Respond, Recover and Reimagine During the Time of CoVID-19 Virus  As we begin our second month of stay in home orders to prevent the spread of the CoVID-19 virus, what was thought to be an exception period now feels like the new normal.    Casual wo...

    Around the 10th century, wine producers were trying to improve their profit margins by reducing their costs and tax burden.   One of the common strategies was reducing the volume of the wine shipments by boiling their wine to reducing the wat...

Is Apple a technology company or a retailer?    Is Facebook a media company if it doesn’t produce any content?    Is Uber a transportation company if it doesn’t own any vehicles?   What came first, the chicken or the egg? As we ponder these questi...

  As early as the 1900s when Nikola Tesla toyed with the idea of a “world wireless system”, academics, scientists and engineers began to envision the concept of a global communication platform.   In the 1960’s, MIT’s J.C.R. Licklider popularized t...

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”  Maya Angelou Two weeks ago, I began my travels to Belo Horizonte, Brazil for a #SocialSabbatical with about a...