(Image Credit: Penguin Random House) In December 2012, Starbucks launched an ambitious PR campaign to enhance their brand value. In collaboration with Twitter, the hashtag #SpreadTheCheer was launched, and the tweets were displayed live on a giant screen at the Natural History Museum in London, where Starbucks also sponsors the ice skating rink. What should … Continue reading Meltdown: What Plane Crashes, Oil Spills and Dumb Business Decisions Can Teach us About How to Succeed at Work and Home – Chris Clearfield and Andras Tilcsik

(Image Credit: http://www.imaginedthings.co.uk) Allow yourself the liberty and license to engage in an electrifying thought experiment. You are a party of five sailing on a forty-five foot private sailboat, to Bermuda. The party includes John Lennon, who also happens to be the owner of the sleek conveyance. A raging storm imperils the boat as well … Continue reading The Dakota Winters – Tom Barbash

(Image Credit: http://www.vacationrenter.com) “Art is whatever I say it is”, exclaimed French painter, sculptor and artist Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp, before proceeding to exhibit a urinal at an art show. The prism with which a writer views the world need not, and, and in fact in many an instance, does not match the same colours informing the … Continue reading Women – Mihail Sebastian

(Image Credit: http://www.energiesmagazine.com) Remember the basic photosynthesis equation that was drilled into your heads at school? I didn’t, until I laid my hands on Stephen Peake’s “Renewable Energy: Ten Short Lessons”. A Senior Lecturer at the Open University, Senior Associate of the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, Peake in this short, but necessary book, provides … Continue reading Renewable Energy: Ten Short Lessons – Stephen Peake

(Image Credit: http://www.Barnesandnoble.com) Dr Wayne Visser discharges his professional responsibilities as a Professor of Integrated Value and Holder of the Chair in Sustainable Transformation at Antwerp Management School. He also happens to be the founder of CSR International, Director of Kaleidoscope Futures and Fellow at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He is … Continue reading Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature, Society, and the Economy – Wayne Visser

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) Stephen Reid bemoans the dearth of ‘prison literature’. He also wonders whether it is because of the absence of writers and journalists being convicted with a more ‘acceptable’ regularity. For after all, only when a Dostoevsky is arraigned does one get to experience the joys of reading ‘Crime and Punishment’. If Alexander … Continue reading A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden – Stephen Reid  

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.co.uk) Speaking at the 2017 installment of the World Economic Forum at Davos, Ian Goldin, a Professor of Globalization at Oxford University, stole a sombre march over his more ebullient participants, most of whom represented the crème de la crème of the neo capitalist billionaire creed. Goldin, if not impudently hurling sand in … Continue reading The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict – Mark Leonard  

(Image Credit: http://www.barnesandnoble.com) An asinine tragi-comic sequence from a prime time debate on Indian Television that lasted just a shade over two minutes had the entire social media in hysterics for the past couple of days. In what can only be described as a Kafkaesque sequence of events, the host of a panel discussion engaged … Continue reading Scoop – Evelyn Waugh