At last I spoke to someone with a systems perspective! I enjoyed the conversation with a fellow academic who cares beyond the classroom. Michael spoke about how many areas we could work in, not to say it’s too much but that you…
Why do people who haven’t tried it call not flying impossible, yet it was just as challenging for me and I find it one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Being in a system without realizing it makes it easy…
Anisa is another counterexample to believing that working on the environment distracts from getting ahead. She rose to become the director of the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council despite being early in her career. Though she was…
Jeff has interviewed authors of leadership books since before I started writing mine. I enjoyed being a guest on his podcast. This time he’s on mine, and it’s a landmark event, as the next section describes. If you’re here for leadership, Jeff…
21 million books sold among 60 titles—including one I remember from my mom’s shelf as long as I can remember—a lifetime of research, speaking, and consulting, and more. Since I don’t often get to speak with people who have achieved so much,…
This morning I volunteered to pick up trash along the Hudson River. The experience included baby geese, a crab, lots of plastic and waste, and people not connecting their behavior with all this garbage.
David has helped me many times. I felt honored to host him and, I hope, help start his environmental legacy. We covered two main things. First, his new book, Friend of a Friend, on networking. His background as a professor and practitioner…
This episode asks some personal questions that are challenging if you haven’t thought them through enough to act on them. I think they’ll help you live by your values if you do. Which is easier, for a slave owner to free his…
Vincent shares several stories of Patagonia growing from a few dedicated outdoors people to discovering business growth, the usual ways businesses abandon values besides profit, and their not accepting that abdication of responsibility. The company grew financially, its employees grew emotionally and…
RJ and I talk about the early success of LEAD Palestine, the organization he began to teach leadership to youths that most of the world abandoned in Palestine. Where their environment made it natural to respond with hopelessness and what comes from…
Do you care about the environment? Do you care about leading? The Leadership and the Environment podcast NYU’s School of Liberal Studies invite you to improve both at a Panel of Leadership and Environment Experts Tuesday, April 3, 6pm — 8pm NYU…
I created this podcast to bring leadership to environmental action. Who leads? As much as I value science and education, scientists and educators rarely lead effectively. We’ve mistakenly looked to them for leadership for too long. For science and facts, I see…
I encourage you to review RJ’s leadership program in Palestine for yourself. Check out www.leadpalestine.com. RJ Khalaf is my youngest guest so far, still an undergrad at NYU, but achieving beyond student status. He took my social entrepreneurship classes. In this episode,…
After sharing my “after” stories about after taking on my environmental challenges, in this episode I share the “before” situations.
David shares what happens when you act on your values: Act on your values -> better life -> act on your values more -> yet better life -> etc This cycle is the opposite mainstream society suggests—that environmental action distracts from getting…
David challenged himself to reduce his meat eating. His result? Right off the bat, he said he found it way better and easier than expected. He felt good and wants to do more. What are you waiting for? Chances are your choice…
Having worked with many people and generations, Frances sees great hope in millennials. She points to research that they are like the so-called Greatest Generation, who fought World War II and then helped rebuild the world. Moreover, we see them as having…
How do you treat the world? True to form, Joel committed to a double challenge of avoiding bottled beverages and picking up trash, so we talked about both. I recommend trying the challenge of picking up trash daily for a month or…
If you’re here for leadership, especially personal leadership, you’re going to hear about one of the most important things you can do to improve. What Joel talks about and how he lives are how you develop skills people think you can’t learn,…
Many people excuse themselves from acting on the environment with the complaint “but acting on the environment will distract me from getting ahead.” There is national and global demand for environmental leadership. How they miss that opportunity to advance at any level if…