When he talks, people listen. Because he's Dee Hock, founder of a 1.5 trillion dollar business -- Visa International. According to him, Visa's success was because of its "cha-ordic" structure. Hock coined the term chaordic to describe that perfect balance of chaos and order where evolution is most at home. Like the internet, the neural networks in our bodies and all of nature (snow flakes and ... posted on Mar 22 2003, 950 reads

Standing Up to Bulldozers
23-year-old American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the Israeli army from destroying homes in the Gaza Strip. In a series of emails to her family, prior to her death, she had explained why she was risking her life for principle.... posted on Mar 21 2003, 2,002 reads

A growing body of research suggests that millions are managing their stress in precisely the wrong way. They compartmentalize by stressing out all day — and then push off relaxation to isolated blocks of time like evening yoga classes and weekend getaways. But this binge-and-purge approach to stress management won't work. Wall Street Journal reports: you have to deal with stress as it happen... posted on Mar 20 2003, 1,212 reads

Spend one day volunteering in the community with Red Lion hotels program, and they'll give you a free night's stay at their hotel!... posted on Mar 19 2003, 816 reads

Basketball players at Cairo High School in Illinois don’t have much, not even matching uniforms. But that doesn’t stop them from winning! They're ranked no. 3. The city of Cairo has abandoned industrial buildings, dilapidated houses, a downtown that looks like a ghost town ... but they have high schoolers with dreams. There's no public pool, no mall, no movie theater, not even a fast-food... posted on Mar 18 2003, 886 reads

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He signed his name with an "X" for almost a century, as a grandson of a slave. Then, at the age of 98, George Dawson started learning to read and write! So much so that he published a celebrated book -- 'Life Is So Good' -- when he was 101 years old.... posted on Mar 15 2003, 1,874 reads

The number of chronically hungry people in the world is set to fall from 776 million now to 440 million in 2030, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. But instead of halving by 2015 - the goal adopted by the 1996 World Food Summit - the number of the undernourished will fall only by 11 per cent by that time.... posted on Mar 14 2003, 1,166 reads

Although it is said that the function of the market is to satisfy human wants, Robert Lane, in his book, 'The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies', notes that advertising often uses dissatisfaction of the current state of affairs to achieve its purpose. ... posted on Mar 13 2003, 915 reads