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The Leviathan
Yesterday I was sitting journalling, just writing down thoughts and ideas when I could feel in the back of my mind this word wanting to come forward. I am currently reading and researching Hermetism, and I was expecting it to be this word or a derivative of it, but it…
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Is the Americanisation of the West Its Future Downfall?
There is a very strong sense in the West now that the pursuit of money excuses any and all behaviours. That the ill treatment of customers and staff is acceptable if the shareholders are raking in the cash. And I can’t help but wonder – is this because of the…
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Make It Make Sense. Please.
I know the left hand of the government rarely speaks to the right hand but, surely, this example has to scream to someone. If I’m being kind it’s the outright contradiction it represents, if I’m being cynical it’s the connotations it has about greed and corruption. I would, though, be…
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Reflections on Friendship
I was thinking about friendships this morning. And about how we can use the word ‘friend’ rather loosely. It’s become a bit of a catch-all word when what we really mean to say more often is, ‘acquaintance’. The rise of social media has lulled us into thinking, I think, that…
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Do We Really Want A New Normal?
I’m on a bit of a roll at the moment. The more I think about big business, the more annoyed I seem to get. So, here’s the next thing that’s been playing in my mind for a little while now. It occurs to me that there are two private sectors.…
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Can We Be Piranha?
Following on from my post yesterday, I’ve been reflecting more on what it means to work in the private sector. And here are my thoughts, for what they are worth. My career started nearly 40 years ago in the City of London financial institutions. The private sector. One of the…
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When Will We Act?
When did we get to the point where it is more important to satisfy the shareholders than it is the customers? Where driving through ‘efficiencies’ increases share prices but at the cost of the service to the customer? And when did business forget that the customer is their source of…
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Connection In Ancient Times
I’ve been thinking about the history of religion recently and was inspired to do some research into it. I have never thought to answer this question, or even ask it, in my own mind before so it’s been an interesting journey. And not one I expected. Anthropologists and archaeologists equate…
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A Vision For the Future
I have been writing on here for some time about the changes we as a society need to make to our world in order to survive. And I wrote about the planetary changes that are happening in order to facilitate this. So, what does all of this really mean? In…
