April 2, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Do not conflate profit-seeking with profit maximisation Profit – from Latin proficere “accomplish, make progress; be useful, do good; have success, profit,” from pro “forward” (from PIE root *per- (1) “forward”) + combining...
January 31, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business
We are 5 to 15 years away from a significant transition I was born at the end point of the boomer generation. I do not relate to boomers at all. I have never accumulated assets. I am very tech-savvy. I listen to youth music. I did get a zero-fee tertiary education...
January 15, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Sovereignty and liberty When people feel oppressed, when the experience is that there is a set of rules for one class that gives them privileges that are beyond the access of other classes, the longing for liberty and freedom becomes ever louder. Yet so many of us in...
December 30, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Social Justice and corporate power are not compatible How we wish it were not so. How we try so hard to defend the indefensible. How much money, time and effort do we spend to try to implement social justice within the system of corporate power. To step back and...
December 23, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business
We are the economy Economy means to care for the home. Once we realise that this economy thing is not separate from us – it is not some strange beast outside of us that seems to work like a puppet on strings, strings pulled by nefarious actors – we can...
December 17, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Good business and capitalism Good business offers needed and wanted products and services without exploiting labour, our earth, or the future. Good business, what we call Syntropic business, leaves everything better. Capitalism is a system designed to extract maximum...
