Dan Pink is a mas­ter of cre­ative swip­ing, which is MBA-speak for “he steals other peo­ples’ ideas.” Which isn’t to say he’s not a clever chap. And we cer­tainly guys like him, crafty writ­ers who aren’t put off by research, who weave the lat­est ideas into pithy, punchy, com­pelling nar­ra­tives. Cer­tainly, for every artic­u­late Dan […]

The new prob­lems of the world require fresh approaches. They require our inge­nu­ity and our care­ful, cre­ative con­sid­er­a­tion. You and I know this, but still most of us don’t often get mean­ing­fully involved. Why is this? I think there is a col­lec­tive feel­ing that these prob­lems are too big for any of us to make […]

These ‘’Com­mand­ments’’ are actu­ally just life  lessons. They are reminders to myself about my favorite insights into how to keep myself happy and mov­ing for­ward. 1) A clear tar­get I’ve found it’s not enough to try hard, if you’re not work­ing toward a clear out­come. Every­one says this, but I like it because, if I’ve […]

When I started my bet­ter liv­ing project it wasn’t really about qual­ity of life at all. It was more about fac­ing the ques­tion: “what kind of life is best for a per­son liv­ing in our times?” It was as much about being respon­si­ble as any­thing else. I was wor­ried espe­cially about intractable prob­lems like global […]

You will likely make a mil­lion dol­lars. The aver­age Amer­i­can earns between $1 mil­lion and $2 mil­lion dol­lars in their life­time. But that’s not what I’m talk­ing about. This arti­cle will tell you how to end up with $1 mil­lion dol­lars in your bank account. (And, as you’re about to see, you’re going to need it.) $1 […]

This is the third time I have sat down to write this post. I keep delet­ing it. I watched a doc­u­men­tary this week in Swe­den and I can’t put it out of my head. It was about a group of moun­tain climbers attempt­ing to sum­mit the sec­ond high­est moun­tain after Ever­est (K2). I’m not going to ruin the […]

Res­o­lu­tions have a bad rap. We are all sophis­ti­cated and smart enough to know we can­not be fooled. Not again. (If you’ve ever pur­chased a 12-month gym mem­ber­ship, you know what I’m talk­ing about.) We’re wise to our own ways.

Just trust me for a moment and I’ll show you that res­o­lu­tions can actu­ally work. This process can be enjoy­able; it can be pain­less and if you fol­low these sim­ple steps you’ll soon be push­ing your credit card over the counter at another fit­ness centre.

Hans Rosling and Design that Mat­ters offer two com­pelling exam­ples of prac­ti­cal design mak­ing a tan­gi­ble dif­fer­ence in Inter­na­tional Development.