Last weekend I saw a sculpture of a man carving himself out of a block of stone in the Hindu temple, BAPS Shri Swaminarayan. The man wasn’t carving something separate, but bringing himself out of the stone with deliberation. It reminded me that we are not simply discovered. We create ourselves. In the language of […]
Recently read Reshuffle, by Sangeet Paul Choudary. Thx to CEO, Dale Cyr, who introduced me to it and worked together with me to apply it to his organization’s evolution. I highly recommend it to anyone thinking seriously about the future of work, leadership, and value creation in an AI-enabled world. What makes this book
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When I was a kid, my dad took me camping in all kinds of weather. Not just the sunny days, but the cold ones, the gray ones, the ones when rain poured on our tent and thunder rolled across the sky. Some of my best camping trips in the Adirondacks involved huge claps of thunder
AI is rapidly moving from curiosity to capability. I’m seeing more CEOs and boards realize that the real issue is not the technology. It’s their own clarity, understanding, and leadership. In my work with senior leaders across global organizations and professional societies, five capabilities separate those who use AI strategically from those who are simply
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Last weekend I was in San Diego. That’s me in the photo with the sunset behind me. Today I’m in Chicago, where I am spending three days with another great client Travel has been part of my work for decades, and I still feel the same spark every time I step out of my house
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We often look for leaders who prioritize output, speed, and pressure. However, in more than 30 years of working alongside senior leaders at the World Bank, Royal Dutch Shell, and over 100 associations, I have observed that those who generate the most lasting change are not the loudest or most forceful. Instead, they are the
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Last week in downtown Bethesda outside a coffee shop there was a horse tied up. Not a sculpture, but a real horse, reins slack, calmly standing while the weekday crowd streamed past with laptops and lattes in hand. In the middle of our efficient, well-scheduled, productivity-optimized world, this enormous, beautiful creature stood there, completely at
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A few years ago I started writing reviews on Yelp. Restaurants. Local spots. Experiences that mattered. Not because I had to. Because it was fun. Just recently, I was invited into Yelp Elite. This means I’ll get invites to tastings and meet other reviewers. Something unexpected happened. I began to enjoy the practice more deeply.
In this episode, I sit down with my longtime friend and collaborator Andrew Kutt, founder and Board Chair of Oneness-Family Montessori School in Chevy Chase, MD—a school that mattered deeply to my family during my kids’ early years. Andrew shares how his path from world literature and meditation to Montessori training led him to open
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Today, we honor the shared birthday legacy of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. They led in different centuries, through different storms. Yet they had striking qualities in common. Both carried immense responsibility without theatrics. Both endured criticism without surrendering to it. Both held a long view when others were trapped in the moment. Both understood
