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Understand and Fill in Your Weaknesses This is Part 2/4 of my leadership series speech that I have given to companies, conferences and teams around the country. Great leaders understand when and where they are weak. […]
What is Your Superpower? This is Part 1/4 of my leadership series speech that I have given to companies, conferences and teams around the country. The links to the other parts are list below. Part 1: What is […]
I’ve spent much of my time over the past three years writing a book – Xbox Revisited: A Game Plan for Corporate and Civic Renewal – which amongst other things describes a new discipline I […]
The following guest blog post originally appeared on Maria Shriver’s website. Finding Life’s Act II: How I Went From “Chief Xbox Officer” to “Civic Engineer” We all remember being asked, “What do you want to […]
The interview below originally appeared on Skip Prichard’s website. Hitting Rock Bottom Robbie, the book is a wonderful read as both the inside story of the Xbox creation and then also about your personal goals […]
As I reflect on the 14th memorial of the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington, DC, I can’t help but wonder if we have lost sight of the real point. Certainly, every anniversary of these […]
I am old enough to remember Steve Martin when he was a young(er) comedian on Saturday Night Live and then in movies like Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid and The Jerk. In the latter, there […]
I’m a committed believer in the importance of sports to drive important, positive social change (see The Sporting…Life). Sport is a paradigm for so many things in life including leadership, perseverance, teamwork, commitment, graciousness, and […]
Our family has celebrated July 4th on Whidbey Island for almost 20 years. Whidbey is about 30 miles north of Seattle and getting there requires a 20 minute ferry ride – sometimes with a long […]
Let’s get the reality out on the table early: I don’t love tradeshows. I suppose I was excited during my rookie season at Microsoft when I took my first business trip in 1988 to a […]
