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The Labyrinth. San Francisco Zen Center - Zen Practice and Meditation. Developing Mindful Leaders - Polly LaBarre. Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as “leadership development,” which ends up leaving so much on the table. Training and development programs almost universally focus factory-like on inputs and outputs — absorb curriculum, check a box; learn a skill, advance a rung; submit to assessment, fix a problem.

Likewise, they leave too many people behind with an elite selection process that fast-tracks “hi-pos” and essentially discards the rest. And they leave most people cold with flavor of the month remedies, off sites, immersions, and excursions — which produce little more than a grim legacy of fat binders gathering dust on shelves. What if, instead of stuffing people with curricula, models, and competencies, we focused on deepening their sense of purpose, expanding their capability to navigate difficulty and complexity, and enriching their emotional resilience? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Zappos Insights Training. What can I expect from a Zappos Insights Event? At the Zappos Insights Live Events you will get to interact with members of the Zappos Family and discuss culture, core values, business strategy, best hiring practices, team member empowerment, and so much more.

Each event offers something unique for your organization. You’ll have the opportunity to network with other business professionals who are interested in becoming culture cultivators. We offer full day and three-day Live Events. How do our Events differ from our Tours? Included in each event is a full 60 minute tour. Synchronicity Google Style: Intention to Manifestation « Work Stew. By Gopi Kallayil Small is truly beautiful. A single email winged its way from the Dalai Lama’s office to my Google colleague Shailesh in India and then on to Vic in the U.S. and Marvin in Korea before landing finally in my inbox. It expressed an interest that the Office of the Dalai Lama had in the product I am working on—Google+—and it started me noodling some ideas on a piece of paper.

One of them was to put together The Dalai Lama with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in a Google+ Hangout and allow thousands of people to view it live on the Internet. I told a few colleagues about this random and crazy idea and left it at that. Five days later, a Googler from South Africa, Jonathan, called me at home at one in the morning. Jonathan had found me pretty much at random by searching the internal directory and deciding on intuition that I was the person to call. Thirteen years ago, I wrote a list of goals for my life that included a desire to meet the Dalai Lama in person.

A tour of awareness - part 2. A tour of awareness - part 1. IBM produces first working chips modeled on the human brain. IBM has been shipping computers for more than 65 years, and it is finally on the verge of creating a true electronic brain. Big Blue is announcing today that it, along with four universities and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have created the basic design of an experimental computer chip that emulates the way the brain processes information. IBM’s so-called cognitive computing chips could one day simulate and emulate the brain’s ability to sense, perceive, interact and recognize — all tasks that humans can currently do much better than computers can.

Dharmendra Modha (pictured below right) is the principal investigator of the DARPA project, called Synapse (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics, or SyNAPSE). He is also a researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif. We wrote about the project when IBM announced the project in November, 2008 and again when it hit its first milestone in November, 2009.