The First Step toward Recovery is Admitting We Have a Problem
Thank you Indra Nooyi, President and CEO of PepsiCo, for your refreshingly brutal honesty about the tradeoffs between business leadership and parenting. "You know, you have to cope, because you die with guilt. You just die with guilt. My observation is that the...
Do You Know #InnovationwithSoul When You See It? – Please take this poll
What is "innovation with soul" vs simply a disruption of the status quo? Do you know it when you see it? Does our society inspire, support, and exalt it as we should? Consider: The new MIT Technology Review: "Hacking the Soul." In it, you'll find the latest...
Maleficent – What Her Salvation Says about Ours
Have you seen the movie? Have you heard the buzz? Maleficent is the dark fairy who casts a spell on Sleeping Beauty. Through this Wicked-like prequel brought to us by Angelina Jolie and Disney, we come to understand the story differently. It's not a movie for very...
Animal empathy – please take 1 minute to answer my son’s poll
Grant and his 4th grade team would love your input to their project on animals. 4 quick questions here. Thank you, Jackie
What Barbara is Really Teaching Us – Be Brave
Barbara Walters is using her megaphone to tell us something important. Can we hear her? Is she breaking through our armor of modern culture and personal regret to pierce our hearts? Does she fully realize how important it is and why now is the right time to...
How do you spell global empathy? – MOOC!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuzuI8_CQJo&feature=player_detailpage#t=88 What's a MOOC? Massively open online course. What's massive? 15,000 students. What's open? citizens from 150 countries posing and debating questions about important topics like what we...
Making the Whole Greater than the Sum of the Parts in a Merger Has Never Been More Important
Sharon Sobol Jordan is the CEO of the Centers for Families and Children , as well as a dear friend and client. She writes about institutionalizing innovation and positive disruption on her blog, Innovation Inside. This collaborative post is being simultaneously...
Is All Innovation Good?
The MIT Technology Review is out with 10 breakthrough technologies of 2014. It makes us wonder..... What is innovation with a conscience? Is all science/technology/invention/innovation inherently good? Innovation which is good does NOT: -profit from...
Does Technology Help or Hinder Empathy?
By Jennifer Lehner and Jackie Acho This digital bonanza is freaking us out. What kind of humans are we becoming when our faces are smashed into screens? Will technology make us a more or less empathetic society? Can computers feel love? The time for hand wringing...
A Must Watch Piece on Empathy
Jeremy Rifkin, best selling author and economist, describes the evolution of the human brain, why empathy is our natural state, and how our current systems stunt...
Why We Hate Disrupters…Until We Love Them
dis·rupt transitive verb \dis-ˈrəpt\ 1. To throw into confusion or disorder: Entrepreneurs make money, sometimes lots of it, as quickly as possible. Sometimes even for others. Intrapreneurs (entrepreneurs inside large organizations) make change, sometimes also money,...
An Intrapreneurial……Pope
Whether you are Catholic or not, Pope Francis has your attention, doesn’t he? As Peggy Noonan pointed out in this morning’s Wall Street Journal, he is showing us a new way, from the top down, and it's a surprise. We're not used to seeing this kind, humble,...
