January 29, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Empathy The ability to stand in the shoes, eyes, feelings, thoughts…of another. Requires the will and interest to do so. Genuine service, be that customer service or acts of service, is built on a foundation of empathy. Today, as a customer, I was at the effects of...
January 28, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
In work poverty I heard this term recently and it hit me hard. What kind of advanced society or civilisation says in-work-poverty is acceptable? The neoliberal story is built around the myth that hard work gets rewards. Tell that to the woman who has to walk 3 hours a...
January 27, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The uncounted investment of caring The time it takes to write a thoughtful text, rather than a utilitarian one. To prepare a room for guests, with special touches. To inquire after a co-worker’s family, persistently, consistently, because of genuine interest. To...
January 26, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
To be colonised From Latin, colonus, the tiller of the soil, farmer; the act of colonisation became ‘to make another place into a national dependency’ without regard for those who existed there in the first place. In the history of mankind, we colonisers have looked...
January 25, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Ethics requires vigilance Our brilliance is never far from our darkness. It is in the wilful knowing that we are, but a heartbeat from being the perpetrator that we hold ourselves to a higher order. It is from this place as well that we find compassion. “I, too,...
January 22, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Weird Becoming Normal From the fringe is where the momentum starts. And then it takes time. Persistence. Consistency. What was weird becomes normal. What was seen as impossible, becomes possible. If you are a fringe dweller and you have the skill of seeing around the...
