now entering, distributed. So for a long time, until the mid-1800s, trust was built around tight-knit relationships. So say I lived in a village with the first five rows of this audience, and we all knew one another, and say I wanted to borrow money. The man who had his eyes wide open, he might lend it to me, and if I didn't pay him back, you'd all know I was dodgy. I would get a bad reputation, and you would refuse to do business with me in the future. Trust was mostly local and accountability-based. In the mid-19th century, society went through a tremendous amount of change. People moved to fast-gro... posted on Jan 22 2017 (18,210 reads)

head of Bangalore-based Miti Design Lab, she explores the inner principles of her training in multiple outward spaces as well. Her work is stunningly wide-ranging, yet beautifully integrative. As she explains it her work includes communications design through branding and multimedia products, education design where she works with schools and institutions to help think through the educational process, social design where she works with communities, business design, where she helps people structure and design around their business ideas, and then there is thought design and of course – dance. For Miti all of it is part of a design... posted on Mar 1 2017 (9,157 reads)

objective universal standards possible for Truth or Knowledge. But I would suspect that the human perception of light, for instance, is basically a universally common experience. That cultural variances would be superficial.  Roden  Crater, proposed location of visitor center   JT:  It is a universal experience. It is something that even passes to other species, which is interesting too. The information contained within it may not, but that's not so much my business. I did this work-- my "motel art" is at the Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles-- RW:  "Motel art" did you say? JT:  Yes [laughs] You know, artists have to do di... posted on Mar 26 2017 (15,644 reads)

was never meant to be about closing our eyes and moving away from the world; it was meant to be about bringing our intentions strongly into the work that we were doing.” Laura: I vote for smelling the waffles. That’s the one that’s going to stick with me. You also have written about setting prompts during the day that can help you tap into mindfulness, that give you a pause to reset. Can you describe those prompts? Leah: One of the women in my class at the business school was experimenting with an assignment where I gave everyone an opportunity to pick a prompt in their life. She was one of those “always cell phone in hand” type of people. S... posted on Apr 1 2017 (14,909 reads)

is the heart of our discussion today. Since then, Charlie has come to see the practice of wisdom as integral to social advocacy, and it has been a very important part of his work since CUNY and CLASP. Charlie served as President and CEO of Nathans Cumming Foundation, where he helped develop a number of grants that integrated support for social advocacy, meditation, and inner work. Charlie also helped create the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, which helps lawyers, journalists, and business people develop the tools to approach their work from a place of mindfulness. More recently, Charlie served as the Director of the Berkeley Initiative for Mindfulness and Law, where he's i... posted on Jul 13 2017 (6,818 reads)

people define resilience as recovering from a hurricane or a divorce, a big thing. If you define it as small, you can improve.” Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist at Harvard Business School, the author of the bestselling book Presence, and a speaker whose TED Talk is the second-most watched of all time, with 39+ million views. She recently joined Bonnie St. John, former Olympic champion skier, speaker, and author of Micro-Resilience, for a live Heleo Conversation about overcoming challenges great and small. Amy, who suffered a traumatic brain injury as a teenager, and Bonnie, an amputee who lost her right leg at age five, spoke frankly about their own experiences, di... posted on Jun 29 2017 (12,075 reads)

along with loving interactions with other people—solidarity can be a spiritual experience in itself. Over the last ten years it’s become fashionable to use these practices as tools to promote personal health and wellbeing, financial success, sexual conquest and even the corporate bottom line: “mindfulness opens the doorway to loving kindness,” says Google’s ‘head of mindfulness training,’ “which is at the heart of business success.” Spirituality is no stranger to this kind of appropriation, which is why the rigor and self-sacrifice involved in authentic spiritual growth is so important—it helps t... posted on Jul 12 2017 (11,107 reads)

through these services (e.g., sending messages, responding to comment threads, offering ideas), rather than simply waiting for feedback. In short, it pays to be a giver on social media, not just a lurker or a taker. 2. Professional networks What are they good for? Professional contacts can play an integral role in helping us launch or advance our careers. You might learn that your dream employer is hiring through a post from a seemingly random LinkedIn contact, or meet your future business partner through a colleague at a conference. Researchers have referred to these kinds of ties, as well as other types of looser connections such as neighborhood acquaintances, as bridging ... posted on Sep 6 2017 (7,483 reads)

self-interest, that that's what's really driving people's behavior and I think has Neuroscience more and more uncovers the centrality and in some sense the dominance of other interest of serving others as more primary than serving self in terms of how our bodies are constructed.  Compassion, which is very much a human-to-human, other-centered, other-focused behavior, is something that has evolutionary value but is actually hardwired into who we are. It's again back to the business culture which has elevated self-interest and made this big story about that's what drives human behavior, but we are finding out that this is incomplete, and in many cases wrong. So I thi... posted on Jul 15 2017 (11,812 reads)

questions.”      I wasn’t sure when I first met them, what they thought about women, just based on the culture. RW:   Right. MM:   But it turns out I had nothing to worry about. They were super open. Actually, neither of them are religious or have strict rules about anything, really. They were very, very accommodating, and both were very willing to tell their story. Najah owns his own delivery van. He moves people and has his own business. And he also sells stuff he picks up through his delivery business at the flea market. So his schedule was more flexible, and we usually met during the day. Zahed owns an auto shop almost an... posted on Oct 10 2017 (7,392 reads)

there is another way. It's made me realize that actually more and more of our services could be done that way. And this has taken place in connection with my journey of care-giving, and with the work in partnership with my wife. Thank you. Barbara Sargeant:  I'm going to speak about when I was growing up with my family; we lived comfortably but we didn't have an over amount of money. Unbeknownst to me when I was 22, a small amount of money came to me from my family's business, and then over the years it just grew. I wasn't prepared for it.      My father said, "Just put it in the bank and forget about it. It's trouble. Just forget... posted on Oct 2 2017 (11,189 reads)

face made me believe that he was mad and I would drive. And for the next 11 years, I swore nobody would ever find out that I couldn't see, because I didn't want to be a failure, and I didn't want to be weak. And I believed I could do it. So I rammed through life as only a Casey can do. And I was an archeologist, and then I broke things. And then I managed a restaurant, and then I slipped on things. And then I was a masseuse. And then I was a landscape gardener. And then I went to business school. And you know, disabled people are hugely educated. And then I went in and I got a global consulting job with Accenture. And they didn't even know. And it's extraordinary how f... posted on Aug 10 2017 (13,235 reads)

them messages. At dawn, the tribe got together to exchange visions. The Incas celebrated Inti Raymi (Sun Festival): they received the first rays of the Solstice with open arms, throwing kisses at Apu Inti (Sun God). In Patagonia, the mapuche tribe still celebrate We Tripantu, or New Year, a festival of purification and gratitude for the renewal of life. And what would be its offering for us? A call to quiescence after the joyful indulgence of summer? An urging to leave the world’s business behind for a while to create slow, subtle dreams under the shelter of our own incandescence? Photo: David Mark/Pixabay For our ancestors, winter was a test of survival. And althou... posted on Nov 16 2017 (14,781 reads)

step in the process. Finally, Patrick shares his own story of loss and explains that the simple act of being compassionately heard can be the most important step toward healing. Tami Simon: You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Patrick O'Malley. Patrick O'Malley has been providing grief counseling and education to clients, volunteers, and colleagues for over 35 years. He's also served as a consultant to physicians, attorneys, and businesses, and has written numerous articles on grief and other mental health topics for many popular and professional publications. With Sounds True, Patrick O'Malley is the author of the new bo... posted on Jan 17 2018 (62,774 reads)

too complacent. That's just precisely what a mediator does. A mediator listens when things need to be soothed. A mediator challenges to create excitement or change in the system. And then it's sort of a skillset that really is already working precisely because there's so much unity and commonality that's already available. It's just a few tweaks and turns and, voila, by the end we have an agreement. Most people who are in mediation either have long-term relationships or businesses they've been doing together. They've entered into a contract. So, they have a tremendous amount going for them but something's gone awry and it's really up to the mediator j... posted on Oct 29 2017 (15,414 reads)

Kevin Stark August 31, 2017 In 2008, Ecuador's leadership rewrote its constitution to include the rights of nature, effectively awarding legal rights to the environment. This change was led by many grassroots environmental advocates, including Natalia Greene, an organizer and environmental activist who played a key role in the development of the constitutional changes. In a 2015 talk about her experience, Greene said the changes were very bold: "It is very important because this means we don't necessarily depend only on the state to guarantee the rights of nature. Anyone in Ecuador can guarantee these rights." Indigenous communities have recognized the r... posted on Jan 20 2018 (12,887 reads)

why it was a mistake. Adam: I had this amazing opportunity. [In] the very first class I’m teaching at Wharton, a student, Neil, comes to me and says, “I want to sell glasses online,” and invites me to [talk] and then [asks], “Do you want to invest in the company?” I expected that if you’re going to be a successful entrepreneur, you should drop out of school. But Neil and his cofounders [were] all still in school, and then instead of working on the business full-time, three of the four of them had taken summer internships. I asked them if they’re going to go [to] full-time when they graduate and they said, “No, we’ve all lined ... posted on Jan 19 2018 (12,916 reads)

like bookstores versus churches and gun ranges, but they end up just getting — we’re more and more purified. So that’s a real problem. So the echo chamber, because of our residential patterns and because of technology, the echo chamber gets more and more closed off. Ms. Tippett: And just modernity as a whole. That’s so interesting. Mr. Haidt: Well, it’s freedom. The more you are free and have the resources and have a society based on markets and businesses that will cater to what you want, and those are generally good things — well, if people choose where to live and who to associate with, they get ever more segregated. Ms. Tippett:&... posted on Sep 21 2018 (17,705 reads)

create an economy that includes everyone? Fox: Exactly. That’s part of the capitalist system in this time in history: it’s asking only, “How can we do this more cheaply?” without considering “How many people are we throwing out of work by doing it this cheaper way?” In the bigger picture, it’s not really cheaper because you’re going to need a bigger safety net, more prisons, more mental hospitals, and so on. A lot of prophetic people in business have been saying this for a long time. For example, the late Anita Roddick, who was the founder of The Body Shop, started an MBA program at the University of Bath in England in a new kind of ... posted on Nov 12 2020 (29,087 reads)

It's part of the way the world works -- a spontaneous movement toward new forms of order, new patterns of creativity. We live in a world that is self-organizing. Life is capable of creating patterns and structures and organization all the time, without conscious rational direction, planning, or control, all of the things that many of us have grown up loving. This realization is having a profound impact on our beliefs about the nature of process in interpersonal relations, in business organizations, as well as in nature itself. In this article, I will focus on some of the recent shifts in our understanding of the way things change. Three images have changed my lif... posted on Jun 15 2018 (9,591 reads)