Sustainable Development

Imagine a place where every day

the air is cleaner

the water is purer

the people are healthier

life is more abundant

and we are enriched by the culture

we see ourselves on a journey

seeking to learn

working with partners

sharing our learning through dialogue

and growing the place we all imagine

Our goal is to become an international model for how a development can enrich an existing landscape and community while remaining economically viable. Our vision is an integrated stewardship process of conservation, protection, enhancement, and regeneration that balances the social, economic and environmental needs of the community.

Our vision is driven by our belief in the future. This blog started with a question: How can we make human settlement positive for the environment.

What should google do?

If you were Google and you wanted to compound the greatness, what would you do? That was my question. Notice I didn’t ask what they should do to make more money or have more impact or just make the contributor’s life better.

I think Google is terrific, I use it a hundred times a day, but it’s very, very transparent. That, of course, is part of its appeal. Google doesn’t have a point of view or much of an experience. You tell it what you want and –boom- it disappears and replaces itself with what you asked for.

That’s a great experience, but it’s not the foundation for a great business. Being transparent in a world where there’s no real long-term barrier to entry is a risky business. If someone else introduced a quantum leap in search, something with a great value proposition, sexy interface and clever name, there’s nothing at all Google could do to keep people from walking out. There’s no switching cost.

I want to talk about how to make Google permanent and powerful and profitable and useful, all at the same time. Start with the fact that Google has no permission to talk to me. At all. They don’t even know who I am.

So, if Google asks me if they can watch what I search for and email me every three weeks if they find something I might like, I’d say yes. So would 50 million other people.

Now, Google has the ability to find things on behalf of its audience. It could go to Whirpool and say, “We have three million people who searched for ‘energy efficient refrigerator’ last week. If you give us a 5% rebate coupon, we’ll email it to them.”

Notice that this power-inverting relationship only works if Google realizes that they’re working for the user, not the advertiser. If they pit advertisers against each other to get the very best deal on behalf of me and other users, I’m all for it.

Lets face the music & Dance

i'll dance
i'll dance for luv
i'll dance for pain
i'll dance hoping theres still luv2gain
i'll dance for them
i'll dance for me
i'll dance just to let the emotion see
i'll dance in rain
i'll dance in shine
i'll dance hoping u'll be mine

i'll dance
then i'll ask dance with me
dont go just stay
we'll dance on this day
then you'll leave
i'll dance and
i'll still believe
i'll dance for luv
i'lldance for pain
i'll dance hoping theres still luv 2gain

Do things right, not just the right things!

You can Start to do things right rather than do
the right things.

There is a difference.

Doing the right things means planning a desired
outcome for each action or initiative.

Doing things right means to stretch and do your
best and leave the results to turn out the way they will.

So you should remember to do things right rather
than only the right things. And while doing so,remember that

character is at
least as important as competence.

The world has enough competent people, but not
quite enough of personalities with character.

Success is about Direction more than the Distance"

The question to ask is whether it is the aim of a career
to go far or in the right direction. Ideally, of course, you should achieve both, but that is not easy. If you aim in the right direction, the best possible distance will come automatically.
That is a simple truth. A good question to ponder about is
when you die, who will come to your funeral?
When a loved man dies, lots of people come for his funeral out of choice. When a rich or powerful man dies, lot of people may come, but for the reason that they want to be seen to
have been there.