November 27, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Defining a personal code of conduct The current government of Australia is resisting an Integrity commission that would ensure politicians are not above the scrutiny of an independent body. Asymmetrical power and access to advanced information are corrupting, even for...
November 26, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Leadership as push or pull? To push an idea, a person, a team…might be necessary. Yet it is unsustainable in the long term. The burden of creation and success lives in constant pushing, and in the process removes the intrinsic desire of people to be self-generating...
November 24, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Apartheid and appropriation In 1947 a policy was introduced in South Africa which officially began in 1948 called apartheid. It was the segregation of Europeans from the non-Europeans. The non-European did not have any choice in this. They could not be polite, well...
November 23, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We all have confirmation bias We need to all admit that we have confirmation bias + have been infected by some form of propaganda. We believe, falsely, that it is the other person under the spell. This assumption immediately sets the stage for division and...
November 21, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Fear as the canary in the coal mine Fear makes people wobbly, doing strange, out-of-character things. Fear can also bring forth the shadow elements of us, elements we may not see in ourselves. Our own fear can be a powerful reflection pool, the opportunity for us to...
November 20, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Do the right thing. But what is the right thing? Most people I know want to do the right thing. Most people care. But what is the right thing? In the middle of last night I woke with this on my mind. Not from some dark cabal of gathered consciousness, but from a...
