July 19, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How do you keep score? All-in-cost accounting and real value Our society is brought up on measuring and keeping score. We don’t even realise how much we do this. We will immediately look at someone’s clothes, shoes, car, hair, skin colour, and make massive...
July 18, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The art of apprenticeship From Old French, apprendre- to learn, apprenticing as an act of reverence to life and our journey across its unexpected contours evokes much-needed humility. In medieval times, all craftspeople started as apprentices, bound to a master for at...
July 12, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
How strong is your core as a leader? “Effective leaders are individuals who help us overcome the limitations of our own selfishness and weakness and fears and get us to do harder, better, more important things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.”...
July 11, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Does your business dance the VUCA -volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity Listening to the great talk by Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn on Crisis Leadership, she mentioned VUCA. Even the way it sounds has a thunderbolt-type feel to it. It also reminds me of a...
July 10, 2013 | Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Business Hacking- future ready your business Purpose. The purpose of a business hack spans several contexts. 1. If you want to ensure your business is best equipped to stay healthy and viable now and into the future (5 plus years) when taking into consideration all...
July 5, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The greater conversation. Living on the edge No one knows what will happen in the next second. It is in the second that life changes forever. We say yes. Or no. A phone call comes. Someone dies. Someone is born. Something precious breaks. Living on the very edge, the...