November 4, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Love and language It takes a lifetime or more to know the contours and nuances of love. Our English language is so inadequate in capturing the many types of love, the many colours of love…. For a child For the beauty of a rose For our Earth and its creatures For our...
November 2, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
False power What power looks like today – Power appears to be held by the corporations and the legal structures that support them, the media who tell the story they want, and the equity and pension funds who own the corporations. Politicians are at the beck and...
November 2, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The architecture of trust Begins with the promises we make to ourselves. If we cannot keep the promises with ourselves we are unlikely to keep the promises we make with others. There is a vast difference in using words such as ‘I will” and “I would like to..” “I would...
November 1, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Keeping the main thing the main thing The first question is…what is the main thing? It might be different than it was five minutes ago. It might not be what you want it to be. It might be something you do not like doing. It might be simple, and you dismiss it for its...
October 31, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The Obvious Is often not obvious. This is why we need trusted coaches and friends to point out what is obvious to them, but blind to us. If we want to create autonomous self-managed teams then we cannot tell them that we want them to achieve ‘x’ results. Telling does...
October 30, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The problem with problems When we focus on problems and solutions we invite a patterned response that has become so enculturated that it is largely reflexive. Here is the problem. What is the solution? The new solution quite possibly creates a whole new set of...