Chronocentrism refers to the belief that the current state of humanity is superior to past and future times. In this video interview Buckingham is suggesting that Gen Y – the Millennials – are less entrepreneurial-inclined, less pragmatic and more romantic about themselves. By inference, he is suggesting Gen X, Boomers and other generations have a […]
Mark Goulston, author of Get Out of Your Own Way at Work, taught me something recently. We met while collaborating on a speaking project with Keith Ferrazzi (more on that great event later!) and he struck me as someone who can quietly observe human interaction and then offer marvelous insight. Mark told a story of […]
I might date myself to 80’s Sugarhill Gang but this was in my head recently when someone described to me being in a meeting and couldn’t wait to leave… Have you ever went over a friend’s house to eat and the food just ain’t no good? I mean the macaroni’s soggy, the peas all mushed […]
Together, we make a great stew! from No Scarcity on Vimeo. The Main thing is to keep the Main thing the Main thing – Stephen R Covey Well the Main thing for me is attitude. I was trying to emphasize attitude to my eight year old yesterday when he was bummed out after I said […]
Vijay Govindarajan has a great mental model that distills strategy and innovation into a simple 3-box model: Manage the Present, Selectively Abandon the Past, and Create the Future. People think they spend much more time creating and building the future than they actually do. According to Vijay we spend an overwhelming majority of our time […]
Joshua (not his real name) is organizing students, parents and community leaders around an idea called Cool Communities, created by the Sierra Club. The idea is simple: get businesses, the chambers of commerce, municipality governments and local communities to sign on to a commitment toward reducing wasteful consumption of resources and working toward sustainable local […]
It’s the first week of January and customary for us to make new or renewed vows. Before you do, consider this advice: Once you decide something – anything really – it sets a precedent for yourself and you are quite likely to repeat that decision regardless of the quality of the choice. Recently we filmed […]
We had a fun time constructing this demo reel to highlight some of the business gurus and leaders we have interviewed on the core behavioral change goals for many organizations. Only bummer is that of the over two hundred speakers who have contributed ideas, I could only select less than a dozen insights to keep […]
Habit is a hard thing to break and some habits are good, but like Spencer Johnson’s parable Who Moved My Cheese, it’s Hem who keeps looking in the same place for the cheese which has, of course, moved… Someone close to me has stopped after years (and years!) of smoking. The biggest challenge I’ve learned […]
Last week we spent two days in NYC Times Square filming CEOs at the Business Today conference – what an incredible opportunity. We filmed Ron Meyer, CEO of Universal Studios, Peter Georgescu, Chairman Emeritus of Young & Rubicam, Paul Stebbins, CEO of World Fuel Services, among others and we were immediately impressed by one consistent […]