December 5, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Universal basic income Imagine a civilised society where the commitment is everyone – no exceptions – is granted a universal basic income. Enough to cover the very basics of life. Adequate housing, enough food, quality education and health care. This...
November 15, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business
Abstraction separates us from Source Could you look in the eyes of the cow before you kill it to eat it? If we look into the eyes of the people arriving on boats as climate and war refugees, would our response to them be different? If we sat down and listened to their...
November 9, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
False reality as power “The ability to assert a false reality in the face of empirical evidence is itself an act of power” Ruth Ben-Ghiat We live in an age where many in positions of power flaunt this ability – taunting the world with the posture of “I get away...
October 22, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Making profit by hurting It is really the standard business model of our times. Be that through underpaying people. Or dehumanising them. Extracting all of their data and weaponising it against them. Taxing the poor and socialising the rich. Inviting them into a...
October 17, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A transaction A transaction without humanity is immediately reductive of the very things that anchor us to life. For example; “Make an offer” on a piece of paper to buy a home. Numbers, conditions, name. No humanity. Just a price. The value of a home is reduced to a...
September 28, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Make stuff that is good for people and the planet to have Oh this sounds so simple, so obvious. Yet we have tons and tons of landfill every year evidencing the rarity of this statement. Not just stuff that is good for people and planet to have, but stuff built to...
