Archive for October, 2011

The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory

The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory

Daniel Kahneman describes the science behind memories. First, and foremost, he emphasizes that the experiencing self is not the same as the remembering self. Most of what we experience, we do not remember. We retain only a small portion of our experiences as captured by our remembering self who captures a story of what we [...]

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Are Noncash Currencies a Solution for Today’s Economic Crisis?

Are Noncash Currencies a Solution for Today’s Economic Crisis?

According to Bernard Lietaer, we have four mega-trends at play in the world today including: climate change unemployment aging of society and the current economic crisis.   Furthermore, Liataer says we cannot solve climate change, unemployment and the aging of society issues with the current money system. According to Liataer …. Our currentmoney system is [...]

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Self-Interest vs. Service is the wrong question

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While at MASSIVE, a forum I attended a couple of weeks ago sponsored by Simon Sinek and Bob Chapman, we had a very enlightening and important dialogue on self-interest vs. service. We came to a place that the problem was when we try to force and either / or mentality onto such a complex human [...]

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Texas A&M Retailing Summit

Retailing Summit

  I had the opportunity to speak about “Delivering the Brand Promise from the Inside-Out” at last week’s Retailing Summit sponsored by Texas A&M. I felt very fortunate to speak alongside an impressive line-up of academic and business leaders including:Raj Sisodia, Author & Professor, Conscious Capitalism; John Mackey, co-CEO, Whole Foods Market;Tom Lamb, SVP Marketing, [...]

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Steve Jobs – the master of marrying science and art to touch humanity in profound ways

Steve has always pointed out that the biggest difference between Apple and all the other computer (and post-PC) companies through history is that Apple always tried to marry art and science. — Erik Jackson, Forbes

Forbes captured an article on the Top Ten Lessons Steve Jobs can Teach us – If We’ll Listen. The lessons are insightful to say the least. Steve Jobs is an icon of our time in ways that transcend business. We live in a world where the study of science and art is separated by literal [...]

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