November 4, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
On depression, suicide and choice When I was in my thirties, I met a boy. I fell in love. Joseph was his name. I didn’t know at the time that Joseph suffered from bipolar disease. Some months later, Joseph tried to kill himself, shooting himself in the chest...
November 3, 2014 | Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What do you want to optimise? Escaping the success trap Successful according to what and whom? For all the people in the startup world, most will not make it to the big time. The rare bird will get to hit the jackpot. The lure of the jackpot is enough to keep the many...
October 29, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Creative Tension – holding your nerve, entrepreneurial endurance I am in that place of creative tension. I know it, because everything has brought me to here. While reading Dan Pink’s latest book, To Sell is Human, he writes, backed by research, that...
October 28, 2014 | Future of Business, Historical, Systemic and Political Context, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Mature Leadership – the ability to handle increasing complexity It is quite obvious that our life conditions are increasingly complex and that this complexity is only going to continue to increase. 50 years ago, most leaders simply had to worry about their own...
October 23, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Into the well of spiritual exhaustion It amazes me that I have been a guest of this world for 54 years. Like many people I speak to in my generation, we feel as vital as we did in our thirties, yet the reflection in the mirror sometimes shocks. “Who is that person?”...
October 22, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A burst of light…can hit you at anytime After a wonderful, rich conversation with Cindy Wigglesworth today on the subject of her life’s work, Spiritual Intelligence, she defines spiritual as the innate human need to be connected with something larger than...
