No Theory Without Practice
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Academic activity ruins the practice
Presentation by Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch at the FBTC
Preliminary remarks
Due to space restraint, only core statements are being made here. The critic and the constructive thinker both recognize the explosiveness of the statements, but also the almost hopeless situation, because if mistakes are not understood and every effort for reform is rejected with justifications, future of all companies and organizations is destined to be futile. Recognition of the knowledge in later years will lead to gray hair and hair loss!
We can easily explain situations of the past and present on the "cultural model" and scientifically justify, even if we can never really predict.
Essential facts remain unrecognized even in this digital and global, but not the real world, which supposedly offers detailed viewpoints.
Researching here is understandable, even though it leads unknowingly to a tragic reproduction of errors instead of to a lasting solution.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11:54 AM,
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Anjuman-e-Falah-e-Aama Meet Up
Thursday, May 9, 2019
Thatta Kedona founding members and senior German volunteers meet and discuss what to do next in the Toy Village whenever they can and wherever it is possible.
On 13 June 2019, there was one such meeting in Nauen / Gross Behnitz. Amjad Ali, the President of Anjuman-e-Falah-e-Aama met Dr Senta SILLER, DGFK and Dr Norbert Pintsch, FBTC, FPAC and reminisced about the past, present and future of Anjuman-e-Falah-e-Aama back in Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka, Punjab, Pakistan.
Labels: AFA, Amjad Ali, DGFK, FBTC, FPAC, Norbert Pintsch, Senta Siller, Thatta Kedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 3:57 PM,
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Building Practice over Time
Saturday, February 9, 2019
By Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, IPC, FPAC
Notes on building in rural areas, incl. historic preservation
In non-industrialized times, one used the available resources of the respective environment. Due to growing population and concentration, resources were increasingly used up and destroyed.
In the micro-area of construction, dwellings are created, in the eyes of the builders, for a long period of time. This period was reduced over the course of the century, because the rule was meant to be generational; the growing elite built its buildings for many generations - meanwhile it has been reduced to one generation.
Read more »Labels: AFA, CAT, Cultura, DGFK, FBTC, FPAC, IPC, Norbert Pintsch, TM
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:16 AM,
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About the basic misconception of NGO projects
Sunday, January 6, 2019
By Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch / IPC, FPAC, FBTC, DGFK
NGO projects are non-profit ventures, i.e. altruistic projects. The critical viewer quickly realizes whether the project is financially beneficial to the circle of contributors or a family.
If the facility is useful for a family and it finances the life of this family, which also applies to large families, so they should honestly convert it into private limited company.
The project carriers and the supporters of the project normally do not share this view, for which there are two reasons:
- the project carriers, the users and the suppliers, are simply too connected to each other to recognize this fact, and
- The supporters are too superficial, so that the of concealment is not perceived.
Another widespread problem is the inability of the participants to identify themselves as a project in the global and increasingly uniform world.
This means:
- Unknowingly, economic opportunities are transferred from A to B. These possibilities were in the past the results of colonialism, in the present it is the short-sighted spread of standards of so-called industrialized countries to the so-called developing countries.
Now it could be argued that life in a country is never one-sided, and in every country there is a gap between the upper and lower classes.
That is true, but the purpose of NGO projects is not to participate in the transfer of external values, but to preserve the peculiarities of the local values.
If this purpose is not shared by the project carriers, who operate under the cloak of selflessness, then the transformation into a serious private limited company should be undertaken and the principles of profit maximization followed.
The voluntary work, which was part of the long-term project work in various countries, was therefore discontinued and commercial consultation on usual rules for international business were offered.
Even if the above argument may seem antisocial to the reader, the rule remains: one and one is two, - not more, but also not less!
A wrong must be named as wrong!
Labels: CAT, DGFK, FBTC, FPAC, IPC, RUC, Tanto Mejor, Thatta Kedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 3:22 PM,
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Logicalness as a special feature of SSi projects
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
by Omar M. Ali & Norbert Pintsch
Again and again, questions arise about what is special in SSI projects.
We have therefore made a list of characteristics for everyone interested,
although:
-the specialty should actually be logically self-evident:
-Local help with local resources
-Avoidance of migration, - to the urban areas or foreign countries
-Help should be holistic, so the problem solutions are not simply shifted to later time
-An NGO should never be a family clan, but open to all active members
-Help from the outside requires participation of concerned persons from the inside
-An NGO should always work with an open mind and be more flexible than government or private companies, etc.
-Local leadership should work as selfless as volunteers from outside
-An NGO is not a government organization or company; its products must stay below the BE point otherwise it will not be like a genuine NGO
-The head of the NGO must be on moral high ground; not enrichen himself , be communicative and possess broad experience!
Then why should not such head of the NGO work in a GO or Pvt Ltd company and earn better money?
Because ........ the benefit of the general public counts more!
Labels: DGFK, FBTC, FPAC, Norbert Pintsch, Omar M Ali, Thatta Kedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 1:33 PM,
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