Monday Morning Mojo

My next book will be a handbook on Grand Challenges for leaders of all stripes. A Grand Challenge is a bold, socially beneficial goal that successfully addresses a systemic and embedded problem through collaboration and joint leadership. It generates new stakeholders and powerful resources for any organization—knowledge, work, support, enthusiasm, time, and money. Grand Challenges […]

Last Monday I flew to Silicon Valley where I spent 3 days with my good friend, Robbie Baxter. Robbie is a membership guru – she wrote The Membership Economy, which has been the #1 Amazon bestseller in 6 different categories! Robbie introduced me to a number of super smart colleagues in a great variety of

In the fall of 1990 I first met Furman Riley during a men’s retreat. I knew right away he was a wild, creative man: an artist.  I never dreamed he would become my best friend.  Furman was 58 and I was 30. The last 25 years have taken us on a journey that ended up

Last week I shared about my most recent father/son trip with Gabe. Here’s the map of where we went. We started in Seattle, headed over to the Cascades before doubling back to the northwest most corner, then driving through seashores, forests and mountains all the way to San Francisco. One of the great things about

My son, Gabe, and I hit the trail over the last two weeks for the Pacific NorthWest. It was our annual sojourn. I was conscious that next year will likely be his last summer at home before he is off to college. In that sense it was the trip of a lifetime. Of course, in

My son, Gabe, and I are in the Pacific Northwest for our annual father-son trip. We will drive down to San Francisco by the end of the week. We are visiting a couple of colleges on the way. Today we were in practically the most northwestern part of the continental United States. There we spent

To get in shape, you exercise regularly. To improve your diet, it’s almost every meal. Same for your brain. If you want to adjust your own attitude, improve your mental state or shift your consciousness, you do something every day: listen to new speakers, read different writers, let original artists into your life. Our minds

I attended the wedding of a close friend, Nathania, this weekend with my family. After the rehearsal dinner my son and I were on our way out. As we said good-night to the bride-to-be, she made the time to step away from her guests and speak to my son, Gabe, a rising senior, about what

Interplanetary travel could be a step closer after scientists confirmed that an electromagnetic propulsion drive, which is fast enough to get to the Moon in four hours, actually works. The FDA is approving 3D printed spinal implants. Last week OPM announced the first ever, and currently only, 3D printed polymer, load-bearing device for implantation received

We all know a little about what is going to happen tomorrow, don’t we? There’s the sun coming up for starters. And if you make a list of no-brainer certainties, it’s actually pretty long. Put them all together and it starts to lay out the near term pretty well. But, there’s no surprises in there.