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du CEO Osman Sultan where are we going?

Yesterday I had the pleasure of listening to Mr. Osman Sultan, the ceo of du int he UAE, talk about his vision of how a content delivery provider can and will play a role in the future of Arab media.
The real issues comes down to what is media today and what will media be tomorrow?
Content [...]

How to start!

We are bombarded with suggestions about what is the matter with the world and what we might want to do about it.
We are buried in possibility really!
After watching TED 2010, no I was not there but really did wanted to be, I realized that part of our personal problem with activating ideas t is the [...]

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 [...]

The New Face of Journalism I Imagine.

I believe journalism is in a crisis situation, the crisis of being irrelevant.
I believe that journalism is on the brink of becoming irrelevant as a field of study NOT because students are abandoning the field of study, but because the professors and practitioners of the trade are unable to grasp, see, live, adapt to the [...]

Where does Design begin and end?

Ideas, thinking and design are no longer singular or able to be compartmentalized.

What Are Ideas About Today?

I have been talking a lot about TEDxDubai, we are down to the final 21 days before the we engage in the DREAM-DO-BE event.
Ideas are the most valuable commodity we have today and for the most part they are around us but being ignored.
Why are ideas ignored?
ARROGANCE, the belief that some people have a supernatural [...]

Be a TED Fellow 2010!

The TED Fellow program is an amazing opportunity to dive right into the TED program.
I met many TED Fellows at TED2009 and was blown away!
Here is a Fellow in action.
Sophal Ear leads research on post-conflict countries — looking at the effectiveness of foreign aid and the challenge of development in places like his native land, [...]

The Making of TEDx Dubai!

39 days until TEDx Dubai and against all the odds Giorgio Ungania and myself seem to be taking a simple idea and making it into a cause for the nation!
There seems to be no shortage of journalists looking for something to criticize about Dubai and the UAE. Fair enough, hang yourself out there as [...]

Leadership Example and the UAE Philharmonic

A conversation with Mr. Maier the conducter of the UAE Philharmonic Orchestra.
We spend a lot of time looking for cues and clues as to what leadership is and how we can develop it.
Professor Lynda Moore explained on Nightlinedxb the conundrum.
What if whe it comes to understanding leadership, group dynamics, creativity, design and how it all [...]

Design Thinking.

A conversation with Mark Dziersk VP Design Brandimage.
Design is the great underdog in today’s business/cultural/social and political environments.
For some fraught reason people seem to think that if the idea is good, if you are good, then things will simply come together and workout.
NO, this is a dream world that does not exist.
Those who succeed and [...]

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