The end of common sense?
Posted on | May 17, 2012 | No Comments
I really do wonder if the world has gone mad?
How can we ever hope that people will be able to get along, in a global context, just look at the mess in the newspapers.
We have terrorists, pirates, riots, political chaos and much more that all can probably be traced back to the simple fact that we don not care enough about the small things.
And how do I get to that conclusion?
How can we expect people to understand and accept difference on a large scale if we can’t make it happen on a small scale such what we wear as cloths in public?
This conversation is again happening in the UAE.
Why is it happening?
People do not care is the short and simple answer.
If we can’t dress with a bit of respect in the mall how can we expect people to deal with larger issues of state and ideological difference?
Here is the conversation from Nightline what is your view?
Inspire me!
Posted on | May 15, 2012 | No Comments
I think one of the biggest problems today, whether it be at school, in business, at home even, is that we are not inspired.
We are so caught up in the moment that we don’t tend to see the bigger picture!
Or we are so caught up in the moment trying to direct and manipulate the next move that we actually fail to see the micro picture.
And in the end we spend a great deal of time looking around and wondering why the other guy is doing so well.
If you are anything like me you love a good story.
But what I love even more is to hear the highs and lows of how a person has progressed through their career.
I like to think of the business tale, some call them case studies, as essential primers to education.
And this conversation does exactly that.
Nader Adamali is the managing director of Swiss Arabian Perfumes Group and Rohan Shetty is the founder and chairman of Kellett & Singleton and they shared their story with me.
If more people got to hear the reality of doing business, the human side, I am sure we would see a whole ne generation of entrepreneur chomping at the bit!
Tags: business > dubaieye > eonetwork > nightline
Where are the limits?
Posted on | May 14, 2012 | No Comments
I am sure you saw the Time cover in the US last week.
The question that this leaves us asking is whether or not this is going too far to sell magazines or is this a legitimate way to bring the topic to our attention?
And is the topic about breastfeeding?
Hmmm… I personally was a bit surprised that Time Magazine would sink to the low road to sell its product.
I mean really, where have the standards gone?
Or are we talking about the role of the image? In a society that has lost its appetite for the word do we need to have an image to lead us to the text?
I had a fantastic conversation with Narain Jashanmal of Jashanmal Books on Nightline about the issue of cover art and more.
Dubai Music
Posted on | May 12, 2012 | No Comments
Every so often you turn on the radio, my show of course, and you discover something that you had no idea existed.
In this case Paul Kelly of Triplew joined me to introduce some homegrown Dubai musical talent.
We went from hip-hop to fusion to rock and we could have probably kept going.
What I find odd is that the UAE has not set in place local content quotas for the arts.
Radio, TV and why not something in the film industry that demands shorts or something are played at the cinema before the imported content.
Well this is really special.
Let me know what you think of this.
Lost your trust?
Posted on | May 11, 2012 | No Comments
Have you looked in the mirror lately?
Well it is time to look at yourself through the inner mirror.
What has happened to your trust? Have you lost trust in your fellow man?
It would seem to me that more than ever we have gone from trusting people to figuring that everyone is out to soak us.
Well what does that mentality do to our creative industry, education, government…
We need a re-boot!
Here is the conversation from Nightline.
Motivation in the oddest place.
Posted on | May 10, 2012 | No Comments
We get a shot of inspiration in the strangest places.
How about Lionel Ritchie?
I love this guy and his story.
Things happen around us and we are too caught up in the moment to know what is going on.
Sometimes we need to listen to our landscape.
Give this interview a watch.
Do we need rules anyway?
Posted on | May 9, 2012 | No Comments
On Nightline we asked which rules we are willing to break and which rules we stick to.
It seems that when it comes to driving we are willing to cut a few corners.
But if we are willing to cut corners when it comes to rules of the road which other rules are we willing to break?
Just cool!
Posted on | May 8, 2012 | No Comments
If you had a bit of spare time, imagine what you could do!
Melvin the Mini Machine from HEYHEYHEY on Vimeo.
Culture Shock
Posted on | May 7, 2012 | No Comments
Ever wonder where the talk of culture shock came from?
As it turns out a Canadian anthropologist.
Kalvero Oberg suggested that,
Oberg was the father of a very influential theory: culture shock. In 1954, while working on development projects for the United States government, Oberg gave a talk to the Women’s Club of Rio de Janeiro. The wives of U.S. engineers heard Oberg take a term that had been in use since at least 1929 and develop it into a theory involving distinct stages. Expatriates, he said, would begin their time abroad with a “honeymoon phase.” Then they would angrily reject the host culture, associate exclusively with other expatriates (and especially those from their own country), and hopelessly romanticize home. Eventually, they would have a realization – that the host culture was “just another way of living” – and once that happened, their “culture shock” would end.
As an expat myself i get it.
Worth going back to Oberg’s work.
How to say GoodBye
Posted on | May 6, 2012 | No Comments
So we all think about how we will say goodbye when we leave our job.
I love this short video from Bruno Aziza as he packs in Microsoft.
I need to think of my own departure from Zayed University.
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