Monday Morning Mojo

Dancing Like a Child

What makes your heart jump? Where do you turn for a jolt of fun? Consider it’s more than a lark. It’s a clue to your passion. And passion is truly what makes the world go ’round! In one of my first large-scale change initiatives at the World Bank, we quickly realized that passion would make […]

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Filling Up Your Tank

Nothing is certain, though we like to pretend it is so. There are some things we count on: the sun coming up tomorrow, our loved ones support, our own abilities. Yet, even these can sometimes feel in flux and when they do, it rocks our world. So, where do we turn for support? You never

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Mindful Focus

Mindful meditation and the practice of mindfulness: bringing the attention back over and over to the same thought, image or sensation as a way of practicing one-pointed attentiveness. Through rigorous research, the benefits of mindfulness are significant on multiple fronts. From physical and mental pain management to resilience, which is our ability to bounce back

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Ecotones

I did a presentation for the Landscape Architecture Foundation (http://lafoundation.org/) on Friday morning. Think of landscape architecture as any human designed aspect of our environment, from parks that are designed to stimulate children and create community to water flow around constructions engineered for optimized ecological impact. There is so much that landscape architects contribute to

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Harnessing Adversity

Being a part of my Visionary CEO Community is a team of thinkers all aspiring towards growth and success. As the leader of the community, I facilitate thinktank-like environments designed to push the CEOs forward to greater heights—personally, professionally, organizationally, whatever they need to excel. As the process begins, I ask the CEOs to arrive

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Going Home

Saturday I arrived in Austin, Texas, to speak at the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives annual CEO meeting this very Monday morning. I am very glad to be at this gathering. I admire the CEOs of the scientific and engineering societies so much. I know many of them personally and they are wonderful, dedicated,

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The World of News

I sometimes find myself entranced with the news, cruising the major media outlets early in the day as well as late at night, looking for a good story, hoping for a breakthrough. It’s like the news occupied the inside of my head!  So, I decided I would take things into my own hands. I would

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The Way of the Artist

Talking with my daughter, Ruchi, last night about her Bollywood dancing experience. One of her dreams was to be a Bollywood star. But, when you dig that into what that means tonight, she tells me, she is having trouble in her dance class. So much so that after a couple of years of real joy

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Visionary Leadership

Deal with What Holds You Back

In my work with leaders on architecting and achieving big, bold goals there are two things that stand in the way of the biggest and the boldest achieving their outrageous targets: dramatic revenue generation and transformational senior leaders. In this MondayMorning Mojo, I want to show how this translates into personal excellence and makes visible

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