The source of change projects
This part of the INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SPEAKERS page is dedicated to all who DARE to make the changes that others only speak of. Get inspired, adhere to the projects you like and contribute like this to the change we all look for: a more just, sustainable kind of economy & society.
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CATEGORIES:
- New ways of economic behaviour
- Initiatives for change: events & initiatives
NEW WAYS OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOUR:
The COMMON WELFARE ECONOMY: the 3rd way
The Common Welfare Economy provides an economic systemic alternative to the free market as well as to the centrally planned economy, a completely different way and partly also a synthesis from both major historical concepts.
The author, lecturer and journalist, Christian Felber, created the basis for the common welfare economy in his previous book “New Values for our Economy – an Alternative to Capitalism and Communism.” (2008). A circle of entrepreneurs together with Christian Felber consequently refined this model and decided to name it ‘Common Welfare Economy’.
Read on: www.gemeinwohl-oekonomie.orgRole Models:
- Grameen Bank - Micro Credits & Social Business, Bangladesh: www.grameen-info.org Professor Muhammad Yunus' role model company
- Göttin des Glücks & Craft Aid - Austria/ Mauritius: www.goettindesgluecks.com The FairTrade -Fashion-Lable made in Austria
- Semco - Business Conglomerate, Brasilien: www.semco.com.br In 2003 it consisted of approximately 3000 employees working together in small units. There are no rules, only a survival manual, a high level of self-organization and co-determination of all employees. They can choose their managers themselves and determine their working hours and salaries; everyone can participate and co-decide in all meetings. Transparency and result orientation within the teams are crucial principles.
INITIATIVES FOR CHANGE:
IncrediblEurope - an initiativ by Selma Prodanovic: THE event for all Change Makers in Europe which does not only connect people of the same spirit once a year but has become a MUT-TANKSTELLE for entrepreneurial, creative actions 365 days a year: www.incredibleurope.com
Global Social Business Summit - an initiative of Prof. Muhammad Yunus. THE event for Social Business, next time November 2011, 10th - 12th, Vienna. www.gsbs2011.com
LEADERSHIT - to think an old word in a new way. What means LEADERSHIP in a world in which the individual is gaining more and more power and consciousness of having it? www.leadershit.net
To be continued...