Comments - The Constellation is a Starfish organization - Community life competence2024-03-29T05:52:15Zhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2028109%3ABlogPost%3A6229&xn_auth=noHi Gaston and Lau,
Loved the…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2009-01-20:2028109:Comment:67642009-01-20T17:56:45.735ZRituu B. Nandahttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/RituuBNanda94
Hi Gaston and Lau,<br />
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Loved the association of Constellation with a starfish. Kind of cute as Usa said. Thanks for the in-depth analysis and reflections. I always learn a lot from both of you.<br />
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What you said about members from the Rotary club taking a lesson or two from communities in PNG is so true. I have seen a stronger community feeling among tiny villages in Nagaland or Karnataka than their counterparts in a cosmopolitan like Mumbai. While on a SALT visit to a quaint village in Nagaland, I…
Hi Gaston and Lau,<br />
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Loved the association of Constellation with a starfish. Kind of cute as Usa said. Thanks for the in-depth analysis and reflections. I always learn a lot from both of you.<br />
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What you said about members from the Rotary club taking a lesson or two from communities in PNG is so true. I have seen a stronger community feeling among tiny villages in Nagaland or Karnataka than their counterparts in a cosmopolitan like Mumbai. While on a SALT visit to a quaint village in Nagaland, I came across a very powerful experience of community strength. Nagaland is a remote state in the Northeastern part of India. Schools had been facing the problem of absenteeism of teachers for a long time. The government finally handed over responsiblity of salaries and appraisal of teachers to the the village communities. Suddenly there was a total turnaround with teachers reporting regulary. This experiment was a huge success and government is planning to apply this concept in Primary health centres. A new term has been coined for this process, <i>Communitization</i>.<br />
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Looking forward to more stories,<br />
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Rituu<br />
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PS: Lau, thanks for the mindful hug. Many thanks Gaston for sharin…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2009-01-19:2028109:Comment:66642009-01-19T10:38:28.203ZUsa Duongsaahttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/UsaDuongsaa
Many thanks Gaston for sharing and Laurence for clarifying the concepts of the starfish and the spider. Very interesting. I'm smiling at the thought of calling ourselves the Starfish for AIDS Competence. Sounds kind of cute and friendly. And much easier to translate into Thai than the Constellation :-)<br />
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Usa
Many thanks Gaston for sharing and Laurence for clarifying the concepts of the starfish and the spider. Very interesting. I'm smiling at the thought of calling ourselves the Starfish for AIDS Competence. Sounds kind of cute and friendly. And much easier to translate into Thai than the Constellation :-)<br />
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Usa We have many of the spiders a…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2009-01-19:2028109:Comment:66622009-01-19T10:14:48.298ZOnesmus Mutukuhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/OnesmusMutuku
We have many of the spiders and spiders webs here in Kithituni. Their webs matches what we have have seen communities describe for year (Community to community transfer of vision and hope).The star fish is awesome though!<br />
Onesmus
We have many of the spiders and spiders webs here in Kithituni. Their webs matches what we have have seen communities describe for year (Community to community transfer of vision and hope).The star fish is awesome though!<br />
Onesmus Gaston,Thanks for sharing you…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2009-01-16:2028109:Comment:65072009-01-16T14:30:47.379Zrebeka sultanahttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/rebekasultana
Gaston,Thanks for sharing your reflection. Laurence thank you too for putting this paragraph, I did not know about spider and starfish. Yeah,its a simple platform for communiction and sharing. I am happy to be a part of the Starfish!
Gaston,Thanks for sharing your reflection. Laurence thank you too for putting this paragraph, I did not know about spider and starfish. Yeah,its a simple platform for communiction and sharing. I am happy to be a part of the Starfish! The amazing thing is that we…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2009-01-14:2028109:Comment:62462009-01-14T09:23:45.443ZJean-Louis Lamborayhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/JeanLouisLamboray
The amazing thing is that we got to that design intuitively. It makes me think of Mr Jourdain in <i>Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme</i> who is all in awe when he learned that he was speaking in prose!
The amazing thing is that we got to that design intuitively. It makes me think of Mr Jourdain in <i>Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme</i> who is all in awe when he learned that he was speaking in prose! Thanks for sharing all our re…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2009-01-14:2028109:Comment:62312009-01-14T09:10:33.511ZLaurence Gilliothttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/LaurenceGilliot
Thanks for sharing all our reflections! I would like to add the quote that you send to us the other day. It comes from the book "The Starfish and the Spider".<br />
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<i>One thing that business, institutions, governments and key individuals will have to realize is spiders and starfish may look alike, but starfish have a miraculous quality to them. Cut off the leg of a spider, and you have a seven-legged creature on your hands; cut off its head and you have a dead spider. But cut off the arm of a…</i>
Thanks for sharing all our reflections! I would like to add the quote that you send to us the other day. It comes from the book "The Starfish and the Spider".<br />
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<i>One thing that business, institutions, governments and key individuals will have to realize is spiders and starfish may look alike, but starfish have a miraculous quality to them. Cut off the leg of a spider, and you have a seven-legged creature on your hands; cut off its head and you have a dead spider. But cut off the arm of a starfish and it will grow a new one. Not only that, but the severed arm can grow an entirely new body. Starfish can achieve this feat because, unlike spiders, they are decentralized; every major organ is replicated across each arm.<br />
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But starfish don't just exist in the animal kingdom. Starfish organizations are taking society and the business world by storm, and are changing the rules of strategy and competition. Like starfish in the sea, starfish organizations are organized on very different principles than we are used to seeing in traditional organizations. Spider organizations are centralized and have clear organs and structure. You know who is in charge. You see them coming.<br />
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Starfish organizations, on the other hand, are based on completely different principles. They tend to organize around a shared ideology or a simple platform for communication</i><br />
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Read the inspiring summary here: http://www.starfishandspider.com/index.php?title=About_the_Book