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  • Be Afraid. But Not For the Reasons You Might Think

    Be afraid. Be very afraid. But not for the reasons you might think. We are living in precipitous times. We are in danger of losing our humanity through fear. Fear of what and who we do not know. I am writing this in the Charles de Gaulle airport as I wait for my flight home

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  • Amygdala Hijacks and Triggers

    Not too long ago I was in a planning meeting in Fargo, ND with my partner Jerry Nagel and two of our colleagues from Folkways. After the meeting I was headed to the airport to catch the first of my three flights to take me home to Halifax, NS. While still in the meeting I get a text and glancing

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  • You’re Just Too Stupid To Know …

    Well, that Heineken commercial – the Worlds Apart #OpenYourWorld video – is certainly garnering attention – positive, excited, provocative, and outrage. I have to admit, the outrage part caught me by surprise. And seeing a headline that says it is worse than the Pepsi commercial, but “you’re just too stupid to know” does not feel like an invitation that welcomes me into an exploration of why

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  • There Are No Simple Solutions to Complexity

    We want it to be simple. We groan under the weight of the increasing complexity we are experiencing – at work, in life, in our communities and in political environments. We bemoan the fact there are no silver bullets even while we continue to search for them. Not only do silver bullets or simple solutions

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  • Why Won’t You Just Meet Me Halfway?

    Have you heard yourself ask this question, usually in frustration: Why won’t they just meet me halfway?! This often gets said when we are in a disagreement or a conflict with someone or another group and we want to make progress on an issue or mend a relationship. But, what do we really mean when

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  • A Mess of Contradictions. How Do We Find Ways Forward?

    Do you believe you are not biased? Or, not very, anyway? Would it surprise you to know that each of us is born with a built in bias called “naïve realism”, where we believe we are not biased? Naïve realism makes us believe our own views are reasonable, even if they are not. It makes it easy

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