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In light of getting a movement going, it should help a lot if a well-known person could be attracted to come to Stoos Stampede Amsterdam, participate in the discussions and become an ambassador. My proposal is to start an urgent activity. Given overly filled agenda’s, this would need to happen quickly. Hence, I’ll start with a candidate proposal right away.

My candidate is Herman Wijffels. He is a well known individual in The Netherlands. From a presentation he gave, I have the impression that he is actually looking for Stoos Network type of initiatives. Here are some quotes: “The time has come for new idea’s which form the basis for a new phase in our social developments... finding the way via social organisational innovation to the potential of human beings... an enormous chance for higher productivity... creating flow (the sum is bigger than the sum of the individual possibilities). Better than written words is the recording. For those who speak Dutch (first 30 minutes are sufficient; sorry, link didn’t work here): Go to Youtube, search for “wijffels energiedag 2010’.

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Submitted by Eugen 1 year ago

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  1. ValueFlowQuality

    Stoos should avoid concepts like ambassadors, thought leaders, well-known people. To me relying on individual fame, has the same impact as relying on a few individual managers at the top.

    We should strive to be more like Alcoholics Anonymous. A highly successful organisation with 2 million members, no obvious management and does not rely on famous drunks.

    1 year ago
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  2. Eugen

    Indeed, traditional style individuals could influence the Stoos Network in such a way that 'old' and unwanted habits could slip in. But, not every well-known individual falls into this category. For this proposal, the challenge is to find somebody who could make a real difference in the spirit of the Stoos Network. Maybe we should try to answer this question first: Could an ambassador (or whatever the person is called) make the difference between an initiative that just didn’t make it and one that made all the difference?

    One of my lessons learned is this: When one approach didn’t work, organisations jumped from one extreme to the other. It didn’t work either. What did, however, work repeatedly is to stop doing what does not work and use what did work. Often, the ‘golden middle way’ or a balanced approach between the extremes turned out to be pretty effective.

    1 year ago
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  3. ValueFlowQuality

    Four legs good, two legs better.

    1 year ago
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  4. Community Member

    I agree with Eugen. If you want the world to change (drastically), you need loads of exposure and that’s where ambassadors can help. They are not head of an organisation, they are respected people who can spread the word and make people aware that change is needed (like celebrities doing for Unicef).

    The problem with the AA model is that they want to be Anonymous, we not. We don't want to help alcoholics stay clean, we want to prevent them becoming an alcoholic in the first place.

    10 months ago
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