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How to Foster Innovation and Create Value
The following is excerpted from my 2020 book Conscious Leadership, coauthored with John Mackey and Steve McIntosh "Innovation" is a term on the lips of many pundits these days. We hear it everywhere...
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Can the Politics of Urban Infrastructure Transcend NIMBYism and Polarization?
“This airport is f—ing insane.” The message flashed across my phone at 11PM Pacific Time. “Yeah it is!” I texted back immediately. My wife was trying to negotiate New York’s JFK airport at 2AM on a...
Strategies to Become a More Thoughtful, Conscious Leader
Conscious Company magazine published this in-depth interview about finding purpose and building a conscious leadership skill-set. Conscious leadership is first and foremost an inner journey of...
Chief Morale Officer
Below is an Intro I wrote to a small ebook on the idea of a "Chief Morale Officer" The Chief Morale Officer Foreword There is a quiet revolution happening in business. I see it everywhere—a growing...
Future Tense: Seeing the Past Through A Rosy Lens
I was happy to be featured on a recent Australian radio show, Future Tense, speaking about the possibilities of the future and the a realistic perspective on the past. Link to article and podcast...
A Tribute to Barbara Marx Hubbard (1929-2019)
This is an excerpt from my book, Evolutionaries, published in 2012. Barbara died last night, and in honor of her life and work, I wanted to put this on my blog—the story of a pioneering woman and a...
Just the Facts, Mr. Rosling
It’s a simple question: In the last twenty years, the proportion of the world’s population living in extreme poverty has: almost doubled? remained more or less the same? almost halved? When you ask...
A Zen Master Exits the Stage
RIP Bernie Glassman. Zen Teacher. Activist. Pioneer. Dude Whisperer. The original engaged Buddhist. You will be missed. Almost a decade ago, I had the opportunity to spend an afternoon with Bernie...
Fake News, Matt Ridley, and Daniel Pinchbeck: 5 Things to Read this Week
1. 7 Things We Learned About the Earth This Year We'll start with an easy one. I found this interesting, in part because it didn’t just wallow in the usual parade of bad news that we get on Earth...
Food, China, and Robots: 5 Articles to Read This Week (and Why)
1. The Whole Foods Diet The first item on this list is a personal one. Those who know me well have heard me talk about this project for the last year or so. It is a book that I played a...
5 Articles To Read This Week (and Why) – 3/29/17
Last week I featured Middlebury, intolerance, and Charles Murray. Article number 4 this week will continue that theme, this time with Wellesley and Laura Kipnis. But before we get to that, let’s...
5 Articles to Read This Week (and Why)
1. Free Speech and College Campuses The theme of this week is what happened at Middlebury College recently. It’s worth reflecting on for anyone who believes deeply in a free exchange of ideas on...
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