I have taken a four-day course how to do bioenergy therapy and followed it with three days of taking the therapy myself.Why did I do it? It was quite an investment for me to dedicate more than ten days to it and I am going back there to take step two training now.It started wi...

The month started in Auschwitz, Poland. On Monday, May 2nd, this year’s Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), I was at Auschwitz to watch my very good friend Branko Lustig (who won an Oscar in 1993 for co-producing Schindler’s List) celebrating his bar mitzvah.Branko is 78....

I am flying from Tel Aviv to Eilat, a resort city on the shores of the Red Sea.The line to board the plane is long; we must go through yet another security check. I am close to the end of the line. Next to me is a very Orthodox Jew. They are easy to identify, with their black ...

Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, looks terrific. Along the Vardar River, the government is building a three-story-high monument to Aleksander Macedon (Aleksander the Great); a museum to commemorate VMRO (Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization), its ruling party; anoth...

I am in India, at an ashram in the Himalayas where I will be meditating for a week. I arrived here by car from New Delhi. Because of the horrific traffic jams it was a twelve-hour ride punctuated by the endless honking of cars. But I had much to see and think about.Upon landin...

I was a keynote speaker at an International Academic Convention at the School of Economics and Business, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina where I received my fifteenth Honorary Doctorate. Prior recipients include the Prime Ministers of Turkey and Malaysia, as wel...

Serb culture is an interesting one.A Serb can be very romantic, sensitive, warm, and loving, but if you offend his pride, even slightly, in a heartbeat he can turn hostile, vulgar, offensive, and threatening.Here is an example: I was in a cab going from the airport to the hote...

Irkutsk, SiberiaIrkutsk is a small town by Russian standards: 585,000 inhabitants. Yet it is a major city for Siberia.Major companies headquartered in Moscow have their production facilities here: aircraft manufacturing, aluminum production, etc. The city of Irkustk, however, ...

While on a consulting assignment in Moscow, I found a commonality between large Russian corporations and large bureaucracies. It is a sense of disempowerment and low self-esteem. People do not think they can make change happen. There is a certain attitude of “tell us what to d...

I am in Shanghai to give a Master class to 200 Chinese CEOs. I have a day free and went out to explore.In one of my previous blogs, I was lamenting the loss of national cuisine because of globalization. I was upset with the Italian pasta - pizza menu’s colonization of local re...