I rarely read poems, but digging my historical notes, I’ve found this link to “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated by Gustave Doré: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/poe/edgar_allan/raven/ Overwhelming illustrations!!! For Simpson lovers – “The Raven” in their way: and the full text…

It’s always a pleasure to practice Aikido Yoshinkan, but it’s even more pleasant to train with the two of the best Aikido Yoshinkan Senseis in the world – Robert Mustard, 8th Dan, and Joe Thambu, 8th Dan. This time seminar took place…

Think Progressive. Think Dell. Think IKEA. Think Chevrolet Suburban. Think Stokke. Think Starbucks. And think Legshow. Lucrative opportunities exist everywhere. Business is not rocket science. It basically boils down to making money. Now, this may not be the reason successful…

A lot of people would say that if you believe that you can do it with 100 people, then you must have been pretty stupid using 500. For protection, we lock on a certain logic. To make real changes we…

The word competition comes from Latin and literally means “seeking together” or “choosing to run in the same race”. But in an age of abundance the tracks are pretty crowded. The others are constantly stepping on your toes, pushing and…

Some call our world the knowledge society and others the brain-based one. The only certain thing is that the critical skills and answers of tomorrow will not be those of today. More important, however, may be the fact that the…

IT guru Kevin Kelly says, “Wealth flows directly from innovation … not optimization … wealth is not gained by perfecting the known.” By innovation we do not mean a dedicated department, a carefully fenced off group of boffins. We mean…

The world won’t slow down for you to understand what is going on or to take a snapshot. In such a world, the only thing that we can trust is that the certain becomes uncertain, and the unlikely becomes likely….