Monday Morning Mojo

At the beginning of every week there is an opportunity to set goals for the days ahead and the chance to raise the bar on your own performance. Want to put a spring in your step, a twinkle in your eye? Then, pick an area to focus on that means something to you. Here are

Here are three activities that always yield benefits when it comes to staying ahead of the game: 1. Deepen your understanding of current circumstances. Investigate influential events – determine what is having impact on your situation and bring diligence, curiosity, and passion to apprehending the whole and unpacking the details. 2. Identify emerging trends and

Every day this year I am going to give $10 to a different cause, using the GlobalGiving.org website. It’s a self-led journey of transformation I dreamed up while spending the weekend in NYC with my son.  I started yesterday. These are the two projects I have donated to so far: 1. 1,000 seedlings for the

A good friend once suggested that I take my problems to the oldest teacher alive: nature. He told me to frame my most pressing question, articulate it by writing it down or speaking it aloud, and then go for a walk in the wilderness with the question in my heart. I tried it out and

Creative deviants are people who come up with inventive ways to circumvent the norm. In my work it is not unusual to find people operating outside the system to get things done. Often these folks have hit upon something important, worth paying attention to.  I recall my early days at the World Bank when we

Leaders require a customized approach to self-care. Their capacity and ability has immediate and profound consequences for the quality of leadership they provide. If you are a leader, your job is unique. In contrast to those carrying out predefined work, you put your efforts into shifting the status quo, arousing and inspiring peers, igniting collective

Last October I decided to learn more the future of association leadership. Why? Because associations provide a microcosm of the US economy. If you group together all of the professional societies, which bring together experts in a specific area of expertise, and all the trade associations, which unite business owners involved in common commerce, you

Doug Culkin, CEO of the National Apartment Association, developed an innovative idea he called, Grow the Show. The NAA is making an open offer to marketing firms, promotion experts, anyone who wants to give it a try. Just take the 2013 attendance number and double it for the 2015 event, and you will win a

Life is chock full of examples of people who did extraordinary things with little or no money, or at the end of their lives when time was scarce. As an example of rags to riches, take Maria das Gra�as Silva Foster, the Brazilian business executive and chemical engineer who is the CEO of Petrobras-Petr�leo Brasil,

It’s easy to get caught up in the complexity of it all. After all, everything is connected to everything else.  There are so many results for any one action that it’s tempting to get lost trying to understand the implications. If you are not careful you will feel like you are wondering through a house