Our vocabulary visibly expands, so should our ability to embrace change and transformation! 30 terms and notions that you (may) have heard of, or trends which you are already experiencing.Continue reading
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The Personal Assistant – an On-Site Workshop
Interview with Nona Henti, the Workshop’s Facilitator
WORKSHOP: “Developing Internal Career Counseling Competencies”
I am honored and so very happy to start tomorrow a new Workshop on behalf of a truly broad-minded client-company. Here is the Workshop’s objective and purpose:
The African Wisdom of Togetherness
25 May: Africa Day
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African ProverbContinue reading
Nudging the Entrepreneur with Nicolas Plesea
“The entrepreneur needs to become aware of the fact that there is no concept of ‘stagnation’ in business. You either grow or you regress. Even if you chose to stagnate, you might still need the aid of the business consultant to prevent regression.” Nicolas Plesea
Around the World on Fridays (“M” | Part 1)
“Peace begins with a smile.” Mother Teresa
Today: Macedonia | Madagascar | Malawi | Malaysia | Maldives | Mali | Malta | Marshall Islands | Mauritania | Mauritius
Cover Photography © Gina Buliga | MadagascarContinue reading
Around the World on Fridays (“L”)
“We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviors, beliefs, rituals.” Randa Abdel-Fattah
Today: Laos | Latvia | Lebanon | Lesotho | Liberia | Libya | Liechtenstein | Lithuania | Luxembourg
Cover Photography © Eric Lafforgue | LibyaContinue reading
What do you wish for in 2017?
What do you wish for in 2017, he asked?
I won’t settle for anything less than peace, I said. Long-lasting resounding worldwide peace. Global peace, literally peace in every corner of this world, you know?
Yes, he said gently, yes, I know …
Featured Artist: Ilie Krasovschi
ROMANIA – A Winter’s Tale
Photography © Sorin Onisor
“Winter Song” by Nichita Stanescu | English translation by Thomas Carlson and Vasile PoenaruContinue reading
HUMAN RIGHTS DAY | “Afghan Girl” | Respect, Steve McCurry!
Cover Photography: Steve McCurry and the “Afghan Girl” | Photo © Bente Haarstad Photography
June 1985: The image of a young Afghan woman with intense green eyes in a red headscarf makes the cover of the National Geographic Magazine. The portrait was taken in 1984 by the amazing photojournalist and visual storyteller, Steve McCurry. Compared with Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting of Mona Lisa, the portrait has been called “the First World’s Third World Mona Lisa” and it became a symbol of refugee girl / woman in a distant camp.Continue reading