A Personal Odyssey — I was lost. Miserably lost. This was six months after deciding a corporate career/life was no longer for me. Corporate was all I had known. I didn’t know what to do. But I knew I wasn’t going back. Call it my gut, call it divine guidance, or just sheer stubbornness…

Three Insights to Developing Breakthrough Strategy — I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. — Klaus Kinski Klaus may well have been referring to what often eludes business operators — Great Strategy. You recognize it instantly when you see…

Ready or not, here She comes — Technology and our collective knowledge have advanced at a breakneck clip. Our exponential progress is evidenced by humanity’s transition from the Industrial to the Information Age within a generation (previous such step transitions have taken centuries or millennia). But in the relentless pursuit of advancement and achievement, we left something…

On the Ultimate Flex, Pronoia vs. Paranoia and of course /wsb — I spend a lot of time on Twitter. Probably an unhealthy amount. But now and then, I hit gold in the feed. Here’s three tweets and some quick thoughts on each across three different but related themes. 1) Freedom

Advancements in AI/Quantum awaiting advancements in consciousness and a new Technological Renaissance — 2020 has turned into a meme because it is catalyzing major shifts that were already unfolding: In our “outer” world, the transition to the Information Age from the Industrial Age. Prior such transitions (there have been only two for humanity — Hunter-Gatherer to Agricultural societies, and Agricultural to Industrial societies)…

In Part 1, I broke down the drivers behind the powerful shifts that are now taking place, namely our transition in the outer to the information age, and the evolution of the inner, heralding the rise of heart-based consciousness. These shifts have deep implications for us but by far the…

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” ― Alan Wilson Watts 2020 isn’t playing around. It feels like we’re being initiated into something new. An uncomfortable sense of change hangs in the air. …

“Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.” — Carl Jung This essay will probably read more like a treatise on the human psyche…

There is a legendary story of Henry Ford, a man who understood that efficiency is important AND so are ideas and innovation. As the story goes, an efficiency expert complained about a man sitting in his office with his feet up on his desk. Ford’s response was, “That man once…