Here are ten questions to ask yourself when you have a minute to really think. If you can answer each of them right away, you get a gold star for being a visionary thought leader! If you wonder what these questions have to do with leadership, you are not up...

A conversation in the year 2050 between a boy and his grandfather

Grandpa, did you know it was happening?

Well, sort of. There was news about it, but it didn't seem too real.

How did it feel when you couldn't eat the fish anymore?

Well that was hard. We never...

I did a radio show the other night on Sustainability and Profitability for Businesses,
and the interviewer asked what advice I had for small or mid-sized business owners that might help them during this crunch time. My advice was based on two real life examples of...

Beaudelaire once said that true genius is the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts simultaneously without losing your mind. I felt like I was doing that yesterday as I sobbed my way through the heart-breaking tribute to Michael Jackson, half ashamed for ever judging him, half aware he may have...

The Subject is Sustainability...visionary thinking...new ways of doing business

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Some of the issues we'll be exploring are:

· why is sustainability so...

Imagine what it would feel like if when you turned on CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News, instead of seeing interviews with politicians, political pundits and economic analysts, you watched interviews with poets, visionaries, and philosophers who helped us make sense of these tumultuous times. Imagine hearing people address the spiritual...

I asked my neighbor Marge today if she thought a good Christian could vote Republican.
She was just trying to unwind the cord on her electric lawnmower and I think the question took her by surprise. I asked her because she's a good Lutheran, the widow of a career...

Some of the greatest thinkers today are in agreement about the power of our consciousness to alter our circumstances. From biologists to business leaders, mystics to medical professionals, philosophers to philanthropists, people are speaking out about the role of our thoughts in the unfolding of our realities. And...

Every day my good friend Shelly walks to the corner, gets a newspaper from the box, sits out on the porch and starts to read. I start hearing him grumble within minutes. He stays in his chair, but I know he's agitated. "There's nobody out there making any sense anymore!"...

You want to know the secret to original thinking? Here it is. Expose yourself to people who think REALLY differently than you. If you're a progressive thinker, spend a day reading the conservative press, or go out to lunch with a person you consider your "opposite." Practice INQUIRING. Try not...

It is our business to become courageous enough to face the radical depth of our freedom, to accept it and to live with it creatively. Beatrice Bruteau

Happy 4th of July.

This is a flag-waving holiday. It's the one and only national holiday that celebrates the United States as a...

The last time I drove through the countryside that my farming ancestors tried to eke a living from, I felt like I was in a Twilight Zone episode. The Tug Hill Plateau in northern New York, famous for its rocky terrain and fierce winters, was populated by more abandoned houses...

I haven't been inspired by the political scene in a long time, but this recent citizen activity over the Dubai Port question has got me fired up. I watched Lou Dobbs yesterday who was interviewing three radio hosts and all of them agreed there hasn't been such a flurry...

I can't turn around without running into an image or story of Cheney and his gun, and every day, the plot sickens. Now we're wondering not just was he drinking, but was he having an affair with the Swiss Miss, Pam Willeford, who was standing at his side when the...