March 7, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Synaptic leaps, dissipative structures- what it takes to really lead Many years ago I had the privilege of spending 7 days on the Big Island of Hawaii with a group of about 100 people studying the work of Buckminster Fuller. The material we used was a video taken of...
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...
August 2, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Reframing, new perspectives, synergistic accounting Bucky Fuller pointed out that pollution was simply stuff out of place. Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest, talks about how we have focused on making carbon the new evil. Our carbon footprint, carbon trading and...
July 10, 2013 | Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Business Hacking- future ready your business Purpose. The purpose of a business hack spans several contexts. 1. If you want to ensure your business is best equipped to stay healthy and viable now and into the future (5 plus years) when taking into consideration all...
June 30, 2013 | Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Kintsukuroi, Business and Leadership – more beautiful for having been broken A long time ago, a very important Shogun in Japan was given a beautiful pottery bowl as a gift. But in the passing from giver to receiver, the bowl fell to the floor and broke into...
March 25, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development
Generalist versus Specialist. Generation Flux What are the parts of us that we deny? Or ignore? Or push away for whatever reason? It has taken me 52 years to really realise that I am, and have always been, passionate about being a world-changing agent. And 52 years to...
