Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' Martin Luther King Jr Service has a reputation problem.  On the one hand, sometime in the 1990s, “service” became another activity that someone could engage in. As a high schooler, we...

Excellence can be built through synthesis, not just specialization Maybe Napoleon was right… Last week, I introduced a new series looking at topic of work.  As I mentioned, we are going to explore this topic from a number of different dimensions over...

Sigmund Freud got at least one thing right - love and work are massively important. Photo by Karan Bhatia on Unsplash If you work from age 22 to 65, on nearly 11,000 days, you will be going to your job - nearly a third of your life. With such enormity,...

Photo by Ray Hennessy on Unsplash Happy 4th of July week For years, I have shared periodically what I've been reading.  Increasingly, I have found my goal to be to start more books but finish less. Hopefully this is not a sign of a lack of commitment, instead, far too...

Photo by Loic Leray on Unsplash What if the next 20 years look at lot more like the last 2 than the prior 20?  How should you lead and build organizations in a world categorized by change, uncertainty, and shortage?  And more over, how would you generate financial...