Recognized Expert - Entries for August 25, 2008

Creating Your Own Reason for Being “Most Excellent”

Posted 08-25-2008 at 08:18 PM by Keith Ranney

Regardless of whether you are doing your life’s work in the perfect job, or sweeping floors until you get your inheritance; work, like life, is still “earth school”.

The cast of characters you interact with; customers, co-workers, supervisors (bosses), viewed symbolically (impersonally), can provide a rich environment for self discovery. Taken personally, the workplace can become a melodramatic and sticky mess.

Like Bob Dylan sings, “you're gonna have to serve...

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Volunteering - It’s About Service

Posted 08-25-2008 at 08:07 PM by Keith Ranney
Updated 08-27-2008 at 01:57 AM by Keith Ranney (Title upgrade for better search engine placement)

As the volunteer coordinator for the Maui film Festival, each year (since 2001) I’ve had the unique privilege to study how 250-300 volunteers respond to the opportunity to put their passion for service to work on behalf of the whole community. Even though volunteers have access to generous perks, the majority put their time into assuring the festival’s success, even over their own preferences, comfort and movie watching experience.

One of the central themes of the 2006 festival...

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Social Architecture & the Art of Volunteering

Posted 08-25-2008 at 07:15 PM by Keith Ranney
Updated 08-25-2008 at 07:53 PM by Keith Ranney

Social architecture is a field which looks at how best to engineer social systems. What constitutes a desired outcome varies considerably among social architects based on underlying values, attitudes and goals.

At this stage of our collective evolutionary leaping, we are witnessing the last throes of a dying system and the emergence of something far more sustainable. The old system that imposes control for the personal gain of a few is predictably in resistance to the re-emergence...

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