Greetings. On a beautiful fall morning in 2006, a walk to the school bus with our daughter Carly, who was nine at the time, would challenge my thinking about life and the real keys to personal and business success. It was a walk that my wife and I made almost every...
Greetings. When we were kids, nap time was an essential part of life and every school day. A chance to take a break, rest our minds and bodies, recharge our spirits, and keep the demons away. A time to journey far from the task at hand, if only for a matter of...
Greetings. Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. It was one of the most powerful speeches in our nation’s history and a challenge to all of us to ensure that...
Greetings. One of the great joys of summer is the time we spend in a small village on the west coast of Sweden. Here along the North Sea we visit with family and friends, kayak, fish, hike along the rocky cliffs, pick mushrooms, berries, and mussel shells, experiment...
Greetings. During a week of work and wandering around London I marveled at the ever-changing face of British cuisine in a country best known for fish and chips, steak and kidney pie, bangers and mash, traditional English breakfasts…complete with lard-fried toast...
Greetings. On a recent visit to the local grocery store here in Hamburgsund, Sweden, I was struck by the latest Coca Cola bottles with common Swedish names. Bottles that have generated a lot of excitement among shoppers who eagerly search for their own personalized...
Greetings from Sweden where innovation is almost everywhere. Today I’d like to share a few observations about public transportation and its role in Swedish life… As one might imagine, public transportation is more widely used here than in the U.S. where...
Greetings. We often think about libraries as very quiet places for contemplation, exploration, discovering new ideas and new possibilities, and sparking our true imaginations. But what if we also think of them as places where loud and dramatic learning comes alive as...
Greetings. The recent ad campaign for the new Adidas “Spring Blade” running shoe made it seem remarkable. In fact, I started to imagine that this might be the greatest innovation in the history and science of running since the actual invention of the shoe...
Greetings. It turns out that reinventing the wheel or simply making a good thing a lot better is not so easy to do. Our companies often get a bit too comfortable with business as usual, and as customers we often get a bit too too comfortable with the products and...
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