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What if We Invite the End in the Beginning?

An exploration of how to say goodbye, starting on the first day By Esther Blázquez Blanco and Shannon Mullen O’Keefe If a man loves life, and feels the sacredness and mystery of life, then he knows that life is full of strange and subtle and even conflicting imperatives. And a…

Workplace

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What if We Invite the End in the Beginning?
What if We Invite the End in the Beginning?
Workplace

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The World Needs a More Creative Public Service: Here’s 5 Ways to Make That Happen

By Rahul Chandran and Shannon Mullen O’Keefe The headlines are alarming: war, pandemics, climate-change, and recession. We need to feed billions and preserve biodiversity; become carbon-neutral and enable a just transition. Of course, the constant is change. It just seems to be getting faster, and harder to keep up. Our…

Culture

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The World Needs a More Creative Public Service: Here’s 5 Ways to Make That Happen
The World Needs a More Creative Public Service: Here’s 5 Ways to Make That Happen
Culture

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How Might Spirituality Shape the Metaverse?

Shannon Mullen O’Keefe talks spirituality in the Metaverse with author J.F. Alexander — Shannon Mullen O’Keefe is Chief Curator of the Museum of Ideas and a commentator on leadership and current trends in technology and business. Jim F. Alexander is a Silicon Valley-based lawyer, a lay Episcopal theologian, and author of the spiritual adventure novel I Am Sophia. Shannon Mullen O’Keefe (SMO): Jim…

Metaverse

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How Might Spirituality Shape the Metaverse?
How Might Spirituality Shape the Metaverse?
Metaverse

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Feb 23

Coolabilities: A Revolution in How We Think about Human Value

Our opportunity to acknowledge what’s been obvious for a long time: we’re all above average– (just not at the same thing) By Cyndi Coon & Shannon Mullen O’Keefe “This is the time,” The Chief Elder began, looking directly at them, “when we acknowledge your differences……….Today we honor your differences.”¹ …

Future

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Coolabilities: A Revolution in How We Think about Human Value
Coolabilities: A Revolution in How We Think about Human Value
Future

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Aug 16, 2022

What If Beautiful Spaces Draw Us Back Together?

A brief exploration of our opportunity to invest in place — By Shannon Mullen O’Keefe These days most of us embrace our devices. We cradle them in our hands. We carry them in our bags. We gaze into their blue lights lovingly. As one artist points out, we are “absorbed by [their] light.” Movies even predict we’ll fall in love with…

Leadership

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What If Beautiful Spaces Draw Us Back Together?
What If Beautiful Spaces Draw Us Back Together?
Leadership

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Feb 11, 2022

What If Care Starts With Heart At Home for Medically Complex Children?

An exploration of a core value shift that might underpin a more compassionate healthcare experience for the future. — By Kelli Mullen Brown and Shannon Mullen O’Keefe What is at the heart of health care? Life. Or put another way, keeping us alive. Children, perhaps, are those we pursue life for with the most determination. Fueled by parents’ love and physician researchers’ willingness to innovate, children with life-limiting conditions…

Values

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What If Care Starts With Heart At Home for Medically Complex Children?
What If Care Starts With Heart At Home for Medically Complex Children?
Values

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Published in Journal of Beautiful Business

·Jan 24, 2022

What If We Made Things to Outlive Us?

Exploring our opportunity to rethink what we make and buy — By Greg Sherwin and Shannon Mullen O’Keefe Remember how we have two hands? This seems like a pretty basic question until you realize that something so obvious might become the basis for an ad campaign. An ad campaign for what? A right hand ring, of course. If the left hand…

Greg Sherwin

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What If We Made Things to Outlive Us?
What If We Made Things to Outlive Us?
Greg Sherwin

11 min read


Nov 24, 2021

What If It’s Time to Rethink How We Value Our Lives?

Are we human beings or human doings? A reassessment of our values as they relate to life and work. — By Zoë Lintzeris and Shannon Mullen O’Keefe What if we’re the last generation valued for our skill sets and personalities as they relate to career ladders, money, and time for hire? There may be other ways — new and better ways — to regard our lives and the lives of…

Culture

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What If It’s Time to Rethink How We Value Our Lives?
What If It’s Time to Rethink How We Value Our Lives?
Culture

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Published in OneZero

·Aug 5, 2021

What If Your Banana Could Talk?

The future of food is truly free and truly fair — By Tiffany Tsui & Shannon Mullen O’Keefe Imagine this. You drop by the supermarket and decide to pick up a bunch of bananas. (On an app for choosing bananas the greenish ones are your type.) You decide on just the right bunch and reach in to pick it up and…

Digital Transformation

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What If Your Banana Could Talk?
What If Your Banana Could Talk?
Digital Transformation

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Jul 29, 2021

What Did The Rabbit Say?

An animal offers us beauty in the quiet art of their presence — “What does the fox say?” Remember that song? “Dog goes ‘woof’… bird goes ‘tweet’. . .fish go ‘blub’ … and the seal goes ‘ow ow ow.’ But, there’s one sound that no one knows. . . ‘What does the fox say?’” The song is funny because we don’t know what…

Love

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What Did The Rabbit Say?
What Did The Rabbit Say?
Love

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Shannon Mullen O'Keefe

Shannon Mullen O'Keefe

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A lover of wisdom, dedicated to imagining what we can build and achieve together. Founder & Chief Curator |The Museum of Ideas https://www.themuseumofideas.com/

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