August 26, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What is the real reason we work so hard in our business? What is the real reason that you get up in the morning and apply yourself to your business? To make money is not the answer. Why do you make money? To buy freedom? And when you are free, what does freedom give?...
August 23, 2013 | Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Are you botoxing your business or brave enough to implement real change? There are at least three levels of change. 1. Do you rearrange the deck chairs? This looks like a change, but it is purely cosmetic. The botox injection solution. Makes you feel good for a moment...
August 20, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
An intimate conversation with your business as a daily practice Let’s imagine your business is a living, breathing thing…with a heart, soul and mind. If you are the founder, then your responsibility is as a steward to the integrity of the business. Your...
August 15, 2013 | Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Why don’t we talk about our failures with equal measure as our successes? Have you ever seen a bio with a list of the person’s failures? Unlikely. The usual bio is a carefully manipulated, polished collection of words highlighting all the juicy good stuff....
August 13, 2013 | Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Open to weird? How much weirdness does your business bear? Consider that without a weird injection, your business will stay beige. Not able to be distinguished from the millions of other beige businesses out there. For some businesses, beige is right. It has the...
August 8, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Bricolage as a power tool for entrepreneurs. A zero budget forces heightened creativity The principle behind bricolage is to make use of whatever materials or ideas you have available to you in the immediate now to create some form of art. Innovation often arises from...