January 30, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The death of wisdom. Learning from experience is a faculty we fail to practice Bold statement. Usually not so true for positive deviants who have a tendency to suck the learning juices out of every experience. Let’s look at the facts. We no longer study history....
January 17, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Four Faces of Power Our journey in life is to learn to become ever more whole and in our power, even when the world offers us multiple temptations, seductions, and distractions, or when we are betrayed, humiliated, and shamed. In my annual review, I have realised...
November 28, 2011 | Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Pattern Integrity that is Uniquely You Part 1. Introduction Tie a knot in a rope, and you have a pattern of a knot. If you tie the same knot in any material, it will produce the same pattern. The pattern is not dependent on the material… rope, shoelace,...
November 21, 2011 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Developing Your Listening Intelligence, Part 2 In Part 1, we introduced the idea that we have in our Western Culture very poor listening skills, and similarly, very poor speaking skills. This article is about creating the ability, with practice, to be able to tune...
November 14, 2011 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We don’t know how to listen. Developing listening and speaking intelligence Part 1. We don’t know how to listen. The old saying, ‘we only use 10% of our brain,’ could well apply to our listening ability. Except I would say we probably only hear about 1% of what is...
September 27, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
On Integrity Integrity…I would have thought that to live in integrity was not that hard a gig. Seems I am wrong. Seems that integrity is the toughest gig in town. Not only that, but it is rare. It demands of you your best. And more. It demands that you say no to...