July 1, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Holding an important vision is not a popularity contest Most of us want to be liked. We want to be seen as doing great work. We want praise and recognition. But to do the hard work of transformation, to hold a vision for a world with a future, a better way to increase...
June 30, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Changing our model of Leadership in a changing world Our world is going through a transition, one that commenced a few decades ago. In the simplest language, we are shifting from a phase of dominance, superiority, the alpha (often male), and the leader as ultimate...
June 29, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Back to what? Change is hard. It is messy. Snotty. Entirely reductive. The caterpillar doesn’t just go into a sweet little cocoon and become a butterfly. It breaks down completely into an undifferentiated mess. A nothing. To transform is literally, to transform. To...
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 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...