October 20, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Focus on One Small Skill My surfing journey continues. The focus currently is to look down the face of the wave as I pop up. The default for beginners is to look at your board, or, worse, the board going over the edge of the breaking wave. (Terrifying.) The irony is...
October 18, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The masters house is burning Reading the speech given by Arundhati Roy on the receipt of her PEN prize last week, and then this article by Pankaj Mishra where he says, History has always been a clash between stories in which people aspire to recognise themselves. Our...
October 16, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
How can we change without changing? This is really the truth of most change initiatives. Let’s appear to change. Or tinker with change so we can feel good. Climate Action is almost entirely professing change without changing, for if there was an integrous...
October 15, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Another lesson in enough Yesterday I was in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, one of the many great wine-producing regions of Australia. I was there to speak on leadership to a group of about thirty top-performing agents. After so many years I am still learning that...
October 14, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Hollow bones and an empty heart Everything is easier when your employees and team are your biggest fans. If we go back to the root of the root and the source of the source of almost all the biggest issues humanity and life face it begins with that first thought of...
October 2, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Organic, emergent design When we hold the space and shape for something to become, when the architecture is steeped in integrity, clarity and reverence for all life, the ecology held allows spontaneous, organic emergence, in Kairos time. Nature has its own gestation....
