Do something creative
Learn something  new – about work or life.
Read a biography of a leader who intrigues you.
Give yourself think time as well as dream time.
Review and update job descriptions for yourself and everybody around you – schedule any and all meetings necessary to get them into their best shape [...]

This is from the Huffington Post. I think John Perkins has critical perspective and wisdom for our times.
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Fake Accounting, Greed and Oil
by John Perkins

While countries around the world continue to watch their economies collapse, and Goldman-Sachs leaders testify to Congress about how they manipulated both their shareholders [...]

I use Facebook and Twitter professionally so I have lots of connections there who I don’t know. I’m amazed by how many requests I get from people I know and don’t know about how they need to finish some project in a virtual world and they want me to contribute my time to creating their [...]

This video is a great take on failure. Great success really requires failure yet we haven’t trained our leaders to capitalize on it. Honda got it right:

I have a pet peeve at my fitness center. It’s located in a huge hospital complex so there are brick-sized metal plates on the wall that emergency personnel and frail people can hit to open the doors electronically. It always surprises me how many people will spend an hour lifting weights and will consume electricity to open a simple push door when they’re coming and going.

At a Greendrinks networking event I met a guy in the heating business. He asked me if I ever wondered why a certain temperature in the summer feels fine but in the winter feels chilly. He explained that the walls and objects are literally using us as a heat supply. We rarely think of our [...]

This has been around the internet so many times, I hesitated to post it. But the wisdom is timeless and worth reading over time. I originally posted this as George Carlin’s piece. I’ve since found out from his daughter, Kelly Carlin, that he didn’t write it. In his denial of authorship, he said he thought [...]

Dr. Joni Carley, Dr. Kishore Mandhyan, Ms. Alisa Clarke
Here’s a response sent the day after the  program I moderated at the United Nations Foundation this week with Dr. Kishore Mandhyan, a member of the Secretary General’s team. (Check out our work there: Global Vision Institute)

The organization I do my UN work through, Global Vision Institute, recently hosted best-selling author John Perkins (latest book: Hoodwinked). John and I have had some awesome times over the last 10 years and it was a real thrill to have him participate in our Visionary Series at the UN Foundation.
I led a 90 minute [...]

“In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
Carl Sagan
In many ways, we each make our own universe’s everyday. The best way to make your world great is to focus on giving thanks for all that’s good around you. Create an attitude of gratitude and you’ll create a [...]