April 23, 2014 | Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What if organisations are no longer property? Most of us have heard the quotes from Indigenous American Indians about the impossibility of owning the land. “What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her...
April 22, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Syntropic Enterprise
Why do organisations exist in the first place? Who is up for this question? I mean, really up for it? We could easily come back with a simple quip, which is that organisations exist to make money. Seriously? Yet, legally, if you are a corporation, your number one...
April 17, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Personal Development, Syntropic Enterprise
The Money Series Part 5. Real financial literacy In 2006, I realised that while I was pretty conversant with the global economy, my true financial literacy was very poor. By this, I specifically mean that I, like almost everyone else, made a series of unquestioned...
April 16, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
The Money Series Part 4. Societies focused on the long term view through complementary currencies To recap so far, we have discussed what money is, what its functions are, the difference between Yin and Yang Currencies, the archetype behind money and why all of this...
April 15, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
The Money Series Part 3. The archetype of money and why that matters Our society under today’s money system is polarised by either greed or scarcity, arising from a pool of fear. I have yet to meet anyone with a stable, neutral relationship to money. Take the...