What Jobs Knew That Most Leaders Still Miss
The Rock Tumbler: How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking.
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Your Personal SPAM and FOMO Are Wrecking the Planet. Yes, Yours.
Here is an uncomfortable idea to sit with. The climate crisis is not just a story about oil companies, corrupt politicians, and the occasional billionaire with a superyacht. It is also a story about you. About me. About the completely normal, socially rewarded things we do every single day without a second thought. Stay with […]
Why Your Children Can’t Afford Your Life
The Rock Tumbler: How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking.
She Wasn’t Legally a Person, Until She Was Two
Doris dropped the F-bomb late last year. She was 98. It landed exactly as intended! I just got back from a couple of weeks in the far north of Ontario, where we celebrated my mother-in-law’s 99th trip around the sun. She still lives in her own home. She has all her marbles. Every. Single. One. […]
The Solid Plan That Survived a War
The Rock Tumbler: How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking.
When Did You Last Audit Your Relationships?
Provocative question, I know. But I recently did this exercise and was genuinely blown away. I want to walk you through it. First, full credit where it’s due. This isn’t my work. It belongs to a brilliant fellow named Ant Blair. You can find him at antblair.com. He’s currently updating his website and programs, so […]
Bring In the Artists
If what got us into a predicament cannot be what gets us out of it, then we need different thinking, different perspectives, and different priorities. That is the cleanest way I know to make the case for diversity without getting tangled in the vocabulary that tends to derail the conversation before it begins. Here is […]
The Three Fatal Assumptions
The Rock Tumbler: How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking.
The Cheapest, Most Powerful Thing You Can Do. Right Now!
Do you remember being six years old?Someone told you that you’d done something amazing, and the feeling was electric. Pure. Instantaneous. You stood a little taller. Smiled a little wider. Felt, for one shining moment, like you could do anything. Here’s what nobody tells you: that feeling never goes away. More than twenty, forty, sixty […]