Jan
16
The Last Great Middle Man
How should Universities respond to the world they are operating in today?
3 min read
Governance
Nov
07
Returning to Teaching
My course is called "Decisions Making for Purpose Driven Leaders." We will explore the challenge of leading organizations that seek to balance stakeholder interests, rather than defaulting to a model of shareholder primacy.
3 min read
Sep
26
Countervailing forces
The beauty and benefit of reading widely.
2 min read
Sep
16
The Patagonia Model
We now have a model, a very public model, for how the value created by establishing a wonderfully productive brand and company can be distributed to a cause rather than a person
3 min read
Jun
22
Why did Clif Bar sell?
We must chart a better path. The next stage conscious capitalism is to provide leaders like Gary and Kit with a sufficiently well defined, well financed and well structured alternatives that allow leaders to align values over time.
6 min read
Jun
07
Fiduciary Arbitrage
Building a company is a coordination game. A founder needs to develop a coherent enough vision and purpose to entice
4 min read
Apr
05
Leadership & Decision Making in Purpose Driven Organizations
Taking outside capital into your company is a commitment by you to all future stakeholders of the business. You are
3 min read
Mar
23
Yet another ESG risk
Since the war in Ukraine started four weeks ago, the EU has sent over 18B Euros
directly to Russia. Here&
2 min read
Jan
17
The Organizational Hierarchy
> 1/ One of the more helpful frameworks I’ve seen as an operator and investor was
taught to me
1 min read
Dec
08
The killer app of web3 is governance experimentation
> In the last few days, a web3 community emerged out of nowhere, self-organized,
and built @HyperscaleFund
[https://twitter.com/
1 min read