Innovation: The Who's Where's and How's

Having just come back from international travel and being an spectator to the latest fear mongering that the Mexican drug cartels will invade the USA and kill us all, it never ceases to amaze me how wantonly unsophisticated some of the thinking of our citizenry really is. Even our supposed leaders – to my dismay - exhibit similar characteristics. Yet again, more evidence of the emotional sinkholes that some of citizenry has become. We simply cannot get past the emotional thinking traps spouted by irresponsible talking heads via our shiny flat screens now casting their images in fine, bombastic details. We have lost our ability to think critically and analytically- period. Please, please, people start thinking. Take classes that teach improvisional thinking, understand statistics, read history and understand why things are the way they are. Discover that we drive the violence in Mexico via our drug consumption. Understand that we spend $60 Billion on the war on drug for the sake of 35 M...

What does it say when one's name is reduced to a letter? I am a Dale Carnegie graduate which in his teachings emphasized that a person’s name is one of the most important sounds one will ever utter in the process of making friends and influencing people. So what is one to do now, call people by their first letter? If so, then isn’t it presumptuous to assume that I may want to be addressed by the letter A. This is clearly some kind of trend that we can aggregate under the concept of “reductionism” driven – in my humble opinion- by our need to deal with the crushing amount of information being piped into our brains…I have seen this trend evolve over the last year and it seems to be gaining speed. Innovators out there: take notice. On clubs and clicks- In our attempt to synthesize and filter reality, one has to look inwards at times and ask behavioral questions of ourselves. The other day, I did exactly that regarding my lack of interest with clubs. My adult life has been punctuated ...