Exceptional cultures are not right for everyone. And they remain exceptional to the degree that its leaders are willing to make difficult...

Today, the world needs courage at a time when it seems to be in short supply. This year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to two...

The leadership failures over the last three decades have largely been failures of vision. In every case, leaders missed the opportunity...

Understanding your past gives you access to the programming that runs you. With access, you can rewrite the code of your underlying...

There are moments in time during which one experiences a deep sense of certainty that cannot be logically defended but nonetheless is...

We need both doing and being in our lives. We become fully alive when we are powerfully generative (i.e., doing) and deeply present...

We’re overwhelmed and exhausted. This is the almost universal complaint I hear from the business leaders I work with. There are, of...

Deep friendships have the unmistakable quality of being immutable. At the same time, they demand to be treated as fragile, never to be...

We don’t have to look far for examples of people who have achieved extraordinary things. It is the “ordinary” person, often right in...

Last week was a bit of a dream come true for me. I had a chance to see the first live appearance (since the start of the pandemic) of my...

If nothing else, these Olympics were yet another reminder that records are meant to be broken. That the limits these records seem to...

Life is shaped not so much by the incredible accomplishments you achieve. Nor is it determined by the disappointments and failures you...

Extraordinary leaders regularly ask one very powerful question, “What am I doing or not doing that is inconsistent with the very things...

As I write this, I’m not feeling physically great. I’ve been under the weather for the better part of a week. I considered skipping this...

I’ve come to believe that the ecstatic feeling of mastery is not reserved for the few talented people in the world that receive...

We have unconsciously slipped into the trap of choosing between a love for the exceptional qualities of our country and the...

While there is still much more work to be done, I’m proud of how far this country has come in its views on sexual and gender orientation....

As we continue to fight for our freedom, we must not forget that each of us is also individually imprisoned by a set of psychological...

For the past couple of years, I have been consistently embracing a practice that many of the ancient traditions observed – to treat every...

At its core, leadership is about the ability to leverage paradox. There are five polarities that are critical to effective leadership....