February 28, 2019 “To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty; but to be a poet at forty is to be a poet.” Eugene Delacroix All generalizations are flawed, including the one above. Yet they can also useful. In addition to containing elements of truth, they help us transform seemingly… Read More »
May 4 Things that are hard: – Saying “I’m sorry.” – Saying “I was wrong.” – Saying “I am wrong” when you are mostly right. -Not saying “I told you so.” – Narrowing the gap between what you say and what you do. – When in the middle of a complex, complicated and constantly changing… Read More »
April 18 Who are the most important contributors to our society? Scientists? Doctors? Politicians? Inventors? Business Leaders? Parents? Does the question even make any sense? Jim Clifton and Sangeeta Bharadwaj Badal think so. Not only is the question important for them – even crucial – but they also offer an answer, one they share with… Read More »
January 23 As we make our way through our lives, we each will have our share of wicked problems. We struggle with raising a family, with finding a career, with making ends meet, with trying to find a balance between what we have and what we want, with getting through college, with making the… Read More »
October 20 During the difficult days of World War II, one of the most popular songs on everyone’s lips was an up-beat, optimistic, “sunny-side-of-the-street” tune by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer called Accentuate the Positive. Introduced by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in the 1944 movie, Here Come the Waves, it was sung in the… Read More »
April 14, 2014 General Motors, the largest car company in the world, is face-to-face with what may be its most serious problem ever: a wicked problem so huge, so complex and so potentially damaging that it deserves to be called a Super Wicked Problem!. In fact, this problem could serve as a poster child for… Read More »
“Anything you can do I can do meta…” Many will recognize this as a take-off of the song Anything you can do I can do better, from the 1946 Irving Berlin musical Annie Get Your Gun. The quote appears in a recent book by philosopher Daniel Dennett titled Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (2013) Dennett… Read More »