How to Save the World and Succeed in Business
[Blogged on http://dharmafly.com/blog/how-to-save-the-world-and-succeed-in-busines s]
Madhava and I ran an interactive workshop at BarCamp Brighton:
"How to Save the World and Succeed in Business"
This is the perennial question for our own startup web development company, Dharmafly, and instead of telling anything, we wanted to get the answers from the crowd...
We split people into groups and got everyone mind-mapping. Each group had a sheet with 'How to Save the World' written in the centre and another sheet with 'How to Succeed in Business'. On each sheet, with limited time, people wrote down related concepts and then connected them together...
There often seems to be a conflict between running a thriving business and working in an ethical way. Much of our society is cut-throat and ruthlessly capitalistic. But we found that many practices complement both needs and there is a common desire for collaboration, integrity and taking an ethical approach.
The future looks bright...
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JohnnyTangent (57 months ago | reply)
Perhaps get your blog going and use that as a way of talking about your thoughts on the planning, process and development of your business and let people comment and add their thoughts too. It's a very now thing - crowdsourcing and developing in the open, actively soliciting participation in your growth, which of course in turn helps feed interest and promote you and your vision.
premasagar (57 months ago | reply)
@JohnnyTangent - Thanks. Yes, it's a-comin', it's a-comin'...
JohnnyTangent (57 months ago | reply)
excellent :-) looking forward to it.
I suppose another question is what we (or you) mean by ethical. Ethics are different for different people
premasagar (57 months ago | reply)
For me, ethics are something dynamic and flexible. Gut feeling, conscience and intuition are more important than hard-and-fast rules.
In general, I see ethical practices as those that avoid exploitation of others and instead provide benefit to others. Here, 'others' may be extended to include the rest of the non-human world. 'Benefit' could be on a number of levels: physical (e.g. food, medicine, shelter), mental (e.g. education, support) or spiritual (e.g. inspiration for life, purpose, meaning).
I think that ethics are, by nature, subjective and the intention is all-important.
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