Seth Kahan

What is a Grand Challenge?

Download this excerpt from my forthcoming book, Grand Challenge, How Leaders Turn the World’s Biggest Challenges into Extraordinary Opportunities. The term grand challenge has dual meanings; it can be used to refer to an intractable, systemic social problem, as well as to any bold, multidisciplinary, systems-oriented initiative developed to tackle such a large-scale concern. Einstein

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Adoption

Sunday was our 6th year anniversary of adopting our daughter, Ruchi. Before she was in our family she spent some time living on the street in New Delhi followed by two years in an orphanage. Ruchi is a survivor. Today she is in school, doing very well and enjoys using multiple devices simultaneously while she

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Collecting Poetry

Poems move the human spirit, else why do they exist? Like music, they escape the rational brain and call to our deeper nature. Whenever I hear a poem that speaks to me, I capture it so I can pull it out later on some night when I feel dismal and uninspired. I do this by

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How to Build Tomorrow’s Business Model Today

The “how” of building new business models includes these activities and more:  regular meetings with your senior team to discuss what everyone sees in the marketplace from a strategic perspective  identifying opportunities and challenges your customers (members and partners) are bringing to you innovations in the market doing feasibilities studies building a Minimal Viable Product

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Soul Sustenance

1990 the first Buffalo Gap men’s retreat took place and I was not there. Had not even heard of it. But sometime over the next 12 months I found out about this extraordinary group of guys and jumped aboard. Every fall since then I have participated with the exception of the year I was in

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Mission to Thrive

When I was a little tyke my parents did not practice a religion. My dad is a non-religious Jew and my mother came from a family with many forms of Christianity in their background. I guess that intersection and their personalities didn’t generate any kind of ritual structure or faith community. So, when I was

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