We need a new perspective!

Chris Anderson recently spoke to a group of Harvard architecture grads. The speech was published here, http://tedchris.posterous.com/a-speech-to-graduating-harvard-architects-6122, I think it is worth a read for several reasons. 1. Chris Anderson is swimming in the TED idea pool so it is interesting to get his view from the pond 2. This is a wel prepared talk 3. Another [...]

Is she really an accountant?

You know how it goes, we hear a person does a particular job and we put them into a box. Not a literal box, but we do stereotype people according to what we think they do in their particular profession. Take the accountant. Want to be stuck in an elevator with an accountant? Probably not. [...]

WEB 3.0 and the Canadian Digital Media Network

The cloud, WEB2.0, twitter, facebook, Netflix, apps, it would seem no matter where you turn our economy and thought process are in some way being directly impacted upon by WEB based technology. The problem with our increasingly WEB influenced social mentality is that the parts that make up the whole of our WEB aided society [...]

Share Ideas? How radical is your collaberation?

What do I love about TED? The idea of radical collaboration. Radical collaboration is a huge challenge to the way many people think and act. There are still too many people who step all over the people they meet going up the ladder forgetting that these are the same people they meet going down the [...]

What the UAE Film Industry Needs.

Saro Carlwig and Ahmed Arshi set up Talent Casting Agency, www.tcame.com, to help develop Emirati talent in the film industry. So what does the UAE film industry need? UAE, Emirati talent! It is great that we have many film festivals cropping up, and my favorite is the student led project at Zayed University, but festivals [...]

A little hockey advice

When I think about how to advance what I do in the classroom or on the radio I have come back to a little Wayne Gretzky often. While the “Great One” was talking about ice hockey these words apply to pretty much every activity we engage in. What I really enjoyed about TEDActive was that [...]

Where we go wrong. Simplicity part 3

You can always depend on Hugh to point out the obvious. Yet the obvious can and is often the farthest from what we do. Here is the text that came with today’s cube bomb. I was interviewed by Paul Barron today for his RETHINK video blog. We talked about Evil Plans, and what the book is [...]

Tony Deifell offers a reset.

I have done a lot of interviews on Nightline here in Dubai. Each interview has offered me something personally. But my conversation with Tony Deifell was nothing short of extraordinary. Tony offered up, in 45 minutes, the tools to look at what we are doing and move forward! Now this is not to suggest that [...]

Get on With Things Part Two

10,000 Women is a five-year investment by Goldman Sachs to provide 10,000 undeserved women around the world with a business and management education. What does it take to change a community? What does it take to change a person? As it turns out little more than giving that person, who wants to change, the opportunity [...]

Through the heart to the mind.

Education is my passion and I am wrestling with it at the high school level, with my children, and the university level where I teach. The problem with education today is too few teachers are aiming at the heart of the student to get to the mind. How does a test get to the heart? [...]

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