Monday Morning Mojo

I have this garden in our front yard which I grow most years; it’s filled with cherry tomatoes and peppers. The cherry tomatoes are there so people walking by can help themselves: neighbors, the trash collectors, me – I encourage everyone to eat liberally from the tomatoe vines which are prolific. My pepper plants are […]

One of the great perks of my work is that I get to travel quite a bit to fun places. Currently I am in French Lick (one has to wonder if they would give it the same name today), Indiana, about 2 1/2 hours south of Indianapolis. On my way down I drove through Bloomington

My son, Gabe, and I took our big dog, Sita, and went into the wilds of Wisconsin where we were joined by our favorite river rat, Alamo James, and his wolf-like creature, Lilly. The five of us headed out onto the Wisconsin River under full moon light to begin a series of adventures in the

When you receive this I will be off the grid, on my annual sojourn with my son. Every August he and I take one of our dogs and head out for a week or so without any real plans. This year we are headed toward Michigan and Wisconsin, but time will tell where we actually

I have been lifting weights for years, but it was not until I got into Lou Schuler’s, New Rules of Lifting for Life, that I started developing the kind of core muscle strength I want to feel alive.  He operates with a set of unconventional rules that build muscle where it counts. I got better

A tuning fork is a device that emits a pure musical tone. A curious feature of a tuning fork is that it radiates waves at a specific frequency and those waves cause other objects to vibrate at the same frequency. So, if you strike a tuning fork that vibrates at 440 cycles per second, another

Strategy is one of those words that conjures up all kinds of confusion for many people. There are so many interpretations. I have found what I believe to be the most elegant and powerful framework and begun using it with my CEOs. It is in the book, Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works. It’s

When does a breakthrough occur? In that moment when something we thought was impossible becomes possible. So, a breakthrough is a shift in collective consciousness (see the word we above). Woah! What about the reality of the breakthrough, like when the four-minute mile was beat? Or the first time we got fiber optics to work

This morning I awaken in La Jolla, California, where I will be working at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It was founded in 1903 by members of the Scripps family and other community members as the Marine Biological Association of San Diego. In 1912 it joined the University of Southern California. The mission of Scripps

Any time I get to visit someplace close to the wild I spend some of my trip with Mother Nature. After running the Executive Leadership Council conference for the Associated General Contractors of America in Anchorage, Alaska, I was lucky enough to have an extra day and drove to Seward. The highway is one of