November 15, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business
Abstraction separates us from Source Could you look in the eyes of the cow before you kill it to eat it? If we look into the eyes of the people arriving on boats as climate and war refugees, would our response to them be different? If we sat down and listened to their...
November 14, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs
Emerge, emergency, merge The letter ‘E’ means out of. mergere “to dip, sink” “Emerge from Latin emergere “bring forth, bring to light,” intransitively “arise out or up, come forth, come up, come out, rise” Within the word emergency lives...
November 13, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Crimes against the faceless When we are reduced to numbers on a spreadsheet it makes it easy for someone in a position of power who is also far removed from human beings affected to decree horrid things. In Australia, a government decided to hunt down those on welfare...
November 12, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A cascade of foolishness “The slightest deviation from truth is multiplied a thousand-fold.” Aristotle Building an enterprise where it is safe to speak truth at the earliest instance is critical. If we allow lies and mistakes to go unchecked, if we shame and blame...
November 11, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Remember On this day, over 100 years ago, the first world war ended. To remember is to attempt to never repeat the behaviours that created world war. I wonder why we fail at this. To never repeat. I look at the lineup of world leaders at COP 27, an image that...
November 10, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Regime change I remember when I was a young person and I looked to my elders and thought them to be out of touch. They did not understand our music, our entertainment, our culture. I made a decision to do my very best to not become one of these old people. I wanted...
