November 16, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
With resolve and love Bill McKibben wrote that the COP process, like COP26, is to be seen as a scorecard of governments being forced to change as a result of citizen power. Civil provocation must not only keep up, it must advance and adapt. More pressure needs to be...
November 15, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Topsy turvy When everything is upside down, inside out, true north is missing, the ground beneath our feet doesn’t seem to be as stable.. How do we find a place to pause, take a breath, to find a thread that makes sense? The beauty of chaos is the fractal pattern...
November 14, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Unseasonable A word we might get used to. This morning, a few weeks before the Southern Hemisphere is ‘officially’ in summer, we have the mid-winter morning equivalent. Not a cloud on the horizon. Fresh air. The ocean a lake, not a breath of wind. It is beautiful....
November 13, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Regeneration, colonisation and syntropy One of the key principles of a Syntropic Enterprise is to start with the whole in our consideration. This principle of principles, known as synergy, is stated in the following way. The behaviour of the whole cannot be determined...
November 12, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Gifts and compensation When the intention is purely in the giving without expectation of return giving a gift is an act of generosity. A gift is expressed in the present and has precession into the future. To compensate is to counterbalance and amend for loss or...
November 11, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Coercion and choice Coercion – to control, restrain, shut up – by law or authority Choice – the act of selecting Living in a society is a constant act of choosing. A free-for-all does not work, because my actions affect your choices and actions....