January 14, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
The anaesthetic lens of data Numbed are we by big numbers. 15,000 children die of hunger a day. Still. Millions starving in Afghanistan, now. Numbers blurred. We, so desensitised, fail even to register this as human suffering on an epic scale. We hear the numbers and...
January 13, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The balance between sovereign choice, personal responsibility, consequence and the rights of others Public health, child care, elder care, basic education (Year 1 to 12) should not be profit-making. The moment we allow profit we incentivise behaviour to put profit...
January 11, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Honouring the whole value of a tree Our economics states that the tree has no value at all unless we are prepared to cut it down and carve it up. It needs to be commodified, traded, exchanged to be registered on a balance sheet. If you have ever sat under a tree and...
January 10, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Perspective These last few weeks I have had to endure extraordinary pain from an infected tooth. One of those occasions that it happens, even though I get regular dental care, over the Christmas New Year holidays, when my dentist is also on holidays. Endurance was the...
January 9, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Lines in the sand Where do we draw the line and who or what gives us the right? As a parent, my line is to protect my child until they are capable of making complex decisions for themselves. Sometimes I am going to get this wrong. Sometimes I might overprotect. My...
January 8, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Humility We know nothing about what we are dealing with. We do not have the right answers, only guesses based on hurried science and perhaps looking at those a very few steps further down the path. Our institutions are no longer trusted at all by most. Decades of lies...
