January 27, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The uncounted investment of caring The time it takes to write a thoughtful text, rather than a utilitarian one. To prepare a room for guests, with special touches. To inquire after a co-worker’s family, persistently, consistently, because of genuine interest. To...
January 26, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
To be colonised From Latin, colonus, the tiller of the soil, farmer; the act of colonisation became ‘to make another place into a national dependency’ without regard for those who existed there in the first place. In the history of mankind, we colonisers have looked...
January 25, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Ethics requires vigilance Our brilliance is never far from our darkness. It is in the wilful knowing that we are, but a heartbeat from being the perpetrator that we hold ourselves to a higher order. It is from this place as well that we find compassion. “I, too,...
January 24, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
More time relishing in the sweet agony of boredom An addiction could be simply described as a something, be that a drug, a food, a habit, an activity; having more control over us than we have over it. Most of us are addicted to something. The evidence is found in the...
January 21, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Metamorphosis A transformation, to transform. An alchemical process. The process is never easy. In distinction to an adjustment or a rearrangement, metamorphosis occurs to the entire organism, leaving no part untouched. The caterpillar to the butterfly, the babe in...
January 20, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Leaders who dare Leaders who dare To do what is right. Against all odds. Against a system that is designed to reward the few off the backs of the many. Where we celebrate the kings of commerce for their wealth achieved by extracting and exploiting, as if not paying...