Just came across the Wikipedia page on Open Business. Its a great first step to changing the way you think about business. Check it out. Open Business Ricardo Semler’s Maverick is an inspiring biographical account of opening the running of a large, traditionally run private business.
Category:Holonics
Holonics, integral thinking, big picture thinking …
Love
Love “Ai,” the traditional Chinese character for love (?) consists of a heart (middle) inside of “accept,” “feel,” or “perceive,” which shows a graceful emotion. It can also be interpreted as a hand offering ones heart to another hand. is patient is kind does not envy does not boast is not proud is not rude …
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Aren’t The King’s New Clothes Wonderful!?!
Danny Kaye’s is the version I loved as a boy, though Bernard Cribbins does it well too. If you can’t listen, the lyrics are all you need. If you don’t cry at the the irony, smile at the knowledge that there is an answer staring us in the face, even if we choose not to …
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The New Paradigm
Chatting with a friend, Jerry, recently reminded me of the table sketched out during Be The Change with Chopra and friends. It is reproduced below. The full newsletter August 2006 is here. With the help of science, we are shifting into a new paradigm, not only of the human body-mind, but of our very interpretation …
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Cosmic Bounce
28 October 2011 is when the cosmic bounce occurs. I like the idea of a cosmic rhythm, a universal pulse. Something like your heartbeat, of the regular spinning of earth or earth circling the sun every year. But bigger and more complex in the unseen dimensions, the world of gravity and emotion. On a universal …
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Victory! Or shame?
Gaddafi is gone. That’s good. And right. Gaddafi is dead. Maybe that’s not right. Almost inevitable in this world. But it was not the best we could have done. The evidence streamed around the world of a battered, bloodied old man, interspersed with rejoicing is an embarrassing show of primitive instinct. All male. Guns. Blood. …
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Feel the cosmic rhythm.
Most of us ignore the spiritual dimension. The pressures of daily life, the pursuit of material objectives, the desire for new things and experiences take up all our thoughts. But sometimes we feel the invisible. We have empathy for another. Or we reflect on friendships, family or love. Perhaps we feel fulfilled by a religious …
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Ray Anderson
His passion could make you cry. He turned the dirtiest of industries in to the cleanest. He set the example. He died 8 August 2011. You can hear him talk about changing the world here. Wikipedia’s entry is here. Here is an obituary from The Economist. And here is a little poem he liked to …
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The passion of dissent – Aung Sang Suu Kyi
Aung Sang Suu Kyi talks about her life and work as a political reformer. Listen to her on Radio 4 here. Hope without delusion. Suffering by choice. The spirit of change. Download the Reith Lectures podcast Read the transcript of Lecture 1
Where are you going?
It is important to know where we come from, because if you don’t know where you come from then you don’t know where you are and if you don’t know where you are then you don’t know where you’re going. And if you don’t know where you are going, you’re probably going wrong. Terry Pratchett, …
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