September 27, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
On Integrity Integrity…I would have thought that to live in integrity was not that hard a gig. Seems I am wrong. Seems that integrity is the toughest gig in town. Not only that, but it is rare. It demands of you your best. And more. It demands that you say no to...
August 24, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
On the question of personal power and surrogacy In the award-winning but chilling movie, No Country for Old Men, there is a scene between the psychopath Anton and a woman called Carla Jean, an innocent bystander. If you have not seen the movie, Anton Chigurh kills...
August 14, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Reconciling the sacred mother archetype I never had anything to do with children. I don’t believe I had even held a baby until I held my newborn daughter. I have always preferred animals. But my destiny was to become a mother. It so happened that I was married when I...
August 8, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business
Of gifts and dignity, the antithesis of starving in our obesity The mythology of a market society reverses the picture of a gift society. In a market society…Getting rather than giving is the mark of a substantive person, and the hero is the ‘self-possessed’...
August 3, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Future of Business
Financial literacy, new friends, abundance as a way of being In the history of the world, it is often the seemingly small events that have the power to make the most significant changes. Rosa Parks refusing to sit at the back of the bus. Mohamed Bouazizi’s...
July 17, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Historical, Systemic and Political Context
Not Afraid Enough – naming ‘he who cannot be named’ “Instead of medicating ourselves on shopping, food, drugs, alcohol, eternal youth, gossip, reality TV, and intense narcissism as a way to avoid facing what we feel in our increasing fear, far...