GIGO - Genius In, Genius Out. When it comes to organizing group action, a common structure not only prevents mistakes, it allows people to tap into one another’s potential. The more intention and care each person on the team puts into storing their knowledge in a way that can be shared, the more synergy that team can demonstrate. It seems simple, but virtually no one practices it, mostly because it is just too difficult.

As an entrepenuer and businessperson, I can’t afford not to tap the powe of my team, or expose myself to the mistakes that come when the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. So, I use collaborative systems to build shared reality about what my companies are up to. For example, I spent the last 2 weeks installing, learning, and customizing a salesforce.com implementation that cost about $4500. It is an investment I am happy to make - to leverage the power of my team.

However, if you don’t want to invest that, I might recommend a new service called Highrise. Highrise gives me much of the functionality I will use in salesforce for a slightly smaller sum! - It’s Free! I like it so much I want to plug it here.

The interface is clean and intuitive. I look forward to using it with

my finance - so we can make sure that we are working as a team, both leading up to the wedding and beyond!
other groups I take part in that are working to create a positive difference in the world.

We need to organize our resources and use each other’s action to inspire, motivate, and hold one another accountable. Highrise offers us a simple and powerful way to do that.

If you want to leverage the power of your teams, check out Highrise.

Mark Michael Lewis
http://MarkMichaelLewis.com

The Fountain Of Youth: a promise of immortality.  What was once myth might soon become a medical reality.  Although there are many obstacles in the path, our pace has begun to quicken radically as we step into the 21st century. 

For a sobering yet inspiring introduction to the modern science of life extension, check out this presentation of Aubrey De Grey.  called “Rethinking the Future of Humanity”

As crazy as it sounds, researchers keep taking major steps forward on the path to human immortality, as the article below demonstrates.

Genetic pathway critical to disease, aging found

“The discovery of a gene expression pathway and specific enzymes that exert broad influence on the process of oxidative stress has clear clinical relevance, Anderson says, because it could potentially be manipulated to mitigate the damage oxygen does to cells…Oxidation can damage DNA, mitochondria, cell membranes, and other mechanisms and structures essential to the cell. Such damage underpins disease, including in the parts of the body — the heart, the lungs and the brain — that are heavy users of oxygen.

“We’ll be able to get at this new machinery and, hopefully, manipulate it,” says Marvin Wickens, a UW-Madison biochemist who was not involved in the study. New drugs that modulate the enzyme and control its activity could potentially blunt the stress that leads to disease.”

Again, we live in interesting times, and our ability to adapt to these changes is a function of our financial, mental/emotional, and spiritual vitality.  Money, Mission, and Meaning come from a mind, heart, and soul clear about its value and inspired to turn our world into a work of art.  May each new possibility trigger that inspiration and focus your attention on living your Life By Design.

Surfing the Future Shock Wave

Aubrey De Grey suggests that when we can extend human life for 30 years or so, that will give us another 30 years to figure out how to extend it another 30 years.  With the exponential increase in technology, it might just be that those born in the 21st century live to see the 25th…

Finnish patient gets new jaw from own stem cells

Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient’s upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.

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