World War Green

My theory of the day: Going green is the next World War II.
It looks to me like global warming will be the huge economic push that will get the whole economy moving at full steam again. (Pardon the pun.) As the oceans rise, as the land becomes parched, as cities flood, as the populace migrates, [...]

Watch. Smile. Move.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about where we’re all heading — as a company, as a country — and what we can do about it to help make things better.
Michael Bungay Stanier is a business coach in Canada devoted to helping companies and individuals do Great Work (as opposed to just Good Work). He [...]

The joys of abstraction

Patricia and I just got back from a couple of weeks of traveling, mostly in England. We got to spend a day with two good friends: the artist Terry Cripps and writer and consultant Susannah Finzi at their gorgeously restored and remodeled old home in a tiny village in the Gloucestershire countryside. After years of [...]