What is it they still don’t get?

Yesterday the Financial Times reported “Nuns shocked at being on Wal-Mart’s list of threats. A community of Benedictine nuns based in Texas has called on Wal-Mart to give further details of how they came to appear on a list of potential threats to the...

The Annals of Spin

This weeks New Yorker Magazine (4/2/07) features a long negative story about Wal-Mart’s effort to “co-opt liberals.” This is another in the series of good news/bad news stories that both helps and plagues the company. After nearly a year of this endless seesaw one...

Retreating

I spent two days this week doing something I haven’t done for five if not ten years – going to a retreat to explore who I want to be in the next iteration of my life. The retreat was led by Peter Senge and the Shamballa Institute outside Boston on bright, crisp sunny...

How Generous Is the Bill Gates Foundation?

I once heard George Soros explain or rather rationalize his investment in a company that produces land mines while his charitable organization worked to remove them from locations they had been planted and end their use. He explained that someone was going to reap the...

India Diary

New Delhi – Sunday February 18, 2007 One wonders if there is anything to say that has not been said before. This is a city of extreme contrasts drawn together by sights and smells that all can enjoy and none can avoid. A delicate smoke fills the air, coloring the sky...