The other day I heard about a young man who gave up a promising career in corporate America to become … a professional gambler. You read that right. Top of his class in college, math whiz, highly regarded “quant” with a major US-based corporation, married with young children. And he heeded the clarion call of Las Vegas.
Leadership When the Heat is On
Three years ago, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was a comedian with a young family and a popular television show. Today he moves around in bunkers, rallying his battered nation, inspiring freedom-lovers the world over.
Six Proven Methods for Creating Powerful Ideas
For years, I’ve been studying the winning habits and personal best practices of leading innovators seeking the secrets of their success. I have had the good fortune to interview some of the greats. Inventors like Dean Kamen; entrepreneurs like Gore-Tex founder Bill Gore; possibility thinkers like Robert Schuller; master teachers like Marva Collins; astronauts like Edgar Mitchell; polio vaccine discoverer Jonas Salk, and many more.
Retreat to Advance: Using Your Offsite Meeting to Focus on the Future
The pandemic may have obsoleted the traditional strategic planning process, but what are you and your organization doing to replace it? Many organizations have yet to devise a new approach suitable to the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) future.
Strategic Planning is Dead. Here’s What’s Replacing It
Peloton’s CEO and founder, John Foley, resigned last week after missing an important shift in consumer behavior. The company’s once-raving fans apparently tired of taking live exercise classes at home and started returning to the gym, to be around — get this — other human beings! Result: Peloton’s stock plummeted amidst sharply declining sales, and investors are livid. Peloton’s sudden reversal calls to mind a new axiom…
