February 12, 2019 | Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Capitalism is Broken The problem evidenced by the Banking Royal Commission in Australia “There can be no doubt,” the report states in its introduction, “the primary responsibility for misconduct in the financial services industry lies with the...
February 10, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Human centred design Strange that we do not do human-centred design very often. We designed cities for cars and transport. We design elections for rigging and hard access. We design technology to optimise technology. We designed the internet to be captured by a few...
February 1, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
From the fringe From the fringe is where the momentum starts. And then it takes time. Persistence. Consistency. What was weird becomes normal. What was seen as impossible, becomes possible. If you are a fringe dweller and you have the skill of seeing around the corner...
January 31, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business
Business for good Business for good. Why not? For too long we have held the business hero as the one making the most profit in dollars, failing to look at the costs – the all-in-accounting from inception to resource use to final rest. And then there are...
January 30, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations
Three stages of relationship Human relationships are going through change. For a very long time, we had a clear definition of the masculine/feminine roles. There are many labels for this. Traditional, patriarchal. The masculine as the dominant, the breadwinner, the...
January 28, 2019 | Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Integral Theory Brief Overview Integral theory is a complex model steeped in the work of many great philosophers and developementalists, including Clare Graves, Don Beck (who taught me Spiral Dynamics), Jean Gebser, Abraham Maslow, Robert Kegan, Carol Gilligan. The...
