Hope Among The Ruins
News Bulletin: we interrupt regularly scheduled bloggery to bring you this news flash…yesterday, for the first time in over twenty years, a white swan was sighted!
News Bulletin: we interrupt regularly scheduled bloggery to bring you this news flash…yesterday, for the first time in over twenty years, a white swan was sighted!
Slowly the rear door of the livestock trailer opened, and I saw them for the first time, all thirty of them. Jet black, pure white, and most hues in between. Not a shared gene among them. My D&I (Diversity and Inclusion) colleagues would triumph at the sheer heterogeneity on display. A tumbled, jumbled collection of biodiversity—an…
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Lessons for business leaders amid COVID-19 from the farm of Chris Houston Who knew that a simple Sunday morning breakfast could provide counsel on the two essential assets all business leaders require: the quality of resilience and the adaptive thinking tools of scenario planning. This morning, on our farm, I gathered the first fresh wild…
In his remarkable retelling of the ancient story of David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell (in his book titled after the story) reminds us that often, rule-changers win battles. “There is an important lesson,” he tells us, “for battles with all kinds of giants…
Until the last week of the final September of the decade, now ended, relations between teenagers and septuagenarians were generally, at least, on civil grounds. Not anymore! On September 23, in a lobby of the UN, more than a few camera operators captured a picture that spoke considerably more than the typical thousand words most images hope to capture…
Chapter 1 – A Fresh Start