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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Attending UCLA’s University-led Grand Challenge workshop Oct 5, 2017. See attached paper, What is a Grand Challenge?
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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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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
Here I lay out my 7-step approach to the core of association strategy and talk about how to use the basic building blocks to customize your strategy process.
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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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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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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
You can pretty much guarantee the business models you are using today will be defunct tomorrow. The extinction of your current business models will follow an S-curve, starting out with small declines before there is a precipitous drop. You want something else in place before that drop takes effect. If you would like me to
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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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