{"id":5311,"date":"2013-01-28T20:09:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T04:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2013-01-27T20:10:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T04:10:40","slug":"the-power-of-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2013\/01\/the-power-of-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.weforum.org\/sites\/all\/themes\/wef-960\/images\/new\/weforum-logo.db90160d8175c5a08cdf6c621e387d18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have never gone to Davos, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weforum.org\/\">World Economic Forum<\/a> happened in Beijing several times and I attended then.  They were the most invigorating conversations I ever had.<\/p>\n<p>It was a pompous mission statement: &#8220;To improve the state of the world.&#8221;  And I pondered on that.  There are two standard ways: to distribute\/allocate resources appropriately, or to create new technologies to solve problems better.  WEF somehow had a different idea: by inviting people to have conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, just talking about things, at the right level, use the right data, with the right facilitator, is powerful.  I sat on the table that talked about anti-piracy and global warming and heard many sides&#8217; arguments: prepared, passionate, and sincere.  They were not debates; there were no winners or losers.  Decisions, if made, happened behind the curtains.  Several years later, both are no longer contentious in the world, at least at governmental policy level.<\/p>\n<p>I applaud WEF to organize and facilitate these conversations.  But honestly, do they have to be Switzerland in January?  Good thing they do &#8220;summer meetings,&#8221; frequently in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never gone to Davos, but World Economic Forum happened in Beijing several times and I attended then. They were the most invigorating conversations I ever had. It was a pompous mission statement: &#8220;To improve the state of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2013\/01\/the-power-of-conversations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[549,548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5333,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}