Alchemical Business Simplified- Business with Heart
At its most essential Alchemical Business is concerned with identifying what kind of paradigm business must operate from in order to be an entirely positive force in world and expressing this paradigm into the structure and operation of every single aspect of business.
While there are many specifics elements that this paradigm needs in order to maximize Business’s positive influence on both individuals and the world as a whole, the heart of it can be summarized as “heart”. Business must be structured and conducted so that it is aligned with heart in the deepest sense of the word. All the other elements natural emerge from this.
- Heart naturally recognizes the interdependence we with each other and the environment.
- Heart humanizes through compassion.
- Heart is passionate about making meaningful contribution to everyone possible
- Heart cares about welfare for more than 7 Generations.
- Heart loves all the children (William McDonough, who is a leader in what I would call Alchemical Architecture and Design, bases his industry design process on “What if we love all the children?” and “What if waste equals food?”)
- Heart recognizes spirit
- Heart knows only abundance
- Heart knows the synergy that arises from both cooperation and sportsman-like competition(as opposed to competition from scarcity)
- Heart awakens Heart
This highlights the need for Alchemical Business, like all Systems Alchemy, to proceed from Personal Alchemy. The basis for the lack of sufficient heart in the way business, as a whole, operates, stems from insufficient connection to heart by enough individuals. It can’t be repeated enough “We must become the change we wish to see in the world”