August 2, 2010
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August 2 Marks Pivotal Anniversary

Trust your heart, and trust your story. (Neil Gaiman, Instructions, Harper 2010) The day I came home from camp, August 2nd, the summer between 3rd and 4th grades, my 5-year-old brother swam the length of our neighbor­hood swimming pool, climbed into my mother’s arms, and died. This sudden and unexpected tragic event changed all of [...]

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July 30, 2010
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Thoughts Change

One of my favorite quotes, capturing why it’s important for us to live mindfully. Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your [...]

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July 13, 2010
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Genius Jumpstart

Interested in a little creative jumpstart? This video provides the extraordinary history of British science, with commentary from Britain’s greatest living scientists: Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and James Dyson. Britain may only be a small island, but people there are far from small-minded. Over the last 500 years, the way they live has been steadily [...]

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July 12, 2010
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Mutual Adjustments as Sharing Arrangements

Harlan Cleveland (1918-2008) had more insight decades ago into how to work in the distributed social world than most leaders have today. In this early draft of a chapter we wrote together for Creating a Learning Culture (Cambridge, 2004), he answered a key question. If all organizations are—slowly or rapidly—becoming [uncentralized] systems, how will anything [...]

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July 8, 2010
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More or Less

Day after day, year after year, I’ve strived to always do more. In school when I was assigned a paper on an “ism” I wrote it on “Moreism.” My first book was titled, Learn More Now. I’ve not aspired for more goods, rather more experiences. As to why, I have more theories than time. My [...]

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July 7, 2010
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Pesto Chango

Think Enterprise 2.0 is worlds away from a good pesto. Think again.

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June 15, 2010
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Twitterbursts: It’s Not About The Tools; It’s All About The Tools

Humans have conveyed short messages, rife with meaning, for over thirty thousand years. Smoke signals have traversed the airways. Expressive quips filled Seinfeld’s show. At all stages and ages, we burst forward. Up, dada. Look at my train. No, no, no. Keys please. Outta here. How cool is that? I do. Be back before dinner. [...]

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June 11, 2010
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Meet A. Human Asset

I have a dirty little secret I need to share. I wasn’t always a Human Asset. I didn’t always think about my hiring bonus, my yearly bonus, my variable pay, my stock options, my gym membership, my personal concierge, my ergonomic workstation, my free soda and coffee, my weekly chair back massage, my flextime, my [...]

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June 10, 2010
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What does collaboration mean to you?

Buzzword bingo has a new term: Collaboration. For some it means adding your two cents to a meeting agenda. For other it means providing a foothold and working together to climb high and see wide. If we are to collaborate with one another we ought to find-create-some common language and bases from which to build. [...]

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June 10, 2010
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What’s the world need?

On the end of my first day with the Altimeter Group team I heard what feels like the perfect quotation to express how I feel: alive. Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. — Howard [...]

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