December 6, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
My theory of systems change 1. Understand the system. Few people actually take the time to do this. 2. Get comfortable and familiar with complexity as a priority. Complexity is complex. Therefore challenging. Our default is to revert to simplicity or reductionism....
December 5, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Clarity leads to power Lost and confused, our minds fall down into a spiral that can become self-generating, keeping us trapped. Confusion begets confusion. Similarly, when we are feeling overwhelmed. Too much going on, a million thoughts bouncing around seeking our...
December 4, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Syntropic Enterprise
Skills needed I am not optimistic about the short-term future. The next ten or so years. I believe we humans have pushed the limits. We have gorged ourselves on excess, become bloated with arrogance, and clogged the lifeblood of our system with lies, corruption, greed...
December 3, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
See the real threat Historian Heather Cox Richardson uses the following metaphor. Imagine we have ten people, and for the most part, these ten people want a good life – not excessive – a home, some extra income to cover holidays, health care, quality...
December 2, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I know How many times in my life have I said the words, I know. Too many times. I have been thinking a lot about superiority and righteousness as the generator codes of so many ills in the world. White supremacy, racism, intellectual supremacy, emotional supremacy...
