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
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 | 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...
July 10, 2013 | Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Business Hacking- future ready your business Purpose. The purpose of a business hack spans several contexts. 1. If you want to ensure your business is best equipped to stay healthy and viable now and into the future (5 plus years) when taking into consideration all...
July 4, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Naivety as a value When is naivety a value worth holding? ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from French naïve, feminine of naïf, from Latin nativus ‘native, nature Hard-hearted comes from being broken down by life. Deceived, not trusting. Defensive. If we do the ‘all...
