June 25, 2015 | Future of Business
Unless you are deploying a tool such as Integral Accounting, it is unlikely that you will take into account the all-in-value of someone’s social capital. Our connectivity to people within networks, and our reputation within that network is an extraordinary asset...
April 30, 2014 | Future of Business
Imagine that instead of being a CEO, or a boss, or a manager, or a leader, we were assigned the task of stewardship? ORIGIN Old English stīweard, from stig (probably in the sense ‘house, hall’) + weard‘ward’ (guardian, keeper, ward) That our role was to steward a...
April 11, 2014 | Future of Business
Money money money…. How did we get to a place where we have elevated money to be central in our Universe? Where instead of considering how best to educate children, we start with how much it costs? And then adapt what we can do within the cost, cutting corners...
April 2, 2014 | Future of Business
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 another? Or of the...
March 14, 2014 | Future of Business
Take a barrel of oil. Currently trading at about $51 US a barrel. But what a delusion we live in with that price. As Buckminster Fuller quoted in Critical Path, “Scientifically faithful, synergistically integrated, time-energy, electrochemical process accounting...
