May 7, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Think with your whole body We are suffering from a little whiplash to the intellectual. To thinking. Being in the head. You have to feel. Feel it. Or…it is not true if it is not felt. I have been told versions of these more than once. We need both. And in a world of...
May 6, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Personal Sustainability
An ode to the artisan There are some things that simply must not be scaled. To do so would be to violate the Pattern Integrity of the art. Hand crafted-over-three-day-croissants for example. An experience I get to eat every Saturday morning. Into the croissant goes...
May 5, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Solving our home planets problems It might be time for an honest conversation. What is the primary purpose of your effort, your enterprise, your work in the world? If it is to make money/profit at all costs, then declare that. If it is for the accumulation of power...
April 30, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business
Zero Exploitation In its original use, to exploit was to achieve and accomplish. In the 1830s the word exploit began to be associated with selfish use of humans, particularly in slavery. We might consider the word a template of human development. There are few...
April 27, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business
Human downgrading The arrow of evolution inches upwards. Most of the time. My flawed assumption is that technology is there to advance human evolution and development towards higher levels of consciousness and capacity to navigate increasing complexity. However, it...
April 25, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
History Matters In Australia and New Zealand, it is ANZAC day. We remember. And in remembering, we might ask questions. How do we allow war to happen? Will we humans ever find a way to be together without the need to kill each other? What happens to those who decide...