This recent post from Andrew Olendzki in Tricycle Magazine takes an interesting slant on a classic Buddhist story. It’s too easy to think the world’s problems are too big for any one of us to address. Or that massive humanitarian crises – like the recent floods in Pakistan – are …

This is a great 10-minute video that debunks the traditional notion that money incents us to work harder and better. When the task at hand calls for creativity and conceptual thinking, offers of money actually make us do WORSE! Fascinating stuff. And lots of implications for how we run organizations …

I recently join up with a group of people who want to change the world. Really! Four Years. Go. is just one part of this campaign. It’s a rallying call asking us all to wake up to the enormous harm we are doing to Earth and ourselves. …

Last weekend I heard an inspiring story on National Public Radio. It featured Mark Horvath, a man who has used his unique position as a former Hollywood insider, drug addict, and homeless person, to focus attention on the plight of the homeless. Here’s an example of one man who has …

Climate change. The economic downturn. Terrorism. And now there’s Haiti. A client and I were conversing recently about the mess our world is in. She was feeling overwhelmed. How do we, as individuals, respond in the face of such huge problems? I won’t be so presumptuous as to …

How might the Buddha respond to questions of social change? How do we bring about large-scale happiness to entire societies? I recently heard this thought-provoking interview on National Public Radio’s show Speaking of Faith, called “The Buddha in the World.” It’s an interview with Pankaj Mishra, a journalist and author of the …