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 23, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
This experience of discombobulation is to enter the liminal Just as the fish doesn’t see water, we miss a multitude of perspectives. I might look in the mirror and see my face, my whole face, and not see the blemish on my chin. You might look at my face and only see...
June 22, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Time now for an infinite game Surplus = full, much, many Excess = going beyond what is necessary Governments hold this aspiration to be in surplus, built off the back of the illusion that countries with sovereign currency are like households. When a government is in...
June 21, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
What to worry about Do we worry about someone sitting in our favourite chair in our local cafe? Or our flatmate’s total inability to see a dirty floor? Or the lumpy part of our body that defies diet and exercise. Somewhere in our growing up, which may take many...
June 20, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The field of play. Steward leaders design the culture they seek The other day I was speaking to a friend who was having issues with his young son, aged around 6. His son was challenging boundaries, refusing to see through the eyes of another, wanting only to get his...
June 19, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The difficult work of birthing our art Our important work might take years or decades to become synthesised, coherent and whole. Until then, we speak in fragments. There is a sense of the whole, a taste, a whisper…but large chunks remain obscure. I know this place...
