February 13, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Times of Neoliberal Autocracy. Truly strange bedfellows Nothing can breed violence like scarcity It is the bellwether of uprising. An increasing divide between the haves and have-nots. Hungry – for food, for access, for good education and health care, for...
February 12, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I was wrong Three words. Each of us needs to practice speaking these three words. I was wrong. Saying sorry is not the same as saying I was wrong. I was wrong. I made a mistake. I got it wrong. To own that we made a mistake is the hero’s act of our modern day....
February 11, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The polarisation of speech On the one hand we have political correctness. The rise of the super sensitive. “Don’t hurt my feelings” gone to the extreme. On the other we have the rise of freedom of inappropriate speech. Hate, trolling, racism, white...
February 10, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
We cannot spreadsheet our way out of everything The gloriously annoying thing about being human is our complexity. For too long we have insisted that the way to be human is to operate using only one of our many ways of processing and synthesising information available...
February 9, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
In the alchemy of existence luck counts Lucky to be born in the country I am born in. Certainly not perfect but allowing me to dress as I please, (significant for a woman) speak up when I want, (significant for many countries) vote even if those I am voting for might...
February 8, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The pain before the pleasure Rising in the dark from a warm comfortable bed, sleep still tugging at the edges. To go surfing in the dawn light. Pushing through the scream of muscles to lift the weight, get to the top of the hill, complete the 400 metre sprint. And...