July 3, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Pacing As I write this I watch hundreds of people run past me 5 kilometres into the Gold Coast Marathon, a run I have completed 10 times. 42 kilometres of running requires starting at a pace you can finish. In the heat of the start it is easy to get caught in the fray...
July 2, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Life is this glorious fleeting thing that makes no sense I light a match. The flame burns brightly. With this flame I light candles, as many candles as I have available will be lit from that single match, without any loss to the first flame. And then we blow the...
July 1, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Endurance and speed As a runner and swimmer, training for endurance is very different to training for speed. Very different mindset, very different approach. The majority of our business, economic and political world for the past few decades has been training for...
June 30, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Growth is never the problem if It is what is growing and why we see some growth as more important. A business and human need to grow to stay alive. Yet to focus only on the dimension of growth as profitability in a business is to delegate the business to the rapacious...
June 29, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development
To speak our thinking When we hold our thinking, puzzling, self-inquiry inside it has no mirror to reflect. Therefore we cannot see it from the eyes of the witness. To be able to see we need to speak our thinking and puzzling out. Or write it out. In our speaking...
June 28, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Unity is not oneness but uniting We lurch from extreme to extreme to find a new synthesis. It is inelegant. Often the innocent are the victims. The trajectory is towards a higher order, though often it feels we are so very far from that. I watch in horror as the...