July 8, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The persistence of change Not in one fell swoop. But micro drop after micro drop over time. Keep showing up. Keep speaking up. Keep up the message delivery. Find the others. Amplify. Don’t make the position of those you seek to change wrong. Don’t shame, or blame....
July 7, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Coup des gens A coup d’état is an illegal replacement of one political system by another. A coup des gens, the phrase used by Shoshanna Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, is the forced replacement of human beings by abstract information systems. A...
July 5, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Conformity enforcers We have wild, chaotic, untrammelled. We have tight, brittle, fragile. We have the uncontained entrepreneurial spirit, absent discipline. And the safety and security of certainty. The tension between is the field of creativity. Not too tight to...
July 4, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Raving fan When you come across an enterprise that is everything and more it says it is…when its commitment to a massive transformational purpose like ending slavery is not lip service but the core focus of everything, when in the process they managed every single...
July 3, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Be the model you sell Today I had an interaction with a global company that recently sold to another company for $ 8 billion US. The company is all about enhancing the quality of experience we (their customers) are providing to our customers and staff and through our...
July 2, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Perturbation In any system, when molecules are under stress and pressure, they begin to perturbate. The higher the pressure the greater the frequency of perturbation. This is unsustainable. At some stage, unable to be predicted, the molecules will reach a threshold...