Monday Morning Mojo

I love the beginning of the week! That’s why I started Monday Morning Mojo, to share the mojo I always feel when the week commences. It’s like the starting gate opening at the beginning of a race! What can be done this week? Go!!! In my book, Getting Change Right, I wrote that real momentum […]

When I first started helping CEOs take on big, complex change, I thought transformation was mostly about getting the strategy right. Clear vision, good plan, solid milestones. That’s what everyone teaches. But over the years, I learned something different. The real power in transformation isn’t in the spreadsheets or the decks. It’s in the people.

This week begins with real hardship for many. The government shutdown has rippled through communities, and for those relying on food assistance, the uncertainty is painful and unjust. It can be easy to feel powerless when large systems stall and ordinary people pay the price. But attitude is not denial. A great attitude is the

Took a walk in the woods near my home with Kaya, along a tributary that pours into the Potomac. It is surrounded by parkland, a hidden gem, a bit inland from the big river. Together we sat in the woods as the sun went down, on a hill overlooking the moving water. For me, there’s

The attached photo shows the ears of a seven-month-old Yorkie mix I just had the opportunity to spend a couple of days with. Those ears are HUGE! Also, there were four people whom I had not spent time face-to-face in about 45 years. This was a group of people that I spent a lot of

Fourteen years ago, we brought little 5-year-old Ruchi into our home all the way from New Delhi, India. Last night we celebrated her arrival as we do every year. Today, she is a sophomore in college studying environmental science. In the attached photo, she is surrounded by our two dogs, to whom she is mightily

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a powerful example of how shared rituals can strengthen communities and sustain cultural identity over centuries. Celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month (which is today, October 6, 2025, in the Gregorian calendar), this festival marks the moment when the moon is at its brightest, symbolizing wholeness and

Pequod’s Chicago deep dish pizza is famous for its caramelized cheese crust—an edge that gives structure, resilience, and contrast to the rich layers inside. My work functions the same way. I design frameworks that hold bold ambitions, giving shape to diverse contributions so they work together and complement each other in mutually reinforcing ways. Of

A 1.5-mile-long creek is located very close to our home. It is called the Minnehaha Branch. Every day when I walk the dogs, we go alongside its banks for a good long block. We have seen many animals come up out of the creek while we have been walking, including foxes, coyotes, dee,r and more.