Now & Z/Yen - October 2003
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"Zest for Enlightenment" The Irregular Newsletter of Z/Yen Limited October 2003 The Bank Rankers
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Increasingly
Z/Yen has been asked to deploy its community-building expertise. Since the
launch of Taskforce 2000 back in 1996, a number of our marketing and NGO
projects have involved intellectual projects on how to build healthy communities
that in turn led to some nitty-gritty projects pulling communities together. For
instance, we've been building a community for charities interested in taking
insurance matters into their own hands, developing a conceptual national
initiative involving television and government, working at creating a
supporters' club for a high-profile charity and thinking with a government
agency how to fix a dysfunctional community. Being Z/Yen, we've even put some
preliminary thoughts down in "Risk/Reward in Virtual Financial
Communities" . Now we are launching a new community in conjunction with the
Strategic Planning Society - ChoiceNet. ChoiceNet is a membership group that
helps members make better decisions through a series of learning experiences and
networking events. ChoiceNet helps members reach the right conclusions by
building analytic, motivational, influencing and network skills through fun,
half-day simulations such as Z/Yen's Boating Bourse, OligopoLuedo and Smuggler's
Choice. Anyone interested in joining the ChoiceNet community is welcome to
contact Linda Cook at Z/Yen for further information. Remember it's not just
"what you now" and "who you know", but "how you figure
out what to do".
Ian
Harris might leap around the cricket field like a spring chicken, (who wrote
this rubbish? - Ed) (who'd'ya think? - ILH) but eventually the years catch
up with all of us and we start thinking about retirement. Perhaps that is why
Ian has accepted the invitation to sit on the Charity Finance Directors' Group (CFDG)
Pensions Task Force. The current pensions crisis is pertinent to many charities,
especially those in the care sector where defined benefits pensions have been
the norm. The CFDG is hoping that Z/Yen's risk/reward thinking might provide
some useful ideas to help solve the thorny problems. The Task Force expects to
report in the first half of 2004 (long time frames on anything to do with
pensions). Now & Z/Yen is not sure whether this appointment is a great
honour for Z/Yen or a poisoned chalice that might prove some problems to be
truly insurmountable. So, if Now & Z/Yen readers have any good examples or
bright ideas (commercial and public sector wisdom equally applicable), please
get in touch with poor old Ian before we put him out to graze.
After
years of scribbling with little feedback, Z/Yen sometimes wonders if anyone out
there, other than our friends, can still read. Imagine our surprise when Michael
was awarded an unsolicited "Highly Commended" award by the Emerald
Literati Club for his article "