June 15, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Amplify Her Men with influence and intellectual authority have the ability to consciously and intentionally amplify gender ‘other’ – those who are not being seen and heard because of gender bias. Often men themselves do not even realise they have this bias. Look...
June 14, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Simplified Problems and Solutions Humans love problem-solving. Yet the truth is that most of the time the problem/solution ecology creates a reflexive impulse. A reflexive impulse is just that. A reflex. Enacted without thoughtful comprehensive consideration. Before...
June 13, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Our current models say we are winning but we are losing We are measuring and celebrating the wrong things. GDP measures nothing more than the speed with which stuff and money pass through the economy, all the while excluding millions of hours of unpaid labour, and...
June 12, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
All in accounting A report by Trucost, commissioned by the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, found that if environmental costs are counted, almost no industry is profitable. Perhaps we might pause and think about that. If we take the all-in-accounting cost for...
June 11, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Design for good As I gaze across the Pacific, its waters lake like on this morning, the sun not yet cresting the horizon, I think about people. Almost everyone I meet wants to do good. Good work, good art, good citizenship, good parenting, good relationships. The...
June 10, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Simplicity on the other side of complexity Is hard to achieve. Like mastery, it is the journey of discernment and elimination.. not this, not that. But this. The journey is worth every step for the clarification that becomes evident as you stay committed to the purity...