Sublime

“Destructive Abundance”

Ego has cost the people I admire hundreds of millions of dollars,

People, especially the winners who shape tastes and patronize thought leaders, want things to be constructive, uplifting, and given to hope.

The first axiom is about minimization: through the act of exchange, an organization cannot, by action or inaction, allow people, communities, society, the natural world, or future generations to come to economic harm.

As these technological innovations create economic disruptions, they also destabilize our value systems.

I’d wager the farm, the house, the 401(k), and the tasseled loafers on the following proposition: that the sum total of human effort can add up to not merely more, but to better. What if commerce, companies, and trade can make us better off in bigger, more enduring, more human ways than simply having? What if the great challenge for enterprise in t

Going from business to betterness means going from vision, mission, strategy, and objectives to ambition, intention, constraints, and imperatives.

Darren Walker,

Mastering socio-productivity means learning to create markets and industries for those whom orthodox capitalism is unable to serve. Twentieth-century organizations are awesome at the incremental: creating low-need-high-cost markets, segments, and industries, like Hummers, McMansions, and expensive lattes. Constructive capitalist revolutionaries are