Marina Gorbis; crowdsourcing abundance

(CC image: "Distributing surplus commodities, Johns, Ariz.," 1940, Library of Congress) Former BB guestblogger Marina Gorbis, exec director of Institute for the Future, considers how small groups/organizations can achieve scale and do good by sharing resources. Essentially every person (and every company) has a surplus of something that other people want/need: Not everyone has a large house to trade or a large sum of money to donate but look around you -- we have excess of stuff, talent, ideas,

• ⇒Marina Gorbis on organizational change
• ⇒From Odessa to the Future
• ⇒Dushechka, or how I learned to love baseball and bluegrass
• ⇒Socialstructing: Statement of Social Currency
• ⇒Kids on Bluegrass