February 2, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Myth of Selfish Somewhere along the road of science we have swallowed the lie that humans are primarily selfish. That we seek to take, to win at the cost of everyone. While there are certainly people who operate from this modality, and our economic and governance...
February 1, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
From the fringe From the fringe is where the momentum starts. And then it takes time. Persistence. Consistency. What was weird becomes normal. What was seen as impossible, becomes possible. If you are a fringe dweller and you have the skill of seeing around the corner...
January 31, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business
Business for good Business for good. Why not? For too long we have held the business hero as the one making the most profit in dollars, failing to look at the costs – the all-in-accounting from inception to resource use to final rest. And then there are...
January 30, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations
Three stages of relationship Human relationships are going through change. For a very long time, we had a clear definition of the masculine/feminine roles. There are many labels for this. Traditional, patriarchal. The masculine as the dominant, the breadwinner, the...
January 26, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Drama polarises a vanilla life Drama creates noise. It puts us at the centre of attention. It stops us from dealing with things we do not want to deal with. It floods our bodies with addictive hormones. That rush… Drama polarises a vanilla life. “I am so...
January 24, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Asymmetry of knowledge Transfers into asymmetry of power. If someone holds more information and knowledge than you they hold the power. It is one of the reasons that education is so important. Education allows access and access reduced asymmetry. Education has...