Insights

Three pillars of Strategic Leadership: Self-Awareness and Personal Mastery, Development and Empowerment, and Leading Transformative Change.

Think of a major change you made at some point in your life: what precipitated that change? It could have been an accumulation of events...

There’s a gap between where you are and where you want to be. What's in the way? How do you perceive at that gap? Do you think of it as...

We tend to label people or things and assign them into “boxes” – by gender, race, political persuasion, nationality, you name it. And,...

You stir a little sugar into a cup of hot tea. Notice the crystals dissolve and “disappear.” As the tea cools, you notice a little sugar...

I find the phenomenon of “emergence” one of the most fascinating marvels of nature. Understanding and appreciating it can change your...

December 21 marks the first day of winter. For many, it can feel like a time of cold, dark, and bleak nothingness. Let’s just say, it can...

Remember playing with a magnifying glass as a kid, using the light of the Sun to burn holes in leaves? Well, that’s a convergent lens: it...

A high school chemistry experiment has been with me the rest of my life:  Fill a glass beaker with ice. Put it on a tripod with a bunsen...

If you’re like me, you enjoy learning new things. But you also realize that you're not going to be good at those things . . . at least in...

We all learned the cycle of metamorphosis in school as kid: The butterfly lays its eggs  on a leaf. In time the larva ( caterpillar )...

Fall is a beautiful time of year. The leaves turn beautiful colors and change is in the air. Ask yourself: Why do leaves “turn” colors in...

Every cycle seems to repeat itself but actually moves us forward like a screw through time. It’s an odd phenomenon actually: rotating one...