August 7, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Syntropic Enterprise
Truth is expensive, lies are cheap In a world addicted to speed, cheap and dramatic, taking the time to establish truth is slow, expensive, time-consuming, and costly. People would rather not make that investment in seeking truth. Give me the quick hit, the drama...
August 3, 2026 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Syntropic Contemplations weekly e-news Archives
Staying in the question Imagine you are walking down a path towards a goal, very focused, clear on your intent, and all of a sudden, completely unexpectedly, you hit a major speed bump, or even a mountain. This mountain is right in your path. It is not supposed to be...
July 29, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Arguing skillfully A healthy ecology includes robust debate and argument. To agree all of the time, to be in consensus, is to be entropic. To move closer to death and decay. So many of us loathe conflict. We avoid it at all costs, choosing instead to remain silent to...
July 22, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
In the details I am a big picture person. I see, with ease, the threads and connections between and within complex systems. My default is to look at the whole and not focus on the minutiae. Yet there are areas where the minutiae are all I see and hear. The little...
July 17, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Dare to speak At some point, the act of staying silent is no longer an option. We have to dare to speak about what has been burning within us. It becomes clear that not speaking will be a certain death, be that the death of our identity, our soul, our being, our...
June 13, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Importance of Communication Skills The importance of communication skills cannot be stated highly enough. Life is relationship and relationship is life. Without the ability to communicate and to do so well, we have poor/dysfunctional relationships with ourselves, with...