… means “a profound sense of caring [for] others and a desire to improve the world,” according to Wiktionary. I can’t pronounce it, but I’ll have some, please.
See Tom Guarriello‘s post for more, especially if this hooks you the way it did me:
Steven Pinker’s talk has made the greatest impression on me over the last few days. He articulated something I’d known but had never said so clearly: “we live in the least violent era in human history.”
David Gurteen tweeted this interesting article (pdf): Conversational Leadership: Thinking together for a change It makes a lot of sense to me pushing for a
This post really interests me: Innovation for Development: Scaling Up or Evolving? As they complete some pilot experiments in development work the authors recognise that
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic suggests why we end up with incompetent leaders making a point about a bias towards men in the process: In my view, the main
From the newsletter of envisional comes word of this CNET article Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank a new
I’ve just given a presentation on Beyond Branding in Jersey. It was fun to take ideas that have been percolating for months and give them
Great article in today’s Independent. The government decided to take action to stop the spread of TB among cattle. They found that badgers were to
Jennifer Rice continues our rolling dialogue about what marketing’s job is. I appreciate Jen for keeping a good thoughtful exploration going. David Foster at PhotonCourier
Eloquent polemic from Chris Lydon: After New Hampshire. Here’s what I’m learning: For those of us who like the sound of “Internet democracy ” who
I’ll be taking part in the Chautauqua online discussion of Beyond Branding, from 15th to 29th February. Fellow authors Denzil Meyers, Chris Macrae, Julie Anixter
Found via Richard Gayle is Strike that Out Sam. This is a cheeky exploitation of the fact that Microsoft Word documents retain the fingerprints of
I really enjoyed Tom Jacob’s post The Four Habits of the Highly Unconsolable. He weaves together his own experiences with some inspired quotes from sources as diverse as Robert Frost
Yesterday I said this on twitter: now suffering reading fatigue. i think this may be a chronic rather than acute illness It’s the sort of half-idea I often tweet out.
I’ve been thinking a lot about that Gutenberg Parenthesis idea. I think we have inadvertently allowed the linear format of the printed book to be the gold standard for intelligence.
This is a great reminder of perils of conformity in groups. Being exposed in a group creates significant pressure on participants. In this experiment many give what they know is
