March 21, 2014 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Cultivating felt sense Most people have walked into a room and felt the tension that exists when the people in the room have been fighting. This is felt even before your rational brain has had the chance to analyse the situation. Our reptilian brain senses danger, and...
March 18, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Leadership altitude – critical to lead the future of business The leader needs to be at a higher stage of development than the organisation she leads. Think of it like a high-rise building with ten floors. From the ground, the view is of only things on the...
March 13, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Your saboteur and its role in leadership development Get to know your saboteur. We all have one. That part of us that throws a shoe into the gear mechanism of our life. I have a friend who simply must have high drama around her. The drama carries the theme of legal...
March 10, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Open to be challenged – really? Are you really? Open to be challenged? If this is true then this means that you are willing to step aside from you closely held beliefs and try on a different perspective for a period of time. Open, not closed, in any way. (At...
March 7, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Synaptic leaps, dissipative structures- what it takes to really lead Many years ago I had the privilege of spending 7 days on the Big Island of Hawaii with a group of about 100 people studying the work of Buckminster Fuller. The material we used was a video taken of...
March 3, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Taking Bold Action and Meeting the Critic and Bully Almost every human I have met has in front of them the choice between the path that calls them but is filled with uncertainty, risk and exposure, and the other path, the safe path. We are often faced with this choice...
