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5 August 2005:
This site and the program behind it is about to undergo a major overhaul. Though at this point just a quite of out date placeholder, it already provides some content and a first idea of what we intend to try to get done here in the weeks ahead. We appreciate your patience. And if you do spot any partially egregious howlers or omissions, kindly click the Contact link above and let us know. Kind thanks.

Quick Summary:

Rethinking Work offers all those who are interested a 21st century group work platform, mediated by a steadily expanding series of electronic and communications tools, and specifically targeted to encourage and support alternative thinking and hands-on experimentation in the troubled world of work. Think of it as an open, electronic "think-tank".

The basic thesis behind the program is that the range of ideas that are at present being publicly discussed, and even more of the alternative work concepts actually being tried or demonstrated, is altogether insufficient given the dimensions and the character of the problems before us. In response to this challenge, we propose that this independent international collaborative initiative may well be able to make a useful contribution.

The three basic vectors of work under this decade-old program, as it starts out on its new life in September 2000 are:

  1. The basic concept of "new abundance" as set out in the Ten Bones of Contention.
  2. The use of this Web site and the media, electronic and other, in order to create new collaborative relationships between groups, programs and companies that want to set out on a course of finding, demonstrating, testing and implementing new and better ways to work in this new, and very different, century.
  3. The importance of establishing and supporting collaborative alliances, in order to create actual demonstration programs, programs and implementations of these new concepts -- and them to use the growing international network and related tools to make them broadly known.
It is via these three key building blocks that we intend to organize our own work and contributions in this area over the years to come.

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