I was on a plane after a keynote a few years ago.Spent. That good kind of spent where you gave everything you had and you know it landed. I put my headphones on, leaned back, and hit play on “La Villa Strangiato” by Rush.If you don’t know it: 10 minutes, no lyrics, three guys making
Image credit: NewAfricaWe were two high school kids shooting hoops in my driveway when one sentence changed the course of my life.My friend Anish looked over and said: “What if we ran the play ourselves?”He meant the Indian community theater productions we’d both grown up watching. Every year, the adults in our community organized elaborate
Leaders struggling with slow change adoption are often working hard on exactly the wrong thing. I learned this in a roundabout way this past weekend…My wife took the kids to visit her family for a few days, and I decided to tackle a home improvement project that had been quietly annoying me for months.We had
In this episode, I sit down with my longtime friend (all the way back to childhood!) Dr. Anish Mahajan for a fascinating conversation about leadership, listening, and leading through uncertainty.Anish has led at the highest levels of healthcare and public health, from helping implement the Affordable Care Act to leading a major public hospital through
Image credit: xavigm99Two weeks into my book launch, I had 9 signups.I was looking for over 200.In professional terms, that is what we call a “WTF!? moment.”I want to be honest about what happened next, because it’s not a heroic story. There was no dramatic moment where I rolled up my sleeves and got to
I spent 14 years meaning to write this book. Here’s what finally made me do it (and what it’s actually about).My first “Yes And” book came out in 2012.I always planned to write a follow-up. A deeper one. One with more tactical meat on the bones, not just mindset and inspiration. Something a leader could
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