• You See This 12 Times/Day

    We all do it. We read a blog post - get very conceptual and strategic - and fire off a well-intentioned email to our team trying to provoke some thought by asking very high-level (sometimes rhetorical) questions.
    The next time someone asks you a question like this in an email chain - answer it. And “reply [...]

  • My Favourite ‘Pay It Backward’ Moment

    At one point during yesterday’s world record breaking event, a father pulled his cell phone away from his ear and excused himself to one of the Pay It Backward volunteers,
    Sorry about that. My 3 year old son is on the phone and he’s excited that he can see me on the internet.
    This, for me, summed [...]

  • Stories

    A great quote from Dan Pink’s book ‘A Whole New Mind‘…
    If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
    -Barry Lopez, author of ‘Arctic Dreams‘