June 26, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Nature has its own gestation rate. Become a better steward leader. Our human-constructed world says we have dominion. We are taught that we can push, drive, and ram through, as we see fit, on our timeline ignoring everything but the schedule. There is a place for...
June 24, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Around backwards What do we incentivise for? If we pay bonuses for maximum profit, then those receiving the bonus will cut every cost to the bone, including costs that prevent cost blowouts in the future, like repairs, new technology, education, R@D. This gets us...
June 18, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Truth all the way down There are laws inherent in nature that are true in all cases. We humans, when Earthbound, cannot argue with gravity. Or the speed of light. Nature has a coordinate system. Or as Bucky Fuller would say, space has shape. Knowledge of the...
June 17, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Degrees of Freedom Free comes from the root prai which means beloved, hence precious. Somehow our capitalist system has turned the word free into meaning ‘without value.’ If there was a red flag to indicate just how beholden and ‘unfree’ we have become as...
June 11, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Context is the container that holds the text To get context, to understand the field in which the text, the conversation, the project, the enterprise, the tragedy, exists, is an essential first step that so few people take. Context, like synergy, asks us to start with...
June 8, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Rushing to judge We have all done it. Caught up in the moment. Seen a short video, or a tweet, or a post, heard a soundbite. And just like that, judge, jury and sentence. Often with a twist of righteous cruelty. The law of Synergy teaches that we must start with the...