March 2, 2015 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
From parasites to adjuvants Biology is a wonderful teacher, if we pause long enough to honour her. These are some of the relationships that occur in biology. Commensalism – the relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits from the other...
January 16, 2015 | Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The geometry of relationships – creating organisational structural integrity A system is a conceivable entity dividing Universe into two parts, the inside and the outside of a system. (except, of course, the part of the Universe doing the dividing.) R....
November 27, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
When power and authority partner with fear as their source, then it is only fear masquerading as power and authority When I was just 26 years old, I was introduced for the first time to the work of R.Buckminster Fuller. At age 32, as Bucky was attempting suicide for...
November 26, 2014 | Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Seeking the trim tab – on Ferguson, Mandela and systemic change So many people want to change the world. I might be one of those. However, I find myself in the question of exactly what that means and if our actions do more harm than good. Millions/billions of...
November 24, 2014 | Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Leadership synergy -The dangers of the solopreneur and the isolated CEO The principle of synergy is that the behaviour of the Whole system is unpredictable by the behaviour of the parts when taken separately. No one can predict by looking at a poisonous gas (chloride)...
October 9, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path
The field is the sole governing agency of a particle – Albert Einstein – This applied to business? Bucky Fuller said that a generalised principle needs to be true in all cases. Remember when you were a kid, and you used to play with bar magnets? These are...
