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My all-time favourite television commercial depicts a small child standing at the edge of a swimming pool. Her father is standing in the water attempting to encourage her to leap towards him, but rather than simply admit that she is too afraid to jum...

As part of my ongoing series of video chats with Project Heaven on Earth author Martin Rutte, this week we recorded a segment on the subject of "building community". Interestingly, Martin and I share a similar experience of the concept of “community”...

“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.” Desmond Tutu Over the last two years we have inspired and encouraged and commiserated with each other and, a...

They say that everything old is simply something that is brand new all over again – but that certainly is not proving to be the case in the new world online ecosystem. The virtual business world is a case in point. You spend hour upon hour researchin...

“And laying his finger aside of his nose, and giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.” A Visit from St Nicholas – Clement Clarke Moore Once upon a time in a dark and snowy land far, far away I knew it was finally getting close to Christmas when my moth...

“If someone tells you there’s a rule, break the rules and move things forward.” Hans Zimmer, film score composer I was sitting at home watching YouTube one evening last week and up popped an ad in the middle of the middle of my video. Normally I watc...

“This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves.” David Mitchell, Ghostwritten. This week I share with you a brief summary of the allegory of the long spoons in which the residents of both he...

Since writing about the concept of heaven on earth in my column a couple of weeks ago I have discovered that there is a whole network of people all over the globe who also subscribe to this school of thought. Thanks to the tireless work of Martin Rut...

“The hardest part of reaching heaven is realising that you have arrived.” Unknown Have you ever noticed that when even the greatest idea in the world is given too much exposure it somehow loses its lustre in the eyes of the common man? In the never-e...

“We all overestimate change over one year and underestimate it over five years.” Martin Gilbert, chairman Asset Co PLC As we continue our discussion this week on the theme of unfinished business I have another exceedingly controversial question for y...

“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” Alexander Pope Last week I launched a discussion regarding the concept of unfinished business. This week, let’s continue our examination of this theme by taking a few momen...

“A garden is never finished” Shunryu Suzuki One of the things that creative minds struggle with the most is how to tell when a project that they are working on is finished. For the purposes of this discussion it really doesn’t matter whether we are t...