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Journalism the new face

A conversation with Abbas Al Lawati about his time on the Freedom Floatilla. Abbas Al Lawati is the Gulf News reporter from Dubai who was on the Freedom Floatilla as it steamed towards Gaza. What is the role of the reporter? To report? To be an observer? To tell a story? Abbas found himself in [...]

Just a Great Product

I was at TED2009 where the first version of this bag was given out. I love the commuter and don’t leave home without it, and I put a 17 inch machine into it! Simply a great product! What makes it great is the designers have thought not only about the look and feel but also [...]

Wandering off the Path.

Students, professionals, education they all seem to be geared around the idea that we have some idea what we want to do and that we can study today for the path of tomorrow. Over and over again I have told my students that what we learn at school is secondary to the process. Sure there [...]

What are you worth?

How do we quantify our value? This is the question that we constantly find ourselves asking, especially when you are looking at an employment contract and deciding whether to continue to negotiate or take it. The problem we face as a workforce is, as Seth Godin put it in a recent blog post, that we [...]

Just start! The Future of the UAE

I had the opportunity to speak with Nayla Al Khaja, CEO of D-Seven, about her career as a film producer. Confident? Totally. Driven? Totally. Proud? Absolutely. So why are more women not looking at her and just going for it? Nayla started at HCT in the UAE and learned her film craft at Ryerson in [...]

Why are we doing… this?

?Why? Why? Why? We need to ask what the purpose of our time investment is! No purpose, why do it!

Are we teaching to success or excuses?

Two things happen this time of the year for a professor. First the professor starts thinking about the 7 weeks of vacation that is staring them in the face. Yes academics are not the most highly paid people on the planet BUT they do get great holidays. The second thing that happens this time of [...]

Trust You? Are we allowed?

Trust. Trust in ourselves is as far as I’m concerned one of the greatest lost commodities today. We spend way too much time wanting people to tell us what we are doing is OK. Are you telling me you do not know when your work is sub standard? Are you telling me you can not [...]

You Know TED how about GEL?

You know I am a TED fan and will be going to TED2011 as well as co-curating TEDxDubai this coming December. But there is another group that you might not have heard of and need to also look at! GEL  Short for “Good Experience Live” You are scratching your head right? Well here is what [...]

Can you laugh at yourself?

How do you measure the success of a nation? Wealth, education, power, military, population or none of the above? I  am a bit slow on the uptake but have really come to realize that the success of a nation is directly proportional to the ability of a population to laugh at itself. Sounds silly but [...]

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