What vision needs to be ...

Vision is not very helpful when it is totally impractical ... nor is it of great interest or value when it is pedestrian and reflects no stretch.

The Obama administration has vision ... and President Obama is doing an excellent job of balancing his vision for the United States and the World between what is worth something, and what is possible.

While there is idealism ... there is little ideology.

How does Tr-Ac-Net fit in?

Tr-Ac-Net has been a critic of an economic system that was reporting profit on top of value destruction for several decades, and a system of law and accounting that was making this easier and easier to do. It was not sustainable ... it was a Ponzi like scheme that would implode in due time ... and of course it did.

Tr-Ac-Net failed, like almost everyone else, to make an impression on leadership, so that the implosion took place, and our efforts were ineffectual. We failed ... but we have learned something. What is very apparent is that there is the need for an upgrades system of socio-economic and financial metrics ... and this is, of course, what we have been working on for some considerable time.

This performance metrics system is now called Community Analytics (CA). The concepts are based on accountancy, but not limited to the money accounting that has proved so inadequate. These metrics suit both the social business, the for profit business and the not for profit charity.

The idea of CA is simple ... but some of the practice is more complex. CA is moving towards deployment, and in due course should give the world a better system of metrics.

Peter Burgess

Multi-Sector Process

Dear Colleagues

One of the many lessons learned is that socio-economic progress is constrained when efforts are unduly concentrated in any specific sector, ignoring the others. Oftentimes, issues that constrain are associated with some other sector, and success depends on everything working together and not just one bit of the puzzle.

Process that includes all the sectors has much more chance of success than an initiative that has a single sector focus. The process is best when it is inclusive, rather than exclusive.

Sincerely

Peter Burgess

The Vision Thing

Dear Colleagues

Tr-Ac-Net wants to be more about what it is doing than what it might possibly do in the future ... but having said that, the reality is that Tr-Ac-Net has more vision and more hopeful optimism about positive change on a global basis than most organizations.

Tr-Ac-Net can have a hopeful optimistic vision because there is science and technology that has enormous potential ... and there are several billion people that can make almost anything possible.

Though society has allowed itself to be constrained by systems and procedures, and in this constrained system, widespread poverty has been a norm ... Tr-Ac-Net does not believe that such poverty needs to be.

The Tr-Ac-Net vision is that people ... all people ... should have opportunity to progress, and that community is an organizational form that can be helpful in making opportunity possible.

While there is value in having money and being able to pay the bills ... this is not the only value in society. People have far more dimensions than just the one that embraces material goods and money. Society has multiple facets ... the more the better ... and social value is complex.

The idea of "pursuit of happiness" is a wonderful idea ... especially when it is an idea for everyone, with nobody left out.

Please stay tuned to the Tr-Ac-Net blogs as we do our modest part in trying to help improve the global society.

Sincerely

Peter Burgess