October 28, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Can you teach someone to become an entrepreneur and other ruminations on entrepreneurship It’s not about entrepreneurial skills or processes. These can be taught. Entrepreneurship is a way of being. Entrepreneurs see the world as a giant playpen with unlimited...
October 25, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Decisive, Clarity, Intention – critical for leadership Get clear. Speak. If you are not clear, find someone who can help you get clear. If you don’t have time to do this, at least have the respect for the other party to let them know you are not clear. Be...
October 22, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
When to go hard and when to step back – in business, sport, life As a long-distance runner with decades of experience, I have learned, often the hard way, the difference between the times to go hard and bust through thresholds and the times to take a back seat,...
October 21, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Distinguishing noise from desire. And why desire matters in building business as unusual We live in a noisy world, bombarded by thousands of things and people seeking our attention. Buy this, eat that, do this, be that, go here, stay there, read this, watch this, buy...
October 18, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Work Life Balance. Let’s dispense with the BS There has been a lot of noise about work life balance. What it is, how to achieve it. Most of it is just noise designed to distract you from the real issue. If you work at something you love, something that gives you...
October 17, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Lighten up; the serious work of screwing business as usual There is serious work to be done in the world. We are rewriting the rulebook for business as usual. Yet what we don’t want is more factory humans. Cold steel and anti-life work environments. Doing work...
