June 22, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Time now for an infinite game Surplus = full, much, many Excess = going beyond what is necessary Governments hold this aspiration to be in surplus, built off the back of the illusion that countries with sovereign currency are like households. When a government is in...
June 21, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
What to worry about Do we worry about someone sitting in our favourite chair in our local cafe? Or our flatmate’s total inability to see a dirty floor? Or the lumpy part of our body that defies diet and exercise. Somewhere in our growing up, which may take many...
June 20, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The field of play. Steward leaders design the culture they seek The other day I was speaking to a friend who was having issues with his young son, aged around 6. His son was challenging boundaries, refusing to see through the eyes of another, wanting only to get his...
June 19, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The difficult work of birthing our art Our important work might take years or decades to become synthesised, coherent and whole. Until then, we speak in fragments. There is a sense of the whole, a taste, a whisper…but large chunks remain obscure. I know this place...
June 18, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Truth all the way down There are laws inherent in nature that are true in all cases. We humans, when Earthbound, cannot argue with gravity. Or the speed of light. Nature has a coordinate system. Or as Bucky Fuller would say, space has shape. Knowledge of the...
June 17, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Degrees of Freedom Free comes from the root prai which means beloved, hence precious. Somehow our capitalist system has turned the word free into meaning ‘without value.’ If there was a red flag to indicate just how beholden and ‘unfree’ we have become as...
