Travel Reports

Travel Report: Bioenergy Therapy in Slovenia and a Visit to Poland, June 2011

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...

Travel Report: May 2011

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....

Travel Report, April 2011: Israel

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 ...

Travel Report - March 2011, Macedonia

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...

Travel Report: India, February 2011

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...

Travel report to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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...

Travel Report: Belgrade, Serbia

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...

Travel Report: Siberia and India

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, ...

Travel Report - Russia

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...

Travel Report: Shanghai, China

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...