July 3, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Pacing As I write this I watch hundreds of people run past me 5 kilometres into the Gold Coast Marathon, a run I have completed 10 times. 42 kilometres of running requires starting at a pace you can finish. In the heat of the start it is easy to get caught in the fray...
July 1, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Endurance and speed As a runner and swimmer, training for endurance is very different to training for speed. Very different mindset, very different approach. The majority of our business, economic and political world for the past few decades has been training for...
June 30, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Growth is never the problem if It is what is growing and why we see some growth as more important. A business and human need to grow to stay alive. Yet to focus only on the dimension of growth as profitability in a business is to delegate the business to the rapacious...
June 28, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Unity is not oneness but uniting We lurch from extreme to extreme to find a new synthesis. It is inelegant. Often the innocent are the victims. The trajectory is towards a higher order, though often it feels we are so very far from that. I watch in horror as the...
June 27, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We need to reframe power Power is the ability to move something from one place to another. To move electrons. To move atoms. To move ourselves. Power as a dominating force demands movement of people, animals, land and creatures because those who hold the ‘power’ say...
June 26, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Law of Universal Uniqueness No two snowflakes the same. No human the same. No ant the same. Perhaps no atom, molecule or neutrino the same. Novelty is life. It is gorgeous. Complex. Complicated. Novelty and diversity bump into each other all the time. Diversity...