April 29, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Making the purpose of business the central attractor People love to galvanise around a purpose. Purpose gets people out of bed. Or not. When the organisational purpose is central to everything, and I mean everything, there is far less need for carrots and sticks,...
April 28, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Typical job inquiry. Only ‘half’ people need apply From the beginning of our education into the workforce… which means from our very first school days… we are trained to leave parts of ourselves out. That might be our crazy way of drawing that...
April 23, 2014 | Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What if organisations are no longer property? Most of us have heard the quotes from Indigenous American Indians about the impossibility of owning the land. “What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her...
April 9, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Consumerism only makes sense in a dead Universe Feeding the beast as if there is going to be no tomorrow, the rapacious need for more…these are mere symptoms of emptiness, scarcity, lack. Essential aliveness is regenerative and restorative. If you find yourself...
March 31, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
The price of disconnection from the source of productivity The further we are away from the source, the more disconnected we are. And the more disconnected we are, the higher the price…in all domains. Take food…most of us now buy it from a supermarket. It...
March 18, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Leadership altitude – critical to lead the future of business The leader needs to be at a higher stage of development than the organisation she leads. Think of it like a high-rise building with ten floors. From the ground, the view is of only things on the...
