January 16, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Measuring wealth A measure of your wealth is how much you would be worth if you lost all of your money. The source of the word wealth comes from the Middle English Welthe, which has its roots in health and wellness. To be truly wealthy is a state of health and...
January 14, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
How much evil am I willing to tolerate in business? People would describe me as an optimist. I see good and beauty far more than evil. But evil abounds. When we consider oceans, rivers, forests and plains as free to rape and exploit as we wish. When we think they are...
January 10, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Exactly what is freedom? Most of us want it. To be free. To feel free. We may even want this more than happiness, a subject about which so much has been written and spoken of late. Freedom goes through its own stages of evolving. When we are young (and maybe even when...
January 8, 2014 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Who will care for the common good? Business? If you are reading this, then you have a level of privilege others do not. At the least. You can read. You have access to the internet. You are probably educated. Because these things are normalised in our society, we...
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...
