UN Women - The Autocomplete Truth

Great work done for the UN Women by Memac Ogilvy Dubai Team!!:)

Chad Dickerson of Etsy - Business is Personal: Putting people and planet...

Making Business more "Personal & Beautiful"… The Story behind Etsy!

http://www.thersa.org/events/video/vision-videos/business-is-personal-putting-people-and-planet-before-profit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLjy9l2UFKI#t=602


http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110401/can-rob-kalin-scale-etsy.html/5

Free Beer: The truth about dishonesty

RSA - Free Beer: The truth about dishonesty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGGxguJsirI

Majority of people in general believe it is their right to live life the way they see it fit, and if cheating is part of one's cognitive behaviour and own's embedded beliefs in good living, cheating for those people is a natural behaviour and a smart way of living a good life to the full. These equate with a reality of life, which favours by far the notion of the 'Survival of the Fittest'! (hence the latest crave over our 'health & fitness' at times to unhealthy excesses such as those thriving aesthetic surgeries making millions from ever more unhappy 'customers'!) Morality here doesn't hold any value or consideration! For many, 'cheating' has simply different connotations linked to our perceptions and interpretations, along our understanding of what 'cheating' means and represents! These are very much relevant to our own engrained perspectives, state of mind and depth of vision. All these are linked to a variety of variables, from our cultural, to inherent and inherited traditions & customs; to those being taught, institutionalised and groomed by way of industrial labour & corporate skilling, along those inculcated through community, the society and religious beliefs. Many of these get very much to dictate our propensity towards fear or bravery, greed or abstinence, self-control or indulgence; to all levels of our moral values, including our empathy & compassion to truly care for one another, and love others. These will differ from one person to another or society to another. For example, some don't think it is actually 'cheating' if one is enjoying a simple and honest Life from having a decent home, listening to music, to walking in natural parks and enjoying our Earth's natural resources, to learning about education and knowledge, to receiving essential healthcare keeping us fit & healthy, or to living in a civilised peaceful world, where mutual respect, love and harmony as a humanitarian and basic human needs truly exist and are freely provided, with 'free access' to a 'Respectable Good Life' (Maslow's hierarchy revisited here) as a natural human requirement for adequate living and a dignified survival in our modern times (why else do we condemn 'poverty' and 'destitution'?!). With the advent of 'Trade' along 'Monetized Currencies' since ancient times, cheating was created, discovered and polished to suit the masses. It has been thriving ever since! For many, it has taken totally different names & contexts, and runs mostly under the umbrella of 'The Economy' and 'Politics' very much thriving on inequalities! (including disputes, bickering & jealousy over all sorts of social contracts and legal rights) Cheating is so intertwined with our lifestyle, many in fact now recognise it as our moral imperative and birth right! Just like in the animal kingdom, it's like trying to explain to a Lion why he ended up eating his own cubs?…Humans reverting to the essence of existence where 'Ethics' and 'Morality' are simply freaks of nature, rather than Nature itself…It's actually pretty sad when contemplated at such primary addictive impulses, reflecting a 'contained', yet chaotic modern times behaviour and current apparent 'sophisticated' understanding.

It's in our hands (+playlist)

 http://www.dsm.com/corporate/about/our-company.html

Bridging the gap between imagination and execution: Lana Chukri at TEDxLAU

My sweet Niece Talking at TEDx Beirut about how to beautify & highlight in Colourful Shades the Capital city of Lebanon, a vibrant & lively home for many:)

Love, Kindness & Compassion!! So wise:) OSHO: Compassion - The Ultimate Flowering of Love!

"The Territorial Imperative": OSHO Waking Up the World!

UCL President and Provost inaugural Lunch Hour Lecture (3 Oct 2013)

Creating a Learning HE Thriving Environment where Diversity & Integration are Spreading 

the Pillars of Knowledge and Freedoms 

Where Investments are to the Benefits of People, Citizens & Nations 

Dr. Clayton Christensen discusses disruption in higher education

http://www.youtube.com/v/yUGn5ZdrDoU?version=3&autohide=1&autohide=1&feature=share&showinfo=1&attribution_tag=Jb5uuiVXS2TuXVa11jFqbQ&autoplay=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUGn5ZdrDoU

Excellent Thoughts & Ideas on HE alternatives, 

integrated and motivated teaching, along current online learning to ponder about!:)

Clayton Christensen on disruptive innovation - Clarendon Lectures 10th J...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpkoCZ4vBSI

Brilliant lecture! Cherishing the investment of People and their Development to be ‘husbanded’ smart & tight!!...

I wonder what would be the ‘Disruption’ element(s) which have been keeping some regions of the world in a ‘sustainable’ vicious circle of ‘efficient’ turmoil & poverty?...
Undervalued ‘Domestic Economy’ perhaps…despite rich national resources for many??

Many are benefitting with plenty of ‘Capital’ at ‘no costs’!!...Except of course the ‘Human Cost’… which for some has value=0=cost!!...With more and more people in a growing state of deeper and deeper destitution & desperation, driven by more and more greed & unethical actions…

‘Disruption’ seems to be driving the ‘Theory of Prosperity’ for some when ‘chaos’ and ‘stagnation’ are maintained ‘efficiently’ for others… An ongoing ‘depressing’ situation leading to more ‘correlative’ as much as ‘causal’ to current ‘crisis’ in many regions of the worldL

Maybe a better state of ‘Equilibrium’ can be explored where ‘disruption’ does not exist, and the ‘Theory of Prosperity’ is sustained efficiently for all through common sense, shared values, fair trade, fair barter, fair dealing… and no 'Greed' involved at all.

References & Definitions of ‘Greed’ from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greed

Where the Balance lies for a Thriving Society with Fulfilled Upright Citizens...

"1- Ivan Boesky famously defended greed in a May 18, 1986, commencement address at the UC Berkeley's School of Business Administration, in which he said, "Greed is all right, by the way. I want you to know that. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself".[1] This speech inspired the 1987 film Wall Street, which features the famous line "greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind."

2- The purpose for greed, and any actions associated with it, is possibly to deprive others of potential means (perhaps, of basic survival and comfort) or future opportunities accordingly, or to obstruct them therefrom, as a measure of enhanced discretion via majority belongings-having and majority competitive advantage, thus insidious and tyrannical or otherwise having negative connotation. Alternately, the purpose could be defense or counteraction from such dangerous, potential leverage in matters of questionable agreeability. A consequence of greedy activity may be inability to sustain any of the costs or burdens associated with that which has been or is being accumulated, leading to a backfire or destruction, whether of self or more generally. So, the level of "inordinance" of greed pertains to the amount of vanity, malice or burden associated with it."

Introduction to Economics, LSE Kick Off Day 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq4HXW_JYd4

Brilliant Talk!:)

Medicine in society: a complex mix - four minute film

http://www.youtube.com/v/ElAMn1cJ3Pk?version=3&autohide=1&feature=share&autoplay=1&attribution_tag=ZiiR-1RbeFtwdbIo0SUN7w&showinfo=1&autohide=1


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElAMn1cJ3Pk

WARWICK_ROBOT_IMITATION_MEETING.mov

http://www.youtube.com/v/hxaRHcHziec?autohide=1&version=3&autohide=1&feature=share&attribution_tag=Mky17Oo5lRPaeapO2drgcA&showinfo=1&autoplay=1


http://youtu.be/hxaRHcHziec