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....
December 6, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Is there something that you would die for? Literally? As Nelson Mandela was prepared to I, too, like most of the world, am experiencing grief for the loss of Madiba. Listening to Barack Obama’s obituary speech, what struck me the most was his comment that Madiba...
December 5, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Respond to data not self talk – taking bold action Time to take that big action. Get beyond the ideas stage and get something into the world. But your self-talk is very compelling and keeping you from starting. I need to have more certainty about x. Maybe if I...
