October 31, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The Obvious Is often not obvious. This is why we need trusted coaches and friends to point out what is obvious to them, but blind to us. If we want to create autonomous self-managed teams then we cannot tell them that we want them to achieve ‘x’ results. Telling does...
October 30, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The problem with problems When we focus on problems and solutions we invite a patterned response that has become so enculturated that it is largely reflexive. Here is the problem. What is the solution? The new solution quite possibly creates a whole new set of...
October 16, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Why should we go to school? When you won’t listen to the educated? So read a banner at a recent Student Climate Strike. It raises so many questions. How did we get to a place where political leaders and the old school of patriarchal thinking object so strenuously to...
September 26, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Syntropic Enterprise
We were wild once Don’t let them tame you.” Isadora Duncan said. When I was about nine years old, I recall being very aware that there was a cultural effort to tame my wild and creative self. I felt the box’s walls, and I vowed not to allow myself to be tamed....
September 17, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A question of morality Is it immoral to stand by and watch as the patriarchal voice speaks of women as objects of exploitation and sexualisation, absent any rights to their own bodies, even if you do not treat women as such? Is it immoral to stand by as the...
September 7, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Interpersonal Coherence Interpersonal coherence is when a collective “we” are aligned and in parallel, as we continue our journey of life. The question we might ask is how do we create communities of interpersonal coherence in an increasingly divided world? We might...
