Responsibility Can Really Suck…...

by Bill J. McCarley In December 1983, I decided to venture out on my own and left my job at Texas Instruments. My wife, Linda, had finished her doctorate program and had started a psychotherapy practice. We had a 9 year old daughter and a 7 month old daughter. After beginning my consulting practice, Linda’s business partner told me about a program being presented in Colorado called Money and You. It seemed like a good...

Celebrating Buckminster Fuller...

On July 12, we celebrated R. Buckminster Fuller’s birthday. He was such a futurist that we can expect his work still being world-famous decades from now.  We were blessed to have him in our lives as a Mentor — we were not his Protegees (you had to be a genius to be that) — but students of the principles that he taught us. Bucky would learn from nature and then apply it the human experience. Here’s a...

Lessons On Resolving Conflict....

A great video on conflict from William L. Ury co-founded Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and is currently a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Negotiation Project. With the Holidays upon us, it’s a timely message. When we learn to resolve conflict peacefully and in a manner, we see positive change in the world around us. “… normally when we think of conflict, when we describe it, there’s always two...

What Would Bucky Say About Today’s Global Ch...

From Bucky Fuller’s book Grunch of Giants – Published in 1984: The social revolution potential now can for the first time in history realize economic success for all and a comprehensive world enjoyment that involves not revengefully toppling the economically successful minority but elevating all humanity to a sustainable higher level of existing and interacting than any humans have heretofore either experienced...

A Conversation with John Mackey of Whole Foods Mar...

A Conversation with John Mackey of Whole Foods Market – an Entrepreneur “With Heart”… As I am preparing to attend John Mackey’s C3 Summit, a ConsciousCapitalism.com event empowered by John Mackey, I wanted to give you a glimpse of this wonderful entrepreneur’s mind (and heart) set… John has devoted the better part of his 56 years to the seemingly friendly and peace-loving world of selling natural foods....

A Novel Leadership Example...

Leadership isn’t always about being the leader… as this video explains. It’s a great example of how to start a movement, and how important it is to get...