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Podcast on Ethical Entrepreneurship

August 26, 2009Posted By Michael Doneman

 

I'm pretty new to the world of podcasting, but I found this interview refreshing in that Cameron Reilly, the owner-operator of the G'Day World Podcasting Network, allowed time to really explore and flesh out ideas in a way that other forms don't tend to allow, in favour of more clipped and sound-grabby formats. I found this particularly useful in trying to discuss the 'bigger picture' context for my practice and the Edgeware business generally. People have been telling me for a while that short audio clips are useful ways...


Speaking at the Hive

July 17, 2009Posted By Michael Doneman

 I was asked to give a short talk at a Brisbane networking function called The Hive on 30 June 09, on the topic of 'entrepreneurship'. The talk was filmed, and video is now on Youtube, but to save the bother of looking it up, here's the talk, in three sections.



Business Ethics

July 12, 2009Posted By Michael Doneman

Business ethics is an important field for Edgeware because it’s in the ‘change the world’ bit of our DNA.

You don’t ‘adopt’ ethical practices; you can’t operate without ethics, even if you couldn’t name them and you don’t have a code. We make moral judgements all the time and they’re the basis of our actions a lot of the time whether we recognise it or not. The question is: are these good ethics or not so good ethics, is this action which is good or action which is not so good? And this ‘good’ concept, that’s...


Coach as Cartographer

May 20, 2009Posted By Michael Doneman

 

Everyone is coaching or being coached; there are life coaches, career coaches, personal coaches, fitness coaches, executive coaches, coaches for getting out of bed in the morning and coaches for getting to sleep at night. Why do we need coaches so much and so often?

Could it be that the old, well-worn and predictable pathways - any path to anywhere and every path to everywhere - are dsiappearing, the maps no longer even remotely relating to the territory? Are coaches our conceptual cartographers?

I'm not a great fan of mind mapping, but I find the...


Generosity

February 15, 2009Posted By Michael Doneman

I can think of four things to say about generosity.

It's a quality of behaviour which requires very little in the way of resources but which has enormous power to influence and change things, beginning with yourself.

Firstly, generosity is an accessible behaviour. A generous act can be as small and simple as giving someone ten dedicated, alert minutes of your individied attention. The generosity of a thought or an act is not scaleable; its source is the intention to give. 

Secondly, in order to think and act with generosity you have to...


The Value Proposition

September 18, 2008Posted By Michael Doneman

 "... The fundamental mission of a business (is) not profit, but value creation. It sees profit as a vital consequence of value creation - a means rather than an end, a result as opposed to a purpose."

Frederick F. Reichheld, Director Emeritus, Bain & Company, "The Loyalty Effect"

You know you have a business when there is a Value Proposition: 'what is it I have to offer which has a value so compelling (in the eyes of a potential customer) that s/he is willing to exchange something of value...