Mayflower-Plymouth is not only a company, it’s also an ecosystem.
Value earned is according to value provided.
In business, supply chains risks are not only correlated to the competition or to collaborators or to customers. Supply chain risk is also correlated to all of the companies and industries using the same imputs as your business.
As companies age they tend to become more reliant on extracting value from their past successes and less desirous of innovating. It’s every CEO’s job to ensure the company rejects this tendency and instead chooses to embrace both the capital of past success and the capital of present innovation.
Businesses profit by solving social problems. Therefore, it’s business – not charity or government – that should be employed to solve many of the big societal problems of today. Whether it’s the climate crises, or gender equity, or pollution or whatever... Business can solve those problems.
Money is wonderful because I do wonderful things with money. Money is good because I do good things with money.
Investment activities should inherently spread value and inherently spread prosperity. Investments should naturally result in a wide scope of people and ecosystems experiencing benefit.
Small amounts of money can do good things. But big money can do great things.
I am an investor. And as an investor, I have the pleasure of being involved in a variety of industries and innovations. But being an investor, I get to stay focused on the big picture instead of the little details.
Fungi broker resources between species via mycelium networks and in doing so they cultivate health and resilience for the entire ecosystem. In the same way, each business should cultivate health and resilience for the entire business ecosystem.
With money comes responsibility. How we spend and invest our money has an impact on ourselves and on so many other people.
Businesses everywhere can learn a lot from nature.
Things nature is good at include – organizing matter in a way that is multi functional, mass customization, network adaptation to circumstance, responsive evolution, growth as a mechanism for construction, decentralization, data management and asset management. Regardless of what kind of business we are talking about, there’s something vital to learn from nature.
Insurance is important in business. It just makes sense that we share risk for low probability high impact events.
Money is better when you have more of it. With money, enough is not enough. You should always have more than enough money – an abundance of money. Look at nature, nature never only makes enough of a good thing. It always makes more than enough. And there’s no scarcity or lack. Everything in nature experiences more than enough.
Los negocios bien hechos tienen la capacidad de reemplazar la caridad.
People buy from businesses for many reasons. Among those reasons include: favorable price, favorable accessibility, demonstrated shared values, label identification, and more. The more reasons you can give people to buy from your business, the better sales numbers your business will experience.
Managing a business does not require any genius. The main qualification is the ability to identify and deliver value to a group of people consistently and efficiently at the highest price point acceptable to them. Everything else can be hired out.
Money can reach you through many different ways at any moment in time. Money doesn’t have limits. Be receptive and keep your heart open to the many possibilities.
There is a spirituality to money. Things like theft and fraud and dishonesty will never produce good long-term monetary results. And the ROI for those things is always a deficit.