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Market Place Live @ Wisaal

Sunday, April 16, saw the first collaboration between Wisaal and Integrated Learning Training Centre (ILTC), an innovative training brand headed by Mr. Muhammad Kabli that utilizes technological tools to provide practical, hands-on learning for clients. Under the direction of Dr. Husam Alshareef, ILTC, Wisaal and a group of different senior executives squared off in the Marketplace Live Business Simulation programme, an interactive exercise that replicates the day-to-day running of a business. The attendees – including myself – were divided into teams, briefed on the ‘sector’ we were entering, allocated virtual budgets, and let loose on one another. The outcome was fun, engaging, and holistically thought provoking. The four teams were forced to engage with every aspect of the fictional business, from its strategy and tactics, to its finances and marketing. As a creative, I was pleasantly surprised to find myself engaging with dimensions of business I had previously found intimidating. The programme lasted for a day, though depending on how in depth you want to go the option to attend longer versions is available. By the end of the evening the event had grown quite competitive (my team made an impressive rebound), and all participants had learned valuable lessons from the mistakes and solutions that were implemented across the four “quarters.” Stay tuned for a small video showing the three teams in action, accompanied by an in-depth quarter by quarter write up.

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Redefining Truth, Beauty, and Meaning

Articulating abstract ideas often results in a ‘broken-telephone’ effect whereby the intended meaning is warped at the end of its journey through the chain of transmission. If the vessels of communication operate on different frequencies, even concepts as seemingly universal as truth, beauty and meaning prove to be problematically amorphous.

 Consider this dilemma, of a fictional emperor, one who has just conquered territories mired by contradictions in values, unequal standards of living and opportunistic violence. The emperor stands on the marble ruins of his predecessor’s palace and watches as the sun sinks into a scarred landscape, casting the reflection of the sunset on the marble so that it shimmers in a concoction of pink and blood. The scene brings a grim smile to the emperor, who decides then and there to build a new world of truth, beauty and meaning. He summons his two most trusted generals and orders them to restore the war-warped world in accordance with his chosen principles. The problem is that one general is ruthlessly methodological, thinking only in decimals, and the other a technocrat, forever mechanically innovating. Consequently, his two generals set out to apply their own interpretations of truth beauty and meaning, and the ultimate result is very different from what the emperor had in mind. The world is certainly improved, but it lacks cohesion, with certain territories excelling in infrastructural development, but lacking in culture, and others standing out as vibrant trade hubs, but suffering vast discrepancies in wealth.

 The emperor recognizes his mistake, bringing in a master storyteller to help him redefine truth, beauty, and meaning for his generals. The essence of the message is pulled from the vaporous clouds of idealism and molded into something tangible. What that meaning is doesn’t matter, but the emperor succeeded. The Wisaal team doesn’t have an emperor, generals, or territory – it’s a family. But the Wisaal family has redefined truth, beauty and meaning… to offer holistic solutions for individuals, institutions, and the community. Truth: does the solution set something right? Beauty: is the solution elegant? Meaning: does it leave a legacy?

 What does truth, beauty, and meaning mean to you?

 - Faisal

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Sometimes you come across the opportunity to do something you've never done before and you have to take it!

When we were approached by Lansing world-fusion act WISAAL about putting together a show with them and their friends Karma Bellydance, we were intrigued. We've never hosted a world music show or a belly dancing group so we thought, why not?!

Tickets to the show are just $8 with no service fees so take a step out of what might be your comfort zone and check out something new! 

Still not sure what we're taking about? Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfiJz6j6SKY

Tickets and more information about the show can be found here: http://fusionshows.com/event/08-30-13/wisaal-loft-lansing-mi

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This is happening, August 30th at The Loft in Lansing!

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