Let me tell you a true story, one that I personally experienced. My wife and I were out to dinner with a young couple.  We were at a wonderful Mexican restaurant overlooking the beach in southern California.  We talked for hours while we tried a variety of salsas, from mild to nuclear heat levels, and […]

I am currently in a fascinating course that spends most of the time looking to the future. In this course, we have been learning about how to use future foresight and scenarios in order to test our present-day strategies so that we are best prepared when the future arrives.  As said, it is fascinating, and […]

There have been some schools of thought in the last decade that encourage leaders to say no more than they say yes. No to new programming, activities, and methods in favor of focusing on a few tasks and priorities that supposedly will be more successful if their approach is a “rifle instead of a shotgun.”  […]

I’m in a course right now that is all about the future and our ability to impact it by making decisions and changing behavior today that will make tomorrow’s world a better place. It requires us to think through the great “what ifs” of life proactively, instead of after the fact in regret.  What if […]

Everyone has a story. I was visiting a cemetery recently and was struck by the endless rows of names on the grave markers that had the dates of birth and death.  The thing that came to mind is that for every name there was undoubtedly a story that could be told.  I wondered about what […]