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...
July 9, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Where do you go at 2:23AM when you cannot sleep? It’s at this time that the cold hand of our deepest questions rise up, unasked for. No matter how we try to suppress it, there you are, awake. Facing the soul yearning that will not yield to a diet of more work,...
July 5, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The greater conversation. Living on the edge No one knows what will happen in the next second. It is in the second that life changes forever. We say yes. Or no. A phone call comes. Someone dies. Someone is born. Something precious breaks. Living on the very edge, the...
July 4, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Naivety as a value When is naivety a value worth holding? ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from French naïve, feminine of naïf, from Latin nativus ‘native, nature Hard-hearted comes from being broken down by life. Deceived, not trusting. Defensive. If we do the ‘all...
