"The eight misconceptions about engagement"

What pushed Steve Balmer, Microsoft’s C.E.O. to seek to motivate his people in such a way that gained him instantaneous reputation on the web… Today, type “Dance monkey boy” on Google and the following clip appears:   The intention probably was to galvanize...

“Insights, one week into South Africa’s World Cup”

M.K. Gandhi used to say that “The only authentic religion is the universal fraternity amongst people”. I guess, if he were reincarnated today in South Africa, he may have added: “And these days football is the only thing which seems to connect people from the five...

“Going down, all the Saints are helpful”

“Para descer, todo Santo ajuda” (to go down all the Saints are helpful) say the pragmatic people of the Brazilian state of Bahia (where my wonderful wife comes from). A recent event brought this old saying back to the surface: the Fundação Dom Cabral (www.fdc.org.br)...

“Man is limited not so much by his tools but by his vision”

I love this quote from Richard Pascale and am sometimes sadly reminded of it when my partners and I or even a respected client are unable to  break the boundaries from our self-created, self-limiting “mental prisons”. It is so exasperating when we find ourselves...