Peter Diamandis, founder of the XPrize, is one of my heroes. He is a man of many talents and hastening the benefits of the future is one of them. Today I came upon a story he told of taking Stephen Hawking, the legendary physicist, for a ride. Here it is in Peter’s words: Back in […]
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This video covers the basics of the Knowledge Business Engine, the core revenue and value generator of successful associations that have evolved beyond a basic transactional model
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The chimney cleaner arrived about 8:15 a week ago today, right in the middle of our family scramble getting school lunch together and our daughter out the door for the bus on the coldest day of the year. We were looking for gloves, coats, hats and the dogs were everywhere underfoot. In comes the chimney
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I lay out the three stages of evolution of an association and share a little on why Grand Challenges grow organizations.
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It is a time to think about all that can be, as we are pregnant with the coming seasons. It is a time to dream, imagine and contemplate what is possible. And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. – Rainer Maria Rilke Simultaneously it is a time like
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A synchronicity is defined as: the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection. In other words, there does not appear to be any way one could have caused the other – they arise at the same time. You could call it luck, but if you’re using the term,
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Every year, where the earth is tipped farthest from the sun, there comes the longest night otherwise known as the winter solstice. Before people understood the rotation of the earth, its path around the sun, or the role of the tilt of the earth’s axis, all they had to go on was what they experienced:
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What’s the best and easiest way to improve the results you are getting in life? Invigorate your body. Don’t make it a big project with 100 discrete measures (unless you find that fun!). Do something simple and easy that you enjoy. Joy is a critical ingredient! You can experience greater health and energy anytime you:
Over the last 3 years I have become obsessed with associations. Periodically I have to ask myself, Why? Why do I care if these organizations, more than any others, live or die? I suppose it all goes back to my interest in professional communities. When I was a kid my father was a consultant to
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Over the Thanksgiving holiday we had a bunch of friends from our past, about 8 people in our house. Of course at the end of the feasting we had the obligatory group photo shoot. It became clear really fast, with our smart phones in hand, that there were a lot of really great pics being
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