May 10, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Making things better by making better things To be comprehensively considerate requires a discipline few enterprises design for. If we do this what will be the field effect? The good, and the potentially harmful? Not just tomorrow, but in the next generation, and the...
May 6, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Personal Sustainability
An ode to the artisan There are some things that simply must not be scaled. To do so would be to violate the Pattern Integrity of the art. Hand crafted-over-three-day-croissants for example. An experience I get to eat every Saturday morning. Into the croissant goes...
May 5, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Solving our home planets problems It might be time for an honest conversation. What is the primary purpose of your effort, your enterprise, your work in the world? If it is to make money/profit at all costs, then declare that. If it is for the accumulation of power...
May 1, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice
On Surplus ..when we have extra, more than enough. When we have more than enough of something, be that time, energy, money, love, things, knowledge… Perhaps we might make our surplus useful to those who may not have enough. Stagnation and idle accumulation do not...
April 30, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business
Zero Exploitation In its original use, to exploit was to achieve and accomplish. In the 1830s the word exploit began to be associated with selfish use of humans, particularly in slavery. We might consider the word a template of human development. There are few...
April 29, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Create the way It appears hopeless. Whatever the wall, the obstacle, the rules, the box. Plant your feet on the ground, flesh to earth. Stand tall, back straight, shoulders back. The birth of the never-been-done-before is a commitment to the question that has never...
