Monday Morning Mojo

With so much change everywhere, you must step to the forefront to lead. Otherwise you recede into the background quickly. Even so leadership is not what it used to be. Leadership used to mean privileged knowledge, massive resources and the ability to set the pace. Today leadership is a willingness to live at the uncertain […]

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

“Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories.” So says Robert Epstein, a senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology in California, author of 15 books, and former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. In his great Aeon essay, The Empty Brain, he hammers the point home: “…we are

I am putting together the elements of visionary leadership to develop a course. I came up with six essentials. Take a look and then write to me with your improvements. 1. Master the Basics of Business Leadership – every maestro has dominion over these rudiments:     A. Your business model – How does it work?

How far can you see into the future? There are some things that we are relatively certain about. For example, there’s a very good chance the sun is going to come up tomorrow (or we are going to rotate around to where it is visible from our place on the planet). Just the same, there