January 3, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
You worked hard, you deserve it I loathe the statement, ”You deserve it,” when it is spoken as a generality, specifically to one person, excluding others. To deserve is to be worthy of, to have merit for. You worked hard, you deserve it. This statement, unless it is...
October 12, 2022 | Sunday Syntropy Archives
Back in 1967, Arthur Koestler wrote Ghost in the Machine. He coined the term Holon from the Greek holos, ‘whole’ and -ον, -on, ‘part’ – meaning simultaneously a whole in and of itself and a part of a larger whole. Atoms are wholes...
August 4, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Are you worthy of devotion? The business-as-usual model, numbers based, profit maximising, cares naught for the discreet individual humans who toil to enable the business success. Be they those who mine the precious metals, far far away from the shop that sells the...
July 28, 2021 | Sunday Syntropy Archives
In Australia it is midwinter. In my part of the world midwinter is mild, with endless cloudless blue skies punctuated by fresh mornings. In many places our winter would be another’s summer. Winter is that time for hibernation. Catching up on sleep. Eating hearty...
March 6, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
As the pendulum swings When there has been an entrenched world view and way of being, a polarity that negates all but itself, such as a patriarchal society, the pendulum of change is likely to swing hard in the other direction before finding a place of more balanced...
