by Alan | Feb 20, 2017 | Big Ideas, Books, Compelling Value, Customer Experience
Greetings. Last Thursday I had the pleasure of giving a relatively short presentation on innovation, curiosity, and the importance of strangers for the Small Business Network here in Maryland. The audience was an interesting and quite diverse group of business owners...
by Alan | Aug 28, 2014 | Big Ideas, Books, Just for Fun, Unlocking Genius
Greetings. This month marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Tove Jansson, the Swedish-speaking Finnish author, artist, and creator of the wonderful and popular Moomin books. Books that have delighted children and adults in Europe and around the world with their...
by Alan | Jun 1, 2014 | Big Ideas, Books, Unlocking Genius
Greetings. Maya Angelou was a remarkable gift to all of us. A woman whose early life was filled with adversity, she would become not only a renowned and revered poet but a person of rare vision whose words and sense of humanity would inspire people of all backgrounds,...
by Alan | Dec 30, 2013 | Big Ideas, Books, Just for Fun, Unlocking Genius
Greetings. It’s the end of a very interesting year and time once again to make a bunch of resolutions that I’m not likely to keep. Resolutions that I know are really good for me but are likely to fall by the wayside in the press of a world filled with...
by Alan | Nov 6, 2013 | Big Ideas, Books, Compelling Value, Engaging Employees, Just for Fun, Unlocking Genius
Greetings. Many of you have asked if you can listen to some of the ideas in “The Necessity of Strangers” and I’m glad to share this brand new and downloadable podcast from Vistage, one of the world’s leading organizations of CEOs and business...
by Alan | Oct 7, 2013 | Books, Just for Fun, Unlocking Genius
Greetings. Many readers of this blog have been asking if there would ever be a video “trailer” for “The Necessity of Strangers.” After all, movies have trailers. Important ideas and causes have trailers. Many other books have trailers. And...
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