Kevin Jones on Social Capital Market

by Tiffany Von Emmel

Kevin Jones is the founder of GoodCap, SoCap, and a Dreamfish member. In this video of a conversation about meaning and value, Kevin gives his take on creating social, environmental and financial value.

 

For Kevin, it is up to the entrepreneur to bring the right kind of investors to the table who are going to value what the organization creates in the world. Likewise, it is up to the investor to be aware of what gives them meaning in their life. As an investor, what do you value and how does money relate to that value?

 

 

The social capital market is investing much in the development of metrics for social and environmental value. Sara Olsen and Brett Galimidi have generously created an open source social metrics model. Acumen Fund and other Micro-finance institutions have even promoted a World Metrics Day to generate awareness. Kevin Jones offers a qualitative position in that value is like a work of art. When you break it into parts, it is no longer art. I agree with Kevin. Metrics are useful, but they are tricky and seductive. Developing qualitative ways to define value, in addition to quantitative, creates a more human generative form of economics.

 

You can join in this conversation at the upcoming Social Capital Markets conference in September 2009, where investors have a chance to examine what is meaning and value in developing a portfolio. Enjoy Kevin’s evocative take on social capital in this video.

Uncategorized investment, Kevin Jones, metrics, Social Capital, value

Is value created, exchanged or lived?

by Tiffany Von Emmel

People experience value differently. Is value a fact? Or do you create it as a constructed story? Is it only money or an object between us? Or do we make it together? This video is of a conversation between dreamfishers about how we as entrepreneurs experience value and help each other to experience value through the Dreamfish network.

 

 

Humans think of value in terms of the relationship between subject and object. Therefore, my sense is there is a correlation between our own level of human development, at any given moment which influences our perception of value – whether it is exchanged, lived or created. When adults feel more mature, the relationship between self and other is qualitatively different than one is feel less mature.The big challenge is that it is easy for anyone to regress in a tough moment, such as when being laid off or being criticized.

 

So, our creating a nurturing environment that support all of us in our human development would help to cultivate a new perception of value. Instead of perceiving value as a commodity, we can learn together to experience value as connected to each other, our community and the earth.

 

Thanks to the other dreamfishers in this conversation…

• Doug Paxton, a consultant on Values Technology
• Paul Loper, somatic group facilitation maven
• Peter Kaminski, community tech maven
• Marguerite Manteau-Ross, co-founder of Terraqualo
• Teddy Zmrhal, faculty, Presidio School of Management

Film credits: Johannes Klose, film and editing; Paul Loper, assistant editing

Uncategorized community, currency, economics, value

Value Exchange Stories

by Tiffany Von Emmel

In this video, a group of dreamfishers talk about how to make non-cash value exchanges in Dreamfish, and explore research on the wide range of values that each person could identify across cultures. Doug Paxton, a consultant on Values Technology, Paul Loper, pioneering group facilitator; Peter Kaminski, community tech maven, Marguerite Manteau-Ross, co-founder of Terraqualo, Teddy Zmrhal, faculty at Presidio School of Management on Ethics, and i look together at how people could track value, and learn in the process what is value.

Video credits:
Johannes Klose, film and editing
Paul Loper, assistant editing

Uncategorized economy, value

Time for an Organizational Revolution

by Tiffany Von Emmel

Now is the time. This is not a time to huddle. It is not a time to contract or defend piles. This is a time to stand up, reach wide, embrace what matters most, and speak truth. It is a time that we can really make a difference, a time to realize that we are alive and choose boldly.

Now is the time for an organizational revolution. This revolution is not about fight, but about light. This revolution is about collaborative creation of value. This economic “crisis” emerges within a larger cultural movement over the last thirty years, in which our understanding of reality has been moving from patterns of control to interaction.

As part of this cultural shift, our understanding of value has been transforming. However, now, based on our current data, we can reframe what is value. We can claim that real value is meaning, health, justice, community, learning, and a vibrant world.

This is a time of possibility to change how we organize as a global society. Organizations have been shaped as Institutions on a set of underlying assumptions, including the idea that money equals value and secondly, that value is exchanged, not created. Real value creation is a relational creative process. Real value creation involves people making choices each moment about what really matters.

This movement is not new. New forms of organization are emerging. The social enterprise is a new category. The B Corporation is a new legal movement. The social capital market is a new market for money. Open Source is a new model. Dreamfish is also an example of a new form of organization – a work network for micro-entrepreneurs worldwide to work and make a life, generating real value.

Umair Haque, in this presentation, eloquently describes the “Institutional Revolution” we are in…

Umair Haque @ Daytona Sessions vol. 2 – Constructive Capitalism from Daytona Sessions

A revolution is a time to choose. Now is the best time to choose how to organize value creation in our lives. What we really value.

Uncategorized agency, umair haque, value