August 16, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
An example of domination vs partnership in capital raising You need to raise capital for your start-up business. You go to the bank, and they set up a line of credit/loan at 12%. You then work your arse off to make the payments plus the interest, while starting a...
August 15, 2013 | Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Why don’t we talk about our failures with equal measure as our successes? Have you ever seen a bio with a list of the person’s failures? Unlikely. The usual bio is a carefully manipulated, polished collection of words highlighting all the juicy good stuff....
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 8, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Bricolage as a power tool for entrepreneurs. A zero budget forces heightened creativity The principle behind bricolage is to make use of whatever materials or ideas you have available to you in the immediate now to create some form of art. Innovation often arises from...
