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The following essay was written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997. She described it as the commencement speech she would give if she were asked to give …

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Doing Things Right vs. Doing the Right Things
April 18, 2010 – 1:29 pm | No Comment
Doing Things Right vs. Doing the Right Things

Chris Argyris coined the terms "Double Loop Learning" and "Single Loop Learning. Single loop learning has often been compared to a thermostat in that it makes a "decision" to either turn on or off. Double …

Bobby McFerrin Hacks Your Brain with Music
April 17, 2010 – 2:46 pm | No Comment
Bobby McFerrin Hacks Your Brain with Music

In this fun and entertaining 3 minute performance from the World Science Festival, Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale and an audience’s expectations to demonstrate neural programming of our brains. Brilliant!

Juggling Five Balls Of Life
April 12, 2010 – 2:28 pm | No Comment
Juggling Five Balls Of Life

This was written by Brian G. Dyson the CEO of Coca-Cola (from 1988 until 1994).
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them – Work …

Tasmania
April 11, 2010 – 11:07 am | No Comment
Tasmania

Tasmania’s diversity and relatively compact size makes it a perfect holiday destination. The landscape can change from rainforests and highland lakes to long white beaches within a 90-minute drive.

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Shu Ha Ri: The Stages of Learning to Mastery
January 29, 2010 – 1:35 pm | No Comment
Shu Ha Ri: The Stages of Learning to Mastery

Recently I attended a presentation by Alistair Cockburn. He is one of the initiators of the agile movement in software development and one of the 17 authors of the Agile Manifesto. During his presentation …

Extreme: Lewis Gordon Pugh swims the North Pole
January 24, 2010 – 2:05 pm | No Comment
Extreme: Lewis Gordon Pugh swims the North Pole

Lewis Gordon Pugh, the first person to swim at the North Pole, talks about his using extremes to accelerate the conversation about global warming. He talks about his record-breaking swim across the North Pole. He …