July 26, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Unbeatable Is beatable. Certainty is uncertain. Right is never fully right. Hubris seeds when we take a stand of being unbeatable, certain or right. There is a rigidity and brittleness that comes with hubris. I can observe quiet confidence. I can observe someone...
July 25, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Dignifying the time line of long term considered thinking On one hand, we need to make sense of what is now. To look at the whole. On the other hand, we need to hold the potential for a future we want. And from these two polarities, we might then make a choice. Too...
July 22, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Admitting mistakes, sincerely saying sorry We all make mistakes. Inadvertently, carelessly, out of hubris or neglect. Mistakes are an opportunity to learn. The infant figuring out how to walk learns from each fall, each wobbly step. Our education and culture shames...
July 19, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
A touch of the obvious We humans are strange creatures. The number of times the obvious was right in front of me, yet I was blind to it. Perhaps sometimes our vision needs to be pulled back from the horizon of tomorrow. Our habit to seek the future through the...
July 17, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Different forms of profit For some it is money. For others it is fame. For many it is power. I watch as smart people use narrative warfare and hard data to manipulate movements, create new forms of propaganda, stir the pot of conspiracy. To accuse others of doing...
July 16, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Arrogance makes poor decisions I have been there. Head filled with my own self-importance. Steaming satisfaction of a job well done becoming a runaway breeding ground for hubris. “Look at me!” The problem with arrogance is that in our arrogance we separate ourselves...
