BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Public Space - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://publicspace.nl X-WR-CALDESC:Evenementen voor Public Space REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20180325T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20181028T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20211021T122000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20211021T130000 DTSTAMP:20260415T224538 CREATED:20211001T142126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T142152Z UID:10000353-1634818800-1634821200@publicspace.nl SUMMARY:Presentation at ILA (International Leadership Association) Global Conference 2021 in Geneva DESCRIPTION:Does the New Digital Media Landscape provoke Good or Bad Public Leadership?\nPresentation by Steven P.M. de Waal at the 23rd ILA (International Leadership Association) Annual Global Conference in Geneva. \nThe internet technologies are giving increasing power to citizens. We are now in the midst of the digital civil revolution. This new civil power requires a different style of leadership as ‘one-of-us’- citizens\, combined with rhetorical skills and aimed at the common good. That is one vision\, still a hypothesis. The other one is that this new civil power will be misused by bad leadership: threatening\, divisive\, rhetorical skills aimed at conceiling the leader’s own interest (demagogue)\, provocative for riots. \nWhat will be the outcome in this new battle for public authority? What to do about it in leadership development? \nDisruption in markets and marketstrategies has its roots in the new internet technologies. They gave us platforms\, apps\, websites and social media. This last one changed fundamentally the media landscape\, by adding a third mediachannel of\, by and to citizens themselves. It is directly aimed at them\, filled with their own productions and opinions and a powerful tool for their bottom-up organization of public protest and opinion (‘swarm behaviour’ and ‘permanent public grandstand’). It now also leads to disruption of democracy\, politics and public services\, because it gives new power of information\, data\, exchange and self organization to citizens. It’s no longer just about technology\, but about power\, institutional change and so\, also in changes in the necessary public authority and leadership. It can be analyzed as a ‘digital civil revolution’\, because it is not just a new phase in an ongoing industrial revolution\, but a totally new phase that changes not just industry or economy\, but also societies\, worldwide humanity\, institutions and politics. \n“… not just a new phase in an ongoing industrial revolution\, but a totally new phase that changes not just industry or economy\, but also societies\, worldwide humanity\, institutions and politics.” \nOf course\, because these revolutions take time to make their big effects\, we are now in the middle of experiencing and observing its nature and impact. At this moment we can only come up with hypotheses about the new kind of public leadership\, that is necessary or more fitting or gaining dominance in this fundamentally new strategic context (which of course will influence other kinds of leadership). \nCharacter and Values\nAt the ILA conference in Ottawa in 2019 I discussed if these disruptions will lead to the dominance of civil leadership. In this Round Table many agreed certainly with the strategic analysis of the ‘digital civil revolution’. At the same time there was much doubt if it was not too naive and optimistic about civil leadership as the most fitting new leadership\, missing the bad leadership that was using these same channels to convince citizens or spreading fake news or gaining followership for wrong intentions. Beneath this there was of course a discussion about the influence of the ownership by the commercial providers of the internet industry: yes\, it is a new media channel to citizens\, but they don’t have the ownership of it\, neither on the selection of what they are seeing! The participants at the Round Table thought I was right in describing that the new leadership should have an attitude and style of ‘one-of-us’- citizens\, but that certainly didn’t mean they would have the right character or the right values that fitted the interests of citizens and ‘the common good’! They then pointed to such succesful leaders as Boris Johnson in the UK and Donald Trump in USA. \nPublic Authority\nSo\, in the digital ILA conference of 2020\, which was to be held at San Francisco\, I focused my topic on this next issue: What will ultimately win public authority in this battle for new leadership: rhetorical skills or character and values? Of course I tried to settle this debate on middle ground: The right kind of leadership in character and values will win public authority\, from the moment they have better rhetorical skills. So\, the battle is not between good and bad leadership\, but about rhetorical skills! At this moment many civil leaders are missing these skills\, which is then\, of course a temporary phenomenon! And maybe\, further to be investigated\, bad character leads to faster acquiring and performing rhetorical skills? Of course\, this was not fully accepted at that time in the discussion in several rounds. The discussion mainly focused on my underlying assumption that citizens know what is in their best interest and that they want to and can look beyond rhetorics to (the right) character and values! This is fundamentally a question about the value and sustainability of (representative) democracy\, a discussion that can be expected from this ongoing disruption of democracy! \nThis question as put in the title will be the next phase in this ongoing discussion about the impact of this new revolution in mankind on public leadership\, as a third round in the ongoing yearly ILA conferences. \n \n  URL:https://publicspace.nl/calendar/presentation-at-ila-international-leadership-association-global-conference-2021-in-geneva/ LOCATION:Geneva\, Zwitserland CATEGORIES:Toegankelijk voor deelnemers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://publicspace.nl/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/ILA-2021-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110 DTSTAMP:20260415T224538 CREATED:20201013T093437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201202T114635Z UID:10000250-1604534400-1604966399@publicspace.nl SUMMARY:Roundtable at ILA (International Leadership Association) Virtual Global Conference 2020 DESCRIPTION:Steven de Waal will host a roundtable at the ILA (International Leadership Association)\, Virtual Global Conference\, 5-9 November 2020: \nThe Battle for New Public Leadership: Rhetorical Skills Versus Character and Values?\nThe new internet technologies have disrupted markets. They now also lead to disruption of democracy and public services\, giving increasing power to citizens. Level 1 in this disruption of democracy is classical as the disruption we now know from markets: persons from outside politics now win elections\, mostly by using the platforms and new media channels better than their opponents. Level 2 of this disruption of democracy is still more specific and fundamental: the rise of private persons\, while staying outside politics and even explicitly avoiding every connection with it\, winning public leadership in addressing specific public concerns or issues\, mostly better and more explicitly than the incumbent ‘professional’ politicians.\nThis leads to two major questions about public leadership (and the vision and expectations on leadership in general)\, that Dr. Steven P.M. de Waal will address in this roundtable session:\nQuestion A. Is the new public arena only rewarding rhetorical skills and not true character and right values?\nQuestion B: Is there (internationally) proof of this second level disruption: Are there now more examples of new private persons gaining public leadership from outside politics? \nDisruption in markets and marketstrategies has its roots in the new internet technologies. They gave us platforms\, apps\, websites and social media. This same technological revolution now also leads to disruption of democracy\, politics and public services\, because it gives new powers of information\, data\, exchange and self organization to citizens. It’s no longer just about technology\, but now about power\, institutional change and changes in the necessary public authority and leadership. \nTwo levels of this disruption can be analyzed. Level 1 is classical as in the markets: persons from outside politics suddenly win elections\, using the new technologies better and more systematic\, like Beppe Grillo in Italy\, Trump in USA and Johnson in UK. Level 2 is still more fundamental\, because it changes the battle ground as such: the political arena is no longer dominant\, we now see the rise of private persons\, without participating in the political arena and not even having any political ambition\, directly winning public authority and public leadership\, like Greta Thunberg and many informal leaders organizing bottom up now all kinds of public protests\, like in Hong Kong and Beirout. \nThis leads to two major questions about leadership.\nQuestion A. Is the new public arena not only rewarding rhetorical skills to address this new permanent public grandstand and so\, are true character and the right values no longer important in winning positions of public leadership? Because this new public arena is so dominant and people now have the power of opinion\, public protest and massive organization all leadership\, not only formally public or political\, but also that of private companies and organizations\, must be willing and capable of addressing this new public arena. This will of course influence heavily the selection processses for all kinds of leaders everywhere. So this disruption of the public atmosphere can lead to a change towards a totally new kind of leadership\, and maybe not for the best.\nQuestion B: Do we see proof of this second level disruption (and maybe in terms of leadership this is more promising and hopeful than the first disruption?): Do we observe the rise in countries around the globe of these new private persons gaining public leadership? \nThe main purposes for Steven de Waal to initiate this meeting is:\n1. To discuss these findings and analyses with people from all kinds of backgrounds and countries and\n2. To investigate and collect data and examples from around the globe that might support or refute these issues. \nDownload a brief overview of his topic that Dr. De Waal’s used during the Interactive Roundtable Discussion. \nFind out more about the start of this international discussion with Dr. De Waal at ILA’s Global Conference in Ottawa in 2019. URL:https://publicspace.nl/calendar/roundtable-at-ila-international-leadership-association-virtual-global-conference-2020/ CATEGORIES:Toegankelijk voor deelnemers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://publicspace.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ILA-2020.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20191024T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20191024T120000 DTSTAMP:20260415T224538 CREATED:20191023T105538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191023T111327Z UID:10000295-1571913000-1571918400@publicspace.nl SUMMARY:Lecture on Disruption of Democracy and of Public Services DESCRIPTION:Steven de Waal will lecture and have a dialogue with the staff of a Canadian government related thinktank about the main analyses and conclusions in his latest book: ‘Civil Leadership as the Future of Leadership. Harnessing the disruptive power of citizens’ (Amazon\, 2018). In line with the thinktank’s focus on foresights and within that on social phenomena and issues\, the main points in his presentation will be: \nDisruption is not restricted to markets\, because the underlying technological revolution also brings more data\, information and power of opinion and organization to citizens. The slogan for the book is: ‘It’s not technology\, stupid\, but mentality and power of citizens’. That is the reason why in the book the current revolution is called the third revolution in mankind: ‘the Digital Civil Revolution’. \n‘It’s not technology\, stupid\, but mentality and power of citizens’ \nIn the public domain (state\, public services and civil society)\, this leads to two main disruptions: 1. disruption of democracy and 2. disruption of public services. \nAd 1 Disruption of Democracy\n(See also De Waal’s latest blog on publicspace.eu: https://publicspace.eu/the-unfortunate-disruptions-of-democracy-and-the-fortunate-opening-of-the-public-arena/). \nThe phenomena we can observe worldwide in democracies\, all due to this revolution\, are: \n\nMassive public protest started by\, organized and maintained by individuals (like Yellow Vests in France\, Farmerprotest in Holland\, but also streetprotest in Hong Kong)\nElectoral success of runner ups from outside politics (like Beppe Grillo in Italy\, Macron in France and Trump in the USA)\nA new competition about public authority and leadership within a public arena that is broader than just the political arena and now includes private persons (citizens) and private executives (social responsibility)\n\nThe book analyzes different causes underlying these phenomena: a new medialandscape\, with a third channel on which people themselves produce information and media\, a public opinion that is now of the public itself\, a permanent public grandstand\, battle for the eyeballs\, leading to more need for actorship and rhetorical skills because all public arenas are more like theatres with an audience\, the need for more direct democracy and swarmbehaviour. \nAd 2 Disruption of Public Services\nBecause of the new data and communication power of citizens and their training in all kinds of platformbusinesses we now see: \n\nMore demand of shared decision making\, based on their own knowledge and data\nMore peerreview of providers between citizens\, like patients\, pupils etc\, even leading to peerreview on platforms by clients about providers and professionals individually\nMore citizens initiatives in care\, housing or neighbourhood management based on ‘commons’ or ‘cooperatives’\nPublicly ventured complaints with bigger influence than previous official regulations\n\nThis is now totally changing the supply side attitude of public services\, because of their reputation risk and need for direct public support. It is changing their attitude and interaction with clients and clientinitiatives. \nLooking forward to a challenging debate with professionals in the art of foresight! URL:https://publicspace.nl/calendar/disruption-of-democracy-and-of-public-services/ CATEGORIES:Toegankelijk voor deelnemers ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://publicspace.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Man-met-Canadese-vlag.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR