Sharing, Collaboration and Cooperation in the 21St Century

On the playground today, I watched a two-year old get into a turf tiff with a three-year-old girl over a sand digger. They engaged in a battle of wills and “mines,” each wanting to sit on this mechanical contraption at the same time. Finally, with a bit of parental intervention, they discovered that they could

Micro-Documentaries and Non-Fiction Storytelling

There is a future for non-fiction film (AKA documentaries). In fact, it’s huge. Driven by necessity, technology and increasing demand, the market for micro-documentaries is growing. A micro-documentary tells a powerful story in under ten minutes. People want authenticity. NGOs and non-profits have messages they need to communicate through story driven content that brings to

Peer-to-Peer, Sharing Economy, and Disruptive Technology

Peer-to-peer, the sharing economy, and disruptive technologies are transforming our world in which we are shifting from the me to the we culture.

Memoir: A Source of Agency in The World

  Memoirs have the power to shatter entrenched belief systems making room for innovation. It is just this reason that the children of Reading, PA decided to tell their own stories in the compilation of essays, a picture is worth…. After having their neighbourhood, schools and family systems sharply criticized, they decided to tell their

Creating Opportunity from Failure

David Castro, in Genership: Beyond Leadership Toward Liberating The Creative Soul, writes, “To accept fallibility liberates organizations to experiment and learn from failure in their work on tasks that are mundane but nevertheless critical to progress.” The idea of accepting one’s fallibility applies to individuals as well as groups. It is through acceptance of one’s

Anger, Obstacles and Becoming Resilient: The Children Of Reading

  Examples of resilience leap out of the pages of a picture is worth…, a compilation of personal essays written by teens from Reading, Pa.—a place The New York Times describes as “America’s city with the highest poverty rate, extraordinarily low college-degree attainments and elevated high school dropout numbers.” It’s a youth culture riddled with

Humanity’s Choice

Each day we make choices that determine our life circumstances both as individuals and as a collective. When we live controlled by external forces instead of being guided by our self-defined purpose, we fail to live from our deepest joy. When we live self-directed lives, we actively create our world. Consciousness is a creative force,

Not Lost in Translation: The Rise of The Visual Web

I had an “aha” moment the other day when I noticed my one-year old teaching herself how to edit a video using Instagram and even upload the file. (She snagged my iPhone from me.) She represents a generation that will be raised on a visual web. Reading still remains vital for brain development. She has a

21st Century Life: Peer-to-Peer, Last 5 Billion and Climate Change

The sharing economy is more than sharing resources, goods and apartment swapping. It also reflects a major organizational shift in how we form communities, work together and just get along. We’re moving from a world where we are organized by ownership to one organized around access to assets. Under this new emerging economic model, everyone

Seeking Fulfillment: Be True to Your Vision

  Our lives are raveled into balls and knots of experiences harbored in memories held deep in our minds and the crevices of our bodies. When we begin to unravel, we realize that we create our past, present and future in our minds, and we can make the shift to begin actively creating our lives