Tag Archives: opinion
Mi mission es su mission: on Community Building to drive change
Siloed accountability for organization-wide imperatives I’ve been carrying the word ‘digital’ in my job title for many years already — what a sadistic little b*tch for a word! I can recall countless moments when all heads and torsos turned to me the moment this word popped up in a meeting. If your job title carries a word…
Charity, Productivity, Poverty and Gift-giving – the Intersection.
Helping people in need is an authentic and noble sentiment among people. Be it through acts of kindness, charity, volunteering, or any other means of providing something of value for people who lack that what we possess in excess or have at least enough to share. Many thoughts cross my mind on the subject “charity”:…
What is the true value of a life?
The last couple of days I’ve walked to work facing the same headlines in the newspapers. All of them had it printed in large: “900 dead”. The refugees’ catastrophe in the Mediterranean Sea has cost 900 lives! [And as I write it, I can’t avoid the goose bumps and the urge to shed a tear…
Life rule: you only matter for as long as you give others what they want from you
“You only matter for as long you give others what they want from you” – this is one of these hard-core rules of life I’d be happier living without, BUT, there is a way to make this down-side of life turn it into a source of rewards. I once read in a parable that I…