The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: seeking happy holidays
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Humor & comedy
This month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter focuses on four small gifts designed to lift your spirits for the holidays. It was written from my office in Nairobi, where I can see sun warmed banana, flame & mango trees. Regardless whether your view is similar or decidedly different, I’d like to wish you a peaceful holiday. Read the [...]
Tags: Christmas, holidays, rock.paper.scissors newsletter
Social Change for Christmas? How about an ad aimed at reducing terrorism.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness
Need a reason to celebrate this time of year? Want an extremely creative example of effecting social change? In a coming together of advertising & social responsibility, a Colombian ad agency won the grand prize at a prestigious London ad awards ceremony recently with their ad designed to reduce terrorism. The agency sent soldiers into [...]
Tags: Christmas, inspiration, simon houpt
Christmas in Brazil in March & the road most taken
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, Travel
I recently did a marathon. I drove 17 hours, from Rio Quente to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to present a cultural intelligence workshop at the United Nations World Urban Forum. When the impossibly white fat and fluffy clouds, which have floated in an endless sea of sky, have given way to an inky darkness great [...]
Tags: brazil, Christmas, learning, matt andersen, rio de janeiro, rio quente, stuart mclean, teenage, united nations, vinyl cafe, world urban forum
Perspective & the Problems of Privilege part 2
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Conflict resolution, Travel
Never doubt that there are spirits alternately laughing at and with you, supporting you, egging you on, helping you walk on eggs and sometimes throwing egg in your face. After my last post about feeling the angsty-post-Christmas blues I simply had to laugh at this over the top take on privilege in the form of [...]
Tags: bbq, blues, change management, Christmas, invitation, perspective, privilege, problems, uganda
Perspective & the Problems of Privilege
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication
The house is a mess. The kids have been watching too much TV. I’ve been eating too much Christmas chocolate. The effects of Christmas (a.k.a. gift wrap, decorations, gifts, extra food) are strewn around the house like land bound flotsam and jetsam. I’m feeling argumentative and frustrated and out of sorts. I’m feeling stressed because [...]
Tags: africa, calgon, Christmas, commercial, perspective, privilege, problems
Thanks for the gifts: grace under grit and reducing baggage
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under change management & wellness, communication, Travel
‘Tis the season to sweat about gifts. What to buy for who. Bumping elbows in sardine packed malls is the norm. For many, later today recycling bins will be overflowing with torn gift wrap. Piles of gifts will have been opened. Stuffed stomachs will vie for space on couches equally stuffed with visiting family [...]
Tags: baggage, change management, Christmas, Dolly Hopkins, Doug Ragan, Dr. Seuss, gifts, Marrakech, Oh the places you'll go