October 22, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Making profit by hurting It is really the standard business model of our times. Be that through underpaying people. Or dehumanising them. Extracting all of their data and weaponising it against them. Taxing the poor and socialising the rich. Inviting them into a...
October 20, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Ill-equipped to solve problems If we are trained to see the parts, to only examine the area of distress or breakdown, any solution will be short-term and temporary. The rise of fascism in our times, and a warmonger seizing the territories of others, are symptoms. To...
October 19, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Business as a living system I propose we design and create the structure and architecture of everything that supports human coordination, alignment around a purpose, currency, provisioning and flows, how we account for value and measure the immeasurable, and how we...
October 17, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A transaction A transaction without humanity is immediately reductive of the very things that anchor us to life. For example; “Make an offer” on a piece of paper to buy a home. Numbers, conditions, name. No humanity. Just a price. The value of a home is reduced to a...
October 15, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Get the culture right And the rest will take care of itself. This ephemeral thing, culture. It is not fixed in time and space, but forever morphing. It is the space between people, things and other creatures. It is a visual representation of the values held by those...
October 11, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
How we care about each other radiates into the world Few people talk about the field of good business, good culture, and good community. Communities of happiness, relevance, connection, care and dignity create a field that has a positive charge. Communities where it...