Mark Goulston Posted on Saturday, January 3, 2015 at 8:27PM 
Inspired by Michal Lev-Ram's Fortune cover story, "Disney CEO Bob Iger's Empire of Tech" (you should read it)
One of your most important responsibilities to the companies whose boards you serve on is to make sure it has the best CEO.
If you agree, I think you need look no further than Tim Cook at Apple and Bob Iger at Disney.
Why?
Mark Goulston Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 at 10:20AM 
This has been a year that can use all the Joy we can feel. But when Xmas and Joy to the World pass on December 26, we should remember that "what the world needs now is love sweet love."
Love at its best overflows with tenderness. Tenderness is what comforts and heals pain and suffering from the inside out. Pain is pain, suffering is being alone in pain. When you take away people's aloneness, suffering they can't tolerate becomes pain that they can. The problem and challenge is that tenderness can't be rushed and in our go-go, get more, sooner world it is actually in danger of becoming extinct.
Mark Goulston Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2014 at 2:42PM Mark Goulston Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2014 at 9:21AM 
Arrogance + Power + Humiliation = Eye for an eye retaliation
Since I posted my previous blog, A New Paradigm to Fix the World - Fixing a Failure to Consider, I've heard from many others. Their reponses further caused me to ponder how little America truly understands other countries and other leaders such as Kim Jong Un and Putin.
The more primitive, arrogant and prideful a person's personality (not to be confused with lack of intelligence), the more inclined they are to react in an: "eye for an eye" fashion especially when they feel humiliated.
Mark Goulston Posted on Thursday, December 18, 2014 at 8:19PM 
In the iconic movie Cool Hand Luke, the prison Captain played by Strother Martin uttered on more than one occasion the iconic line, “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
That situation appears every bit as present today as it was then. The reason it continues is what underlies a failure to communicate. And that is a failure to consider.
Mark Goulston Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2014 at 9:22AM 
Moore's Law which was first espoused by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, essentially and correctly predicited that technology speed and decreasing price would double every 18 months.
Futurist, Ray Kurzweil in his 1999 book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, spoke of the "The Law of Accelerating Returns" and further explored the exponential growth of technology. In recent years Kurzweil has predicted that Moore's Law will end as a paradigm in the early 2020's and be replaced by another paradigm.
I am not a technologist, but sometimes am able to see into the future when I work with CEO's and companies to reboot their "visionary" engines when they have stalled (usually from CEO's trying to run companies).
So here's my shot at the future.
Mark Goulston Posted on Saturday, November 29, 2014 at 9:28PM 
Louis Brandeis once said: "Sunlight is said to be the best disinfectant." Maybe it's high time to shed a little of it on our government.
Well looks like we're in for another "lame duck" couple of years especially if President Obama gets rapped on the hand or ripped apart for his immigration program.
Mark Goulston Posted on Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 10:55PM 
Mi silo es su silo, mais su silo es no mi silo
Read my lips: In a siloed world, only the people in your silo that share your passion want to understand how and why your product or service works. For nearly everyone else, all they care about is the bottom line.
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