As a sponsor, I am totally biased, but I predict this will be a kick-ass event and suggest you mark you calendar now.



As a sponsor, I am totally biased, but I predict this will be a kick-ass event and suggest you mark you calendar now.



Twenty of us have convened in Houston at Hero Camp to come up with ways to foster the development of everyday heroes. We don’t expect to produce legions of citizens who jump between the tracks to protect someone from an oncoming train. Rather, we hope to promote these attributes among adolescents:
Attend a conference for troubled times. This event focuses on experimenting with fresh concepts, putting wisdom in the foreground, replacing bureaucracy with common sense, and coming together to share ideas.You can’t beat the price.
Future of Talent is a community of talent executives from major corporations who meet once a year to explore emerging issues in talent management, staffing, recruiting, employee development, retention and leadership development. Yesterday we finished a three-day retreat in Tiburon, California. I’ve Continue reading
God knows, the world could use more heroes. What would an agenda for creating everyday heroes look like? So asks psychologist extraordinaire Phillip Zimbardo.
Everyone has the POTENTIAL to be a hero, but, for whatever reason, most people aren’t incited to practice Continue reading

Uta and I spent the afternoon at a friend’s private vineyard over the hill and to the east of our place in Berkeley. The sun was shining, row upon row of vines held clusters of purple grapes, you might get a whiff of rosemary from the breeze, and my senses told me I was in Burgundy or Provence.
Mind Continue reading
This morning I received an email announcing TimeRime, a site that enables you to produce a timeline with links, photos, YouTube videos, etc. There went my day!
Since Internet Time Group is celebrating it’s tenth anniversary, I couldn’t help myself. You can create a timeline like that above for Continue reading
<span class=”drop_cap”>O</span>n the occasion of its one hundredth birthday, Harvard Business School is taking a look in the mirror.
Working Knowledge, an online forum from HBS, gave Professor Emeritus Jim Heskett a platform to raise the issue of the relevance of case study instruction. Continue reading
Jeremiah Owyang was kind enough to send me his slides from yesterday’s session on Social Media: Hype vs. Reality at Online Marketing World. I have tweaked the presentation of the information but the findings are Forrester’s.
Here are six levels of participation in social media.

Here’s the picture Continue reading