September 12, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Is there a connection When I reach out to people for the first time, or when someone outreaches to me, the thing I am seeking before anything else is connection. I want to know the human behind the voice, photo, profile and words. Is there a connection between us that...
September 7, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Affirmative action Stand for something. Speak to the world we want to see. Create a plan. Build a movement that is taking affirmative action. Affirm. Invite vision. Speak to possibility. OR Stand against things. Be the naysayer. The negative. The critique. Tear down....
August 30, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Patronising Patronising – to be ostentatiously superior and condescendingly favourable. When I was a young parent my daughter informed me that I often made her feel ashamed. This came as a shock. It was not intended. By informing me of her experience I had...
August 29, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Surrender To surrender – To give up, to deliver over. On one pole, we have helplessness, inertia, complete lack of resistance, care-lessness, disempowerment. On the other pole, we have a fight-to-the-death, against all odds, endure, never give up. The extremes...
August 24, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Considering a business or life partnership Building something to endure, to stay alive and healthy through times of Richter-scale stress is rarely achieved by the shake of a hand and a kiss on the cheek. Partnerships are worth investing time, care, love, energy and...
August 22, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The trap of parts thinking The principle of Synergy is that the behaviour of the whole cannot be determined by examining the parts separately. No amount of examining parts can determine what will happen when we put parts together to create a whole. In my days working...
