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Sending Wool Blankets to the Tropics
Who in their right mind would send wool blankets to the tropics? You’d be surprised how often similar things happen. Actually it is so common that most disaster preparedness manuals used by international relief organizations have a section on how to handle unnecessary relief supplies. Misplaced empathy is the culprit. We imagine ourselves as one […] read further
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Feeling Alive
My life turned upside down a few years ago: I was diagnosed with bladder cancer. I heard my doctor say “cancer”, but the rest was a blur. The word stuck in my brain. Cancer. It was impossible to do anything else that day. I rode an emotional roller coaster. The next day, as part of […] read further
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What If?…
What If?… What if we were born with a gift, What if this gift could Take us anywhere, anytime. What if this gift could Create oceans and continents, Bring to life myths and fairytales, Dragons and vampires. What if this gift could Make us captain of a ship, A ship that could fly. What if […] read further
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Some Secrets on Creating a Life of Adventures
I had many great adventures in my life and I think most of them happened because instead of deciding whether things were impossible or not, I looked at the costs and rewards of going through the process. I barely looked at failure except to compare its results with the ultimate reward and pretty much in […] read further
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An Historical Perspective on Today
This is a follow-up on the post “On The Collapse of Civilizations” which shows that we might be driving towards the collapse of our own civilization. This post presents an additional driving factor to the collapse. Today one of the main protector of our civilization has been the use of the media concentrated in the […] read further
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The Inner Board of Our 7 Advisers.
By Carol Frachon & Patrice Capitant, BusinessLifeSuccess. Often when you’re talking to yourself, you hear little voices whisper in your ear, especially when it comes to making a decision or just when you think about your life. You find yourself even talking out loud like your grandmother! These little voices tell you to be careful, advise […] read further
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I Am Therefore I Think or Why French People May Appear Arrogant.
“You make a statement one day then you contradict it the next day!” My daughter said to me the other day: The old “I think” is back. After living in the US for about 8 years, I suddenly realized I was making statements all the time because I did not include “I think” in everything […] read further
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Customer-centric Solutions
Yesterday I was downtown Palo Alto. I rarely go there because parking is impossible and they have not implemented a customer-centric solution like a free shuttle to a remote parking location. Anyway, I had a few requests from my daughter who is in bed recovering from an operation and decided to try the local CVS/Pharmacy. […] read further
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Don’t Ask Your Team To Be Your Therapists
I have seen this again and again. You promised to deliver a project on a specific date without really listening to your team. The deadline is approaching and your level of anxiety is going up. So instead of the standard schedule of weekly reports, you have increased those to every morning. This is your first […] read further
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On The Collapse of Civilizations
I really like Ronald White concept of the pyramid described in “A Short History of Progress”. Population distributions in term of wealth and power tend to evolve from egalitarian to a pyramid where the wealthiest and most powerful are on top and the poorest and least powerful are at the bottom. The top relies on […] read further
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