Happy Thanksgiving. I love the Thanksgiving holiday.  Each year the celebration reminds me that practicing gratitude and believing in abundance create a more abundant life. These two concepts are at the heart of great leadership, an opportunity mindset, and building a better business model. Gratitude (versus being unappreciative) and a belief in abundance (versus scarcity) [...]

Let Washington fight a tug-of-war over how much or how little of the recently passed federal health care legislation gets enacted. I’d like to step away from the politics and talk about the business model for the health insurance industry, why it needs disrupted and how to accomplish just that. With US health care costs [...]

I love when trends come together, prompting innovations that make the world a better place. Frankly, this observation helps me recover my optimism after the news of the day invokes discouragement. Three trends – crowd sourcing, greater entrepreneurship within academic scientific communities and scarcity of natural resources – have come together to create asknature.org. The [...]

Innovation is to this century what quality and efficiency were to the second half of the last century – the dominant focus organizations adopted to improve business results. From a macroeconomic perspective, the shift is welcomed. We need new-to-market industries and jobs to replace those lost to the decades-long, relentless, job-destroying drive for reducing waste [...]