How do you feel about big social gatherings? Do you consider yourself outgoing and at ease with blending into a group of strangers? Does your creativity spur in solitude or during team brainstorming? Do you prefer action or contemplation? As you have most probably sensed by now, all of these questions relate to the well-known…

Although momentum appears to be building for a comprehensive climate deal in Paris interest there is increasing mainstream interest in doing research on finding technical solutions to climate change while some maintain that such a program is already going on.

Although the story recalling the foundation of Hewlett-Packard is an old one, nevertheless it shows us the influence of storytelling and, especially, the role of contagion in its dissemination.

Think of Ivory Coast and what comes to mind? The war? The one that ended 4 years ago? I would hope that what comes to mind is what the Financial Times reported recently, that Ivory Coast has been transformed “from the worst performer in Africa in 2011 to one of its fastest-growing economies today.” What…