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 31, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Measure what matters What we love to measure now. In business How much profit we make, our costs, efficiency, performance, ROI, sales. In life How much money we make, how heavy we are, how much stuff we have, how young we look, how we compare with Jill and Bob and...
July 19, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How do you keep score? All-in-cost accounting and real value Our society is brought up on measuring and keeping score. We don’t even realise how much we do this. We will immediately look at someone’s clothes, shoes, car, hair, skin colour, and make massive...
April 10, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The metaphor of Easter, on finding forgiveness and relinquishing justice As we grow up and become fully adult, which takes a lifetime or more, one of the last areas we need to release is our relationship to justice. In our human life, much is going to be experienced...
October 31, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Eventually we all pay Here in Australia, we just had Qantas shut down for nearly 2 days, stranding thousands of people around the world. If you scratch below the surface of this action and zero in on the source of why the executive team decided to do this, it reveals...
August 3, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Future of Business
Financial literacy, new friends, abundance as a way of being In the history of the world, it is often the seemingly small events that have the power to make the most significant changes. Rosa Parks refusing to sit at the back of the bus. Mohamed Bouazizi’s...