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Blow Up HR Again?
By and large, I read Harvard Business Review and The Atlantic to raise my IQ or, at the very least, give the appearance that I’ve done so. Recently, HBR published, “It’s Time To Blow Up HR and build something new”.Sounds like consultant-speak to me. Much of the consulting profession puts […]
Does Every Child Have A Unique Purpose?
Mo’s Bows is a tie and bowtie company founded by Moziah Bridges when he was 9 years old. Like so many successful children, his mother always gave him the idea he could do whatever he wanted with his life. Today, she works for her son when he shows up for […]
How Humans Kill Off Change Without Thinking
Every single one of us has been trained since birth to wipe out change by using five different filters. Think of the filters as shades in which we see the world. The filters are triggered by fear and of course, change requires courage. The “killer filters” can operate so smoothly that we […]
The Future. What Will We Tell Our Children?
People that lead fulfilling and successful lives usually have a clearly defined and fully personalized mission, vision, and purpose. They build their success with a comprehensive set of life skills that bring success to virtually any career. Here is the rub. Many people are unwilling to learn the very skills […]
The Innocence in Helping One Stranger
In February 1965, a young man was driving through a torrential winter storm. It was almost midnight. Through the lashing rain, he could see an older African American Woman standing next to a broken down car. She desperately needed a ride. He stopped to help her, generally unheard of in […]
Social Networking: How We Transformed the Results
“What emotions would we experience if we weren’t working ourselves to death? What wishes drive us? What fantasies hitch themselves to our continual busyness? Only when we step away from our frenzy can we know.” Arlie Russell Hochschild Human beings are capable of thinking about something other than […]
Trust Your Answer
Every day, new technology brings obsolescence to another segment of task-based work. For those of us who view work from any remnants of the Industrial Revolution, this is the very time to cast aside complacency and to take action. The work of today as well as tomorrow is more creative, […]
Buckminster Fuller’s Incredible Letter About Everyone’s Unique Purpose
Every single one of us has a unique gift and I find that until we step into that gift, we suffer. I’ve watched people awaken to their unique gift thousands of times. It is our natural self, well beyond a job description, and it is the one thing no one […]
How Did the World’s Greatest Futurist Predict 2017 in 1970?
“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Alvin Toffler – Future Shock Those words were published in Alvin Toffler’s groundbreaking book, “Future Shock” forty-seven years ago. He spoke of a world speeding up […]
Will We Ever Get Rid of Fear?
In a culture fixated on security we have reinforced the myth that there is something fundamentally inadequate about us when we feel fear. If buy into the notion, we construct our lives around avoiding fear and as a result, the real and best opportunities don’t even reach our field of […]