The acclaimed developmental psychologist Howard Gardner taught us four decades ago that our long-standing notion of intelligence, based on IQ testing, is far too limited. To account for the huge range of human potential, Gardner proposed eight different intelligences...
Human burnout, a major problem in medicine today is, in a sense, the outcome of competing conversations of self-talk. Physicians want to problem-solve so they can provide the appropriate care for their patients. Now they are being told how much they can spend in the...
On a recent drive to the grocery store with my 13-year-old son, I was on the receiving end of a barrage of questions. “How does an electric car work? Why did we move to Utah? What do you and mom talk about on date nights? Do you think the Sixers are better than the...
In the mid/late ’90’s I was an officer in the U.S. Army. (That’s me with the other officers in my company in Kuwait) The Army was where I got my first taste of leadership. At the time, I was only 23 and was very new to tanks. I would even say that I...
Welcome to The Inward Journey of Leadership, the most important journey of your life. Curiously, while each of us is on this journey, most of us are not especially aware of it, and, as a result, we are not deliberate active learner participants. We are unmindful,...
The renowned German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, once said, “There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.” For Rilke, inquiries such as: Who am I?, Why am I here?, What’s real?, What matters?, Do I matter?, were questions were worth probing, even though final...
