April 1, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Betraying your mission to save your bacon We watch this happening everywhere. The mission of a University is to be open-minded, exploratory, co-learning, research-based, big-picture thinking, challenge thinking, stretch, innovate, and emerge. Not bending the knee to...
March 31, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Gravity and the Pedestal Putting people on a pedestal, no matter how high the pedestal, has only one ending. We can admire someone. We can be inspired by them. They can mentor us. But to place them above us diminishes everyone, the person placed on the pedestal and...
March 30, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We are the imaginal cells It is a beautiful Sunday morning, with blue skies after a few days of relentless rain in an already soaked area. I watch a country that has, from its colonial existence, espoused freedom and free speech take the quick step to autocracy, a...
March 28, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Courage Leadership Wisdom I loathe cowards Those who make mistakes and then try to blame another, deflect, or dismiss the accusation as trivial. It shows the level of cowardly depravity, far from any quality of leadership. The craven people in the top positions of...
March 27, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Equity in shares is rarely based on equity Equity from aequus “even, just, equal. The uniform relation of one thing to others, equality, conformity, symmetry (From Etymology Online) Equity in a venture means you have shares in the venture, where one share of...
March 26, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Nuance stripped We make decisions and act in certain ways for so many reasons, the obvious and the reflexive, unconscious. The decisions we make in the heat of the moment often are mysterious to ourselves in that moment. Yet alone in the eyes of others. But here we...
