EZebis

We spend most of our life at work, working.  Surely it is important that our heart and soul be engaged in business?  Otherwise we face a lifetime of numb drudgery or robot-like functioning.  Not a pretty picture!  How do we engage our Souls in our work, in business? “We labor at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life, because it is even more  [ Read More ]

At the end of the day what inspires or motivates you to be in business?  We may all have different responses to this question: money, desire to make a difference, express creative drive, have fun, solve problems.  I was inspired reading Randy Komisar’s book ‘The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living’ as he reiterates my own philosophy & values in business: Business  [ Read More ]

Creativity is usually not  much of a requirement in big corporations – they have systems to squash that!  However it is critical in startups especially at the outset.  Creativity is not just painting pictures or playing music or writing poetry but is actually about self expression i.e. expression from the heart.  It comes in many forms dependent only upon the creator’s talents.  I remember years ago when educating myself about  [ Read More ]

The last couple of years have totally changed our attitudes to the words ‘trust in business‘.  Many businesses whom people automatically trusted, have fallen in our estimation.  Banks and financial institutions along with the car manufacturing industry proved that their business models were broken and damaged our trust.  The Dow Jones index even dropped 8% in 10 minutes during the week and altho it was restored quickly it now leaves  [ Read More ]

I was reading an NPR article titled ‘The Aging Brain Is Less Quick, But More Shrewd’ by Michelle Trudeau about older brains: “The area of the brain that showed the increases was the frontal lobe, the thinking brain, especially in areas that control decision making and working memory,” Small says. One interpretation of his findings, he says, is that with practice, a middle-age brain can very quickly alter its neuron-circuitry,  [ Read More ]