How often are you on the internet? How many times does your blackberry or computer beep at you in a week? How do you respond? When did you last turn them all off? Could you have a whole day off the internet? Last week I took a few days away from my computer – away [...]

"What is the future vision we are climbing towards? - What is a future outcome I would like to be part of?" *** A rabbi is watching a group of young boys attempt to climb a very flimsy ladder to the top of a tree. Each boy takes his turn and each, at some point, falls back to the [...]

Keeping in line with the questions theme this week I would like to add a question I heard at a strength based culture change summit I worked on this week: I make a commitment to move from "this is  not how we do that" to "is there a better way to do that?" "is this [...]

"Asking questions is fundamental to the practice of dropping knowledge. There is no better way to initiate a dialog than with a question, no better way to challenge conventional thinking, discover new viewpoints and stimulate fresh ideas…" I have been meaning to post on this ever since a kindly reader of this blog whom I [...]

"With age, some games turn serious" – image below and quote (c) Raph Koster, from A Theory of Fun Quite a while ago, friend and colleague, Colby, alerted me to the importance of ‘gamers’, creaters/designers/players of online games, and their future role in society "they’ll be the future CEO’s" and they will understand what you are [...]

We have a lot to learn from plants. Attention goes where energy flows… I got a beautiful present of sunflowers today and it brightened up the room…but well beyond that ‘happiness’ they generate, I have been thinking about the sunflower and how it goes in the direction of the sun/light ie they are heliotropic. I have [...]

Is now the same as then? Have been contemplating this question on many levels: – 40 year cycles – by my reckoning this is approx 1967. (compare and see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967) – The speed of time – Stories – Business - Change - Poverty – War Access to: – Food – Health – Education – Wealth – Rest and Reflection… [...]

- Biz ethics (western countries) vs corruption (developing/middle eastern) – does the developed world want the developing world to develop? – where are the economic policies and theories that dont rely/incorp concept of a peripher? – how much of $ spend on AID in your country vs military spending? – (gap perceived v actual) – [...]

Today’s blog post was going to be a quote from my dear friend, Lina Lipton – also, my grandmother’s best friend, a fabulous woman, vintage 1923. She said to me on the phone "Each of us: We have to save humanity. And, we also have to look after, and take care of, ourselves. The little things you do, [...]

Well I’ve said it for a while, for instance here in November and I know there are a LOT of people who have said it before me, but it appears that failure is now all the rage – see Business Week’s cover story today ‘Failure Breeds Success’… Following an amazing conversation with my friend Jochem Innovation [...]