Below find the Seven Principles of Business Ecology and Five Natural Growth Curves, first used in the 1980s to describe enterprise happenings and to give a simple management foundation for sustainable enterprise growth and wealth creation.
A lot could be said about these Principles, but they are best readily understood in their simplicity. The last principle is a direct quote of 1 John 2:17. Over the years I have never found any circumstance in which at least one of the Business Ecology principles did not apply. Following the Principles are Five Lifestyle Curves, the last one also describing a spiritual truth. They again are pretty much self explanatory. The whole concept behind the Principles and the Curves is to design something that you can easily carry in your head and recall in a specific situation in response to a question such as, “I wonder why?” Using the Principles and the Curves you can then readily see that your question’s answer follows “this — these Principles and this Curve,” when what we were really trying to do was to follow “these Principles and this Curve.”
For example, we have been told that for reasons related to the wisdom of specific the elite leaders of the free world of western culture in business and politics, that economic growth is based upon material consumption of globally made kitsch, manufactured where labor and materials are by their definition the most profitable to their construction. What you see when applying the Principles and Curves to that paradigm is not what Adam Smith discussed and has been defined as Capitalism, but really a system that denies the first six Principles and redefines God in their monetary relative terms, a god completely unrelated to any Supreme Being.
Perhaps a better description of what has happened in recent years can be described as follows:
In a world of limited resources, the season of gross materialism has run out of gas. The free lunch, that globalism said it followed, is not based upon true diversity but rather specialization of the lowest cost of production and does not take into account the reality of that change in the culture it says this form of materialism serves. The real god of this world is money and the key to eternity is making as much money as possible, whereby the individual can create a personal legacy.
As you look at the first four Lifestyle Curves which are easily seen in nature, the difference really is not so much the in the up, but the down that leads to death. In that respect looking at the ecology of a Climax ecosystem (See Climax curve below) you see a diverse stability we all seek, in which one type or paradigm of growth and energetics is replaced with another. Only in that true natural diversity is a durable security obtained by freedom of opportunity, not by trying to manage the egalitarian outcome. If we continue on our current path of materialism at all cost, we, like lemmings, are going to run off a cliff, rebuilding a self sustaining economy will be lost, and we will join the lost cultures of human history. Only this time our demise will be done globally rather than regionally.
PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS ECOLOGY
What was, is and shall be.
Everything eventually runs out of gas.
For everything there is a season.
There is no free lunch.
Equilibrium is maintained through diversity.
Change is the only constant.
The world and its desires pass away but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
FIVE LIFESTYLE CURVES
