I learned this when reading Guy Kawasaki’s Reality Check: Leo Rosten, the Yiddish maven and author of The Joys of Yiddish, defines mensch this way: Someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. The key to being “a real mensch” is nothing less than character,...

You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. - Steve Jobs’ Stanford University Commencement address (2005)     Background I was preparing a Prezi presentation on my startup Lessons Learned, looking back to my blog and and our...

#7. PRACTICE THE ART OF COLLISION The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup is a metaphor for life. What seems completely new is often just an unexpected combination of the familiar but previously disconnected. This is Innovation 101, but too often we forget, and think the one asset we have is the...

“Young people are engaging in constant communication,” she said. “Whether it’s highly literate or not is another question. But there’s all kinds of Web activity that is enhancing literacy.” – Montreal Gazette: Literacy no longer either/or Nice Nice...

#7. PRACTICE THE ART OF COLLISION The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup is a metaphor for life. What seems completely new is often just an unexpected combination of the familiar but previously disconnected. This is Innovation 101, but too often we forget, and think the one asset we have is the...