Collaborative entrepreneurship

The future is past – as greedership turns to real leadership.

I heard it once said, that the future is already here, but just not evenly spread around, just yet. And so what is this future, that I’m beginning to see? Greedership and Leadership

A GREEDER is someone, typically male, who “motivates and manipulates” a group of people, to risk their health, wealth and happiness, all for the greater good of more money for the shareholders/owners, with the tacit knowledge, that by the time of retirement (65 odd), these “workers” are very likely to be very close to the poverty line. The chief reason for the business is to just make money – No Soul in that goal, is there?

A LEADER, on the other hand, includes more women nowadays, who see the value of balancing the importance of people and profits. A LEADER is someone who understands that the lifeblood of a business is profit, but it’s not the sole reason for the business at the cost of human experience. A real leader stimulates engagement through inspiration, oxygen of the Soul - They embrace the value of our most valuable assets which are our people, and they walk this talk. They speak and lead from their heart.

I was thinking about our current levels of unemployment, low entrepreneurial levels and the impact learned helplessness has on the situation. In a conversation, I blurted out that women are collaborative and not competitive and that’s why they typically struggle in the competitive entrepreneurial arena. That’s why our simple info-preneur collaboration project had been so successful.

In almost every field of business or marketing, fear is used as the motivating force to get us to give them our money. Yet, the greatest human desire is to love and be loved. The second greatest is to inspire and be inspired. But when fear rules our thoughts, feelings, frame of reference and our hearts, there is very little room left for love, inspiration, collaboration or making a positive difference to others lives.

Collaboration and inspiration are Better. This got me thinking and calculating again. So currently, I began looking for a sponsor to relaunch an entrepreneurial project that I was involved with about 8 years ago. It was a collaborative business model rather than competitive, which is why 95% were previously disadvantaged individuals and of those 80% were women. We did some amazing stuff with these people and their lives were transformed in many ways.

Something just clicked for me again and I started to dream where we had 500,000 people this time… all collaborating, learning, earning, coaching, growing, supporting, encouraging, positive, resilient and paying it forward for the greater good of the group and the causes they support.

It’s about creating a platform and structure for people to simply iLEAP2 a better quality of life. For a long time now, I’ve been advocating the need to give people a simple, step by step process and platform, to enable them to build their financial IQ and provide a means for them to ENSURE their future wellbeing. It’s like success ENSURANCE rather than insurance.

A new vision for Business So I began exploring possible donors or sponsors for the start up. Along the way I discovered a new type of business where the heart definitely speaks. I came across Bransons’ Virgin Unite and a real heart-based company, Ello Mobil – they’re a cellphone company, that gives a majority of their profits back into a range of sustainable social projects. They are not the only ones I found. Witness Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Oprah and others. Sustainable philanthropy is an amazing vision and destiny.

So based upon my past encounters, I’ve devised a self-sustaining plan, that will provide a platform and step-by-step structure for education, coaching, self development and entrepreneurial collaboration via the web, CD/ DVD and face-to-face presentations and interaction.

I’ve decided to design and grow an organization based ENSURANCE. Applying real leadership, rather than GREEDERship principles. Essentially, the intention is to create a structure, platform and service that ENSURES people will have a brighter future – filled with health and healthy attitudes, wealth and economic independence, and sufficient happiness to make a positive difference in other peoples lives as well as their own. It’s almost like networking and paying-it- forward happiness. Why insure when you can Ensure your future.

Imagine changing the world from competitive to collaborative, where I win if you win, and you win if they win. All I require is a cool million or three to launch. We are the masters of creating. www.lifemasters.co.za