The Opposite of Consumption Is Not Thrift

It’s generosity. Cooperation. Want to change the economy? Examine your ideas around the act of exchanging. When you are buying or selling, what are you thinking about? What can I get? What can I give? What if you approached the exchange of goods and services as...

Create Your Own Economy of Integrity

You have a choice in the kind of market economy you participate in. The type of economy you inhabit, as a customer and/or as a business, is yours to define. If you imagine a different kind of market society, and a different way of valuing the world, you have the...

A Holiday Act in Gratitude of Your Clients

\’\’ Perhaps this idea inspires you? For the past two years I’ve given a monetary gift to charity in gratitude of the client relationships I’ve cultivated. I sent this festive note to my clients this holiday season:

Exploring with the Ghosts of Past, Present and Future

Our past, the present, and our unwritten future, and what we think of them, they tend to haunt us now and again. If your ghosts happen to visit this holiday season (or any time), why not invite them in and explore with them. They have much to teach us when we are open...