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SOME TVM-TPB BACKGROUND
INTERACTION RELATED TO CHR
Interaction related to the Church of the Heavenly Rest
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The passing of Bishop Mdimi Mhogolo
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Peter Burgess
Mon, Apr 21, 2014, 11:22 AM
to Matt
Dear Matt
You probably already know, but I just learned that Bishop Mdimi Mhogolo has passed.
Open link in separate window ... http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2014/03/28/anglican-church-of-tanzania-mourns-the-passing-of-senior-bishop/
He was one of my favorite people for a whole lot of reasons. Not only was he solid in the basics of the Church, but he was pushing forward in all sorts of ways to fit the modern world. Bishop Roskam was quite funny about her visits with Bishop Mdimi in Tanzania. He will be missed. I very much hope the good work associated with Bishop Mdimi will go on.
Peter
_____________________________
Peter Burgess ... Founder and CEO
TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society
Multi Dimension Impact Accounting
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org
linkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peterburgess1/
twitter: @truevaluemetric @peterbnyc
landline 570 431 4385
email: peterbnyc@gmail.com
skype: peterburgessnyc
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Matt Heyd
Mon, Apr 21, 2014, 10:27 PM
to me
Thank you-
He was a great Bishop.
Matt+
The Rev. Matthew Heyd
Rector
Church of the Heavenly Rest
2 East 90 Street
New York, NY 10128
www.heavenlyrest.org
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The 'Value' of Church
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Peter Burgess
Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 10:43 AM
to Matthew, Andrew, John
Gentlemen
I have been agonizing over this for a long time, and there is still a long way to go ... but I am absolutely convinced that our society will remain in serious disequilibrium until we do some major restructuring of the metrics that underlie most all of our decision making.
This is my essay ... still something of a work in progress ... about the Value of Church
Open link in separate window ... 'http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/BurgessWIP/TVM-MDIA-The-Purpose-of-Church-The-ESE-Dynamic-of-Church.pdf'
This recent essay describes more broadly how I am framing the data architecture:
Open link in separate window ... 'http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/MDIA/TVM-Short-Introduction-to-7D-Capitalism-and-MDIA-141212a.pdf'
This work has not got to the stage that it has much 'value' in itself ... but I believe what I am doing has potential. Going back many years (decades), I learned a lot about the power of metrics to change behavior. It was used (and still is used) very aggressively and successfully in the management of the corporate enterprise but in my experience it has never been ported to society as a whole, nor into government or the not-for-profit world. The good news is people are trying ... but accounting and quantification in most initiatives is very rudimentary if at all.
This won't help very much yet ... but I remain optimistic
Sincerely
Peter
_____________________________
Peter Burgess ... Founder and CEO
TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society
Multi Dimension Impact Accounting
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org
linkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peterburgess1/
twitter: @truevaluemetric @peterbnyc
landline 570 431 4385
email: peterbnyc@gmail.com
skype: peterburgessnyc
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John Hitchcock
Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 10:58 AM
to me, Matthew, Andrew
Thank you for sharing, Peter. This could be a useful construct for determining what we should aim for in our outreach and assessing the results. As always, I look forward to talking with you further on this and to reading your essay.
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Matt Heyd
Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 10:06 PM
to John, me, Andrew
Thank Peter-
I appreciate your taking time to think through--
Matt+
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The Third Founding
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Peter Burgess
Sat, Jun 6, 2015, 4:07 PM
to Matthew
Dear Matt
You may recognize the list below. But what is wrong with this list?
I have been visited in connection with the third founding. It was a very interesting and worthwhile discussion, but it ended in an impasse and I am, of course, not on this list.
My financial net worth is dangerously negative.
My monthly net disposable income is negative, and likely to get worse rather than better.
I am doing my best not to be a 'burden' on anyone. In fact I am doing my best to do something that has really worth doing. Unfortunately this does not 'fit' into the business model that has become so popular in the modern world over the past 50 years or so.
I asked a leading question at the Third Founding visit. 'Since I have no money to give, what can I give that will help the Church of the Heavenly Rest?'
A quite simple question ... but it seems one that is difficult to answer.
Respectfully
Peter
_____________________________
Peter Burgess ... Founder and CEO
TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society
Multi Dimension Impact Accounting
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org
linkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peterburgess1/
twitter: @truevaluemetric @peterbnyc
landline 570 431 4385
email: peterbnyc@gmail.com
skype: peterburgessnyc
- Anonymous
- Edward and Lucy Appert
- Renato Arloro
- Constance Beavon
- Anne and Geoffrey Bennett
- Mrs. Melissa Bernstein
- Mrs. Susan Binger
- The Rev. Caroline Boynton
- Maria Love Brisbane
- Richard Buonomo
- Philip J. and Lauren Camp
- William Campbell
- Canterbury Choral Society, Inc
- Kendra and David Chapman
- Ann Collins
- Anne Collins
- Judi Counts
- Ms Lindsey Counts
- Mrs. Sally Cummins
- Clara and John Dale
- Evan and Mary Davis
- Mr. James De Woody
- Rosemarie and Hugh Deane
- John Deerkoski and Elizabeth Stevens
- Breck and Ninna Denny
- Tina and Ted Donovan
- Herb Downer
- Liana and Josh Doyle
- Chris Evans and Jennifer Merzon
- Mrs. Beatrice Fekula
- Victoria Ferenbach
- Anne and J. Christopher Flowers
- Stephen P. Foley and Takako Sakai
- Vicki and David Foley
- Edith Webster Freed and Todd Freed
- Mrs. Amanda Frei
- Adaline Frelinghuysen
- Carolyn and J. Carr Gamble III
- Mrs. Karen Giannelli
- Mrs. Ruth Anne Giannetto
- Kiendl and John Gordon
- Mrs. Gerd Grace
- Molly Grose
- Anne Gilchrist Hall
- Yvonne and Kenneth Hannan Jr
- Mrs. James Hoban Harris
- Jane and William Havemeyer
- Dr. Meredith Hawkins
- Sunny Hayward
- John and Amy Henry
- William Hermann
- Mrs. Anne Herrmann
- The Rev. Matthew Heyd and Ann Thornton
- Beverley Vanessa Hill
- John Hitchcock and Maggie Jackson
- Andrew and Amy Horrocks
- Stephen W.Houghton, II
- Karen and Jefferson Hughes
- Carole and James Hunt
- Judith and Thomas Iovino
- Richard Johnson
- Leslie and James Johnson
- Maureen and Steve Klinsky
- Frances Cohen and Stephen Koch
- Anne Lindgren
- Bishop Michael Marshall
- Steven Gifford and Suzanne Matthews
- Mrs. Thomas T. McCain
- Dr. Patricia Yarberry Allen &
- Mr. Douglas McIntyre
- George and Betty McKinley
- Marjorie and Lawrence McKittrick
- James and Margaret McQuade
- Emily Mikulewicz
- Jo Dare and Robert Mitchell
- Ms. Susan Montgomery
- Charles Morgan
- Sarah Morgan
- Kate and John C. Morris
- Terri R. Mundy
- Sarah and Michael S. Sylvester
- Richard and Constance Neel
- Bill and Bo Niles
- Mrs. Eliot Nolen
- John C. and Patricia Olive
- Patty and Peter Paine, Jr.
- Molly O. Parkinson
- Robin Pelkki
- Robert M. Pennoyer, Sr.
- Robert M. Pennoyer,II and Polly Klyce
- Dr. Frederica Perera and
- Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr.
- Mr. Peter Pettibone
- Ted Polubinski and Grace Offutt
- Holly and James Riley, III
- Arthur and Mary Sachs
- Allison Saxe
- Tom and Nancy Schmitt
- Molly and Joseph Seiler, III
- Jay Sherwood
- Aleta Shipley
- McKelden and Diana Smith
- Patricia and Andrew Soussloff
- Beatrice Mitchell and Paul Sperry
- Ms. Carol Springstun
- Cynthia Stravers
- Cynthia H. Swab
- Orla Coleman and Rikki Tahta
- Allyson Tang
- Ms. Sharon Taylor
- Jack and Mary Kathryn Thornton
- Mrs. Phyllis Toohey
- Elizabeth and James Tozer, Jr.
- Caroline and James Tripp
- Ellen and Miner Warner
- Wisner and Judith Washam
- Ms. Mary Weinberg
- Roger and Anne Whidden
- Norma Wickersham
- Ms. Deborah Wiley
- Caroline Williamson Family
- Mark Willis
- Gertrude Wilmers
- Susan Converse Winslow
- Mr. Angel Luis Zabala
- Jack and Carol Zacharias
- Daryl VanValkenburg and Gail Zimmermann
* as of Wednesday, May 27, 2015
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Matt Heyd
Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 2:39 PM
to me
Hi Peter-
I meant to respond long ago—I’d like to discuss. You are a wonderful part of Parish life.
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Peter Burgess
Tue, Jul 21, 2015, 12:07 PM
to Matthew, bcc: Claudia
Dear Matt
A good number of years ago I felt the need to apologize to Jim Burns because I was coming to Church and enjoying myself too much! Its happening again. I enjoy Heavenly Rest!
Travelling back to PA this past Sunday, I started to dream, and out of this, the attached has emerged. It seems to fit what CHR and the new team (not to mention congregation) are all about. Maybe I have it wrong ... but I think somewhere here there is a pretty interesting opportunity.
I would love to help to try to make something like this work. I have some strengths, but I have even bigger limitations. Not surprisingly this dream for CHR builds to some extent on my own post career efforts better to understand the issues that are having impact on the modern world and sustaining all sorts of mayhem... and perhaps come up with something that might help
Exciting times ... full of all sorts of possibilities
Peter
_____________________________
Peter Burgess ... Founder and CEO
TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society
Multi Dimension Impact Accounting
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org
linkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peterburgess1/
twitter: @truevaluemetric @peterbnyc
landline 570 431 4385
email: peterbnyc@gmail.com
skype: peterburgessnyc
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Peter Burgess
Attachments
Sat, Aug 1, 2015, 8:46 PM
to Matthew
Dear Matt
Did you see this brief idea paper ... inspired to some extent by the sermon a couple of weeks back.
I have been bothered by the deteriorating state of modern global society since an experience in Nigeria in the 1970s and firmed up over the years in more than 50 different countries around the world. Technology is amazing ... but it is rather little to help solve the really big issues of our day.
I have never been in PR and marketing ... more in operations and performance analysis ... and when I apply this to the global socio-enviro-economic system as a whole, I am appalled. Knowing a little about technology, and also knowing something about the world of good people ... I remain optimistic. How does a place like CHR get engaged in the huge changes that are needed?
My little collection of slidesets (rather clunky by artistic standards) is an effort to document what we should be doing in the area of metrics ... it is a work-in-progress ... but the underlying concepts are very powerful. Navigation to these ...
Open link in separate window ... 'http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBadmin/DBtxt001.php?vv1=list0200-Burgess-p3-Slidesets'
Peter Drucker famously said 'You manage what you measure'. I also like the idea that if you want to change the way the game is played, you change the way the game is scored. When we get the metrics right ... maybe we will get decision making right.
Exciting times
Attachments area
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Matt Heyd
Sat, Aug 1, 2015, 10:17 PM
to Tuesday, me
Hi Peter-
Thank you-- I really appreciate the time and thoughtfulness that you've put into this paper. I've cc'd Tuesday, because she is thinking about similar things long term.
These are exciting times. I am away mid August. Let's find time when I'm back to talk through. I'd like to listen to what you're thinking about.
Matt+
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Peter Burgess
Mon, Aug 3, 2015, 3:25 PM
to Matt, Tuesday, bcc: Claudia
Dear Matt, Tuesday
Another surprise ... the Rector actually gets to have a vacation. I keep learning things I never expect. Always fun! Happy Holidays ... and I don't mean Christmas!
So Tuesday ... what can we dream up so that Matt really gets a surprise when he returns to the fray late August, early September. The only reason for having a box, is to think outside it! When I think outside the box I always go down one very worn track ... but there are thousands of other possibilities many of which are likely to be more interesting and productive than my own ...
Tuesday ... I think you know I now live in the Poconos of PA ... trees are lovely ... but Manhattan is not that far away and essential to re-energize the mind and remain in touch with material reality ... not to mention CHR. I can come in to talk at your convenience.
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Peter Burgess
Thu, Aug 13, 2015, 11:28 AM
to Tuesday
Dear Tuesday
Just a quick follow up ... do you have any thoughts on the idea of a 'Forum about the Future' at CHR.
As I think you know I am 'blown away' by the amazing impact that Christianity had in it first 50 years ... and for me learning that a Christian Church was established in Cochin in India in 55 was my 'ah-ha' moment in this regard.
Fast forward to the present, and I am 'blown away' by the speed with which all sorts of technology are progressing. Since I have been an adult, technology has progressed at a pace that is difficult to comprehend ... technology is maybe 1 million times ... or 10 million times ... or even a billion times more powerful. To my mind it is imperative that people who are not in the technology field understand the implications of this amazing progress and get engaged in a meaningful way, but I don't see any of the establishment institutions (political, religious, academic, media ... ) showing much interest, and this bothers me in large part because the evidence seems to suggest that the powers of evil are growing far faster than the powers for good ...
So this is why I think a CHR based Forum about the Future has potential ... and indeed, importance.
What do you think?
Peter
Open link in separate window ... 'http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Burgess/CHR/CHR-Forum-about-the-Future-Concept-150720.pdf'
Peter Burgess
Sun, Aug 16, 2015, 10:18 PM
to Tuesday
Dear Tuesday
As always, I have a good time when I come to CHR ... sorry I missed you after the service.
I am doing my best to budget time, energy and money, so am not coming into New York quite as often as I would like. Worse, my budget was aggravated this morning by a NJ Trooper who thought I was driving too fast ... but otherwise a great day. Nevertheless, with respect to time, I have a medical appointment (eye examination) on Tuesday morning in Manhattan and could be available for a conversation in the afternoon ... really any time after about 12.30. Might this work for you? I expect to return to the Poconos of PA sometime in the evening.
All the best
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Tuesday Rupp
Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 3:17 PM
to me
Hi Peter,
Glad to meet with you tomorrow afternoon. I'll expect you around 12:30.
Cheers,
Tuesday
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Peter Burgess
Mon, Aug 17, 2015, 3:26 PM
to Tuesday
Dear Tuesday
Excellent ... fantastic ...
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Peter Burgess
Wed, Aug 19, 2015, 11:22 AM
to Tuesday, bcc: Claudia
Dear Tuesday
Thank you for yesterday ... I am afraid that I probably talked too much ... but trying to summarize where I am after 50+ years of experiential learning is not easy.
In any event I am excited by the possibilities of a CHR hosted Forum about the Future. I love the idea of starting at a very modest scale, but with an architecture that will enable easy scaling to something bigger.
There are many reasons for my sense of urgency. One part is that I was always in a hurry when I was 17 ... which probably explains why I migrated to North America in my 20s where fast had a very different meaning than in Europe of the early post war years. But now that I am 70 something my need for urgency is a whole lot more profound ... at this juncture I don't have 50 years ahead of me!
These are the subject ideas I showed you yesterday ... I made the notes pre-meeting and there are hundreds more along the same lines that could be debated in a CHR Forum about the Future
- The spiritual dimension of sustainable development
- The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- MDGs ... some progress, but nothing like what should have been possible
- Lessons from Almaty ... 1978
- Root causes of radicalism ... radical Islam
- Why 19th Century 'isms' won't work for the 21st century
- What is the 'value' of religion
In my view, young people in the 15 to 35 age bracket are a huge resource ... and one that is being almost completely wasted. The modern economy with modern productivity does not need to pay them much to make the things we need so they are unemployed or underemployed and often underpaid. There are always people somewhere in the world that will do needed work for less money and more profit. On the other hand advertisers (working for companies) consider this group to be a prime target for marketing and do everything to get them to buy. Never mind that they don't have the money nor the prospects ... they perhaps they have parents that can help and student loans and credit cards are wonder money no matter what future personal damage they do. From what I know of the 15-35 year old cohort, many of them, probably a big majority, want to see a better world ... and as I see it, there is a huge responsibility for them to be helped in a meaningful way by older people and older institutions.
Bigger things are happening right now than at any time in my lifetime ... and yet the dialog about really big things is just not happening. Maybe these are bigger things than we have seen in thousands of years ... climate change ... awakening of China ... an invigorated India ... nuclear proliferation and worse ... disintegrating states ... religions at war ... implosion of the global financial system ... rule of law hijacked by the rich and powerful ... the list goes on.
The future is important ... but the future is not for sure. The nuclear bomb changed thinking because in a few minutes mankind has the ability to end a human centric world. More insidious perhaps is the idea that climate change may do this quietly over the next 100 years and we will never realize it is happening. Potentially the same outcome
Now is the time for a CHR Forum about the Future.
I look forward to follow up with you and Matt when the holiday breaks are behind you both ... exciting times ... amazing possibilities
With best wishes
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To Matthew Heyd+
Dear Matt
Tuesday and I had the opportunity to meet on the 18th August. In my view it was a good meeting, but at the same time somewhat frustrating. In my follow up note I observed that I probably talked too much ... but trying to summarize where I am after 50+ years of experiential learning is not easy.
As I observed yesterday, I am no longer 17 years old and even more in a hurry now than I was then. There are many reasons for my sense of urgency. One part is that I was always in a hurry when I was 17 ... which probably explains why I migrated to North America in my 20s where fast had a very different meaning than in Europe of the early post war years. But now that I am 70 something my need for urgency is a whole lot more profound ... at this juncture I don't have 50 years ahead of me!
I sometimes observe that as a professionally trained accountant I should have been quite protected from the realities of the world, but unfortunately I have seen more dead and destitute people than most. The dysfunction of so much in our modern world really bothers me ... and I don't see much urgency in getting things fixed. Dysfunction is systemic and a lot of what is going on in our times is mainly the protection of the status quo ante ... something that I argue is very dangerous.
I was excited by the possibilities of CHR's Third Founding. I made a bit of noise during the various Town Hall's to try to have something going on that would be really attractive to the 15-35 age group in New York ... I remember being laughed at for suggesting a CHR Hackathon. I wrote this 15-35 issue several times into the feedback handouts that circulated. Sadly, Unfortunately I don't really see anything of this is what has emerged as the Third Founding Vision and if I was at that stage of my life I am not sure I would bother to be trying to find it. But I haven't given up!
I am glad I sat in on the Prison Ministry session yesterday. It was inspiring ... but ...
In any event I am excited by the possibilities of a CHR hosted Forum about the Future. I love the idea of starting at a very modest scale, but with an architecture that will enable easy scaling to something bigger. There are a whole lot of possibilities ... the possible subjects are endless ...
- The spiritual dimension of sustainable development
- The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- MDGs ... some progress, but nothing like what should have been possible
- Lessons from Almaty ... 1978
- Root causes of radicalism ... radical Islam
- Why 19th Century 'isms' won't work for the 21st century
- What is the 'value' of religion
I see young people in the 15 to 35 age bracket as a huge resource ... and one that is being almost completely wasted. The modern economy with modern productivity does not need to pay them much to make the things we need so they are unemployed or underemployed and often underpaid. There are always people somewhere in the world that will do needed work for less money and more profit. On the other hand advertisers (working for companies) consider this group to be a prime target for marketing and do everything to get them to buy. Never mind that they don't have the money nor the prospects ... they have parents that can help pay bills and then banks that can make student loans and credit cards and deliver wonder money no matter what lifetime damage is being done. From what I know of the 15-35 year old cohort, many of them, probably a big majority, want to see a better world ... and as I see it, there is a huge responsibility for them to be helped in a meaningful way by older people and institutions like CHR.
Bigger things are happening right now than at any time in my lifetime ... and yet the dialog about really big things is just not happening. Maybe these are bigger things than we have seen in thousands of years ... climate change ... awakening of China ... an invigorated India ... nuclear proliferation and worse ... disintegrating states ... religions at war ... implosion of the global financial system ... rule of law hijacked by the rich and powerful ... the list goes on.
The future is important ... but the future is not for sure. The nuclear bomb changed thinking 70 years ago because in a few minutes mankind has the ability to end a human centric world. More insidious perhaps is the idea that climate change may do this quietly over the next 100 years and we will never realize it is happening. Potentially the same outcome
Now is the time for a CHR Forum about the Future.
Peter
_____________________________
Peter Burgess ... Founder and CEO
TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society
Multi Dimension Impact Accounting
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org
linkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peterburgess1/
twitter: @truevaluemetric @peterbnyc
landline 570 431 4385
email: peterbnyc@gmail.com
skype: peterburgessnyc
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Follow up ... not sure where to start!
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Peter Burgess
Mon, Aug 31, 2015, 10:33 AM
to Matthew
Dear Matt
A good day at CHR yesterday ... I am glad I sat in on the Prison Ministry session
I have to admit to some modest level of disappointment that getting the 15-35 age group engaged with doing something meaningful at CHR is not emerging yet. This was my big hope during the reinventing process for the Third Founding but my input into that seems to have disappeared. I conclude I was too polite by far ... something that has dogged me for a big part of my career.
I had a good meeting with Tuesday on the 18th August ... but its holiday season and my hope to see something start in time for this year's UN General Assembly period is not going to materialize ... pity really, because with the Sustainability Development Goals on the agenda the interest is going to be bigger than normal.
As I think you know ... there are a good number of things that bother me deeply. I don't think that giving up should be an option!
Peter
_____________________________
Peter Burgess ... Founder and CEO
TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society
True Value Accounting
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peterburgess1/
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/PeterBurgess2/
Twitter: @truevaluemetric @peterbnyc
Landline 570 431 4385
Email: peterbnyc@gmail.com
Skype: peterburgessnyc
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Matt Heyd
Wed, Sep 2, 2015, 4:50 PM
to me
Hi Peter-
Thank you—let’s find a time to talk. I’m also glad that you came to the prison ministry session.
I’m a little confused by your comment about the 20’s/30’s not being engaged. Cindy is coordinating a growing young adult group without children and we’re expanding our family ministries also. We can talk through your concerns.
We can also talk about the UN idea and why it might be right for us. I think you’re right that this fall leaves little time to plan or promote.
What’s your time like for a phone call next week?
Thanks again--
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Peter Burgess
Thu, Sep 3, 2015, 9:16 AM
to Matt
Dear Matt
I would love to talk ...
Your time is probably more of a constraint than mine ...
However, next week won't work for a telephone call on either Thursday or Friday because I will be travelling into New York both days and I still use a phone attached to the wall with wires [there is a reason for this ... a mobile phone won't work in our house in the Poconos of PA, USA ... worse than third world?] Otherwise I will be near a phone in PA the other days.
On Thursday my appointment in New York is in the evening ... day is open / flexible. On Friday my appointment is in the morning. I could meet you at CHR on either Thursday or Friday outside these times.
Whatever works for you ...
Sincerely
Peter
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Peter Burgess
Sat, Sep 5, 2015, 11:52 AM
to Matt
Dear Matt
A small change to my schedule next week ... I will not be coming into Manhattan on Friday after all ... I will only be in Manhattan on Thursday ...
So whatever, works for you
Sincerely
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Matt Heyd
Sat, Sep 5, 2015, 11:27 PM
to Lindsey, me
Hi Peter-
Thank you-- could we talk by phone on Wednesday? We have an all-day staff retreat on Thursday, so that would be more difficult.
Matt+
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Peter Burgess
Mon, Sep 7, 2015, 12:33 AM
to Matt, Lindsey
Dear Matt
A telephone call on Wednesday is OK for me ... thanks.
What time would suit you? Is Skype a possibility?
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Matt Heyd
Mon, Sep 7, 2015, 9:31 AM
to me, Lindsey
Thank you Peter-
Lindsey will help us to find a time.
Happy Labor Day--
Matt+
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Peter Burgess
Mon, Sep 7, 2015, 11:10 AM
to Matt, Lindsey
Great ... early in the day is probably better than later ... Peter
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Lindsey Briggs
Tue, Sep 8, 2015, 3:15 PM
to me, Matt
Hello Peter,
Does 10am work?
Matt’s schedule is full before that.
Thank you,
Lindsey
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Peter Burgess
Tue, Sep 8, 2015, 7:00 PM
to Lindsey, Matt
Dear Lindsey
10 am works ... or really whatever suits Matt. I have late afternoon constraints, but otherwise pretty much open. The functioning number is 570 431 4385
Thanks
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Matt Heyd
Wed, Sep 9, 2015, 9:16 AM
to me, Lindsey
Great-
I’ll call this morning, likely around 10:15 am.
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Peter Burgess
Wed, Sep 9, 2015, 10:18 AM
to Matt, Lindsey
Standing by ... no hurry ... I have plenty to keep me occupied !!
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Not sure where to start ... next steps ... Dysfunction in the modern world and how a Forum about the Future will help!
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Peter Burgess
Wed, Sep 9, 2015, 4:45 PM
to Matthew, bcc: Claudia
Dear Matt
Thank you for taking time with me this morning ... I realize you have a big job and your time is precious.
It is tough to summarize where I have come from, where I am, and where I would like to be going in a rather brief telephone conversation. I hate telephone communications anyway, and texting is worse ... Skype on the other hand is emerging as a real communications tool!
I recall pretty much what I got to say this morning, and a pile of notes about what I did not get around to saying! But I am really curious about what you heard? In my experience what I thought I said, and what was heard can be very different things.
At one point we touched on 'anger' and I said that I introduced that word a couple of weeks back in some part to get some attention. I have been quietly raising my concern about the under 35 age group's lack of interest in the Church (not just CHR) for a long time, and tried to have this included as a focus of the Third Founding during the various Town Halls that were held ... including writing this on the feedback sheets two if not three times. Quiet apparently didn't work!
I have been very disappointed and indeed quite frustrated that the issue of young people and the Church, while it is on the Third Founding agenda, is not currently in 'game changer' mode ... and it is game changing initiatives that are needed. You were quite diplomatic about the idea that someone who is 75 years old is not going to be much of a focus for the 25 year old cohort ... and I understand this view. However, my undiplomatic retort could well be that I now spend 100% of my time trying to figure out what I have learned in my lifetime that will help society get through the next couple of generations without some sort of a cataclysmic disaster ... and for example, I want to see the global accounting profession embrace a framework of true value accounting that will give as much emphasis to people and planet as is now given to profit. ... accounting for everything in a meaningful way ... accounting for the 21st century.
The Church has an immense potential to be a power for GOOD ... I see a foundation on which something amazing can be built for the 21st and 22nd centuries ... a runway to launch something spectacular ...
The distant past is interesting ... but the priority for me is to understand why the Church has significantly declined in influence over my lifetime, and then, how to turn this around. As you may have gathered I am not at all impressed with my generation of leadership ... we have squandered a huge amount of wealth in the past 40 years, and in the process have set up all sorts of dysfunctions in the modern global socio-enviro-economic system that are pretty scary. Many of the issues that are emerging now are going to be much bigger in the years ahead. How do we get ahead of these waves?
I may be old and out of it ... but there is no need for young folk to follow in the steps of my generation. As things stand, they will do so, because essentially there are no alternatives being offered!
What are young people thinking? In the comfort of a university they are thinking a lot about GOOD. Five years into a career they are thinking about paying their bills and doing what they have to do in a money dominated materialistic system. Young people leave the doing GOOD world to migrate to the making MONEY world quite early in their career simply because that is how the system is structured ... changing the system is a challenge. It can be done ... but, where O where is the leadership to do it? And 10 years from now the employment situation for everyone and especially young people will be a whole lot worse than it is now ... we need some serious systemic disruption ... but I want it in the middle of the political divide ... not left not right.
Next steps ... a place and time to talk about all of these things. Agenda: Religion / Society / Investment / Environment / Risks / etc ... and how all of these things are part of a very complex man built system that needs fixing.
The possibilities are huge ...
Thank you for your time
Peter
_____________________________
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TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society
Multi Dimension Impact Accounting
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Matt Heyd
Mon, Sep 21, 2015, 12:00 AM
to me
Hi Peter-
Thanks for talking today-- let's find a time to talk further.
I want you to feel heard.
I also want you to know that we are taking seriously the call to invite youth and young adults to church-- it's very much a part of what we're launching for the Third Founding. As we've discussed, in addition to our family ministries and our growing young adult ministries, our contemplative practice and outreach ministries are both areas where young adults are discovering their spirituality.
Matt+
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Peter Burgess
Mon, Sep 21, 2015, 7:36 PM
to Matt
Dear Matt
Thank you for your message ... very much appreciated.
My timing to suggest something like the Forum about the Future could not have been worse ... but maybe as the year progresses something like it might emerge ... and probably better on a CHR schedule than something that I dreamed up. I would observe, however, that, long ago, my corporate reputation was always in the direction of choosing well and doing quickly.
In the last 10 days ... and going on into the next few weeks ... I have and will spend a lot of time with young people, mostly as they consider different aspects of international development, humanitarian relief, business management, sustainability and social responsibility ... not to mention using technology to make billions. My constant theme is that we have amazing possibilities but we should be very careful about financial misfeasance and the huge risks that are emerging as we optimize based on the prevailing metrics of money profit, capital market wealth and GDP growth.
Exciting times
Peter
_____________________________
Peter Burgess ... Founder and CEO
TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society
Multi Dimension Impact Accounting
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twitter: @truevaluemetric @peterbnyc
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Matt Heyd
Mon, Sep 21, 2015, 9:44 PM
to me
Hi-
Thanks-- best wishes for your talks in the weeks ahead.
I'm always glad to talk.
Matt+
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CHR ... 7D Capitalism and a Forum about the Future
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Peter Burgess
Oct 5, 2015, 1:17 PM
to John
Dear John
I wonder whether you have seen either of these?
This first paper was written at the end of last year and circulated quite widely around the LinkedIn world ... enough to encourage me to rethink some of it to make it fit better with the way others are thinking ... this feedback is informing a lot of what I am doing.
Open link in separate window ... 'http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/MDIA/TVM-Short-Introduction-to-7D-Capitalism-and-MDIA-141212a.pdf'
The second relates specifically to CHR and the Third Founding priorities. The reality is that I am not able to do much to help in terms of money, but it is an open question what I might be able to do in terms of something else. As you may know from the town halls and questionnaires that were part of the process of determining CHR priorities I was fairly outspoken about the need to engage with the 20-35 age group. There is some movement in that direction, but it is 'lite' and not so dynamic, as far as I can see. Some little time ago (in July) I drafted this paper suggesting a CHR Forum about the Future. It has been seen by the clergy leadership. Am I completely off base ... or might this have some merit?
Open link in separate window ... 'http://www.truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Burgess/CHR/CHR-Forum-about-the-Future-Concept-150720.pdf'
With best wishes for a successful CHR
Peter
_____________________________
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TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society
Multi Dimension Impact Accounting
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org
linkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peterburgess1/
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'John Hitchcock'
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John Hitchcock
Oct 5, 2015, 4:57 PM
to me
Peter,
Thanks for including me in your circle of idea-kick-arounders. As always, whether at a parish cocktail party or after service, I find your thoughts intriguing, spot on in terms of social need and justice and wonderful to consider as an expansion of CHR's own work with.
'Forum for the Future' has a clear moral heart - a truly grand purpose in the best sense of grand - but as outlined it doesn't sound like it ties back to our spiritual and missionary focuses of Children & Family Ministries, Outreach, Contemplative Practices and engagement in the arts. I can see lots of tangential connections, of course. But if we're trying to build by focusing on the four mission areas mentioned, by tackling things we can have an immediate impact on with our limited resources, we have to figure some good things might not be a best fit. At least for now.
So much is changing at CHR, and more change to our physical space is on its way. That could argue for taking on an ambitious project like this later, once our space and staff are up to the task. If you and a handful of people came to us and asked us to house these meetings every three weeks as discussions in our chapel, Darlington Hall or wherever they'd best fit, we'd do our best to fit you in. But minus outside folks to run these forums, I fear we don't have the staffing and admin bandwidth to do it now.
An idea: could this be something the Cathedral would be keen to work with?
Yours in peace,
John
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Peter Burgess
Oct 6, 2015, 11:14 AM
to John
Dear John
Thanks a million for your prompt and thoughtful reply.
At my age, the idea of 'later' gets to be somewhat problematic ... so I am interested in today and tomorrow much more than next year or the one after!
I am very much aware that the team at CHR is doing an amazing amount of stuff ... and the last thing I want to do is to get in the way and simply be an added burden.
I would like to explore your thought ... If you and a handful of people came to us and asked us to house these meetings every three weeks as discussions in our chapel, Darlington Hall or wherever they'd best fit, we'd do our best to fit you in. But minus outside folks to run these forums, I fear we don't have the staffing and admin bandwidth to do it now.
This might be a way to get this moving without it being more workload on the CHR team.
Thanks
Peter
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John Hitchcock
Oct 6, 2015, 11:41 AM
to me
Great, Peter. In fact, I spoke with Matt yesterday about your idea and he said much the same - 'If only there were a team coming to us from the outside that could execute.' As with all our 'partnerships' - Canterbury, AA, Bible Study Fellowship, for instance - we'd need to arrange this so it would cover whatever additional maintenance that might arise. But it could bring yet more life into our sacred space, which is what sacred space is meant to be all about.
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Peter Burgess
Sat, Nov 14, 2015, 11:04 PM
to Matthew
Dear Matt
I like a lot of the initiatives that are in play at CHR ... but getting the CHR Messenger at 7.45 pm, on a Saturday evening is not one of them. My schedule is fairly complex and I like to plan ahead a little bit ... so I decide what is going to happen on Saturday and Sunday early in the week (Monday or Tuesday). By Saturday evening, what I am going to do on Sunday is already locked in.
Respectively
Peter Burgess
_____________________________
Peter Burgess ... Founder and CEO
TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society
Multi Dimension Impact Accounting
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org
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Matt Heyd
Sun, Nov 15, 2015, 12:29 AM
to me
Hi Peter-
I'm sorry that you'll miss tomorrow-- we'll miss you. I think that you'd enjoy Jake Dell, who is the leading digital guru for the Church.
We can catch up when you have a moment about what he has to say.
Matt+
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Peter Burgess
Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 5:01 PM
to Matthew, Steph, Hal, Euan, Cindy, Ruth, Tuesday, John, Caroline, 'Richard
Dear All
For a big part of recent history it is money that has been the main metric driving decisions. I have argued for several decades that this is a measure that is totally inadequate for our modern complex socio-enviro-economic system and something better should be designed, developed and deployed.
I am not alone in coming to this conclusion. GDP, which is essentially a money metric has been roundly criticized for a very long time, including by Keynes and Kuznets who had a big role in creating the metric in the first place. This from Robert Kennedy in 1968 is quite succinct. It is from his speech at University of Kansas on March 18, 1968:
'And this is one of the great tasks of leadership for us, as individuals and citizens this year. But even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task, it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction - purpose and dignity - that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts the destruction of the redwood and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children. Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.'
Open link in separate window ... 'http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/RFK-Speeches/Remarks-of-Robert-F-Kennedy-at-the-University-of-Kansas-March-18-1968.aspx'
The world is not short of money ... for those that have access to the corridors of extreme power, it can be said that they can create money at will ... and with money as the metric for everything, this money can be deployed to create more money. There is no incentive anywhere in the prevailing metrics to deploy money and other resources where they can create value and do good. In my view change is not going to happen until there are generally accepted metrics for value and good. It can be done. It must be done.
Peter Drucker famously said ' You manage what you measure'. I always add that you had better measure the right things.
So, what can I do to help the Church of the Heavenly Rest (CHR) measure the right things. Can we prototype a methodology that has the potential to make accounting for impact as rigorous and as ubiquitous as accounting for money ... and a whole lot more useful..
In my early career I was engaged in corporate management ... and my tools were financial accounting and cost accounting (that enabled optimizing for profit). This worked very well in the corporate arena, but did not work at all well in my consulting work with the World Bank, the United Nations, refugees, drought, natural disaster, etc etc. In my experience, the concepts of accounting for a money resource can equally well be used to account for human (social, people, etc.) resources.and natural (environment, ecosystems, biodiversity, etc.) resources, but the ideas are not part of conventional education nor conventional management.
I believe that it is also vital that value metrics have to be easy, low cost and relevant otherwise the effort ends up being value destruction rather than value adding.
In the sporting world it is said that when you change the way the game is scored, you change the way the game is played. I am of the view that this applies in any organization and in society as a whole.
I am up to try to help.
Is some sort of an 'organization meeting', a next step?
Peter
_____________________________
Peter Burgess ... Founder and CEO
TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society
Multi Dimension Impact Accounting
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twitter: @truevaluemetric @peterbnyc
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Peter Burgess
Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 5:08 PM
to Claudia
Dear Claudia
I meant to copy this to you ... but then forgot.
This is a follow up to a comment that I made at the Church's Annual Meeting a couple of Sundays ago. Steff Houghton responded to my question by stirring the pot and say they should make me Chair of a Church Committee to do this!!!!
Steff is a young man I have know for about 20 years since he was in his early 20s. We have a lot of fun because he knows American history very well, but not so good on my version of American history. Laughing helps make the world a better place.
How is everything with you ... long time no contact?
Peter
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Matt Heyd
Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 5:46 PM
to Steph, Hal, Euan, Cindy, Ruth, Tuesday, John, Caroline, 'Richard, edavis, Lindsey, me
Thanks Peter-
You have terrific experience in this area and the staff and Vestry are working on metrics…
Would you have time to meet with me the first week in March?
Thank you for following up.
Matt+
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From: Peter Burgess [mailto:peterbnyc@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 5:01 PM
To: Matt Heyd; Steph Houghton; Hal Roark; Euan Cameron; Cindy Stravers; Ruth Anne Giannetto; Tuesday Rupp; John Hitchcock; Caroline Williamson; 'Richard Buonomo'
Subject: Follow up ... CHR Annual Meeting ... The Value Dimension of the Church!
Dear All
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Peter Burgess
Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 8:45 PM
to Matt, Steph, Hal, Euan, Cindy, Ruth, Tuesday, John, Caroline, Richard, edavis, Lindsey
Dear Matt
I would love to meet.
From my point of view the morning of Tuesday, the 1st of March would be the best. Later that day (I believe in the evening) I have a UN event In New York and I might be involved in some post event logistics again in New York the following day. Details not finalized yet. Also I might be needed to help out in the afternoon, of Tuesday but no details yet.
If that won't work for you ... we can try something else
Peter
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Matt Heyd
Thu, Feb 11, 2016, 10:35 PM
to me
Hi-
Thank you--
How is noon on Mar 1?
Matt+
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Richard F. Buonomo
Fri, Feb 12, 2016, 6:50 AM
to Matthew, Steph, Hal, Euan, Cindy, Ruth, Tuesday, John, Caroline, me
Dear Peter,
Your perspective is fresh and provocative.
You voice a tough to articulate concern shared by many of us who do not believe that bigger and more is always better.
The scriptural analogy of our number crunching annual meeting might be a daily tally of how many villages, how many crowds, how many followers, how many miracles, etc. covered during the ministry of the Son of God - whose footsteps we profess to follow.
Oh, and less I forget, although He promised that the commandment of love is the most important, he churned through $6million preaching the other commandments, so unless you cough up the final $2million he may not teach us how to love one another.
Mania for grandiose performance is drip fed into our psyche from pre-school onward. The power of nations, individual success, and athletic superiority are all driven by metrics of quantity.
Only at the very beginning and the very end of a lifetime are we given relief from how many - how fast -how much ?
Ironic. We honor babies and seniors with deep emotional reverence. But we live the bulk of our lives racing for metrics utterly irrelevant to the angelic qualities exhibited in those tender years.
Church feels like the right place to resist the inertia of megalomania.
Thank you for opening our imaginations.
Richard
Richard Buonomo Ltd
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Lindsey Briggs
Sun, Feb 14, 2016, 2:07 PM
to Matt, Hal, Cindy, Ruth, edavis, me, Steph, Euan, Tuesday, John, Caroline, Richard
Hello All,
Does 9-10 am on March 1st work for you?
Best,
Lindsey
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Richard F. Buonomo
Sun, Feb 14, 2016, 2:15 PM
to Lindsey, me, Matt, Steph, Hal, Euan, Cindy, Ruth, Tuesday, John, Caroline, edavis
Hi
I want to be participate but we have a Mock Interview event with Harlem Justice Corp that same morning in West Harlem.
I could do 8-9am, but need to be at west 127th street by 10am.
Is there a CHR master calendar on which all these events are included?
Thanks
Richard
ps Lindsey - your 'Lenten indifference fast ' homily this morning rocked my soul !
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Matt Heyd
Sun, Feb 14, 2016, 2:16 PM
to Richard, Lindsey, me, Steph, Hal, Euan, Cindy, Ruth, Tuesday, John, Caroline, edavis
Hi-
Thanks -- I think this mtg will be with Peter and me.
Matt+
t: 212-289-3400
m: 917-224-2094
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Peter Burgess
Sun, Feb 14, 2016, 10:37 PM
to Matt
Dear Matt,
I should have responded earlier about a noon meeting time on March 1st, but I have been trying to find out what my afternoon commitments are going to be, and there is still no clarity. There are international visitors arriving for the evening meeting at the UN and I am meant to be helping! My understanding that this would happen sometime in the afternoon, but exactly when nobody knows yet. The biggest group is coming from China ... winners of an international youth architecture competition.
I will commit to the noon time at CHR that you suggested if that is the earliest that is possible ... on the basis that what gets done locally is a key to being successful globally.
Thanks very much for picking up on this.
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Matt Heyd
Sun, Feb 14, 2016, 11:38 PM
to Lindsey, me
Hi Peter-
Thank you-- does 9 am work that day? Lindsey had suggested that time as well.
Matt+
t: 212-289-3400
m: 917-224-2094
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Peter Burgess
Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 11:45 AM
to Matt, Lindsey
Dear Matt
Thanks ... 9am would be very much better. Though we are still not sure when the UN event will be starting, it looks more likely to be earlier in the day than I originally thought!
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Matt Heyd
Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 11:56 AM
to me, Lindsey
Super-
Thank you--
Matt+
t: 212-289-3400
m: 917-224-2094
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Completely stressed out ... this is no way to make the world a better place!
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Peter Burgess
Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 11:33 AM
to Matthew, bcc: Claudia, bcc: John
Dear Matt
I must apologize ... I have had a rule for a very long time that I would keep my frustration about the state of the world out of Sunday morning church ... but my advancing age and the dangerous incompetence of ALL the big global institutions has brought me to a breaking point. I was surprised yesterday, at how many in the CHR congregation were experiencing some of the same feelings that I have been. I am completely stressed out and not at all sure what is the best way forward ... but my stress is minor compared to that of millions upon millions of good people in this country and around the world
I was brought up to be respectful of leadership, to be polite and not to be a bully. I was ridiculed for this early in my American career and taught how to be vulgar, impolite and a dastardly bully in order to get things done ... and to my disgust, it actually worked. That was 1966 in Texas, just 50 years ago!. This has been on display again in this election cycle ... and it is a danger to a civilized society.
Post Texas, I reverted to a 'nice guy' modality and in a reasonably successful corporate career used numbers to carry the message and make the point. This turned out to be very powerful, worked quite well, and is now the center of my current efforts to develop True Value Accounting.
It pains me that America has elected a vulgar, rude bully as its President Elect. Worse ... in the election process there was a terrible disconnect between the words and the facts. This was tolerated by the media ... indeed celebrated, because the more outrageous the remark, the higher the media ratings. This is an example of systemic dysfunction on steroids.
As a world, we have raised money to the highest level of importance ... and with the help of the Harvard Business School, Wharton and the rest we have trained several generations of students to game the system in order to make more money ... while doing almost nothing to train these folk how to help make the world a better place. Well known law schools have taught law but done rather little to raise awareness about how law has been and is being used to strip the powerless of what one might have expected to be their God given rights.
I am bothered that the Stock Markets are applauding the results of the election ... promises of reduced regulation etc etc and rich investors love it ... especially since they are unlikely to be held to account for the existential crises that are likely to emerge.
As a young CFO I was good at helping companies to make more profit. Later as a bit older development consultant I was good at following the money and learning about poverty and violence and corruption and ... and ... and ... that was taking place under the noses of the humanitarian and development community around the world. Eventually my career imploded ... we weren't allowed to talk about corruption, let alone do anything about it ... the message and messenger syndrome!
I have done assignments in most of the 'hot spots' around the world ... and am just old enough to remember what bombing is like ... not the London blitz itself but the later V1 flying bomb and then the V2. Everywhere I have worked, there have been incredibly nice people ... from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe ... but far too many people around the world with wealth and power are anything but nice. In 2000 I was chased around Liberia by Charles Taylor and was put in prison in Ghana when I started to learn exactly how the local gold business worked. I have watched the behavior of 'big oil' in areas where they think nobody is watching ... and been inside the accounting profession as they developed strategies for big clients to avoid taxes. We have the technology to have better news and accountability that works, but in the end nobody with power wants this while all of us need it!
We have 21st century technology ... but leadership is not ensuring that this technology is being used to make the world a better place but merely to create an obscene level of financial wealth. The recent votes first for BREXIT and then for Donald Trump's agenda for America should not come as a surprise ... but the world is getting pushed back (in my view) to a very dangerous and somewhat medieval place with a host of 21st century existential risks.
I can go on ... and on ... and on ...
I am not coming into New York as much now as I was a year ago ... but I still try to come in at least once a week. I would love to talk ... but don't want to waste your time. [I should have written 'I would love to listen' ... some people think that my preference of talk over listening is at the core of my problem!]
In any event ... Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family
Peter
_____________________________
Peter Burgess ... Founder and CEO
TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society
Multi Dimension Impact Accounting
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org
linkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peterburgess1/
twitter: @truevaluemetric @peterbnyc
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email: peterbnyc@gmail.com
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Peter Burgess
Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 1:49 PM
to Matt
Dear Matt
Thank you ... and at this happy time I remind myself that we have an enormous amount to be thankful for.
I am tentatively planning to be in Manhattan nest Wednesday, the 30th November. Would a meeting sometime before (say) 2 pm be possible. I get into New York normally very early in the morning essentially ahead of the rush hour!
Another potential trip into Manhattan might be Thursday December 8th ... and I am sure other dates will emerge
Whatever works
With best regards
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Peter Burgess
Sun, Nov 27, 2016, 11:20 AM
to Matthew
Dear Matt
OOOPS ... my thinking about a visit to Manhattan this week has been updated, so I would now like to come into Manhattan on Thursday December 1, rather than Wednesday. As I think I mentioned in passing, I am coming into Manhattan less than in the past ... mainly a function of declining energy!
Would that work for you?
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Peter Burgess
Aug 9, 2019, 12:29 AM
to Anne, Caitlin
Dear Anne Marie and Caitlin
You don't know me very well which is a pity, but really can't be helped. I have been around CHR for more than 20 years ... migrating from the Little Church Round the Corner to St, Barts to St James and eventually to CHR in the period from c1980. My family grew up in New York, while I commuted round the world doing development and humanitarian assistance consultancy in more than 50 countries. I know something about the world ... but perhaps rather little about the USofA.
Bottom line I am appalled at my generation of global leadership that has allowed massive existential threats to emerge, and has done peanuts to address the issues. There is no major institution that has shown the sort of leadership that is needed ... and as we speak it is the bad guys that have taken control and the good folk essentially absent. Very little of my work was high profile ... but I was part of many initiatives that kept people alive. I did not make a whole lot of money, but, on balance, I am comfortable with my contribution.
Now I am a rising octagenarian ... but even more concerned than Greta Thunburg and AOC about the big issues of our time. I am grateful to CHR, Richard Buonomo and others for their efforts in connection with post prison re-entry and all the other community level efforts to do good that CHR engages with. I cannot be very helpful with these because my home is now in the Poconos of PA ... though my Church home is still CHR!. I don't get to CHR very often any more!
Going back many years, I became concerned that there is massive systemic dysfunction in the modern world and it behooves the world's leadership to understand the issues to ensure that the world survives. This is not a given ... and a variety of existential threats exist, most of which are carefully ignored by the leadership of all the major institutions. Early in my career I specialized in management ... moving the needle ... and my post-career goal is to 'move the needle' on the key existential issues that have to be addressed ... inequality ... climate crisis ... hopelessness ... etc ... etc ... etc. I am working to develop an enhanced system of accountancy that is as powerful for social impact and environmental impact as it is for profit impact. I used this sort of thinking during decades of development and humanitarian consultancy, but it should be applied in the mainstream of the economy ... it can be a gamechanger. Change the way the game is scored and you change the way the game is played!
I just wanted you to know I exist ... and will do all I can as long as I can to help make the world a better place.
Sincerely
PeterB
_____________________________
Peter Burgess ... Founder and CEO
TrueValueMetrics ... Meaningful Metrics for a Smart Society
Multi Dimension Impact Accounting
http://www.truevaluemetrics.org
linkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peterburgess1/
twitter: @truevaluemetric @peterbnyc
landline 570 431 4385
email: peterbnyc@gmail.com
skype: peterburgessnyc
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Anne Marie Witchger
Aug 14, 2019, 8:59 PM
to me, Outreach
Dear Peter,
Thanks so much for writing and for your thoughtful note. It’s always great to hear from you—and to see you when you’re in town! We’re delighted for you to be connected in whatever way you can.
Blessings,
Anne Marie
The Rev. Anne Marie Witchger
Church of the Heavenly Rest
Assistant Rector and Chief of Staff
212-289-3400 x 210
917-294-4224
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