June 7, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The life of a visionary pioneer Take a big vision, one almost no one else can see. They will call you stupid. Or their eyes will glaze over when you speak of it. Study the field. See the future. Feel its edges. You can taste it touch it, know it. Come back to here....
June 6, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
Anticipation Like bubbles of a very fine vintage Champagne. A cross between excitement and anxiety. All mushed up. Mind flittering from this to that, a very busy bee. Not a good state for high performance. What is it that we are anticipating? The known, or the...
June 5, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Start something you cannot finish The point of having an Evolutionary Purpose, a very large goal, a loon shot…includes knowing that you might not be around to see it finished. An evolutionary purpose that transcends self in service to something larger than us ensures...
June 4, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Deviancy is the essence of culture In his magnificent little book, Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse raises the question of deviancy. If we follow the script, live in the box, conform to expectations, we impoverish the culture. Nature is constantly emergent....
June 3, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Good intentions misaligned When we are working on big issues like ending poverty – any big systemic issue – we need to start with the biggest view possible, ideally, with the whole. In the interim, we may need to provide symptom care in the field. Food,...
June 2, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Seeking Relevance For what? Fame for fame’s sake speaks only to absence. To be relevant is to be helpful. To lighten or lessen a current issue. Those of us who occupy the edges might be relevant to those who are drawn to the edge. Or…we might shine a light on a...
