Monthly Archives: August 2016

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Peace Begins at Home

By | August 21st, 2016|Blog Challenge, Future, Leadership|

ReWrite the World Blog Challenge Day 2 I imagine a world in which peace begins at home. So that conflict resolution is a common occurrence, diffusing and preventing violence and the emotional scars that remain. So that families address conflict before it causes damage to hearts, minds and bodies. So that healthy discussion enables differences of opinion to co-exist as a matter of course. So that nation states focus on peaceful resolution of differences and unmet expectations.   Today,  35% of women globally, experience physical and/or sexual violence, primarily by their intimate partners. Children learn to deal with frustration and conflict using violence. It starts in [...]

Business respects it’s social license to operate

By | August 20th, 2016|Blog Challenge, Future, Leadership|

ReWriting the World Blog Challenge Day 1 I imagine a world in which business respects it’s social license to operate. So that trust is earned rather than bought. Business outcomes are equated with the greater good, human needs and social evolution. So that we can go to jobs at companies that we feel respect us, it’s customers and shareholders are at par with these other two priorities. I imagine that if a business does not operate in a manner congruent with human needs and the greater good, there is an understanding that it will not operate for long, as [...]

Why ReWrite the World Blog Challenge?

By | August 19th, 2016|Blog Challenge, Future|

I imagine a world in which our minds are consumed the possibilities of a bright future, not because we turn our backs on the storms and darkness, but because we embrace it all and allow the contrast to inform our experience and because we have dealt with the shadow, the things we’ve been reluctant to talk about. I imagine a world in which we have the hard conversations as a society, that get us closer to a sense of planetary wellbeing.  Would you like to join me? If you’re as hungry for a vision of a better future, as [...]