July 15, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Surely we might consider what is best for the whole? In Australia, our response to COVID has been very different to most parts of the world. We, like New Zealand, have gone for an elimination strategy. Borders essentially shut. The tragedy is that our Liberal...
July 6, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
We get the world we say yes to One thousand small steps. Every step counts. It feels insignificant each time we say no to a lie, an inappropriate touch, a sexist remark, an act of discrimination. It feels like the mountain of change is too high, too far away. Yet we...
July 5, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Rather than be hellbent on originality we might do this instead My work comes off the back of the entire lineage of humanity that has existed till now. To think that I have created something through my genius alone is to become an island of arrogance. By tapping into...
July 4, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The price of progress Is it really progress if the effect is entropic? The Arctic temperatures are breaking records for heat. The ocean is on fire. Madagascar is starving. Thousands of turtles in Sri Lanka have been found dead. An apartment building collapses in the...
July 2, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Transparency To show light through. When we have nothing to hide then why not be transparent? When there is no shame, why not be transparent? We may need to provide context. Show the whole story and not simply reveal the part, which is another form of obfuscation. We...
June 29, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Creating mechanisms for safe whistleblowing at the enterprise level In Australia we have an expression, to dob someone in. It means that we alert the relevant authorities when someone has done what we believe is the wrong thing. Also known as whistleblowing. The...
