Conscious Business Quotes

Here are some of the essential quotes that capture the essence of Conscious Business. “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. “ Albert Einstein “When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.” Joseph Campbell “Remember that consciousness…

1001 Ways to Make your Business More Conscious

This is a collection of ideas and tips for raising the level and, improving the quality of consciousness in a business. Please do add your own! 1. Turn weekly reports into daily reports 2. As a leader, own up to business mistakes and invite your team to reflect and learn from them 3. Identify habits…

Definitions of a Conscious Business

Most of the definitions of conscious business take a starting point in values. They also take their starting point in the specific values of “social responsibility” and “business ethics”, and often also the Green movement. This then makes use of “conscious” as seeing social responsibility as a kind of higher form of consciousness. The greener,…

Book a Conscious Business Training Session

Overview We offer a number of one or two-day training sessions in Conscious Business. Using our signature interactive style, each session offers a strong grounding in the core principles of conscious business practice, as well as an opportunity to directly relate theses principles to your own business or organisation. Practical activities, stories and cases combine…

Key Links into the Field of Conscious Business

Here are the critical links to writers, thinkers, and organisations in the field of conscious business. We’ll be adding more over time. Do please add your own and we may well include them. My own definition of conscious business is a bit different from the majority of definitions in here in these links below. Most…

Conscious Business Sleep States

Overview One aspect of exploring consciousness is to look at sleep. When we sleep, our physical senses are largely switched off. We also dream. Confusing our dreams with reality is a state of self-delusion. Organisations and businesses can enter varies kinds of “sleep”. They can be asleep TO something, or deluded ABOUT something. The following…

Conscious Business and Social Responsibility

One of the perplexing realisations I arrived at when exploring the subject of Conscious Business more deeply was this: A conscious business isn’t always a socially responsible one. Indeed, some highly conscious businesses are extremely toxic in their approach to their communities, their employees, their customers and the environment. Many of the most conscious businesses…

Twenty Key Features of a Conscious Public Organisation

This checklist, drawn from over 20 years working with public sector organisations, as well as recent research in to the field of “Conscious Business” offers a new way to look at public service. Whether it is a local government organisation, a hospital or a public utility, public organisations have tended to evolve into bureaucracies, strongly…

Deep Dive into Temporal Business Consciousness

METRIC 1 – Temporal Business Consciousness This measures the organisation’s self-consciousness in terms of time. The timeline of past, present and future is the focus here. How does the organisation consciously draw from its past – understanding its history, learning lessons, recognising historical patterns and effects? To what extend does it take conscious responsibility for…

Conscious Small Business – A First Look

This is a first, tentative look at what a conscious small business might look like, using my own definition of conscious business. I’m doing this because there’s a growing interest among very small businesses to behave “consciously”. I’m also doing it because, in recent months, I’ve spoken to quite a number of owners and leaders…

My Own Definition of Conscious Business

Carl Jung This is very much a work in  progress – an emerging set of notes. I’m going to define Conscious Business in a way that is different to  most in this field. Consciousness arises from suffering. Now, bear with me for a moment on that rather strange statement. The philosopher Rudolf Steiner (author of…

A Sustainability Perspective on Conscious Business

A conscious business needs a deeper, more authentic approach to sustainability… The field of sustainability has widened in recent years. The early days of sustainable development were epitomised by the view that boundless growth is not sustainable. A sustainable way of working looked to reduce waste, reduce energy consumption. The earth was a living being,…