Posts tagged: TED.com

Fewer Meetings Plus Better Meetings = More Productivity

I don’t know about you, but I get my best work done at the office between 4pm to 7pm. I don’t like having to stay until 7pm, but I find that’s the best time that (a) matches my own physiological rhythms, and (b) when there are very few interruptions, if any. Meetings, in particular, can [...]

Friday November 26th, 2010 in , , , , | Comments Off

The 8 Keys to Success – and Staying Successful

What are the keys to success? To many people, that’s like asking what the winning numbers are to the big lottery jackpot. There is the belief that there just might be a simple key to success, like turning the key to starting a car. Well, the recipe for success is indeed conceptually simple, but it’s [...]

Monday August 23rd, 2010 in , , , , | Comments Off

How Do the Taliban Train Young Boys to Be Suicide Bombers?

Two of the most important things we in the privileged world can do to make the world a safer place is to make it a better world for all. Not just ourselves, not just our neighbours, but for all. Economic development because it brings hope and options. Literacy and freedom of information because it enables [...]

Saturday August 21st, 2010 in , , , , , | Comments Off

Adora Svitak: An example of what kids can accomplish

I was speaking with a 16-year-old friend yesterday, and I was reminded how capable kids and teenagers can be, if we let them be so. When I saw the video below, delivered by 12-year-old Adora Svitak, I had to say something about this. We, as adults, very easily and commonly underestimate kids and teenagers. In [...]

Saturday April 10th, 2010 in , , , , | Comments Off

Diet-Related Disease – a Preventable, Global Killer

Americans are fat. It’s a fact known around the world. You notice it right away when you travel from America to elsewhere in the world, or travel from elsewhere in the world to America. The rest of the world, as it increasingly adopts American culture, increasingly incorporates American eating habits & preferences, and buys ever [...]

Saturday February 27th, 2010 in , , , | 1 Comment »