August 14, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Overthinking and your business. You don’t think an intuition. Or think a feeling I run with men. Have done for 17 years. I have heard every conversation, every expletive known to man. These guys are hardcore OCD runners. They obsess about their weight and...
August 13, 2013 | Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Open to weird? How much weirdness does your business bear? Consider that without a weird injection, your business will stay beige. Not able to be distinguished from the millions of other beige businesses out there. For some businesses, beige is right. It has the...
August 9, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business
Venus in pinstripes. Simply good business Our traditional workplace values competitiveness, independence and self-reliance. The go-hard rulers of the world, the solo heroic journey. These values are characteristic of masculine traits. But our workplaces are changing....
August 2, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Reframing, new perspectives, synergistic accounting Bucky Fuller pointed out that pollution was simply stuff out of place. Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest, talks about how we have focused on making carbon the new evil. Our carbon footprint, carbon trading and...
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...