6th October 2022 / Alan Moore

Designing a Beautiful Business at The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Designing a Beautiful Business at Heligan The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall – 25 November 2022 In partnership with the Lost Gardens of Heligan you are invited to attend our one day programme on 25 November 2022. This programme is designed for an intimate small group, to ensure a highly immersive and interactive exploration into the […]

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13th January 2021 / Alan Moore

How to create a business the world needs, a transformative online course

‘How to create a business the world needs’. Based on my forthcoming book ‘Do Build. How to make and lead a business the world needs‘, I’m running a transformative online course at Hawkwood. This programme will help you to create a different type of business: one that will regenerate and restore our economy, our environment, […]

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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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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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18th May 2019 / Alan Moore

The weave of beauty and design in building a beautiful business

Sometimes you need to step away. We gathered at a place called Porthean right on the Cornish Coast. You can taste the salty air, where the land, sea and sky interconnect. Over the last few days I have been working with a fabulous group of people from Poland, India, United Kingdom, Brazil, Estonia that make […]

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2nd March 2019 / Alan Moore

Pathway to Creating a Beautiful Business

Morning ritual. We walked. Having the gorgeous backdrop of Óbidos and its coast was a gift. Something magical happens where the land greets the sea segueing with the sky.  We made tracks – tracks a metaphor for a path walked. Who were we? “We” were 70 human beings working together, as one company. ‘We’ were […]

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10th October 2018 / Alan Moore

Why we need a restorative economy

‘Capitalists are capitalism’s worst enemy’, wrote economist John Kay – ‘and particularly the market fundamentalist tendency which has been in the ascendant for the last 20 years.’ Kay adds: ‘Once we appreciate the historical anomaly of the post-war moment, we might see the capitalism of our own day in a proper light. With its imperious […]

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2nd October 2018 / Alan Moore

Millennials. They want the cool thing, and, the right thing.

I asked Dame Fiona Reynolds, a Master at Cambridge University, UK and author of ‘The Fight for Beauty’ – ‘what gives you hope?’ Her answer; “The reason I feel optimistic is because I think young people are amazing and they get this stuff. This is a generation that has got no ticket to the future, […]

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11th May 2018 / Alan Moore

Beautiful Business conversations with craftswoman Alice Blogg

Alice is a designer, a maker of all things in wood. Alice shares her views on what a life of craft gives her — A joyful life of enduring satisfaction. Explaining the importance of having respect for the living material she uses – wood, Alice touches on the need for meaning connected to living an […]

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