The Aji Networks of Capabilities Meeting | April 14
April 14 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am PDT
The Aji “Networks of Capabilities” meeting is for current aji.com subscribers and their guests. Each month, we focus on increasing businesspeople’s sales, design, and leadership capabilities so that they can build their strategic Networks of Capabilities (NWC) and fulfill their financial, career, and business intentions.
Making Money
5 Practices to Make Money
Directly and Literally
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 | 9:00 – 11:00 am PT | via Zoom
with Greg Scharnagl, CEO of The Aji Advantage
Please RSVP by noon PT on Friday, April 10.
The Networks of Capabilities meetings focus on increasing businesspeople’s Sales, Design, and Leadership Capabilities so that they can build IR#4 Networks of Capabilities (NWC) and fulfill their financial, career, and business intentions.
This is Part #6 of The Aji Source Fundamental Strategy. It is a strategic focus and “Source of Power” businesspeople use to double their productivity, value and income.
IR#4’s NWC are a new strategic and competitive practice that is made possible by the existence of computers and the internet.
They are twice as competitive as IR#3’s Networks of Convenience.
“Money” is the capacity to transact or offers people want badly enough to accept by paying the purchase price and accepting delivery. That’s all.
Money is not currency.
Currency is a substitute for money people or societies invent to increase marketplace efficiency, or to lower the costs of transacting.
Currency is used to enable transactions to occur when one person in a transaction has nothing the other person wants.
To the extent ambitious businesspeople confuse the artifact of currency with the human phenomenon of money,
… they cannot think and act effectively, or on purpose, to “make money”.
The only way to “make money” when people confuse the phenomenon with currency is to buy a printing press, which is illegal.
Unless ambitious businesspeople understand deeply that money is any capacity to transact — offers of help, practices, narratives and strategies — they cannot “make” it.
The fundamental and common forms of money are:
Gift giving
… such as fishermen giving fish or rides to people who help them repair their nets
Exchanging favors
… implies someone “values” favors enough to transact for them
… such as, “I’ll help you build your house if you’ll help me build mine later”.
Barter
… is exchanging one good or service for another
… such as, “I’ll give you one fish in exchange for two ears of corn.”
Trade
… is a circuit of at least three nodes for exchanging goods and services for other goods and services,
… such as a trader who travels to at least three different cities or ports exchanging goods and services he gets in one location at another.
Transactions using currency
… is exchanging a good or service for currency.
Please join us to build your competitive capabilities thinking and acting with the five fundamental forms of money.
In the meeting we will review the description, meanings, relevance, value and purposes of each of the five forms of money so that you can use them practically and pragmatically to build your Networks of Capabilities, increase your autonomies, produce highly valued accomplishments, establish identities of superior trustworthiness, value, authority, leadership and dignity, hold highly compensated leadership roles, build powerful business organizations and anticipate future threats, obligations and opportunities.
We will break into groups where you can learn, practice and use these distinctions to invent and design your offers, practices, narratives and strategies to fulfill your business mission and personal ambitions.
Invite people who share your purpose to earn a living or become rich to take care of your families.
To invite people in your Network to participate in the meeting with you, please send them this link:
https://www.aji.com/event/the-aji-networks-of-capabilities-meeting-april-14
We will send an email to participants on Monday, April 13, with a link for joining the meeting.
If you have any questions, please email greg@theajiadvantage.com.
We look forward to helping you and your Networks fulfill your financial, career and business intentions.