At Costa Rica Congress for 20 year of Colegios Cientificos

With Francisco Antonio Pachecho, President of Congress in Costa Rica. 20 years ago as Minister of Education, he was in charge of launching the Colegios Cientificos. A parntership with the National Universities for 2-year magnet science high schools. Highly selective and rigorous and an innovative model for developing countries.

Daniel Senise opening at Pinacoteca, with artist and Princeton club

With Samuel, Wolff from ILRio and CDI founder Rodrigo Baggio, and NY board member Noah Goodnight, visiting a leading CDI school and listening first hand to Wanderson da Silva Scrock. He was a veteran of juvenile detention centers at the age of 17. He headed the financial operation of Comando Vermelho, one of Rio’s biggest drug gangs that controlled 13 different favelas in the city. In prison, he took a course at a CDI school and started training to be an instructor. Today, he teaches at this center, a 3 hours commute each way. In the process, he has discovered two new passions: information technology and the ability to inspire others to follow his example of successful reform.

OURO PRETO and surroudings

Visiting one of the most innovative and effective CDI schools

At Vik's opening for the restrospective at MAM Rio.

Niterói Contemporary Art Museum with my family.
Designed by Oscar Niemeyer with the assistance of structural engineer Bruno Contarini

John Nash, a friendly and gracious supporter of our Princeton week in Brazil.
As his biographer says: A one line letter of recommendation: "This man is a genius" introduced the twenty-year-old John Nash to Princeton's elite math department. A little more than a year later, Nash had written the twenty-seven-page thesis that would one day win him a Nobel prize.

Sao Paulo Prep Program dinner

carnaval

With Ana Gabriela at EZLearn.com.br office
A great space, and check out the new web 2.0
learning platform they launched. Here with
Rodrigo and Dhaval from CDI filming and ILRIO
video podcast.

Center for Public Leadership

Here is a videofrom the tribute to Warren Bennis at Harvard's Center for Public Leadership. I got the privilege and challenge to be invited to give a student perspective just before Tom Peter's keynote, in front of authors who had sold over 60 million books on the topic.  I tried to focus on the things that really make this place unique for me in 9 minuts starting around minute 13:30 

Here is a recent talk of Warren Bennis at CPL

Bill George on True North Leadership

Bill George's work on True North shows how anyone who follows their internal compass can become an authentic leader. This leadership tour de force is based on research and first-person interviews with 125 of today's top leaders—with some surprising results. Click here to see a video of Bill discussing true North in late October 2008 at Google, at a very interesting time since he is on the boards of such companies as Goldman Sachs.

Read more at http://www.truenorthleaders.com.

Ronald Heifetz: The nature of adaptive leadership

Click on this video in which Ron Heifetz explains why knowing the difference between adaptive and technical challenges is one of the key tasks of leadership.

Leadership from behind to promote the collective genius

An Interview with Linda A. Hill, Professor, Harvard Business School. We won't find new global leaders by looking in conventional places for people who act in conventional take-charge ways. Instead, look for people who can lead from behind to promote the collective genius of their teams

Fasano launch of the Rio Leadership Institute. Check out www.ilrio.com.br

Rodrigo Baggio from CDI (Committee for Democracy in Information Technology) at the launch of ILRio at Fasano Hotel. 

Click here for CNN's Principal Voices video on Rodrigo and CDI, which was chosen by CNN, Time, Fortune, and Shell as one of the world's top three Principal Voices in the field of Economic Development along with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Jeffrey Sachs, head of the UN's Millennium Development Goals

Check out www.cdi.org.br/ to learn more.

Launch of the Princeton in Brazil week with Arminio Fraga, Jeremy Adelman and the officers. Check out www.princetonclub.com.br

Endeavor Global Team

Endeavor Global headquarters in New York.  Lear more at www.endeavor.org