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Endurance and speed

As a runner and swimmer, training for endurance is very different to training for speed. Very different mindset, very different approach. The majority of our business, economic and political world for the past few decades has been training for speed. Short-term profit maximisation. Focus on getting re-elected instead of serving the people. Externalities are pushed onto someone else’s balance sheet. Consequences to be avoided or passed on to another generation.

Syntropy

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Endurance and speed

As a runner and swimmer, training for endurance is very different to training for speed.

Very different mindset, very different approach.

The majority of our business, economic and political world for the past few decades has been training for speed. Short-term profit maximisation. Focus on getting re-elected instead of serving the people. Externalities are pushed onto someone else’s balance sheet. Consequences to be avoided or passed on to another generation.

Endurance is steady, and solid, aiming to be present at the distant finish line.

To build a business for endurance is a completely different mindset than building a business for off-the-charts growth.

Some businesses need to be short-term. We should know the endpoint. Others need to be designed for endurance.

Photo taken June 7th 2022

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1 day ago

Growth is never the problem

It is what is growing and why we see some growth as more important. A business and human need to grow to stay alive. Yet to focus only on the dimension of growth as profitability in a business is to delegate the business to the rapacious greed that underpins capitalism. …

Syntropy

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1 day ago

Honour value. Get the give and take into dynamic equilibrium. Zero exploitation.

When the Principle of Exchange is working well, all parties feel valued. No one feels that they are giving more, working harder, spending more time, and not being appreciated. The relationships are void of any form of resentment. There is zero exploitation, zero extraction to extinction. To understand the Principle…

Syntropy

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Honour value. Get the give and take into dynamic equilibrium. Zero exploitation.

2 days ago

To speak our thinking

When we hold our thinking, puzzling, self-inquiry inside it has no mirror to reflect. Therefore we cannot see it from the eyes of the witness. To be able to see we need to speak our thinking and puzzling out. Or write it out. In our speaking out we create space, we take our thinking from one point and give it dimension. The space enables reflection. The reflection enables clarity. The clarity enables synthesis.

Syntropy

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To speak our thinking

When we hold our thinking, puzzling, self-inquiry inside it has no mirror to reflect.

Therefore we cannot see it from the eyes of the witness.

To be able to see we need to speak our thinking and puzzling out. Or write it out.

In our speaking out we create space, we take our thinking from one point and give it dimension.

The space enables reflection. The reflection enables clarity. The clarity enables synthesis.

To live in the constant noise of our own head is to deny the potential ease to clarity.

Photo taken June 27th 2022

#worldwithafuture #businessreimagined #syntropicworld #syntropicenterprise #syntropy #newbusinessmodels #businessandsustainability #regenerativeenterprise #buckminsterfuller

#humancoordination #emergentstrategy #daretocare

3 days ago

Unity is not oneness but uniting

We lurch from extreme to extreme to find a new synthesis. It is inelegant. Often the innocent are the victims. The trajectory is towards a higher order, though often it feels we are so very far from that. I watch in horror as the dominating structures created by a patriarchal society feel the threat of their diminishment and so amplify their seizure of power. The last gasp against change. The synthesis is towards a union of the yin and yang. Unity is not oneness but uniting.

Syntropy

1 min read

Unity is not oneness but uniting

We lurch from extreme to extreme to find a new synthesis.

It is inelegant. Often the innocent are the victims.

The trajectory is towards a higher order, though often it feels we are so very far from that.

I watch in horror as the dominating structures created by a patriarchal society feel the threat of their diminishment and so amplify their seizure of power. The last gasp against change.

The synthesis is towards a union of the yin and yang. Unity is not oneness but uniting.

Not one element — be that money or men — holding the deck of cards. Instead the multi-dimensional full expression of our gorgeous diversity.

Photo taken June 28th 2022

#worldwithafuture #businessreimagined #syntropicworld #syntropicenterprise #syntropy #newbusinessmodels #businessandsustainability #regenerativeenterprise #buckminsterfuller

#humancoordination #emergentstrategy #daretocare

4 days ago

We need to reframe power

Power is the ability to move something from one place to another. To move electrons. To move atoms. To move ourselves. Power as a dominating force demands moment of people, animals, land and creatures because those who hold the ‘power’ say so. The difference between land, animals, and other creatures…

Syntropy

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5 days ago

The Law of Universal Uniqueness

No two snowflakes the same. No human the same. No ant the same. Perhaps no atom, molecule or neutrino the same. Novelty is life. It is gorgeous. Complex. Complicated. Novelty and diversity bump into each other all the time. Diversity is the central design of existence. Yet we humans want conformity. When someone’s ideas do not reflect our own we seek to force change. Absolutism at is core refuses diversity. Absolutism at its core is anti-diversity, anti-life.

Syntropy

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The Law of Universal Uniqueness

No two snowflakes the same.

No human the same.

No ant the same.

Perhaps no atom, molecule or neutrino the same.

Novelty is life.

It is gorgeous. Complex. Complicated. Novelty and diversity bump into each other all the time.

Diversity is the central design of existence.

Yet we humans want conformity. When someone’s ideas do not reflect our own we seek to force change.

Absolutism at is core refuses diversity. Absolutism at its core is anti-diversity, anti-life.

Absolutism begins with the simple words. I know. In this statement we squeeze out all optionality.

Photo taken June 26th 2022

#worldwithafuture #businessreimagined #syntropicworld #syntropicenterprise #syntropy #newbusinessmodels #businessandsustainability #regenerativeenterprise #buckminsterfuller

#humancoordination #emergentstrategy #daretocare

6 days ago

Act small. Act local. Stay strong. Take a stand against little atrocities.

I woke to the terrible news from the United States that woman now has fewer rights to their body than people do to own and use guns. While this news was made public I was literally dreaming during my night that humans had collectively placed the increased well-being for ALL…

Syntropic World

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Act small. Act local. Stay strong. Take a stand against little atrocities.

Jun 23

Checks and balances

While many people in the world are suffering an increased burden from the rising cost of living a small but significant number of people and companies are enjoying outrageous profits. Especially the fossil fuel companies. As inflation rises, our purchasing power decreases. The illusion that our house price has gone…

Syntropy

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Jun 22

Falling under a spell

We are all under some kind of spell or another. We might believe that success comes from hard work. Many women working bone-breaking hours in countries affected by extreme poverty will tell you that hard work simply keeps the basics, if that, on the table. We might believe that our…

Syntropy

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