Happy Holidays and let me wish you a healthy, safe and more sustainable 2007!

I hope you’ll make The Onyx Project part of your holiday experience. As noted in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and a variety of websites and blogs, viewers of The Onyx Project get to see a compelling and tragic accounting by an honorable military officer (Academy Award-Nominee David Strathairn) of the consequences of our current policy regarding Afghanistan, Iraq and terrorism -- as well as the chance to imagine and dream of other stories – from entertainment to education, from documentary to social networking – that might get told through this fundamentally new form and medium.

Here’s a brief clip from The Onyx Project:

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In other update news, go to Slate to read my proposal for helping to solve one of Americas most pressing challenges: how to provide non-profits access to the capital needed to continue solving our most pressing problems.

I continue to find the Bush Administration a treasure trove of illustration of what NOT to do in practicing important lessons of leadership, performance and change. For more, see these posts for how to trap ones self in permanent weakness (Oct 22), how essential it is to be both grounded and clear if you are to effectively communicate (Nov 9), and the role of honesty in effective problem solving (Nov 26).

Our societys ongoing struggle to rejoin our legitimate concern for value (money, profit, wealth and winning) with our equally legitimate concern for values (social, political, family, spiritual, environmental and so on) are the subject of updates on October 1st, November 11th and November 25th. I also encourage you to download and read What Do We Really Stand For as well as to read On Value and Values: Thinking Differently About We In An Age Of Me.

Doug Smith
www.douglaskmith.com

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