June 29, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
In praise of pausing The greatest creativity comes from the in-between. The not doing, not trying, not working space. Wrestling with a problem is exactly that. Wrestling with a problem. It is only when we let it go that the answer comes. The difficulty is found in the...
June 28, 2013 | Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Where is the heart of business? The world of business is built on intellect. Data, profit, activity, growth. It’s a think-and-do world. The stereotypical male leader has been taught to navigate this world using two primary instruments. The head and the gut. The...
June 27, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
From fear to shame to freedom We have all had those nights where we cannot sleep for the fears that hound us across the landscape of our dreams. After years of being pursued by the same fears, there comes a time, hopefully called wisdom, where we finally get that we...
June 26, 2013 | Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Saluting the Whistleblowers Edward Snowden has done a bold and courageous thing. He spoke out, at the cost of everything, against something he felt was wrong. A violation of everything he felt was good and true. For this, he is being vilified and hounded by his own...
June 25, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Life and work as a grand experiment Imagine approaching everything in life as a grand experiment. A constant process of refinement to move towards greater harmony. And since the playing field is also constantly changing, there is no there. There is always and only...
June 24, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Work as devotion Devotion from Latin devovere= dedicated by vow, from ancient Latin, ‘act of consecrating by vow’ Mindlessness is going about things without deep thought or connection. It’s not that we do not think, it is that our thinking and...