[Photo: courtesy of IdeasLab] Twenty years ago, W. Brian Arthur popularized a concept that forever changed Silicon Valley—with a little help from Cormac McCarthy. W. Brian Arthur during an interview with IdeaLabs in 2012. RICK TETZELI 12.07.16 © Fast Company This summer marked the 20th anniversary of one of the Harvard Business Review’s most influential… Continue reading >>

Carl Jung put archetypes on the map of modern consciousness, although archetypes have been around since the time of Plato, who was inspired by ancient Babylon. Plato referred to pre-existing ideal templates as “forms.” It was believed that these eternal forms were reflected in material objects.     Most archetypes are psychological patterns derived from… Continue reading >>

Kaku-an’s manual of zen training  by Vásken Kalayjian There are many versions of this ancient Oriental allegory, some
dating as far back as the fourth century and perhaps earlier. This version, with 10 pictures, poems and introductory words attached to them, was composed in the 12th century as a training guide for Chinese Buddhist monks. It… Continue reading >>

  Take a look at all the big ideas that have had a huge impact on our lives in the last ten, twenty, thirty years. Consider the internet, the iPhone and all the Apple products, smart cars, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, social media. Think how much time people spend nowadays looking at their… Continue reading >>

A company’s brand promise sums up in a few memorable words what the company reliably delivers to its customers. Your brand promise should tell a believable story that makes sense to your customers, your collaborators, and your own teams. Given the potential key role of a brand promise in communicating to the world what the… Continue reading >>

As the Armenia Country branding process continues to gain momentum, our team has transitioned to one of the most challenging and exciting aspects of the project, which involves developing visual brand identity. I would like to emphasize the fact that in-depth research followed by a powerful well-thought-out strategic plan should always precede creative execution. Throughout… Continue reading >>

On October 10, 2015 GK Brand CEO Vaskén Kalayjian visited the Shanghai-based Ctrip Company, which was founded, by James Liang, Neil Shen, Min Fan, and Ji Qi in 1999. The purpose for the meetings was to learn about this successful online travel company and partner up with GK Brand tourism clients worldwide. Ctrip has grown… Continue reading >>

The spiritual wisdom imbedded in Lewis Carroll’s tale Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Part: II Remember the Mad Hatter’s tea-party, celebrating an ‘un-birthday’. An un-birthday is when nothing happens, but nothingness—that is, ‘no-thing-ness’—is everything! When we come to know the no-thing-ness of all reality, we can truly say we have come to know the Self—as one. And… Continue reading >>

The spiritual wisdom imbedded in Lewis Carroll’s tale Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Part: I ‘Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.’ – Sir Arthur Eddington.   I have watched Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland tens if not hundred times with my two daughter Lara and Sevan. As children… Continue reading >>

Watch the video: The World in 2050 Dr. Peter Diamandis, Co-Founder of Singularity University and Founder of the X-Prize (US), spoke in the plenary session on the second day of The Government Summit about how the world would be like in 2050, and the technologies and phenomena that would make it so. He shared insights on… Continue reading >>