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!

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.

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.

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.

I love this short video from Bruno Aziza as he packs in Microsoft.

I need to think of my own departure from Zayed University.

I had a conversation with Dr. Anna Wilson about embedding virtual information in objects or places and what this means to education.

Oh and then there is also business and government to consider, how can they uses these tools.

This is not magic this is a how-to use tool that can effect amazing social change.

BUT are we ready to start teaching this?

Well here it is!

Here is the short and sweet of what it is all about.

Creative mom Wendy Tsao sets out to strengthen that relationship with Child’s Own Studio, which she founded to make custom stuffed plushie toys based on kids’ drawings. “When my son started kindergarten, his school asked for a comfort toy to put in his emergency preparation kit. Instead of sending in one of his favorite stuffed toys or running to the store to buy something, I decided to sew one myself” she explains. “I was thinking of making his favorite animal, but then I saw his self-portrait. He drew it all the time, and it always—more or less—looked the same, with huge eye circles, stick arms and ten long wispy digits. So, I thought, ‘why not?’ And when I was finished, my son immediately recognized it and was very appreciative.”

So there we have it another great, maybe crazy idea, brought to life!

Have you seen how they dress?

Have you watched them use phones, tv, computers, games and eat all at the same time?

Generally the youth of today get a bad rap.

Well let me tell you not to lose hope.

I had a chance to talk to 4 students working on a TEDx event, 3 speakers one organizer, and WOW they were amazing!

If these kids are a sample of the global population it is time to give them more time to share and inspire us becasue they are very switched on.

And if you are unsure about TED I give a great intro.

What I am surprised about is the lack of storytelling that is going on these days in our corporations.

The problem is obvious, the tools to tell the stories of our lives have simply developed faster than our ability to engage them.

The result is of course there is a new breed of storyteller lurking and ready to grab your mind.

IKEA has got there story right and they tossed it on Youtube.

Another question, how many organizations have their Youtube story front and center?

Check this out and then ask if your school is teaching you how to do this.

I thought “my 1st car story“, was a really interesting idea.

Hmmm… how can we apply this to a lecture at University?

Imagine a lecture mashup!