Serendipity - the field, the emotions, the memories

On the flight back from Oman sitting next to Charles van der Haegen, I first learned about SERENDIPITY. A word that does not really exist in German language. Mostly "glücklicher Zufall" (lucky coincidence) is used and yet this diminishes the power of the concept the split second it reaches your audience.

Serendipity - unknown setting, known people, shaking emotions, upcoming memories

>>> MAGIC happens!

Let it allow to happen :)

Yesterday, once again for me, it happened here in Dresden during the reopening of the Army Museum redone by Daniel Libeskind. A short story Semperoper Ballett "On the Move" and ConfronTension Sparking to Think - and Act!

PS.: One question I do have to you - do you know of any good picture that frames Serendipity beautifully? Thank you so much.

When Flow of Thought is Cut - IMMEDIATELY! What to do?

Inspired by a recent post by Kurzweil AI I think by myself, "How true is that!" - Islandic volcano, snow everywhere in winter 2010/2011, earthquake and tsunami in Japan, flooding in Thailand, what's next?

• Have we as a species already adapted to the changing environment? 
• Do we still need to travel back and forth and why is that so?

>>> the following was written on Pegasus on 25th of December 2010:

Merry Xmas to all!

What seemed unnatural in spring now comes back in form of never ending snowing here in Saxony and Dresden.

At the moment it is Christmas time, on Monday work starts again.

The current events make us again aware that nature has a much tighter grip on our daily action than we might have thought in the past.

In which ways do we react?

Do we try to do the things we did in the past? Freeing streets running the goods and people as good as possible?

Or do we cocreate new solutions to the given situation outside and take the benefits it gives us in our hands?

Quite a few people will have the probably the chance to try new forms of work such as http://coworking.pbworks.com.

All a healthy time and moments to rethink!
Posted @ Saturday, December 25, 2010 4:08 AM by RalfLippold

Change takes Time - sometimes pretty long ;-)

Back in 2008, I had just left BMW to venture out as a team entrepreneur around the concept of CoWorking, the financial meltdown hit the world. Thinking that this would be the right time to stir up change across business, education, and institutions. Two years in time, things seem to be back to "normal" and yet everywhere around the globe sparks of change light up.

When do we see and experience the change in our community? 
What are the things that could be better than is right now? 

Reply by Ralf Lippold on December 26, 2008 at 6:18am

Hi ...,

Thanks a lot for sharing your case study and thoughts around it.

It makes me curious to get deeper into the field as I sense that in the current situation in business and society most people are either stuck or have to leave their community (such as an organization).

Looking forward to getting more understanding in how to start such initiatives.

Best regards

Ralf