August 2015 [The following editorial was initially published on my blog for The Great Growing Up at the beginning of the year.] Science is showing us what philosophers and sages have been telling us for centuries – that we are not only connected, as in members of the same human family, but we are one. […]

July 2015 I just finished reading The Future of the Mind, by Michio Kaku, a hugely successful New York Times bestselling author and futurist. While well written and most interesting in so many ways, I was very disappointed that the author remains rooted in the reductionist perspective that sees the brain and mind as synonymous. […]

  June 215 Years ago, before television, there was a radio mystery show called “Inner Sanctum.” Yes, I am old enough to remember listening to the show which was quite scary for a youngster with a great imagination shivering under the sheets at night. The author* of a book I was just reading used the […]

In my interactions with friends and colleagues over the years it seems that more and more of us are coming to the conclusion that we are no longer interested in participating in small talk, gossip or meaningless conversations.  The conversations we are interested in being part of are those that have meaning for us and […]

   May 2015  I recently drafted a short thought piece titled “Are We Ready?” and circulated it amongst a handful of consultants and thought leaders I know who are what I consider the real deal when it comes to bringing  about meaningful paradigm change or transformation in organizational cultures. The basis for the thought piece […]

April 2015 Sometime last year I was in an exchange with leadership strategist Lucira Jane Nebelung and realized that she was doing business as “Leading as Love,” which she defines as “a global movement for leaders in business, government, education and religion to stand for the dignity and well-being of everyone, establish common ground, and […]

Adebayo “Bayo” Clement Akomolafe is a lecturer at Covenant University in Nigeria. He is also Coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization, a project of Local Futures, a non-profit organization whose mission is to protect and renew ecological and social well-being by promoting a systemic shift away from economic globalization towards localization. Bayo, as he […]

 March 2015  [February was Black History Month here in the U.S. and one of my favorite African-American heroes is not particularly well-known so I revived this posting from the Global Dialogue Center a few years back.] Not everyone will have heard of Howard Thurman but he has had much positive influence in the world, especially […]

February 2015 During a recent interview I was asked which of the various crises facing our species was the most critical or important. My answer surprised my questioner, who was expecting something along the lines of environmental threats, climate change, radicalism or terrorism. “It all boils down to a crisis in leadership,” I opined. There […]

Science is showing us what philosophers and sages have been telling us for centuries – that we are not only connected, as in members of the same human family, but we are one. Oneness is not the same as interconnectivity, which still implies separateness. We are not separate although we live in a world that […]