January 7, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Language creates culture in business Business as usual is a culture of domination, top-down hierarchy, leader as authoritarian, employees as commodities, customers as consumers, and citizens as consumers. If we want to change the world, we need to change our language....
December 20, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Strange bedfellows – creativity/entrepreneurialism and fear What if the more creative/entrepreneurial you are, the more fear there is? What if these two are twins, the yin and yang? Inseparable? If this is correct, then here are some things to consider. 1. We...
December 19, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
‘Tis the season for NOT thinking about business The Aussie Christmas season is slightly different to that of the Northern Hemisphere. It is our summer and our summer school holidays. Most businesses I know will shut down this Friday for at least two weeks....
December 18, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Spin doctoring, smoke and mirrors, general BS – the world of business finance In the world of business finance, there is jargon aplenty. Jujitsu mambo jambo. Spin doctoring. I am not sure if it is designed to flummox the poor person about to sign their life...
December 17, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Challenging sacred cows in business The backbone of my work in Syntropic World is to challenge sacred cows in business and life. Not to be contrary or revolutionary as a purpose, but because, unless we do, we end up living as part of the flat-earth society. In the...
December 16, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Syntropic Enterprise
Why we need to love tension in our business In Buckminster Fuller’s tensegrity model, there is this beautiful relationship between tension and compression. Bucky demonstrated that tensegrity exists in all of nature. So often we avoid either tension (blow apart...
