February 5, 2017 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Strong views loosely held Strong views enable people to know what you stand for. When people know what you stand for, it allows them to choose engagement or not. Fundamentalist views are views that are closed to any possibility of change. There is no argument of any...
January 29, 2017 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Arrested development – two behavioural diseases we urgently need to inoculate ourselves from Step overs and blind spots We step over so much. We do not speak up when we need to. And then get upset when we get more of what we need to speak up about. Then we get...
January 26, 2017 | Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We must fight for good every single day I am writing on the day that millions of women and men marched for dignity around the world. I was so deeply proud of my many friends marching in Washington, Boston, LA, Phoenix, Austin, Sydney, San Francisco, London. It was, by...
January 23, 2017 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The adverse consequences of being a nice person with good Intentions without a truthful why, and a whole systems view Learning the hard way. Really bad things have come from nice people with good intentions. Think charity and aid. Do-gooders, nice people, good...
January 16, 2017 | Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The Heart of a Pioneer – a world without maps depends on an inviolate compass Last weekend, my daughter and a friend climbed Mt Warning, in Northern New South Wales, a 1,156m mountain that overlooks the most easterly point of Australia, Byron Bay. The climb...
January 6, 2017 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Die Exhausted from Creativity Retire from what? We can only retire from that which steals from our soul. Showing up each day in service to something far greater than our singular self is an additive, enriching every fibre of our being. I cannot imagine a life of...