June 13, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Our current models say we are winning but we are losing We are measuring and celebrating the wrong things. GDP measures nothing more than the speed with which stuff and money pass through the economy, all the while excluding millions of hours of unpaid labour, and...
June 12, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
All in accounting A report by Trucost, commissioned by the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, found that if environmental costs are counted, almost no industry is profitable. Perhaps we might pause and think about that. If we take the all-in-accounting cost for...
June 11, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Design for good As I gaze across the Pacific, its waters lake like on this morning, the sun not yet cresting the horizon, I think about people. Almost everyone I meet wants to do good. Good work, good art, good citizenship, good parenting, good relationships. The...
June 10, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Simplicity on the other side of complexity Is hard to achieve. Like mastery, it is the journey of discernment and elimination.. not this, not that. But this. The journey is worth every step for the clarification that becomes evident as you stay committed to the purity...
June 9, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Ephemeralisation Doing more with less, ultimately everything with nothing. This is one of Bucky Fuller’s Generalised Principles, true in all cases in our physical universe. (Perhaps not at the quantum level, or outside the earth’s atmosphere.) It is the...
June 8, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Poetry from the Future Poetry evokes contemplation, beauty, love, in a few words expressing the human condition and its vast symphony of emotions. To imagine great poetry from the future is to imagine a future where humans express love, beauty, wisdom…where life is....
