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Pick up the phone!

I think, just maybe, with all our text, tweets, SMS, MMS, facebook, Qik, blogs… we have forgotten how nice it is to just pick up a phone and tell someone something, anything!
I think, just maybe, we are hiding behind technology when it comes to communication today!
The old voice on the phone can be fast, effective, [...]

death by email

I love the way Hugh MacLeod gets right to the point!
Technology is great,don’t get me wrong, BUT we are failing in a epic way to manage the use of it in a manner that is healthy!
And the classic example of our failure to manage and live with technology is email!
We have lost control of out [...]

Re-Apply?

I was reading my daily page of “U2 by U2″, a book about the band that very surprisingly is filled with anecdotes and ideas that can inform the way we think about education, business and even our personal interactions!
Today’s gem in the rough was Bono talking about how in 2000 it felt to him like [...]

People do care! How can we show it?

We read all about the bad side of humanity in the press and we watch the worst side of it on TV, it is amazing we all don’t want to lock ourselves away for fear that if we need some help nobody will offer it!
Yesterday I was reminded why Dubai, yes Dubai, is such a [...]

Story of hope story of change

I keep running into people who are doing these amazing things, I like to call them my own private TED talks.
Last night I met Natalie Carney on Nightline and wow what a story!
From Facebook to YouTube this woman is really bent on bringing a face to the forgotten victims in Afghanistan, the orphaned children.
How do [...]

Reading a Jewel

Reading, hard copy, and for the simple pleasure of ideas on a printed page.
Who would pick up a book about U2 and think they would find a motivational text, an entrepreneurial guide, a students handbook and comic tease all wedged into one package?

Well this is just that book!
I picked up the book because I really [...]

Talk, listen and wonder was it worth it, UAE conversations

What is the price of an opinion?
Mishaal Al Gergawi has come on my radio show and spends his day at the Dubai Cultural Authority, he is a switched on Emirati no doubt.
It is always interesting to read what a young Emirati has to say about Dubai, here is his article from the Gulf News.

Dubai’s unwritten [...]

New Year’s Day, What I Read.

Leading up and out of New Year’s day I was consumed by the book, ‘The Road’.
Give the book a glance.
I think ‘The Road’ might be one of the most personally instructive (by way of reminding me what I have) book’s I have picked up in a long time.

I had not followed this book as an [...]

Thinking 2010

I stumbled on this nice little piece from TOM PETERS today.
We must destroy “departments”–and create aggressive, imaginative, entrepreneurial Professional Service Firms in their stead.
Two words that we need to infuse into our organizations in the New Year, education through plumbing, IMAGINATION and ENTREPRENEURIAL.
We are living in a changed world, it is no longer on the [...]

Better use of time!

The problem with social media is that is can and will be all consuming if you allow it to be.
The problem with the Internet in general is there is simply so much out there how do you know where to start looking for information, ideas and just stuff?
The usual approach is to go to your [...]

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