The next few generations will live their entire lives with 👣 one foot in the Industrial Era, and the other 👣 in the Intelligence Era. If there is one idea I want you to leave with it is this: Strap in. It’s going to be a long while before we settle back into a...
betwixt and between the familiar and the completely unknown — Fr. Richard Rohr — Over 10,000 people are in a liminal space right now - hunting for new opportunities, searching for a grip on the unfamiliar slippery rock face on a climb they did not choose. Their minds are struggling to...
My heart was pounding as I handed my youngest child the stack of N95 masks, tea and Tylenol. I watched my son carefully assembling the familiar packing cubes for the 8-week internship he was starting in San Francisco. The luggage had last been used 90 days ago. It had carried...
Three lessons we can learn from knitting. My goddaughter came over to visit. As we sat together, she brought out a mass of yellow wool. “Some of the needles have fallen. Others have shifted,” she said, delicately cradling the precious garment in her hands. Her mother passed away a few months ago...
How I got sucked into the BTS funnel I went from “What is BTS?” to fangirl in two months “OK, you ...
Today’s topic is Trendspotting. This is another in the set of 21st-century explorer skills because we have to search for signs in the uncharted territory between the industrial and information eras. Techniques for trend spotting How do we figure out what is going to happen? It comes from paying attention to signs...
Confidence I want to start a discussion on confidence as a 21st-century skill. It’s been spinning in my mind for the past few weeks, ever since David Dvorkin posed it as a question to the panellists judging the My Brother’s Keeper project. My gut tells me this is an important conversation. My...
A gathering and accumulation Here is the thing. An individual snowflake is almost weightless. Why then, were we in the middle of the big dig? Mesmerizing I must have missed the memo. “There is a snow storm coming through,” my husband warned the kids, “make sure you are home before it hits.” Nothing...
The short read: Leaders from countries across the globe have gathered at COP26 to put plans in play to move the temperature needle lower. It requires negotiation that leads to consensus. It requires behaviour modification. Is that possible? I fully understand the economic pressures on countries ranging from those capable of holding...
“Tell me more about Recovery Mode” was the predominant question back from my readers, who were intrigued after reading about it in the Integration week edition. Here are some answers that barely scratch the surface of this topic: Data hoarders We are living at a moment in time when information is...