Swift Trust: predict high performance teams

When we need to work quickly and competently on complex problems with people we don’t know, Meyerson, Weick and Kramer say: use “swift trust”. With this pseudo trust, medical teams and cockpit crews establish a temporary interdependence that saves lives.   Without it, people die. In a less dramatic example, the consequences of operating without “swift [...]

Water is a Human Right: UN and Manitobans care about First Nations in Canada

Water is a Human Right, posted with vodpod A couple of public relations students and I did some digging in the muddy, flood-infested Manitoba backwaters. We came across some hidden bones we thought deserved a spotlight. We got angry, and we got inspired…to create a public service announcement about the plight of our fellow citizens, the [...]

DO NOT VOTE! Harper’s Conservatives Break Democracy Laws in Canada

Do not vote. Don’t waste your time. Why not? Because your vote will not count. Nothing will change. Canada‘s Prime Minister Stephen Harper can’t govern because elected Parliament representatives refused to pass the Conservative budget. His other minor stumbling blocks include breaking democratic laws about election spending and hiding information in contempt of Parliament. So, [...]

Polar Bear lost to Global Warming: Billy Connolly booms about Arctic Oil

Polar Bear loses to Global Warming: Billy Connolly booms about Arctic Offshore Oil Drilling Bonanza I get chills up and down my spine when someone like Scottish comedian Billy Connolly traces the Northwest Passage through the Arctic Circle at Canada’s extreme north and drops a bombshell. The Scotsman travels by dog sled and fishing trawler [...]

REVIEW: Freak Show or Science? BODIES THE EXHIBITION

Freak Show or Science? BODIES THE EXHIBITION BODIES THE EXHIBITION is not for the faint of heart. If you can bury that ancient taboo of “thou shalt not profit from human corpses”, whether they’re unknown Chinese prisoners, King Tut’s Egyptian mummy or Inca Gold for the Gods, you may be moved to pay Premier Exhibitions [...]

Animated Amiga Tribute by Eric Schwartz

Amiga is alive! Listen to an inspiring story of survival, created in Amiga and riding the crest of the technology tsunami. wordbone 1st collector for Animated Amiga Tribute by Eric Schwartz Follow my videos on vodpod

Top Ten Reasons not to start an online home business

NEED HELP TO DIG OUT – HOMEBOUND – FIRST SNOW! Like a teenager catapulting from the gym wall at the high school dance, our first snow day lunged in, caught me by the ankles and knocked me over this morning. (Winnipeg has two seasons, winter and construction.) Until snowplows dig canyons through the drifts hugging [...]