Skoll World Forum. Laurent Marbacher | Learn & create. Résultats Google Recherche d'images correspondant à. 4 Principles For Creating Change, And 4 Barriers That Make It Harder. Many people now are struggling to make change; to drive social or environmental impact whether they are social entrepreneurs or people working from within organizations to make a difference. In this piece, we wanted to focus on thinking about how communities of change makers can thrive. It’s not enough for change making to be the sole remit of a handful of do-gooders or NGOs. By highlighting some of the barriers and core principles that are vital to the success of a world in which everyone is a change maker, we hope to begin to mainstream the art of change making and destroy the social entrepreneur’s monopoly on social change.
Barrier 1: Experts As Idols Too often change making is outsourced to experts or social entrepreneurs rather than community members. While we may depend on experts for guidance, we often overly rely on them, believing “they” will fix problems. But it is rare for experts to move beyond diagnosing a problem to actually creating pathways for change. Meet The Unreasonables. Every year, the Unreasonable Institute gathers 25 social entrepreneurs from around the world into a house in Boulder, Colorado. For six weeks, these men and women meet with mentors and work on the business plans for their ventures, which run the gamut from increasing recycling in Mexico to cleaner burning coal for African farmers. During the last session, the participants were followed around by a camera crew, and we’ll be airing that footage here on Co.Exist. Their stories are inspiring in and of themselves, and perhaps in hearing about their struggles and successes, everyone working on a world-changing project (or thinking about starting one) can find a few lessons.
This is a short preview of the upcoming season. Each week, we’ll be focusing on one of the participants; both the story of their project and the evolutions it--and they--go through while participating at the Institute. Mutinerie : introduction. "5 lessons corporate should learn from coworking" Coworking paris. If You Want It Done Right, Don’t Do It Yourself. Time is our most limited resource, and knowing how to maximize it is imperative. Successful people across the globe have clearly figured this out, deliberately deciding to concentrate on tasks where they are most productive, while outsourcing the tasks where they are less so.
This results in higher productivity (and well-being) for everyone involved. To achieve the highest productivity and well-being for society as a whole, we must focus on honing our strongest skills instead of spreading ourselves thin by trying to do everything. Consider this little parable: Two men are alone on a deserted island. To survive they must undertake a few basic activities like fetching water, fishing, cooking, and maintaining shelter. The first man is young, strong, and educated. Despite the fact that the younger man has an absolute advantage in all activities, it is not in the interest of either of them to work in isolation; they both can benefit from specialization and exchange. Building Businesses That Stand For Something. Last year, Patagonia launched a “Don’t Buy This Jacket” campaign, encouraging people to buy their products used instead of new. Yvonne Choiunard, the founder of Patagonia, was a climber, and realized the natural resources it took to produce new products would limit the potential of his business in the long run, which relies on preserving the outdoors as a place for people to play.
The company changed their materials and started building durable, longer lasting products, only encouraging sales if used pieces couldn’t be found. Aligning customers’ values with their own will prove much more important in the long run than the bottom-line sale of coats. Patagonia is just one of many companies recognizing the shift in how companies evaluate success. Still, most businesses stick to a single measurement: how much profit they make. The world is changing at a pace and scale never experienced by humans. Big businesses can take all these market forces into account as they innovate.
Building Better Businesses By Closing The Happiness Gap. If two magnets are separated by too much distance, they won’t have any impact on each other. But, if something helps move them a bit closer, they will gravitate towards each other and connect. Technology can be used in a similar way. It can connect you to other people, skills, tools, and trigger new ways of thinking and working; it can create an "assisted serendipity. " More than ever, products and companies help connect us to people and information. But does merely creating access have anything to do with making better lives and better economies?
Because today, we have more access than ever, but unfortunately, we are still largely unhappy: 80% of people dislike what they do for a living. Out of this incredible number of unhappy people, comes a huge opportunity to create products to solve this issue, and improve our economy. One way to do this is to build companies that have a structural alignment of personal interests and skills, with the mission of the company. CoworkingParis. Une page pour relier les différents espaces de CoWorking à Paris afin de faciliter le mouvement des CoWorkers et les interactions. Coworking spaces Le Lab Coworking : 2 espaces de coworking à Paris! Plus de 20 postes, 4 salles de reunion! Imprimante/photocopieuse/scan, coin cuisine, espace détente, électricité/chauffage/ménage compris. Ouverture: du lundi au vendredi de 9h à 20h30.
Abonnements mensuels ou tickets à la journée. Plus d'infos, photos et contact: www.lelabcoworking.fr / hello@lelabcoworking.fr / +33.6.65.94.65.26 Espace 1 : 28 Rue du Sentier 75002 - Métros Bonne nouvelle/ Grands Boulevards (L8/9), Sentier (L3) Espace 2: 7 ter cour des petites écuries 75010 - Métros Bonne Nouvelle (L8/9), Chateau d'Eau (L4). La Cantine : un espace de Coworking, de production et de diffusion d'innovation numérique créé par SiliconSentier avec le soutien de la Région Ile-de-France, la Mairie de Paris, Orange, le pôle de compétitivité Cap Digital et la Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération Mutinerie.
Le 12 mars, Mutinerie Ouvre ses Portes ! 1320 coworking spaces worldwide. The number of coworking spaces worldwide reached 1320 at the beginning of February 2012, 88% more than a year ago. This incredible growth rate has been strongly supported by coworking spaces opening in South and Central America, Australia, and Africa. Meanwhile the coworking movement in North America continued to grow on a high level, but still at a slower pace than in previous years. In absolute numbers, the EU is about to catch up with the U.S. in a few weeks. Deskmag, along with our sister site Deskwanted, diligently monitors new and closed coworking spaces which are made public on websites, Twitter, Facebook or other directories, to make sure our numbers are accurate.
Our current numbers are for 1 Feb 2011 until 1 Feb 2012. According to our review, the U.S. still has the most coworking spaces in the world, with 537 (Feb 11: 315), or 41% of all spaces worldwide. Germany is the next biggest coworking country, with 124 spaces, followed by Spain, Italy and Great Britain, which has 61. Plaquettecantine.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Deskmag - The Coworking Magazine.
The development of coworking spaces. The coworking movement is growing, not just on a worldwide level, but also within each city. The Global Coworking Survey shows that the more spaces a city has, the more profitable all of them become. Younger spaces in a busy coworking city reach profitability faster than lonely spaces. Big spaces have better desk utilization rates than small ones. Today’s analysis of the survey data focuses on the development of coworking spaces. The average coworking space has about 5.3 companions within the same city. At the same time, one in three spaces operate alone in their market. However while other industries might enjoy having a monopoly, for coworking spaces such a position creates extra work and risk. The more spaces, the better for everyone Many spaces are very young (under twelve months) and like any company in the start-up phase they haven’t had time to recoup their investments.
Having more spaces nearby doesn’t reduce profitability. The larger a space, the more members who share each desk. Plug: Like Jelly, with a twist. The collective knowledge and skills of coworkers remains the most under-utilized resource of the coworking movement. One method of tapping into the shared intelligence of a network of individuals is Plug, an event format similar to a Jelly meet-up but with a twist: participants are asked by their host to solve a challenge during their working session.
Plug began in Amsterdam one year ago, and is now a weekly event that draws on a network of over 200 individuals. A café owner in Amsterdam had a problem. Although her eatery had possibly the best view of the city, people couldn’t seem to find their way there. Unsure of how to improve her situation, she called in the Plug network. Plug is a diverse mix of individuals, some freelancers, some employed workers, from a variety of fields of expertise. “We are a team of consultants for hire, in exchange for coworking space,” Linda explained.
One recent Wednesday, ten members of Plug arrived at the Amsterdam café. Coworking in Big Cities vs. Small Towns. In the global coworking survey we asked coworkers where they work – in big or small cities. We found many differences when we compared the two types. Coworkers in smaller towns are older, earn more money and prefer smaller coworking spaces. They are also more interested in interaction and privacy than city dwellers. Although there are less of them, small town coworking spaces are just as busy as their big city counterparts. Coworkers in small towns of up to 20,000 inhabitants are 43 years old on average. To simplify the comparison, we then narrowed the focus to just two types of cities - those with less than 100,000 inhabitants and big cities which have more. Even if only 15% of all coworking spaces are located in small cities, which also offer less desks, it doesn’t reduce their ability to attract any customers.
Although the desk utilization rate is the same, small-town dwellers work as half as often in their coworking spaces on daily basis (25%, compared to 50% in big cities). The rural way of coworking. Coworking in small towns can be a very different experience to that in larger, more anonymous cities. Following last week’s story, we spoke with four operators of coworking spaces in smaller towns: Small cities often already have close-knit social networks, yet coworking spaces offer a way to create tighter and larger professional connections.
Coworking spaces in these cities have a more varied age structure, allowing their members good opportunities to pass knowledge between generations. We put our questions to the following four space operators: Freiraum87, Frederik Littschwager, Kempten (GER) Veel Hoeden, Joel Bennett, Pella (Iowa, USA) Wexelwirken Härten, Christopher Schmidhofer, Kusterdingen (GER) Unternehmerwerk, Ralf Jacubowsky v. Einem, Altenmedingen (GER) Deskmag: Why do coworkers in small towns use their coworking space half as often as those in larger cities? Frederik: Small towns have a denser social network. Frederik: That surprises me a little. Deskmag: One last question.