December 4, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Finding the fragile The most vulnerable part of us. We protect it so fiercely. Often we do not even know the one thousand ways we have built walls of protection. The fragile is maligned in a world that celebrates the strong. Yet this soft tender aspect of our...
December 3, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The difficult work of changing a cultural inequity Inequities are everywhere. Gender, race, wealth/poverty, education, ability, sexual orientation..to name a few. Today I want to speak about gender inequity. We have lived for a long time in a patriarchal society. The...
December 1, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The fine art of asking There are the givers and the takers. Syntropic World is filled with givers. Generosity is the norm. This is a delightful world compared to the rapacious greed of business-as-usual. Givers need to learn to ask. When the ask itself comes from our...
November 28, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
An ode of gratitude to the change makers, fringe dwellers, pioneers, mavericks, those who go first The true disruptors, those who are changing incumbent and entrenched systems, will be misunderstood. Often threatened. Sometimes with the highest of high prices. Yet...
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...
