rural village, he was a former beggar in the street. A family member found him and he took his chances going to school. He learned reading and writing, first French than English, and through dedication and aspiration became one of the best students in school and university. He started his translation business and decided to give children the same chance as he received: education. His courage is proven by first starting all alone but – because self-help attracts help – he found partners from abroad such as Australia, USA and Germany.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><br />
I would like to suggest to the Malian or international TV and media to interview him and show his inspiring life story to the widest audience possible. Dear parents, tell his story to your children demonstrating that the ones who take initiative can achieve their dreams. Government officials, please fight corruption and mismanagement, and ensure a fair environment for entrepreneurs and private schools to unleash their initiatives. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Why is Youchaou’s story so important and what does it stand for? Is he just a man with luck, or can we learn something from him to develop our own lives, families and communities? My response is: there is no luck because everything has a reason even if we might not yet understand it. Nelson Mandela’s favorite poem Invictus explains why:<br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 35.4pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;">I am the Master of my Fate.</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
I am the Captain of my Soul.<br />
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</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Nelson Mandela never gave up to believe in love, courage, freedom and positive change, even after decades in jail, being trialed and abused. I do want to support these visionaries who show initiative and who believe in positive change, for themselves and the world. These people are inspired and do inspire me. Therefore, I decided to partner with Youchaou and his team.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Help yourself and you will be helped. This is a philosophy of myself and Sterntaler. Having travelled to over 50 countries all over the world, I have found the following 5 points on fulfilling one’s life potential:</span></div><ol start="1" style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Take full responsibility for your life, you are not a victim but the change maker in your life.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Do what you love and be courageous.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Listen to your heart, mind, conscience and soul.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Listen to ‘signs’ that might mark your way and continue walking your path.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Discover your life purpose and unique talents that every human being has. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;"> </span></li>
</ol><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Herby, as Mahatma Gandhi said: “Be the Change you want to see in the World”.</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; margin-top: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Together we are building a bridge of friendship between Mali and Germany, Africa and Europe. As we will be returning to Germany this weekend, we will take the positive pictures and inspiring stories from our visit here back to our friends and colleagues at Sterntaler and are committed to continue our support to this important new school.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><br />
As Nelson Mandela said: ‘Education is the most powerful weapon to change the world’. Therefore, I wish this school to become one of the biggest and best in Africa, and all of you a happy and fulfilled life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Katile haere chaia (shall peace be with you)."</span></div></div>Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-45254716989692901402011-11-02T09:34:00.000-04:002011-11-02T09:34:32.021-04:00Enlightened Business Summit – Free Five Day Teleseminar Event<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_66auwKemcrg/TLZKTIHfhcI/AAAAAAAAAG0/omhJy6VmSr4/s1600/EnlightenedBusiness.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="100" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_66auwKemcrg/TLZKTIHfhcI/AAAAAAAAAG0/omhJy6VmSr4/s320/EnlightenedBusiness.png" width="320" /></a></div>This seems to be a very interesting event: Enlightened Business Summit – Free Five Day Teleseminar Event<br />
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The summit features over 30 leaders in the world of conscious business including Daniel Pink, Daniel Goleman, T. Harv Eker, Marci Shimoff, Marshall Goldsmith, eBay CEO John Donahoe, Meng Tan of Google and many more.<br />
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It happens November 7th - 11th, and there’s no cost to attend this virtual week-long event. You can register here: <a href="http://www.enlightenedbusinesssummit.com/">www.enlightenedbusinesssummit.com</a></div>Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-38208661035471806222011-07-04T16:40:00.001-04:002011-07-04T16:45:52.288-04:00My Journey from Money to Meaning: Personal Realization of the 5 P’s: Profit, People, Planet, Purpose, Peace.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/41579_146985261982733_3740_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/41579_146985261982733_3740_n.jpg" width="164" /></a>This is my story of how I got to know and realized the 5 P’s on my journey from a money-focussed business manager to a meaning-focussed human being. While being in the middle of each phase, I was not even aware of these dimensions, only now by hindsight do I see that the journey went through these various stages. The stage of the 5 P’s: Profit, People, Planet, Purpose, Peace.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><br />
P#1: Profit<br />
</b>Since my childhood I had a good ‘business-sense’. I managed my little pocket money as a kid, later traded computer parts, studied business administration and went for sales, marketing and business development jobs. I maximized profits for companies like Siemens and Palm, and aimed at increasing my own salary. However, after a motorbike accident and some years of search and reflection, I realized that ‘money cannot buy happiness’ and that something important in my life was missing.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>P#2: People<br />
</b>After years of soul-searching I opened up towards a ‘social development’ dimension. My heart felt like split in two, on the one side my business-interest (profits), on the other a new (com)passion for social and development issues (people). I started to explore microfinance, fair trade and human development. Volunteering for NGOs in Peru and Mali, and studying International Development bridged my two areas of interest. A new career with NGOs and the United Nations began. I also started the <a href="http://www.business4good.org/">Business4Good</a> blog to share insights on CSR, Social Entrepreneurship and Social Business.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>P#3: Planet<br />
</b>While sustainable profits require good relationships with people, similar this is true for people and the planet. I realized that we human beings are part of nature, and that the perceived separation of us from the environment is an illusion. In fact, we are all connected as humans and with all life on this one planet. If we could see the bigger picture, maybe seeing Mother Earth from the sky we would see the forest rather than just trees. If we hurt the planet and environment we hurt ourselves. From this realisation a new appreciation of nature and environmental consciousness arose in me.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>P#4: Purpose<br />
</b>‘Profits, People, Planet’ can also be measured as a Triple Bottom Line for businesses. It is measurable and ‘worldly’. I began to discover the more ‘immaterial’ side in me. Always having been intrigued by practical philosophy and wisdom, I explored Buddhism, self-development, meditation, Tantra and various other spiritual paths to discover my life purpose. So far I can say it is to ‘build bridges’ between perceived separated issues, and hence contribute to the expansion of consciousness. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>P#5: Peace<br />
</b>Knowing my purpose has tremendously increased my inner peace. I do no longer feel like a lone stranger in this world, overwhelmed by all possibilities and desires. My life feels like having meaning and a direction, beyond having fun and ending in the grave at the end. Knowing that the inner world creates the outer world, I hope that increasing inner peace will lead to more world peace that inner development, will lead to more human development.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The journey continues. We are living in times of extraordinary rapid change and on our path are plenty of obstacles but if we read the signs I am positive we will find the way. To me as an optimist the direction looks towards sustainable prosperity. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">All the Best & Enjoy Your Journey<br />
Juergen</div></div>Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-22562269048781190042011-06-30T05:15:00.001-04:002011-06-30T05:16:17.009-04:00The Pyramid of Conscious Capitalism - Abraham Maslow's hierarchy aplied to Conscious Business<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Via <a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/consciousbusiness">Scoop.it</a> I came across various interesting articles on Conscious Business and Conscious Capitalism.<br />
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Especially, the following beautiful illustration reminds me of Abraham Maslow's famous needs-pyramid. I have always been intrigued by Maslow's pyramid and how to 'transcend' from basic needs all the way up to the elusive-sounding "self-actualization".<br />
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Wouldn't it be great to have a similar, clear hierarchy and pyramid for the evolution of business and capitalism?<br />
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See below the best illustration I have seen so far: Maddock Douglas' "Pyramid of Conscious Capitalism" outlining the hierarchy from society/environment, beyond profit, towards purpose - from survive to succeed to transform: <br />
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Read the full article at <a href="http://community.maddockdouglas.com/article/14871/Why-Conscious-Capitalism-Will-Be-The-Framework-For-Your-Next-Decade-Of-Innovation/">Maddock Douglas</a> and explore more on the topic via <a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/consciousbusiness">Scoop.it</a> where also my own article about <a href="http://www.business4good.org/2011/03/conscious-business-what-is-it-does-it.html">Conscious Business</a> is featured.</div>Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-54315257111893738582011-06-14T16:14:00.000-04:002011-06-14T16:14:22.922-04:00Apple most valuable company - Steve Jobs' most valueble advice? "follow your heart and intuition"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vCm599JJaZU/TNfeqIa91EI/AAAAAAAAAQM/q3f-PCXY470/s1600/Steve-Jobs-to-Drop-the-Bomb-on-the-iPhone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="142" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vCm599JJaZU/TNfeqIa91EI/AAAAAAAAAQM/q3f-PCXY470/s200/Steve-Jobs-to-Drop-the-Bomb-on-the-iPhone.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Apple now has been named not only most valuable brand and most valuable tech company but by some even the most valuable company in the world. Beyond Google, Microsoft and the rest.<br />
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This is good timing to revisit a very inspiring speech by Apple founder Steve Jobs, to me a great example of authentic leadership with real reflections on life, death and love. It's not new but the timeless wisdom is worth reposting:<br />
<blockquote>"I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.<br />
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The first story is about connecting the dots.<br />
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I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?<br />
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It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.<br />
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And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.<br />
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It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:<br />
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Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.<br />
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None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.<br />
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Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.<br />
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My second story is about love and loss.<br />
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I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.<br />
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I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.<br />
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I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.<br />
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During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.<br />
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I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.<br />
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My third story is about death.<br />
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When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.<br />
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.<br />
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About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.<br />
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I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.<br />
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This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:<br />
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.<br />
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.<br />
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When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.<br />
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Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.<br />
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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.<br />
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Thank you all very much."</blockquote><br />
Source: <a href="http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html">http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html</a><br />
Video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc</a></div>Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-35097922108135699902011-05-09T10:14:00.003-04:002011-05-09T10:49:57.893-04:00Prosperity without Growth? 10 Little and Big Things You Can Do<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DVRvFEwRQYY/Tcf2WYeaTWI/AAAAAAAABR4/x6Auc8AGSik/s1600/stuff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DVRvFEwRQYY/Tcf2WYeaTWI/AAAAAAAABR4/x6Auc8AGSik/s1600/stuff.jpg" /></a></div>From the interesting <a href="http://storyofstuff.org/">The Story of Stuff Project</a> (must-see <a href="http://www.business4good.org/2010/02/video-story-of-stuff.html">video</a>) come ten simple yet thought provoking tips to promote sustainability.<br />
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The 10 headlines are: <br />
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<b>1. Power down!</b><br />
<b>2. Waste less.</b><br />
<b>3. Talk to everyone about these issues. </b><br />
<b>4. Make Your Voice Heard.</b><br />
<b>5. DeTox your body, DeTox your home, and DeTox the Economy.</b><br />
<b>6. Unplug (the TV and internet) and Plug In (the community). </b><br />
<b>7. Park your car and walk…and when necessary MARCH!</b><br />
<b>8. Change your lightbulbs…and then, change your paradigm.</b><br />
<b>9. Recycle your trash…and, recycle your elected officials. </b><br />
<b>10. Buy Green, Buy Fair, Buy Local, Buy Used, and most importantly, Buy Less.</b><b> </b><b> </b><b> </b><b> </b><b> </b><b> </b><b> </b><b> </b><b> </b><br />
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Read the full list of <b><a href="http://bit.ly/gLrpeR" target="_blank">10 Little and Big Things You Can Do</a></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">I am especially intrigued by adding a conscious 'quality' dimension to our materialistic 'quantitative' measuring of wealth, success and our economies. Or on the words of The Story of Stuff: </span></b>"Our current paradigm dictates that more stuff is better, that infinite economic growth is desirable and possible, and that pollution is the price of progress. To really turn things around, we need to nurture a different paradigm based on the values of sustainability, justice, health, and community."<br />
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These ideas and much more are also discussed by Tim Jackson, see his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZsp_EdO2Xk">TED video</a>, or read his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Prosperity-Without-Growth-Economics-Finite/dp/1849713235/ref=tmm_pap_title_0">Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet</a>. <br />
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<b> </b></div>Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-21124763798523604962011-04-04T11:29:00.003-04:002011-04-04T11:31:00.662-04:00Online Teleseminar Series on Conscious Business: "Waking up the Workplace"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.wakinguptheworkplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.wakinguptheworkplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Logo.png" /></a>If you have enjoyed my earlier post on <a href="http://www.business4good.org/2011/03/conscious-business-what-is-it-does-it.html">Conscious Business</a>, or wonder how business can be a force for positive global transformation, then this free online teleseminar series might be for you. The "Waking up the Workplace" seminars kicked off recently and still goes until 23 June 2011. From their website: <br />
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“<i>What would happen if we saw the business of work, not just as a means for trade and profit, but as a vehicle for actualizing our deeper human potentials in a conscious and creative transformation?</i>”<br />
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Join the conversation and explore answers to the following questions:<br />
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</ul>Participation is completely FREE. All you need is a telephone or internet connection to be able to:<br />
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</ul>Join the conversation and find out how you can make business a force for global transformation! Register for free at <a href="http://www.wakinguptheworkplace.com/">www.wakinguptheworkplace.com</a></div>Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-66961035163273845672011-03-21T13:02:00.000-04:002011-03-20T13:05:12.978-04:00Chopra@Google: Video about the Soul of Leadership<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Deepak Chopra's 1h talk at Google about the content of his new book "The Soul of Leadership". He eloquently explains how consciousness creates reality, what good leadership is and what impact it has. He also talks about consciousness, the soul and much more... Who combines latest scientific discoveries with timeless spiritual wisdom as brilliant as Chopra?<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="323" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oJ4hL9a_VB0" title="YouTube video player" width="520"></iframe></div>Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-31396722574652344772011-03-10T05:25:00.704-05:002011-03-28T05:37:20.879-04:00Conscious Business: What is it? Does it matter? Uniting IQ, EQ and SQ for Global Sustainability<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nmbNm3wlyQs/TXi9Vxff-wI/AAAAAAAABQU/bgQeLj3BpmQ/s1600/Conscious_Capitalism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nmbNm3wlyQs/TXi9Vxff-wI/AAAAAAAABQU/bgQeLj3BpmQ/s320/Conscious_Capitalism.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;">Climate change, economic and financial crises, environmental disasters, nuclear risks etc. - how many more wake-up calls do we need? We are at an important crossroads where we decide </span><span style="font-size: small;">on how we behave, consume and lead our lives</span><span style="font-size: small;"> - and how we do business. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As drastically as it sounds, the choices we make have a direct influence on the survival of large parts of society, the environment and the world at large. The bottom line is: Our individual and collective decisions determine our future and do affect<i> all of us</i>.</span></div><blockquote style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="color: #0b5394;">"Let us choose to unite the power of markets with the authority of universal ideals. Let us choose to reconcile the creative forces of private entrepreneurship with the needs of the disadvantaged and the requirements of future generations."</i> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Kofi Annan</b>, former UN Secretary-General </span></blockquote><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is a (r)evolution underway, an expanding consciousness: managers meditating, people seeking for purpose and standing up for their rights, leaders shaken by unpredictable crises. The "winds of change" massively affect the corporate world, too, and foster new ways of doing business more consciously. Therefore, this article explores these new ways of conscious business, the related new leadership style and required integration of IQ, EQ and SQ (spiritual intelligence).<b> </b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why should we look into Conscious Business?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Several years ago, I realized that I wanted to change my career from money-maximising to a profession with a purpose. I wanted to feel my lifetime well invested in positive change, meaningful work and making a difference in the world. While working for NGOs and the United Nations, I kept my interest in business because I have always been impressed by </span><span style="font-size: small;">business organisations'</span><span style="font-size: small;"> efficiency and </span><span style="font-size: small;">entrepreneurs' </span><span style="font-size: small;">innovative creativity and 'can-do' attitude.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">However, I began to inquire into the what, why and how of business and my own actions: What are we doing? Why are we doing it? How can we do it better? So I started on the long journey of inquiry into myself, business and capitalism. I realized the importance of expanding our own consciousness to embrace positive change and achieve global sustainability. Also I recognized that there are old and new - more <i>conscious </i>- ways of doing business: From CSR, social entrepreneurship, inclusive business to conscious business. </span></div><blockquote style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="color: #0b5394;">"We are living in a phenomenal age... finding approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits and recognition for business, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce poverty in the world." </i> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bill Gates</b>, Microsoft founder and philanthropist</span></blockquote><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Conventional versus Conscious Business</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.consciousbusinessnow.com/images/Two-Value-Systems-small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="137" src="http://www.consciousbusinessnow.com/images/Two-Value-Systems-small.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;">Here are some pointers to contrast the conventional way of doing business with conscious business. This is a simplification aiming to open up awareness by seeing an enterprises from different perspectives. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some dimensions might seem like contradictions while others seem easier to be reconciled: </span></div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">Money vs. Meaning</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Ego vs. Eco(logy)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> Compete/control vs. Cooperate</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> Profit vs. People/Planet</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Fear vs. Freedom </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> Superiority vs. Sustainability</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Shareholder vs. Stakeholder </span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> Value vs. Values</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> Capital vs. Consciousness</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Share vs. Sharing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Greed vs. Giving</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some might say that this sounds all nice but will question if conscious businesses are sustainable, profitable and competitive? Yes, they can. In fact some argue that they excel in the marketplace (see <a href="http://www.managementexchange.com/blog/better-way-win-profiting-purpose">A Better Way to Win: Profiting from Purpose</a>).<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is Conscious Business?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">After having looked at some differentiators, how can we define a conscious business? <br />
It is "a business enterprise that seeks to be aware of the effects of its actions, and to consciously affect human beings and the environment in a beneficial way." It is a value-based enterprise "where values represent social and environmental concerns globally as well as locally", i.e. go beyond economic value (see Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscious_business">Conscious Business</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">There are no universally agreed criteria on conscious business but some accepted principles include "Doing no Harm" and the </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_bottom_line">Triple Bottom Line</a></span><span style="font-size: small;"> approach of aiming for "positive value in the domain of People, Planet, and Profit". One such example is "The Body Shop" founded by activist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Roddick">Anita Roddick</a> and many more examples to be explored on this blog.<b> </b></span><br />
<blockquote><div style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"We are running out of time to integrate the material and the spiritual worlds."</i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Peter Senge</b>, MIT Professor and author of 'The Fifth Discipline'<b> </b></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What does Consciousness mean?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Let me try to demystify the word 'consciousness' which fills whole PhDs in various fields. There are different levels of consciousness such as universal, collective and individual consciousness. This article focuses onto the individual consciousness, however all these levels are connected and affect each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Your individual consciousness can be described as your awareness of your interconnectedness with everything within and around you: your own soul, co-workers, society, environment, planet, universe etc. The matrix of connections can also be seen horizontally (friends, family, colleagues etc.) and vertically ('Mother Earth" and 'Higher/God-like/Universe').</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In simplified terms, consciousness is awareness and relates to your holistic, spiritual intelligence. It does not come from your knowledge or your mind, it is not determined by your IQ and it goes beyond your emotional intelligence (EQ). The closest to consciousness within the intelligence systems-thinking would be your spiritual intelligence (SQ).<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Conscious Leadership</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-dVOtKJTE79c/TXiiy50VrkI/AAAAAAAABQQ/SI6kAHREfOU/s1600/spiritual+based.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-dVOtKJTE79c/TXiiy50VrkI/AAAAAAAABQQ/SI6kAHREfOU/s200/spiritual+based.gif" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;">Conscious business requires conscious leadership which is based on all three main intelligences: IQ, EQ and SQ. SQ which is the spiritual intelligence quotient describes how well you live and lead with wisdom, compassion and peace (explore deeper at <a href="http://instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=17453991">Deep Change</a>). </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Conscious leadership can also be seen as integrating the various leadership dimensions from paternal, humanistic, holistic to spiritual-based (read more at <a href="http://www.globaldharma.org/sbl-home.htm">Spiritual-Based Leadership Research Programme</a>).</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some key principles of conscious and <a href="http://www.consciousthinking.com/businessleaders.pdf">enlightened business leadership</a> include:</span></div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;">Know yourself</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Do no harm</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Take (self-)responsibility</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Cultivate generosity</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Live integrity</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Act courageously</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Be inspired and inspire </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Embrace change</span></li>
</ul><blockquote style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>"The best way to begin an integral approach to business is with oneself... <br />
How do body, mind, and spirit operate in me? How does that necessarily impact my role in the world of business?"</i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ken Wilber</b>, one of the most influential spiritual philosophers<i><br />
</i></span></blockquote><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Towards Conscious Capitalism and Global Sustainability </b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Does this all matter? Yes, it is required to meet the challenges of our century and our livelihood depends on it. A conscious business values its people and therefore requires conscious leadership that inspires and brings out the best of its staff.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">With an expanding consciousness amongst business leaders, consumers, activists and policy makers, we are all part of a (r)evolution towards conscious capitalism. Let us jointly address the urgent issues on environmental sustainability, social justice and broad-based prosperity to ensure global sustainability. Join the movement and leave a comment.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Recommended Reading:</b></span></div><ul style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"><label class="deleteAction stat_elem UIImageBlock_Ext uiCloseButton" for="u757155_2"></label> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Business-Build-Through-Values/dp/1591795176">Conscious Business</a>, Fred Kaufman </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Enterprise-Doing-Virtuous-Business/dp/159403222X">Spiritual Enterprise</a>, Theodore Roosevelt Malloch</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Good-Business-Leadership-Making-Meaning/dp/0670031968">Good Business</a>, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/One-Art-Practice-Conscious-Leadership/dp/097331155X">One: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership</a>, Lance Secretan</span></li>
</ul><div class="text_exposed_root" id="id_4d7892f38d4028765581282" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Additional Resources:</b></span></div><div class="text_exposed_root" id="id_4d7892f38d4028765581282" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.wakinguptheworkplace.com/">Waking up the Workplace</a> (free online seminars 17 March-23 June 2011)</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/15016421/Conscious-Business-Summary-Jeroen-Maes-"><span style="font-size: small;">Conscious Business Summary </span></a><span style="font-size: small;">(by Realize)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://thesmartrevolution.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/conscious-leadership-catching-the-wave-easy-download-size.pdf">Conscious Leadership</a> (by Gina Hayden) </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.consciouscapitalism.org/">Conscious Capitalism Institute</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://murfdipity.com/conscious-capitalism-companies/">10 Conscious Companies</a> (credit to Sean Murphy for top photo) </span></li>
</ul></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">--</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">About the Author: Juergen Nagler, has worked and consulted for leading businesses, NGOs and the United Nations, blogging in personal capacity at <a href="http://www.business4good.org/">Business4Good</a> (<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/jjnagler/Home/BiosketchJuergenNagler.pdf?attredirects=0">biosketch</a>).</span></div></div>Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-45938550913142361212011-02-12T03:53:00.013-05:002011-04-05T14:56:19.127-04:00Lions on the Move - a new Africa being born?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v5TAv3Dm1c8/TVZKDCg5VNI/AAAAAAAABP8/O8VOn6NW_f4/s1600/lion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v5TAv3Dm1c8/TVZKDCg5VNI/AAAAAAAABP8/O8VOn6NW_f4/s200/lion.jpg" width="166" /></a></div>Egypt freed itself from a dictator because people claimed back their power. Protesters shouted "we are the people", the same acclamation that brought down the Iron Curtain when people in former Easter Germany protested for their freedom. It also reminds me to the United Nations Charter starting with "We the People".<br />
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While Egypt culturally belongs to the Arab world, it is an interesting cross-roads also to Africa and the West. History is being written and it seems more and more people are awakening... what does it mean for Africa and the world?<br />
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As blogged <a href="http://www.business4good.org/2010/11/starting-new-undp-africa-project-dream.html">earlier</a>, since I arrived for a new project in South Africa last year, I felt that change is in the air. This was further confirmed during a trip to Ethiopia last month. A lot of development and construction is going on, the Chinese are building a new African Union complex and the diaspora is coming back from the USA to start businesses.<br />
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If we look at the bigger picture about events on and around the continent, the signs make up a puzzle, imperfect but nonetheless we can see a path, a journey towards freedom. Just some examples: independence of African states (mainly 1950s-70s), end of cold war 1989 (which affected many African countries), end of apartheid in South Africa 1994, "first African-American" US president Obama 1998, first FIFA World Cup in Africa 2010, South Sudan separation 2011, Egypt, Ivory Coast and Libya 2011. What next?<br />
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This list is of course incomplete to give a full picture of a very diverse continent with 53 states where poverty, disparity and dictators remain in several regions. However, with omnipresent communications technology and a rising collective consciousness the trend is clear: people increasingly take ownership and demand fair political leadership, jobs and economic opportunities.<br />
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Africa's economic and social outlook is positive: The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon just <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37418&Cr=tunisia&Cr1=">recently </a>spoke about "winds of change blowing throughout Africa" and "the new narrative for Africa is a story of growth". Africa is expected to be the the fastest growing region in the world, only behind Asia. A recent McKinsey study paints a similar opportunity-rich picture calling African countries<a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/progress_and_potential_of_african_economies/index.asp"> "Lions on the Move</a>".<br />
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As the beginning 2011 is bringing change so rapidly, watch out for the rest of the year and 2012. Africa and the world are changing so fast, we better are open for it. As we have seen in the examples of Libya and Ivory Coast, the new era comes with some 'birthing pain' and old structures need to crack open for new energy to emerge. Rather resisting, can we embrace the coming change? As Mahatma Gandhi said: “You must be the change you want to see in the world”.<br />
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If you want to read more about the new, positive Africa emerging, you can for example follow <a href="http://www.africagoodnews.com/">Africa Good News</a>, <a href="http://www.africanloft.com/category/lounge/positive-africa/">AfricanLoft</a> and, of course, this blog <a href="http://www.business4good.org/">Business4Good</a>. Or best, see for yourself and visit the over 50 countries of Africa.</div>Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-7206504573748521512011-02-10T05:45:00.005-05:002011-02-10T05:58:28.679-05:00The "Social Entrepreneur Empowerment" Series<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-03p4cLs4Gx0/TVOeIerrC4I/AAAAAAAABPo/2FyAqPOvMco/s1600/head_band5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="75" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-03p4cLs4Gx0/TVOeIerrC4I/AAAAAAAABPo/2FyAqPOvMco/s400/head_band5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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Ever since my decision to use business acumen for higher development goals, I have been fasinated about sociel entrepreneurs. Thousands of hidden champions around the world combine business approaches with social, environmental and spiritual objectives.<br />
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This decade seems to bring out even more of inspired entrepreneurs and conscious business people. Ryan Eliason seems to be of them because he is organising the free "Social Entrepreneur Empowerment" Video Series.<br />
<blockquote><i><span class="content">"What if you could combine the love, integrity, vision, and leadership of <b>Gandhi, Mother Theresa</b>, and <b>Martin Luther King, Jr.</b> with the entrepreneurial business savvy of <b>Sir Richard Branson, Bill Gates</b>, and <b>Oprah Winfrey</b>?<br />
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What if you could download their wisdom into yourself? <span class="blue">Imagine the bigger game you could play!</span></span>"<br />
</i>From www.socialentrepreneurempowerment.com</blockquote>The series started 8th February with Ashoka founder Bill Drayton (hear the replay at <a href="http://attendthisevent.com/?eventID=16963725">Everyone a Changemaker</a>). Bill talks about what makes an social entrepreneur, the rapid change of our times and how we are all changemaker in this world. Clear, down to earth and inspiring. "We are right at the tipping point" and "what is the new paradigm?" There is a LinledIn Group called <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3727071">Social Entrepreneur Empowerment Network</a> with follow-up dicussions.<br />
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There are live streams until 17 February 2011 and the talks are anytime available as replays at <a href="http://www.socialentrepreneurempowerment.com/replays/">http://www.socialentrepreneurempowerment.com/replays/</a></div>Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33887544.post-5404491906158223842011-02-03T10:09:00.000-05:002011-02-03T10:09:32.807-05:00The Top 100 Thought Leaders in trustworthy Business Behavior<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2nncbQYkaxk/TUrDTMT9EJI/AAAAAAAABPY/Emh5jWzOebw/s1600/TAA_Top100_Badge.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2nncbQYkaxk/TUrDTMT9EJI/AAAAAAAABPY/Emh5jWzOebw/s1600/TAA_Top100_Badge.gif" /></a></div>Via the <a href="http://www.worldbusiness.org/">World Business Academy</a>'s newsletter I came across the list of "The Top 100 Thought Leaders in trustworthy Business Behavior 2010" by Trust Across America.<br />
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The list seems to focus on US only, so dozens of international leaders are missing which is a pity in a globalized world where ideas and information spread across the globe quickly. Nonetheless this is a good start and many thinkers with global influence are among the ranks.<br />
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Some of the candidates I have found inspiring are Stephen Covey ("7 Habits of highly effective people"), Hazel Henderson (working on wealth metrics beyond GDP) and the leaders around Net Impact. I am sure you might discover many more authors of inspiring books, founders of institutes and companies.<br />
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Enjoy exploring the list at: <a href="http://www.trustacrossamerica.com/offerings-thought-leaders.shtml">The Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior </a><br />
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For 2011, I would almost expect Deepak Chopra with his new book "The Soul of Leadership". <br />
Who have you found a most inspiring thought leader but missing in the list?</div>Juergen Naglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07120202267945192500noreply@blogger.com