Engineering Generosity
Collection to inspire the book
Engineering Generosity
Collection to inspire the book
Seth has a lot of good ideas on this. Should tie in to his ideas more.
In a gift economy, wealth is understood as having enough to share, and the practice for dealing with abundance is to give it away. In fact, status is determined not by how much one accumulates, but by how much one gives away. The currency in a gift economy is relationship, which is expressed as gratitude, as interdependence and the ongoing cycles
... See moreIn a you-or-me world, reciprocity and collaboration don’t fit.
Competition ruins collaboration
Incentive structures don’t map to ultimate high-value results
Generous people view their possessions as temporary; they are joining in a bigger story. Generous people are always looking toward the needs of others by using what they have been given. Things don’t matter; people do. They open their house to others. They open their pool for parties. They let people borrow their cars. They freely give, with no
... See morePeople matter
More proof of ideas
Work isn’t valuable. People are. People can set a value on the work that is done, therefore, they are the most valuable piece of the equation. Work for the sake of work has no value.