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Power Lunch With Remarkable Filipina Women! (March 9, 2007)
March 20 , 2007 - New York
Aug. 18, 2006 - San Francisco
May 20, 2005 - San Francisco
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Celebrating International Women's Day during Women's History Month!
  
FILIPINA VOICES: Changing the Face of Power in America
March was designated as Women’s History Month to ensure that information about the myriad ways that generations have moved history forward would be part of our continued education. Come and join FWN at our very own Filipina Women's Day!
Our speakers will engage us in conversation and story-telling ala "The View":
- Being Filipina savvy in the workplace: more, better, faster
- Developing a purposeful career or business: what about family/personal life?
- Culture, leadership, presence: how to play the game
- Lessons from the trenches: words of wisdom
- The state of the world: how it affects our families and communities
- Friday, March 9, 2007 (11:30am - 1:30pm)
- Check-in / networking start at 11:00am
- The City Club, The Stock Exchange Tower (www.cityclubsf.com), 155 Sansome St., 10th Floor, (between Pine & Bush Sts)
- $40, FWN Members; $45 after Feb. 16; $50, nonmembers; $55 after Feb. 16
- Limited seating. Advance registrations only. For reservations, click to register. Or go online to http://pinaypower07.eventbrite.com
- We recommend taking public transportation. Bart: Montgomery St. Station, Sansome St. exit
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COUNCIL OF REMARKABLE FILIPINA WOMEN
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A little bit of history about the remarkable concept...
Pierre Wack, a visionary strategist at Royal Dutch Shell in the 1970s, popularized the remarkable concept. According to Art Kleiner, author of The Age of Heretics: Heroes, Outlaws, and Forerunners of Corporate Change (1996), the remarkable people concept came from a book called Meetings With Remarkable Men (1950) written by G.I. Gurdjieff, a Russian philosopher/mystic known for future oriented thinking. Gurdjieff defined a remarkable person as having a resourceful mind and a tolerance for different ideas.
Wack meant something quite different. He introduced this concept into the corporate world by systematically seeking out provocative thinkers to help challenge and inform the company's planning.
Remarkable people are not traditional experts whose knowledge is deep but narrowly focused. Rather, remarkable people are original, systemic thinkers whose boundless curiosity and passion naturally
lead them to explore ideas beyond their own areas of expertise and in places no one else looks. Many other organizations followed this idea and set up their own similar programs. At Global Business
Network, a renowned futures research group, their Remarkable People are the greatest minds on the planet. They are remarkable people because their lives have directly affected the quality of life for many others.
ABOUT
THE COUNCIL: The members of the Council are thought leaders
and provocative thinkers, women of influence making meaningful change
in their particular field, expressing a variety of perspectives.
The Council members look outside the traditional world of work and
at the broader issues and external forces (social, technological,
economic, environmental, political) that influence the business
environment. They do not focus on the next financial quarter, or
even the next year or two, but on the next ten years. They do not
dwell on common preoccupations of organizations today. They look
to the future, outside-in thinking.
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WHO: "Remarkable Filipina Women" are entrepreneurs, organizational
executives, and thought leaders - some are prominent, some still
to be discovered - in fields where the future is being created.
They bring to us key developments to watch and issues they track
in their respective fields. They come from many areas of specialization
- science and technology, culture and civilization, geopolitics
and the environment. "Remarkable Filipina Women" stretch
our thinking by pointing out issues that may be off everyone's radar
screen, by reframing facts in surprising ways, and by finding connections
between divergent developments.
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