September 2, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Urgency of Stillness Stillness is possibly one of the most urgent things we might do to support a world with a future. How easy is it to get trapped in the world of busy, fast, too much noise, too many distractions. To believe that we must move fast, faster,...
September 1, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Reverence To stand in respect and awe. To observe the sunrise each day. To watch an ant carry a twig 4 times its size. To be present to the birth of anything…a child, a puppy, a butterfly, an idea. To be aware of your breath. Reverence is a practise. When we cultivate...
August 30, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Inception to completion Go back to the very beginning of the idea, the thing, the creation. To mother Earth taking the decayed leaves and trees and over time…aeons of time…with the addition of heat…creating what we know as fossil fuels. Go forward to the completion...
August 28, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Agreements vs rules The word rule comes from Latin meaning straight stick, ruler, to measure. To impose a rule is to impose an order that has linearity to it. There is a sequence of events that should occur as the outcome of imposing the rule. An agreement is a mutual...
August 25, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
In service to life If not in service to life what are we in service to? Life…all encompassing, beautiful, harsh, majestic, tragic. The animation of a spirit that seeks to become manifest, often against insurmountable odds. To walk upon Earth, the sacred ground of...
August 22, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Control vs Power To control is to regulate. To check accounts and use authority to manage. To control implies the accumulation of some form of knowledge that can be used to create the authority. In this process there is an immediate and implied knowledge asymmetry. “I...