Everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its capacity to change how we work, communicate and make decisions. Organizations of all industries and sizes are testing, learning and adapting to AI’s increasing capabilities to perform human-like work, including service operations, product development and marketing functions. For anyone in a creative field, machine learning can…

A popular philosophical saying is, “if a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” There are so many ways to think about this and there are a million different possible answers, depending on how you look at this. Scientists will say ‘absolutely falling trees…

In Johann Hari’s book, Stolen Focus: Why you can’t pay attention – and how to think deeply again (2023), he attributes one of the reasons for a loss in focus to a dramatic drop in “free play and free inquiry”. He shared an experience from his trip to Columbia where he watched children chase each…

Much in social media about the harmful effects of too much time spent glued to the seemingly never-ending stream of social networks. We know the addictive nature of social media feeds the brain with the rewarding dopamine chemical that when taken to an extreme puts a person into a “dopamine deficit state” which can spiral…

I have heard that most people overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can accomplish in five years. Every day is an opportunity to create a clean slate for attacking a number of tasks that ladder up to achieving larger goals that fit within an organization’s purpose. After briefly looking…