July 13, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Three wishes Imagine that we can have three wishes granted, on the one condition that they cannot benefit you directly. They have to be wished on behalf of someone else. What would you wish for? I sat with this question for quite some time. The answer could have been...
June 30, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,...
May 3, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Crisis. What crisis As a student of history (and I mean a homegrown student, not a graduate of any school of history), it occurs to me that there have been many times in the history of Universe, and specifically in the history of humankind in Universe, when we have...
March 29, 2010 | Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Assertive Communication and Integrity in the Workplace It is true that the existing model of business has a very obvious “boys club”, where membership is about ego posturing and status seeking with a secret membership code that includes high doses of testosterone (and...
March 16, 2010 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
At What Price Integrity in the Workplace I am a reasonably smart woman, very well read, able to converse with pretty much anyone on many issues, able to see complexity as well as most of the most able, and yet I feel I suffer in the world I work in, because I haven’t...
March 4, 2010 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Take Your Time – Challenging the way we see through art On my last trip to Sydney, I was given a gift of experience. One of my teachers often said that great gifts come in small brown paper packages. This was one of those small brown package gifts. Meeting up...