We need to find courage in order to create positive change, because all change involves uncertainty, and uncertainty is scary. The act of creating positive change is the what defines the human experience for all of human history. That's how we went from the middle of the food chain to the top of the food chain. Since positive change is as essential to the human experience as courage, we need to know if there is a reliable recipe for creating that change. And if so, what is it?
Read MoreRight now there is an utterly practical and concrete reason to focus on managing will through hope and courage. What is that reason? It’s the existential threat to many businesses at this very moment - employee attrition, most clearly demonstrated by "the Great Resignation” and by “quiet quitting.”
Read MoreWhat if a reliable recipe for courage exists? How would a reliable access to courage allow us to thrive as we move forward through life? How can we leverage this adaptive advantage?
Read More"How can we make the culture of our business scalable and sustainable for the next 50-100 years?" We need to play the infinite game of business with an infinite mindset. We need to create strategies that will allow us to play the game for as long as possible. As Simon Sinek says, success in an infinite game requires the management of will and resources, because players drop out of the game when they run out of the will or the resources to continue.
Read MoreThis started with one question--“What does it mean to really live?” That question led to the decision to begin this process. This process led to some valuable ideas; they may not be answers, but they are ideas that certainly serve the process.
Read MoreLet’s start at the beginning. I’m about to die. “Metabolic syndrome” my doctor calls it; a combination of: high blood pressure, high blood sugar, obesity, and abnormal cholesterol. The years of slowly killing myself with my daily choices have finally reached critical mass. (No pun intended.) The bad “food,” the years on the couch, the endless white noise of anxiety, and the gargantuan doses of caffeine taken in a foolish and counterproductive attempt to inoculate myself against it all have finally accumulated to bring me to that same simple choice that Andy Dufresne had to make… “get busy living, or get busy dying.”
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