I am going to make a bold statement. On January 23, 2025, I will be teaching a new Reawakening the Human Spirit Advanced Masterclass. It is a 16-week, one-hour, virtual experience. Here is the bold statement. If you are not feeling more inspired and able to live a...
The day after President George W. Bush was elected to his first term in office (November 5, 2000), I wrote the following blog. I wrote (and revised) it again after the Obama (2008), Trump (2016) and Biden (2020). I offer it again (updated) here for your...
Our society is addicted to arguing. Polarization in politics is an extreme example. When someone tells you, “You are wrong!”, how does that make you feel? Small? Stupid? Incompetent? When we argue, we are sending a message that tends to convey variations of, “I am...
One of the questions I am often asked these days is, “Why did you write, “Reawakening the Human Spirit?” The answer is in the title. I wrote the book, because in the collective chaos of the world, our spirits have gone dormant, languishing in...
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After a 14-year run as the CEO of Manpower Ltd, I joined a leading university as a full-time professor, teaching an advanced MBA course. As part of my initiation, I was given a set of text books to read and told these were the texts I was required to use for my...
I read recently that legendary basketball star, Michael Jordan, once said, “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted with the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again...
It’s surprising how many ways our society has invented to control free speech. There are strong protections for free speech, but they are no match for the endless ways we can all be silenced. For those like me who are professional authors, there are Internet...
For over one hundred years, corporate leaders have been working from the same managerial playbook: Relationships with employees are motivated by a desire to provide leadership development, training, and incentives, supported by human resource policies and programs...
A recent Deloitte Survey revealed that 73% of managers declared that they should be a model of well-being for their employees, but only 35% of their employees observe that behavior in them. There are names for this: “not walking your talk”, “inauthenticity”, “do what...
Here are two stats that point to one of the main causes of the disaffection currently felt by so many employees – INEQUALITY. From 1979 to 2020, net worker productivity rose 61.8%, but workers’ wages only rose 17.5%. [1] Meanwhile, CEO pay skyrocketed by more...
