November 8, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Healthy and unhealthy obsession in business- and how to tell the difference Obsession occurs when something in the exterior world has more control over you than you have over it. Something seizes you, takes hold of your mind, body, soul, and emotions. It is quite...
November 7, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Motivated by what? Plenty or lack? Business as usual, or unusual? Business as Usual – motivated by scarcity. Not enough. There will never be another offer like this? Another opportunity like this. The price will go up. Only a few people in the world can do this....
November 5, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Back to basics – revisiting the fundamentals of business as unusual These fundamentals are the architecture of a Syntropic Enterprise. 1. We have to have a context. A why that is big enough to inspire us. 2. We need to have a moral compass. These are our values....
November 4, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Unreasonable business What would be the most unreasonable, the boldest, the biggest path you could take in your business? Sure, you might fail. But you might also succeed. If you are making vanilla ice cream, it simply has to be the best vanilla ice cream in the...
November 1, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
On Avatar, Harry Potter, Marvel comics and businesses of the future The writing is clearly all around us. Biggest box office movies of our times have been Avatar, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter. We flock to X-men, Avengers…keep resurrecting Superman,...
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...
