philosophy revised
tensoriana views all business as an art form, the business of the clients, its own business and the business of its partners and members. tensoriana is and remains ambiguous.
tensoriana is defined by the people who constitute it, friends, admirers, allies, members and partners. above all, it is defined by the projects which it delivers and in which it participates in. it is also defined by the results which it creates, even when these results are not immediately measurable and bankable. tensoriana is about thinking, and it is about thinking hard.
business is seen as a vehicle to bringing dignified and sustained quality of life to the stakeholders of the business and the community in which it is anchored, thus it is treated as an art form, not a way of making money. the accumulation of wealth is welcome and encouraged as a contribution to sustainability, it is however for tensoriana not the primary focus of either its work or business, quality of life is. sound management practices and cash flow planning do remain good business practices, especially when considering business as an art form.
globalization is not a new phenomena, rather humans have throughout recorded history sought to explore and discover beyond the borders of their natal confines, thus acquiring not just experience, but knowledge and technology through exchange with far away cultures and civilizations. this natural human curiosity and wanderlust is evolving at a new pace enabled by converging technologies increasingly ubiquitous in our environments.
“the world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that can not be solved at the same level that they were created at” is how Albert Einstein expressed the need for breaking the confines of present paradigms and break through into the new, the innovative process. for Peter F. Drucker, innovation is change that creates new dimensions of performance.
tensoriana is dedicated to creating that new level of thinking which will evolve our civilization towards sustainable self sufficiency.
…taking humanity from a collection of individuals to a set of generative adaptive organizations and communities. its all self-organisation really, there is no philosophy!
from the original tensoriana texts dating from 1998 and 2003
revised 2009
