I so enjoyed watching the World Cup soccer tournament over the past month. Congratulations goes to France for the overall win, but in reality, every game and every team provided a vivid and beautiful laboratory of the mechanics—the difficulty and...

In May this year I was honored to emcee and present a keynote address at theHigh Potential Leadership Summitheld by theTalent Management Alliancein Atlanta. The event gathered a cozy group of about 150 truly exceptional speakers and managers...

If you’re like me, you have a hard time not finding at least a little bit of meaning in the patterns of nature.

Here in Northern California we are clearly in spring, a time of abundant growth. From trees to perennials, the tender green shoots of...

You are a genius!

Well, anyway, you probably used to be…

But here is the reality: there is a creative genius inside of you. We all have one. But after years of socialization—first at school, later at work—that genius has been suppressed.

Tapping...

The Winter Olympics are here! And the the world has gathered in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Ostensibly the Olympics are about global competition, and indeed the world gathers it’s very best for two weeks of international competition. But inevitably,...

Bode Miller is the most successful male American alpine ski racer of all time. He may also be the most innovative. He once strapped a snowboard onto each foot so that he could experience “skis” with more sidecut.

But where did he discover his...