July 18, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The art of apprenticeship From Old French, apprendre- to learn, apprenticing as an act of reverence to life and our journey across its unexpected contours evokes much-needed humility. In medieval times, all craftspeople started as apprentices, bound to a master for at...
July 17, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Addicted to busy We are addicted to busy. Our work demands constant busyness. There is an illusion that if we are not busy, busy, busy, then we are being unproductive. It is a seriously flawed illusion. The last few days, I have been watching myself as my days are...
July 16, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
When collapse is a good thing As an endurance runner, I most often have clear signals that the body needs rest or fuel. The signals usually start with more subtle hints, a niggle here, a slight feeling of weakness. When we fail to pay attention to these signals, they...
July 15, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The value of one small step repeated every day As a marathon runner, I know the value of the next small step. And then the next. And the next. Eventually, you will have stepped 42.275kms. Almost anyone can do this. The question is always… how long will it take?...
July 12, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
How strong is your core as a leader? “Effective leaders are individuals who help us overcome the limitations of our own selfishness and weakness and fears and get us to do harder, better, more important things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.”...
July 11, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Does your business dance the VUCA -volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity Listening to the great talk by Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn on Crisis Leadership, she mentioned VUCA. Even the way it sounds has a thunderbolt-type feel to it. It also reminds me of a...
