1st June 2023 / Alan Moore

The musician Bernard Sumner of Joy Division wrote of his experience growing up in a failed industrial economy and landscape, “You were always looking for beauty because it was such an ugly place

The musician Bernard Sumner of Joy Division wrote of his experience growing up in a failed industrial economy and landscape, “You were always looking for beauty because it was such an ugly place, whether again on a subconscious level. I mean, I don’t think I saw a tree till I was about nine. I was […]

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10th May 2021 / Alan Moore

School of Beautiful Business Leadership Course

The world of business is in (re)evolution. The single pursuit of ‘profit at any cost’ has been replaced by a desire to build companies that create a better future — and enjoy commercial success. In this 6 part course I draw on my own practice and years of research into some of the most pioneering […]

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11th March 2021 / Alan Moore

Book review of Do Build. How to make and lead a business the world needs

I am deeply grateful of this book review by Richard Brophy. This is my personal reflection on Alan Moore‘s new book for the Do Book Co. series. The book: ‘Do Build: How to make and lead a business the world needs. In this piece I try to situate Alan’s book in my own reflection on the […]

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6th March 2020 / Alan Moore

Beautiful Business Supper Club

Can you believe we at Beautiful.Business are a global community of over 25,000 people and from the messages received over the last few years it seems there is an appetite to explore what a beautiful world might look like. I am thinking about a London supper club where we can, not all 25,000 at once, […]

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22nd November 2019 / Alan Moore

Love the work you do: Blitz Motorcycles

Hugo and Fred build motorcycles. They build them from discarded older motorbikes, curating their builds using the frames, engines, petrol tanks and handlebars from machines of another time. They call their company Blitz — as in giving new life, new energy, new purpose, to old motorcycles. Possessed with an aesthetic vision of how these motorcycles […]

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1st October 2019 / Alan Moore

Climate Change is an Opportunity

“That’s what climate change is offering us—a new story about how human beings should interact with each other in this heavenly home called Earth” — Paul Hawken. Paul Hawken is the editor and curator of Project Drawdown. He has inspired both me and my imagination. This is the transcript of an interview where he discusses […]

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9th September 2019 / Alan Moore

Does capitalism need saving from itself?

Does capitalism need saving from itself? My thoughts on Gillian Tett’s article for the Financial Times The business case for beauty Beauty is regenerative The other day a business founder asked me if beauty could help his company become more profitable, I replied, ‘why would you want to do it any other way?’ We need […]

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14th July 2019 / Alan Moore

The business case for beauty

Article written for Management Today. Your company could be a work of art – and more enduringly profitable as a result, argues designer and author Alan Moore. Is the world a work of art? Nobel Prize winning scientist Frank Wilczek asked that remarkable question because he saw beauty in the fundamental laws of nature, which […]

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2nd July 2019 / Alan Moore

Living Beautifully Newsletter No.18

Living Beautifully by beautiful.business is a regular newsletter to share and inspire a different way of looking at the world: we have all had enough of ugly. As I have travelled over these past few months I become increasingly convinced of the universal nature of beauty. Applied to leadership and legacy we need leaders who can see an […]

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27th June 2019 / Alan Moore

Is that the most beautiful decision you could make?

I was asked recently how one could simply and directly apply beauty into leadership? Imagine a company, a large automotive corporation is having a board meeting. The company is under pressure, decisions have to be made to counter its current poor performance of its sales and financial performance.  A number of the board have come […]

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