May 2, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The tools we use to measure tell us a story How the neoliberal story loves to disdain the poor. Worthless. Useless. A drain on society. Lazy. I was raised on this story. I believed it until I found myself a highly educated single mother and struggling to pay rent. If...
April 19, 2023 | Syntropic Contemplations weekly e-news Archives
Breaking the Values Equilibrium: Unsustainable Relationships In Nature, the Principle of Exchange – give and take – operates everywhere, all of the time. Leaves convert light from the sun into energy. Leaves take light and give energy. Energy nourishes...
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...
September 9, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Money, Syntropic Enterprise
A problem that can be solved with money is not really a problem This quote by Kevin Kelly is worth considering. I used to think in my younger years that lack of money was always the problem. And it is true when you do not have money, when you are in constant...
January 11, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Future of Money, Syntropic Enterprise
Honouring the whole value of a tree Our economics states that the tree has no value at all unless we are prepared to cut it down and carve it up. It needs to be commodified, traded, exchanged to be registered on a balance sheet. If you have ever sat under a tree and...