May 13, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Governance for wisdom, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The boss, the leader and the steward The boss fixes problems and tells people what to do. Everyone knows who they are and can go to them with their problems. The boss bosses. Do this. Don’t do that. They inspire by being great at solutions. Yet they do not create...
May 12, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Place the effort on alignment The word syzygy means three or more bodies in alignment, or yoked. When we create alignment between things, ideas, people, and places, we increase the force of everything towards the direction of the alignment. Know your why, where you...
May 11, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What moves people? What moves people? Awe, surprise and astonishment. The moment we drop our capacity for awe, for being surprised, we fall into the shadow of cynicism. It is easy to fall down this rabbit hole of cynicism. Being burnt by shoddy suppliers, broken...
May 8, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The reward for a big evolutionary purpose is who you become on the journey Why set goals? Why have a purpose? A purpose with goals gives us a direction to focus on. They allow a choice between spending time on this or that. “Will this move me towards my purpose,...
May 7, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To respect myself What does this mean? Literally, the act of looking back. To treat with esteem, regard with some degree of reverence. How do we respect ourselves? How do we treat ourselves with esteem? Are we our word? Hence, can we trust the promises we make to...
May 6, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Profit and its illusions Profit – from Latin profectus ‘progress, profit’, from proficere ‘to advance’. We seek as humans to advance. To make progress. This is a healthy impulse. But at what price? And is it acceptable that one person profits at the expense of...
