Chakras
If you’ve never had the opportunity to watch whirling dervishes, now’s your big chance to get an idea of what they are about. Basically, they dance round and round in circles to draw on God’s energy.
We use technology to innovate, but ideas tend to come most easily when your mind is at rest. IT & Innovation Prof. Silvia Leal says meditation is a way to rest your mind in order to tap into your creative energy. If you want to be an inno-leader, you need to be able to draw on the flow of energy.
Prof. Leal’s proposal is that you should open all your chakras…. The result would be energy and more energy of the kind that makes the world goes round –she concludes.
An Urban Hike
Professor Marijo Bos is a Californian who teaches leadership at IE Business School. She’s been living in Madrid for some ten years now, having made it her base for teaching and living in between business trips around the world.
Since she literally has no time for herself, she has come up with a clever way to combine work and pleasure. She does what she calls her world urban hikes. This time was in Istanbul. One of the first things she does when she arrives in a city is to take a brisk two-hour walk. Listen to her reasons for doing this, and be prepared to see some serious urban walking!!! Sometimes I had real problems keeping up with her!
Marijo Bos is President of the European Professional Women’s Network (EPWN), and also a student of the IE Executive Master in Positive Leadership and Strategy.
Perfect Crime
In this video, “Perfect Crime,” a police detective (Law Prof. Swinsick) interrogates the cousin (Marketing Prof. Sinha) of an alleged serial killer, named Karan, in order to understand the killer’s mind and predict his next move.
The detective comments that we are all curious to know whether “the perfect crime” is possible or not – because if it is in fact possible, then we all want to commit it. In the end, he concludes, we are all killers. The cousin hints that Karan might be able to commit the ultimate marketing crime. Watch the video and find out what happened! And don´t miss what Prof. Sinha says about psychopathy and marketing!
P.S.: You might not be aware of the fact that around 2% of world population suffers from psychopathic tendencies. In fact, lawyers are the second most “psychopathic” lot in the world (after CEOs), according to Kevin Dutton’s book “The Wisdom of Psychopaths.“
Yips
When I first talked to Entrepreneurship Professor Julio de Castro back in July about shooting this video, he was very enthusiastic until the moment I mentioned the yips. Nobody talks about that, he said, it’s just bad luck. Well, after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing, he finally agreed to do it.
Yips or the yips is the loss of fine motor skills without apparent explanation in one of a number of different sports. Athletes affected by the yips demonstrate a sudden, unexplained loss of previous skills.
In golf, the yips is a movement disorder that most-commonly interferes with putting. The term yips is said to have been popularized by Tommy Armour—a golf champion and later a golf teacher—to explain the difficulties that led him to abandon tournament play. The technical term is focal dystonia.
Check out what Prof. de Castro has to say about yips, golf, and entrepreneurs.
Crazy Countries
The first sentence of Anna Karenina is one of the best-known openings of any novel: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Somewhat similarly, finance professor Juan Fernandez seems to think that all countries are crazy, but each country is crazy in its own way.
The crazy country he has in mind in this video is the US, where he has been living for the last 20 years. As you know, from October 1 through 16, 2013, the United States federal government went into shutdown and curtailed most routine operations after Congress failed to enact legislation appropriating funds for fiscal year 2014. Regular government operations resumed on October 17, after an interim appropriations bill was signed into law the day before this video was shot in Washington D.C.
Prof. Fernandez concludes that this is a historical moment for the US that will have knock-on effects around the world.
