24th December 2020 / Alan Moore

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

In March 2021 I am publishing a new book. Do Build. How to make and lead a business the world needs. Paul Hawken writes about Do Build, “This may be the most enlightened, concise, and extraordinary book on business ever written. It could be said that true beauty and business have never met. They do […]

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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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7th September 2019 / Alan Moore

Notes on Cooking, Compassion and Buddhism

“With food it is the mindset of sharing that we are really eating” — Jeong Kwan. This year I sat down to watch a Netflix film about cooking. What I did not expect was  a gift. These are my notes from a film about the Buddhist Nun Jeong Kwan. She lives in the Chunjinam Hermitage […]

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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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5th July 2019 / Alan Moore

Conversations about beauty with Konrad Brits of Falcon Coffees

Konrad is the founder and CEO of Falcon Coffees who source green coffee from eighteen producing countries, and work with coffee roasting companies all over the world. Konrad talks about purpose before profit, which means creating a resilient supply chain benefiting the growers over the long term. In this interview Konrad touches upon the theme […]

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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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24th May 2019 / Alan Moore

Show Me Something Beautiful

Since publishing Do Design. Why beauty is key to everything. I have evolved and developed a deeper understanding of how, beauty as a lens, framework even a philosophy – can be applied to how we live, how we become better humans, how we can develop our leadership, and, how we can find deeper meaning in […]

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31st January 2019 / Alan Moore

To Larry Fink of BlackRock, Beauty not purpose is the ultimate metric

At the beginning of 2019 Larry Fink CEO of Blackrock Investments wrote his yearly letter to CEO’s, Purpose and Profit. He argued that there is an urgent need to take the long-term view, but that short termism to protect legacy businesses, and monopolistic powerbases is detrimental to what happens next. Fink believes that ‘Purpose Will […]

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7th January 2019 / Alan Moore

A call to Beautiful Leaders and Makers 2019

The Business Case for Beautiful Business Every morning I walk in the countryside, during which I reflect on the many aspects of beauty, what beauty means to me as an individual, and, what beauty means for the work I do. What beauty means were we to use it as a frame and practice for ‘living’ […]

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