February 13, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Lets successfully fail Imagine if, instead of failure, we successfully discover something that does not work. If you were raised in a household that taught you about successfully discovering what doesn’t work, talking about it, learning from it, as a success…how might...
February 12, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Stand for something Not against something. Please can we stop tearing each other down? Being divisive. Complaining about what is not working. Can we instead tell the story of what we care about? What we aspire to and why? How we are going to do this? How we champion...
February 11, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What can I do Is a great question. In the asking exists the impulse to get over the self-serving aspect of what is in it for me. We might ask it of another in need. “What can I do?” Or we might ask it as an existential question to address issues that seem beyond our...
February 10, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Human centred design Strange that we do not do human-centred design very often. We designed cities for cars and transport. We design elections for rigging and hard access. We design technology to optimise technology. We designed the internet to be captured by a few...
February 9, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Naming the elephant We skirt around naming the elephant, as if to do so will protect us from facing it. We say nice things, we sugarcoat. The aim is to not hurt. To be sensitive. What we are actually doing is prolonging the hurt, extending the consequences of the...
February 8, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Privileged Is an awareness that we have an advantage. If I am close friends with you, I have a privileged connection to you that the person down the street does not have. I call you and you will probably answer my call. Inherent in conscious privilege is the...
