March 1, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Obscure by design Nature does not allow monopoly. Domination of one species ends up killing all species including the dominator. Humans are yet to learn this. In our short-term focus, we have concentrated corporate power into the hands of monopoly. The monopolists...
February 28, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What would persuade you you are wrong? I am applying this question to my beliefs and certainties. I look back at my life and recall beliefs I had with total conviction ten years ago that I now see as untrue. And I wonder how I might look back at my beliefs and...
February 27, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Doubt as critical to sense-making We have reached that place with AI where nothing in media can be trusted. No image, no video, no story to be trusted. Sometime in the next 12 months a news story will break that will shock, yet it will be fake. Before being proven as...
February 26, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
If we want a more equitable world Where the divide between the haves and the have-nots is more akin to a freshwater stream than a Grand Canyon? When I was a child raised in a middle-class liberal family, I was told that poor people were lazy, that they were takers,...
February 24, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
There is beauty in preparing the soil The scenario. You have invested time, effort, money and love into an initiative. One day you discover information you were unaware of that now makes your initiative far less viable. What do you do? Do you soldier on, hoping for...
February 22, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The story you are telling about your identity Our identity is an elusive beast. In our infancy, without self-reference, we express. This expression includes our uniqueness. Add to this our family context, our culture, the people around us. Do we need to protect...