Here is the video from Sunday’s webinar on How to Make Meaningful Connections, which, as I describe in it and you’ll find if you practice the exercise in it, is about how to develop compassion. The exercise in this webinar teaches some of the most valuable skills you can learn about relationships. Every leader I’ve ever heard talk about compassion describes it as critical, up there with empathy and self-awareness.[…] Keep reading →

Prelude A client’s friend had lunch with Warren Buffett. He talked a lot about passion. In fact, she wrote Throughout the conversation, Buffett stressed the significance of passion—how necessary it was for his own journey and how imperative it is for us to find ours. Passion was the fire behind his focus that encouraged him to absorb all things business, all the time. It was a job, it was his[…] Keep reading →

Everyone wants to find a passion—something that engages them so much they love doing it and working on it doesn’t feel like work. Most of us hold back from trying because we aren’t sure what we might feel passion for. We know we don’t feel passion for anything now. Maybe this, maybe that. Unsure which, and afraid of picking something we’ll later learn we don’t feel passion for, we don’t[…] Keep reading →

After teaching, coaching, studying, and practicing leadership for twenty years, I announced my online leadership course, “Introducing the most effective leadership course available anywhere.” I’m hosting a series of free webinars on the most actionable, useful, effective, and exciting parts of the course. My webinars will always deliver exclusive, valuable lessons you can use that day and how to build for the long term. Attend my third webinar, free, this[…] Keep reading →

[This post is part of a series on my daily exercise and starting and keeping challenging habits. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] I hit my 70,000th burpee today. Well, around today. I sometimes do more but never fewer, so I’m not sure the exact number. 70,000 is a[…] Keep reading →

[This post is part of a series on the Self-Imposed Daily Challenging Healthy Activity (SIDCHA). If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] People keep getting it backward when they congratulate me on the five years of daily posts, four years of daily burpees, and other disciplined achievements. They say, “You[…] Keep reading →

I’ve written “Why I avoid lecturing when I lead and teach“, asked “Does lecturing turn schools into prisons?“, and discussed “How lecturing is the opposite of how we learn“. As if those reasons weren’t enough, the most-credentialed students that traditional education produces disappoint employers in areas where jobs. This video of the director and producer of a documentary on project-based learning shows what they learned from people who hire at[…] Keep reading →