July 2014 [adapted from my latest book, The Great Growing Up] Any conversation about consciousness must include some exploration of the negative aspects of the ego, both individual and collective. It can be challenging to write anything about this subject that doesn’t get psycho-technical, perhaps off-putting to the lay person. This article is meant for […]
June 2014 [The following article is from Chapter One of my latest book – The Great Growing Up] Most people have experienced at least one transcendent moment, perhaps even more than just one; a time when life was so precious, so filled with wonder and awe, the experience was indescribable. While ineffable, the […]
May 2014 I have been writing a lot recently about paradigm change and the need for a new collective worldview. I have also been working on a new video about this subject. As I define a paradigm in the video, one of the words I use is “story” – the story we tell ourselves that […]
April 2014 Late last year I published yet another article about conscious leadership, this time incorporating several exemplars at the suggestion of my long-time friend Herman Maynard. It has since occurred to me and my partner in FutureShapers, LLC – Tom Eddington – that we would publish a new batch of exemplars each year as […]
March 2014 Last month I put on my futurist hat and arranged for a tour of the National Ignition Facility (“NIF”) at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories about 50 miles east of my home in San Francisco. I had been hearing about the experimental facility since it was commissioned five years ago and became extremely curious about […]
February 2014 As part of our certification program for FutureShapers Roundtable Hosts, we have incorporated an exercise similar to one I first did with Ken Homer, a Bay Area organizational development consultant. Ken learned much of what he knows about the “immunity to change” process from Harvard’s Robert Kegan who wrote a book with the […]
Jan 2014 [Prologue: In May of 2001, I drafted a short article from a place of incredible gratitude. Looking back the feeling has stayed with me pretty much since then. In fact, it has grown in both depth and expanse for me. Due to some quirk of logistics, the article was never published. It was […]
Dec 2013 People keep complaining about “loss of community” and feeling isolated from one another. Having witnessed people complaining about the systems to which they belong while simultaneously adding legitimacy to them, I had to wonder how we might be complicit in cutting ourselves off from the quality of relationships we claim to want. Here’s […]
Nov 2013 [This is a continuation of last month‘s Mini Keynote (see link here), in which I wrote about impossible dreams and how some people live their fantasies] Allow me to clarify what kind of martyr I am talking about here. I am not talking about people who have suffered or been persecuted because of […]
Oct 2013 Some people may think of fantasies as really fantastic dreams, perhaps dreams that are less likely to come true than the ordinary ones. We can dream about making the varsity football team, or getting asked to the prom by a really popular student, or receiving the promotion at work, or finding that “dream […]