November 21, 2011 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Developing Your Listening Intelligence, Part 2 In Part 1, we introduced the idea that we have in our Western Culture very poor listening skills, and similarly, very poor speaking skills. This article is about creating the ability, with practice, to be able to tune...
November 14, 2011 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We don’t know how to listen. Developing listening and speaking intelligence Part 1. We don’t know how to listen. The old saying, ‘we only use 10% of our brain,’ could well apply to our listening ability. Except I would say we probably only hear about 1% of what is...
November 7, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Syntropic Enterprise
The dance between evolution and equilibrium The often overused word equilibrium is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as “any condition in which all acting influences are cancelled by others, resulting in a stable, balanced, or unchanging system.” Equilibrium...
October 31, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Eventually we all pay Here in Australia, we just had Qantas shut down for nearly 2 days, stranding thousands of people around the world. If you scratch below the surface of this action and zero in on the source of why the executive team decided to do this, it reveals...
October 27, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Vocational arousal, dancing bubbles of joy When you love your work, you spend your days in a heightened state of arousal. Pretty cool. What’s not to love about that? The world is filled with people who have brought the system…” do as you are told, go to school,...