New purposes, different methods,

New win-wins

 
   
 
 
          

Every economic transaction and interaction has two aspects: a 'cash flow' (e.g. an exchange of money for goods or services) and a 'trust flow' (whether the parties' trust in each other grows or declines; whether or not they want to invest more or less in this relationship in the future).

Accounting is very good at understanding cash flows.

But understanding trust flows is a different matter ...


Mapping

 

Most organisations today think they have a full, clear and accurate picture of the territory before them. In fact, their maps are frighteningly partial, hazy and inaccurate.

From the point of view of wealth creation - as distinct to that of money making - they are measuring the wrong things in the wrong way. If you assume that the underlying purpose of economic activity is human enrichment, of which financial enrichment is just one part, what does your organisational map look like? And how do you find the areas of potential improvement?

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