January 7, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Language creates culture in business Business as usual is a culture of domination, top-down hierarchy, leader as authoritarian, employees as commodities, customers as consumers, and citizens as consumers. If we want to change the world, we need to change our language....
December 20, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Strange bedfellows – creativity/entrepreneurialism and fear What if the more creative/entrepreneurial you are, the more fear there is? What if these two are twins, the yin and yang? Inseparable? If this is correct, then here are some things to consider. 1. We...
December 19, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
‘Tis the season for NOT thinking about business The Aussie Christmas season is slightly different to that of the Northern Hemisphere. It is our summer and our summer school holidays. Most businesses I know will shut down this Friday for at least two weeks....
December 13, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
At what point do we say cruelty of any kind is good fiscal management? Our public television station in Australia, SBS, broadcast this story last night about cruelty perpetrated on Australian cattle that had been exported live. (It’s horrific.) I am not against...
December 12, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
At what price secrets? Fear, scarcity and protection for what purpose? In this age of everything being online and everyone’s phone being able to be tapped, what is left to be private? Add to this the ridiculous mess of the patent system, particularly the US...
December 9, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
One thing women know about a start up business that men do not Women who have gestated a baby and born a child know something about the process of birthing creativity in an embodied way. Nature has its own gestation rate. Try to rush the birth of a baby. Or a flower....
