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 30, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
We need to screw business as usual. Do you dare? We are beyond the industrial era, where people have an education designed to make them compliant performers. We need more creative non-conformists. We have people, classified as leaders of industry, receiving obscene...
July 29, 2013 | Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Business in 30 years. Are you brave enough to ask the hard questions? I am not an oracle, but I can state with almost complete certainty that in 30 years, we will not be getting our energy from fossil fuels of any nature. Our transport and energy needs will be...
July 22, 2013 | Future of Business, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Change, addiction to growth and the development of the interiors ‘If change is happening faster on the outside than the inside, then the end is nigh.’ Jack Welsh. I happen to agree with Mr Welsh. Sadly, few businesses spend any time on this. Or few...
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...
July 11, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Does your business dance the VUCA -volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity Listening to the great talk by Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn on Crisis Leadership, she mentioned VUCA. Even the way it sounds has a thunderbolt-type feel to it. It also reminds me of a...
