To jumpstart your new year in these roiling times, consider this: ”When the economy tanks it’s natural to think of yourself first. You have a family to feed and a mortgage to pay. Getting more appears to be the order of business. It turns out that the connected economy doesn’t respect this natural instinct. Instead, we’re rewarded for [...]

You don’t have to be religious to have a deep faith in the power of compassion. With it people who act and believe differently can not only work and live together in harmony they can enjoy a richer, more adventuresome life.
They can collaborate. They can accomplish greater things together than they could if they just [...]

When you first glimpse someone (or something) new your brain reacts instantly, but you knew that. What’s destructive is that when you instinctively feel danger – or simply irritation –  you respond quicker, longer and more intensely than if you feel safe or another positive emotion.

Your negative reaction to “the new” affects you much more than a [...]

Want to be in the book, The Obama Time Capsule: World History in the Making?
Any of us could be a co-author, thanks to a partnership between fellow Sausalitan, photographer and editor of “Day in the Life of…” big theme books Rick Smolan and Hewlett-Packard and Amazon.
Together they enable you to place yourself (your photo, writing, video) in a point in history.  More plainly in a [...]

“We live in the age of interdependence. Borders don’t count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore ~ Bill Clinton
One person didn’t cause it. Like most great events Independence Day happened because people came together around an idea greater than any single individual. Within that revolutionary declaration of how these united states should be [...]

Hear how to accomplish greater things by working well with others – even in this down economy. Get upbeat, news-you-can-use tips from the Me2We-style experts Zane Safrit is interviewing. They include Greater Than Yourself author Steve Farber, The Culture of Collaboration author Evan Rosen, Boomtown USA blogger Jack Schultz, Unveiling the Heart of Business author Mark Silver and, well, me. 

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It took me awhile to finally decide to write this post as it runs against the tide of most readers’ opinions. And many feel strongly as I discovered at dinner last night with friends, but here goes. Outliers purports to reveal the real reason some people — like Bill Joy, the Beatles and Bill Gates— are successful. [...]

We can be stakeholders in the future of the U.S., not free-riders.  We are called to participate in its renewal. Not only can we do what is asked but we’re being asked what should be done. 

In true  Me2We style Obama keeps assuming that you and I can

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Renew America, the new Obama-backed campaign asks us to step up and volunteer at a time when many are stepping down into living on less.  For many, that’s much less. As a former Obama campaign staffer I suggest starting small and sticking to it – but tackling something 

 more than buying a T-shirt. 
The manager of our local food bank took the time to understand 

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Here’s a hilarious yet painfully familiar “how (not) to” video - especially for creative consultants.  You’ve been hired by a team.  Then you discover they have not 

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