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We make that trip all our lives. To and Fro. Back and Forth. Arriving and Leaving. The Goodbye Girl. The Run-Away Bride. The Mid-night Cowboy. All feels restless Gotta be somebody, going places. This time, point B happens to be Mars itself. Young people can muster up the courage to go to far-away wars, but dare…
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2.5 per cent. That’s US growth figure. Enough? Confident? Could be better? I am glad we are growing even when it feels like we are running in place. Perception vs Reality. Like how they feel now at Microsoft, at Yahoo. Even at RIM and Facebook. Something is missing. Mojo? Passion and Pride. Exuberance and Exhilaration.…
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If you dropped everything and listened to all the casual remarks, you would be paralyzed. The current economy is like an elephant, perceived by four blind men: it’s going to get better, it’s like a wave form, a V-shape, a downward cyclical. They could illustrate and demonstrate. They could even persuade. But who is to…
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Hard work is a given, a prereq for success. But that necessary spark, the 10% inspiration, must be there. Two candidates, with equal experience, the one with a great attitude wins. You must have the mojo. It shows up in conversation, in off-hand moments (kicking the dog on the way out or giving the finger in…
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If you happened to watch the Olympic men weightlifting , you would find out quickly that we have our limits. We are shaped in this body, given that much neurons and glued to the ground by gravity (tell that to the jumpers). This is an unpopular observation. We are more used to hearing inspirational messages, that…
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The BBC has a piece on Japan Love Affair with the Fax Machine. Older population has gotten used to that technology (which allows for hand-writing). For years, I have used email except for Thank-you notes in writing. I can reasonably predict that even typing (as we know it) will be a lost art (speech recognition will…
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We don’t want the former, and wish to collect the latter. In our age of mass production, supplysiders push consumption to the point of writing up bad loans, hence Repo. Then, and this happened to me once, products came out of the assembly line all look alike: I once mistakenly opened an identical rental car…
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Thomas Moore (double O’s) was quoting Thomas More (single O) in his book, the Re-Enchantmet of Everyday Life. He came out with a bang in Care of the Soul. Essayist, therapist, monk and philosopher who hit the marks. Those marks point us back to Nature, Magic and Intuition. Qualities of life . He treaded carefully, staying…
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You learn lessons in Marketing when you are in Las Vegas (besides lessons on greed). Mirage was opened to big fanfare back in the early 90’s: volcano and the white Tiger. Now, its low cave-like ceilings, tight hallways (perhaps for planned claustrophobia) and dark interior did not pass muster in an era of high-ceiling, green…
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I often go first to Home Page on LinkedIn to see who is connecting with whom. The Network Effect assumes people are inherently decent, deserving respect and reciprocity. Society continues to work on that basis. Not random shooting, nor indiscriminate mass slaughter. We have learned invaluable lessons in collaboration: WWII, internet peering, crowd-sourcing and job networking. We…
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