Belgrade is not the biggest, nor the oldest, and not the most beautiful city in the world, but some say it is one of the happiest – it is a metaphor, a way of life, the angle of looking at things …
The central position between East and West, accessibility, proximity, no visa requirement for east and west and political neutrality determined that we chose Belgrade as a host city of Wealth Forum.
We cordially invite you to visit another Belgrade Wealth Forum that will be held at the Hotel Falkensteiner on 28th and 29th of September 2017 year.
The first Belgrade wealth forum was held in June 2016 in the Hotel Metropol. Bearing in mind the interest of the participants for the exposed subjects and the presence of foreign guests at the level of 30%, this years Wealth Forum will be held in the Hotel Falkensteiner with much larger audience, wider choice of topics in the field of Wealth Management and in cooperation with world renowned partners in this field.
БЕОГРАД – On 9th July 2015, Belgrade hosted an inspiring masterclass called "Future Leadership - Collaborative Solutions to Wicked Problems?".
The event was organized by Professor Dr Nataša Čiča, director of consultancy Kapacity.org which works globally to support organisations and leaders implement effective and sustainable change.
In 2013 Nataša was recognized by the Australian Financial Review and Westpac banking group as one of the 100 most influential women in Australia, she was an inaugural Sidney Myer Creative Fellow, and she is an adjunct professor in law at the Australian National University. Nataša holds both Australian and Serbian citizenship, and in recent years she has visited Belgrade frequently to build educational and cultural bridges between the people of Serbia and Australia.
Nataša very kindly accepted our invitation to tell the House of Good News more about this masterclass event.
''The ‘Future Leadership – Collaborative Solutions to Wicked Problems?’ masterclass was held in downtown Belgrade – at Beograđanka, which is a great space for civic events. The key speaker was Alex Cameron, a British expert in collaborative leadership whose London-based advisory business is called Socia. Socia works with organisations, boards and individual leaders to help them collaborate across boundaries and differences. Alex has extensive experience in the oil and gas sector and in other contexts where people know they must collaborate to arrive at a better result. Their motivation to collaborate is not just about ‘doing the right thing’ – it delivers better business in terms of profit, employment and sustainability of ventures.”
“I was delighted that Alex Cameron could visit Serbia and participate in this masterclass, which was attended by a great cross-section of local young people and mid-career professionals from a wide range of backgrounds,” Nataša continued, “The masterclass was dialogue-based, interdisciplinary and intensive. My only regret is that we had just a few hours for everyone to share ideas – not a few days!”
''I was also delighted to ‘co-create’ this event with entrepreneurial young Serbs with whom I’ve been working for a few years now – including Nataša Gligorijević who founded the New Diplomacy Centre here in Belgrade, and Kosta Živanović who is President of the University Club for UNESCO. The event was formally opened by Yves Lopez (visiting from France) and Aleksandar Protić, representing the French Federation for UNESCO. The event was on the eve of Nikola Tesla's birthday, so it was perfect timing to also celebrate UNESCO's International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies. It was a great demonstration of the kind of positive human energy that Tesla's legacy brings to humanity.”
Instead of a big ‘platform-style’ lecture with hundreds of people just sitting and listening, the masterclass was more focused on conversations between specialists. It included around 25 invited participants. “The masterclass addressed challenging questions that face all leaders – and which are particularly timely as countries in this region and across the globe face so-called ‘wicked problems’, especially regarding economic, social and national security,” Nataša explained. “Alex Cameron explored how to build relationships based on trust, how to handle conflict and how to share control. His presentation was followed by a panel discussion involving young Serbian writer Milena Peralović and Aleksandar Plavšin who established the Centre for Economic Diplomacy and Management, because I believe it is important to include the voice and perspective of young people of vision and integrity in discussions about leadership.”
“I find working with young people in Serbia extremely rewarding and inspiring,” Nataša said, “Many of the young people I have connected with here are unusually motivated and engaged with the wider world, and combine this with a strong and sincere loyalty to their own nation and community. Many young people in Serbia do ask me how they can be professionally successful and still be good people. I don't have easy answers to that difficult question, but I'm confident they'll find the answers themselves. I have particularly enjoyed working with a cluster of talented and principled young people here who are deeply inspired by Tesla's example of humanist and peace-building endeavour.”
An interesting detail about Alex Cameron is that he began his career as a zoologist. So, one of the engaging examples he used from his scientific background to illustrate his points about collaborative leadership was the case of slime mould. Slime mould is a living creature made out of individual cells that usually float around alone – but when there's a challenge, they come together and they all work for the same purpose. So Alex Cameron used this as an example of best practice collaboration, this funny little animal. He observed that – unlike for slime-mould – sharing, trusting and working together is much harder for human beings because of our ego. So a lot of what he talked about was how we manage ego as leaders, and the difference between healthy self-confidence and unhealthy arrogance.
Judging by the reactions of the participants, and their ongoing discussions on this topic since the masterclass, this was a presentation that fulfilled its aim of opening some different thinking about leadership and problem-solving.
The House of Good News thanks Professor Dr Nataša Čiča for taking time to share her impressions of this event with our readers. We certainly will report on her future initiatives in Serbia.
The idea for the House of Good News on the Web arose inside me many years ago, maybe even decades, but it seems that only now all the pieces necessary for it have fallen into place. For years now we are being swamped with bad news (at least that is what most media editors pick from the daily basket) – you switch on your TV or radio, open a newspaper, and they are filled with negativism, as if there is nothing at all that is positive in this wonderful wide world, as if a cloud of darkness has overwhelmed the light.
Of course that is not the case. Instead of news about people being killed in disasters and accidents, murder, robbery and other mayhem, wouldn’t it be better to watch and read about babies being born, children who are good, talented and successful, stories about so called ‘ordinary people’, their lives, passions and hopes, undiscovered talents, their messages to the youth and those who make decisions about their fates.
This e-newspaper will be informative in character, but even more importantly educative and desirous or showing everything that is good in people, by highlighting positive examples encouraging others to do good, to be humane, to be modest and to find happiness in little things, because what is small for us could mean a lot to someone else. The House of Good News will aim to provide recommendations and advice from people experienced in various fields, including healthy living and food, for example how to plant and care for various crops and other plants, including video footage, how to provide assistance in emergency situations. We will report on many wonderful places and people in Serbia and other countries, including interesting interviews, and hidden gems of history, science and the ‘chivalrous’ department of sports, encouraging society’s efforts to develop and invest in so-called ‘minor’ sports, which need assistance.
We will point particular attention at projects and institutions aiming to increase employment, highlighting examples of ideas that have been realised with the help of self-employment stimulus funds, successful small and medium-sized enterprises, and the activities and efforts of people with special needs to make their lives and their constant struggles an incentive to other people with similar needs never to surrender, but always to give their best.
The House of Good News is a project which I see as a tool for people to loosen up and awaken their good sides and emplace them as a moral bulwark against all evils and that which surrounds us, becoming a part of which we must seek to avoid at all costs. Let us direct our thoughts and our messages at everyone close to us, starting from our next-door neighbours, by means of wonderful self-organised actions which would particularly involve young people we would thereby attract away from our streets and their temptations and towards, for example, the worlds of sport, cultivating plants, the small scale economy, etc, stimulating the development of talent and helping them to find their own way forward.
Let us allow communal reaping of the harvest to come back, let us at least help our neighbours, if they need assistance, those in need, let us build someone else’s new home together, so people have a roof over their heads, let us help the sick and the elderly with a kind word and some attention, which for some people are often quite enough in themselves; so they know they are not alone in this world.
In order to realise these normal and everyday things the House of Good News aims to initiate numerous actions and call on all people of good will to co-operate so that together we might create a better, more moral and more honourable world and people, a better life for all of us and for our Planet. Because only what we give to others is really ours – that is our motto, a slogan that is known so well, but applied not so much.
The House of Good News will regularly cover topics such as sports, health, science, agriculture, organic food production, ethno tourism, children and school, young people and their interests, culture, including a rubric entitled Bridges endavouring to link up similar projects locally, regionally, or throughout the world.
The House of Good News is interested in co-operating with all people of good will and with a desire to show their talents, with a message saying let us do something for ourselves and for each other here and now, instead of waiting for the state and for institutions to act, but using our own ideas, examples and messages to encourage the establishment to get things done now, wherever needed. One of our important goals is the adoption of a law stipulating than more than one-half of all news broadcast or printed in the media should have a positive content. We also invite commercial enterprises to become friends of our project so we can join forces and help those who need help.
The House of Good News will appear in Serbian Cyrillic and also Latin scripts for Serbia and the region, and then also in English and Russian versions, hopefully some day in other languages, when our volunteer staff is joined by other people of good will , including translators, and companies willing to help our good new travel to the farthest reaches of the planet.
The idea for the House of Good News on the Web arose inside me many years ago, maybe even decades, but it seems that only now all the pieces necessary for it have fallen into place. For years now we are being swamped with bad news (at least that is what most media editors pick from the daily basket) – you switch on your TV or radio, open a newspaper, and they are filled with negativism, as if there is nothing at all that is positive in this wonderful wide world, as if a cloud of darkness has overwhelmed the light.
Of course that is not the case. Instead of news about people being killed in disasters and accidents, murder, robbery and other mayhem, wouldn’t it be better to watch and read about babies being born, children who are good, talented and successful, stories about so called ‘ordinary people’, their lives, passions and hopes, undiscovered talents, their messages to the youth and those who make decisions about their fates.
This e-newspaper will be informative in character, but even more importantly educative and desirous or showing everything that is good in people, by highlighting positive examples encouraging others to do good, to be humane, to be modest and to find happiness in little things, because what is small for us could mean a lot to someone else. The House of Good News will aim to provide recommendations and advice from people experienced in various fields, including healthy living and food, for example how to plant and care for various crops and other plants, including video footage, how to provide assistance in emergency situations. We will report on many wonderful places and people in Serbia and other countries, including interesting interviews, and hidden gems of history, science and the ‘chivalrous’ department of sports, encouraging society’s efforts to develop and invest in so-called ‘minor’ sports, which need assistance.
We will point particular attention at projects and institutions aiming to increase employment, highlighting examples of ideas that have been realised with the help of self-employment stimulus funds, successful small and medium-sized enterprises, and the activities and efforts of people with special needs to make their lives and their constant struggles an incentive to other people with similar needs never to surrender, but always to give their best.
The House of Good News is a project which I see as a tool for people to loosen up and awaken their good sides and emplace them as a moral bulwark against all evils and that which surrounds us, becoming a part of which we must seek to avoid at all costs. Let us direct our thoughts and our messages at everyone close to us, starting from our next-door neighbours, by means of wonderful self-organised actions which would particularly involve young people we would thereby attract away from our streets and their temptations and towards, for example, the worlds of sport, cultivating plants, the small scale economy, etc, stimulating the development of talent and helping them to find their own way forward.
Let us allow communal reaping of the harvest to come back, let us at least help our neighbours, if they need assistance, those in need, let us build someone else’s new home together, so people have a roof over their heads, let us help the sick and the elderly with a kind word and some attention, which for some people are often quite enough in themselves; so they know they are not alone in this world.
In order to realise these normal and everyday things the House of Good News aims to initiate numerous actions and call on all people of good will to co-operate so that together we might create a better, more moral and more honourable world and people, a better life for all of us and for our Planet. Because only what we give to others is really ours – that is our motto, a slogan that is known so well, but applied not so much.
The House of Good News will regularly cover topics such as sports, health, science, agriculture, organic food production, ethno tourism, children and school, young people and their interests, culture, including a rubric entitled Bridges endavouring to link up similar projects locally, regionally, or throughout the world.
The House of Good News is interested in co-operating with all people of good will and with a desire to show their talents, with a message saying let us do something for ourselves and for each other here and now, instead of waiting for the state and for institutions to act, but using our own ideas, examples and messages to encourage the establishment to get things done now, wherever needed. One of our important goals is the adoption of a law stipulating than more than one-half of all news broadcast or printed in the media should have a positive content. We also invite commercial enterprises to become friends of our project so we can join forces and help those who need help.
The House of Good News will appear in Serbian Cyrillic and also Latin scripts for Serbia and the region, and then also in English and Russian versions, hopefully some day in other languages, when our volunteer staff is joined by other people of good will , including translators, and companies willing to help our good new travel to the farthest reaches of the planet.
БЕОГРАД – On 9th July 2015, Belgrade hosted an inspiring masterclass called "Future Leadership - Collaborative Solutions to Wicked Problems?".