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A Dinner Conversation: Otto And Nipun!

Two weeks ago, Otto Scharmer and I were visiting California, and met up with Nipun for a casual dinner. It just so happened we had been filming all day, so two of our filmmaker friends were also with us (lugging their equipment along as well). Half way through dinner, Otto had a spontaneous idea: "Let's just turn on the camera." "Now?"  "Yeah, why not?"  "It's too loud in here."  "We can ask them to turn down the music." So we did. And it was still a bit problematic, but we did some improv with boom mics and such. "Are you sure?" we kept pressing Otto. "Yeah, people don't care for all the formalities. They care for heart." (Incidentally, that's how our last conversation was taped, over breakfast in Berlin, en route to the airport.)

And out came three videos, which are now also part of our u.lab curriculum! First one is on the shift from Leadership to Laddership ...



Second one is around distributed and decentralized networks ...



And the last one has a sweet pay-forward story while illustrating the notion of multiple forms of capital ...



Hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed the emergent process! 
Posted by Adam Yukelson on May 2, 2017
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David Garcia May 2, 2017
A-ma-ma-ma-mazing!!! Thanks for capturing that conversation, what a privilege to witness the conversation between such big hearted spirits. Btw, the synergy between U-Theory and ServiceSpace gotta be a hel.. a heaven of a reloveution!
Parag Shah May 3, 2017
Awesome!!
Trishna Shah May 11, 2017
Love these spontaneous videos when you "turn the cameras on at a meeting in a restaurant!" :)
Michael D Gordon Apr 10, 2021
20 mins of amazing conversation. Thank you for sharing this! Love the idea of "local" being (primarily) a means for rich relationships; and also the question, "Were you giving, or receiving?" and noticing the deep connection betw the 2. Thanks again Otto, Nipun, and teams.

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