May 28, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Healthy polarity creates wisdom Don’t become a well-rounded person. Become a thoroughly spiky person, says Bruce Sterling. I might propose a middle ground. Choose the spiky areas that you want to cultivate. Total honesty is impossibly cruel. Total honestly says you...
May 25, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The work of wisdom is a commitment It is easy to get seduced by the obvious. To jump to conclusions. For this and other reasons, one of the disciplines in Syntropic World is to go back to Source, to inquire into the root and origin of the idea, project, word,...
May 24, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Humaning To be human. Imperfect. Yet simultaneously so incredible that there are no words. The act of humaning – to be thoughtful to all of our fellow humans. To consider them with respect, regardless of the way they appear human. In Syntropic World we hold the...
May 23, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Prejudice lives in siloed contexts We all have jumped to conclusions well before having the whole story. If one data point triggers us, how often are we hijacked to assume that the data point is evidence of the whole? I have done this and had others do the same to...
May 22, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
From one polar extreme to the other Watch a pendulum swing. From the extreme poles, it arrives at a middle ground. Equilibrium is never stillness. Equilibrium is a dynamic dance around the centre. But first, it swings from one hard pole to the opposite hard pole....
May 21, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Seasons and Syntropic World In my part of the world our seasons are simple. Summer and winter, with very few shades of autumn or spring. At this time of year, as the days are shorter, we get the most amazing weather. Winter for us is fresh mornings and sunny warm...
