My father, Robert Sydney Kahan, passed away last week. I wrote about my last visit with him in True Stories Well Told.  The picture here is the two of us together on the first day of my life. His passing was not a shock, it had been coming for years. When I first heard I was all […]
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My good friend Sarah White helped me with my business bestsellers – she is an editor, writer and all-services-needed when it comes to books. She is also the creator and editor of True Stories Well Told, an online home for people who write and read about real life. I have been a fan of hers
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It’s important to choose personal and professional development opportunities so you can acquire new skills and improve your performance. It’s one of the reasons the Visionary Leadership Academy is so rewarding for everyone involved, including me! Invitation to join circle of association CFOs We will learn from each other, share best practices, explore the future
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My interest continues to turn towards those leaders who take on intractable problems for the greater public good, those who forever break the limiting hold these issues have on humanity. I am looking for visionaries who are breaking through the boundaries we find ourselves constrained by. I am particularly interested in those leaders who have
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From my daughter, Ruchi, with her permission. A homework assignment, to write a narrative that expresses your identity: In the hardest time of my life, when I almost died, my spirituality saved me. When I lived in New Delhi, India, at the Welfare Home for Children, I would hear the auntie/caretaker tell tales about gods
We know that if we use a device that measures waves to detect light, we find light to be a wave. And if we use a device that measures particles for the same task, we detect light to be made up of particles. So, we can see that the apparatus we use to detect has
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The S-curve is well known in innovation circles. “Jumping the curve” is what you do to keep your place and grow in your market.
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Life often has its moments when things are not easy. Unfair circumstances can prevail and knock us out of our orbit. Nature sometimes serves up an ordeal nobody expected or wanted. Or sometimes it’s just a confluence of small things that don’t work out the way we want and the overall impact takes us over.
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The 3 Horizon Table makes use of the three horizons discussed in The Alchemy of Growth by Baghai, Cole and White. It applies them to your business model, industry or profession, and customers.
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Last Thursday I attended UCLA’s University-Led Grand Challenge workshop. A grand experience! What is a grand challenge? A Grand Challenge is a big, bold, socially beneficial goal that addresses a systemic problem through collaboration and joint leadership. For a more detailed description, see my recent paper with Julie Jordan Avritt. In attendance were major educational
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