May 14, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Governance for wisdom, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
A tool to create a self-managed organisation From the beginning of our education into the workforce… which means from our very first school days… we are trained to leave parts of ourselves out. That might be our crazy way of drawing that doesn’t seem...
May 13, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Governance for wisdom, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The boss, the leader and the steward The boss fixes problems and tells people what to do. Everyone knows who they are and can go to them with their problems. The boss bosses. Do this. Don’t do that. They inspire by being great at solutions. Yet they do not create...
May 6, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Profit and its illusions Profit – from Latin profectus ‘progress, profit’, from proficere ‘to advance’. We seek as humans to advance. To make progress. This is a healthy impulse. But at what price? And is it acceptable that one person profits at the expense of...
May 5, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
All the pieces around you “Arrange all the pieces around you” is a quote by Virginia Woolf. This quote has been haunting me. Simple as it sounds, it carries enormous resonant truth. Imagine this scenario. You are at a stage in your business where you need...
May 4, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
There is no going back The yearning for some past lifestyle. The trad wife. The land before colonisation. The way it was. It is, at every single level, impossible. To go back violates the laws of physics and maths. For a start, you are not the same person you were...
April 23, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
No customer service available Cory Doctorow calls it enshittification. And it happens especially with the behemoth companies, the too-big-to-fail, the monopolies. All in the interest of cutting staff and outsourcing customer service to a bot. Over the last three...
