My interview with Maggie Ullman about how interconnecting cities will lead to a healthier world.
http://ashevillegrit.com/cities-30-interconnecting-cities-maggie-ullman
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Cities 3.0 - Interconnecting Cities with Maggie Ullman
My interview with Maggie Ullman about how interconnecting cities will lead to a healthier world.
http://ashevillegrit.com/cities-30-interconnecting-cities-maggie-ullman
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Agile Manifesto
The Agile Manifesto reads, in its entirety, as follows:
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it
and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools
Working software over Comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation
Responding to change over Following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the
items on the left more.
Picture found (like most of the pictures I use) from using http://search.creativecommons.org/
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it
and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools
Working software over Comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation
Responding to change over Following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the
items on the left more.
Picture found (like most of the pictures I use) from using http://search.creativecommons.org/
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
I challenge you to do organizational Mashups
A challenge from Ty Hallock
Monday, January 13, 2014
Launching Startup Product Asheville
Today we announce the launch of Startup Product Asheville. San Francisco meets Asheville to help build a strong network of Startup Product People.
Startup Product Asheville welcomes everyone passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence.
Startup Product Asheville welcomes everyone passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence.
Let's build a vibrant Silicon Mountain startup community!
Monday, November 18, 2013
What do you want to accomplish before you die? (Open Thread)
What do you want to accomplish before you die?
With the aid of some fellow artists and volunteers, she coated the wall with chalkboard paint. They neatly stenciled the words "Before I die I want to _______" in eight rows of 10, then bolted cups of chalk to the wall. This was an open invitation for strangers to write whatever they wanted, and the results were stunning.
Read the full blog post from Mashable here: http://mashable.com/2013/11/17/before-i-die-artist-experiment/
And I ask you to comment below on the question: What do you want to accomplish before you die?
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Interview with Paul Zelizer of Wisdompreneurs
By Ty Hallock
You are the founder and the director of Wisdompreneurs. Can you tell us about how this got started and what your mission is?
Wisdompreneurs is a global network of people interested in the intersection of Wisdom and Entrepreneurship. Our mission is to find creative ways to bring entrepreneurial skills to wisdom teachers (coaches/trainers/consultants/etc) and to bring easy to implement wisdom practices to the entrepreneurial world.
We got started when for Wisdom 2.0 2013 (www.wisdom2conference.com), Soren Gordhammer (the founder and a friend of mine) asked me to lead a breakout session for the "gazillions of coaches we have at Wisdom 2.0". That breakout session was titled Wisdompreneurs: Deep Networking and Community Building for Coaches, Consultants and Trainers. 120 people attended.
We wanted to stay in touch so we created a Facebook group. Word spread very quickly and people have been asking for more than just a FB group. We’ve created a dynamic executive team of 4 (Alison Raby in San Francisco, Jerome Braggs in Oklahoma City and Oge Okosieme in London) and are going through the process of creating the organizational infrastructure to begin offering the kinds of programs and services that we are being asked to.
What is the most exciting work you are doing with Wisdompreneurs?
The community is freaking awesome. There can often be lots of isolation - both for wisdom teachers and for entrepreneurs. The sharing and the collaborations that have been born are remarkable. And we’re only 4 months old in any sort of intentional sense. Very exciting!
You’ve been involved with Wisdom 2.0 and left that to start Wisdompreneurs, can you tell us quickly about Wisdom 2.0 and what it was like working with Soren Gordhamer?
Here's the description of Wisdom 2.0 from the Facebook page: "Wisdom 2.0 is a one-of-kind event that brings together people from a variety of disciplines, including technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics to explore how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age." Speakers are folks like Marianne Williamson, Eckhart Tolle, Byron Katie, Jack Kornfield on the wisdom side. Tech/business speakers include the co-founders of Twitter, Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn, Arianna Huffington, Bill Ford of Ford Motor Company and many more.
It’s the most dynamic event I’ve ever been to. We had 1800 people at Wisdom 2.0 2013. And the conversations are incredibly exciting. For instance, this year we had Bill Ford of the Ford Motor Company talking about how he feels that the lessons he learned from his 20+ year mentee relationship with Jack Kornfield (founder of www.spiritrock.org) are largely responsible for Ford being the only major US automaker that didn’t need a bailout a few years back. Fantastic conversation to be present for!
I’ve known Soren Gordhammer, the founder of Wisdom 2.0, as friend for almost 10 years. Wisdom 2.0 is only around 5 years old. So I was there supporting Soren as a friend and colleague as Wisdom 2.0 was going through the birthing process.
I was Director of Social Media for Wisdom 2.0 for 15 months until September 2013. Before that, it was mutually supporting each other to reinvent ourselves (he supported me in starting my global coaching practice for wisdom based/spiritual entrepreneurs). For instance, he was the one who introduced me to the deep uses of social media. We were early adaptors of Twitter together. Both of us have had many amazing experiences and great business opportunities due to social media.
It’s the most dynamic event I’ve ever been to. We had 1800 people at Wisdom 2.0 2013. And the conversations are incredibly exciting. For instance, this year we had Bill Ford of the Ford Motor Company talking about how he feels that the lessons he learned from his 20+ year mentee relationship with Jack Kornfield (founder of www.spiritrock.org) are largely responsible for Ford being the only major US automaker that didn’t need a bailout a few years back. Fantastic conversation to be present for!
I’ve known Soren Gordhammer, the founder of Wisdom 2.0, as friend for almost 10 years. Wisdom 2.0 is only around 5 years old. So I was there supporting Soren as a friend and colleague as Wisdom 2.0 was going through the birthing process.
I was Director of Social Media for Wisdom 2.0 for 15 months until September 2013. Before that, it was mutually supporting each other to reinvent ourselves (he supported me in starting my global coaching practice for wisdom based/spiritual entrepreneurs). For instance, he was the one who introduced me to the deep uses of social media. We were early adaptors of Twitter together. Both of us have had many amazing experiences and great business opportunities due to social media.
What is the vision for Wisdompreneurs? What is the potential of this organization?
Now, I’ve left Wisdom 2.0 because my passion and focus is growing Wisdompreneurs. We have the opportunity to grow into one of the premier communities of practice for wisdom based ventures and teachers in the world. And, to help entrepreneurs across the world - especially those with positive social intentions - to succeed at a much higher rate.
We have leading entrepreneurs - like Seth Godin in this post (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/01/quieting-the-lizard-brain.html) and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone in this post (http://www.bizstone.com/2011/09/cultural-neuroscience-and-startups.html) talking about what happens when startups don’t build a mindful culture. They simply fail at a much higher rate. We know that. We have the understanding of neuroscience to predict it.
Yet, very few people are doing science based work with startups in this way. Our community knows the research and best practices in this sector like few do. With this foundation, we are ready to help a whole new generation of startups succeed, thrive and make the world a better place.
I want to say that there has never - in the history of humanity - been a better or more important time to be looking at the intersection of wisdom and entrepreneurship/business. And, we’ve been asked by an amazing community of deeply caring humans to create an organization that’s able to birth initiatives that are larger in scope than any one person or organization’s programs or products. Fundementally, it’s about leverage.
We have leading entrepreneurs - like Seth Godin in this post (http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/01/quieting-the-lizard-brain.html) and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone in this post (http://www.bizstone.com/2011/09/cultural-neuroscience-and-startups.html) talking about what happens when startups don’t build a mindful culture. They simply fail at a much higher rate. We know that. We have the understanding of neuroscience to predict it.
Yet, very few people are doing science based work with startups in this way. Our community knows the research and best practices in this sector like few do. With this foundation, we are ready to help a whole new generation of startups succeed, thrive and make the world a better place.
I want to say that there has never - in the history of humanity - been a better or more important time to be looking at the intersection of wisdom and entrepreneurship/business. And, we’ve been asked by an amazing community of deeply caring humans to create an organization that’s able to birth initiatives that are larger in scope than any one person or organization’s programs or products. Fundementally, it’s about leverage.
You were telling me earlier that while working at Wisdom 2.0 you had a chance to hang out with Tony Hsieh of Zappos. We were discussing mindfulness and you said he "uses frame of positive psychology". Can you elaborate on that more?
In 2009, thanks to Twitter, Soren Gordhammer and I got to go to Zappos world headquarters to meet with Tony Hsieh and the Zappos leadership team about conscious business and social media. It was an incredible experience for me - a game changing one in fact.
Tony is incredibly passionate about what Jim Collins calls a ‘Type 5 Leader”. Someone who has deep ambition for the greater good plus an embodied sense of humility.
On the day we were there, they were literally handing out t-shirts thanking all their employees - they had just crossed the $1 Billion per year mark. Yet everyone we spoke to - and we were allowed to wander the building without a guide and speak to anyone who wasn’t in a closed door meeting - went on and on about how Tony listens and how much he cares.
I also got that sense about him. And it comes through loud and clear in his book, Delivering Happiness. The leadership team was incredibly passionate about ways to help their employees increase their happiness. For instance, they had a coach that met with every employee each year to find ways to work on their “happiness goals”. Not how to sell more shoes. But how to be a happier person.
It was unlike any corporate experience I’ve ever had. I’m using the past tense here because I’ve heard the culture has changed somewhat since they were bought out in 2010. I don’t know that it’s the same now.
But Tony has brought this same mindful approach to his new passion based project - revitalizing the city of Las Vegas. Amazing man!
In 2009, thanks to Twitter, Soren Gordhammer and I got to go to Zappos world headquarters to meet with Tony Hsieh and the Zappos leadership team about conscious business and social media. It was an incredible experience for me - a game changing one in fact.
Tony is incredibly passionate about what Jim Collins calls a ‘Type 5 Leader”. Someone who has deep ambition for the greater good plus an embodied sense of humility.
On the day we were there, they were literally handing out t-shirts thanking all their employees - they had just crossed the $1 Billion per year mark. Yet everyone we spoke to - and we were allowed to wander the building without a guide and speak to anyone who wasn’t in a closed door meeting - went on and on about how Tony listens and how much he cares.
I also got that sense about him. And it comes through loud and clear in his book, Delivering Happiness. The leadership team was incredibly passionate about ways to help their employees increase their happiness. For instance, they had a coach that met with every employee each year to find ways to work on their “happiness goals”. Not how to sell more shoes. But how to be a happier person.
It was unlike any corporate experience I’ve ever had. I’m using the past tense here because I’ve heard the culture has changed somewhat since they were bought out in 2010. I don’t know that it’s the same now.
But Tony has brought this same mindful approach to his new passion based project - revitalizing the city of Las Vegas. Amazing man!
How can Wisdom help Entrepreneurship?
“The most powerful technology in the world is an optimized human nervous system.” That’s what I like to tell my clients. Yet, in the process of starting - and maintaining - businesses most people tend to focus on just about everything EXCEPT the nervous systems of the people.
As I mentioned above, we now have very strong data. We have incredibly smart business people - like Arianna Huffington and Harvard Business School’s Bill George and the posts I talked about before that Seth Godin and Biz Stone have written - that are talking about the data.
But the vast majority of people leading startups right now are not paying attention to what mindfulness can do for business. It’s not some woo woo theory. Google understands. That’s why they have their Search Inside Yourself program. Yet, how many startup incubators or programs are REALLY talking about this?
Mindfulness practices increase our ability to be creative as well as our overall health and wellness. They reduce conflict between team members, stress and anxiety as well as dissatisfaction and burnout Here’s a research summary: (http://ow.ly/qGbf1 )
Simply put, entrepreneurs who implement even very simple practices greatly increase their chances of success. And success for entrepreneurs with a purpose that’s larger than themselves is what Wisdompreneurs is all about.
“The most powerful technology in the world is an optimized human nervous system.” That’s what I like to tell my clients. Yet, in the process of starting - and maintaining - businesses most people tend to focus on just about everything EXCEPT the nervous systems of the people.
As I mentioned above, we now have very strong data. We have incredibly smart business people - like Arianna Huffington and Harvard Business School’s Bill George and the posts I talked about before that Seth Godin and Biz Stone have written - that are talking about the data.
But the vast majority of people leading startups right now are not paying attention to what mindfulness can do for business. It’s not some woo woo theory. Google understands. That’s why they have their Search Inside Yourself program. Yet, how many startup incubators or programs are REALLY talking about this?
Mindfulness practices increase our ability to be creative as well as our overall health and wellness. They reduce conflict between team members, stress and anxiety as well as dissatisfaction and burnout Here’s a research summary: (http://ow.ly/qGbf1 )
Simply put, entrepreneurs who implement even very simple practices greatly increase their chances of success. And success for entrepreneurs with a purpose that’s larger than themselves is what Wisdompreneurs is all about.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Rebels as visionaries
What we need is new perspectives
As an entrepreneur in a crazy world I really appreciate this poem from Wendell Berry, Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front (see below). I think this is in direct alignment with great visionaries like Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton. The people who disrupt are not thinking like the rest of us. They care about people, but they want something new.The overall trust of our government (and governments all over the world) is at an all time low. All parties are disenfranchised, liberals and conservatives, everyone is getting spied on and come to find out that some of the conspiracies are true.
I would propose that it is important for the people in the wood-work, the ones who are disenfranchised and off the grid, who hold incredible wisdom, who have visionary potential, to come back into society and help change the world. It is only through everyones efforts and a full human cooperative network that we can truly fix the problems that face us. I propose that we all move to get the un-engaged genius to the table. That we come together as a community and build a better world. How does the rebel come back into society?
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something
that won't compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years.
Listen to carrion -- put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap
for power, please women more than men.
Ask yourself: Will this satisfy
a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep
of a woman near to giving birth?
Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go.
Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
Not even your future will be a mystery
any more. Your mind will be punched in a card
and shut away in a little drawer.
When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something
that won't compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.
Denounce the government and embrace
the flag. Hope to live in that free
republic for which it stands.
Give your approval to all you cannot
understand. Praise ignorance, for what man
has not encountered he has not destroyed.
Ask the questions that have no answers.
Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the forest
that you did not plant,
that you will not live to harvest.
Say that the leaves are harvested
when they have rotted into the mold.
Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.
Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years.
Listen to carrion -- put your ear
close, and hear the faint chattering
of the songs that are to come.
Expect the end of the world. Laugh.
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful
though you have considered all the facts.
So long as women do not go cheap
for power, please women more than men.
Ask yourself: Will this satisfy
a woman satisfied to bear a child?
Will this disturb the sleep
of a woman near to giving birth?
Go with your love to the fields.
Lie down in the shade. Rest your head
in her lap. Swear allegiance
to what is nighest your thoughts.
As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go.
Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection.
Wendell Berry - http://www.wendellberrybooks.com/
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Hey! You're a human...
You're a human and you are reading my blog
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