June 26, 2013 | Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Saluting the Whistleblowers Edward Snowden has done a bold and courageous thing. He spoke out, at the cost of everything, against something he felt was wrong. A violation of everything he felt was good and true. For this, he is being vilified and hounded by his own...
June 21, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Universal Deceit, Revolutionary Acts, Speaking Up During times of Universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell Speaking the truth is fraught with many dangers. That’s why so few of us practice truth-telling as a way of being. We...
February 22, 2013 | Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Swimming Australia, Head Coaches, Taking Responsibility and Captain Asoh For the last 15 years, I have been a coach. Not one of the sports field blowing the whistle, but the coach of executives, business people and entrepreneurs and their teams. I have also been an...
January 20, 2013 | Current Affairs, Endurance Sport, Personal Development
Lance Armstrong- a cultural metaphor where lying and cheating are the new normal Is Lance Armstrong the first person to be a pathological liar over decades? No. Is he the first person to seemingly get away with cheating, deception and betrayal for years while the...
August 23, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To the underworld and back, surrender, trust and the myth of Inanna It has been a descent. And in my descent, I reach for the myths to sustain me. I turn to Inanna, the Sumerian (Iraq) Goddess of Love, Fertility and Warfare. Inanna decided to descend to the underworld...
July 31, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Endurance Sport, Personal Development, Syntropic Enterprise
When Gods Fall The fall of James Magnussen, Australian Olympic Swim team, London 2012 All of us have at some time fallen hard to Earth. Our hubris, arrogance, superiority and judgement have hit us so hard that we have been left gasping for air, mortified, humiliated,...