October 18, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The masters house is burning Reading the speech given by Arundhati Roy on the receipt of her PEN prize last week, and then this article by Pankaj Mishra where he says, History has always been a clash between stories in which people aspire to recognise themselves. Our...
October 17, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Balance is a corrupt term in an unbalanced world “Balance is a corrupt term in an unbalanced world.”Jacqueline Rose When the pendulum of justice is hard to one side, coming into balance is not justice. For to do this negates the exploitation and suffering of those...
October 16, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
How can we change without changing? This is really the truth of most change initiatives. Let’s appear to change. Or tinker with change so we can feel good. Climate Action is almost entirely professing change without changing, for if there was an integrous...
October 15, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Another lesson in enough Yesterday I was in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, one of the many great wine-producing regions of Australia. I was there to speak on leadership to a group of about thirty top-performing agents. After so many years I am still learning that...
October 14, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Hollow bones and an empty heart Everything is easier when your employees and team are your biggest fans. If we go back to the root of the root and the source of the source of almost all the biggest issues humanity and life face it begins with that first thought of...
October 13, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
What is in it for me What is in it for me, says the ‘impact’ investor. For a start, a world with a future. Is that enough for you? Or is there something else you desire? Perhaps a few more decades of experiencing glaciers. Or clean rivers? Or is there something else...