TED=Poetry in Motion
I am a TEDster, a TED aficionado, an idea spreader. Many people ask me what it is about TED that has grabbed my imagination to the point that it may have even become a game changer for me. For me TED is ideas. As an academic I live in the realm of ideas so that answer [...]
Who did what?
One of the greatest problem faced by any organization, unless it is a solo operation, is understanding the value of what people do. Too often we all play the ‘I did/You did’ game which is wholly destructive to any organization. And add to the above, ‘what I did is more valuable than what you did.’ At the [...]
Holding Inspiration
Finding inspiration is one thing and grabbing it, holding it, recording it and using it is a totally different thing. This TED talk really made me think hard about not just being inspired but using that inspiration. I have watched that talk a lot. And I have thought about what is being said and the [...]
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 [...]
REDU a second thought on education
So, you had a think about education. Maybe you hummed. Maybe you hawed. I know you said that if the system worked for me it can work for the next generation. NOBODY WANTS TO DRIVE A MODEL T FORD TODAY SO WHY ARE WE SATISFIED WITH AN EDUCATION THAT IS FRAMED IN THAT ERA! Watch [...]
We got education wrong!
I really do think we are going about the art of informing and developing our children on the wrong way. Not that the whole process is broken, but it does need a serious renovation. So where do we start? I think the starting point is a huge issue. We have old school administrators looking at the problem [...]
Put up or shut up
We academics are a funny group of people. We spend our days sitting in relatively well furnished buildings dispensing the building blocks of information to the generation that is going to fix the mess we have made. But as a rule we academics do very little when it comes to actually practicing what we teach! [...]
Why I love TED.
I am a TEDster and proud of that fact. TEDActive2011 has not even happened and early bird registration for TEDActive2012 has already begun! TED2012 will be themed “Full Spectrum!” Here is what Kelly Stoetzel says about TEDActive2012. We are inviting our speakers to develop “Full Spectrum” presentations — by which we mean the rich use [...]
New Way of investing?
What if we thought about investing in ideas different? Presumed Abundance might just be that group. The idea is simple. Fund it forward! How It Works We provide startup capital for your company. Instead of buying equity for ourselves, the equity we purchase goes directly into our angel fund. Upon a liquidity event (merger/acquisition or [...]
Get on With Things Part One.
Ideas, we all have them and we all have the means to act on them, ideas, but how often do you act on your ideas? I know form my own experience that I tend to act on some ideas but because of self doubt I tend to reject most ideas that pop into my head. [...]
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