Monday Morning Mojo

Yesterday morning I found myself in a tizzie. Several things I care deeply about did not go in the direction I was hoping for. And before you know it my heart rate was up, my mind was spinning, and I couldn’t get through a normal conversation, let alone an important one.  That’s when my wonderful […]

I am fascinated by forecasting the future. Everyone wants to have their very own crystal ball! I am writing a book right now of simple techniques businesses large and small can use to develop their strategic foresight.  But, let’s turn to how you can win in the week ahead. If you could see the week

My father, Robert Sydney Kahan, passed away last week. I wrote about my last visit with him in True Stories Well Told.  The picture here is the two of us together on the first day of my life. His passing was not a shock, it had been coming for years. When I first heard I was all

My good friend Sarah White helped me with my business bestsellers – she is an editor, writer and all-services-needed when it comes to books. She is also the creator and editor of True Stories Well Told, an online home for people who write and read about real life. I have been a fan of hers

My interest continues to turn towards those leaders who take on intractable problems for the greater public good, those who forever break the limiting hold these issues have on humanity. I am looking for visionaries who are breaking through the boundaries we find ourselves constrained by. I am particularly interested in those leaders who have

From my daughter, Ruchi, with her permission. A homework assignment, to write a narrative that expresses your identity: In the hardest time of my life, when I almost died, my spirituality saved me. When I lived in New Delhi, India, at the Welfare Home for Children, I would hear the auntie/caretaker tell tales about gods

We know that if we use a device that measures waves to detect light, we find light to be a wave. And if we use a device that measures particles for the same task, we detect light to be made up of particles. So, we can see that the apparatus we use to detect has

Life often has its moments when things are not easy. Unfair circumstances can prevail and knock us out of our orbit. Nature sometimes serves up an ordeal nobody expected or wanted. Or sometimes it’s just a confluence of small things that don’t work out the way we want and the overall impact takes us over.

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

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