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 (29,088 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 (9,592 reads)

so it was easy to take a leap into the dark. At the time, it felt like the next interesting adventure, to explore solitude and simplicity in a very foreign place. I have friends who left the United States to live in Japan because they disliked the United States or felt there were no opportunities for them. Came to Japan, built good lives here, but I think there’s still some restlessness because they never accomplished what they wanted to in the United States. There’s unfinished business with them at home. And so that is a different situation I think. They knew they didn’t want to be in Australia or England, but they didn’t know that they particularly wanted to... posted on May 11 2018 (12,465 reads)

were motor neurons firing in monkeys when monkeys didn’t move a muscle. It spawned an avalanche of interest in all things empathy. At the same time, corporations have been driving the idea for empathy. As they are looking to market things to us — one-to-one — as opposed to the mass-media commercials, they’re calling that empathy, which may be a bastardization of the term. Knowledge@Wharton: We have seen certain areas of science getting incorporated into the business world, and into society in general. Seemingly, this is the latest. And it feels like businesses understand that empathy in the workplace is important, both in terms of working with their empl... posted on Jun 26 2018 (10,770 reads)

settlement for Te Awa Tupua and for all — not just the Maori.”  Asked whether the pakeha populations, local government, or the Crown were nervous about the implications of ceding property claims, Beverley said, “What has been put in place is a very forward looking framework. I think we’re going to see a springboard for this type of thing. People are already taking next steps voluntarily.” The Maori and the Crown see these new protections as good for business, and ultimately good for the economy. “This legislation recognizes the deep spiritual connection between the Whanganui iwi and its ancestral river and creates a strong platform for the ... posted on Jun 2 2018 (6,953 reads)

sitting here smiling as I say this because a couple of hours ago I visited the completion of a project in Harlem, very green healthy housing for low-income seniors. It has beautiful gardens and a back yard and social support services. I really believe the world is a better place for the creation of that building, and that the lives of everyone involved in the project have been enriched by being involved in something that makes the world a better place. And our firm undertook it as a for-profit business, in partnership with a local community based not-for-profit group, HCCI, Harlem Congregations for Community Inc. Via Verde’s stepped form was designed to maximize the use of natu... posted on Jul 14 2018 (9,441 reads)

I must confess that actually I'm very confused, on the details of what all the changes that we’re going through, means. I’m completely puzzled about where this is taking us. Because I would say there are 2 or 3 major converging trends. One is that inequality and struggle for livelihoods is going to intensify very, very sharply. Second is how much technology is now set to change the way we know life. Whether it is robots that will be almost like human beings, or this whole business of gene splicing and gene mixing and people being able to have a custom-made baby. The third factor is the impending and accelerating ecological collapse. Not just climate change -- climate c... posted on Aug 23 2018 (4,970 reads)

the ante on those two things—dread and hope—enormously, as you’d expect. So at this point my tendency was to look at these things that were so heavily traded upon and simply wonder if they could pay the rent that they seemed to owe for the enormous real estate they took up in the enterprise. That’s all. It was an exercise in discerning, not in judging. So I looked at hopefulness, not the hoped-for thing. Because they did get cagey after a while in the palliative care business. They realised that dying people hoping for a cure was probably not the best deal, right? So what they just did is gently nudged them towards, quote, “More realistic hope,” that&r... posted on Oct 19 2018 (12,548 reads)

revealed the intimate dependence of the human on the integral functioning of things. That the human had such intimate rapport with the surrounding universe was possible only because the universe itself had a prior intimate rapport with the human. This experience we observe even now in the indigenous peoples of the world. They live in a universe, in a cosmological order, whereas we, the peoples of the industrial world, no longer live in a universe. We live in a political world, a nation, a business world, an economic order, a cultural tradition, in Disneyworld. We live in cities, in a world of concrete and steel, of wheels and wires, a world of business, of work. We no longer see the st... posted on Nov 21 2018 (5,778 reads)

the money down every three months and had a meeting with them about how to be intelligent with this stuff called money. The more we worked with the power of the Amazon rainforest — this magnificent, incredible treasure — the more we realized that this call that we thought came from the Achuar actually came through the Achuar from the forest, from the spirit of life. Once we felt that that was what was calling us, I knew this was the next chapter of both of our lives. Bill was a business guy. He had three companies. He was very involved in yacht racing. I was running 50 countries for The Hunger Project. We had kids. We had no time to do this. But once it became clear that it ... posted on Dec 7 2018 (10,823 reads)

translate facts about the environmental cri- sis into effective action in the United States. We are discovering that the human heart is not changed by facts alone but by engaging visions and empowering values. Humans need to see the large picture and feel they can act to make a difference. Failing to Dream We could name many complex factors that have contributed to this impasse, the failure of dreams. Here is a brief summary of a few of them: 1. Institutions and leadership — in business, in government, and in religion — put up resistance. In business, a corporate mentality operates with a single-minded mantra that economic growth is an unqualified good and ecological c... posted on Dec 17 2018 (6,758 reads)

article shows how in response to thuggish forces the qualities of feminine intelligence—available to men as to women—can enable us to take a significant leap in consciousness and demonstrate what anyone can do to build a beautiful future. Published in Spring | Summer 2017 What we encounter now—in Europe and the Middle East, as in the US—is an upsurge of primitive, brutish forces employing threat, superior power, trickery, punishment, and information manipulation. It is as if permission has been given for thuggish behaviour. We are witnessing—very starkly because it is on our screens daily—the darkest capacities of humans to hurt, humil... posted on Dec 21 2018 (8,579 reads)