Jan 2, 2014

Wanting and asking

On the second day of the year and my first day back at work, my thoughts turn to questions of what I want for 2014. And if we bring God into that equation, I’m sure, like me, you have sometimes asked yourself – why pray, when God knows what you want already?

Dec 6, 2013

Intergenerational accounting

I recently sent through my “D2” draft on the use of the Hebrew wisdom tradition in Business Education. Professor Chris Mabey is mobilizing a number of us to challenge the secular status quo, and already has a publisher for a book due for release at the back end of 2014.

Nov 28, 2013

meditating in malaga

The Spanish November sun was rising as I had breakfast with Tony Brown. Taking three days out with 120 of my European colleagues was both refreshing and mind-expanding. I’ve known some of these people for decades.

Sep 17, 2013

Some very special people

Last Thursday a whole array of interesting people walked into the large conference room in the Agape office to begin a Habits of the Heart course that I and my team are delivering.

Jul 10, 2015

Totalitarianism now and then

During our holiday last week in Provence I read a series of interviews with Aung San Suu Kyi, noting some of the similarities and differences between her own non-violent democracy movement and the movements of Mandela, Gandhi, Martin Luther King and indeed Jesus, who all get a mention in the book.

May 26, 2013

What would you like them to say about you when you die?

It’s one of the exercises we give participants on our Habits of the Heart and MBA modules. I first wrote my own obituary in October 2010.