The velocity of change alone, says Constantine Alexandrakis, CEO of Russell Reynolds Associates, is unlike anything he has seen in his nearly twenty years at the executive recruitment firm. "Our clients are moving at a frenetic pace," he says. "Every company is driving transformation to either meet the moment or take advantage of it." The issues aren't new-trade, geopolitics, technology-but the intensity and overlap are. "The convergence of all these forces has made transformation ubiquitous and urgent," Alexandrakis says.
Toward the end of Tahni Holt and Emma Lutz-Higgins' Time-Based Art Festival performance Horizon, something clicked. Eurythmics' "Love is a Stranger" swelled from the warehouse speakers at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art as Holt scooted across the stage, hidden beneath a hollow sculpture of a boulder. (Imagine a rock crawling across the ground in slow-motion.) She tugged at a metallic space blanket, revealing Lutz-Higgins curled beneath.
A Boston Leather District condo broker, hearing of a distant land with a single, magnificent pearl, left his prosperous real estate office and journeyed for years to find it. He endured hardship, faced dangers, and spent his fortune. Finally locating the fabled shore. There, to his dismay, he found the pearl was not an object, but the land itself-a place of peace and beauty discovered only by those who embraced true spiritual wealth through their faith.
Michael Jantzen's Interactive Transformation Table transforms traditional furniture norms by allowing users to engage and reshape its form, turning motion into an artistic experience.
Going through a divorce is undoubtedly transformative. It's not just about changing your legal connection with someone; it can mean shifting who you spend time with, where you live, and even what you own.
Refreshing a mission or strategy feels productive. It gives leadership the impression of progress without demanding real disruption. Revising words is easier than confronting entrenched behaviors, broken incentives or outdated processes.
The Brooklyn Marine Terminal, a 122-acre site, is presented as an opportunity for a decade-long transformation into a mixed-use development including affordable homes, parks, and a modern port.
At 54, the Grammy-winning DJ, music producer, and FEROSH Records label head finds herself at an unexpected high point precisely because she's come through valleys that nearly swallowed her whole.
In a sudden twist of fate, furries are cool again. Or maybe that's just the impression that airbrush painter Michael Gao gives off. Widely regarded as a bizarre kink, Michael has clearly taken it upon himself to open the controversial aesthetic beyond DeviantArt online kitsch to the public - with consideration for the importance of a 'fursona', a persona characterised by a highly customised anthropomorphic animal.
