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2007 LETTERS
The Art of Gifting; Tis the Season to Be
Jolly
(December 12, 2007)
“Good things
come from somewhere, not everywhere.” To
read more, click here.
Friends of Global Province (December 5, 2007)
“[O]ur charter
is to be a bit more creative than other firms, so we also wander pretty
far afield.” To read more, click here.
Getting out of the Hothouse (November 28, 2007)
“It is
apparent that our push to do more and go higher has often become a
losing game, where systems, parents, teachers, students, and
institutions implode.” To read more, click here.
All About Bird Dogs: Knowing What We’re
Here For (November
14, 2007)
“As the saying
goes, these bird dogs can find a lot of ‘new pigeons’ for us.” To read more, click here.
Precious Imports: We Need Those Personas
Non Grata (November
7, 2007)
“A rethink is
in order, because we often are not guarding the right gates.” To read more, click here.
Looking
for Small Fish in Big Pond (October 31, 2007)
“[We] must be
small, agile fish in a huge pond.” To read
more, click here.
Globalization:
Culture Carriers (October 24, 2007)
“As we are
discovering in our consulting practice, art travels and transforms.” To read more, click here.
Europe:
The Whole Is less than the Sum of Its Parts (October 17, 2007)
“It’s the
paradox of our time that only unbelievers ... celebrate the wide open
opportunities the future still offers to us.”
To read more, click here.
Natural
Energy: They Said It Couldn’t Be Done (October 10,
2007)
“It’s the
paradox of our time that only unbelievers ... celebrate the wide open
opportunities the future still offers to us.”
To read more, click here.
The Repairmen (October 3, 2007)
“This idea of
obsolescence is outmoded.” To read more,
click here.
Lies,
Estrogen, Useful Tips, Saving on Gas, Microtrends, Homespun
Wisdom, and Urawaza (September 19,
2007)
“There’s
a need to act in the face of this sea of misinformation.” To read more, click here.
A
Noble & Thrifty Tree (September 12,
2007)
“No
culture anywhere can reach for the heavens without a lofty tree.” To read more, click here.
The
Lost Art of Luxury (September 5,
2007)
“True
luxury not only depends on well honed products but on grace and good
deportment from the whole congregation—from every customer and every
server.” To read more, click here.
The
End Is in Sight (August 29, 2007)
“Busy shoring
up the past, companies generally have not uncovered a new corporate
architecture and grand strategy that take aim at the years ahead.” To read more, click here.
O Captain! My Captain! (August 22, 2007)
“We no longer
have to worry about Red Octobers and other Soviet threats: we have seen
the new enemy and it may be us.” To read more, click here.
Did
Camus Ever Giggle? (August 8, 2007)
“Serious
is a disease of the spirit that’s going around now, and it’s to be
dreaded as much AIDS or bird flu.” To read more, click here.
How to Vacation (August 1, 2007)
“The
planet’s as tired as we are. Give it a break.” To read more, click here.
Flying
into the Eye of the Hurricane (July 25, 2007)
“It’s
axiomatic that you have to get outside the very big cities to find
someone who truly knows something undiscovered.” To read more, click here.
The Bronze Horseman (July 18, 2007)
“Around
the world we have raised a whole generation that has never been touched
by greatness.” To read more, click here.
Don't Hang Up (July 11, 2007)
“TV and
cell phones had the potential to make a much better world, but instead,
seem to have gorged it with mediocrity.” To read more, click here.
Caught a Big One (July 4, 2007)
“Isn’t it
interesting what can get done with four hour lunches and no contracts?” To read more, click here.
Gone Fishin’ (June 13, 2007)
“One
can beat the unbeatable with slowness and strategic retreats.” To read more, click here.
It Pays You Not to Be a Philistine (June 6, 2007)
“Culture ...
still pays off. Herein lie dramatic lessons for urban and
national development.” To read more, click here.
Literay Martinis (May 30, 2007)
“If we
are to preserve ‘taste,’ we must fashion valuable one-of-a-kind local
products that are integral to our culture—that are not at all the same
the world over.” To read more, click here.
Fixing
Our Martinis and Our Health (May 23, 2007)
“All the stuff
and nonsense we surround ourselves with is laying us low.” To read more, click here.
The
Name Game (May 16, 2007)
“There’s a
whole industry built around this naming of things that gives very
expensive, often mistaken advice to the world’s biggest companies for
which corporate chieftains pay a wad.” To
read more, click here.
Better
Than Best—Second: Terroir (May 9, 2007)
“Everything—earth,
sun, climate—must come together to make for
perfection. An alignment of the stars.”
To read more, click here.
Better
Than Best—First
(May 2, 2007)
“In a globally
connected world, one is looking for artisans and individuals who are
disconnected enough to rise above the herd.”
To read more, click here.
The
Babes of New York and Mount Everest (April 25, 2007)
“In a town
where the men do not distinguish themselves by pursuing the common
interest and civilized interchange, they were both life giving and
lively.” To read more, click here.
North Country Fair (April 18, 2007)
“This
helpfulness and down-to-earthness just don’t happen in most places.” To read more, click here.
Resurrection (April 11, 2007)
“[W]e are
seeking some way to turn around big corporations, institutions, and
governments in decline. To restore their get up and go.” To read more, click here.
Fly
in the Ointment
(April 4, 2007)
“Beware of
fine businesses that have been shopped around too much. They lose it.” To read more, click here.
In
Praise of Siestas (March 28, 2007)
“We require
new energy and new thinking from all those small countries that go
unnoticed and where things are working a bit better.” To read more, click here.
La
Fhéile Pádraig: Corned Beef and
Cabbage
(March 21, 2007)
“We might, as
well, celebrate the Irish miracle, even if it does not have religious
origins.” To read more, click here.
Up
against the Wall (March 14, 2007)
“Turning them
around involves a top to bottom shakeup, much more comprehensive than
financial engineers, strategy gurus, or operations managers can
envision.” To read more, click here.
Dog
Gone (March 7, 2007)
“Getting
more craft back into our goods and services ... is our only answer to
manufactures from other nations oversupplied with laborers who receive
each month what our workers earn in a day.” To read more, click here.
In
Search of Searchlights (February 28,
2007)
“The
world of intelligence is the same as the world of media is the same as
the world of digital media.” To read more, click here.
A Few Good Buys (February 21,
2007)
“We have a
theory that you should take a look at companies that have been to hell
and back. It’s like going to the secondhand store and getting a
deal.” To read more, click here.
Prometheus
Unbound: Catching Fire Again (February 14,
2007)
“It’s
rather ironic that the true imperative of globalization is to
understand how to get increasingly local, particular, special,
one-of-a-kind, like-no-other.” To read more, click here.
UnZipping
Memories (February 7,
2007)
“Are the
atmospherics such that it’s just too hard to think straight?” To read more, click here.
High
on the Hog
(January 31, 2007)
“As near as we
can make out, good humor and celebrations seem to be enemies of the
state almost everywhere on earth: governments do a better job at
funerals.” To read more, click here.
The Cost of Things
(January 24, 2007)
“Now
the price of ‘too much’ is ‘too high.’ Perhaps the follies of
youth become the psychoses of old age. Then it was playful
excess; now it’s competitive materialism decked out in stress.” To read more, click here.
The Translator's
Alchemy (January 17, 2007)
“We
need interpretation, communication, intellectual vigor, instruction
infused with the honest spirit that pours in through stained glass
windows. Then we will hear the warning bells.” To read more, click here.
For the Love of
Learning (January 10, 2007)
“In some
measure, new forms of education are arising that diminish the very
importance of our current, plodding institutions that have lost the
ability to teach people to read and write.”
To read more, click here.
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