I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder at an interview about PeaceWorks. This is HILARIOUS – I don’t understand it, but I love the part when they start poking fun at all our mistakes. As well as when the guy shows up with the title "Non Style." What is that? Definitely lost in translation! Change-Maker [...]
Roger Martin, Dean at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto, gave an interesting presentation at the Opening Plenary at the Skoll World Forum today: Whether or not Barack Obama is your President or, as is the case for me, another country’s leader, most of you, I suspect, watched the President’s inauguration speech [...]
Marco Berrebi (Face2Face) emailed me an insight I thought was worth sharing: PS : the more I think about the Middle-East conflict, the more I think about the theory of Gauss (mathematician of the early 19th century) saying that equations with several variables evolving within a wide range of possible values cannot be solved until [...]
On the subway this morning, a homeless man sat in a corner quietly scribbling notes on a newspaper, with all his belongings next to him. No one else sat in that section of the subway. The rest of the subway car was reasonably full. But there was an invisible line that kept newcomers from seating [...]
Here is a tidbit that Tom Pickering, the ultimate American Diplomat and member of the PeaceWorks Foundation’s Honorary Board, shared with me last time I met him: The Israeli-Palestinian peace process is like riding a bike: if you are not going forward, you are falling down.
Tom Friedman wrote a provocative article about how we have been living our lives and running our economy at the expense of the next generations – and how the environment and the planet will not bail us out. Peter Thum, the co-founder of Ethos Water (later sold to Starbucks) and I had a conversation a [...]
Bill Mahr’s documentary about the excesses and idiocies of organized religion was not exhaustive. The Vatican recently excommunicated the Mother and Doctors of a 9 year old who had been raped and received an abortion. The doctors "fear[ed] that the 80-pound girl would not survive a full-term pregnancy". But that was apparently not enough suffering [...]
from baby Romy… …as we were getting him ready for his bath… I was giving him a bunch of kisses and he started imitating me and giving me kisses and smiling! His kisses involve some licking – but give him some time – he is learning!
Naif Al Mutawa is a dear friend who defines social entrepreneurship. He is creating positive role models for young Muslims a la Hollywood. Like Marvel and Action Comics before him, Naif created a set of iconic super-heroes – but they each are Muslims who embody one powerful benevolent trait drawn from Islam’s 99 characteristics attributed [...]
So the other day my 2 year old daughter came barging into my room saying: "quiere nacky, quiere nacky" translation- my daughter learned the word snack a long time ago, but pronounces it nack, and when she discovered "Kind Snacks: she decided to call them "nacky" so after asking for nacky, she starts banging on [...]