May 18, 2026 | Syntropic Contemplations weekly e-news Archives
On the Conditions That Make People Whole THE MACHINE MODEL There is a particular kind of enterprise that produces diminished people. It calls itself efficient. It calls itself modern. It optimises, extracts, measures and ranks. It sorts people into roles and...
May 18, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We are all minorities We want to stop something from happening. Let’s say we want to stop discrimination and racism. You do not do this by being racist or discriminating. Violence begets violence. Ethnonationalism begets ethnonationalism. You cannot end...
May 15, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
If I trusted myself What would I do? Do that. Repeat. This is how we run marathons, climb mountains and build beautiful Syntropic businesses. December 3rd 2013 Published May 15th 2026. Photo taken May 15th 2021
May 14, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Governance for wisdom, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
A tool to create a self-managed organisation From the beginning of our education into the workforce… which means from our very first school days… we are trained to leave parts of ourselves out. That might be our crazy way of drawing that doesn’t seem...
May 13, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Governance for wisdom, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The boss, the leader and the steward The boss fixes problems and tells people what to do. Everyone knows who they are and can go to them with their problems. The boss bosses. Do this. Don’t do that. They inspire by being great at solutions. Yet they do not create...