Greetings. On a visit to a veterinarian’s office a bright red brochure caught my eye. A brochure that promised to solve one of the most important challenges of dog ownership …keeping Fido’s, or in our case Leo and Lily’s, teeth as clean and healthy as possible. For...
Greetings. While I am keen on the importance of strangers in our work and lives, I have a bit of an aversion to the popular notion of thinking “out-of-the-box” as the key to greater creativity and innovation. Yet it is still a widely-used phrase in companies and...
Greetings. Most of us have a slightly skewed image of drones. And why not. As the war in Ukraine rages on, we tend to think of them as remarkably lethal weapons of war. Sleek, stealth, precise, and unmanned, they can be launched from literally anywhere with the touch...
Greetings. The Navajo have a remarkable way of welcoming a new child into life. By holding a “First Laugh Ceremony.” According to Navajo tradition, a baby is considered to be part of two worlds…the world of the holy people and the world of the earth people. From the...
Greetings. Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra, the revered American baseball player was also an accidental philosopher whose quirky wisdom can help us to stretch our own thinking. Baseball fans will remember him for his remarkable career as a catcher for the New York Yankees...
Greetings. If you would like to be totally inspired about the real power of music, and the real potential of life, work, and learning, then take the time to watch this BBC special on the life of Chinese pianist Lang Lang. By way of background, Lang Lang was a child...
Greetings. Since “The Necessity of Strangers” was published, I have been struck by the willingness of audiences around the U.S. and the world to embrace a simple and (I believe) important idea… That our similarities are the glue that should bring us together, and our...
Big Data Insights on Immigration Immigration has been one of the most heavily politicized issues of our time. Big data insights on immigration made it possible to come up with more factual and accurate conclusions. There are two categories of people, supporting and...
Reading the news and talking with current and former employees gives me the distinct sense that Tesla has a pretty toxic culture. And maybe it has served the company well as its growth and stock value have continued to rise as the world shifts to a more electric and...
Greetings. Making the right connections is essential to our business and personal success. In fact, it is probably much more important than the classes we took in school, the grades we earned, the first jobs that we held, or the specific expertise we developed along...
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