My son, Gabe, and I are preparing for our annual father-son trip. This year, we will be in the American southwest. You can see our planned route above, starting in Phoenix, Arizona, and ending up in San Francisco, California. Along the way we will be visiting Canyon de Chelly, still being farmed by Native Americans […]
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Reporting from the Grand Canyon, here are two tools I use in the Visionary Leadership Academy (VLA): (1) the 3 Circles of Self-balance, and (2) the the 3 Circles of Visionary Leadership.
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My son and I visited the V Bar V petroglyphs outside Sedona, Arizona, Saturday. The rock walls contained over 1,000 of these ancient pictures, many on top of each other. We were greeted by a guide who used the contraption shown in the image above to explain to us how a handful of the pictures
General Stanley McChrystal’s book, Team of Teams, remains one of the best books on how to transform your organization so it shifts the focus from efficiency (which remains important but not primary) to adapting to complexity and continuous change. Stories are riveting. Lessons are clearly detailed. Addresses issues that include communication, trust, moving from silos
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Discussing “marquee customers” with Bill Lee, who runs the Center for Customer Engagement, and puts on the annual Summit on Customer Engagement.
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My daughter Ruchi celebrated her fifth grade promotion this week. When I was in fifth grade we didn’t have a “promotion.” It’s like a graduation, preparing the youngsters for sixth grade. For one evening, Ruchi dressed up and put on a special dress. She was all smiles. Not the norm for a 14-year-old! I ran
The 3 elements of visionary leadership: self-transformation, strategic foresight, and leading change.
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My son, Gabe, and I are preparing for our annual father-son trip. This year, we will be in the American southwest. You can see our planned route above, starting in Phoenix, Arizona, and ending up in San Francisco, California. Along the way we will be visiting Canyon de Chelly, still being farmed by Native Americans
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Your body is your primary tool for receiving information from your environment and for communicating. Take the time to build and develop peak physique for maximum leadership effectiveness.
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We all have times in our lives when we are called to do something we never would have chosen, some great turning or milestone that comes to us as a fact of life, like the passing of a loved one or an abrupt end to a job, or some other trial that throws us so
