In his amazing TED Talk, entitled, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”, Sir Ken Robinson tells the story of going to see his son in the play A Nativity Scene. When the three wisemen appear (three costumed young boys), they deliver their lines with only the interpretation that youngsters can deliver. There are no ‘rights’ and no [...]
For those of you who don’t follow my SlideShare account, this was the Keynote presentation I gave at the recent GOVIS conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Because the video doesn’t currently embed:
1. The Day of the Longtail By Michael Markman, Peter Hirshberg, Bob Kalsey; Produced for The Computer History Museum
2. What the Heck is BarCamp? [...]
Marilyn Waring’s first gesture towards me proved the point she would make earlier.
Knowing virtually nothing about me other than I dropped her an email explaining that her book, Counting for Nothing (originally titled “If Women Counted”), changed the way I looked at the world and that I had dedicated my life to shifting value systems [...]
As a child, I loved the colourful rhymes of Dr. Seuss. His characters were so fantastical and silly, with names that made you giggle whilst you learnt. Some of my favourite stories were The Sneetches and The Lorax. The Sneetches was a wonderful parable of the celebration of diversity (actually used in Bosnia to teach [...]
…complicated.
Riya’s Leaves India
Just recently a former coworker of mine from Riya India messaged me to ask me what I thought of Munjal’s recent decision to pull out of India. After I read his post and reflected on the sadness of it (I met most of the India team and really enjoyed hanging out with them [...]
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