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GOOD CONCEPTS IN GOOD FAITH
THREEFOLD IMPLEMENTATION IN BUSINESS
Why leaders and bosses are sitting ducks
At first glance, things are always simple. A passing man looks handsome, upright and strong. A female shape and the dress, flashes up beautiful. At the second glance, we smell the liquor on the man’s clothes, or notice the wrinkles on the woman’s face. The third glance convinces us that this is not such a [...]
An Aspirational Business Model?
Why not learn from Nature, the way things have been given to us? Einstein even said “Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better.” There are hundreds of different business models available today, each one being marketed as better or the best because ‘see how much money and how many awards the founder [...]
Creating Dignified Jobs
It is really interesting to observe that ideological changes in people lead sometimes to considerable shifts in where and how people live. For example, the move away from a rural society, based on subsistence farming, to a city or urban society. This happened as a consequence of people seeing that the city people had more [...]
Threefold Financial Reporting
If we are sincere and practical in our desire to bring change we have to ‘be the change we wish to see in the world’ (Mahatma Gandhi). We can be the change only if we change how we orientate our own inner life to the change that we wish to see – and this we [...]
Threefold Management Meetings
This article follows that on Threefold Financial Reporting. While reporting numbers by the three spheres of the Threefold Social Order (TSO) is not really complicated, using these numbers in terms of the TSO correctly, in other words to change things, is more challenging. As shown in the previous article, a measure that has been reported [...]
Using the Threefold Social Order concepts to bring the African economy out of the Nature economy – while also creating the ideal Threefold Social Order.
On our African trip in July and August 2018 to Nairobi, and back via Uganda and Rwanda, we saw repeatedly confirmed, the following: Local Africans of all colours cloth themselves far less with their fantasies and fears than do people from the West. Local Africans are open, more content with their station in life, not [...]
What is Profit?
Profit is a word that means ‘to obtain a financial advantage or benefit’ or ‘a financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something’. These definitions I got from Google. So how does one commonly go about making a profit today? The answer is that [...]
What is Money and where does it come from?
Trading began by bartering what one had for what you could get from another. If I had beans and another shoes, a barter transaction was entered into if both parties needed what the other had. Market places developed where trade of this kind was conducted. When the diversity of products grew, transactions could become complicated [...]
Future Bank Managers
Bank Managers, living with the ideal of the Threefold Social Order within them, will ask different questions of businesses than they do today. Today, the questions asked of a borrower from the bank are based on establishing whether the borrower has enough assets to secure the borrowed money to the bank, then lender. Their logic [...]
The land and means of production ownership question – Part II
To evolve from the current system of ownership of land and the means of production to a Threefold system could be imagined to happen in the following way. Let me put my personal circumstances forward as an example. My current situation looks like this. I live on a smallholding that I own. Not far from [...]