Several articles crossed my desk today about the impact of women in agriculture and women in Africa, so I decided to do a post about women effecting positive change. We tend to think of such women as exceptional. I’d like to believe there is an ar…
I’ve just started curating a new collection of examples of inspiring leadership related to making agriculture and our food production system more sustainable. There’s not place for dogma here — I’m agnostic about the technologies or techniques be…
Some people say that social media are changing the way we communicate. Others — and I am one of them — say that social media aren’t changing how we communicate; technology now simply allows large-scale communication over great distances that mir…
One of the most important changes affecting agriculture today is the growing influence of systems thinking. 20th century innovations were highly successful in feeding a booming population, but were conceived in a linear, piecemeal fashion, which c…
Agriculture generally suffers from an image problem. It is seen as an outdated, conservative and unprofitable profession that has trouble attracting young people. Urban populations point a finger at agriculture as a source of pollution. The truth …
When I was a little girl, I used to say that if I married a man whose name was easier to spell than mine, I would take his; if his name was harder to spell, I’d keep my maiden name. My view has changed, in part due to technological changes that ha…
One of my favorite events of the year is the ceremony for the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards and International Fellowships. This program and the event itself celebrate exciting new scientific developments made by inspiring women, who a…
Photo: istock (Update: In paragraph 2, it was Véronique Perret, not Isabelle Huault, who cited the example of a geological map. They co-teach a course in epistemology in my Executive Doctor of Business Administration course.) Maps are such familia…
If you visit the website of the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel Nashville, you have the impression that it’s a nice upscale business hotel but interchangeable with numerous other hotels you may have seen in other cities. However, it only takes a few minute…
The title of this post might seem blindingly obvious, but apparently it isn’t. Last week, at an IABC France event on adapting global communications campaigns to local markets, a speaker talked about the need to adapt taglines (and other branding e…
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