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The New Face of Media-thinking.

TEDxDubai did many things and one of the most important things was give the UAE permission to push its media bar in a totally different direction. Leo Laporte made a wonderful daring presentation to TEDxDubai. The media is changing but are we ready? Do we believe the media environment is really changing? Call our media [...]

An Education rethink?

There is no better place to be than the UAE when it comes to rethinking how education can, should and might be delivered to meet the challenges the next generation will face. Primary and secondary education is rapidly evolving in the UAE and trying to come to grips with the lessons from welfare states around [...]

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 [...]

Block out the noise and focus! Magic will happen

There are a lot of distractions today. Do this, help that, think this, be that, there are an endless number of demands on us and we cannot do it all. The problem for many, is because of noise, they do nothing! Mark Drewelow of C2C has managed to block out the noise, focus, and in [...]

Hold on tight to your passion

Have you been following the99.org? Last night I had a chance to catch up with Dr. Naif, he did an amazing talk at TEDxDubai, and as usual was amazed! The message from Dr. Naif is simple, follow your passion and hold onto what you believe with both hands. Have a listen to the conversation. Dr. [...]

To be young and foolish!

I often ask myself if it was a perfect world how would I build a team to actually make change happen! And I keep coming back to the idea of being young and foolish! The people who we charge with making change, on the whole, are old, tired, jaded and pretty much worn out as [...]

The Great One!

An Amazing Emirati Woman

Maryam Darwish’s story of leadership and dreams. There are a lot of stereotypes out there about Arab Woman. We in the West see what we want to see. And many Arabs perpetrate the stereotypes they have been raised into like, women raise the kids men go out and work. But every now and then you [...]

The power of youth!

The single greatest problem today is not listening to our youth! Why is that an issue? We professors, we bureaucrats, we parents, we …. are truly bankrupt of creative ideas. What we do have is a means to implement ideas but what we lack are ideas, new innovative,creative ideas. Look at Greece! How do they [...]

who can be an entrepreneur?

Abu Dhabi Forum on Entrepreneurship Nightline a Conversation Can you learn to be an entrepreneur? Do we all have what it takes? I am not so sure and I am certainly not sure that any school can actually teach you to be an entrepreneur! Look at the number of MBA’s out there, using the logic [...]

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