April 3, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Everything is terrorism except terrorism This is the boy-cried-wolf statement of our times. Everything is terrorism, except actual terrorism. You know, when a country goes in and deliberately targets aid workers driving clearly marked aid vehicles and then seeks to...
April 2, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Injustice for those kicked to the curb by injustice Nothing makes me madder than the elite getting away with everything and anything, while the people who have limited access to money, fancy lawyers, and high-quality support get punished for minutia. I watch those...
April 1, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Betraying your mission to save your bacon We watch this happening everywhere. The mission of a University is to be open-minded, exploratory, co-learning, research-based, big-picture thinking, challenge thinking, stretch, innovate, and emerge. Not bending the knee to...
March 31, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Gravity and the Pedestal Putting people on a pedestal, no matter how high the pedestal, has only one ending. We can admire someone. We can be inspired by them. They can mentor us. But to place them above us diminishes everyone, the person placed on the pedestal and...
March 30, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We are the imaginal cells It is a beautiful Sunday morning, with blue skies after a few days of relentless rain in an already soaked area. I watch a country that has, from its colonial existence, espoused freedom and free speech take the quick step to autocracy, a...