April 3, 2014 | Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Accidents do happen – enough of the blame and shame game There is negligence, intentional acts, and then there are accidents. No intention, simply everything aligned at exactly the wrong time to create an unexpected and awful outcome. We live in a society that...
March 17, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Leadership crime and ecocide – what is it and why we are all complicit The movie “12 Years a Slave” opened up a very sensitive subject in the history of humanity. Most of us would watch this movie and wonder how we actually agreed that this type of...
December 18, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Spin doctoring, smoke and mirrors, general BS – the world of business finance In the world of business finance, there is jargon aplenty. Jujitsu mambo jambo. Spin doctoring. I am not sure if it is designed to flummox the poor person about to sign their life...
November 27, 2013 | Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
On the subject of debt – we all owe. Business owes. How committed are we to giving back? Debt. A four-letter word, experienced by many as a dirty word. Based on Latin debitum= something owed, also ‘away from having.’ There are many faces of debt. The...
August 9, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business
Venus in pinstripes. Simply good business Our traditional workplace values competitiveness, independence and self-reliance. The go-hard rulers of the world, the solo heroic journey. These values are characteristic of masculine traits. But our workplaces are changing....
July 19, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How do you keep score? All-in-cost accounting and real value Our society is brought up on measuring and keeping score. We don’t even realise how much we do this. We will immediately look at someone’s clothes, shoes, car, hair, skin colour, and make massive...
