February 28, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
And I know that good will prevail in the end My home community experiences yet another once-in-a-100-year flood. An egomaniac manages to unite most of the world – even rogue and neutral states stepping into action. The rattle of the nuclear option spoken...
February 27, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
It is not something you hope for. Integrity is a way to live The great Hannah Arendt wrote of the little atrocities. Micro transgression that paves the way for major evil. We do not get to evil in one step. We walk into it by agreement. The banality of evil, she...
February 26, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The cruelty of never asking the accused a question We all do this to some degree or another. Read an article and judge, try and sentence a stranger. The media has trained us well. When I first stepped into the public arena, in my own small way, I was not prepared for...
February 24, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Sovereignty and solidarity The word sovereignty has been coopted by culture to mean rights absent any consideration of consequence. The etymology of the word – its Pattern Integrity – late 13c., “superior, ruler, master,” from Old French...
February 23, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Moving past empire This is an unusual post for Beauty of Beginnings. This speech by Kenya’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Martin Kimani, acknowledges our terrible colonising past and a way forward that is integral and towards peace, dismantling...
February 22, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Every one of us needs to change to have this culture of domination change We must end the strongman leader archetype. If we want peace and dignity for all humans. The bully, the predator, the manipulator, the spin doctor. Too long have they ruled the affairs of...