May 7, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Who stewards the stewards? Leaders today are asked to make big decisions. Or small decisions that have big consequences. How is it that we repeatedly find leaders and pension fund managers making decisions with dire consequences? Where, for example, they will choose...
May 6, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Optional versus unavoidable suffering No one is exempt. We all get to suffer. Money or status or success won’t buy you a free pass from suffering. But how much of our suffering is by our choice and how much is not? I love this question. It invites deep...
May 5, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Do the work – leadership development starts inside We are masters of exterior development = learning new skills, gaining experience, falling down, getting up, making things, unmaking things, studying, practising, applying, doing, being busy. Our education system...
May 1, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Human resources. Are you happy being a resource? We know we are in trouble as individuals and people when we are reduced to resources. When our value is measured purely on our ability to provide some predetermined function, with all other domains of value being...
April 30, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Stewardship, economics and new leadership Imagine that, instead of being a CEO, boss, manager, or leader, we were assigned the task of stewardship? ORIGIN Old English stīweard, from stig (probably in the sense ‘house, hall’) + weard‘ward’ (guardian, keeper, ward) That...
April 28, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Typical job inquiry. Only ‘half’ people need apply From the beginning of our education into the workforce… which means from our very first school days… we are trained to leave parts of ourselves out. That might be our crazy way of drawing that...
