March 28, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
From systems to ground The ability to think in complex whole systems can be learned and trained as a discipline. Our education system trains us to understand parts, becoming a specialist. To be taught how to see the whole system, which requires enquiry, the...
October 23, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Fools are we – humans To even think for one moment that we have dominion over Earth. Mother Earth only ever works as a whole, fully integrated, interdependent organism. She knows that when we violate a part, we affect the whole. Her purpose is to enable the...
January 31, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Synergy, syntropy and the urgent need for comprehensivists No amount of examination of the explosive element Sodium, or the poisonous gas Chloride will determine that when we combine these two elements under the right conditions we get Sodium Chloride, also known as...
October 6, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Future of Money, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Our future as a stakeholder In many of the business-as-usual packaged as social enterprises, there is a dissonance between the stated goal and the mechanism to achieve it. When we market a product that is to uplift the very poor, but simultaneously will enable...
July 24, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Curiosity and its shadow The generator function behind curiosity is a thirst to know and understand. There is a joy in making sense, putting the puzzle pieces together, mapping the world. It can provide a sense of grounded certainty. And it is fun. I was trained to be...
