June 24, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Giving that can never be repaid – a daily practice, a business value I read this quote a few weeks ago… You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. John Wooden (One of the most successful...
June 23, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
That which stands in the way is the way. The revival of the Goddess Isis That which stands in the way is the way. Pema Chodron The Middle East is a seething cauldron of diverse values. Its complexity extends back thousands of years. Added to its inherent complexity is...
June 20, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
10 unexamined assumptions about business – the story of the deer and the electric fence During the Cold War, there was an electric fence between the Czech Republic and Germany. Now, some 25 years later, the red deer still do not cross the area where the fence...
June 19, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
This must stop _______? What BS behaviour are you done with? What is THIS? Each moment we are faced with choices. Like well-trained animals, we invariably and reflexively go back to exactly the same choice…again and again and again. The wonder of movies such as...
June 18, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Mythology of the “heroic” sleep deprived entrepreneur The “go-hard or go-home”, working massive hours, sleep-deprived heroics is a sham. This is Business as Usual, buying into some old story that only those who sacrifice themselves on the...
June 12, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Deploying Synergistic Accounting – Part 8 Every day people experience the pain of not having their value recognised. We watch in aghast as our crazy system rewards CEOs in x200-1500 multiples of base salaries, even if the company missed its ‘target’...
