Dream Infection

I was really depressed listening to an ex-biz person who was lecturing many prominent people on the demise of social enterprises in Thailand… and I could not really counter his argument as there is no chance to even speak.

His argument goes

(1) In his long life, there aren’t any Thai social enterprise that make profit.

(2) Social enterprise investment, therefore, will only result in net loss, big or small.

(3) In the past, Thai SME and EXIM banks, among many other institutions, gave massive loans to social enterprises, they turn out to be total NPL, he is also a board of one of such institution, dealing with such mess he didn’t even want to touch about it.

(4) Even those successful social enterprise cases around the world are so unique that they aren’t even replicable into Thai or any other country context.

I hope I could just forget about these massive attacks on social enterprise, but I really can’t, I’m both too emotionally related to the issue, and the person sits on various boards that we will run into in trying to spread social enterprise movement in Thailand.

In fact, I found his argument quite challenging and important to be addressed with properly, so such narrow minded and confusing argument will not see the light of days, ever again.

This, of course, might be just a definition problem, where wrong definition leads to so many errors. But the person actually understood basic definition and still made those claims.

We’re thinking about writing a newspaper article on this or come up with short paper on this. We really need help on finding solid data to disprove those arguments; such as performance data on Thai social enterprises, replicable success models globally, exact amount of loan given to social enterprises from these big Thai financial institutions (or more precisely how they are not giving out any loan). If you have some, please share it with me and anyone who believe in social enterprise in Thailand. If you want to co-write about this, or create an informal event to talk about this (with solid data), let’s do it.

Of course, I’m not a total fanatic about social enterprise, it will not solve all the world problems, but it is important issue and should not to be dismissed so easily.

SUNIT

Are we not like frogs in slowly boiling water ?

We seem to lost our capacity to sense critical changes around us until it’s too late. Humankind’s current unwillingness to resolve fatal crises, such as climate change, deterioration of nature and radical wealth disparity, will severely limit our future possibilities.

However, human beings act as nothing is going to happen and carelessly put blinded hopes into the future of infinite possibilities.

Yet our future is not infinite, it is consecutively constrained by our present behaviors. The exact outcome is unknown but its boundary can be sensed. Hidden deeply in our heart, we all sense fear in the emerging future.

It is the purpose of us to play a part in shifting the future away from this dismal path.

ChangeFusion could not create future-shifting solutions by ourselves. We will never be able to acquire the necessary vast amount of knowledge, technologies and resources.

Instead, we focus on attracting and building relationships required to bring the right players together in such a way that they co-create social innovations that will shift the future in various crucial areas. It is the cultivated relationship that unlock the flow of appropriate knowledge, technologies and resources into the challenges at hand.

This means that we redirect our attention from ‘creating things’ into ‘building relationships’ or, in essence, from the management of ‘objects and resources’ into the facilitation of fertile ‘empty space’ where trust and partnerships emerge.  Within this emptiness, lies great potentiality.

ChangeFusion views the network of relationships as the living fabric of time that vigorously unites past, present and future. Relationship is the subtle layer within the socio-economic evolution whether in the global or organizational scale, we must sense its nodes, incentives, connections and interactions as well as its hidden rules or norms in order to effectively design the its changes.

Turning our attention from ‘things’ to ‘relationship’ is by no mean compromising the concreteness of results, in fact, we can measure precisely the advancement of relationship building and the continuous progress of the emerging partnerships.

Weaving this living fabric mindfully and providing it with conducive space is nothing less than creating a conscious future.

\\\this is a part of my writing on ChangeFusion methodology.