Inspiration and Provocation
No Excuse, Sir/Ma’am ☑
On R-Day, my first day as a “new cadet” at West Point, back in the summer of 1987, I was taught my four responses. These four responses were to be the only acceptable answers to questions upperclass cadets might ask me for my entire plebe year. I remember somebody...
What Percentage of Time Are You Contributing from Your Genius? ???
I hope you had a restful holiday and that your 2020 is off to a great start. Two of the things I am most excited about in the year ahead is I will be publishing my first book (!!) by the summer and we’ll be rolling out a brand new, shorter, less expensive workshop in...
Bye-bye 2019, Bring it on, 2020! ???
I'm hoping this finds you in the midst of a luxurious holiday, enjoying some down-time with loved ones. Wherever you are, I have a few cool things I want to share with you. 1. Every New Years Eve since 2000, I have asked myself these same personal vision questions....
On Building a Bigger Corral ??????
In the summer of 2011, I found myself in a workshop with the Hendricks Institute in Ventura, California. This workshop changed the course of my life and I want to share one of the brightest gems with you. What brought me to the workshop was that I wanted to fix my...
What’s your “work costume?” ?
I just got back from giving a keynote address to the fabulous Missouri and Illinois Community Behavioral Health Conference in St. Louis. They asked me to stay afterwards and do a session, which I was so happy to do. I hadn’t planned anything ahead of time - I just...
Inspiring reminder of who we are
Greetings from the United Kingdom! Last week we trained 130 change leaders in our Model for Unleashing through our partnership with the South West Academic Health Sciences Network at Dartington Hall (shown above). This week we’re at it again - this time in Wales -...
13 Myths about Leading Large-Scale Change
If you tried to get in touch with me this past August, you got my out of office message that I would be out for the entire month. This is the first time in my adult life I’ve given myself permission to take an entire month off at once and I have to tell you – it was...
Dispatches from Switzerland (and Italy) ?
Hey friends! I’m on my flight home from two amazing weeks in Europe. The first was on Lake Constanz about two hours east of Zurich where I facilitated a retreat for the Climate Breakthrough Project. I think of the Climate Breakthrough Project as the MacArthur Genius...
What the World Needs Now
Hey there! My wife Christine and I took last week off to play with our kids because it was their Spring Break. Oh my goodness - that was really fun and really tiring!!...
It’s never enough. But sometimes you get a high five. ?
I have this persistent nagging sense that I'm not doing enough to make the world a better place. Is it just me? Or do you feel that way too, sometimes? I feel that way a lot. I go into a spiral worried about of all the things that are happening with global warming and...