October 31, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Breaking the failure/shame cycle on the path to success It happens to all of us. Something doesn’t work out as we hoped, and we feel like a failure. This then spirals down to shame. From shame, we either withdraw and shut down, or tell stories to justify why, or...
October 30, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A world absent of discipline and how this affects emerging entrepreneurs Twice a year, I guest teach Integral Theory to Bond University Entrepreneurs class. Yesterday, as we were walking through the stages of human development, it became extremely apparent to me...
October 29, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Love Business – The first duty of love is to listen If your business, your life, your work is not about love, then never expect it to fill your life with the things you most yearn for. In our ‘go hard’ success-generating world, it is rare that the...
October 28, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Can you teach someone to become an entrepreneur and other ruminations on entrepreneurship It’s not about entrepreneurial skills or processes. These can be taught. Entrepreneurship is a way of being. Entrepreneurs see the world as a giant playpen with unlimited...
October 25, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Decisive, Clarity, Intention – critical for leadership Get clear. Speak. If you are not clear, find someone who can help you get clear. If you don’t have time to do this, at least have the respect for the other party to let them know you are not clear. Be...
October 24, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
The myth about work. Take a walk in the park Does walking in the park look like work? Writing in your journal? Washing your car? Sitting in silence and tuning into your business, or your clients, or your suppliers? Doing the hard work of self-awareness and inner...