September 27, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The whiplash of shock After a long run in steaming humidity, the shock of the ocean swim took my breath. It was a welcome shock. Tingling and delicious. Shock wakes us from our slumber, be that the slumber of non-attention, the slumber of hubris, the slumber of...
September 26, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
When we stay silent we are complicit In general, our silence about issues of human import makes us spectators, not citizens. In our silence, we join the ranks of the noisiest spectators. Noisy spectators are often the rudest and most entitled. You can tell where the...
September 25, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
To be a part of something great Make it easy. Reduce it to a sound bite. Don’t use big, strange words. Yes, do all of these things if you want to appeal to everyone and invite participation with low levels of commitment. The reason we love Gold medals at the Olympic...
September 24, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Build businesses with love If your business, your life, your work is not about love then never expect it to fill your life with the things you most yearn for. In our ‘go hard’ success-generated world, it is rare that the topic of love is discussed...
September 23, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
A great business mind I heard a reporter say yesterday that Rupert Murdoch is one of the greatest business minds of our generation. This is what we celebrate? A man who builds an empire that controls three nation-states. The politicians and journalists terrified of...
September 22, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
No one can take our power away Many of us have a warped relationship to power. We have difficulty naming our power, which is always available, yet rarely recognised. We see those who are actually wielding force as being powerful. Does brute strength or welding...
