We don’t care about one another as human beings. Our interests are purely our own. We are oblivious to the pain of others as long as our own comfort is secure. We lack empathy. The fates of those we don’t know, or who cannot help us, are no concern of ours. Our public smiles conceal our [...]
By the trending on my Twitter feed, it looks to be #InternationalWomensDay. Aside from a skeptical voice whispering to me that this is a day for misogynists to cover their tracks for whatever they’re up to the rest of the year, I do believe it’s good to call attention to worthy women [...]
This is a story about a big problem, writ small. The big problem is this: We can’t let go of the scripts and roles that have been assigned to us and see the unscripted opportunities that are often right in front of us. Or, in the story I’m about to tell, right behind our backs. This [...]
Storytelling Twists Dept: The Washington Post ran a story this week about how a celebration of diversity in Rockville, MD, in prosperous, multi-cultured Montgomery County, did not go as city officials planned. City officials decided to festoon their streets with flags representing the native [...]
In the machine age, companies were built like machines, because machines are what most companies built and serviced. What companies build and service today are communities and customers. Let me clarify. That’s what the people in companies build and service. The machines build and service one [...]
No one has picked up on the bigSTORY concepts faster than Ron Finley, known around the world as The Gangsta Gardener, a leader in the urban gardening and food justice movements. We put one of our concepts, ‘Levels of Meaning,’ to good use in his rehearsals and story analysis for his [...]
The Internet of Things, you say? As if it is a new concept. As if, until it’s enabled by silicon circuitry, it doesn’t exist. As if, until we have answered the question How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? angels haven’t danced anywhere. As if the circuitry, and the [...]
The Next Act for HR is the theme of our first 2016 conference. It will be a half-day experience in downtown Los Angeles that will look at the evolving organization, and HR’s changing role in it. The centerpiece of the event will be an immersive theater performance. Attendees will find [...]
So it’s Oscar TM day, the red carpet runs a solid block down Hollywood Boulevard. This evening, the stars will parade past a phalanx of cameras and reporters carrying the story of the Academy Awards all over the world. And people of color are agitated, and people of conscience are riled, [...]