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Love signals real
In this Age of Metaphor, love will be the signal of real. One of the ways we will know when a thing has passed from “as-if” to “is” is when it earns unalloyed love from humans. Kevin Kelly, As ….»
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What do accountants count?
We think we make rational economic decisions. We don’t. Our decisions are driven by intangible values of which we may not be aware, or about which we may not care. ‘Radical accountant’ Baruch Lev, along with others, is ….»
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Finances, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Small business, Social enterprise, Success, Teams
3D business plans
At Edgeware’s first Upload Young Entrepreneurs Camp (Jan 12-16, 2009) we tried out our first 3D Business Plan. Everyone selected materials and objects which represented elements of their plan, then arranged and connected these to indicate the dynamics of ….»
Posted in Business, Communication, Creativity, Education, Feelings, Innovation, Perception, Personality, Skills, Teams, Training, Vocation
After a certain point, money is
meaningless
Just for fun, here are some thoughts from much better heads than ours … A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business. Henry Ford After a certain point money is meaningless. It ceases to ….»
Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Finances, Personality, Small business, Social enterprise, Vocation, Weirdness, Wisdom
Failures are inveitable! Brave failures are necessary!
Some formulae … High Self-Efficacy: Failure = lack of effort Low Self-Efficacy: Failure = lack of ability A Brave Failure = learning + spur to greater effort or effect A Brave Failure builds resilience Effort & ….»
Posted in Change, Education, Feelings, Innovation, Knowledge, Personality, Purpose, Success, Training, Transformation, Vocation, Wisdom
Positive psychology
Positive Psychology has three central concerns: positive emotions, positive individual traits, and positive institutions. Understanding positive emotions entails the study of contentment with the past, happiness in the present, and hope for the future. Understanding positive individual traits ….»
Posted in Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Feelings, Life, Perception, Personality, Purpose, Skills, Wisdom
Networks, niches, hives, tribes
Maybe you’ve seen the formulaic scroller websites that harvest your email address in order to receive something ‘free’ and go on to sell you strategies for making a million on the internet. Pretty lowest common denominator stuff, and it works. ….»
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Edgeware’s Build Your Business
Edgeware’s Build Your Business program is an alternative to business education for new entrepreneurs, and for entrepreneurs who want to re-imagine or grow their businesses. Each time it runs, it changes, because the needs of participants and the dynamics ….»
Posted in Business, Change, Creativity, Customers, Education, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Innovation, Management, Personality, Purpose, Skills, Small business, Social enterprise, Success, Teams, Training, Vocation, Weirdness
Education-zen
“The problem of the steady change of ideas (or the perpetual need to imagine new ideas) also demolishes the notion that the essence of education consists in mastering certain contents or materials. You are not little birdies sitting in the ….»
Posted in Change, Education, Life, Purpose, Skills, Success, Transformation, Vocation, Weirdness, Wisdom, Zen
Not-Design
Sitting last week in a workshop on the theme of ‘design’ I found myself uncomfortable with the tone and tenor of the offering. I realized eventually that the source of this discomfort was the assumption on the part ….»
Posted in Change, Creativity, Education, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Knowledge, Perception, Skills, Success, Training
Coaches as Uncles and Aunts
Putting together a coaching bureau is an interesting challenge. I’ve been working on this for some months, gathering together half a dozen friends and colleagues with coaching experience in a group I hope will make a very wide range ….»
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Podcast on Ethical Entrepreneurship
I’m pretty new to the world of podcasting, but I found this interview refreshing in that Cameron Reilly, the owner-operator of the G’Day World Podcasting Network, allowed time to really explore and flesh out ideas in a way that ….»
Posted in Business, Change, Creativity, Customers, Education, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Feelings, Innovation, Leadership, Purpose, Small business, Social enterprise, Success, Training, Transformation
Speaking at the Hive
I was asked to give a short talk at a Brisbane networking function called The Hive on 30 June 09, on the topic of ‘entrepreneurship’. The talk was filmed, and video is now on Youtube, but to save the bother ….»
Posted in Business, Change, Creativity, Customers, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Feelings, Innovation, Knowledge, Leadership, Personality, Purpose, Small business, Social enterprise, Success, Transformation, Vocation, Weirdness
Business Ethics
Business ethics is an important field for Edgeware because it’s in the ‘change the world’ bit of our DNA. You don’t ‘adopt’ ethical practices; you can’t operate without ethics, even if you couldn’t name them and you don’t have a ….»
Posted in Business, Customers, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Finances, Leadership, Life, Management, Marketing, Purpose, Small business, Social enterprise, Success, Vocation, Wisdom
6 Word Memoirs
Smith Magazine invites us to summarise our lives in six words – ‘Six Word Memoirs’. I thought, ‘Easy! I have the Edgeware motto, near enough to six words: make money, have fun, change the world. I could lose the article ….»
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Feelings, Knowledge, Life, Perception, Personality, Purpose, Success, Weirdness, Wisdom
Coach as Cartographer
Everyone is coaching or being coached; there are life coaches, career coaches, personal coaches, fitness coaches, executive coaches, coaches for getting out of bed in the morning and coaches for getting to sleep at night. Why do we need coaches ….»
Posted in Change, Education, Entrepreneurship, Life, Management, Perception, Personality, Purpose, Skills, Success, Training, Transformation, Vocation, Wisdom, Zen
Speaking at the Brisbane Ideas Festival
I was invited to convene a session at the Brisbane Ideas Festival in March 2009, a panel on the topic of Creative Entrepreneurs: The Artists of Commerce. I selected a group of Edgies from a variety of businesses and a ….»
Posted in Business, Communication, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Knowledge, Personality, Purpose, Skills, Small business, Vocation, Weirdness
Intentionality and Creative Leadership
I’m fascinated by the emerging field of ‘experimental philosophy‘, where it seems that philosophers are stepping away from their armchairs and using research methods from psychology to tackle philosophical questions. Like intentionality. This is interesting enough in itself, but just ….»
Posted in Change, Communication, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Knowledge, Leadership, Life, Perception, Personality, Purpose, Transformation, Wisdom
What a Coach Does
I think a coach does four things: 1. Mentoring – a coach should have the capacity to empathise, and to relate the coaching experience to his or her own mind-set, world view and direct experience of analogous situations and contexts. ….»
Posted in Change, Communication, Education, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Personality, Skills, Small business, Teams, Training, Transformation, Vocation
360 Degrees
I’ve noticed that I’ll often use optical illusions or some kind of perceptual trick in my presentations, to indicate not only how easy it is to trick the eye or the brain, but that the way see the world is ….»
Posted in Change, Communication, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Life, Perception, Personality, Purpose, Skills, Success, Vocation, Weirdness
Generosity
I can think of four things to say about generosity. It’s a quality of behaviour which requires very little in the way of resources but which has enormous power to influence and change things, beginning with yourself. Firstly, generosity is ….»
Posted in Customers, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Life, Management, Marketing, Perception, Personality, Purpose, Small business, Success, Wisdom, Zen
The Value Proposition
“… The fundamental mission of a business (is) not profit, but value creation. It sees profit as a vital consequence of value creation – a means rather than an end, a result as opposed to a purpose.” Frederick F. Reichheld, ….»
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Universal Placebos
A side project, and a source of considerable joy – Universal Placebos. The idea came originally from a class I was teaching at QUT. The discussion was on branding, and moved our thinking to the value of untraded intangibles. Pet ….»
Posted in Family, Feelings, Life, Marketing, Perception, Personality, Purpose, Success, Transformation, Weirdness
Hard Wired for Stories
We are social animals We are hard wired for stories We use stories to sing the world: Body as Land, Land as Story Discourses arrive after the singing, as both agents and actors We make category errors all the time, ….»
Posted in Communication, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Knowledge, Marketing, Perception, Personality, Purpose, Weirdness, Wisdom
Physician, heal thyself
A working hypothesis: every coach needs a coach. Like every shrink needs a shrink. Something about keeping yourself honest, setting up a sounding board for reflection on the practice, shrugging off the Mantle of the Expert (something I learned from ….»
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