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American inventor Charles Kettering said:, “My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”…

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All around us, we see and hear disturbing statistics about the damage that humans are inflicting on the environment. These statistics are often sad:…

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In most enterprises, it isn’t enough to achieve success; the key challenge is to sustain it. At this year’s Pegasus Conference, keynote speaker Cristiano…

We’ve all heard the saying “Be careful about what you wish for; you just might get it.” In the case of the California power…

Acclaimed author Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, Outliers, The Story of Success (Little, Brown and Company, 2008), is all about patterns and how they can…

This time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, people’s thoughts turn to cool ocean breezes, hectic sight- seeing excursions, or rustic backwoods cabins. Summer…