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"THERE'S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY"

There is. Enlightened Enterprise.But hoping for it won’t make it happen!

Let me make this real. My belief in enlightened enterprise is very strong and personal. I grew up in the kind of Industrial Revolution mill town Charles Dickens made infamous in Hard Times. But most of the industry had gone by then.

 

Both my father and grandmother worked in the mills. I grew up hearing their stories about the hard times. But I later discovered not all the mill owners were ruthless. Some ran enlightened enterprises.

The Quaker Industrialists taught me what enlightened enterprise looks like. Theirs was a values-based approach to value creation, profits being a ‘means to an end.' The 'end' for them, their purpose, was heaven-on-earth. Even now their ideas seem progressive. The fight for human rights, for example.

They built strong brands by earning great reputations. And they achieved long-term success. They did so by meeting the real needs of people and their communities, to create real value.

If we are to stand any chance of addressing our 21st century challenges, we need pioneers to step-forward and step-up. Pioneers will determine the shape of our future. They don’t just think “there’s got to be a better way,” they help create it.

 

The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, established in 1844, were founders of the co-operative movement. They provide another example of the kind of pioneers I am talking about. Those who find new solutions to real problems. 

Are you a pioneer? Let us support you. We believe pioneers, like you, exist at all levels in every organisation, in every industry and sector: private, public, government and social enterprise. And the Enlightened Enterprise Academy exists for them, and for you:

  • The Salon brings together pioneers from the sciences, the art and humanities, just as the Paris Salons did in the 18th Century, to support the Enlightenment, which sparked the Industrial Revolution. Collaborations arise in the Salon.

  • The Better Way book will kick-start the Enlightened Enterprise movement by sharing what Enlightened Enterprise means and how to achieve it.  

Our plans also include establishing many more publications to support research inquiries, special interest groups, and other initiatives.

 

Such initiatives will be developed with our Faculty. We aim to establish the world’s largest multi-disciplinary Faculty of subject matter experts. both practitioners and pracademics. “Pracademics are academics who have a strong interest real-world impact. The faculty will help us develop more publications, dialogues, learning programmes, workshops, conferences, briefings, retreats etc.

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To have real impact the academy must achieve scale. And today’s challenges mean we need to scale with urgency. For that we need significant revenue. We need your support. We can then form a small team to ensure we can deliver.

    
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PAUL BARNETT

Founder, Enlightened Enterprise Academy

paul@enlightenedenterprise.ac

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