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I continue to enjoy reading about the work of Peter Drucker, considered one of the most influential theorists on leadership in the 20th century. He once made this observation: leaders don’t ask, “What do I want,” but they ask, “what needs to be done?” Our 56th Life Equation is Leadership = Done – Want. ——

Poet David White has this fascinating line where he writes about attracting “the right kind peril.” If we don’t encounter peril in our lives, we likely will not discover what we are capable of, or at the very least have stories to tell at a family reunion or a dinner party. But there is also…

There is often a lot of discussion on what creates value in the business world. I came across an interesting observation recently that one thing that creates value is absence. We perhaps know that emotion when someone in our life is absent. We might value them more. If you were to reflect on the value…

We often wonder what will happen after something falls apart in our lives. But if we look back, has it not been the case what emerged next in our lives was usually a new configuration of elements of our life that we could not have foreseen or created if things had not fallen apart? Our…

We sometimes wonder how events happen in our lives. What is the reason? What influences played a role? More often than not events in our lives are a convergence of our choices and what we might call chance. Our 52nd Life Equation is Happen = Choices + Chance. ——

We can feel regret at the end of our life for something we didn’t follow through on or towards that which we didn’t quite give our best effort. But similarly we can ask, what might we regret not be sufficiently grateful for? As author Brianna Wiest phrases it, “not seeing for what it was, while…