https://www.amazon.com/Book-Beautiful-Questions-Powerful-Connect/dp/163286956X What Is The Value Of A Good Question In Success And Innovation? Thoughtful questioning is really an art form and critical to advancing our decision-making, creativity, leadership and relationships.  So, I ask you, who better to discuss this with than America’s unquestioned leading questionologist, Warren Berger? His latest book, ‘The Book of Beautiful Questions’, …

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https://www.amazon.com/Cancerland-Medical-Memoir-David-Scadden/dp/1250092752 We all have been touched by cancer.  And while our family and friends still die from its many forms, seemingly resistant to a cure, at the same time we read many stories about the potential for a cure, using personalized gene therapy, as opposed to the crude tools of chemotherapy and radiation.  So, what …

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In an era when trust in institutions of all kinds is slipping, the blockchain offers a new hope: shared ledgers of information that no one controls but everyone can believe.  What could go wrong? Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and author of ‘The Blockchain and the New Architecture of …

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Gerald Celente, whose publishes ‘TrendsJournal’ and oversees the Trends Research Institute, has developed the Globalnomic(R)methodology to identify, track, forecast and manage trends.  He puts all data in his own blender and analyzes the current events which form future trends. His motto is ‘think for yourself’ and his pulsating style will have you riveted to this …

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When you consider the fact that America ranks 31st among 34 developed nations in voter turnout, you realize that many reforms are needed in our electoral system.  We disenfranchise people in many ways–making registration difficult, gerrymandering districts so that people don’t think voting matters, limiting voting to a weekday in many states and not offering …

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Leading politicians in both parties, including the President, rockers who still fill stadiums and cultural icons in business, technology and the arts are at a stage of life we are hard pressed to describe.  Are they senior citizens or perennials? We have a hard time defining this generation in the process of aging because they …

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Over the last 40 years, China has changed beyond recognition, becoming a world power following economic reforms made by Deng Xiaoping and others.  President Xi Jinping, perhaps the most powerful leader in China since Mao Tse Tung, has inherited this more prosperous, and complex, economy. Yet, George Magnus, of the China Centre at Oxford University, …

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We’ve all held fast to the notion that in America there exists ‘one man, one vote’, thus we are all equal in our system of representation.  Yet, when you really think about it, the voices of those who invest money, time and energy in the political conversation often count for more than someone whose civic …

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At the end of the Cold War, America stood alone in the world as the supreme economic and military force. We were finally a unipolar giant with decent relations with present adversaries, like Russia and China.  What went wrong? Stephen Walt, a professor of international affairs, at Harvard University and author of ‘The Hell of …

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Years back, Ivan Eland wrote a book with this title.  He traced this country’s steady expansion of its military footprint all over the world and the dangers inherent in this trend.  We decided to catch up with him several years later to determine if this military intervention, on the whole, has been positive for America …

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