Greetings. Vidal Sassoon, who died this year at the age of 84, never intended to revolutionize the world of fashion and hair design. And he might not have, except for circumstance and the fact that he was open to the power of learning from other disciplines. He...
Greetings. I haven’t written a post in a little over a week as I have been finishing the manuscript for my latest book on the importance of strangers in our success as companies, organizations, and individuals. It has been a really interesting project and in...
Greetings. After four years and 160,000 miles, British traveler Graham Hughes has become the first person to visit all 201 sovereign states in the world–without ever getting on an airplane and spending an average of less than $100 a week as he sought to raise...
Greetings. Last Saturday was the first "World Prematurity Awareness Day"–a day intended to focus public attention on the global problem of premature births. While I typically believe that we have too many special days commemorating too many...
Greetings. The latest issue of Popular Science brings its annual review of the 100 top innovations of the past year. This is always my favorite issue because it provides a great way to look at, and think about, what's going on in the worlds of...
Greetings. Today, in cities and towns across the U.S., people are pausing to give thanks to all of our veterans and their families for their service and keeping us safe. It's easy sometimes, in the press of our daily work and personal lives, to forget all...
Greetings. Socrates was, by several accounts, a very clever and noteworthy guy. Which is interesting, because he rarely shared much of what he knew. Though he did know how to ask a pretty smart question, and that turned out to be his claim to...
Greetings. It's Monday here in Washington and most of us along the east coast of the U.S. have spent the past weekend preparing for the major storm that began as Hurricane Sandy. It is a storm that has already caused significant damage in the...
Greetings. We live in a world filled with disclaimers. A world of little fine print in which very few things are as awesome as they initially appear to be. That's why companies like outdoor outfitter L. L. Bean, cookware maker Le Creuset,...
Greetings. In the past week an Israeli entrepreneur named Izhar Gafni has been getting a lot of attention for an invention that could quite literally move the world forward. His cardboard bicycle, build from 95% recycled cardboard (and other recycled...
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