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Business
“Synthesis for step change. We’re consciously managing more abstract, longer term goals. We’re assimilating negative feedback. This wins capital in the new world” ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
Conscious collaborative business outcompetes
Today’s significant issues cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. There’s a new, step change, coming. We’ve had the Industrial Revolution and the Exponential Organisation – iCentered and Information Revolution – is with us.
What’s the next step? Benevolution is already outcompeting the old systems.
Business posts
Meta-modern business: outcompete common practice
“Like all social constructs, the market could be different: we have created the market and we can change it," Tomas Björkman. * Looking for a common future for all of humanity while our businesses outcompete inequitable and environmentally alarming enterprises?...
Go beyond business as usual: meta-lean canvas
“The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them”. The idea of new thinking — for business, social and environmental success — is appealing. But how do we get there? The Meta Lean Canvas helps.Beyond Business as...
Holistic health system: values and diversity delivering $s
Over the past 5 years I've been involved with a delightful group diving into traditionally stuck health system problems. This work is creating holistic positive change assisting individual developmental grown and answering organisational financial and care...
Profit paradox: we are not rational!
The profit paradox It is common to hear people say that we will address climate change when it is profitable to do so. That is a limited viewpoint. There is overwhelming evidence that we don't act in so-called rational manners. We will commonly ignore cheap and...
Multiple Capitals: understanding sustainability and bottom lines
Anyone and everyone connected with sustainability dives straight into a dizzying array of frameworks. If you spend even a short time in this space (or for some like me, a career!) you’ll be swimming through terms, measures and concepts such as: Corporate social...
Out of the box elegance
When we first play with integral quadrants many, I certainly was, are thrilled by integral's explanatory power. We start analysing the world and phenomena. It is exciting -as we do this we can bring great insight onto traditionally stuck and intransigent...
Opposites attract
In business, organisations and societies opposites are everywhere. These seemingly incompatible situations are often where we can’t solve a problem without creating another one. That is, there are contrairities to manage rather than problems to solve. There is...
Feeling with the organism
Using subjective feelings while you are investigating and empirically analysing at the same time? Surely that's bad science. Or is it? This blog series is exploring integral quadrants - how these open a world of opportunity on complex issues, as well as ourselves,...
Content
Business, transforming ~ benefit
Benevolution’s business stories are about today’s step changes. This is like the shifts brought about by the industrial and information revolutions alongside the political/social reformations that co-created them.
It is really hard to see such step shifts while they are occuring. There’s evidence the next phase, call it meta-modern, is underway. Signs include:
- We are living in an era of exponential change. Things are getting exponentially better, other things exponentially worse – simultaneously. Current ways of organising are destabilising.
- Synergy: when we synthesize disparate viewpoints, demands and imperatives new solutions can emerge.
- Climate change is a good example. Addressing it requires new thinking. Businesses that reverse global warming and are more socially and financially profitable, synchronously as they grow, are emerging.
* Quote with thanks to Hanzi Freinacht: We’re moving from the industrial age. We’re enabled by the internet age. In a globalized, post-industrial, market together these mean significant change. That change is a new step – metamodern. See Hanzi’s Listening Society book for an eloquent and compelling read on benevolutionary change.
Catalysing, inspiring ~ benevolution
The stories for positive change on this site are across 3 broad categories:
- Beauty – posts on aesthetic and expansive experiences. Art, poetry, travel and emotions catalyzing evolution.
- Benevolutionaries – superstars, accidental heroes, inspiring intellects and everyone between. People breaking boundaries.
- Business – that’s this page! See above for details and stories.
Background ~ better be…
(be) Benevolution aims to assist our deep longing. We are responding to a pervasive sense of the tragedies of our time and, simultaneously, experiencing an ardent awareness of possibilities. The site, its stories and perspectives are to help our agency and engagement – with the painful and the promising – for practical, ethical flourishing.
Stories from before 2019 are drawn from Kings Catch Fire and Greenmode – some of our previous explorations and engagements in personal, family, species, socitey and global thriving.
Festina Lente
Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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