Monday Morning Mojo

After I leased my first BMW I decided I wanted to find a way to improve my driving, but not the basics. This was about 7 years ago so I was around fifty. Just after I got my car I received a post card asking if I would like to test drive a BMW against […]

I love some of the methodologies out there for achieving organizational goals, and I enjoy reading when an author has a different angle on the best ways to set and pursue them. I also love personal goal setting and at any one time I have a set of my own that I am working on.

In the photo you see some of the current participants in my Visionary Leadership Academy standing in front of the Albert Einstein memorial in downtown DC. Last week we went on a sojourn to visit Albert along with Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr – all visionaries ahead of their time. We

In my experience over 90% of resistance to change can be diffused by listening and framing the change in ways resisters can understand and support. See what I mean in this 2-minute video: VisionaryTalk.com Professional Development Opportunities Visionary Leadership Academy still Open This year-long class for senior execs is now full, but I could squeeze one

In the attached picture my faithful Sita is helping me clean my office even though she can’t discern when it’s a mess and when it’s not. As long as we are together she is good… and so am I! So much of family and friendship is simply being close to each other. Of course it

I had a vision the other night. No kidding. It was odd because I wasn’t enjoying life when it happened and I didn’t realize the vision was important until the next day. Here’s what happened: I awoke at 4:30am. Sometimes that happens to me – I wake up really early and cannot go back to

Ever since my son, Gabe, was a little boy he has loved music of all kinds, from Stravinsky to the Beatles, from Dylan to Flight of the Conchords. Living with him meant living by a soundtrack. So much so that he often provided the music that served as the background on parties, car trips and

My son, Gabe, is off for a month now  at his new college, Bennington in Vermont. He loves being out of the house, on his own, in charge of his time and curriculum. When we dropped him off in August, it felt like he was crossing a threshold, going off to meet the world without

I have the joy of watching my daughter, Ruchi, adapt to America. She came here from India when she was eight and today, five years later, she is both Indian and American. Finding your place in the world is not about denying your roots any more than it is about switching to a new place.