April 26, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Choose to be happy Once upon a time I would let the little things worry me. That someone had moved something from its place and it was not to be easily found. That my body wasn’t as I wanted it…too much here, too little there. Not this. Not that. And I would escalate...
April 25, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Lest we forget My most favourite holiday in Australia is today. ANZAC day. The day we remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice of their lives. For the last 25 years my daughter and I have attended the dawn service at Surfers Paradise Beach. I find the experience...
April 24, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Rearrange deck chairs, or build new boats? I participated in my first Facebook live session today (Commonworks) and was asked a question about the dissonance in the United States between keeping the economy going and keeping people alive. If a nation-state does not...
April 23, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability
What changes are you loving? I am loving the quiet of the mornings, empty roads…a nearly thirty-year habit of arising at 4 am, and going out for a run, swim, walk and now surf…enhanced by less traffic. I am loving seeing so many people out on bikes, boards, blades,...
April 22, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Rewarding Value Creation which is Syntropic, vs Value Extraction Perhaps it is time to reward value creation, which is an act of syntropy, versus reward value extraction, which is an act of entropy. Value creation is generative. Like the Sun. Like a smile, like love…a...