End in View

Built to Sell

From its inception, Influence Ecology has been “built to sell”. Simply said, we are building an enterprise in consideration of its long-term future value.

The adage “work on your business, not in your business”[1] has guided our strategies and tactics. We seek to earn revenues of $6M by 2020 and $30M by 2025. Our aim is to produce a company valuation of $15M by 2020.

While our exit plan evolves, it may include the full sale of the company, or to sell shares to friendly investors and/or to plan for a whole or partial ownership sale to employees fit to build the legacy we seek.

A Philosophy

Influence Ecology has been built on the 30 years of practical and specialized knowledge earned by the co-founders. The content continues to evolve in this focused environment.

Our programs are now built on the foundation of the Philosophy of Transactionalism, a philosophy we are at work to construct, articulate, and popularize. In 2012 Influence Ecology published the book Transactionalism: An Historical and Interpretive Study by Trevor J. Phillips. In 2016, we hired Dr. Kyra Gaunt to write, post, and safeguard the following aims:

1. By 2025, Influence Ecology is publically recognized as the modern architect of the philosophy of transactionalism.
2. By 2025, transactionalism has been codified into a single definition and source offered to and accepted by Wikipedia, the dictionaries, and the encyclopedias (no definitions currently exist for the term or the philosophy).
3. Influence Ecology seeks to construct the narrative about the philosophy of transactionalism to includes

1. the history of the philosophy
   1. the antecedent contributors to the philosophy
2. the important historical contributors to the philosophy
   1. Barth
   2. Dewey/Bentley
   3. etc.
3. the important modern contributors to the philosophy
   1. Phillips
   2. Tibbels/Patterson (Influence Ecology)
   3. etc.
4. the tenets of the philosophy
   1. Metaphysics
      1. Biology/Environment
      2. body/brain, natural – co-constitutive  
   2. Epistemology  
      1. Bio/Env – trans-dermal
      2. trans-actional – (motivation/acts)
   3. Ethics
      1. Reciprocal, co-constitutive, socially conditioned and motivated, human-being
      2. (not something else) – existing in constrained environments (natural and man-made)
   4. Politics  
      1. Distribution of limited resources
      2. Value/Reciprocity/Exchange  
   5. Aesthetics
      1. Point of view / inspired meaning & value
      2. exemplification of a good life
5. the contributions of the philosophy
   1. the transactional whole
   2. biological, linguistic, transactional
   3. self-actional, inter-actional, trans-actional
   4. action/economic action
   5. transactional behavior
   6. exchange/specialization
   7. coexistence
   8. et al.

The model we offer considers an integrated flow through philosophical views historically at odds with each other. We recognize these views as an integrated system to be studied as a whole; for example, the mutual respect for Subjectivism, Constructivism, Objectivism, and Skepticism.

These philosophical views arise naturally in the biology of human beings studied in evidence by over 146 different models of personality and behavior; each of which demonstrates that humankind orients itself existentially around a dominant view expressed philosophically and behaviorally.

This is the first time, that we have yet to find historically, that any such philosophical undertaking has occurred and is “designed to correct the fragmentation of experience, on whatever level it may occur,”[2] “to see together…much that is talked about conventionally as if it were composed of irreconcilable separates.”[3]

Transactionalism is a ‘course of study’ offered as a four-year program.

A Legacy

Our legacy aim is to be known as The Modern Architect of the Philosophy of Transactionalism.

The Institute of Transactionalism, a campus devoted to this study, will continue to provide a carefully constructed environment of study for the ever-evolving views of this discourse.

 

[1] Michael Gerber, E-Myth: Why Most Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do about It.

[2] George R. Geiger, John Dewey in Perspective. New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1964, p. 78.

[3] John Dewey and Arthur F. Bentley, Knowing and the Known. Boston: Beacon Press, 1949, p. 69.

Exit Plan

The sections below detail additional or individual sections of ‘End in View’ as the satisfaction of individual aims may include an exit not yet articulated or described.

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