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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 [...]

A morning with Darren Shan.

OK, I would be telling  fib if I said I tucked into Darren Shan books on a regular basis. I took my son to listen to Darren Shan at the Emirates Airlines International Literature Festival in Dubai and realized I have missed something grand! Thanks to the power of QIK.com and my iPhone I have [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

What is in an experience?

We are living in an era where we believe that things such as look, process, action, and activity need to be updated in order to be better. I wonder if we haven’t gotten it all wrong? I was at the Dubai Fish Market on the 24th of December and the 1st thought that went through [...]

Listen to Kids MORE!

Last night on Nightline I spoke to 6 kids, aged 10-12, about everything from who their idols are to how to solve the financial issues confronting us today. Listen to the conversation it was refreshing! What did I learn from the conversation? 1. that things often are as simple as they seem 2. perception is [...]

Do the shirts matter?

Last night I had a very interesting conversation with Razan Masri, she is behind the shirt sensation Camiceria Design in Dubai! The idea is to give men a shirt with personality beyond a piece of driftwood. But do men really want to dress with personality? And does dressing in shirts that accent a man’s personality [...]

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 [...]

What we really need to land the job!

I had a very interesting conversation with Georgina Kelly yesterday on Nightline. We were talking about how some ethnic groups seem to be able to command more in terms of salary in the workplace than others. Maybe this was the case, not only in Dubai but globally, but things are changing and fast. Have skills [...]

Radio still rules!

I do a radio talk show, I host it anyway, 4 nights a week in Dubai. What I have learned is that people, all sorts of people, love to think that their ideas matter and that others might be interested in what they have to say. And in Dubai there is an added dimension of [...]

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