Friday, June 26, 2015

Nixon's the One

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Most of us know the legendary story of the group of blind men who touch an elephant to learn what it is like. Each one feels a different pa...
Monday, June 22, 2015

Charles and Ray Eames and the technology of timelessness

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Long before Steve Jobs and Jony Ives bridged the divide between design and technology, before Target began selling Michael Graves tea kettl...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Before Jobs, Musk, Hewlett & Packard, or Ford...there were The Wright Brothers

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We live today in what many consider the age of technology. Everyday there are new apps, new ways in which incumbency is disrupted. But ver...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

A Russian Spy, A Double Agent, The FBI and Hooters Parking Lot

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Today boys want to grow up to be professional athletes, or tech billionaires. But there was time when being a secret agent seemed like just...

Never bet against Elon Musk's vision of the futrue

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There is always someone that leads us into the future. Someone whose vision and entrepreneurship combine to make the next big idea, the nex...
Friday, June 12, 2015

Would the real Alex Vause please stand up

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Many of you, I’m sure, think you’d love the idea of seeing your life portrayed in movies or television. But imagine if you knew nothing abo...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

How the law is shaping families and how new kinds of families are shaping the law

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In the world of families, all eyes are on same sex marriage. In the Courts, in Statehouses, and in the political arena. But on the ground,...
Thursday, June 4, 2015

Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship

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Today we have talking heads and pundits. But back in the second half of the 20th Century we had writers and public intellectuals, whose ide...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Who cares what Jefferson would do?

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If we have problems in America, the solution is usually simple, check with the Founding Fathers. Can’t figure out modern health care, check...
Monday, June 1, 2015

The fall of the house of CrackBerry

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Many years ago, Harvard Business School perfected something called the “case study method.” A new educational innovation that presented th...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

One Nation Under God...and Corporation

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It was Churchill who reminded us that history is written by the victors. Well this is as true of religious history as it is of military, po...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

The Brain and the Gut...together again

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We all remember the youthful spiritual song Dem Bones, about the ankle bone being connected to the shin bone, the thigh bone being connected...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

Can a Well-Tuned Brain keep up with the modern world?

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Everyday it seem the world speeds up. The advances of technology, the need to make faster decisions, multitasking and a sometimes dizzyin...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

There once was a time in Washington when negotiation and compromise were not dirty words

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In talking to someone recently about my guest, former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell , they went into a bit of tirade of criticism o...
Friday, May 15, 2015

Project Based Learning for the Military and Business

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It has often been conventional wisdom that the military is always fighting current wars, based on lessons learned from the last war. That’s...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Why Peter Pan is the model of our Infantile Age

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We are a culture obsessed with youth. We are told that youth is wasted on the young, but we do everything in our power to stay young. Gro...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Every generation has its own disease that moves from doomed to hopeful

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It sometimes seem that every generation has its disease. In earlier generations it was Tuberculosis, in the 40’s and 50’s the fear and the ...