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My wife and I spent our summer vacation hiking around Northumberland on the Northeast coast of England as part of a vacation package with daily guides. It was like camp for adults, with all kinds of fun activities each evening. Of course, there was a table tennis tournament, and I...
Eighty four years ago a wonderful thing happened - the start of the most exciting muscle car in the world was a glimmer in an engineer's eyes - the Pontiac Division was created by General Motors. It was to appeal to a younger audience and show some style in a...
Let’s go Magic! I am a self proclaimed Orlando Magic fan and have been since they were less than good (For those of you who think they are still less than good, well I have a few choice words for you). Not only that, I’m a downtown resident. I walk...
The International Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough Tennessee is a singularity. This little town, the oldest in the state, is soaked in history from the revolutionary war forward but besides its charm, it is the nexus for toilers in the craft of the tale. We’re talking here about 3 days of...
Every so often it's a good idea to do something that is completely different than your normal routine. We have found that doing so helps you get focus back, see things in a different perspective and makes you think about where you are in life. A couple of times a...
“We won! We won!” shouted Shirley Decker as she read the e-mail notification from the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission. When we first began designing TeacherStudio® three or four years ago, who knew that we’d be sitting among our city commissioners to accept one of the 2010 William C. Schwartz...
September 11, 2001 is a day we will never forget. For me, that morning started out the same as any other Tuesday. I remember about 8:50am I went in to Bay 1 at our old building to check in with a client that had just arrived. After a few minutes...
Ok, so I've been on this four month journey, although it feels like an eternity, of working out 6 or 7 days a week, eating nothing but egg whites, chicken, fish, lots of vegetables, spinach like its going out of style and worst of all restricting my carb intake. The...
In the last week members of our team have had some interesting times traveling. At first I thought I have to tell people about these stories because nobody is going to believe them. But the more I thought I realized, everyone is going to believe them because they happen all...
We always remark that the greatest thing about our work at IDEAS is when we can be a comprehensive solution provider for our clients. That means we get to work in all of our practice areas- Innovation, Learning and our Studio. I’m in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico this week working with...
On Friday June 25th three IDEAS team members had the opportunity to assist inone of the first relocations of sea turtles from the Gulf Coast Oil Spill to Sea World and Walt Disney World. The process really began on Thursday June 17th when Anderson Cooper on CNN's AC360 followed the...
I was having one of those disjointed and asynchronous “conversations” with my friend Jamie Conglose on Facebook today about integrity- one of the most greatly abused words in the national lexicon of business. Jamie is a world-class teacher of leadership and she opined that “Possessing integrity and emotional intelligence allows...
