Two weeks ago I was in Los Angeles taking the Billions’ Institute‘s Skid Row School for Large-scale Change. It was a 3-day extravaganza, bringing together 30+ leaders representing about 20 organizations including the Sandy Hook Promise, the Carnegie Foundation, Big Picture Learning, and others. Our faculty presented several frameworks that helped us to understand how […]
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Visionary Leaders develop 3 core areas: Themselves They know that their entire being is their instrument. This includes their mind, heart, gut, hands, feelings, psychology, mind-state, acumen, everything. So, they make a point of cultivating their strength, resilience, and capacity in all area. Their work Visionaries love their content. They get deep into the weeds
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Jill Sweitzer Redell co-founded UCLA Grand Challenges with Michelle Popowitz. I interviewed her July 13, 2016, in Los Angeles. She shared how their Grand Challenge initiative was begun, the practical realities of both the Sustainable Los Angeles and the Depression Grand Challenges. Each is complex, requiring a multi-disciplinary approach. GrandChallenges.UCLA.edu Sustainable Los Angeles video: youtu.be/DITouRhKW80
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I am here in LA with my daughter, Ruchi, and wife, Laura. Laura took a class today in Hollywood on writing commerical music for television and movies. Mon-Wed I am in the Skid Row School for Large Scale Change, a class all about what it takes to have an initiative take off and go viral.
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Inside XPRIZE’s Collaboration Station Marcus Shingles talks about the rapidly approaching future, building the bridge to a world of abundance before humanity derails itself, the challenges of running a very unique organization and many of the trends CEOs can take advantage of today that are mature enough to leverage now.
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Do you want to be a superhero? You already are. What are your superpowers? They are many. The most important instrument you have, though, is your mindset. It is how you look at the world, the frame through which you wield your experience and acumen. Do you see the gap between where you are today
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Trust among the executive team is often an issue CEOS come to me to address. Here is some insight into how to develop the kind of rapport that creates synergies.
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Imagine you are looking dead ahead, out into the future and there is a single light beaming from your chest into the uncertain tomorrow. If you are like me that light is not made from a single purpose. I have multiple creative intents: family, health, visionary leaders I am supporting… they all call to me.
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Don Cole interviews Seth on innovation uptake, excerpted from a larger interview on Seth’s book, Getting Innovation Right.
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If you have ever had a goal that seems out of reach, beyond your ability, self transformation is the key to succeeding. Self transformation is the ability to intentionally provide yourself with experience that increases your abilities. It might be going to the gym regularly and long enough to feel your body change. It might
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