July 22, 2015 | Future of Business, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Future leadership attributes required for rapid change *ability to see the whole system, not just the enterprise, and how it relates to other enterprises, the local and global economies, the emerging future and the past conditions *ability to empower others to lead,...
July 7, 2015 | Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Rare is the true champion. The one who strives valiantly. And if he fails, he at least fails while daring greatly. In Australian Sport this last week, the women’s Football team, the Matildas, against the odds, made it through a knockout round against Brazil to...
June 11, 2015 | Economies for justice, Personal Development
Debt is a great way to keep people docile “Debt is a great way to keep people docile”, Dr Jason Hickel In this blistering and lucid article on the delusions of microfinance, Dr Hickel exposes a model that the West have looked on so favourably these last...
June 10, 2015 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What is my relationship to the unknown? The false gods of security What is my relationship to the unknown? How comfortable am I sitting on the precipice of the emergent? Am I able to stand in the tension of uncertainty? And if so, for how long? How much is my life...
June 2, 2015 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Left or right? At the crossroads of decision. When not deciding is the path We all reach a place in our lives where we are torn between two or three major decisions. Where everything appears to be directing us to choose. Yet there are times when to choose to go left...
May 28, 2015 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We all are born unique yet most of us die a copy I heard this wonderful quote* on my predawn walk this morning. We all are born unique yet most of us die a copy. I thought about that, about how when I first became a parent I assumed my child would be born a blank...