Before I forget to make note of this for my Kahatika Project I must embed a couple of videos of interest. The first I am interested in as far as a movement to encourage empathy
The second is the CEO of Whole Foods talking of the importance of love in business.
I’ve made note of this [...]
I’ve just finished watching Bill Still’s “The Secret of Oz”
and just for good measure I watched his older offering of “The Money Masters”
Close to five an a half hours of documentary watching. These films give an interesting historical timeline to world events and their relationship to availability of money at the time.
I’m not an economist [...]
The teachings of Aristotle by Michael Sanders via Harvardjustice.org cite the absolute neccesity of being involved in politics in a journey which persues virtue. Thirteen minutes into the video below we learn that in this regard practice is all important. Big business is entrenched in Politics. Many years ago I got out of big business [...]
Dave Meslin’s talk reminds me somewhat of the sentiment of Edwards Deming’s proclamation that 96% of of all business problems are created by the system. Individuals want to do a good job, the system provides barriers to stop them.
#4 Heros I relate to my blog entry “As if you needed a Reason to Save the [...]
Ricado Semler has moved from Maverick Businessman to Maverick Educator in recent years. Why?
The link below takes you to a 2005 you tube clip about his company Semco, which includes an interview with Ricardo.
The Caring Capitalist
Ten minutes in he states that culture change in business is difficult, time-consuming and expensive and best effected before individuals [...]
An enduring dilemma for any economy is that once entrepreneurial companies successfully turn into larger firms, they often become the enemies of innovation and the next generation of firms. This is a problem that economists and policymakers and corporate leaders have wrestled with for a century with no resolution. ~ Karl J Schramm
Is Kahatika the [...]
Tony Robbins contends that people are in general more motivated towards the absence of pain than they are by the pursuit of pleasure.
I wish it weren’t so but I’m not disputing it. What absence of pain is in play for those joining the following movement?
Short term alleviation of the pain of remembering you’re in overdraft, [...]
If you are intent on Saving the World do you take a Top Down or Bottom Up approach?
Bottom up, as in, rally people to a cause. Get at least some enthused enough to take some action. i.e. Change to buying energy efficient light bulbs. Excellent work but when you do the numbers pretty ineffectual in [...]
I’ve not posted a new Blog for a while because I’ve been playing an online game called UrgentEvoke. I came across it through following a Linkedin group called Social Impact Games. The objective of the Game was to “Save the World” although I note from their latest Home page they are now purporting to only [...]
The following TED talk delivered by Bill Gates speaks of his one wish to halve the cost of energy while simultaneously reducing carbon output from the production of energy to zero. He speaks of energy miracles and explains his preference for a particular miracle he favours.
I started to wipe the sweat from my brow. I [...]
