April 2, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Unprecedented When the Tainos peoples of the pre-Columbian Caribbean Islands first sighted the Spanish conquerors, they did not have either language or context to place this most unusual scene. Nor could they possibly predict the complete destruction of their lives...
April 1, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Personal Development
Investment From Latin – to give one’s capital a new form. We are all investors. The question is in what? Our capital, that which is first in importance to us, will be directed to something. This might include accumulation of knowledge, things, health,...
March 31, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Latent Potential Like a tightly coiled spring ready to be released. A Jack-in-the-box. Can you feel it? What shape is it? Does it have a colour? How does it feel? What does it need to be primed? Often times our latent potential sits patiently, waiting for the right...
March 30, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development
TrimTab ‘Call me TrimTab’ said Bucky Fuller. A Trimtab is the micro rudder on the rudder of a ship. Small, yet able to produce significant change in the direction of a very large boat. Small, consistent actions taken over time make big changes. Showing up in...
March 29, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business
Questioning Ownership What if organisations are no longer property? Most of us have heard the quotes from Indigenous American Indians about the impossibility of owning the land. “What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother,...
March 28, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations
Human Centred Enterprise The moment we remove care and thought of humans and earth from our business model is the moment we make a compact with the devil. We fail to realise that what we do to others is going to pave the road to be done to us. To extract personal...