August 5, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Seduced and sold. Imagine if your definition of success wasn’t actually yours? Have you ever considered that your definition of success is not yours? That you are defined by a cultural definition of what success looks and feels like? Our current Western...
August 2, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Reframing, new perspectives, synergistic accounting Bucky Fuller pointed out that pollution was simply stuff out of place. Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest, talks about how we have focused on making carbon the new evil. Our carbon footprint, carbon trading and...
August 1, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
When silence is no longer an option – a salute to Edward, Malala, Bradley, Julian et al. At some point, the act of staying silent is no longer an option. We have to dare to speak about what has been burning within us. It becomes clear that to not speak will be a...
July 31, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Measure what matters What we love to measure now. In business How much profit we make, our costs, efficiency, performance, ROI, sales. In life How much money we make, how heavy we are, how much stuff we have, how young we look, how we compare with Jill and Bob and...
July 30, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
We need to screw business as usual. Do you dare? We are beyond the industrial era, where people have an education designed to make them compliant performers. We need more creative non-conformists. We have people, classified as leaders of industry, receiving obscene...
July 26, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Remembering the source code of business and relationships It all starts with a seed. A first thought. A tiny little something that looks like nothing. Whether it be a human, a tree, a business, or a nation…every act of creation starts at the infinitesimal level....
