Tag: Four Peaks
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Against our better judgment, we seem to be making our world poorer, meaner and hotter. I intend the opposite for my children and for my students. And I will use the two strategies in which I have most invested my entire professional life — content and connectivity — to do something about it.
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To pivot: a change in direction, sometimes despite great present-day success. Breathless future-facing magazines laud this move. Indeed, Fast Company’s “The Pivot” series does so as it: …explores those destiny-altering decisions made by companies that have gone on to great success. Read more about their course corrections–and alternate endings. I’ve recently experienced four occasions of “pivoting”,…
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The best stories give you a strong sense of place. I’m contemplative of my own citizenship as I prepare for my final expedition for the year. I’m headed to Brussels to lead a couple of storytelling sessions for the European Commission, as well as give a talk to the Belgian chapter of the International Association…
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I’m startled to see that UWTV has uploaded our Four Peaks show to YouTube’s EDU channel, listing my interviews with our region’s remarkable movers and shakers (such as National Science Medal recipient Dr. Leroy Hood) as “Lectures in this Course.” As an educator and communicator, this pleases me to no end. Immediately I started to…