January 17, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Four Faces of Power Our journey in life is to learn to become ever more whole and in our power, even when the world offers us multiple temptations, seductions, and distractions, or when we are betrayed, humiliated, and shamed. In my annual review, I have realised...
January 9, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Endurance Sport, Personal Development
Year review – endurance running and swimming In 2011, I ran at least 3,380 kms in total. (I have run over 50,000 kms in the last 16 years.) Swam approximately 572 kms I ran my 8th Gold Coast Marathon on very limited training (the longest run was 18 kms; for...
December 19, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Working ‘with’ not ‘on’ your business. The Pattern Integrity of your business Part 3. Anyone who has been on a team knows that adding or subtracting one person can change the dynamics of the team. Add one more child to a family, the dynamics...
December 13, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
deScrooging Christmas, or any day Don’t you love the experience of being gobsmacked by people surprising the heck out of you in the best way? Today I met with a long-standing client who is a senior executive in a big Australian corporation. He is on his 3-month-long...
November 7, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Syntropic Enterprise
The dance between evolution and equilibrium The often overused word equilibrium is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as “any condition in which all acting influences are cancelled by others, resulting in a stable, balanced, or unchanging system.” Equilibrium...
October 31, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Eventually we all pay Here in Australia, we just had Qantas shut down for nearly 2 days, stranding thousands of people around the world. If you scratch below the surface of this action and zero in on the source of why the executive team decided to do this, it reveals...