Getting from Point A to Point B is fine but never forget there are also Points C through Z. There may also be points that aren't letters, perhaps, they are numbers, colors, exotic locations, places or even ideas and people. Life is full of opportunities. It'd be a shame if you missed this "point" because [...]

"In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among [...]

At a recent healthcare event, I shared the stage with Dr. Richard Migliori, Executive Vice president of Health Services at United Health Group and, in his opening keynote presentation, he identified six factors driving higher-than-necessary health care costs: 1. Unnecessary services 2. The inefficient delivery of services 3. Price disparities 4. Excessive administration costs 5. [...]

For years, I have been telling people an amazing story of the healing powers of Aboriginal People of Australia that I had read about in a non-fiction book. The name of the book was lost on me but on a recent trip to Australia I learned the name was Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo [...]

This classic scene from Allie Hall reminds us that there is always more than one way to see the same situation--even if it is just "three times a week": Interested in some other perspective-change posts? Check out these past posts: Perspective Matters Top to Bottom Leader or Outcast Aging from a New Perspective

Innovation requires risk. Risk, by its very nature, implies an element of failure. But nobody--most especially companies and corporations that must stay profitable to remain in business--enjoys failure. This leads to a paradoxical situation: Everyone recognizes the importance of innovation but few are willing to pay the real price (i.e. occasional failure.) What then is [...]

"If you can't think of a thing to be worried about, worry about being overconfident." --Bobby Knight I'm not a big fan of Coach Knight but I admire this quote from his new book, The Power of Negative Thinking. If you're interested in some methods for protecting yourself from over-confidence, I encouraged you to read [...]

Thinking about getting an MBA? Here's my advice: Don't! For starters, it is a waste of money for the majority of students. As Dale Stephens writes in this piece ("A Smart Investor Would Skip the M.B.A.), your time would be better spent taking free online courses and using the savings to instead pursue unique training and [...]

As a professional futurist and forecaster, I prefer to read the newspaper from back to front because I often find the most interesting items are buried on the back pages. To this end, this past week I stumbled upon this Wall Street Journal article explaining that Foxconn--the massive Chinese manufacturing company that employs thousands of [...]