November 17, 2014 | Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Good intentions, bad outcomes – good intentions alone no longer work I am interested in a person’s core intention for taking an action. What is their why? Their bone deep why? For even if someone does something for the ‘good’ intention, many...
November 5, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The seed of corruption – it has infested us all Corruption is derived from two root words. Cor, which is Latin for the heart, and rumpere, which means to break. To act with corruption is to act from a heart that is broken, not able to feel. A numb heart. How do...
October 21, 2014 | Current Affairs, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
From this to this – what Syntropic World is all about From this: *people as commodities *the environment as commodities *reducing the essentials for human life….to commodities…like child care, food, aged care, health, education….. *enterprise...
October 14, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Control is powerlessness masquerading as power This I heard quoted by my teacher/guide Hiro Boga on an audio this morning on my run. The subject was power. Real, authentic power. You know, that stuff we all have yet often misplace? The stuff that has been abused in...
October 13, 2014 | Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Money makes us anonymous Handing over a piece of paper or digits across screens may be the sum total of the relationship between the buyer and the seller. I want milk, I buy from the supermarket, I may or may not smile, or even chat briefly to the person at the check...
September 25, 2014 | Current Affairs, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Asymmetries as the trump card of the old model of business I was speaking to Dr Don Beck this morning for the podcast. Don was a student of Clare Graves and the person credited with bringing Spiral Dynamics to the world. Don has been my teacher since the early 2000s....