I help leaders to make their firms or agencies stronger by leveraging disruptive technology ahead of their competitors. I work extensively with enterprise social networking (& Web 2.0) strategy and execution. My two main paths to market are the Social Network Roadmap and the Executive's Guide to Web 2.0.
I also write an online journal for CEOs, CMOs and CIOs.
Confounded Bly!
He as a mystic weaves,
draws yarn from the old basket
as a curl of smudge, a note of pipe,
threading me with this, then that.
Now he inserts me between,
skips one, betwixt some others,
then points anew, his wizened fingers
let me create the pattern
I feel but cannot see.
Confounded Bly!
He makes no sense, denies
sight and reason,
broadcasting loud but crackly,
forcing me to feel
the music, imagine the form
with timeless soul. And
I can’t stop, even
at the end, because these
notes ancient yet forever be.
Truth can always stand scrutiny.
Ideas cannot
when they are,
as so oft,
beguiling impostors.
There is something magic,
In dead of night,
A storm raging,
Winds so strong,
Howling, unrelenting,
They slam droplets of
I know not what
Against glass,
They push frigid through
Sealed windows,
Chilling all over.
I am inside,
Laughing.
Squirrels are thoughts,
they swirl and twirl
in the treetops.
Brandishing tails,
they are measuring,
considering
and jumping
The dendrites.
Some of the speakers were classic entertainers and joke tellers. Imagine a pinstriped, gray haired conservative-with-a-twinkle gentleman, who tells this one.
…
Christian parents of a college age daughter were delighted when she wrote from college and said that she had found the love of her life. He was a divinity school student, and she asked whether she could bring him home for Thanksgiving holidays. Mom and Dad said “yes” enthusiastically.
The first night, after they had had a very agreeable dinner together, the father invited the potential son in law to his study, where they sat down.
Father: “So, you love my daughter?”
Son-in-law hopeful: “Oh, yes, sir!”
Father: “Well, how do you plan to provide for her?”
Son-in-law hopeful: ”Well, I’m doing well in my studies and am sure I’ll get a position in a good parish.”
Father: “What if you don’t pass your degree, how will you provide for her?”
Son-in-law hopeful: ”Do not worry, God will provide.”
Father: “Okay, but if you pass your degree, what if no parish wants you, how will you provide for her?”
Son-in-law hopeful: ”Do not worry, God will provide.”
Father: “Okay, but if a parish takes you but doesn’t like you and removes you, how will you provide for her?”
Son-in-law hopeful: ”My goodness, you really need not worry, God will provide.”
Father: “Okay, son.”
… later than night…
Mother: “Well, how did it go?”
Father: “Well, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is, he’s a fine, upstanding young man. The bad news is, he thinks I’m God.”
