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  As we emerge from pandemic limitations, people are beginning to gravitate to seeing each other in person.   Breakfasts, lunches, dinners, coffee--we now have the chance to see family, friends, and colleagues in the flesh for the first time in over a year. If we're vaccinated, we can gather in groups--almost like

  Last week, AT&T announced it was spinning off its Warner Media division into a company that will merge with Discovery. At about the same time, Amazon spent more than $8 billion to acquire MGM. Disney acquired Lucasfilms and Marvel for $4 billion a piece over 10 years ago and has

  Hospitalization and deaths are down dramatically due to aggressive vaccination efforts. Rules about mask wearing and restrictions on public gatherings, businesses, and schools are relaxing. Friends and families are gathering in larger and larger groups.   I write this sitting near a pool at a hotel in Palm Springs, CA. Except for the social distancing, extra sanitation, and some limits on amenities, things seem almost normal.   Except its not. Its not just COVID that is different. He...

This second article on The Flow System dives into the three helixes of complexity thinking, distributed leadership, and team science.

  The COVID pandemic is now wreaking havoc on countries like India, where the infection spread and ensuing illness and death are out of control.   Here in the US, we appear to be moving in the other direction. Infection and hospitalization rates are dropping--due to mask wearing, social distancing, and most importantly, vaccination.   Nearly 40% of American adults have received at least one vaccination and 25% are fully vaccinated. Yet we are still averaging over 60,000 new infections ...

  Since 1970, April 22nd has been Earth Day--a day to focus on improving the environment for us and the generations that will come afterward.   This year, while there is still much need to address topics like climate change and pollution, we have other toxic environmental issues with which to contend.   There's a

  On Sunday, an unarmed 20-year-old Black man was shot and killed by a local police officer during a traffic stop outside Minneapolis.   The officer and police chief both called this an error: The officer meant to reach for her taser, but pulled out the gun and fired a single bullet instead. They called this "an accidental discharge."   After the fact, its easy to say, we shouldnt have done something--that it was a mistake. The problem is some mistakes are minor, and some are life-chan...

This week, we mark the one year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic.   Exactly a year ago, we were overcoming the shock of learning a deadly disease was about to ravage not just a few countries, but the entire globe. The world as we knew it began to change dramatically.   Since then, over 520,000 Americans alone have died from COVID-19 and nearly 29 million people became infected. We were introduced to the concept of social distancing, learned the meaning of WFH, the pros and ...

    This week, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced they would no longer be publishing six books by the popular children's author because they contain images that are racially insensitive.   The titles, including And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street, If I Ran The Zoo, and four others, were published in the early 1950s.

  This week, Silicon Valley-based Fry's Electronics announced it was closing all its remaining stores and shutting down operations immediately.     This wasn't a total surprise, because Fry's had been shuttering stores for the last couple of years. Inventory was limited in those stores that remained open.   What was special about Fry's? Long before