April 7, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Greed is the hungry ghost feeding off a bottomless pit of emptiness Once upon a time there was a greedy little caterpillar that ate up all the leaves. Until there were no leaves left. Not for this little caterpillar, or for any other caterpillar, insect, or human....
November 20, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Do the right thing. But what is the right thing? Most people I know want to do the right thing. Most people care. But what is the right thing? In the middle of last night I woke with this on my mind. Not from some dark cabal of gathered consciousness, but from a...
September 18, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Receiving gifts as an act of syntropy The light from the sun, offered freely. Clean air. Water to drink. The beauty of birds singing. The cool breeze. All gifts. When we forget the gifts of our beautiful home planet, when we put a paywall between them and our...
August 6, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Future of Business, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
What precarity taught me Raised in a middle-class liberal Australian home, given every opportunity for education, including 6 years at university at the time when university was essentially fee free, I had no idea about the simple privilege of access I had because of...
October 6, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Future of Money, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Our future as a stakeholder In many of the business-as-usual packaged as social enterprises there is a dissonance between the stated goal and the mechanism to achieve it. When we market a product that is to uplift the very poor, but simultaneously will enable outsized...