June 25, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Human apex predators Apex predators are those at the top of the food chain. They have no natural predators seeking to kill them. (Other than humans) Lions. Great White Sharks. Crocodiles. Killer Whales. There has been considerable debate about humans being apex...
June 20, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Too safe Sunk costs – time and energy invested into a life or business to be where you are now – is a poor excuse to keep the status quo. Kodak clung tightly to sunk costs as the digital camera went from oddity to ubiquitous. We cling to safety, the stuff...
June 12, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Out of touch Let them eat cake! Shouted someone who had no experience with the harsh endless grind of poverty. Get extra work and spend less, shouted the governor of Australia’s Reserve Bank. And, he continued, have more people stay in your rental accommodation to...
June 8, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What can I do? When we see suffering and pain around us, when we look at the operating system behind our current world order, the question, what can I do, calls. And will it be enough? These questions arise from a place that knows we can make a difference. Confusion...
June 7, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Synergy Buckminster Fuller defined synergy as the following. The behaviour of the whole cannot be determined by an examination of the parts separately. He went on to say that in order to solve anything, we had to begin with the whole. “Start with Universe first.”...
June 5, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Truth and Reconciliation One of the wonderful actions I admired in post-apartheid South Africa was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Context creates bad behaviour. People do terrible things under the influence of culture, alcohol, or tribal/goup consensus. I...
