Research shows you can increase your success rate by up to 76% when you write your goals and your actions/commitments and communicate weekly progress on goals and actions. Thats a big number. 76%. That’s worth the time and effort to map out the year.

Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of “outliers”–the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

Richard Watson explores some of these forces in our current zeitgeist. What we are reading in various channels are trite regurgitated ideas about the future. They are reflections of our culture and our media rather than understanding the context in which our thinking, and therefore our relationship to the future, arises.