August 16, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Creating space for safety Beautiful humanity is vulnerable. We have a soft inside, no matter what our story. Everyone feels, everyone bleeds, everyone yearns for human touch. We want to be loved, to be seen, to be held. We want it with our whole heart. Yet to call...
August 15, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Exceeding expectations Can’t be done unless you actually know what is expected in the first place. Meeting an expectation only creates a neutral response. To create long-term, loyal customers you must exceed expectations. This means going above and beyond what was...
August 14, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Metamorphosis The archetype of metamorphosis is very powerful. First, a caterpillar, then an undifferentiated blob, then a butterfly. No amount of examination of the caterpillar can determine the butterfly. I cannot speak for the caterpillar, but the process looks...
August 13, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Turning 90 degrees We can try to fix what is broken. Or we can turn 90 degrees and face a new vista, new possibility, new pathways. The principle of precession is the effect of an action in one direction that creates another action at 90 degrees. Often time the...
August 12, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Speed of change When a river rushes down a steep mountain and meets a stationary boulder, it creates eddies and stagnation, turbulence and chaos. The dissonance between that which is free-flowing and fast, and that which is steady and imperceptibly unchanging, is...
August 11, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings
Distracted Pulled in a thousand directions, scattered as a sky full of stars. Hard to focus. The central story that is wanting to be told is so big, so new, so powerful, that all we can do is be fractured into a thousand pieces as we reassemble the new story. Our...
