November 8, 2023 | Sunday Syntropy Archives
The experience of being understood versus interpreted is so compelling you can charge admission. B. Joseph Ane II The experience of being human is fraught with the opportunity for misunderstanding between people. No one person’s worldview is the same as the...
February 18, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Misunderstood We cannot know why another person does something unless we ask. We can guess. We can project. We can make assumptions. Until we ask, it is a crapshoot. Until we are willing to ask, to understand, to get the full context, we have only our own story about...
November 28, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
An ode of gratitude to the change makers, fringe dwellers, pioneers, mavericks, those who go first The true disruptors, those who are changing incumbent and entrenched systems, will be misunderstood. Often threatened. Sometimes with the highest of high prices. Yet...
September 5, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The very long view My mentor, Bucky Fuller, knew he was so far ahead of the cultural zeitgeist he even mapped the lag between his ideas and their potential uptake. 50 years…70 years… Who does that in our current world? Who says…I am taking this very long view…the work...
June 19, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The difficult work of birthing our art Our important work might take years or decades to become synthesised, coherent and whole. Until then, we speak in fragments. There is a sense of the whole, a taste, a whisper…but large chunks remain obscure. I know this place...