Eat Problems For Breakfast

“Expect problems,” said the essayist Alfred A. Montapert, “and eat them for breakfast.” That makes total sense to anyone involved in nextsensing. In my conversations with MBA students and corporate clients alike, one question pops up...

How To Handle Rejection

You don’t have to be at the top to be lonely. Pioneers with new ideas know the feeling, too. These thoughts came to mind after reading Patrick Allan’s (@mr_patrickallan) keen observations on a Lifehacker blog. On one post, he discusses “Build Your...

Focus-not-us Is A New Problem

Are you suffering from focus-not-us? Hocus-pocus happens when words are used in a meaningless way, usually as part of a trick. “Focus-not-us” is my own phrase for a phenomenon I have observed in the reading and thinking habits of many students, associates...

Search Outside; Think Inside

You can’t sit at your desk and nextsense. I’m betting that resonates with most people, because it is obvious to most that looking inside one’s company is not likely to lead to the path of the corporate future. Yet, there are so many companies whose...

Do you know what you’re doing?

Stop. Are you fully and totally conscious of what you are doing, feeling, sensing, thinking — right now? Mindfulness has been around for a long time, with the concept traced as far back as the Buddha. But sometimes old news is new again. Mindfulness is Kate...

The #1 Skill Everyone Needs

In many ways, students are the products of educators. If a school or university system consistently produces artistic, scientific, business, and community leaders, then it’s safe to say that the system is serving society well. So, it only makes sense that...