Leaving Pakistan, she smiled back at the no-nonsense woman at the security checkpoint who waved her through, “Mashallah, your outfit is beautiful, sister!”, she exclaimed. “I hope you come back soon.” She thought how 10 years ago, she didn’t...
We are all on the move. The Earth orbits the sun, spins around on its own axis. The wind blows, trees waver in its breeze; waves rise and fall, seawater evaporates into the clouds, and drops back down in...
Stepping off a Nanjing Metro train that has come into Nanjing South Railway Station from Lukou International Airport, there is immediately noticeable the several individuals who sprint the 15 metres or so across the platform to board an awaiting...
Let me set the scene…
让我来设置场景......
I’m sitting outside Nanjing Railway Station on a slightly chilly November morning sipping on my Americano; too hot and bitter but I need it at this time of morning; and munching down my morning “baozi”....
The porter opened the caravanserai gates reluctantly. The rider was unusual.
Caravans rode on a relay. They loaded priceless porcelains and sensuous silks in crates, onto the humps of Bactrian camels, rode west for days or weeks to the nearest...
Credo in unam sanctam et pathologicam ecclesiam
The church was coming along nicely, we all thought it was. The town of Ferington had its own opinions but we always let it. It were never our business to judge no one's...
We typically associate the concept of teamwork as a human act since cooperative behaviour is one of the hardwired characteristics that feeds in to human nature as a whole.
我们通常将团队合作的概念与人类行为联系起来，因为合作行为是整个人性中滋养的固有特征之一。
Yet, another way to look at this collaborative notion is through...
"There’s no ‘I’ in the word team."
“团队这个词里没有'我'。”
How many times has this old chestnut been trotted out by educators and coaches worldwide to inspire and entice reluctant collaborators? Too many, probably. Definitely so many that one definitive rejoinder is now...
