September 16, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Reflections on risk, life, edges – the entrepreneurial imperative In my morning run, I was listening to a Jonathan Fields Good Life Project podcast. (Highly recommended) The guest was saying how he was a graduate of Harvard, Class of 1968. And that they had...
September 15, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Cultivating Synchronicity in Business I was at an event hosted by a client a few weeks ago, and one of the speakers said, “We are an industry that believes in magic. Magic is an illusion.” And in a world of straight lines (no such thing) and 5-year...
September 11, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Living on Spaceship Earth, Cyrus the Great, global tolerance while doing no harm Imagine your home has a blocked toilet, and raw sewerage is overflowing onto the bathroom floor. How many hours would you tolerate this before you took very decisive action?...
September 9, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
If we lose the conversation with ourselves, then we are lost If we lose the conversation with ourselves, the opportunity to be still, quiet. To not do. To not have deadlines. To not have mountains to climb, places to go and people to meet…if we lose this...
September 4, 2014 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Here is to the wild ones – why tension must be designed into the system from the start Why do we reject robust conversations? I was born with passion. I was born a fighter. All 5’1″ of me. It was I who defended my big brother against bullies. It was...
August 25, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Hubris, entitlement, excess – A running lesson on staying humble It goes like this. I am running. Feeling great. In the flow. Striding out. Fresh morning air on my face. This thought or a variation arises, “You are so cool, Christine”, or “You...
