The Four Main Factors for Entrepreneurial Failure or Success
In my professional life as a lawyer, financial innovator, fundraiser, and a serial entrepreneur with a public exit and two M&As, I have helped…
Situationally Adaptive Organizations (“SAOs”)
(New Organizational and Governance Structures for the 21st Century) The challenges and rapidly changing social, political and economic landscape of the 21st century require significant transformation in how…
Conscious Eating
A Solution to Food Shortages, Climate Change, and Poor Health Topping our latest list of challenges are impending food shortages, water shortages, climate change, pandemics, and poor health. “Conscious…
Next-Gen Opportunities in Ethical Innovation
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo…
Transforming Supply Chain Inefficiencies, Fragility and Environmental Destruction with Clean Energy, Localization and Regenerative Communities
The “supply chain” essentially refers to the movement of goods from raw…
Functional Enlightenment
As will be discussed, Enlightenment is not something to be achieved or a goal that involves will and focus, but rather complete surrender and dissolution. …
Will Technology Save the World from Anthropogenic Extinction?
More than 99 percent of all organisms that have lived on Earth are now extinct. An estimated 8 million animal and plant species currently live…
Improving Our Lives and World by Deepening Our Understanding of Emotions, Feelings, Beliefs and Behaviors
Emotions and feelings are powerful factors in our lives. They have a signi…
What is Your Relationship with Money?
What is Your Relationship with Money? Money is one of the greatest motivators for action in our world. To understand our relationship with money, let’s first briefly talk about money itself. Money is essentially a…
Ecosystemic Intelligence (Does Killing and Domination Really Make Us Smarter?)
“Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone
ACCELERATING THE REGENERATIVE ECONOMY WITH FINANCIAL INNOVATION
Summary Industrialization, quantitative growth economics and mass consumerism are causing destruction of ecosystems, depletion of…
It's The People, Not The President
Clearly, enough Americans are so fed up with our corrupt and dysfunctional political system that they were willing to elect an arrogant, self-righteous, bigoted misogynist in hopes that he could change it.
5 Tools for Men to Help Improve Your Relationship With Women
As I have gotten older, so has the age range of the women I am dating. As women get into their 50s, they often experience menopause. I have been told by several woman friends who have gone through menopause that each woman has a different experience with menopause.
Corporate Influence & Transforming From a World Created for the Non-Living
There is hope that we can create a thriving, healthy and abundant world, but we have to do more than hope. We must take action to transform from the inside-out (personal change), ground-up (infrastructure, built environment and supply-chain) and top-down (government, corporations and regulatory environment).
Does Killing and Domination Make Us Smarter?
The domination, killing, destruction, increased work and effort of modern society are not the hallmarks of intelligence, but rather stupidity. How can we use the 10% of our mental capacity more intelligently and effectively? Here are a few ideas:
Situationally Adaptive Organizations for 21st Century Transformation and Thriving
Using a single form of organizational structure for all circumstances is like using a single tool for all situations. When presented with a tomato or a screw, we hit with our hammer. If only we had a knife for the tomato and a screwdriver for the screw, we would be more efficient and effective.
The Profitability of Good Health
Despite the groundswell of evidence supporting the profitability of health and sustainability programs, many executives today are stuck in an old mindset that categorically views such programs as "fluffy" cost centers not profit centers.
The Regenerative Economy and the Pragmatism of Woo-Woo
It is not hard to imagine a world that is "better." But, what does "better" mean? By "better," I mean an abundant, well and enlightened world that enhances life -- a world where love, compassion, generosity, equitability and the creation of beauty are the pursuit of humankind.